[center][h3][color=maroon]Tengfei[/color] [/h3][/center] [b]Japan - Current Year[/b] Life just sucks. At first you’re young, full of energy and believe you have so much time to do all the things you want to. Then life settles in, just like a commercial scam, you find out you don’t have the time to do nearly as much, instead you have to do a cycle of doing the same boring, repetitive things to keep up with taxes, car insurance, healthcare, all with the rising inflation. Then you also find out your energy is also gone, it is more of a trial period that drops dramatically down past your 30 and then keeps getting worse, it’s like one of those crappy mobile apps that try to hook you in. Finally you are past 50 and you’re alone, have accomplished nothing and all you can do is keep going until you burn out. At least it wouldn’t take much longer in this hellhole, before heart disease did its thing. Should have done exercise, should have stopped smoking, it didn’t matter now… [hr] [b]Unknown Location (Some kind of Void?) - Unknown Time[/b] Is this the afterlife? What all those religious folk were talking about? Because it’s so… [b]underwhelming[/b]. If it’s heaven, it sucks. If it’s some form of hell, it’s just boring, not even trying to actively inflict pain or suffering. If it’s a voidless dimension or limbo, it’s quite terrible at that too, there’s other [i]’orbs’ ‘souls’[/i] or [i]’things[/i] in here, however you want to call them. Oh look, they are yapping… [i]Aang’s words cut right through the silence, detailing his world and the dire situation it was in, body-snatching, tropes, memes and reincarnation. The boy’s wisdom just recently lacking a hundred more, a powerless Avatar in a prison of fanfiction.[/i] This all sounds like the story of a short-lived game. Moreover this new existance feels like some dream, purposeless and shapeless, what would constitute as ‘moving’ could barely be associated with the feeling of moving an actual physical body. These souls, simply left with their minds and each other’s voice. One could maybe get used to this, anyone who dies will be forced to as it seems. As Aang’s continued his explanations and demonstrations, the souls would experience a disorienting sequence of lights, chaos, and eventually the feeling of a [b]real body[/b]. Not fully and maybe not for long, but definitely enough to grant a sense longing and distate for this new form, feeling this new immaterial existance is just a fraction of your previous fully real life. [i]The rest is history. It is pointless to have specific requests for those lacking knowledge fine details on the world and ‘memes’.[/i] [i]Better to move on asap and leave this husk of a form.[/i] [hr] [b]Fire Nation - AG84 Spring[/b] [i]Being a newborn sucks too, apparently.[/i] Firstly, she didn’t cry, which in retrospect is very weird for a newborn to NOT cry. Secondly, what the hell was going on with that [i]’test’[/i] soon after she was born? Some kind of cumbustible oily ball and then it caught in fire, but nobody saw the fire? Or they saw something else? It was a very weird experience right out of the womb, but it’s better to get used to this weird world fast, just a glance at thise animals and people making fire while breakdancing was enough. [i][color=maroon]Tengfei[/color][/i] That was her new name, which she picked it up amidst the chaos. [i]Better get used to it[/i]. [hr] Retaining your adult’s mind and awareness while being an actual baby, THAT is terrible. Even worse was to think some reincarnates might have it worse than you, powerlessness and humiliation would just be common for the others too. [i]Best not to think about it and just move on, I’ll do things when I can, which is not now.[/i] Instead it’s better to use this time to learn in what special kind of hell she’s in, like what these chimera animals are and their stupid names, come on, [i]‘ostrichhorse’ ‘crococat’[/i] , seriously? Travelling around by ferry doesn’t mean you’ll see as many places as you’d like, the boat does the same few routes all the time and rarely it will go to a new island, if it does it’s because it’s a short-lived trend. The only consistently lucrative destination seems to be Ember Island, which lives off its tourism and has places for rich snobs no less. Another really important place Tengfei saw, although not for long, was the Fire Nation’s Capital, which is called… [i]Capital City[/i]… [sub]seriously what is wrong with people here and naming stuff?[/sub] The city itself was impressive and quite large, not as if it’s anything like Taipei or Tokyo, this city is old, [i]old-old[/i], and lacks many of the modern amenities she’s used to, [i]’at least there’s sewers but still I’d rather not get sick and need meds.’[/i] For the other things, life as a ‘[b]non-firebender[/b]’ wasn’t that special, although [i]it’s bullshit, I remember that string-ball thing caught fire[/i]. Well, ar least she might avoid the draft by being a ‘second-class citizen’ , hopefully.