6th wave | voice

[rebonding]

What do you guys do when you start to miss home? Or... worry about the people and the responsibilities you left behind, even though everything is supposed to be all right?

[Everyone's in the same situation, so Korra doesn't feel so weird admitting that she's missing home. She's lucky, she realizes, that she has friends that she made both at home and here to keep her company. But still...

It's not home.]

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Voice

[raavashing]

I stop dwelling on it and move on. What's happened has happened and I can't change the past. I can only guide my future and what I do here. So as much as I care, I stop dwelling on it, I stop thinking about it. When I start to, I distract myself with something else. Something I can do right now. I make those my new worries and the others will eventually fade into the fog.

It's going to take a while, but it will happen.

Voice

[rebonding]

That's usually what I do... Distract myself.

[Usually by going swimming, or practicing forms.]

I don't know if I want to get used to it, though.

Voice

[raavashing]

It's better to be used to moving forward then to be stuck in past. You'll never get anywhere if you stay behind. It doesn't mean forgetting, or giving up. Just... not letting it hold you back.

[Voice]

[uccellodifuoco]

Punch something. Several times or until it's destroyed, whatever happens first. And then I move on and throw it all to the back until there's something about it that I can actually do. You'll end driving yourself mad and killed otherwise.

[Voice]

[rebonding]

I think if I started punching things, I'd set the ship on fire.

[Again. Ha. Haa....]

It's not really anything major. I've been away from home before. But... not really like this.

[Voice]

[uccellodifuoco]

Can't you just punch things without bending some element? Or bending water instead of fire?

[A sigh.]

I know the feeling. I'm used to not be with the people I have a duty for, but usually it's on my own terms and I'm capable of checking on them with my Cosmo. Can't you just distract yourself with the friends from there that are here?

[He honestly has no idea if that would serve for anything or make matters worse.]

voice

[streetferret]

Clean the ship, check the food stores, practice.

[Captain of distraction. Easy for him to say though, all his people and most of his responsibilities are here.]

Make plans for landfall.

voice

[rebonding]

Yeah, I know what you do, Captain Busybody.

voice

[streetferret]

[And he was about to suggest transporting extra supplies between ships on one of the dippers, too.

Did he just get another nickname?]

Find new responsibilities here, it's what I've been doing. [But that's not exactly easy for Korra.] Maybe you could ask Ace about making an in-ship swimming pool.

[Voice]

[ex_automobiles598]

I don't think there's much you can do.

[That doesn't really answer Korra's question but]

[Voice] 1/2

[rebonding]

Aren't you Miss Optimism.

[Voice]

[rebonding]

[...That was kind of insensitive. Backpedal, BACKPEDAL...]

Sorry, I... Sorry.

[SIGH.]

It just... Well, you know.

[Better than most, really.]

[Voice]

[ex_automobiles598]

[Asami gives a light sigh back. Sorry Korra, this kinda stuff has been riddling her mind lately and she feels acting like Sokka sort helpless about it at the moment]

It's fine. I just wish I knew what was going on back home with...you know, everything.

[The whole business thing]

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[hiken]

It's easy for me, but I know everybody else feels differently. [Because of the whole rotting corpse issue.]

I dunno. Worrying is fine--if you can't do anything about it, that sucks, but I wouldn't dismiss it and say everything'll be alright. You just gotta push to get back.

Voice;

[rebonding]

That's what I'm trying to do. It's not that I'm running out of drive, it's that... we've been stuck here for a while, now.

I was so eager to get away from the South Pole for so long, but now... I just wish I had the chance to be home.

[Voice]

[alwaysgrumpy]

I usually remember that the situation back home is a hell of a lot worse than the one I'm in now.

[Voice]

[rebonding]

I'm sorry.

[She supposes that would be the case for plenty of people, huh? Things are pretty good, at home. But there are those who don't even want to go back...]

Voice;

[kingkilvas]

Hold out hope that this nonsense about shards is true. And the only thing we can do is work toward our goal.

From what I've gathered through the journals, those that have been temporarily blessed with the opportunity to go home continue their life as normal at the point they return. That's one of the few saving graces I can think of.

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[rebonding]

I was actually one of those people, for a while. Right when my friends from home started showing up, I got sucked back home and lived there for a little while, without remembering ever being here.

If that shard can't fix everything permanently... I have no idea what we can even do.

Voice;

[om_nom_namur]

Depends on what an' who I'm missin' from back home. Maybe draw 'em or some shit, y' know? Take jus' a couple a minutes t' remember 'em good. Then go an' find somethin' fun t' do with all the kickass people I got 'round me here!

Voice;

[rebonding]

[That brings a smile to Korra's face. Namur is good at that, for whatever reason...]

You guys are all great. I think that's why it hasn't really hit me, until now, that I haven't seen some people in half a year.

[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

Pester the hell out of Thatch and Ace.

[Voice]

[rebonding]

So... Every day, basically?

voice;

[bolincredible]

[ He is pretty tempted to find a ball and initiate a game of surprise catch to distract people now, tbh. ]

I guess I just think about something else? [ That's always been a pretty successful method for Bolin's natural leanings. Avoid the problem or thinking about it until it is fixed somehow. Possibly by you. Possibly not. ] I mean, you can always talk about it, too. If I don't think about something else, talking is kind of my go-to thing. Pabu makes a great listener in a pinch.

voice;

[rebonding]

That's what Naga's usually for.

[There's a small smile behind Korra's voice.]

I'm usually pretty good at not thinking about it. Especially since I was so desperate to leave the South Pole. Now... it's just ironic.