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Asami Sato ([personal profile] paishodown) wrote2014-12-21 12:41 pm

3rd gear | video

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?
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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2014-12-24 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
No Christmas? No jingly music, no Santas ringing bells at you on the street corners, no blinky lights all over everything?

[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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2014-12-24 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
A spirit?

[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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2014-12-24 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Me neither. Do I look like a native to you?

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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2014-12-25 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Blake sets his brain to figuring that out, and finds the answer pretty quick.]

What are you, Jewish?
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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2014-12-26 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately Blake is used to this song and dance by now. You assume somebody is from someplace normal, you get disappointed.]

All right, all right. Back to the beginning. Where are you from?
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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2014-12-29 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
United Republic of...Jesus, that sounds like one of those places where everybody wears uniforms and the government has loudspeakers everywhere. Do you gotta stand in line for bread?

[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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-03 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a zoning nightmare. Then who controls it? What country would it even count as being in?

[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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-04 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Blake's not quite buying these country names.] Yeah? How about the Asbestos Republic, or the Oxygen Empire? What'd they think?

[That gets his attention, though. He looks her over.] You're pretty young to be a CEO.
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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-07 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Would you like the full list, Asami? It's weighty and comes bound in hardcover.

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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-11 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. [He gets it. Dad dies, kid gets the company. Good old nepotism, alive and well.]

What kind of company is it, anyway?
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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-12 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. So, useful stuff.

[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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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-17 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, just knowing what a car is puts you pretty damn far ahead of a lot of people around here, whether or not you can change your own oil.

[Naturally, he assumes she can't.]
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[personal profile] lieutenantantichrist 2015-01-24 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Blake snorts aloud like a bull in a field that has also just been told something unlikely.] Sure you did.