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Airbenders are pretty thoroughly repopulated now, but they're still minorities anywhere but the handful of enclaves that have retaken the open temples or integrated into the populations that have woven into them. Beila doesn't live in one of those enclaves. She lives in Republic City. Benders are a minority, airbenders more so. She's the only one in her class. It could still be a coincidence that she's supposed to do her history project on Avatar Aang, her some-number-of-greats grandfather, and not casual stereotyping. Whatever. Her partner's not a bender at all unless he's very quiet about it, he's just a random cute boy who sits to her left. Dao, that's his name.
"Hey," she says. "When's good for you to meet up and work on this thing?"
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roc_on
thinklikethis
Dao - doesn't seem to take the hint.
He does glance at her hand. Several times.
He does glance at her hand. Several times.
roc_on
Beila decides about halfway to the nearest theater to just hold his hand herself.
roc_on
Here is the movie theater! "What's your genre?" Beila asks. "I'll watch most anything as long as it's decently written and doesn't have Neko Li in it." She scans the listings on the wall critically.
roc_on
"He gets typecast and I hate the type. Strong stupid hero accomplishes victories against villains who are much smarter than him by hitting them with sticks. I want my good guys to win for good reasons."
thinklikethis
Dao laughs. "Okay, no Neko Li. Uh, I dunno, I guess horror's my favourite but - whatever, I'll watch pretty much anything too."
roc_on
"Horror, horror... you wanna watch Return of the Bloodbender? I haven't seen the original but it never matters with this kinda movie."
roc_on
Beila buys the tickets (she has seen the neighborhood where he lives, and besides, if she ever wants money now all she has to do is write to some company that makes some thing she likes and tell them they can say she likes it) and in they go to see the next showing of Return of the Bloodbender.
It's quite horrifying. Everyone who gets bloodbent spends the entire process looking like they're in quite a lot of pain and twisting in bizarre puppety ways as they do the bender's bidding. Beila jumps in her seat when startling things happen, but doesn't seem too fazed by anything else.
It's quite horrifying. Everyone who gets bloodbent spends the entire process looking like they're in quite a lot of pain and twisting in bizarre puppety ways as they do the bender's bidding. Beila jumps in her seat when startling things happen, but doesn't seem too fazed by anything else.
thinklikethis
Dao does not jump quite as much.
He fidgets, though, shifting in his seat when gruesome things are happening.
He fidgets, though, shifting in his seat when gruesome things are happening.
roc_on
"You itchy or something? Mosquitoticks been at you?" Beila asks when the movie ends and the lights come up.
roc_on
"I don't think it's listening. The part of your face that can hear is not the part that is blushing."