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thirteenth whirlwind. VIDEO/ACTION.
Heeeeeeey! [ Ah, it's the cheerful voice of one of Luceti's two airbenders. ] Okay, I don't really know what's going on entirely with, um, whatever...
[ The library thing, all she knows is that Loki made it so they can get books again??? And stuff??? And Grandpa and Katara might be mad? ANYWAY WHO CARES ABOUT THAT as long as she can get to the books and take them home to read Ikki's interest in the matter is precisely zero. ]
But I've been practicing something pretty cool! Oh, before that, it's been a while, sooooo...next weekend's one of the art club meetings and I guess I haven't really told people to come in a while, so you should come next time. I want to have the meeting outside and to go to, I dunno, the lake or something to paint pictures of it! Raven, what do you think? But either way, whatever we do, let's go outside. It's almost summer. Summer's the best time of the year, 'cause it's all warm. Katara's birthday is in summer, too. And a lot of other birthdays...actually, almost every July and stuff there's just a bunch of parties, right? I like those, 'cause then I can have cake at each of the parties. More people should have parties...or get married. Well, I've only really been to one wedding.
[ ...Wait, she had a point. Didn't she have a point? ]
Oh! Oh, right. I just wanted to say that I learned to do something cool. Well, I say I, but it's something Soren and I have been working on for EONS. [ By eons she means about ten months. Which is pretty close to eons... ] Anyway. We can do it pretty well now for a while, but I'll just show you a little bit.
[ Though it requires propping her journal up and stepping back. She produces a few odd-looking balls from her vest; "Soren", the Swellow still her care, is nearby. Ikki tosses the balls into the air, and then sends up a breeze, and as the two meet, there are chimes. A second later, Soren gently sends up a slash of air of his own; while technically she should probably have maybe spent ten months training him to like, hit stuff hard, Ikki is at heart an airbender and so she apparently spent around ten months getting her Pokemon pal to control his air attacks to the point they...don't...destroy something? Really, the fact that her entire culture is based on pacifism probably should have made this a forseeable outcome, although this is also more a game than anything else, and one that both the young girl and the bird Pokemon are apparently both fairly invested in.
Yes, that is an excellent use of their time...
The chimes happen again. It appears that the two can make the balls chime and whistle when they toss them on the breezes; depending on how they hit and how strong the air is, the chimes and whistles change as they toss them back and forth, keeping them afloat and trying to get certain tunes and pitches from them.
After a second or two, it becomes clear they're actually playing out a sort of song, albeit in whistles and chimes. Ikki isn't singing, because she's clearly concentrating on getting the pitches right and making sure the chimes and whistles only happen when instruments ought to be playing, and they mess up once or twice with too much or too little length given to their makeshift notes or getting a pitch wrong, but...they mostly get out the tune of a song from home, passing the odd musical balls back and forth on breezes between them. When they reach the end of the short song, Ikki catches the balls one by one, and preforms a silly little bow to the journal, while Soren...does the same. They are giant hams. ]
See??? I got these for my birthday last year, so we've been trying to work on it since then whenever, well. Stuff isn't happening. We haven't learned a lot of songs on them though 'cause it takes forever to figure out how to do it together, and it's more fun to do it together than alone. [ But hey, at least it keeps her out of trouble and gets her working on her control! ...Without anyone explicitly telling her to do it or try it, either, which is a probably a plus. ] Anyway, that was pretty much it, so I'll just go now.
[ Though she can still be found playing with the hollow, musical balls and her Pokemon partner, in the yard of House 56. They're really just messing around for the sake of it while accidentally training in airbending control as a side effect. Mostly they are just messing around because that is what they Do as a rule. ]
[ The library thing, all she knows is that Loki made it so they can get books again??? And stuff??? And Grandpa and Katara might be mad? ANYWAY WHO CARES ABOUT THAT as long as she can get to the books and take them home to read Ikki's interest in the matter is precisely zero. ]
But I've been practicing something pretty cool! Oh, before that, it's been a while, sooooo...next weekend's one of the art club meetings and I guess I haven't really told people to come in a while, so you should come next time. I want to have the meeting outside and to go to, I dunno, the lake or something to paint pictures of it! Raven, what do you think? But either way, whatever we do, let's go outside. It's almost summer. Summer's the best time of the year, 'cause it's all warm. Katara's birthday is in summer, too. And a lot of other birthdays...actually, almost every July and stuff there's just a bunch of parties, right? I like those, 'cause then I can have cake at each of the parties. More people should have parties...or get married. Well, I've only really been to one wedding.
[ ...Wait, she had a point. Didn't she have a point? ]
Oh! Oh, right. I just wanted to say that I learned to do something cool. Well, I say I, but it's something Soren and I have been working on for EONS. [ By eons she means about ten months. Which is pretty close to eons... ] Anyway. We can do it pretty well now for a while, but I'll just show you a little bit.
[ Though it requires propping her journal up and stepping back. She produces a few odd-looking balls from her vest; "Soren", the Swellow still her care, is nearby. Ikki tosses the balls into the air, and then sends up a breeze, and as the two meet, there are chimes. A second later, Soren gently sends up a slash of air of his own; while technically she should probably have maybe spent ten months training him to like, hit stuff hard, Ikki is at heart an airbender and so she apparently spent around ten months getting her Pokemon pal to control his air attacks to the point they...don't...destroy something? Really, the fact that her entire culture is based on pacifism probably should have made this a forseeable outcome, although this is also more a game than anything else, and one that both the young girl and the bird Pokemon are apparently both fairly invested in.
Yes, that is an excellent use of their time...
The chimes happen again. It appears that the two can make the balls chime and whistle when they toss them on the breezes; depending on how they hit and how strong the air is, the chimes and whistles change as they toss them back and forth, keeping them afloat and trying to get certain tunes and pitches from them.
After a second or two, it becomes clear they're actually playing out a sort of song, albeit in whistles and chimes. Ikki isn't singing, because she's clearly concentrating on getting the pitches right and making sure the chimes and whistles only happen when instruments ought to be playing, and they mess up once or twice with too much or too little length given to their makeshift notes or getting a pitch wrong, but...they mostly get out the tune of a song from home, passing the odd musical balls back and forth on breezes between them. When they reach the end of the short song, Ikki catches the balls one by one, and preforms a silly little bow to the journal, while Soren...does the same. They are giant hams. ]
See??? I got these for my birthday last year, so we've been trying to work on it since then whenever, well. Stuff isn't happening. We haven't learned a lot of songs on them though 'cause it takes forever to figure out how to do it together, and it's more fun to do it together than alone. [ But hey, at least it keeps her out of trouble and gets her working on her control! ...Without anyone explicitly telling her to do it or try it, either, which is a probably a plus. ] Anyway, that was pretty much it, so I'll just go now.
[ Though she can still be found playing with the hollow, musical balls and her Pokemon partner, in the yard of House 56. They're really just messing around for the sake of it while accidentally training in airbending control as a side effect. Mostly they are just messing around because that is what they Do as a rule. ]
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