( he's going to give you a visual demonstration, lance. because he's better about that sort of thing okay. )
Doesn't any culture on your world have guardian spirits? Of anything?
( what kind of heathenous, lawless land do you even come from, lance??? all right, enough of that. mako ignores that quip and takes his hand, clasping them together, curling his fingers in the negative spaces between lance's. this is definitely holding hands, even if he's not going to think of it in that context. the one he uses is his right. the top of lance's hand gets a gesture with his scarred-up left. )
So this is my world. Where I live, and everyone else that's human. And this — ( he points to his own, which makes up the 'bottom' of the combination. ) is where the spirits live. People can go there in the afterlife, but spirits are creatures too. They can age, but they don't die unless something or someone kills them. Maybe you might call them... I don't know, gods maybe? Only there's a lot of them, and most aren't very powerful. Some of them, like the ocean and moon spirit, are older than time. But here...
( he flexes his fingers against the back of lance's hand. he's definitely not thinking about how intimate this is, because he's a cop with a job!! to do!! look at him and his job. )
This is where the worlds intersect. Bleed into each other. Humans can accidentally stumble into the spirit world and get lost there. And spirits can come to ours, though it's rare and very hard for them. It usually only happens if they're very strong, or very angry. When Korra opened up the pathways between worlds, she made it possible for any spirit could enter ours, and for any human could enter theirs.
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Doesn't any culture on your world have guardian spirits? Of anything?
( what kind of heathenous, lawless land do you even come from, lance??? all right, enough of that. mako ignores that quip and takes his hand, clasping them together, curling his fingers in the negative spaces between lance's. this is definitely holding hands, even if he's not going to think of it in that context. the one he uses is his right. the top of lance's hand gets a gesture with his scarred-up left. )
So this is my world. Where I live, and everyone else that's human. And this — ( he points to his own, which makes up the 'bottom' of the combination. ) is where the spirits live. People can go there in the afterlife, but spirits are creatures too. They can age, but they don't die unless something or someone kills them. Maybe you might call them... I don't know, gods maybe? Only there's a lot of them, and most aren't very powerful. Some of them, like the ocean and moon spirit, are older than time. But here...
( he flexes his fingers against the back of lance's hand. he's definitely not thinking about how intimate this is, because he's a cop with a job!! to do!! look at him and his job. )
This is where the worlds intersect. Bleed into each other. Humans can accidentally stumble into the spirit world and get lost there. And spirits can come to ours, though it's rare and very hard for them. It usually only happens if they're very strong, or very angry. When Korra opened up the pathways between worlds, she made it possible for any spirit could enter ours, and for any human could enter theirs.