Eighth Crash [Action/Voice]

[broji]

{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.]

Comments

voice.

[broji]

[Hang ten, Ikkisis. Ginji's trying to sort all this out. There's a lot of new concepts involved; he'll be going over it aloud out of habit.]

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.

[breezing]

I think he might've wanted to break the cycle. So that there would be no more Avatar.

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.

[broji]

Seemed like a pretty bad idea from the start... Rerouting stuff is tricky enough and can have dangerous consequences, but intentionally breaking them's never a smart thing to do.

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.

[breezing]

I think so, too, but I don't think he was really thinking up the best ideas, 'cause taking over the world doesn't really sound like a super good idea, you know?

[ 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.

[broji]

Yeah. But there sure are enough people who think that one up, huh?

[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.

[breezing]

Yeah, I've heard 'bout lots of those here, you know?

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!