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fandomhighdorms2012-12-09 08:51 am
failsatspirit) wrote in fandomhighdorms2012-12-09 08:51 am
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The Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday Night During the Sock Hop
With the Sock Hop going on down in town, Korra was using the relative peace and quiet to practice her bending.
In the common room, because you never knew when you might need to have a bending battle indoors. Besides, she was sticking to her waterbending because she could always just bend it out of the carpet and furnishings later and no one would be any the wiser.
Korra did not necessarily need an Idiot Ball to make bad life decisions.
In any case, her plan was actually working out fairly well until, when in the middle of directing a water whip at the wall, she tripped over a lone roller-skate (and really, who leaves a roller-skate out in the middle of the common room?), leaving her flailing her arms to keep her balance and sending her water-whip in a graceful arc directly at the television.
Korra froze, staring at the now drenched appliance. Maybe it would be okay. She didn't know anything about televisions, maybe they were supposed to have smoke coming out of their backs like that?
...crap.
In Korra's defence for what happened next, electrical fires weren't quite as common at the South Pole as they were other places, so her immediate instinct was to the drench the television with even more water...which just made for even more sparks and smoke. Moving immediately to plans B and C, she earthbent the contents of a nearby plant-pot into the back of the television to smother the flames, while firebending them out of existence as well.
Then she froze the water for good measure, before carefully, carefully bending both dirt and ice away from the television. "There. Good as new. I hope."
The television, which had been gamely playing an episode of Pleasantville throughout the entire affair, made a sad little 'bloop' noise and went dark.
"...oops."
[OOC: The Avatar has defeated the television! Huzzah! Open for reactions, though pings may be slow on account of sleep-vikings.]
In the common room, because you never knew when you might need to have a bending battle indoors. Besides, she was sticking to her waterbending because she could always just bend it out of the carpet and furnishings later and no one would be any the wiser.
Korra did not necessarily need an Idiot Ball to make bad life decisions.
In any case, her plan was actually working out fairly well until, when in the middle of directing a water whip at the wall, she tripped over a lone roller-skate (and really, who leaves a roller-skate out in the middle of the common room?), leaving her flailing her arms to keep her balance and sending her water-whip in a graceful arc directly at the television.
Korra froze, staring at the now drenched appliance. Maybe it would be okay. She didn't know anything about televisions, maybe they were supposed to have smoke coming out of their backs like that?
...crap.
In Korra's defence for what happened next, electrical fires weren't quite as common at the South Pole as they were other places, so her immediate instinct was to the drench the television with even more water...which just made for even more sparks and smoke. Moving immediately to plans B and C, she earthbent the contents of a nearby plant-pot into the back of the television to smother the flames, while firebending them out of existence as well.
Then she froze the water for good measure, before carefully, carefully bending both dirt and ice away from the television. "There. Good as new. I hope."
The television, which had been gamely playing an episode of Pleasantville throughout the entire affair, made a sad little 'bloop' noise and went dark.
"...oops."
[OOC: The Avatar has defeated the television! Huzzah! Open for reactions, though pings may be slow on account of sleep-vikings.]