[bendytimed before Visitation Plot] [what the hell, it's open]

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

The Southern Air Temple was pretty beautiful, architecturally speaking. With twisting spires and trees threaded into the framework of the temple itself, it looked half as if it'd grown out of the ground or been carved into it rather than that it had been built there.

The best part about it, though, was the sense of peace the place had. It was very easily the kind of thing that could draw people in and help them find calm, even if they weren't the religious type.

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[guardian-wakka.livejournal.com]

Wakka could never find his way around this stupid place. There was no little map up in the corner of the screen. There was nothing that he could reference to figure out where he was. And by 'nothing' Wakka meant 'a sun.' Because Wakka wasn't used to navigating living machina ships with horrible living machina everything.

Machina Bad had seeped itself into his soul from an early age. Living inside of one didn't help him to shake the feeling.

So when he stumbled across... well it looked a little like a temple of the fayth, Wakka felt slightly better than usual. It at least felt a little familiar to him, even if it was different.

Maybe there were treasure chests lying around. He'd better go exploring.

Might as well take a closer look at the place. He wished he could hear someone singing the hymn. That would have made it feel even more like home.

Hadn't Yuna said that they moved some of the temples of the fayth onto the ship? Maybe he should try to find out where those were sometime.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

Someone was humming a song. It was a young man, judging by the voice, and said voice echoed through the temple.

Was it some holy song? A hymn? A chant that expressed the deepest faith in the divine?

"But now I'm stronger than yesterday
Now it's nothin' but my way
My loneliness ain't killin' me no more!"

Aang liked some of the songs he'd learned from the media library. This was why Wakka stumbled on an impromptu mini-concert of sorts, with a bald young man with some killer tats dancing around in a circle with a sort of monkey-creature that seemed to be enjoying dancing just as much as his owner. He was wearing ear-buds that were plugged into a media player that was tucked in the belt around his saffron robes.

[guardian-wakka.livejournal.com]

Wakka had no idea what was going on with the kid and the ear-buds. That made no sense to him.

Wakka you are such a Luddite.

But the kid was singing a song. He wasn't sure why he was singing this song, but singing it he was.

"Hey," he called out. "What're you doin?"

[shallturnto.livejournal.com]

Having explored as much of hydroponics as he could really stand at this point, Ash had eventually branched out to looking through the city, a potentially more rewarding experience.

Curious about the temple, he and Pikachu began to wander through it, occasionally scrambling up over any obstacles rather than taking the route a normal person would.

"Anyone home?!" Ash called into the emptiness.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

No one answered, but there was a noise. It sounded suspiciously like a young man singing.

[shallturnto.livejournal.com]

Pikachu's ears twitched, and waving for Ash to follow, the mouse ran off in the direction of the music. Finally, once in sight of Aang, Ash waved and shouted a "HEY!" at the other teenager.

[vision-ya.livejournal.com]

Jonas meandered slowly through the temple, hands clasped behind his back, and deliberately allowed his mind to drift. He felt that, on occasion, it was important to take a break somewhere quiet and meditate on the peace and beauty that they were fighting so hard to restore. And, well, sometimes gazing adoringly at one's girlfriend stopped being "sweet" and started becoming "creepy". So Jonas made do, and it was hardly as if this temple was a disappointing substitute.

He was careful not to touch the anything, though. He would hate to damage something and disturb the order of the place.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

That drifting mind of his might have caught some drifting snippets of song coming from one of the upper balconies.

"Welcome misfits, orphans, all
The ones who feel they don't belong
You were made to rock, so stand up tall
Go rock the world and prove them wrong!"

The singer couldn't carry a toon in a bucket, but sounded like they were enjoying themselves thoroughly.

[vision-ya.livejournal.com]

Jonas blinked a couple times, cocking his head and peering up at the balcony in question. Well, that was...somewhat unusual for the temple, certainly. But he could hardly disagree with the sentiment -- however tunelessly it was sung.

He shifted himself intangible and floated up to see if he could spy the singer. They might want to be aware that they did not have the temple entirely to themselves at the moment, after all.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Nostalgia hit her, coming to this place. She remembered, in her time as Katara, recreating this place before, and even then it was still so massive to her, so awe inspiring. It was the way the temple seemed to encompass everything, the implied sacred ground (so to speak) of the Airbenders long since gone.

It was a little different, being Kaya now and stumbling into this place. She still felt the same amazement being here, but she couldn't help but be nervous. She knew full well who had called this here: she could feel that familiar presence as if he never left, and if it had been Nima, it would have felt different to her.

