Asami Sato (
paishodown) wrote2014-12-21 12:41 pm
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Christmas is in a few days, and the atmosphere in the city as people get ready is... amazing. We don't have a holiday quite like this in the United Republic.
[Asami is bundled up at a café in Goldenrod with a mug of tea.]
Of course, that also means that I don't really know much about all of this. They have a festival for the Winter Solstice in the Southern Water Tribe, and that would normally be happening this weekend. Are there people who observe that, here?
[Asami is bundled up at a café in Goldenrod with a mug of tea.]
Of course, that also means that I don't really know much about all of this. They have a festival for the Winter Solstice in the Southern Water Tribe, and that would normally be happening this weekend. Are there people who observe that, here?
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[The camera moves up and down as Blake walks down the street, snow crunching under his boots. He sighs deeply.]
You lucky bastards.
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[What are you talking about, random guy, Christmas seems pretty great as far as she can tell. And it probably does wonders for the economy...]
We have the lights back home, but not much else like this. Is Santa a spirit or something?
[She's actually interested in this, Blake. And Santa totally must be a spirit dude of some sort.]
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[Blake pauses in midstride, snow falling and nestling in his hair.]
Lady. You can't be telling me you never heard of Santa Claus.
[You've gotta be screwing with him.]
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But I thought everywhere had Santa Claus. Who do old winos who need a part-time job dress up as at malls around Christmas if there's no Santa Claus? It's a pillar of the damn economy.
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[Blake sets his brain to figuring that out, and finds the answer pretty quick.]
What are you, Jewish?
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All right, all right. Back to the beginning. Where are you from?
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I'm from Republic City, the capital of the United Republic of Nations. My "world" doesn't have a specific name, but it's where the people called benders come from.
[That seems to be the only difference significant enough for people to keep track of.]
One girl told me that my name sounds 'Japanese'? Though I've never heard of the place.
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[He taps his fingers on his arm, trying to figure out what she means.] Benders. Like, some kind of metalworkers?
[All right, there's a good, reliable place to start.] So what's your name? [He points his thumb to his chest.] I'm Carter Blake. Lieutenant. Philadelphia police.
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[You're totally right, though, Blake.]
My name is Asami Sato.
[CEO, genius, pilot of basically everything. Not that that really matters, here. So he's a cop? Sounds a lot like one of the coworkers Mako would always complain about, to be honest.]
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[Blake is imagining the nightmare of arresting somebody in a city that three countries have control over. God, the paperwork.]
Asawmee, got it.
[That's closer than he usually gets. He's gotten some practice with weird foreign names here.]
So what are you, a high school student?
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[Kids' show politics or something.]
And I'm not a student. I run my family's company.
[Her family of one, maybe...]
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[That gets his attention, though. He looks her over.] You're pretty young to be a CEO.
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It doesn't help that he is probably the two-hundredth person to comment on her age in regards to her job.]
That's what you and pretty much every other person I talk to say, yes.
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He thinks he knows why somebody this young would be in charge.]
What is it, they put you in charge on paper as some kind of tax dodge?
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It defaulted to me now that my dad's gone.
[She is DEFINITELY not telling this guy where her dad went, though.]
I've been running it for a little over a year.
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What kind of company is it, anyway?
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Industrial. Construction, automotive, and electronics.
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[He sounds approving and surprised. He'd figured she'd have a company that does make-up, or one of those "consulting" firms that actually does jack shit.]
So this city of yours is like Detroit before it got shitty-
[He's getting used to blank looks when he names real places, so he corrects himself.]
I mean, a big industrial place.
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I don't know what Detroit is, either, but I'll take that as a good thing.
[May...be.]
Republic City is the most industrialized city in our world, though.
[So she agrees, in some way that she doesn't really get.]
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[Naturally, he assumes she can't.]
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