Master of the Pielements [open]

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

The Person: Aang, the Avatar, master of all four elements, truly an individual to be reckoned with.

The Place: The Lounge. Right now, he was in the kitchen practicing his Airbending via the highly deadly art of--

Making fruit pies. What? It took some very precise Airbending to get the fruit fluff all fluffy on top. Good practice.

And eating the fruits of his labor was, uh...exercise for his jaw, yeah. And stomach.

Okay, so he was just hankering for cake after all that time with GLaDoS. It was still good Airbending practice, though.

And he brought the rest out to be served to whoever had a hankering for confectioneries.

"Hey, do you want a piece of fruit pie?"

Come and let me bake you the pie of my people.

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[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh man, you're making pie!" It's food. Sokka likes it. That's all there is to be said. He charges in (sort of) and grabs a pie before he sets about messily devouring it, mumbling at the other young man through a mouth of delicious fruitiness.

"Sho whatta 'ou 'hink abou' 'he elecshun?"

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I fink pepul madg a good chuce."

Aang was kinda partaking of his own desserts, too, and stuffing his face. He gestured with his fork (handy little things, he'd found, for some foods).

"But I fink dere could be bedder balans."

Hard to explain that, but he thought it.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I voted for Leon." Sokka swallowed and at last spoke clearly. He raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean by better balance?" He took another bite, waiting for an explanation.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Nathan seems okay, but as much as John Connor's outlook was frightening to some people, what are we in?"

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"A war." That's easy enough.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Leon has the idea that he can save everybody. When I told him I might have to--"

Yeah, let's not go back to the Nightmare King.

"He just...refused, even if that might have been what had to be done. Not giving up on anyone works when you're, well...us." The Gaang. "But we're a small group of people that doesn't carry around a larger group of innocents we have to protect while fighting. He can't risk the whole for the one, especially when the whole includes the millions in the pods. And sometimes he'll have to make choices like we did on the Day of the Black Sun."

And leave behind allies--and loved ones--to face imprisonment or death, for the sake of the greater battle.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"It's...I dunno. It's not easy. I think he has the smarts for the job, but I agree. I dunno if he can make that decision." Another, more thoughtful bite of pie.

"I'm not sure I could make that decision if I was in his place. I mean, it was one thing when it was my dad and the others. We knew the Fire Nation would just take them prisoner. But now...now we're fighting an enemy that doesn't take prisoners." He hefted his ever present shotgun.

"I carry weapons more terrible and more powerful than I'd ever thought could exist..."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I think he needs someone to tell him when he has to do that--someone he doesn't have to listen to every time, but still somewhere there to say it. And I don't think John Connor would be as quick to sacrifice people as some were trying to make him out to be. If he's not first officer, I think Leon should make him--or at least someone like him--one of the other officers. Voices of dissent are good to have when mingled with other voices."

Aang snorted.

"And every group just needs a pessimist."

See, Sokka? Balance.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"You're just saying that to make me feel better." Still, there's a hint of a smile there.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"It's true, though," Aang insisted.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I guess there needs to be someone pointing out all the ways we could die horribly." Sokka quipped with more levity than he felt.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Just like there's plenty pointing out all the ways there's still hope," Aang said. "And there is, you know."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"I know. It's hard to have hope sometimes, in times like these. But you're here. And my sister. We'll manage somehow." He smiled, dug into another piece of pie.

"I mean, it's only the whole world again, right?"

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Well, except for the part where there's like a bazillion of them we have to worry about."