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The Spa Meme

Welcome, meatshippers, to The Ultimate Health and Fitness Spa! Now is the perfect time to pamper yourself and focus on your well-being. Indulge in our zero-gravity hot-oil pools, infrared sauna or whirlpool ice baths, massage from scalp to toes to tail-tip, aromatherapy, sensory tune-ups, beauty treatments for your hair, nails, skin, feathers, fur, scales – we're very flexible! From temporary body tints to gourmet meals to private spaces just for two, we're here to make you the most gorgeous, happiest, and healthiest you in the multiverse! And if you have skills to share, you're welcome to use our state-of-the-art facility to work on your fellow crew members.
Feel free to enjoy yourself, make up beauty treatments that go wonderfully right or hilariously wrong, pair off with other crew members to share/give spa services, or NPC the Spa staff at their most/least helpful; and have fun!
Hairdresser's
Right now she's standing in front of a mirror, turning her head from side to side; her neck muscles ripple with every motion.
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And of course its Kaya, sporting the waterbender hair loopies, smiling at Anwei.
How long had she been watching? Anyone's guess really.
"Is that typical in your world?"
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"Typical for my status, yes. Yours is nice, though. It probably fits through doors a lot better than mine does."
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She smiled. "It's simple, but I think its pretty nice, even for what it makes me think about."
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"I suppose it's a number of elements. It shows that I'm healthy enough to grow long hair, and obedient enough not to have it cut off as punishment. It shows wealth, because I have people who can put my hair up for me," she spread her arms wide and demonstrated that she couldn't even touch the hair-flowers sprouting at the ends of her braids, "and I can afford a vehicle to move me, and the hair, around. And training, to be able to move and dance and eat while keeping the hair in place."
She meant 'have people' as in 'own slaves,' but she preferred not to think about that part.
She looked at Kaya's looped hair. "Does yours make you think of something bad? Or just something you miss?"
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"So you were that wealthy then? Must have been nice!" She actually said this with no malice.
Missed. "Everything, honestly," she said sighing. "The villages, the animals, the cold, all of it. It happens every once and while."
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She moved her head as though to sigh and then stopped at the feeling of her hairstyle moving as well. "Money rich and time poor."
"I miss my friends, and my work too, oddly enough. Some part of the back of my mind still thinks the work is piling up for me on my desk, when it isn't. No desk, no - anything."
She rolled one eye. "The staff could probably draw you a nice ice bath, if you wanted one."
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She hoped anyway.
"I know exactly what you mean, although to be fair I did spend a bit of my time in other nations before I would go back to my home. At that time I wanted to be anywhere but the water tribe. Now that its gone, I feel stupid for wanting that."
Kaya smiled. "Yes, I guess I could try that, though thanks to the training from my first fighting teacher on ship, I can take the heat much better than I used to."
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Of course for her parent to actually see those pictures, they would have to be risen from the dead. Which for all she knew was possible.
"If only hearts would follow minds and do the sensible thing! Well, I suppose we should enjoy ourselves now, and honor this place with our happiness."
"I didn't even think of that. It must have been a big change, coming to Stacy. I wonder that we don't have more reptilian people like Kang - the heat and humidity must be great for cold-blooded folk."
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She nodded. "It takes some getting used to, even for someone who can literally pull the water out of the air! But you know, we rarely get the chance to pamper ourselves. Hey, what's say that we both get a full on heated spa treatment? It could be nice!"
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She actually was trained to fight wearing her hair like this, but that was something best kept under her hat. Not that she could wear one right now.
She smiled. "It sounds great - we can see if my hair starts to melt, although I doubt it. The staff are very good at what they do."
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She nodded. "I'm almost curious about how I would wear my hair like that! I probably couldn't though: it isn't anywhere near that long!"
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"If you'd like to experiment, I'm sure the staff could create a suitable temporary hairstyle. Maybe a yard-high bright blue pompadour in the shape of a wave, and the froth is all brilliants with lights?"
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She laughed. "I have no idea what you;re taking about! Show me!"
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"How would you like this rising over your head?" Anwei showed a picture of a stylized wave cresting out of the sea. "You could counter-balance it across your shoulders if you wanted it REALLY big. Or just have a little wave on your head. The dye will wash right out."
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Oh, but she looked excited.
"I think I'll try it that big. I can manage it."
