Noticing similarities

[angleofscience]

WHO: Jetfire, Megatronus, anyone else in Megatronus' Quadrant
WHERE: The arena.
WHEN: Around now.
WHAT: Jetfire's waiting for Starscream, and checking out the near surroundings of the temple, he comes upon the arena, which brings up some thoughts about the past. He's a huge white jet hanging in the air, you're welcome to spot him.
WARNINGS: None.

It was strange how easy it'd been to get used to having Starscream close while at the Keep. Closer than before the war, that was. Maybe it was that train of thought that actually made him pay attention to the arena, coming to a stop above it.

It wasn't similar in the least to the arena Starscream had fought in before the war, but these sort of buildings did have a similar design considering their function. Such a simple thing that had laid the base for a war that hadn't just engulfed the (more than one) planet, but the galaxy.

He didn't set down, merely drifted in the air above the arena, and despite the fact that it was empty and no one else was currently around, felt out of place even if he wasn't on the ground in the ring.

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[not_halfbaked]

"I guess training's the way to go--but it's going nowhere!" Korra threw her hands up.

"But I'm pretty sure it's a spiritual issue too, air's supposed to be the most spiritual of the elements, and I fail at that, too."

[angleofscience]

"I doubt I can help," Jetfire said with a dip of his helm. Besides the fact that he was wholly unfamiliar with this (magical) practice, they were of different species and functioned completely differently. He didn't think it'd translate well.

"Even if there are certain martial arts in my species' culture where, if properly mastered, one is supposed to be able to harness the spark's power..." Jetfire shook his helm, looking upwards briefly. "I don't know any of them, and considering the differences in how we function, I doubt useful teachings could be translated functionally enough to be of use."

[not_halfbaked]

"...But you can fly, right?" Korra tried. The guy seemed like he wanted to help, and she was desperate. "Airbenders can pretty much fly. You have any perspective on that, or tips?"

Korra blinked. "The 'spark?' What's that for you guys?"

[angleofscience]

He wasn't sure what he could offer would be useful to her, and no matter what, it'd probably come out more technical than she could use simply because that's how he thought (and had to think, when it came to flying).

"Airflow and currents, wind, temperature. How those all work together, not just in the spot I am in, but where I'll be... And where I probably won't, on the other side of the planet." Tilting his helm down to look Korra over, Jetfire shrugged.

"Even if it doesn't seem like it, all air on a planet is part of a single airmass. What happens in one place affects the rest, and to successfully fly, you have to be aware of that." He paused, glancing off towards the dim glow of the light from Prima's temple.

"... I belong up there." This was said a lot more quietly than anything earlier; as close to private... perhaos even "spiritual" as Jetfire would get. Not that he didn't mean it quite literally, technically, as well. His frame was made for flying.

Part of his function.

"Ah... the spark," Jetfire murmured and turned back to Korra. "Made of energy with as of yet unknown properties, it makes us what we are, allows us to function. While a processor and an intact case of that is needed as well, without a spark, the frame would be inert, nonfunctional."

[not_halfbaked]

"Sounds like everything is...connected," Korra slowly said, digesting his words.

"So it's like your soul? Your spirit?"

[angleofscience]

"Simply put, yes. Air might usually not be visible, but it's as physical as the fire you just... created, or the earth," Jetfire said with a nod at Korra, and, more specifically, the stone bracer.

Then he had to pause and consider what Korra was saying, because even with the translation the words she chose weren't being translated into "spark", but similar, related words and even concepts. In the end, Jetfire nodded.

"Insofar as they can be considered equivalent, yes, that's what it is."