Beach Party!?

[markofthewise]

Who: Anyone who wants to come!
What: BEACH PARTY! (For Katara or something)
When: In the evening, about 7PM
Where: On the beach! Somewhere!
Summary: It's Katara's 17th and while all friends of Team Avatar are invited, anyone else can gatecrash too.
Rating: E for everyone (for God's sake there's going to be seven year olds!)

[A few days before the birthday, Katara's housemates began birthday preparations. Not quite entirely secret, but they made invitations, told friends, spread the word, and so on. Birthday on the beach. Be there or be a loser McButtface without friends.

And so there's a party! With tables! And chairs! And umbrellas! And the sun is setting, but the Malnosso had no taste and put the ocean on the east side of Luceti, so it's a sunset over the mountains which isn't as cool as an ocean sunset. But anyway. There's a volleyball net and, you know, an ocean to swim in. Also Sokka ordered a generator with his mission points and abducted the karaoke machine. It was mostly to provide some music, but people can get up and sing with it too.

As for the food? There's a table for that. It's a bring your own dish affair, since Katara is kind of their team cook and they can't exactly make her own birthday meal, right? So anyone coming can bring whatever they like and set it out. The gang brought some meals of their own, so there's bound to be some cool dishes from the air nomads, water tribe, and fire nation. And cake. A big chocolate cake. Someone made it! We don't know who. (Feel free to dibs being the baker or something if you want.)

And a table! A table for presents! Bring a present, set it there. It's very organized.]

((ooc: It's out on the beach and just a general sort of party affair, so feel free to have characters show up even if they're not friends with the birthday girl. It's a free for all. SO YOU BETTER MINGLE OR THERE'S GONNA BE WORDS.

Now have fun.))

Comments

[metalbends]

[She huffs a sigh.]

So, you don't want to give him credit for saving the world. Whatever. You think he's a bad match for Katara, too?

[generalflirt]

Objectively? Not really. If anything, if people got what they deserved, her and him would be having a Perfect Romance which would be making everyone else sick.

[A beat]

But, Toph-chan, do you see where the problems here are?

[metalbends]

Of course I do. [She's been there and back again. She knows the Aang and Katara who are together, and she knows the Aang and Katara here. In fact, she's the only one who could look at it that way--Aang, even if he was from the same time from her, was too close to the matter at hand. Not that she isn't still biased, but she knows the facts.]

They've changed. Especially Katara. They've gone through things they never had to back home. That's what this place does, after all. Changes people.

[Masaomi isn't the same person he was when Toph met him, either.]

[generalflirt]

Again with the blaming a place. Every single one of you, every single time. Places don't change people, people can only change themselves. However Katara has changed,it's from the choices she's made in the circumstances presented to her. Putting it on the shoulders of a "place" is just insulting.

[metalbends]

[She snaps right back, lips turned down.]

Exactly. The circumstances. Circumstances no one would be facing if we weren't here. It's the whole fact that we're here that we're different than we are back home.

[generalflirt]

Choices still change a person, Toph-chan. Or is your "fate" so set in stone?

[Coldly. Defensively, really]

Either way, you're proving my point.

[metalbends]

[Her voice takes an odd tone.]

It is. When I go back, I'll become exactly the person Ikki says I do.

[But before he can respond, her next question is rolling out of her mouth.]

What is your point?

[generalflirt]

[Heh. His lips quirk up into a smirk] I guess I don't have one, riight? It's pointless.

[metalbends]

[Nuh-uh, not taking that for an answer.] No, you do have a point. So make it.

[generalflirt]

Nope. [He glances back to Linda, and then stands properly, taking a step backwards with a wry grin] It's pointless before "fate" after all. That's the beauty of it, right?

[metalbends]

It's not pointless. There's still a point to making our own choices even if we know how things are going to work out. That's how we get there.

[generalflirt]

Aaaah, nope, nope. The ones I'm referring to are meaningless. Just as "I" am meaningless to "you." In truth, the only ones who matter to "you" are those comrades you live with.

[He waves, going to just. Start to walk away now]

[metalbends]

[She doesn't follow, but she does shout after him.]

I came out here to talk to you, didn't I?

[generalflirt]

And it's been a pointless conversation! I thank you, as a pointless person!

[He called back, without turning. Laughing.

...He's really pissed still, but no one with working eyes would think it]

[metalbends]

[She grumbles, but doesn't say anything back. Fine, be that way, Masaomi. Don't say she never tried.]