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.

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!

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]

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]

[ 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.

[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.

[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.

[kallig]

So I've noticed.

[There's a soft sigh in there, somewhere.]

I take it, then, that you have not noticed much difference in your abilities here?

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.

[waterwhip]

I haven't noticed a difference at all, but I haven't had to use my bending for anything serious yet. None of the usual life-or-death circumstances.

Do you have an ability too? Is it not working?

[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?

[waterwhip]

It's just like any exercise or physical exertion, but it doesn't hurt me, if that's what you mean.

The other elements are earth, fire, and air. I've traveled all over the world and never heard about benders from other elements being able to heal with their bending. You'd think the airbenders might, but Aang doesn't know anything about it and he's the only airbender left in the world.

[kallig]

It is technically working, it's just... Weaker. Parts of it is, anyway.

[At least his offensive capabilities. He's still working on testing its limits, though it's obvious from his voice that this bothers him.]

A thing to ask everyone else about, eventually, I suppose. If it's only me, that would be much too strange.

[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.

[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. ]

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]

Maybe it has something to do with this world? What kind of ability do you have?

[waterwhip]

Pretty much. I'm more of a fighter than a healer but I know how to do both. The water is a... conduit? I use my chi to encourage the wound to heal faster on its own.

[ She demonstrates for him, coating her hand in a layer of water like a liquid glove, then briefly making it light up. ]

I figured it out one day after I'd gotten burned. I put my hands in the river and the water started glowing. It healed the burns completely.

[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?

[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?

[kallig]

Could very well be.

[It wouldn't surprise him. This world has already kicked him while he was down once, so why not a second time.]

The full scope would be difficult to explain, but I have the ability to manipulate what people in my world call the Force. The Force is what binds all living things together, flows through planets and galaxies and people alike.

[Perhaps it really does have something to do with the world. It's... Definitely something that has him concerned. Because the planet is dying, perhaps? He can't be sure...]

[waterwhip]

[ There's a moment of silence while Katara takes all of that in. If he could see her, he'd see she's tilting her head a bit. ]

So, you're a... a Forcebender?

[ It's a sincere question. That's just her way of understanding the world. ]

[kallig]

[There's a moment where he thinks about that, and... Supposes that's one way to see it.]

Thinking about it like that isn't exactly inaccurate, so that might be one way of seeing it, yes.