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[Action, January 11th]
[Voice, June 7th]
{Written, March 7th]

So how am I doing with Asami? She's pretty much a brand new muse and I'm still sort of getting a feel for her, so let me know what you think, good or bad! Comments are screened!

[Asami's day takes her mostly from the forge and weapon's shop, to home and back. She can be found in the back of the forge working on various things, or manning the front counter. In the evening she takes a long walk around the edge of the village, and finds a quiet spot to read on a bench. It's a pretty ordinary day, really.]

[Except for all the sudden arrivals. She doesn't quite know what to make of them, but part of her finds herself checking faces to see if anyone from home happens to turn up.]

[Eleanor is more fascinated by the new arrivals, really. Which is why she can be found sitting on a bench in the square, despite the cold, watching people rushing about. She isn't one for approaching people, but it's sort of nice to see everyone being as confused as she had felt when she first arrived. That, and it's a bit of a test for her to try and deal with large groups of strangers without freaking out and hiding.]

[Laura doesn't really care about the new arrivals, beyond the casual threat assessment when she comes across them. There aren't many people from home she cares about seeing and the odds of them arriving are slim enough that she won't let herself get her hopes up about it. So she sticks to the edge of the village, moving through the forest instead, keeping out of the way.]

[Eventually she winds up at the battle dome, loading one of Logan's training programs and taking herself through it. It's fairly violent, as a warning, but that's what she wanted.]

[Asami is standing on what would look like a normal race track, if not for the bright candy colored background, the rather silly looking bubblegum racing kart on the ground behind her, and the marshmellow clouds in the lollipop sky. She looks...amused and a tad bewildered as she turns to consider her book.]

I was taking a break from another project to see what I can understand here at the dome and found...this. I think it's a race track? Except it's...made of candy.

[She grins.]

Does anyone know who made it? And...can anyone give me a hand, because I was thinking of making one myself. Less...toothache inducing though. I guess I need a primer on how, though...

[Around lunchtime she can be found sitting near the town square, eating a sandwich as she goes over the diagrams for her new glove power supply. She's almost sure she's gotten it this time, just a few missing details that will hopefully result in a less...explosive...reveal. She has a pencil in her free hand and scribbles things occasionally on the diagram between bites. When she's finished eating, she gets up to go for a walk, still peering at her diagram absently.]

[Later still she can be found at the library, carrying an armful of books on electrical engineering over to a table and dropping them with a thump, pushing a few off to the side as she sits down to flip through them.]

[And in the early evening she can be found on the edge of town, going through some of her martial arts forms, her electrical glove sparking occasionally as she swings it through the air. She's in a white tanktop and her dark pants, her jacket hanging from a tree branch nearby, and her violent wings flutter with the exertion of her movements.]

[ooc: Just specify where anyone wants to run into asami, if they like! She doesn't mind being distracted, she needs more friends!]

Action:

[It was the sound of birds that woke Asami up, not an unusual sound, but not one she heard terribly often in her room at the Sato Mansion either. On the Air Temple Island though they were probably quite normal, she thought to herself as she shifted a bit, pressing her fingers into the grass under her hands and-

[What?]

[Her eyes opened with a start and she sat up, frowning at...the forest around her. Trees, and in the distance the sound of what might be people... The birds had all gone still at the sudden motion, but as she sat there, they began to chirp and tweet again, and the sound seemed to draw Asami from her shock. Where was she? How did she get here and what was she wearing?!]

[She plucked at the front of the white cotton sundress...not exactly terrible but not her style in any way, and a quick search of the area around her revealed her own clothing sitting in a pile on the ground nearby. Someone had undressed her, dressed her in this dress, dumped her in the woods of what looked like the earth kingdom and then...left her clothing for her? Because that made sense.]

