One by one the monsters trample through woods and dirt they feed.

[actually112]

Who| Aang and YOU
What| First, Aang early on playing around and making friends. Then, Aang trying to not die in the arena before going crazy and killing things. Please feel free to respond to one or more prompts.
Where| By the sea shore, in the forests, at the edges of the arena, in the flood, everywhere post flood
When| Week 2 and Week 5
Warnings/Notes| Violence and lots of it

Week 2

Aang has found Mollusc, but that doesn't mean he has found any of the other various people he'd like to have as allies. He spends a lot of his time on the shore of the mainland, skipping rocks on the water and occasionally stopping to make elaborate sand sculptures. He warmly invites anyone who comes near to join him in making sand castles, although he's ready to run if strangers seem like they might try to attack him.

He later finds his way to the forest, where he comes across an ostrich horse drinking at a pond. "Hey, buddy," he says as he settles next to the creature and sits on a rock. The ostrich horse seems wary at first, but Aang pulls out seeds from his jumpsuit and holds out his hand. Eventually, the creature picks its way towards him and starts pecking at the seeds. "I knew I could win you over."

Week 5

It feels like the sky is going to cave in on them. Aang is caught in the falling bombs, and it convinces him to finally put on the mask he picked up from the city for proper use. The surge of power almost knocks him unconscious, but he stays away and blows bombs away with great gusts of wind and speeds closer towards the center, listening for any other people in the range of fire.

When he gets to the center, he pulls off the mask because it's started burning his skin. He gingerly washes out the burns, but then the whirlpool starts sucking everything in. The Air Temple is surely destroyed. He doesn't spend time mourning it, and instead settles on a rock to observe the growing whirlpool warily and will away the strangest sense of being displaced, like something is wrong inside and there's something shimmering under the surface of everything.

When the flood comes, he pulls on the mask again. His tattoos and his eyes glow, and he bends the water away from him, creating a great bubble around him as he moves through the arena. Whenever the Avatar sees someone struggling in the water, a tendril of the water turns to ice around their ankles and pulls them into the Avatar's bubble of air. The Avatar does not stop to explain the situation to them and instead keeps moving, expecting them to follow and stick inside its bubble if they want to survive.

The mask is eating through the Avatar's skin, but it only periodically brings in a little blob water to use to heal its face as it walks.

After Flood Week 5

He didn't take the mask off in time.

A terrible shrieking of thousands of voices echoes. The Avatar flies and stomps throughout the arena, commanding giant whirlwinds of air to make it fly from place to place and always wearing rings of fire and water and rocks to use against hapless Tributes, threats. The glow in its tattoos and eyes is so powerful that it's hard to look straight at. It doesn't stop. It doesn't hesitate. Everything is wrong and it all must be fixed, but first, the Avatar has to remove threats, and everything looks like a threat now. Everything is a threat.

Including you.

Comments

For AU Steve, after flood but before madness

[actually112]

The ground is saturated with water, mud going up to the middle of Aang's calf, but it doesn't matter. He's desperately trying to pull off the mask because he can see things and he's thinking things awful things--but he's a victim of his own precaution. The skin that had disintegrated and then he himself had healed had fused to the mask, and is isn't coming off. He tries to peel it off, but it's sticking, and the world feels like it's spinning out of control.

"Help. I need help!" he calls out as a last ditch effort. He pulls a long tendril of water from the ground and freezes it into an edge before grabbing it and trying to cut the mask away. It needs to come off.

The flood

[allyorfoe]

So sue her, she's not a great swimmer. She's rarely ever around bodies of water large enough to worry about it--at least, bodies of water that she wants to get in. It's never been an issue before now, but currently (hah, currently) she is regretting every decision in her life that led to her not having this skill. Drowning in the water is so fucking embarrassing, she's managed to die so far after being killed in battle (not counting the mini arena, which she didn't, because she was blocking that memory out), and just. Drowning. Ugh.

