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[Open] Catch All for January

Characters: Michaelangelo and Aya, Michaelangelo and you?
Date: All up in January's face.
Location: Wood and Fire sectors respectively.
Situation: Teaching kids in the Dojo, busting heads in an abandoned warehouse
Warnings/Rating: Six of gorgeously green AI and adorable small children, a half dozen of unhealthy coping mechanisms.

[ooc: Starters contained within.]

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Mike arrived at the dojo at 19:30 sharp. Normally he reserves punctuality and timetables for prime-time tv viewing and baking, but he's taking this Appointment for Fun very seriously.
Probably too seriously, if he's being completely honest with himself.

He turns on the lights, makes sure the room is straightened, and then dose a couple of laps around the perimeter to get warmed up.

When you're polythermic getting warmed up means literally that.

Mike has always liked people. Even when his only exposure to them was watching them from afar, either via the television or from the shadows of a nearby alley or storm drain. And of all of the people he's watched children have been hands down his favorites. There was just something so raw, so honest, so ... human about them. He was always impressed with how they moved about in a world that was clearly not designed for them, but that they would come to inherit with time. In those few years...children weren't all that different from him, or he from them. It was a nice feeling while it lasted.

So when the opportunity came to help out at the dojo Mike jumped at the chance to work with kids. His lessons in self defense were games, and his gymnastics basics were couched in terms of elaborate obstacle courses that he'd set up and run with anyone who wanted to race.

The door was always open.

Mike's classes are still fun, and he still holds them when he says he will, but...there's something off about him. His jokes don't come at a rapid fire pace like they used to, and his smile doesn't seem to reach his eyes.

More and more he remains clothed during games, and seems almost always tired.
But he's there, and he's fun, so everything's okay...right?

He was gone for a while, rumored to have been "sent home," but more and more often these days the mutant turtle in the red bandanna makes his way to the warehouses of the Fire Sector to fight. And oh boy does he fight. He doesn't talk smack quite like he used to, and he's certainly a great deal faster than people remember, but for all intents and purposes "Raphael" has returned to the ring.

After speaking with Evandau and having her things moved to her new suite in the Metal Sector, Korra didn't want to be home. Every twist in her gut that she had gotten from talking to Mako after he saw the future, their future, Korra wasn't ready to pretend everything was fine.

Now was she about to let anyone come by and see how it was affecting her. Especially not Bolin and Asami, not when they just got here and had to adjust to life on Tu Vishan. Korra knew she would be nothing but a hindrance in that.

Continuing to stay at Michelangelo's suite with both him and Leonardo, try and fill that vacancy in the turtle family, felt like her best option. No one knew she was there and it would give her time to pull herself together; be what she was before Mako arrived.

Avatar Korra.

When she got back, Korra led Naga inside which jingled the bells on the door. The Water Sector was radically different from Metal, even the suites, though it didn't bother Korra in the least. It was the furthest thing from her mind.

Instead of heading up to the third floor where had taken residence, Korra went to talk to Mike. With the atmosphere being down from Little Leo returning home, Korra's worn down tone wasn't too out of place.

"...Is it all right if I stay a few more days?"

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Dojo, Wood Sector; Prior to Lil' Leo's departure; Closed to Aya

Dojo, Wood Sector; Pre Lil' Leo's Departure; Open to all

Dojo, Wood Sector; Post Lil' Leo's Departure; Open to all

Abandoned Warehouse, Fire Sector; Post Lil' Leo's Departure; Open to all

WA-3B; Post Audience; Closed