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17. "RE: Try, Try Again"
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   >I actually didn't get who this was until until right after the
>paragraph. For some reason, the wireless earbuds were what twigged me.
>Which is bizarre because I'm _fairly_ sure there are no such things in
>the source material, and yet someone dancing/kataing (is that a word?)
>out of the Forest of Secrets with headphones... well, that was Korra.

In veilbending, it helps a bit to have something to keep the beat.

>> "Compromise," said Korra. "Besides, Maki would never have
>> forgiven me if I let her miss this. She had a hard time believing
>> you're not still that little boy who made her go train surfing on her
>> first day off the island."
>
>Oh Corwin.

To be fair, he didn't make her go train surfing, exactly. It's just that he went train surfing, and Maki's superiors had told her not to let him out of her sight.

>_Completely_ mis-identified Duran until he was named. I was wondering
>how Korra's big wolf-bear thing (name escapes me) had made his own way
>to Tenchuu. (Is it Tenchuu that Tenjou Academy is located in? I
>_think_ it's Tenchuu.)

Sadly, Naga's no longer with us by 2410. Which is sad, because, as Korra will tell you, she was the best polar bear dog ever.

Also, the Cephirean city which Tenjou Academy is in (actually, right next to) is Saitou. Tenchuu is where the High Priest's Tower was, before Akio destroyed it.

>Also -lyers looks odd, but for the life of me I don't see how else it
>would be spelt. With an 'I'? '-lier'? Nah...

Yeay, probably -liers is more correct (by analogy with "outliers", for instance). I think I was concerned with making it less likely to be mistaken for "liars".

>I loved that whole section, which may have been obvious. It's not like
>watching Utena & co sitting down and having a family evening watching
>TV... it's like BEING THERE WITH THEM.

I enjoyed putting it together for much the same reasons. As noted in the Annotations, bits of it came from watching the Stanley Cup Finals (which ultimately ended in disappointment, but that's life) while working on the story. I knew I wanted to have some kind of big fun gathering for the gang the night before the ceremony. It was originally going to be movie night, but hey, hockey.

>All things considered, I'm surprised no previous Trinity went bug-nuts
>over that. (Discounting the previous Trinity, who were a bit
>different).
>
>Of course, given the Rune Knights mechanism exists, perhaps some of
>them _did_.

Well, Corwin plays it light here, because he doesn't want to bring himself or Korra down, but part of the reason he did that was because it is never far from his mind that the job of Prince of Cephiro killed Utena's predecessor.

>...but... exposition! (comedic weeping)

It would've been basically the same explanation she just gave Anne... :)

>...I have trouble seeing Korra doing anything medical.
>
>Okay, now I do and it _scares the crap_ out of me.

Well, we know she learned waterbending and its attendant arts largely from Katara, and Katara was a champion midwife in her time. It seems unlikely she'd have neglected something as potentially important and useful as that.

One imagines Korra wasn't... entirely within her comfort zone... the first time, though. :)

>Good point, although at that point she'd not have met any of them.
>(And I get the feeling that that the previous Trinity didn't exactly
>break out of the traditional gender roles. Wasn't Princess Emmeraude
>away in a _tower_, fercryin'outloud?

This is so. Still, in retrospect it's pretty funny. :)

>> Toph smirked at him. "Uh-huh, and as ever, I'm missing the
>> show." She waved a hand in front of her eyes, unblinking.
>
>Hah. Nice to see her and she's NEVER getting tired of that joke.

In Valhalla, that stuff literally never gets old! :)

>> "Oh, you know me, I'm always up for adventure," said Umi
>> breezily. "Wouldn't miss it."
>
>If you say so, Umi. For a given value of 'always' meaning, not on your
>first visit to Cephiro.

It's fair to say she is not unconscious of this irony. :)

>Utena's genuinely not good at thinking about sleeping arrangements, is
>she, given her triumphant return to the Duellist's Castle three
>movements ago.

We all have our blind spots. I can never remember I've got food in the house if it's hidden, for instance, which makes all those cupboards with their opaque doors very inconvenient, and forget about the drawers inside the fridge.

>I'm not sure who Lhakpa is but I can think of two amusing scenarios
>already.

You'll see in the next movement. :)

>And I hold my breath waiting for something to go wrong...

Man, that's the second time I've seen that. I really didn't intend for that ending to be so ominous. :)

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