synopsychic | Liquid metal shouldn't be anyone's best friend

So uh. Hi. [How do you start a post here? Weird, especially without any telepathic skills, that many others seem to have. ]

I'm Korra... I've been on this jaunt since the beginning, but I was busy during the check-in post... Anyway, this is my second jaunt, Rome was the first and I arrived during the cruiser liminal from a world, where we also have our own version of Spirit World and elementalism and empowered alike skills, that we call bending back there. No idea if it's normal for a world to remind someone so much of their home, but this one sure does in some ways...

[ Spirit World, spirits, mercury, superpowers. ...the list could go on and on. At least she doesn't need to hide her skills here like had to back in Rome. ]

But that's enough about me for the moment. I'm actually here for something that's actually important... [ So don't push your imaginary MUTE buttons yet, even if that first part's just her rambling! ]

If you run into Jean -- light-brown eyes, brown hair with darker hue on the back and sides, average height of 175cm or 5'9" whichever makes more sense to you, long face, wears black clothes with lots of pockets and stuff this jaunt... [ Seriously, if any of you can share a picture somehow, please do! ]

His infiltrator name is John King, he is a Manticore Squire as far as I know from our first day here... His empowered ability is manipulating mercury / quicksilver. Now, I'm talking from experience, when I say this; that stuff can be seriously really horrible for health.

So...! If you happen to fight against him while they are chasing people there, or whatever, but if he gets that liquid metal anywhere on your skin or body? You should tell me and I'll make sure you stay healthy! Unless you can heal yourself or know other healers, of course, but for those of you, who don't... I can check if there's any of it in your body and metalbend it out of you. It doesn't hurt, it requires no touching and I swear it's a lot better than chances of walking around with even a little pieces of that metal in your body.

Ohh, and my waterbending has healing abilities if anyone needs those for any injuries, that you might get here or wherever we go while I'm myself.

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[ Oh good, someone else who knows about that stuff. ]

Thanks. It's really not a common problem where I come from and the way how I experienced it was... taking it to a lot of extremes, but I'd say one can never be too careful with this stuff.

Sounds like the kind of a drawback to it, that wouldn't surprise me here at all. But I'm not sure if he is immune to it, at least not yet.

[At least his experiences have been through books, rather than experiencing them himself.]

I'm glad you managed to survive it, even if it was taken to extremes... and that you're offering help like this. I can't pull out metal from anyone's body, even if I know metal elementalism, but at least I can protect myself and others from attacks if necessary.

Yeah, you never know how the powers here work. I'll remember his description and report back if I see symptoms on him.

[ Maybe she should write her own book about it or make someone write one about that time in her life... ]

I'm glad about that too, genuinely these days... And not offering help when I know about that stuff and can do a lot about it is not my style. Huh, so you're one of those, who can summon his own metal. That's something I can't do but I can do almost anything with any metal I find. Except platinum. But yes, protecting yourself and others from attacks is definitely always good.

...I just. Really hope he won't keep that ability everything considered. Thanks, I'm going to keep my eyes open too and hopefully see him somewhere again.

[Or should she hope that she doesn't see him here again? Not sure.]

[What an anxiety causing book that would be.]

That's right. I mainly use it to lift and guide the metal elsewhere, but sometimes creating your own is useful as well. I'm also in the progress of mastering water as well.

[He's almost there, but not quite.]

It's bad enough he might be left with remains from his overlay.

That sounds like a good way to use it. Ha, maybe I should learn some of them just to be able to create the elements myself whenever I need to... You can learn more than one type of elementalism? Wow, that's -- sounds like I might get some friendly competition here. Waterbending was the first I mastered and water elementalism is the only one of the things here that I have so far.

[ Competition? Something she'll never get back home because people can normally just bend one element. Also someone remind her that wood elementalism is a thing because she'd jump on that one as it's not included in her powers.]

...yeah, I... am going to make sure that I find him as soon as everyone get back to liminal after this.

Yeah, it looks like we can. Me and Mikasa tested to see if we can teach them to one another and what do you know. So if you want to know metal, I can show it to you at some point? Oh, the name's Edward Elric.

[She's a damn fast learner, even. He'd love to be as fast and learn Everything.]

That's a good plan.

When did you test it? Because that's so cool -- but also very confusing because bending isn't even teachable and it's so much like it, and then we can even learn more than one. Sure, maybe someday, [take that maybe away from there.] I'll let you know if or rather when that day is. Nice to meet you, Ed. [ SHORT option!! ]

[ Korra is also a fast learner, considering how fast she learned metalbending. ]

For now, might be a little bad if he has things he should do once we get back there.

[ But uh, teamwork between Naoki and Korra for making sure that he'll be just fine is going to be a thing, so she's not very worried. ~~Yet~~ ]

Edited 2016-07-31 13:31 (UTC)

Not a long ago. We went back to Liminal Space and practiced together. [It really wasn't that long ago, except liminal changed once already.] So I guess bending and elementalism are completely different things, then.

... Wait, Mikasa isn't infiltrating? [ ...hello reminder to his conversation with Mister King. ]

She's not. Why?

Because the first thing he asked me was if I had seen a girl, who fit a very general description of her. I told him no, of course, but if she's herself and happens to run into someone from home -- is that just a coincidence?

Well, the first person I saw was Winry's overlay. She's from my world originally... so it might have been a coincidence.

[ Well, one of the first people Korra ever met here looked a lot like Asami, coincidences happen but... ]

True and it most likely is just that... But if I was her, I'd like to know that someone with mercury skills and contacts in this world is looking for someone, who fits into the same general description as her considering how things are getting crazy in this jaunt.

Edited 2016-07-31 22:19 (UTC)

I will make sure she knows, although I'm sure she can protect herself.

Come to think of it, she showed me a bottle of liquid mercury and a plate of solid one. I did tell her to be careful and now she knows metal elementalism.

Great, because this world is just full of surprising superpowers but I guess their homeworld is even crazier than this one in some ways at least.

...And now I don't think it's all just a coincidence anymore. And uh, elementalism and bending have a lot of similarities but then they're also completely different on some levels.

Liquid metal shouldn't be anyone's best friend

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