acatalepsy_logs | need the sun to break

Who: mako, ota otherwise! please bring me your babies c:
Where: various places
When: throughout the sickness event, the last prompt can cover any time period in it as mako won't progress past the first stage.
Rating pg for now! will update if it changes. some mention of a lightning-based injury tho!
What: settling in and maybe trying to mother-hen other sick people who need it. please toss me a pm or hmu on discord (violynnist#8733!) if you would like something custom for you, or to try another situation/scenario also! This was my intro post on the CR meme as well if that's easier to poke at c:

𝐏𝐑𝐄-𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒;

𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚;

( he's no stranger to the fey and fantastic. being friends with the avatar has meant years of encountering things that might have otherwise been beyond belief. he has a healthy threshold of tolerance for the scope and scale of strange than most people would probably expect of a no-nonsense cop.

his first thought is spirit wilds. even astoria herself sort of seems like one, though she looks human (he's heard stories of koh) and the misty phantasms that roam the temple grounds certainly don't disabuse that notion. mako is. quiet. taking it all in, listening, learning. he jots down notes, which is difficult to do when one arm is an out-of-commission ruin, strapped into a sling that pinions it to his body. he sort of rests the notepad in the hollow of his wrist, over the fabric of the sling and scribbles everything in police short-hand.

thrown into a new situation? doesn't know anyone or anything beyond astoria's welcoming spiel? time to wander the grounds of the temple. when he runs into other people, he'll approach them politely and introduce himself, )

I know it probably doesn't matter here, but I'm a Detective with the Republic City Police back home. My name's Mako. I'd like to ask you a few questions, if that's all right?

( he gestures with his notepad, obviously intending on writing things down. feel free to talk with him, refuse a statement, agree but only off the record, etc. he's a mostly-amicable (if. sometimes humorless) guy! )

𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛;

( he can't feel the sun. it's there, visible, a low-hanging presence on the cusp of dawn. it's a slightly different color than the one he's used to, and he can feel its rays on his skin, but there's. nothing. no energy, no... deep, abiding warmth that sinks down into the bones and drags the life and breath of fire to life through the conduit of his physical body.

it lends further credence to the thought he must be in the spirit world, or something very like it. he finds his way to the fighting ring and, still with his left arm in its sling, he tries a few right-handed jabs at one of the training dummies. nothing. nothing. he's stayed calm through everything else, being recruited — kidnapped, essentially — to someone else's fight, the whole thing. but this? it reminds him too much of amon.

out of frustration, he kicks at the air, the sort of slicing motion that would have swept fire away from him in an arc. and.

to his complete and utter surprise, a column of rock juts up out of the earth and launches the dummy several yards away. mako, instinctively, turns to look for bolin or korra or even beifong, the earthbenders whose company he spends the most time in, but. he's alone.

except, perhaps, for your character. mako looks a little sheepish at having been caught unawares — he's usually a little harder to sneak up on, so he's rubbing the back of his neck as he asks, )

Did you do that?

𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐗𝐓𝐀'𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒;

( he hates getting sick. firebenders are pretty hardy, all things considered. they tend to run hot. mako isn't used to feeling ill, it's only happened a couple times in memory, and. his default state is ignore all physical discomfort. he doesn't seem to be badly off, either, given what everyone else is going through.

so. a case of the sniffles. he sucks it up. pitches in around the kitchens, makes himself available to anyone who seems to be suffering. he even tries to go out into the forest of the fey to see if there is anything out there, some plant or herb that can be used as a remedy.

if your character needs some looking after during the event, mako's your guy. he will dutifully help total strangers, tuck people in, carry them off to a bed and help them through the loss of their senses should it come to that! let him big-brother you. it's the squishiest you'll ever see him. )

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( mako watches him critically, and will reach out to physically adjust his posture or stance if he deems it necessary. at that commentary, which really steps back into the realm of uncertainty, mako shakes his head. firm, )

Doesn't matter. Before today you didn't know it could be done. Now you do, and you go from there.

( he steps away from lance, puts his hand over his diaphragm. )

Water and firebending rely the most on breath control, too. Try to be conscious of your breathing. Don't hold it in too long. In and out like the tide. The original waterbenders learned from watching the moon in its cycles.

[ lance will move where he’s back guided, picking up pretty quickly on the little things he said doing wrong when mako corrects him. he’ll go through the movements a few more times just to get comfortable not with them, smiling a bit to himself as he does, until mako goes and says that and lance freeze so up mid-step. ]

Oh. [ because isn’t that a fun easy way to put it. lance sort of looks at mako, then down to husband hands, before nodding once- that confidence seeming to fill back in again. ] You’re right. It’s just practice.

[ he’ll even smile a bit at mako when he says that, feeling kind of extremely lucky that he now has a??? teacher??? friend??? new harassment victim??? ~~among other things~~. which, abs mako’s hand moves over lance’s diaphragm, lance pauses again, his eyes going from mako’s hand to his face. ]

They learned from moon cycles? [ lance’s face brightens a little at that. ] That’s so cool.

( it is pretty neat, honestly. but it does mean waterbenders are more vulnerable to... well. disruptions in the spirit world. it's funny, that learning about bending from someone else's eyes can really make him appreciate it. he never thought about it like that, it's just... how it was. mako accepted it. firebenders learned from dragons, airbenders from skybison, earthbenders from badgermoles and waterbenders from the moon. but to someone who's never known bending at all...

yeah, he supposes. it is pretty cool. mako tips his head to one side with a faint smile, and then he gestures to the puddle. and proceeds to stand out of the way, because if lance accidentally freezes him he can't exactly negate it with heat anymore. )

Okay. Try the real thing now. It's okay if you don't get it at first.

[ lance is honestly a bit giddy about the whole thing. because yeah, having powers is cool. especially when you’re talking to a below-average student, one kid of a large family, and be just. you know. everything else? it’s something lance feels like he can actually get excited about. more so now that he knows people who? know? what they’re doing?

so mako steps away and lance takes a deep breath, an image of pure concentration, as he takes a decent (no let’s be real it’s pretty good) stance and starts to move through it. there’s a different feeling to it, too. before, lance still had a bit ignored a jovial air around him, excited but also playful. now? lance just focuses.

and it...kind of works? the water shifts into an almost state somewhere in the midst of his steps, but lance doesn’t care, his entire body peeking up as he turns back to mako. ] You saw that, right?!

( he starts to fold his arms. thinks better of it. and then settles for cradling his left elbow in the palm of his right.)

Definitely looked icy to me. Next time just try to follow it all the way through.

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the amount of typos.....i’m so embarrassed....

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