route_1065 | MINGLE TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT

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MINGLE TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: November 25 - 27
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
Rating: BUT PLEASE MARK YOUR THREAD CONTENT ACCORDINGLY
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[It might be. Since random passerbys don't seem too upset with the sight of a giant robot casually marching through Goldenrod. Hey, at least he's taking care with where he's stepping, though.]

[And carrying around a Growlithe on his shoulder, one shaped like a particularly stumpy Welsh Corgi no less, sort of takes a lot of the terror out of the whole, giant-robot-covered-in-metal thing.]

[Good morning, teenage boy.]

[... Definitely the spirit world. That, or Sokka's inventions had gone a little too far.

What is he supposed to do in this situation? Firebending at it will be sure to anger it - not to mention that it has it's own little creature follower too.

Be the future Fire Lord, Zuko. Be diplomatic.]

Uh, excuse me! Sir? [Please let it be a sir.]

[You lucked out there, kiddo. He stops, looking down. His Growlithe just gets excited -- oh man it's a friend can we play with it please -- while he stands there, waiting.]

Yeah? Need something?

[Well great, now what does he say?]

I was just wondering if you might be able to tell me, uh...

Is this the spirit world?

Spirit... world.

[He sounds like he's repeating a foreign language.]

No. They call it Jhoto, though, for whatever that will tell you. [The big head tilts.] You new here?

I've never heard of that place...

So yeah, I guess I'm new.

[And very much not wanting to be here.]

No one ever has, when they show up.

[This is about the point when the Growlithe starts trying to climb down his arm. Apparently without thinking, he plucks her up in one huge hand, and sets her on the ground, where she promptly trots over to sniff the Charmander.]

You have a name, boy?

[At least he's not alone, he supposes. Though that doesn't make things that much better.]

...It's Zuko.

[Not titles or anything for now. Technically he doesn't have them.]

[There's a slow nod from the big robot.]

Ironhide.

[And then an awkward silence.]

... Anyone... fill you in yet? About all... this?

[Ironhide's a fitting name for a giant mechanical man, he supposes.

At the question, he shakes his head.]

No. Not yet.

[Knowing would be nice, but he's not going to demand answers from something that could crush him with its thumb.]

Hn. C'mon then. Talk while we march.

[Because standing around is for people whose joints don't seize up with too little movement.]

[He nods in a direction.]

You headed anywhere?

[Zuko shakes his head. He's not sure he likes the idea of following this thing - machine man - if only because he worries about being accidentally stepped on along the way.]

I wouldn't know where to go.

Supplies first. And a map. That is important.

[Since he keeps getting lost every other week it seems like. He gestures at the pokemon.]

You take that thing. Train it up, and it... protects you. Make sense?

[No, Ironhide, it doesn't.]

Not really?

[Zuko frowns, looking back at the overly cheerful animal.]

Why do I need it to protect me? I can protect myself. ...For that matter, what do you need one for?

Hn.

It...

[AWKWARD HAND GESTURES.]

Place works strangely. We are not allowed to fight. Not without the authorities becoming involved. They are.

[Big shoulders twitch in a shrug.]

I am not always this way. Usually about your size.

[This explanation is only making things more confusing.]

Sooo... You were turned into a big mechanical... thing?

No, turned human.

This is how I was before I arrived here.

[He pauses, as if realizing this doesn't make much sense either.]

... Happens to a lot of us. Being changed.

So you're usually like this... except you were turned human and now you're back again? Am I getting that right?

[It's hard to imagine this big machine in human form.]

None of this is really making any sense to me.