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A returnee

Well what do you know, I'm back again. [At least the network seemed to be working like always. How he missed the strange voices inside his head.... except not really. He heard those enough when he got drunk enough.]

I'm Qrow. I was around for Moebius, but then the lovely hosts stuck me in a dungeon. I've heard it's been a pretty long while since then. Anyone care to fill me in on the most important blanks? If you're not comfortable in talking over here, we can always meet up.

[He pauses, before adding the most important thing he had in mind for this network call out.]

Most important one of them being my pocket flask. I need a damn drink.

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They also come with ability to bend other related elements or other skills we can learn sometimes. Wterbenders can be healers and earthbenders can also bend metal while firebenders can learn to redirect lightning... Semblances sound interesting too ...So, in case where they are not element based, what are they then? Can they be anything?

[ she'll take the chuckling with a grin, good good. ]

I'm pretty sure anyone who learns them somewhere can do that. Oh, so we both protect the world then, aaaaand the rest of that sounds very familiar too. I guess our worlds aren't that different sometimes even if they can still be really different despite the similarities.

I see. Very fascinating. Maybe you'll show me a little of what you can do at some point? [He's interested in seeing other abilities than what their world provides. Part of being a huntsman and a teacher.]

If I were to make an example... my niece can burst into rose petals. She becomes a lot faster while she does so it's great for catching anyone off-guard or just running away. Otherwise there are those who can use their Semblance to give themselves a power boost or make illusions.

Heh. Seems like it. And differences only make things more interesting.

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Sure, anytime. There's training rooms for sparring and then there's all this ...space in Liminals, the ones that have a lot of space for doing things anyway.

[ and she spends a lot of time in both. ]

Wow, so it can be a lot of different, very cool things then. I mean sure, we can use bending in a lot of creative ways too and spirits do their own things around all the time but I've never seen anyone turn into rose petals.

True, so all this traveling has been really interesting too.

[Qrow chuckles at Space in Liminal. Yeah, that's a good one.]

It's definitely a very special ability. There are Semblances that run in the family, so to say, but those aren't really that common. Usually every one is unique to their owner, even if there can be some very similar to others'.

[If she'll ask, he'll tell his semblance as well. It's not something he should keep much of a secret around other Travelers. Back at home he had his reasons not to say anything, but here was a different story.]

[ omg stop chuckling at her horrible accidental jokes. ]

Huh. Well bending doesn't run in the family either, whether or not someone borns to be a bender is coincidental and then it is even more coincidental to be born to be the Avatar -- that's my title back home, means I can bend all the elements and I'm supposed to bring balance to the world with it and be the bridge between the mortal world and the Spirit World. Though some siblings can both be born to be benders, I know a few but then all of them are not and some of them can be benders of different elements.

So, what's your Semblance? If you don't mind sharing it. [ he could obviously just not tell if he minds too much. ]

So it's pretty much up to your luck if you can bend elements or not. Well, it's kind of the same for what Semblance you get so that's not so surprising.

[Speaking of luck...]

Misfortune. My ability is to bring misfortune to everyone around me, including myself. I can't turn my Semblance off or control it so it's always there. Kind of a like a bad luck charm.

Yeah, no one will know if their kid is a bender until they start showing it at early age. [ or later in case of surprise airbenders but uh... ] Though it varies if a bender can use the other things included in their element too. I guess the worlds can't make it too easy for us by not giving us the option to choose what we want to do.

[ Wow, misfortune like that? ]

Well that's unfortunate. [pause, when she realizes what she says.] ...or I mean, sounds like you had some really bad luck for ending up with that.

[ ................ no, she doesn't ................ ................ you know what, she'll just shut up now. ]

Someone who's born a firebender can't necessarily control lightning, or something like that? Does being an avatar let you control everything ever?

[That would be kinda cool. To know every element and all that comes with them.

Qrow honestly just laughs at what she says, genuinely even.]

Don't worry, I make those kind of jokes all of the time. Why not, when you have the opportunity?

They'd have to find someone to teach them to do that, yeah, though we all also have to find someone to teach us our main element. With any luck the teacher anyone finds has mastered all the skills for that element and is willing to teach them to new benders too... Or some have learned a different skills from it than others, then we just have to find all of them. I've had to find my teachers too and I haven't actually learned lightning -- not yet, anyway, not sure if I ever will. But technically I had connection to all my past lives, where I was able to use all skills from them too. But I could learn all of them without help from my past lives, sure!

[ Except she'll never want to learn to bloodbend. The fact that she's 21 and hasn't learned lightning bending either might say something about it... or for the fact that she still has new skills to learn and teacher for it near her.

Genuine laughing is good, she should take some pride for getting him to do that. ]

Oh good, because I might accidentally do them sometimes. Hey at least no one can say they jinxed things to happen anywhere near you, when they happen anyway but that's good to know that things like that might happen with it.

Technically everyone has the potential to learn them, but might never realize it unless they seek a teacher?

[Which would make sense.]

Yeah, if someone ever says they jinxed something, I just need to wave my hand nearby to let them go off their guilt.

That is the short version of it, yes. If they don't learn one, there might be another related skill to it that fits them more. An earthbender friend of mine wanted to bend metal for I don't even know how long, but he accidentally learned how to bend lava instead while he was saving people from trouble... So you know, sometimes they don't even need a teacher, some people teach themselves or learn by watching.

[She is talking a lot, but that might just remind him of Ruby or someone else.

Also it's Korra's time to laugh a little at that.]

Sounds like a good plan.

That makes sense. A lot of abilities tend to activate when you really need them. Especially when you fight for someone.

Yeah, been in that situation myself too sometimes and know a lot of stories about it happening to people back home.

[change of topic?]

Speaking of people, we tend to fight against them or spirits, whose negative energy has gone too high. You said you fight monsters, what kind of monsters?

Funny that you mentioned negative energy. You see Grimm, the monsters in our world, get drawn to negative emotions. The more panic and such is in the air, the more likely Grimm are to strike there.

They don't have a soul and they generally just bring destruction around them.

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A returnee

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/uses a song called FRIDAY THE 13TH as tagging music for this

the irony

my spotify loves trolling to our threads as always

trololololooo

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