[A quick search of the area revealed no one anywhere near the clearing she had woken up in, and once she was (relatively) satisfied, she scooped up her clothing and ducked behind a tree to change. But her attempt to remove the sundress had the fabric tugging on the strange, violet wings she hadn't noticed before, eliciting a startled noise of pain and surprise followed by a few minutes of examining them with her hands and what little she could see by turning her head. She had wings. What the hell was going on!?]

[A few minutes of changing and adjustment had her in her usual pants and the undershirt she typically wore beneath her coat, the back low enough that they were pressing lightly against the bottom of her wings but not enough to cause anything too uncomfortable. Except every time the fabric shifted the wings fluttered, which tickled and ached and that was...strange enough. She'd have to leave her jacket off until she found someone who could get whatever had happened to her reversed...]

[So she hung her jacket and the sundress over her arm as she started off towards the sounds she had heard.]

Video:

[It's a few hours later when she appears on the notebooks, sitting on the edge of a fountain in the town, the book resting on her knee. Someone she met has shown her the basics of it, and while she gets it, she's not really certain she actually understands it. So there is a view of her face leaning over, peering down at the page, her black hair hanging down and framing her for a moment before she...turns the notebook over suddenly, giving anyone watching a view of her pants-clad knee.]

...Is it working? Doesn't make any sense, it's just paper but...

[Her voice is muffled as she speaks to herself, and after a second the notebook flips back over and she frowns at the page again.]

I guess it is. Uhm. Hello! [She waves at the page for a moment then frowns, using her hand to brush her hair behind her ear before she forces it into her lap.] Assuming anyone can actually see this, I'm Asami Sato. I just...woke up in the woods, which apparently isn't as strange as I thought it was?

Right. Uh. Anyway.

People said I should say hello, so. That's what I'm doing. I feel kind of silly talking to a book but I suppose if it's doing what they said it would, I shouldn't...

Not that I can tell, of course.

[She picks up the book from her lap and gives it a little shake, which has her image bouncing around before she holds it a bit further away from her body, her head tilting to the side.]

...How do these work, anyway?

[ooc: Asami will be wandering around town looking at everything and trying to find a phone, so she can be most anywhere for runnings-into!]

I
PLAYER

Name: Dalrint
Journal Username:

dalrint
E-mail: Just use DW messages.
AIM/PLURK: AIM: Farobservr, plurk: Dalrint
Current Characters at Luceti: N/A

CHARACTER

Name: Asami Sato
Canon: Avatar: The Legend of Korra
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Wing Color: Violet with black tips.

Canon Point: After her father is revealed to be working for the Equalists, and after ‘Team Avatar’ goes out to stop Equalists, but before they are arrested.
Canon Point Explanation: At this point Asami is a full-fledged ‘member’ of Team Avatar, and has been forced to adapt to a sudden, massive change in her life. But she hasn’t entered into the emotional roller-coaster that is Mako and Korra.

History: Asami Sato on the Avatar Wiki.

Personality:

At first glance, Asami can come off to people as a bit prissy. She’s tall and thin, she takes immaculate care of her appearance and pride in how she dresses. She always has the nicest things, she is seen at all the major social gatherings in Republic City, and of course, is the daughter of one of the most famous industrialists in the world. It would be very easy for her to be a spoiled little rich girl.

But it’s very obvious that while she has these traits, she’s far more grounded in reality than other people in her position would be. A lot of that can probably be traced to the death of her mother when she was six. Suddenly her whole world changed (and even her father, though she didn’t know the extent of it for years to come) and she was forced to move on with this hole in her life.

Her father wanted to make certain she couldn’t be hurt the way her mother was, so he enrolled her in self-defense classes, and it’s obvious from how proficient she becomes that she threw herself into them. And that’s what she does with most actions she takes on. If Asami is going to do something, she does it whole-heartedly. Whether it’s learning to use the Sato machines (she’s a better driver than the company test drivers/racers) or dating Mako, she doesn’t ever seem to hold anything back. She also seems to develop attachments faster than other people might, she and Mako are quite close after only a short while, most likely an inherent fear of losing people again that goes in tandem with her tendency to feel everything so intently.

