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1. what do you know about job interviews?
i didnt know you have to interview to get jobs. even if it's just at a restaurant!! regardless of whether the job itself involves talking to people at all!!? stupid

[ Guess who's been bombing interviews as a part-time busboy all over town. And who's only bothering to ask about proper employment beyond random quests, um, now, after several months of just getting by...? He must be getting tired of stealing hotchips from the cornerstore. ]

2. what do you know about going to school as a full-time student here?
i heard you can make a living like this
insight about going to school in other worlds could be useful too. i was homeschooled....

[ But at least he's thinking in terms of solutions. ]

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hah so there is a way i could fail these interviews even worse
at least i haven't threatened anyone yet
"hire me or else"

[ This guy's funny. Zuko likes him already. ]

healing and blood magic
that sounds like an interesting combination....
my friend katara has healing magic here. she's a waterbender back home and has healing abilities... and she can bloodbend.

yeah having to master more than one element is a lot of pressure for aang too. he's also in a major time crunch back home, though..
thankfully it's the avatar's job to keep peace in the world..... the avatar is not a villain.

i want to learn all the elements, i do
they're all connected spiritually
even back home
another firebender would never expect me to use a waterbending move to firebend
there's more behind it than just the physical element itself. how we fight and think is different. you've gotta be able to think outside the box.
just so happens that's really annoying sometimes but
still worth it.

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HAHAHAHA!!
I've only been on one and I was pretty much sure to get the job as long as I wasn't a jerk. My school got me on the job training. IDK if this school will do the same but that'd be awesome.

Is bloodbending like blood magic? Would it be weird to ask if I could talk to your friend? Maybe she has something that could help me out. I get it if that's not cool though.

So one person keeps the whole world in balance? We have popular heroes back where I'm from with one who was a symbol of peace but he didn't go around the whole world enforcing it...

And yeah it really sounds worth it! But man thinking outside the box is really hard. You can't really teach that can you?

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i got my first job kinda like that too with my uncle back home. we worked in a teashop in a big city in the earth kingdom. then uncle got sponsored to open his own teashop and took me with him obviously.
the last world i lived in, a stranger just offered me a job at the restaurant he owned on my very first day. even fed me. sooo... never had any interviews before.
i hope the school gives us all kinds of training if they're already willing to pay us to go in the first place..!


as to katara's bloodbending.... ive only seen her do it once and it was intense. i think it's something... too emotional... for a stranger to bring up.
but maybe i can ask her about it for you next time i see her.


well the avatar is not exactly a hero.... more like... a diplomat. with immense power to back up any threats he has to make for leaders who are causing trouble or threatening the balance between the nations.
but he disappeared for a long time and the world fell into war for a hundred years in his absence so now it's his responsibility to restore peace. it's complicated. there's more on his shoulders than most avatars in the past.


and yes you can learn to think outside the box
in fact you must, in order to be effective in battle
try rock gardening

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Try it out and see for yourself! It can only help you since you get money for it no matter how well you do! You sound like you'll do good though to me.

I don't want to bring up bad memories! The blood magic here seems pretty intense too. It doesn't mean I'm bad that's the magic I got here right? I got healing first!!

[ Excuse him for a few minutes.... A few, long minutes. ]

Man... I wonder if the Avatar could help us out with the whole issue with the fairy nation. But it's crazy how much got put on that one person where you're from. I don't envy the guy.

What is rock gardening?

[ He actually knows what it is, but in a place like this his brain is also concocting so many whacky scenarios involving magic. ]

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im looking forward to it now yeah
thanks

i doubt blood magic is inherently bad or something
it can probably work with your healing magic somehow i bet
directly or indirectly.
even the most different philosophies of each discipline can bolster one another
my uncle taught me a waterbending technique that can be used as a firebending technique. everything is connected. even things that seem opposite — especially things that seem opposite.

rock gardening is where you move rocks and stones and sand around a garden in a certain fashion to achieve a sense of harmony and peacefulness
but as combat training, it teaches one how to use every part of one's surroundings to your own advantage in battle
by thinking outside the box

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Yeah dude! I hope we get some kinda classes together. You seem pretty cool to me!

I think I can kind of get everything you're saying but I'm better if I see that stuff. It really makes me feel better you said that about healing and blood magic tho. Gotta have blood to heal right?

I'm used to just charging into stuff but maybe I need to look at rock gardening. How'd you find this kind of stuff dude?

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hey yeah same

[ Wow a high compliment from Zuko... even if he... didn't actually say the compliment bit... ]

and it's important to understand pain in order to fight. and to heal. so if that's what your blood magic teaches you..... then it's still valuable.
what you see is only half the fight after all

just...charging into stuff.......?? like literally or figuratively
my swordsmanship master taught me to think outside the box with rock gardening
part of our swordsmanship training also included learning painting and calligraphy
honestly what he taught me could apply to any martial art though
he was training my mind how to fight, not just training me how to swing a sword