No point in just barging in and being noisy though: she walked slowly, drinking in its majesty, looking for Aang.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

Unlike the others that had wandered through the halls of the temple that day, she'd find him meditating instead of dancing, on one of the balconies. His tattoos glowed faintly.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya was all too familiar with this scene, or at least, personally. Whenever she was meditating, it was usually with the backdrop of their world, it seemed to carry a kind of calming, balanced air few places on the ship seemed to have, even the Jedi temple.

And, knowing how much she hated being interrupted during said sessions, she sat down several feet away, drawing her knees up to her chest.

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie wandered into the unfamiliar temple feeling a bit in awe as she looked at the beautiful building. She'd never seen this place before and now she wished that she'd come here sooner.

She began to wander inside, feeling oddly drawn to the place, but she stopped herself before going too much farther. For all she knew, this could be someone's home. She hadn't exactly been invited.

"Hello, is anyone there?" she called after a few moments of consideration, hoping that she wasn't interrupting anything.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

There was a noise. A young man singing (extremely out of tune).

"Wake me up before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go!"

It was probably a little surreal, singing an ancient temple like that, from another world, and hearing lyrics to a Wham! song right in the middle of it. If she kept walking, she'd eventually find a young monk in saffron robes, with arrow tattoos, dancing around with a strange little animal.

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie heard the singing from inside and, now very curious, she walked inside quietly, hoping that she wasn't interrupting something important.

The singing and dancing boy caught her eye instantly, he would have been hard to miss, and she wandered another step closer.

She watched for another moment before finally offering a tentative, "Hello."

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

Asuka remembered him. They'd only spoken in her dream, but he'd been there. He'd seen the darkness inside of her and... he hadn't told anyone. That she knew of, anyway. After a moment of hesitation she jogged forward and dropped down to sit beside him. She was still dressed in her jogging gear and after a moment she spoke up. Casually.

"Hey."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Asuka!"

Just like that, he hugged her.

What? Sometimes that was just how he said hi, especially if it was someone he hadn't seen in a good long while.

"How are you?"

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

Asuka stiffened when he hugged her, but resisted the automatic urge to smack him. Instead she just sat there until he released her, feeling very uncomfortable with the conflicting feelings raging through her head. She shrugged and glanced away, "Oh, I'm fine. How are you?"

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

There was a scraping, clattering and a bit of grunting as Sokka clambered down one of the many stairways of the temple. He knew the place, so Aang had to be here somewhere (he doubted Zuko would call up the temple for any reason). When he spotted the the kid(still so strange that he was Sokka's age) he trotted forward and flopped down next to him, casually swinging his shotgun off his shoulder to rest in his lap. It had become habit now to carry it with him, along with the sword strapped to his back. He smiled.

"Hey."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

Aang eyed the shotgun with the slightest of frowns. He didn't like guns sheerly on principle, but it was Sokka's weapon and Sokka's choice to carry it.

So he looked at Sokka and have him a smile.

"Hey, Sokka."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

Sokka sighed and aimed the weapon out over the canyon, carefully ejecting each shell before he settled the weapon again, this time starting to look it over, another habit he'd gotten into. Simply checking it for wear and tear when he got the chance. IF he noticed Aang's disapproval, he didn't show it.

"How're you doing? Haven't caught up with you in a while."

[skyboundmisfit.livejournal.com]

This was nice. Nice big cliffs meant that there was a bit of movement in the artificial air here, not quite like the rest of the city. Plus, it felt natural. Someplace Tobias could just fly for a while and get his mind off. . .everything else. So he soared from one end of the canyon-temple to the other, rising and falling with the faint currents of the wind, flapping once in a while to maintain his altitude as he cruised.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

Aang saw the hawk out the window and walked over to the edge of the balcony to watch it.

What a strange thing to be on the ship. He wondered if the hawk belonged to someone.

Part of him hoped it was free. It seemed nicer that way, to see a hawk flying free through the sky.

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

While Eva's very firmly committed to having chosen Catholicism over all those other forms of spirituality, that doesn't mean she doesn't find some peace in holy places of any creed. She even keeps from singing or talking to herself, so as not to disturb the peace.

She recognizes Aang from Marco's descriptions of him, and gives him a little wave. "I was a little disappointed you didn't bake a nail file into it."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

Aang smiled from where he sat on the floor in the lotus position.

"I don't think you would've managed to file the bars fast enough to actually get out before your sentence was up. Did you like it though? There wasn't much left for ingredients so that was one of the last ones I'll be able to make for a while."