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	♥ 1. Where did you come from? You may not know anyone else on the boat, but you've all got one thing in common; you're headed to Republic City. ♥ 2. It's your first day in Republic City. You might wanna get a job lined up or you'll be living on the streets. ♥ 3. You're the new person in the city. You gotta make some friends, right? Go find someone and strike up a conversation.
	♦ 4. Feeling a little crafty? Maybe you could make a quick yuan. Sell information for money or do a little threatening. ♦ 5. Vines. Vines everywhere! They're like the heads of a hydra. What are you going to do about the vines that just invaded your apartment? ♦ 6. Triads, Equalists... thugs in general. Welcome to the aftermath of losing a fight. Are you gonna go find a healer or are you gonna tough it out?
	♣ 7. You've got a job. What is it? How are you going to get customers? You better get some soon. More customers equals more money. ♣ 8. You're a bender, right? Then you better practice it. What's that? Oh, a non-bender? You can still find a partner to spar with, right? ♣ 9. It's late. Have a drink at the pub! Get to know one another. Let it all flow freely!
	♠ 10. Yeah! You've got a driver's license! Everyone else better watch out... ♠ 11. Entertainment's just rolled on into the city! Watch the ostrich-horses race or the acrobats perform. Or maybe you're one of them! ♠ 12. It's a long line at whatever vendor you're at. Make small talk with nearby civilians or try and haggle the vendor down to a better price.
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{ Air Temple Island }

Air Temple Island has always been Jinora's home. She used to sit on the rooftop of her family home slash temple and stare out over the bay at Aang's statue. It's like a silent defender of her home. For her, it's also a source of comfort. That's why she's sitting on the rooftop of her home now, looking out across the bay and at Aang's statue. In the early twilight, the resemblance between her and the statue is uncanny.

{ Vines }

Although they had taken out a large chunk of the city, Jinora found the forest of vines almost soothing. It reminded her of the good parts of the spirit world, and the friendly spirits that inhabited it. She does wish they'd been more thoughtful about the location of their new home, though. But the vine forest is the only place where she doesn't get stared at, so she still finds comfort in it. Jinora walks along, drinking in the spiritual energy and admiring the way the sunlight falls through the vines.

{ Choose your own adventure! }

(I don't plan on apping anytime soon, so please don't let me posting here dissuade anyone from apping!)

The spirits really like you.

[Wan's voice is soft, hushed, trying not to disturb the small parade of spirits that followed after the young Air Nomad.]

The spirits always did like living with your people, but I've never seen so many gather like that for the sake of a single human.

[Other than himself, anyway.]

[A few more spirits pop out of the vines, fluttering or waddling over to join the parade.]

Oh, I've just always had a strong connection to the spirits. [She smiles and holds out her hand to a small rabbit-dragonfly.] They're friends.

[She smiles.] They must like you too, if they haven't hidden themselves from you.

Spirits like most humans that aren't mean to them or trying to destroy nature.

[He gave a shrug and leaned back against one of the vines that was thick enough to be a tree and rose up like one. Wan tilted his head to look up at it, tracing it's twisting path back to one of the many strangled human buildings.]

So how did the spirit wilds get into the city like this anyway?

[Jinora looks at him, puzzled. She thought everyone knew, but maybe he came from somewhere remote that doesn't get news very often.]

Avatar Korra left the Spirit Portals open after Harmonic Convergence. That meant the spiritual world and the physical world merged, since nothing was sealing the spiritual world away anymore.

[She looks around at the vines.] They're trying to make their homes in our world. It's a shame about the buildings, but it's their home now too.

Is every city like this, then? Covered in the wilds?

[Wan wasn't opposed to the two worlds being merged, but the spirit world was the home of spirits, not the material world.]

Edited 2014-09-24 02:07 (UTC)

[Jinora shakes her head.]

Not that I know of. Most spirits seem to like to wander rather than settle down.

That's not true. Most spirits like to settle in a place they can care for and cater to the well-being of. If so many are wandering, then I guess it means they don't feel at home yet.

It hasn't been very long. I think everyone-- humans and spirits-- need more time to get comfortable.

[She smiles and gestures to the spirits gathered around them.] At least some of them have found new homes already.

At the expense of humans, yes.

[Wan's voice was sad as he went back to looking at the overgrown houses.]

Part of learning to live together is doing so without invading another's home. The spirits didn't do this on purpose, but they did it all the same. To give themselves a home, they drove out those who were already living here. That's not right or fair. To spirits or to humans. It creates resentment, anger.

...has anyone tried burning the vines yet? I don't expect it will work, but, no one has resorted to violence in retaliation yet, have they?

No, nothing will make the vines go away. The more you try to get rid of them, the worse it gets.

[She shakes her head.] Nobody's resorted to violence yet, but there's tension. There have been times where neither the spirits nor the humans would listen to reason. Avatar Korra tried to convince the spirits to leave and find a new home, but they refused.

I'm not surprised. Spirits are very hard to convince when you ask them to leave a place they call home. It took me-

[Wan's mouth snapped shut and he glanced sideways at the girl with wide eyes ans he realized he'd been about to say something related to being the Avatar that he probably shouldn't. It was Korra's era, not his. She was their Avatar and drawing attention to the fact that he was somehow walking the world at the same time as her would cause more chaos. She didn't need any more of that to deal with. Not when she'd already dealt with so much. According to the people he'd talked to and the various history documents he'd read, anyway.]

-saving an animal to convince just one to let me live with him. I didn't know he was watching when it happened.

[Yeah. Nice save. Good job Wan.]

[Jinora can tell he's lying (or at least trying to bury the truth) and it shows in her expression. But she doesn't push it. In fact, she's far more interested in the fact that he's lived with spirits.]

You live with a spirit?

Sure do.

[He smiled a gentle smile as his eyes unfocused for a moment. When they snapped back, he waved a hand.]

Not the one I befriended by saving Mula, though. I haven't lived with that spirit in a long time. But the one I live with now is my best friend. We're pretty inseparable.

[Pun intended.]

Edited 2014-09-24 03:18 (UTC)

[Jinora looks around, searching for the spirit.]

Are they here right now?

[And that was where his good natured joke ended up hurting a little too much.]

She... she is. But she can't be seen or heard by anyone right now. She's... sleeping.

[Sort of.]

[Jinora looks sad, knowing that they've hit a sensitive subject.]

Is she okay?

Jinora | Legend of Korra

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