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[When the video clicks on today, Asami is sitting at a desk at what appears to be her work. It's clear that she doesn't usually use a desk, however, as it's clearly not set up to be an office job. But she's grabbing a few things, and she thought it would be best to do this while she has a moment of downtime.]

Hello again, everyone. [She considers saying something about how busy everything was last month, but others have shared that sentiment. Besides, running around with Team Avatar means she's used to it.] I've already ... mentioned something like this before, but I wanted to say that there was a group like the Hornets back in my world. They felt that changes needed to occur, and they went about it in the most violent manner possible. Seeing it again, hearing their rationales, was ... hard for me. [Though the reason why isn't entirely clear, she's not going to go into it. Not here, not publicly like this.]

But what I've learned from extremist groups like that is that we have to look at their pain and their fears and see what we can do. It doesn't mean that what they think is correct. They went about it in the worst way possible. But I do think that we have a responsibility to help make this world better and safer. I'm no hero, and I'm not really interested in that, but I've decided to dedicate myself to bettering this world either through infrastructure or supplying some of the best hovercars available. Admittedly ... I haven't decided yet. [She gives a sheepish smile here.]

Until I do, I'm going to help out with Heropa. The city doesn't look so good right now, and I'm going to be helping out on weekends to try to help set things right. That's something I can start with, anyway. I'd love some help with it, too. Just contact the native citizens who're involved with clean up, and they're willing to put you to work. [Of course, she knows some people will do things independently, which is fine, too. But this is how she's chosen to go about it.]

Other than that, here's to hoping things are better in the future. [It's an empty hope, most likely. The world moves and changes all the time, after all.]

[ooc: I have put up a log for some of the clean up activities!]

Comments

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I can understand that. I'd like to bring the transportation home, though, myself. It's way easier than the Gummi ships.

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... Gummi ships, huh? Those sound like they're a pain to deal with.

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Yes and no. I mean, I'm not really an expert on the subject. But because the materials are wobbly, they're... kinda hard to put together. They stick easy, though.

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I'd never want to work with wobbly materials.

Honestly ... it sounds like a nightmare.

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I never had to deal with them much, but I've seen loads of them. Never actually built a ship of my own or anything, though.

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How good are you with building?

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In general? Not bad, I guess. I was part of a three-person raft building project a few years back.

video | "a three-person raft building project" oh riku

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I ... wouldn't say a raft is anything like the ships I've built. [To put it ... gently?]

video | LMFAO he wanted to give them credit

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Oh, you mean like a ... bigger project. I helped build some structures back home on our play island. Tree forts and a bridge and a big deck. The raft came later.

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Yeah, the forts are a little closer to what I was thinking. Though I'm sure it was a very impressive raft.

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Heh. It wasn't, really. When I think back on it, it wouldn't have been enough for what we wanted from it. Would have been better off building a proper boat.

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What were you hoping to do with it?

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[He smiles, sheepish.]

You're gonna laugh, but we wanted to go to another world on it.

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You said that it's possible to travel between them, but I'm thinking even a boat might not have been enough.

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It wouldn't have been. See, our whole world is ocean. I think we thought maybe if we crossed the ocean, there would be another place. Like the way it is on this world.

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That makes sense. I guess if you only have a limited knowledge of the geography, you wouldn't know that there's nothing outside of the expanse of water.

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Yeah. There might have been once, but that would have been... ancient times.

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Do you think it naturally eroded away?

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No. The story is that once all the worlds were one world. This doesn't apply to worlds outside the universe I came from, the way this one is. But it'd make sense, given the size of the worlds back home.

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So all the worlds were separated somehow. I hadn't realized all the different worlds you visited were so ... small in comparison.

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Yeah, they're... pretty small. The story goes that once, the world was full of light, but people got greedy and wanted it for themselves, and in fighting over it they let darkness in. The darkness broke the world apart.

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... Darkness threatened my world once. Korra was able to stop it, thankfully, but now I wonder what would've happened if it had succeeded.

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I... well, it wasn't only the darkness that destroyed the world. In the darkness, the Heartless live, right? So they took the hearts of the people there, and the darkness itself stole the heart of the world.

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What are heartless, exactly?

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I've heard them described as "darkness given a form and made real". They're monsters that inhabit the Realm of Darkness in my world.