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The Doctor (notginger) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-07-22 23:51:00

Entry tags:

complete, day 8, katara, the doctor

Who? The Doctor & Katara
Where? The restaurant.
When? Evening.
What? The attempted teaching of science/technology.
Rating G, probably.
Status Complete.

After barely managing to successfully order a room-service brunch through a lot of giggling, the Doctor had decided that he would venture down to the restaurant to collect them something for dinner rather than go through another one-ended conversation with a golem on the phone. It was just easier when they could at least nod a confirmation to him. So, he had dressed in his suit trousers and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, deciding to leave off the tie and suit jacket due to the change in resort. Finally, the planet was making him give up on the full suit, which was something of a miracle, although Rose's relaxing influence might have had something to do with it. He no longer felt the need to use his suit as a protective shield, stopping anyone from getting too close.

He headed into the restaurant, picked up a menu and ordered them some pasta to go - it felt like it was way too hot for chips, but he was sure Rose would disagree, so he ordered a portion of them as well, and headed over to a nearby table to wait for his order to cook. He fished Rose's mobile phone from his pocket; he'd promised to take a look at it and see what he could do about it's inability to call any other planet. He pulled the back off and examined the device he'd inserted into it to give her universal roaming; perhaps if he just tried to increase the signal even further he might get somewhere. He took his sonic screwdriver from his pocket; this was exactly why he needed the suit jacket, carrying everything in his trouser pockets was a little awkward. He pressed the tip against the roaming device inside the phone and turned the screwdriver on. It emitted a blue light, and gave an electronic sound, something like a mixture between TV static and a dial-up internet connection. He moved the blue tip along the edges of device, concentrating hard as the phone started to heat up in his hand. He doubted that the signal was the problem, but it was worth a try nonetheless.

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k_waterbender
2008-08-03 09:54 pm UTC (link)

“This entire place is a ‘logical absurdity’ as you put it.” Katara said, motioning around the room though indicating the entire Planet. “Anything is possible.”

The more this man said about atoms, the more she wondered if this was how Toph had gained the ability to bend metal. As of yet, she remained the only earthbender who could do it, and Katara thought maybe Toph could feel the earthen atoms within the metal so she could bend them, thus bending the metal. “I wouldn’t be surprised. This actually makes sense to me. Maybe that’s how all benders have the ability to do this. They aren’t bending the element itself, but the atoms that compose it in order to move the object. In essence, the atom is the element, just in a minute form. I don’t know. Maybe I’m still confused. I feel like I have a small grasp on it at least.” She shrugged her shoulders.

Everything he said about Time Lord being a species and his body being young while his soul was old made perfect sense to Katara. A smile lit her sapphire eyes. “That reminds me of the Avatar in my world. Every time one dies, another Avatar is born to take her or his place. The Avatar is the only person who can bend all four elements, and he or she is meant to keep balance in my world, and he or she can call on his past lives to aid him. I believe everyone is reincarnated, but the Avatar has a specific purpose in the way of the world. He or she doesn’t have a limit to existance, though. There will always be an Avatar as long as there is a world to have one. Is that similar to the way a Time Lord works at all?”

Katara thought about his words. It was interesting that people from different worlds and times and everything could still make sense of things like this. “A wise man I met in a swamp once informed us that time is an illusion. I’ve never traveled at any pace other than the steady pace of my own life, taking me steadily into the future, minute by minute, but if time really is an illusion there’s no reason why a person couldn’t travel into the past, or quickly into a future where they could never access unless they lived that long. The fact that there are people here from different times and places sort of proves that.”

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notginger
2008-08-06 04:12 pm UTC (link)

"It's not particularly out of the ordinary by my track record, actually. Kidnapped by a planet is fairly average for me," he grinned, as if he were quite proud of the fact. As it happened, the whole situation was more irritating than amazing in any way.

The Doctor nodded in agreement; that suggestion made the idea of bending elements a lot more satisfactory to him, gave it a sense of... not logic exactly, but enough of an explanation for him to accept it. "It seems likely. Sounds like you have a good enough grasp of the idea, yeah," he agreed, with an encouraging smile. "Still not got a bloody clue how exactly you manage it, but it seems likely!" he added with a laugh.

The Doctor's eyes grew wide as she started to explain about the Avatar - well, that seemed to settle it in his mind. She was definitely from a parallel universe: no humans in his universe ever mastered reincarnation, not through all of time, sadly. Not until they mingled, anyway... maybe she wasn't a pure human. He couldn't be certain, but it didn't really bother him either way.

"It is, sort of. Not exactly. Erm..." he scrunched up his face as he tried to figure out the best way to explain it in comparison to the understanding she already had. "I'm not exactly born all over again. I mean, this particular body is less than a year old, and looked exactly like this when I changed... which is handy. It'd be a bloody nightmare having to wait to grow up all over again!" he grinned.

"I'm not meant to be unique. My whole race did exactly the same thing, but... I'm the only one left now. And yes, we're meant to... maintain the order of the universe. No pressure at all, being the only one left," he grinned, with an enthusiasm that seemed genuine, but was truly just his way of covering over the true horror of his situation. "I can call on my past selves, too. In extreme circumstances only, mind you, it really messes with the space-time continuum. And gives you one hell of a headache as you suddenly remember when it happened for you the first time. If that makes any sense!" He had trouble understanding it himself, sometimes.

He nodded thoughtfully as she spoke of her own understanding of time. "It's not an illusion exactly, it's just misunderstood. Time as you know it is an illusion, I mean... as a straight sequence of events, but it's not an illusion as a whole. At least, I bloody hope it's not or I have absolutely no reason for my existence!" he smiled, as if that idea were actually quite amusing.

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