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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[whyarewehere]

Grif has a very acute sense of smell. Or at least he does when it comes to desserts. He could probably pick up baking from a mile off.

Unfortunately, it's that Aang guy. But by the time he realizes that, it's too late to do anything but say, "Uh, sure."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

He recognized the armor, and for a moment, the hand holding the pie hesitated over his plate.

Then he dished out the fruit pie anyway.

"It's okay, you know," he said. "I'm not mad at you over what happened."

[whyarewehere]

Grif takes a seat at one of the lounge tables. He's quiet for a moment, trying to decide what to say.

He knows he was wrong. It's very hard for him to admit that to himself, but he did almost kill some guy he didn't know who had never actually done anything to him. (Except go bonkers because of a nightmare monster.)

"Why?" he finally blurts.

"Because dude, if somebody shot me I would be pissed."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I was a danger to the people around me. It was a bad timing. A moment later and you would've seen me calm down, but right then, I was pretty much a force of destruction," Aang said. "It's part of my nature. I can't blame anyone for being afraid of that, especially when I can do so much harm. There are places in the city still scarred by my passing."

[whyarewehere]

Wait, that's it? Grif has been told Aang would forgive him, but it was kind of hard for him to believe. Especially because Grif's idea of forgiveness is being punched and called jackass a few times.

Instead, he got pie.

"Are you sure?"

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I'm really, really, absolutely sure it's okay," he said. "I forgive you."

[whyarewehere]

Grif cracks a slightly forced smile.

"Well, okay. I'm sorry I shot you."

He takes a bite of the pie, chews, and swallows. "I don't apologize for much, so don't you forget it," he adds. This may be an attempt at a joke.

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

Ron was actually wandering in to cook, halfway to tying on his apron, when he saw the pie.

"Mind if I try some?"

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader shook his head and muttered under his breath. It sounded like "waste of time" and maybe followed by "surrounded by children".

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Actually, I'm seventeen," Aang replied. "That's an adult where I come from. You sure you don't want a piece of fruit pie?"

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"You are behaving like a child," Vader said, folding his arms. "And no. Absolutely not."

[greennotgold]

Fletcher was taking his Brand New Puppy™ for a walk around the ship when they came to the lounge and found... someone making pies. Fletcher recognized Aang from the discussion on the Ohm that had happened a while ago, but of course the as-yet-unnamed dog had never seen him before, so he was more wary.

"Are you... making pie?" Fletcher asked in wonder.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I'm behaving like an Airbender. This is one of the native foods of my people. We made them all the time."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"There is already food here. You do not think of this as a waste of supplies?"

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"You can only really use the ingredients for a fruit pie to make some kind of sweets. It's mostly sugar. The supplies here are meant to be cooked up as food and enjoyed. And it's a way of sharing something of my people with others, after what happened to them."

[neverwastenaya.livejournal.com]

In the wake of the elections, Tenaya fought the urge to mock people on the omnicomms. It was a tough urge to fight, but she reminded herself that she still had to get to Venjix Palace. Once she had spare parts, then she could potentially put her life and limbs at risk by mocking dangerous people.

Life was so much easier under Venjix, she thought sometimes.

Pie, however, was a great distraction, and Tenaya did have a bit of a weakness for sweets.

Sneaking up behind Aang, she stuck a finger in the fluffy fruit topping.

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader is still not impressed.

"I assume your people died from lack of proper nutrition, then."

This is not a joke.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Actually, they were killed by a conquering nation. All of them."

Not a joke.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"You can have a whole one if you want!" Aang declared cheerfully.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Fruit pies!" said Aang. "Would you like some?"

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"I can see why, if this is how they spent all of their time. How fortunate you escaped."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"You have to eat the whole thing now." You realize this, right? "That's a rule. If you stick your finger in the frosting, the whole pie is yours."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

The insults against his people were nothing he'd never heard before. In fact, in the Fire Nation school he'd sneaked into, they'd lied about them attacking the Fire Nation first.

"I'm just lucky, I guess," Aang said, Airbending the fluff of another fruit pie.

[greennotgold]

"Sure! Thank you very much," he replied, moving closer to take a look at them. And the puppy followed, intrigued. (Fletcher wondered if puppies could eat pie. Hm.)

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I won't," said Aang with a smile. "What's your name, anyway?"