15th Teddy Bear [Action/Video]

[asobouyo]

[Elicia sits near the school like she usual does when it gets out, but she's got a new book in her hands—a fairytale book, given to her by Derek (unknowingly, the sneaky vampire hunter). She's already had quite a spike in energy when it comes to writing storybooks, as you can very well see if you were involved in her hideous log.

Forgive her, she's trying to read.]

"Puh...oor little ugly d—duckling..." she wooould sss—say. "Why... are you so di—

di-fir-eant from the others?"

And the... ugly duckling felt worse than ever.

[She lowers the book, frowning. Probably thinking 'this book is just mean and cruel and WHYYY'

When she returns home, she spends some of her time riding up and down one little stretch of hallway on the brand new bicycle the Malnosso for some reason was kind enough to gift her. Training wheels are on it, but just wait until she decides she's gotta man up and take those suckers off. Which will probably be in another week.

But of course, she can't control herself from making a video entry—it's been a long time since she got to sit and make a normal one, of course!]

Hi, guys! Did you have nice Christmases? I did, definitely. I got a cool book, and a bike, and a polar bear teddy! I read about those, y'know! They live in snow, just like how it is here, and they can sit on floaty ice in the water. It's really cool...!

[She holds up said polar bear teddy as validation for her chat.

A beat, while she collects her somewhat limited thoughts. Hey, her mind works 100 miles a minute, you know.]

I wonder what else lives with the polar bears... they're not all alone, are they? That'd make them real lonely!

And that's not good at all...!

[Looks like stuff is relatively back to normal, for her. |D]

[ooc: replies in a few hours! Just getting this up while I'm lazily free with time at the moment! 8Db]

Comments

[markofthebrave]

No, don't worry. There are plenty of other polar bears.

[markofthewise]

[What's your problem, Katara? We knew how to scale fish at Elicia's age!]

That's because they're on the top of the food chain.

[asobouyo]

[W-wibbling and hugging her doll now.]

F-food chain...?

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[markofthebrave]

[Her brother is an idiot.]

[markofthebrave]

Food chain [Whatever your name is, vaguely familiar little girl]. Every animal has to eat, right? And when you're surrounded by snow and ice, there isn't any grass to eat.

[Try not to screw up the rest of this explanation, Sokka.]

[markofthewise]

So they eat each other. [You take the good, you take the bad, you take them all and there you have... the facts of life.]

[asobouyo]

Y-you mean—s-so what do polar bears eat... if they're on the toppest part...

[markofthewise]

Pretty much anything big and meaty they can catch. Of course, wild polar bear dogs usually work in packs, so they can even take down an artic hippo if they can corner it. I'm not sure how it works for just... polar bears.

[markofthebrave]

[...okay, that answer was not horrible. So she is just going to try to move that right along.]

So the polar bears - and the polarbear dogs, are very strong. And they take care of their family very well. Their cubs are so cute!

[asobouyo]

[Yeah, that wasn't nearly as scarring as it could've been. Good job, Sokka. B|]

Cubs...! That means baby polar bear, right?

[asobouyo]

...

I've never heard of polarbear dogs, though...

[markofthewise]

[YET. YET.]

... yeah. Polarbear Dogs are pretty much exclusive to our world.

[markofthebrave]

Some of them can be tamed. We used to have one - they were great to have around the village.

[asobouyo]

Do they bark like puppies? And lick your cheek when you say hi? And go for walks and do tricks?

[markofthewise]

Yeah uh, I guess so. That's not really what we keep them for...

[markofthebrave]

[Grin.] Because they grow big enough to give you rides!

[asobouyo]

Really?! Do you think any will come here? I wanna ride one, if that's okay, 'cause it sounds really cool!

[markofthewise]

Yeeeeeah, I doubt it. Animals from our world tend not to exist here.

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[markofthebrave]

[Sokka, you are such a spoilsport. You should never be allowed to talk to children. Gosh.]

[markofthebrave]

But you never know what can show up either! If one comes that's tame enough to ride, we'll be sure to let you know.

[asobouyo]

Yeah!

And besides, Mr. Sokka's birdy's here, so who knows what's gonna come next!

[SO THERE.]

[markofthewise]

Well... yeah, I guess it is possible...

[But would it be their polarbear dog?}

[markofthebrave]

Mister Sokka?

[Seriously, bro? You let a little kid call you that?]

[asobouyo]

Yeah, it's Mister Sokka!

But he's also a na-tor-ee-ous bounty hunter, Thunderaxe!!

[markofthewise]

[COUGH COUGH.]

Yeah. Uh, sometimes. [Dammit. 8|]