Mass texting

[imsorey]

[Early in the morning, maybe too early for some people, there's a very important mass text being sent out:]

HEY EVERYONE IT'S SOREY

AND MIKLEO

WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF YOU CAN SHARE SOME MEMORIES OF YOUR HOME, SO THAT WE CAN SHARE THEM WITH URSULA

IT WOULD MAKE HER HAPPY

SHE CAN READ ALL OF THIS THOUGH SO COME TO THE LABS WHEN YOU'RE FREE SO IT'S A SURPRISE FOR HER

NO PEAKING URSULA

[Sure enough, if you venture over to the labs anytime today, you'll find Sorey and/or Mikleo waiting around for people and multitasking at running a few tests.]

[[OOC: You will get Sorey or Mikleo tagging you, feel free to have characters talk to each other to brainstorm memories if needed too!! Please also fill out the OOC post over HERE for organizational convenience <3]]

Comments

[oneandmikleonly]

No, well -- at least she knows to ask about those now.

[...i forget how avatar spidey senses work but basically what what's there to pick up on is 'spirit' and 'water,' both strong. he tilts his head inquisitively back at her, noticing; his tone is light enough]

Something on my face?

[braavado]

No, just... [Her brows furrow slightly.]

You just feel kind of like the spirits at home do.


(ooc: nothing that specific! the most she'll be able to differentiate is dark/positive spiritual energy)

[oneandmikleonly]

[he feels pretty positive, then, and looks a little surprised]

Hahh, that explains why you can see me with no problems handily. I'm a kind of water spirit.

[braavado]

Oh. That does explain a lot. Most of the spirits back home don't look like humans.

[Then, she's looking a little surprised herself, once she's puzzled out the implications.] Wait, you mean there's people here who can't see you?

[oneandmikleonly]

Yeah. Maybe...half the people in the base can't? The ratio fluctuates.

[he looks a little surprised himself]

Does that mean that the spirits in your world are mostly not humanoid, but also...visible to everybody?

[braavado]

Yeah, they can be visible to anyone if they want to be. There's a bunch of them in Republic City now, and even people without any spiritual power can see them.

[She frowns at him, though it's out of concern.]

You can't do that in your world?

[oneandmikleonly]

[he smiles, with a clearly rueful tinge; his eyes flick over to Sorey a moment.]

Without bringing spiritual corruption into the mix, there are three humans at home who can see seraphim with any sort of ease. Kind of a tiny sample size. We don't really have a way to increase that sort of sensitivity in someone, either.

Sorey can act as a bridge to let someone hear the seraphs, but he can't be everywhere.

[braavado]

Oh. [Her brows draw together in concern. That sounds rather lonely.]

But--there are other uh, you said it's seraphim in your world, right? How many seraphim do you know?

[Biting her lip, Korra stems the flow of questions for a moment.] Either way, I'm glad I can. Maybe we'll get some more spiritual people here later, too.

[oneandmikleonly]

[that's a good question, actually. he frowns; she can proactically see the calculations running through his head]

There's a few in every town...? I'd say we ran into maybe a hundred while traveling. Not many seraphs stay in one place or live together, so it's kind of hard to pinpoint a population size.

[and at her followup, he bows his head in acknowledgement]

There's a lot more accomodation for us spirit types here, I think. It's...been fun, living in a place where everyone can be reached one way or another. We're hoping to bring the means home too someday, if we can.

[braavado]

[His answer surprises her a little.]

Really? I would've thought... there'd be some kind of village of Seraphs. It'd make things easier for you guys, wouldn't it?

[She fidgets, frowning slightly.] If most people can't see you, traveling like that sounds...lonely.

[oneandmikleonly]

I suppose...mm. It's had its ups and downs. I think I'd still feel odd in a big city; it's hard to work through crowds that can't see you there.

We actually are kind of from a village of seraphs; Sorey and I are, I mean. He's human, but we were raised together. I've come to learn Elysia is a very unusual arrangement, though.

[braavado]

[She smiles crookedly.] Sounds like it. It's already hard enough getting through crowds when they can see you.

Oh, really? [Leaning forward slightly, she makes no attempt to hide her interest in the subject.] What made you two decide to leave?

[oneandmikleonly]

[his smile grows a little crooked, though his tone's still light when he answers]

Alisha -- she's human too. She stumbled into a ruin near the village somehow and we found her there, unconscious. Sorey helped her out, since she couldn't see anyone else there, and made sure she was able to head back home safely. An assassin attacked one of the seraphs after she left, though, so...we wound up leaving to warn her. Then Sorey became the Shepherd, and one thing led to another, and we wound up needing and continuing to travel instead of heading back home.

[it's very abridged; the actual events were rather more messy and complicated than he makes it sound. but that's the way of any journey, isn't it?]

[braavado]

Wow. [Even Korra looks a little overwhelmed by Mikleo's summary of events.]

"One thing led to another" sounds about right. [She pauses, stuck on the word 'home'.] Did you guys ever...make it back to the village before you ended up here?

[oneandmikleonly]

[shaking his head]

We wound up going farther and farther out, honestly...it's kind of rough at home. Ask Sorey about how he crossed the border sometime, that's a funny story.

[not to mention a little lighter than the rest]