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- birds of a feather,
- homesickness,
- let's talk about family,
- no crashes yet,
- obligatory action segment
Eighth Crash [Action/Voice]
{In today's episode Ginji can be found refilling a metal dish suspended from a tree with seed and peanuts. If you guessed "bird feeder", give yourself ten points! After making sure the feeder's still attached securely to its branch, Ginji will make himself comfortable on the lawn and pull out his journal. He'll sit there for a while, enjoying the fresh air and the milder weather, before starting a new entry.]
Hey everyone. So...what's it like for you back home? Do you come from a large family or a small one? Have you set out on your own or still live with your parents? Got any siblings? Kids?
I'd like to know.
[After the voice post is finished, he'll spend the next few hours watching any animals that might wander over to the feeder and run through a few sketches of different wing shapes.]
Hey everyone. So...what's it like for you back home? Do you come from a large family or a small one? Have you set out on your own or still live with your parents? Got any siblings? Kids?
I'd like to know.
[After the voice post is finished, he'll spend the next few hours watching any animals that might wander over to the feeder and run through a few sketches of different wing shapes.]
voice.
In my world, as looooooong as anyone can remember, there've always been four nations, just like there're four types of benders: the Air Nomads, the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom, and the Water Tribes! Before Republic City and the Harmony Restoration Movement, they were really, really separate. Keeping balance between them - and between the Spirit World and our world! - is something the Avatar has to do.
The Avatar is a spirit that is born into our world in a loooong cycle. Air, water, earth, fire. The spirit of the Avatar is reincarnated into the next nation in the cycle when it dies. The Avatar is the only person who can bend all four elements, not just one! ...They have to do four times the training, though, haha.
Anyway, over a hundred and seventy years ago, the Fire Nation was led by someone called Fire Lord Sozin. He decided that he wanted to unite all the nations under the Fire Nation, and he knew that the Avatar wasn't going to stand by and let him do that, 'cause stopping that sort of thing is kind of the whole job description! So when the old Avatar, a Fire Nation Avatar, died, he took his chance to prepare an attack. He wanted to wipe out the new Avatar before he had a chance to become a full Avatar, y'know?
Grandpa was twelve when that happened. He escaped the air nomad genocide - if he hadn't, I wouldn't be alive! - and eventually he managed to defeat Fire Lord Ozai.
...Y'see, he escaped by being trapped in ice for a century, sooooooooo time stuff.
voice.
So what this fire lord wanted was to kill off any Avatars born outside the Fire Nation. And because they knew the next in the cycle would be an air nomad, they went after all of them not only to make sure they got him but to wipe out a phase of the cycle? That really is awful.
But you said the Avatar balances everything out. And without air nomads... Wouldn't a united Fire Nation throw things out of whack and cause even more problems for everyone - including the fire people?
And yet the Avatar managed to get away in the end. That sure is good news.
He was really stuck in ice for a whole century? [And he thawed out okay? Whoah... Wait til he tells Jack about this. Ice preserves stuff way better than he imagined it could.]
voice.
Umm, yep. See, the Fire Lord thought that uniting everyone would make them able to do more things, or would spread the peace of the Fire Nation outwards. He was...not right, about that, and somehow he got everyone in his nation to agree to doing it, anyway.
He was! He was caught in a storm, and fell into the ocean, and the water froze him and Appa - his sky bison - and a century later my grangran found him and cracked the ice open and then they went and saved the world!
voice.
Especially something like this...
[Wait.]
[Wait, wait!]
Appa the sky bison...? Ah! You mean Aang is your grandfather? But he...
[But he's just a little boy. Here anyway. Ginji rubs the back of his head and adds sheepishly:]
...W-wow. If he's as old as you're saying, he must've aged really well.
voice.
[ Aang does look pretty good for a 114 year old man, Ginji. ]
He will be! He is, I mean. But I'm from seventy years ahead of him and grangran Katara and everyone! Oh, but he is actually probably 114 instead of just 14, if you count all the time he was asleep in?
voice.
[Yep, it's true.]
I'd say it counts.
So you're from the future. That's got to be pretty weird. Kind of interesting, too, I guess? To see how your family was back when they were kids themselves.
voice.
Yeah! It's weird, but interesting. Really the only person who remembers me is Bolin 'cause he's from the same time as me. But they all remember me now, from here!