And then, suddenly, she's being dragged down by her ankles, and for one brief second she figures this is some trap by the Gamemakers, and that's it, she's gone, she's done. But instead of being drowned, she finds herself in the middle of an air bubble. Damp but alive. She scrambles to her feet as the bubble moves with Aang, following after him.

"Hey, thanks for that. I thought I was a goner for sure. Can you believe they just slammed down all this water on us--You. You've got something on your face..." She moved around to frown at Aang's face, and takes the end of her soggy sleeve, dabbing at some of the burn.

Week 5

[no_longer_caged]

Eren cursed as he just barely avoided getting taken out by a violent gale of wind. He had no idea what was after him or if it was even really a kid or some kind of monster with the face of a boy that this place had decided to throw at him just for kicks. Considering that these people were not above tossing him in here against his will and introducing him to some of the most bizarre landscape he'd ever seen it wasn't a huge shock.

He glared up at the glowing figure in frustration. He wished for the hundredth time that he had his 3D gear. Though honestly, it would be little help to him in a situation with no trees or buildings to help him get airborne. He only had one ability left to him and he wasn't sure he wanted to rely on it. He could do more than just take out the person attacking him if he used it.

[actually112]

The Avatar doesn't react immediately. Keeping a bubble this big in the churning water requires a certain amount of concentration, so it just keeps walking and assumes that the woman will follow. The glow of its tattoos and eyes is constant until the woman touches its face.

The touch hurts, calling to mind the feeling of the mask eating its way to his bones, but it's not in the Avatar's nature to respond to pain. Even so, it moves the bending to one hand, the bubble momentarily shrinking - although not dangerously so - so it could take the wrist touching its face in its free hand.

Its touch is gentle, just as gentle as if Aang were in his normal state of mind, but the power makes its skin warmer than it should be. It places Tabris' hand on its shoulder before moving its own hand that isn't currently keeping the bubble up. It draws water out from Tabris' clothes, making a blob in the air that it presses against the edges of the mask. The blob of water glows briefly, but then the Avatar throws it against the ground and keeps walking. The skin has healed around the mask, threatening to make it stick permanently, but it's already starting to burn and dissolve again, the burn creeping outward on its face.

[allyorfoe]

And her wrist is grabbed--A thing she is generally very unfond of. It's gentle enough that Tabris doesn't instinctively lash out, though there's a small amount of tension in her, until the hand guides her to Aang's--that's his name, right? He's got a mask on, but his head is kinda distinctive--shoulder, and she grips it, relaxing. Well, as relaxed as you can be when you wind up in an air bubble around a flood, with the person maintaining it appearing to have some serious issues.

It doesn't take a genius (and no one would ever accuse Tabris of being a genius) to figure out that the power is coming from the mask. She's played around with them a time or two, but ultimately, it was just--strange. She's a woman who has used her body to fight, and changing her body's abilities just feels weird. And, also, she didn't trust the masks, and she's starting to see that she had the right about it.

But what can she really do? Tell him to snap the mask off and let the both of them drown?

"...Maybe we should go for the mountains? Higher ground and stuff...?"

[actually112]

The Avatar wasn't playing around. It had full intentions of killing threats, and that included all the Tributes in the arena. If the air wouldn't kill the Tribute on the ground, then maybe earth and fire will.

The Avatar hovered in a ball of wind and moved its arms gracefully, aiming to cause the ground under Eren's feet to grasp his ankles before sending two fireballs in his direction.

[actually112]

The Avatar cocks its head, then nods before turning towards the mountains. The water is difficult to keep back, and soon the Avatar has to go back to using two hands so it can engorge their air bubble and keep looking for other people.

The mask is melting through its skin faster and faster. The Avatar occasionally has to grab another blob of water and heal up its face, but it's getting worse. When the land starts up an incline at the base of a mountain, the Avatar waves for Tabris's attention and gestures for her to walk ahead. The higher up ground she is, the better off she is just in case a monster comes out of the water and breaks the Avatar's concentration.