02 ≋ Network Vlog 01

[waterwhip]

[ When the feed starts, there's obviously some fiddling going on--mostly it's just different shades of blue on the screen. The person handling the tablet doesn't seem to really know how to make heads or tails of it. A soft 'snowballs' is uttered, as if it were a curse.

Katara's face eventually enters the frame--upside down, until she realizes her mistake and flips it so she's correctly centered and displayed. The fountain is behind her, and the running water burbles gently in the background. ]

Hello! I'm Katara. I've met a lot of new people since I came here, but I know there are others that I haven't met yet, and the Vision explained that I could talk to people with this piece of glass, so I thought I'd do that and introduce myself.

[ She glances away for a second, considering what to say. ]

I'm from the Southern Water Tribe, which is at the South Pole. I left home about a year ago, and have been traveling the world since then with my brother and our friends. This is us together. [Here she holds up a crayon drawing of herself and her friends on a six-legged creature. She's obviously very proud. ]



That's Aang and my brother Sokka, then me and Toph and Suki and Zuko. Appa is the sky bison, and the flying lemur is Momo.

I'm a master waterbender, which means I can use my chi to control water. Like this! [ With a quick set of hand gestures, Katara pulls a little jet of water from the fountain and streams it around for a bit before putting it back. ] I can also use my bending to heal injuries! So if you get hurt, let me help you.

That's all I can think of for now. Bye!

[ It's another few moments of fumbling, but Katara finally manages to turn the feed off. ]

Comments

Voice;

[kallig]

Nice drawing.

[Listen, it was the first thing he thought to comment on. It's cute. He likes art.]

I imagine your ability to heal will become sought after quickly. A strange world like this, sooner or later, I imagine someone will manage to get themselves hurt.

[waterwhip]

Thanks! I don't have any other pictures of them, so I thought it'd be nice to have something to remind me of home.

My healing ability was always useful back home, too, and for some pretty serious wounds. It can take more than one session for really bad injuries, though.

[kallig]

I can certainly see the use for that, here. Perhaps in the future if I can find the right supplies, I'll make something similar of my own family and friends.

[He probably will. For now, he's trying to avoid making himself more homesick than he already is. Conversation isn't helping that, of course, but what can you do.]

Good to know. It doesn't take too much out of you, then?

[His own connection to the Force is... Wrong. Would be good to know if that's affecting more people than just him.]

[waterwhip]

You can ask the Agrii for art supplies, but you have to be specific when you ask. Extremely specific.

[ As proved by literally everyone who asked for anything from them. ]

It's not too draining. I can overdo it if I'm not careful, but I'm a bending master--it takes a lot to wear me out.

video

[the_tailor]

[Have a wide eyed Lance.]

Holy moly. That is one giant bison. Sure, my ride back home was a lot bigger, but still! That looks so cool!

[waterwhip]

[ Katara laughs at Lance's reaction. ]

He's actually even bigger than this. Two or three people can sit on his head, and you could fit seven or eight in his saddle, but there usually weren't that many of us. It was just me and Sokka and Aang for a long time. Then we met Suki on Kyoshi Island, and Toph in the Earth Kingdom. Zuko we knew from the beginning, but, uh... he didn't always travel with us.

[the_tailor]

Even bigger? Whoa. You could fit a decent amount of people inside the lions back home, but the cockpit deeeefinitely could've been more bigger proportionally. They weren't exactly made to be passenger vehicles, though, more just for one person to pilot.

video;

[thatsjusttypical]

[ Honestly, Bones isn't really paying much attention to the video at first. It's just a girl talking about her home and her family. Then she makes the water shoot up and it draws his notice. He's listening more closely when she mentions she can heal injuries.

He turns on the video function, a slightly skeptical look on his face. ]

So, wait... are you saying you have some kind of magical healing powers?

[waterwhip]

[ At this point, Katara isn't going to protest that it's magic. It's easier to explain it that way to people who don't know what bending is. ]

I do have healing powers, yes. I've used them on cuts, bruises, burns, and lightning wounds. One time I used it to help restore someone's memories. It works best with pure water, but we have plenty of that here.

[thatsjusttypical]

[ Yeah, to Bones, it'd all be considered magic anyway. ]

You can heal people just with water? [ He's seen some things in his travels around the universe, but that's a new one for him. ]

Video

[frontierbashir]

[His eyes are still widened as he switches on the video feed. He wasn't exactly expecting this little girl to be able to control water with just a flick of the wrist.]

Hi Katara, my name is Julian. I'm actually a doctor myself. How...does that work exactly? Using water to heal?

[waterwhip]

Jyu Lian? [ Wait, no, that isn't how he said it. ] Julian. [ Yes, that's it. She smiles and streams another little flowing coil of water out of the fountain. ]

It's like this.

[ The water envelops her hand like a glove, and then actually begins to glow a brilliant blue. ]

I use my chi to control the water, and it... redirects the flow of chi inside the body of the person who's hurt. That way their body can heal itself faster. It works for waterbending because bodies have so much water in them, but I've never heard of the other elements having healing benders.

[frontierbashir]

[Julian watches in fascination, but then furrows his brows.]

It doesn't take anything away from you, then? And what about these "other elements" you mentioned?

[Video]

[thrawnsaide]

Hello, I believe we're of the same crew. I'm Lieutenant Eli Vanto. I'll admit I don't know anything about your ability to control water. We don't have anything like that back at home.

[waterwhip]

Hi, Eli! It's nice to meet you, and I think you're right about us being on a crew together. It's okay if you've never heard of bending--nobody else here has. What's it like where you're from?

[thrawnsaide]

Well...that's quite a broad question. I serve the Imperial Navy which means we get travel to various worlds. In a sense it allows me to see the galaxy and meet all sorts of people.

Perhaps, some point I will get to see this waterbending of yours. I don't have anything special like that.

Voice

[doubled_speed]

See, when we needed to fly back home, typically my twin would just magic up a disk for us to stand on and he'd fly it around with him.

Which you know, super slow.

Nice art though, Katara.

[waterwhip]

It was always great flying around on Appa. He got us from the South Pole to the North Pole and all around the world. I wouldn't know how to compare his average speed to your brother's flying disk, though.

Thanks! I just... I really miss my friends, you know?

[doubled_speed]

I miss mine too.

[His team. He had them back for a few hours, and then run away from them in anger. Because they'd gotten the gang back together and left him out. And then he'd gotten kidnapped. It was a mess.]

But Billy's was definitely slower.

video

[seeingscarlet]

That's amazing! I know someone who can control lightning, but I've never met someone who can control water.

[And this sounds awfully familiar somehow...]

[waterwhip]

I've seen people who can control lightning, too. Is your friend a firebender? [ Wanda is wearing red, after all, so the question is fair. ]

[seeingscarlet]

He's...an alien. [That's probably the simplest way to describe Thor.] But it is something only he can do. I've never met someone else like him.

Video

[tempredmental]

[That seemed familiar... like he'd seen it in calibrations or something...

Those names. Wait, he'd met her! Well, maybe? Could have been a different version, but yeah.]

Katara, right? You wouldn't happen to have been in Drift Fleet, would you have?

[waterwhip]

Drift Fleet? I've never heard of it, sorry.

[ The way he phrases the question is interesting, though. ]

Did you know someone who looked like me?

[tempredmental]

Yeah. She wasn't there long. And, she did call herself Katara, too.

Also, I knew Sokka. He had been in the Fleet, too.