Despite her father’s apparent internal hatred of benders, he still raised Asami to see right and wrong and understand the difference, and to help anyone she is able to. When the Fire Ferrets can’t afford their entry into the Pro-bending tournament, she convinces her father to sponsor them, and when they need a place to stay after the stadium is destroyed, she again convinces her father to allow it (granted, after she already moved them in.) This even backfired on her father, when his Equalist attitudes came through, Asami was obviously conflicted about what to do. She loves her father, and she would never want to disappoint him, but what he was doing was obviously wrong. So despite the fact that he’s the only family she has, she tried to stop him so that her friends could escape.

She does tend to do things somewhat impulsively, especially in situations where she knows it will be easier to explain afterwards why she did it, rather than try to go through why she should do it beforehand. A ‘look before she leaps’ attitude that she doesn’t really have the best handle on. It’s worked out well enough for her so far, though.

She has a knack for machinery, most likely inherited from her father, and she can generally figure out what something does pretty quickly, as long as there is anything familiar about it. (She climbs into the cockpit of a mecha-tank and is driving it like a professional only a few minutes later.) and being her father’s daughter, she’s quite fond of machines in general. Technology makes people’s lives easier and better, so she approves of it, even if it can be repurposed for evil.

She’s a risk taker and she rarely backs down from a challenge (as long as it isn’t particularly awful), and is willing to do what it takes to win, especially when doing something fun and competitive like racing.

Strengths

Physical: Asami has above-average strength and agility caused by years of physical training. At one point, with the aid of her shocky-glove, she disables five opponents in quick successful, with little cause for concern. It’s a very casual strength, she doesn’t show it off or go out of her way to prove what she can do, but she’s obviously competent with her abilities in the face of danger.
Mental: Asami is highly intelligent and a quick thinker, capable of reacting and adapting to a changing situation with little pause. She has easily learned to use most of her father’s inventions, some without a single moment’s training, and often better than the designer himself. (She eventually beats him with his own armored tank suit.)
Emotional: Asami has had to overcome the death of her mother, something that haunts her, but she has been forced to learn to deal with and grow from. She’s also very obviously sure of things she wants, and not afraid to reach for them (after hitting Mako, she doesn’t hesitate to ask him out).

Weaknesses

Physical: Asami has all the usual weaknesses of an eighteen year old human girl. She doesn’t have any unique to herself.
Mental: Asami can be stubborn to a fault, and very defensive in the face of what she perceives as an unfair attack on herself, her family or her friends. To the point where it takes extreme evidence to snap her out of it and get her to concede a point might be correct. And if she’s sure something is an unfair attack, she won’t hold back her opinions on that at all, making sure everyone around her knows, even if she might be wrong.
Emotional: Asami’s control over her emotions is tenuous at best. She tends to feel things rather completely, and while she can contain them, it becomes obvious that she is dwelling on them and frequently can’t stop herself. After she finds out that Mako and Korra kissed (which…hasn’t happened yet) she can’t seem to stop thinking about it, even during moments where she really shouldn’t let herself. It doesn’t stop her, she can still fight, and focus, but it’s there in the back of her mind, nagging at her.

Anything else?: Asami will have her Equalist lightning-glove on her when she arrives, so I assume that will appear in the weapons store in town?

And I headcanon that she has at least a basic working understanding of how her father’s machines work, after growing up watching him build them and testing them, and that could translate to a decent place to figure out how other technology functions (in Luceti.)

Also, if she was brought here from a car, can the car show up somewhere? Hehe. :D

SAMPLES (ALL SAMPLES MUST BE SET IN THE LUCETIVERSE)

First Person: Asami on the Test Drive Meme!

Third Person:

Asami let out a relieved sigh as she sank down onto the grass beneath the tree she had found, off the beaten path but close enough to the streets in this strange city that she could watch the people walking back and forth nearby. She set the clothing she was carrying (her coat from home and the white sun-dress she had woken up in) on the ground beside her and dropped the strange notebook down on top of them, then startled to lean back against the tree.