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The staff descended on Kaya, offering her a chair and a drink and a multi-angled set of mirrors where she could watch as her hair was (temporarily) tinted blue and arranged in a high swoop. False hair was cleverly overlaid with her own, batteries and wires were hidden just so (while a diagram of how to undo the hair was added to her omnicomm), and light-weight plastic armatures kept the hair-do from being oppressively heavy.
When they were done, Kaya's head was the mount from which the ocean itself seemed to leap. Long curls of hair-water poured down onto Kaya's shoulders, giving her gleaming epaulets of sea-foam; and her face was lit by the white-and-blue lights that mingled with the wavefront hovering over her, eternally ready to crash down and yet never doing so.
(The tiny animatronic sea-mammal that poked its head out from behind one ear and whistled was perhaps a bit much, but at least Kaya could say that she was burdened with a glorious porpoise.)
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The last thing she had expected, though was THIS. The hairstyle was both lavish and complimentary, and it was far and above one of the most beautiful things that Kaya had ever seen. Best if all, somehow, it felt like home. She didn't know how to describe it, but it somehow just seemed right.
"It's beautiful," she said, almost speechless. "I don't know if I would wear it more than maybe once or twice, but its something that people should do every once and awhile. And you say that where you're from they do this all of the time?"
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She stood behind Kaya on tip-toe, so that her braids radiated around the blue wave of hair, and declared, "Look, it's sunrise over the ocean!"
She stepped back, not wanting to risk her hair toppling at that critical moment. "Everything that can be done is over-done, there. Hairstyles higher and higher, face and body paint you changed every hour, jewelry you wore or that floated around you or that you set under your skin, clothes like wearing an entire closet at once (that were still shockingly immodest). But it was too much competition for me, and not enough just having fun."
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She laughed, almost wanting to give the girl a hug but deciding against it, assuming that she would fall over if she did.
Kaya shook her head. "You can say that again! I don't know if I could that so often, it would kill any of the fun and spontaneity. But I guess every society has some quirk that they do that can go over the top."
She might think of a few in her own case.
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On the other hand, maybe Kaya could recreate it with actual water at some point. That would be pretty spectacular.
"I'm in favor of all cultures having their customs rotated and re-evaluated every few centuries, just so that they don't get stuck in a rut. 'Everything worth doing is worth over-doing' can have some pretty silly consequences when carried out."
Like generations of little boys and girls shamed and humiliated by everyone because they couldn't carry the equivalent of a lit chandelier attached to their heads.
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The porpoise chirped, and she laughed lightly.
"So am I, actually. I think the worse thing about the Northern Water Tribe is that we were trapped by traditions and the threat of war. We never got to evolve, or help our sister tribe in the South. That was starting to come along until...well, the Ohm."
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Doing her hair up was like an exorcism of sorts: proving to herself that she could still be Living People and not harm or take advantage of others.
"When you return, you could have the chance to change everything. You'll have seen and done things that no one else ever has. What's the political system like? Perhaps you could be elected to power, and help your people change."
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Healing if you could bend, cooking, preparing children, having them and being married yourself. These were things that came with being from the Northern water tribe.
"You're usually given power by being the daughter of the chief," Kaya said. "Otherwise, well, you do what your tribe expects. I was starting to see great change though, after the defeat of the fire nation. I hope now that if i go back to the Northern water tribe, I can teach girls new ways to protect themselves and strengthen the ties with each other and other people."
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On the other hand, if they ever met a Ninth Empire historian (gag) she could give him or her an earful.
"After what you're learned here, I can see you teaching an entire generation to a new way of life. Being a teacher can be even stronger than being a leader, because all of your allies are so cute." That with a straight face.
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"Cute allies?" This caught Kaya's interest, not to mention her amusement. "How would that effect anything?"
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For reasons of Living People reproduction, which were probably too specific for Kaya's ears.
"When you are a leader, those who follow you can be ignored, shunned, or sent away. But if you have taught everyone's children, it is harder to ignore them. Because they can come bounce on their parents' bed in the morning, and din truth into your ears," she laughed.
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Women with higher status? Sounded almost fiction to her in some ways.
"Even if I became a leader, it wouldn't be my place to send away others! I find that, from my own teachers, you start to teach them just as much as they teach you in some ways. Though they might be podded now, I feel like my teachers learned from me as much as I did from them, especially when they have to adapt their methods."
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She found herself sporting massively extended long hair, fanning out in a complicated poof that almost resembled a trail of fire. She poked at it, rather confused.
"It is fashionable to tangle oneself in so much hair?"
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"Fashion is always changing, and it's only so long as we're here. Why not have fun with it?"