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savedtheworld) wrote2013-11-24 09:52 pm
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Book 16: Drained [Voice/Action]
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[It had been easy enough to assume that Sokka had still been kidnapped - that he'd be back any day. It was worrying, but there was still the assurance of his eventual return. Except that eventually, his room was checked. And found empty. There wasn't even a sign of Foo Foo Cuddlypoops. It was hard to believe - when Aang had first gotten to Luceti, he had gotten used to Sokka being the man with the answers. And also a beard. He was like a big figure of the town. And now he was gone. Katara wasn't in a state to announce it herself, so Aang eventually did it. Making it quick and to the point.]
Hi everyone. This is Aang. I'm sorry to tell you all this, but Sokka has gone back home. I know we're all gonna miss him. I already do. But at least at home... the last time I saw him there, he was happy.
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[Aang spends some time over by the statue of Sokka's head located House 56, studying the image of his best friend. He tries to meditate and tries to imagine the inspiring words that Sokka would usually say. Because he's still afraid of being around other people. And right now, the people dear to him may need him more than ever.]
[It had been easy enough to assume that Sokka had still been kidnapped - that he'd be back any day. It was worrying, but there was still the assurance of his eventual return. Except that eventually, his room was checked. And found empty. There wasn't even a sign of Foo Foo Cuddlypoops. It was hard to believe - when Aang had first gotten to Luceti, he had gotten used to Sokka being the man with the answers. And also a beard. He was like a big figure of the town. And now he was gone. Katara wasn't in a state to announce it herself, so Aang eventually did it. Making it quick and to the point.]
Hi everyone. This is Aang. I'm sorry to tell you all this, but Sokka has gone back home. I know we're all gonna miss him. I already do. But at least at home... the last time I saw him there, he was happy.
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[Aang spends some time over by the statue of Sokka's head located House 56, studying the image of his best friend. He tries to meditate and tries to imagine the inspiring words that Sokka would usually say. Because he's still afraid of being around other people. And right now, the people dear to him may need him more than ever.]
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[He says that in a harsher tone than he intended. That's particularly because of how Sokka himself had died earlier this very year.
And because he himself knows what it's like - he was even temporarily dead at home, and even though Katara was able to restore him, he knows that there were a few moments there where she had experienced what it was like for him to be dead.]
I can't say which is better or which is worse. But I do know, and I believe... that even when a person doesn't come back, death isn't really the end.
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Then you don't get to see them anymore... that's why it hurts so much. You're alone now.
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And sometimes, people's lives can be reborn... in new and different ways. It's still sad, because it's not the same, but it's what happens. And... it reminds me of something a wise man told me once. He told me that love... is a form of energy that swirls around us. When people leave us, their love stays behind. It stays within your heart, and it can get reborn in the form of new love.
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[ Sorry Aang, this is totally not the conversation you wanted in this post ]
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I'm sorry. I understand it must be hard for you, Arietta. It can be hard to change what you believe when you're used to living a certain way. [He remembers Zuko and how hard it was to get him to join them, to be their friend. It's an example of the kind of thing Aang was trying to tell Arietta about, but now he also thinks it's an example of how far Arietta may have to go to truly see things his way.]
I know I'm not gonna make you change your beliefs. But... Can you at least try to think about all the things I've said? Just... just keep them in your head, even if you don't believe them?
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[ tales of the abyss is the happiest story with the healthiest relationships ]
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I don't think that makes you useless. And... I'm sorry... but I don't think revenge is the right way.
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A-Arietta...
You sound like you need a hug.
[His current fear shift is just a bit of a detriment against delivering on that.]
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It's becoming harder to think that this could be referring to anyone other than Ion.]
I... I understand that feeling. [He feels somewhat similar regarding a different sort of conflict. He knows his granddaughter, Ikki, will be safer at home. But he also knows he'll have passed on by the time she's born. He may never get to meet her at home.] I wish it were possible for things like that to happen peacefully.
But... Have you thought about what he wants?
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[ She's conflating the two Ions again but it's really hard not to when she's upset. ]
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