And her wings fluttered against the bark as they bumped against it, dragging a startled gasp from her as she quickly leaned forward again, frowning at the ground in front of her. Right. Wings.

She turned her neck enough that she could sort of see the tops of the strange, violet appendages sticking out of her back…she had been lucky, having a shirt with a low back on under her jacket, otherwise she would’ve had to keep that sun dress on after she had woken up, which would’ve been…another level of strange on top of all of this that she was glad she could’ve avoided.

But still. Wings. She could feel them back there, fluttering faintly, feel the faint edge of irritation from where they had brushed against the bark of the tree, the weird way the feathers shifted when they moved. She had spent a good ten minutes staring at them in the reflection of a window, she knew what they looked like, how they fused so perfectly with her skin. They were part of her now.

Which was completely impossible and ridiculous, but there they were.

She would have thought this entire thing was a dream, honestly, except for the way the things felt. She imagined it was like a constant pinch to wake herself up, except she didn’t wake up because it was real. Somehow.

A bit of careful adjustment, shifting the way the wings leaned against her back, and she was able to slowly lean back against the tree, pulling her hair over her shoulder to rest across her neck and out of the bark, and for a moment she could relax. As long as she didn’t move much. Or the wings didn’t flutter. But it was sort of relaxing.

As much as relaxing was even possible here.

Once she had found that position she was loathe to move, watching the people coming and going. From what she had seen, the technology here was a mix of things she understood and things she didn’t, which mean somewhere in town there might be a phone she could use to call Republic City. She couldn’t call her father, of course, but the council hall could get her in touch with Tenzin, maybe Mako or Korra could borrow one of those flying bison and come get her.

Except that wouldn’t get the wings off her…

After only a few minutes she muttered under her breath and sat up, leaning away from the tree again, letting her wings resume their slow flutter behind her as she scooped up the notebook she had woken up with, turning it over a few times in her hands and running her gloved fingers over the cover. Maybe this would help her figure things out…

Personality:

At first glance, Asami can come off to people as a bit prissy. She’s tall and thin, she takes immaculate care of her appearance and pride in how she dresses. She always has the nicest things, she is seen at all the major social gatherings in Republic City, and of course, is the daughter of one of the most famous industrialists in the world. It would be very easy for her to be a spoiled little rich girl.

But it’s very obvious that while she has these traits, she’s far more grounded in reality than other people in her position would be. A lot of that can probably be traced to the death of her mother when she was six. Suddenly her whole world changed (and even her father, though she didn’t know the extent of it for years to come) and she was forced to move on with this hole in her life.

Her father wanted to make certain she couldn’t be hurt the way her mother was, so he enrolled her in self-defense classes, and it’s obvious from how proficient she becomes that she threw herself into them. And that’s what she does with most actions she takes on. If Asami is going to do something, she does it whole-heartedly. Whether it’s learning to use the Sato machines (she’s a better driver than the company test drivers/racers) or dating Mako, she doesn’t ever seem to hold anything back.

Despite her father’s apparent internal hatred of benders, he still raised Asami to see right and wrong and understand the difference, and to help anyone she is able to. When the Fire Ferrets can’t afford their entry into the Pro-bending tournament, she convinces her father to sponsor them, and when they need a place to stay after the stadium is destroyed, she again convinces her father to allow it (granted, after she already moved them in.) This even backfired on her father, when his Equalist attitudes came through, Asami was obviously conflicted about what to do. She loves her father, and she would never want to disappoint him, but what he was doing was obviously wrong. So despite the fact that he’s the only family she has, she tried to stop him so that her friends could escape.

She does tend to do things somewhat impulsively, especially in situations where she knows it will be easier to explain afterwards why she did it, rather than try to go through why she should do it beforehand.

Strengths

Weaknesses ( Provide canon examples and include special powers/abilities as necessary. You may combine sections as needed, but remember to always be thorough.)