Gone fishing [Open]

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

It was, all things considered, a pretty good day. Sokka had decided to take the day off and spend the day doing something he loved: fishing. He wasn't sure if there were actually any fish in the river that ran through the city now, but that wasn't really the point. The point was that he had a body of water and a stick with a piece of line that was baited with a worm. He was happy to sit beneath the artificial sun, hat pulled over his eyes and stick held easily in his hands as he idled the day away. True, he could have done this in the Sensoriums but that wouldn't be the same. Real water was just more satisfying. And maybe he'd go for a swim later.

All in all it was shaping up to be a pretty good day.

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[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Hey. You're Katara's brother, right?" Someone was floating a few feet off the ground behind Sokka.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

Sokka looked up at the floating person for a moment before he responded.

"Ah, yep. That's me."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"You look a lot like her," Nura said, lowering until her feet firmly touched the ground. "I've heard that you're quite the comedian."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"I guess you could say that." Someone who knew his sister. And it wasn't like he had to automatically mistrust everybody on board, right?

[knifeurrib.livejournal.com]

"I never really understood the point of fishing." Mai stood a few yards back, arms folded over her chest.

"It's so... dull."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"That's pretty much the point," Sokka replied with a grin.

"It's dull. Boring. Normal. You don't worry about anything. You just enjoy yourself."

[knifeurrib.livejournal.com]

"That sounds horrible. You might as well just stare at a wall." Mai sighed.

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

Eva feels too old to go out running, but that doesn't stop her from taking a long, brisk walk through the city. She's been restless all day.

She sees a kid fishing in the river and, whistling "Don't Worry Be Happy" and thinking of those stupid novelty singing fish, wanders over. She breaks the melody to ask "caught anything yet?"

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Nope." Sokka seems pretty relaxed about that.

"I don't think there's actually anything to catch in there, to be honest."

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

"So you're not fishing so much as draping a line in the water. Good to know. Mind if I sit here?" Her hips are starting to hurt from all the walking. "You look familiar."

[encourage]

"Any bites?"

Sakura slowed down, momentarily nostalgic for earlier years, when she and friends had been the ones fishing by the side of some of the smaller creeks and rivers around Konoha. There shouldn't be anything to catch, not out here. At least not in the water.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Nope. I actually don't think there's anything to bite in there. But that's not really the point." Sokka seemed happy enough to just laze around by the river, even without the prospect of catching anything.

[encourage]

"No, it doesn't seem like it would be." Not here at least, and not with his overall demeanor. "Has it been working?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure how successful you'll be there, Sokka," said a familiar voice, and there popped up the sister waterbender, opting to join her older brother. "I was actually helping when this river was put here, when Kohaku was still recovering from the Nightmare King. They've moved it since then, but I don't think they put in any fish."

Not that she needed the excuse of fishing to go see and glomp her older brother. She'd missed him.

"How are you?"

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Katara. And there not being any fish is besides the point. I'm just wasting some time, you know? Can't swing a sword around every day." He gave Katara a quick hug. He didn't see his sister so much these days, so it was always good to do some catching up.

"I'm doing alright. Trying to keep busy, not go nuts. The usual. How about you?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what he was driving for? Well, she couldn't blame him. She needed to meditate, he could at least pretend to fish, right? That made sense.

"I guess I can't argue with you there," Katara said, grinning. "Training with the Outsiders, looking after some friends, meditating, things like that. Trust me, I keep busy!"

And she did. Really, it was a wonder she had any time to herself.

"Actually, if you want to see something pretty amazing, you ought to pop over to the Hydroponics bay. There's all of these different alien creatures there. It's where my dog Zhin usually stays, when she's not with me!"

[livestoannoy]

Marco had flown over this river quite a few times, in osprey morph. A bird which just so happened to hunt fish. And if there had been any in the river, the osprey's eyes would have seen them.

Marco was pretty damn sure that there were no fish in this river.

So when he wondered by Sokka, he was looking pretty amused. "Ah, trying to catch the illusive Invisible Fish, I see. Good luck with that."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"They're a tricky opponent, you really have to get inside their heads." Sokka replied without missing a beat.

"Which is extra hard because you can't see it."

[livestoannoy]

"Maybe you should dive in and try to find them with echolocation instead," Marco replied, grinning.

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

"Hey."

Fresh out of morning training with Hiccup - or rather, morning making-Hiccup-run-until-he's-bored-himself-into-shape - Zuko flops down on the grass next to Sokka.

"What's going on?"

Whatever it is, it looks peaceful.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh. You know. Trying to catch fish that aren't there. The usual." Sokka seems pretty relaxed about the whole thing.

"How you doing, Jerk Lord?"

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

Zuko sprawls back on the grass, still pondering that whole "Lord" thing.

"Fine, I guess."

The coronation didn't enhance his communicative skills much.

"You?"

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi considered the young man with the hat idling near the river. He seemed to be fishing, or at least attempting to, but Zouichi saw no telltale splashes or gleams of silver in the sunlight -- so maybe it was mostly a thought exercise.

"You're not sleeping, are you?" he asked, coming up from behind. "It would be awfully difficult to catch a fish with your eyes closed."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Nope. Just fishing." Sokka replied without opening his eyes.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

He sat down nearby, looking curiously down at the water. "Any bites?"