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thelegion2016-01-03 08:59 pm
whyarewehere) wrote in thelegion2016-01-03 08:59 pm
[video] Show Me Your Moves
[The camera bobs and judders as someone sets it up, catching flashes of a scruffy, unkempt face and pale arms and the sky for a moment.]
Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?
[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]
...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.
[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]
So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.
[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]
Whoo!
[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]
It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.
[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]
So. That's me. Show me what you got.
((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))
Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?
[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]
...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.
[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]
So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.
[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]
Whoo!
[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]
It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.
[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]
So. That's me. Show me what you got.
((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))
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[Wait really, another person doesn't know what a car is?]
...Do you guys get super powers instead of cars? How do you get anywhere?
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Our entire world has Benders and probably has for as long as there have been people. How are we the strange ones when we have something and you don't have it? That means you're missing something.
[It makes more sense that the people missing something would be the weird ones.]
And we walk. Or go by ship or airship. Or use trains or carts. Or ride on animals, like mongoose lizards or ostrich horses.
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I'm not the only one here from a world that doesn't have... what'd you call it, Bending? So you're the odd one out, buddy. Sorry.
[...Something about this transportation sistuation isn't making sense.]
Wait, wait, hold up. I think only one of those four animals is big enough to hold a person. Do you have giant lizards and stuff too?
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Those are two animals, not four. Ostrich horses are one type of animal and mongoose lizards are another type of animal.
If they were four separate animals, that'd just be weird. What kind of animal is a just-mongoose? What would that even look like?
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[Grif thinks about it.]
Some kind of weasel... thing.
[He gestures with his free hand, trying to indicate a small, long-bodied animal with vague motions. He does not manage to convey any of that at all.]
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[There's no such thing as a just-weasel.]
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Does a weasel snake have like... scales and a forked tongue?
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And yes, a weasel snake has scales and a forked tongue.
[But that's not all.]
And also fur and it has a head like a fire ferret.
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[Which... he's never seen one of Zuko's amazing totally made up animals before to compare with, really.]
...Probably close enoughish.
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So it's just a long furry tube with a fire ferret face?
[He's not picturing legs because weasel snakes don't have legs.]
I stand by what I said. That's just weird.
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...I'll give you that snakes are pretty weird.
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There are always parts. Almost every animal has two parts and other animals also have some of the same parts but there are no animals that are just the one part.
[Welcome to the wide world of chimerical animals, Grif.]
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I know it's hard, but just maybe not everything in your world's totally standard. It's okay. If my world were standard, the aliens wouldn't be helping us.
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[Somebody's having trouble with this 'I'm in another world and everything is different' thing but who can blame him? In his universe there is no concept of space stations or superpowers that aren't Bending. As far as Zuko is concerned, the least the universe can give him is animals that are proper animals in other places.]
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[Grif senses he's hit a wall in trying to forcibly help Zuko accept different realities in wildlife.]
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The animals are the way they are in my world, you don't have bending in yours. Fine.
That still doesn't explain what a car is.
[You got him off subject by talking about your freakish animals and freakish nonbending, Grif. He still wants to know about the automocars.]
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It's a magic box. You sit in it and spin a magic wheel to tell it where to go. This is called driving.
[He wiggles his fingers a little to indicate magic.]
I'm good at it.
This means I'm pretty much a wizard.
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I bet it's not even magic. I bet you're just talking about carts that are powered by some kind of engine. Maybe a steam engine, maybe something else.
We have engines where I come from.
[They have tanks that are almost close to being the kind of technology you could use for motorized carts. Maybe when the war is over...]
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[Grif. Grif really.]
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