[Video] ...What IS gasoline? What's it made of? [Locked to Gunmax/Deckerd/McCrane/Brave Police]

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 In my world, I know it can make Satomobiles or cars and Satocycles and mopeds move...but that's it.

I never thought about what makes it up.

So...what's inside it?

And, huh, where does gas normally come from anyway?  I think it has to be put into vehicles, right?  So then it must come from somewhere else...?

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Welp there you go!

[patokichi]

Not exactly. Gunmax is correct, it does come from- er. Well. The uh. Long-since deceased.

Thus why it's called "fossil fuel".

Re: Welp there you go!

[not_halfbaked]

[Korra crosses her arms.]

I didn't know, um, the dead could do that....

Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush, I was asking because I thought I could...

[Then it occurs to Korra, and she brightens.]

Oh, you said gas or fossil fuels are whatever are underground, right? I don't know if I can bend the gas or fossil fuel myself, but I can definitely bend the earth around it, help you dig it out!

[Then Korra frowns.]

Though finding it could be a problem, unless I had like a sample of it, and then maybe I could sense it out with earthbending...or maybe you guys would know how to find it....or we could just randomly dig...?

[patokichi]

Wait- bend the earth?

[Is it like what she said she could do with water? He's curious now.]

Well- wow. I wouldn't know where to start looking, though. And we'd have to find some way to refine it into gasoline instead of just crude oil. I wonder if anyone around here is a chemist.

I may know what ut is, but I'm no scientist.

[not_halfbaked]

It's like me controlling the water. Here, I'll show you--

[Korra gestures, and makes the stone band around her arm unwrap and shift into different shapes in mid-air. She gestured again, reformed them back into the band, wrapping around her arm.]

If you don't know, then maybe it doesn't matter what direction you try? [Korra frowns.] Though random searching like that could be just a waste of time and energy. Maybe you'll have to find someone that would know where to find gas, or even sense it? Refine--it needs to be refined--what does that mean--? Hmmm... I kinda sorta saw on Swindle's feed this Megamind guy act like this big scientist. Maybe he knows chemistry? ...Um, what exactly is chemistry? Not like it's not in my world, I'm pretty sure it is, I'm just not the scientific type either.

[patokichi]

Wow! That's an incredible power. Is that how you manipulate water as well?

[Oh so many questions. You're worse than Power Joe and Drill Boy combined (haha, because they do. Combine that is. Right.) He doesn't mind it too much though.]

Hmm, I think we'd be better off asking one of the bots in charge, actually. I might seek one of them out and see what I can find out.

Megamind? Thank you, I'll message him later and see if he's willing to help us!

[not_halfbaked]

Yep! I can do the same with fire and...yeah, that's it. [No point in mentioning airbending anymore unless she can do it, right?]

(OOC: LOL, I think Korra can get carried away, especially in a strange place like this.]

Huh, good idea.

Your welcome, hope that helps.

[patokichi]

Can everyone from your world do that?

[He smiles warmly.]

It does. And there are always other alternatives, I'm sure. Probably not as efficient, but we can burn other things for fuel.

[not_halfbaked]

Not everyone. [Korra frowns, remembering that seems to be the whole problem.] But bending's pretty common.

'Burn...?' What do you mean by that? Does it involve actual fire?

[patokichi]

Interesting... "bending". Hm. That must make some things very convenient.

Not the way you might think. When you put a small amount of gasoline into an enclosed space and ignite it, it creates a little explosion and a whole lot of energy. Engines like mine create many of those little explosions and the energy they produce is harnessed.

[not_halfbaked]

It's pretty cool. [Smiles.] Though I guess it's kinda made things more complicated lately, between people who have bending, and those who don't....

And those explosions are what make stuff move, like Satomobiles? Gives you energy?

[patokichi]

Hmm. I can imagine people who do not might envy those who have such talents.

Yes, that's the... abridged version, anyways.

[not_halfbaked]

[Korra grabs one arm, rubs it awkwardly, glances away.]

I...I kinda thought it was just jealousy before too, but they were talking more about oppression...and I think they have a point. The bender Councilman and the bender cops rounded up nonbenders who really did look...helpless, against their bending. And on the very first day I was in the city, this bender gang was messing with this old man!...

[Korra hisses, frustrated.] Regular jerkbenders right there.

[Korra nods.]

Gotcha.

[patokichi]

[There's a brief pause. Oh he knows about oppression. He knows all about it. Being told he isn't a real person. He doesn't have the right to choose anything. He's just a tool. A robot with no feelings. That strikes him a bit deeper, and he nods in understanding.]

That's really terrible. [He means that.]

Those who have power should use it to protect and help those who do not. That should be the order of things.

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[Korra murmurs.]

Should be....

How's it work for you? Holding up that order?

[patokichi]

Not always ideally, but we do our best.

[not_halfbaked]

I guess that's all anyone can really do...

Um, what kind of things do you do to hold up that order, exactly? Does your world have gangs too?

[patokichi]

Well, we're essentially police detectives. We do have gangs, criminals, people who steal or want to cause harm to others. We fight to do our best to solve cases and arrest those people.

[not_halfbaked]

Like the metalbender cops back home--except you're actually made of metal!

[Korra snickers.]

[patokichi]

Metal... benders...

[THAT SOUNDS PAINFUL.]

[not_halfbaked]

[Korra remembers Slipstream, and realizes what she just said.]

Metalbending only works on metal that has any earth minerals in it, and the cops would never bend a living person! Chief Bei Fong wouldn't allow that, ever!

[But Bei Fong had resigned as chief. And Korra never thought the cops would use their bending against innocent people either. Korra's distressed faces grows, but she tries to hide it.]

[patokichi]

Well they could certainly bend me, then.

[AHAHAH uhg. It reminds him of the Hamelin. He shudders to think what someone would be capable of.]

That is... fortunate that they would not.

[not_halfbaked]

[OOC: Hamelin?]

Well, either way, there aren't any metalbenders here. Not even me, I don't really know how to metalbend.

[patokichi]

[ooc: WOOPS you know what that didn't happen in his canon yet. It's a device that controls robots- BUT WE'LL PRETEND THAT'S LATER WHEN I CANON-UPDATE HIM. Shhhhh...]

Ah. I see.

[A small relief.]

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[Korra frowns, sorry to have unthinkingly brought up something that would be pretty horrible to Deckerd. She notes his distress hasn't really lessened--how could it? She had to make up for it...]

[Korra says lowly.] A metalbender can be just as vulnerable to a bloodbender. It's...it's just like it sounds, a waterbender can be strong enough to reach inside and bend the water within a person.

[patokichi]

Those both sound like terribly powerful things to control...

[He shudders at the thought of blood bending, too. He'd ask why anyone would want to control the blood in someone's body, but he already knows the grim answer to that. Bad people are everywhere, no matter where you go.]