Day 295 [Open]

[daughterofursa]

Who: Zuko and anyone
Open: Open!
When: Day 295
Where: Dragonfield
What: Rejection hurts.
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

When it comes to rejection and disappointment, Zuko's had years of practice. It should help that it wasn't really a rejection exactly, just nothing changing. Aoi didn't reject her as a person. They're still friends. Awkward friends, for the moment, as anyone who joins the morning swim lessons can probably attest to.

But this is the first time she's tried to handle it without getting angry. No one did anything wrong, so there's no one to be angry with, not even herself this time. She didn't do anything wrong, right? She doesn't think so, but there's still this feeling that won't go away, and maybe it is her fault.

What would Uncle tell her? It's hard to imagine. He only ever tried to talk to her about boys, and she always changed the subject.

She made tea for herself anyway to see if it would help, but in the end she just winds up sitting with the cup forgotten in her hands. Kizuna plays nearby, attacking various plants by the shore.

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[spiria]

Kohaku happened to be passing by, and ... well, who wouldn't be tempted by a gathering of people in one area? She made her way over to see what was going on.

"Hey, what's going on? Why's everyone over here?"

[superdrowningskills]

"Ice cream party," Alucard states in answer to Kohaku's question, then goes back to his unidentifiable flavor of ice cream. Sure, he could be concerned about the growing number of people, but he's much too busy being pleased about adding another item to the ever-increasing menu of food.

But really though, what even is this shade of blue? It's definitely not blueberry, and it doesn't taste floral either. Maybe he should ask.

...Eventually.

[heptagram]

"My friend bought this ice cream parlor," Patchouli explained further, indicating Megaera as said friend. She claims a particularly plain-looking sample of vanilla ice cream.

Or, well, what looks like vanilla ice cream.

[twinked_witch]

Megaera quietly hugged Patchouli.

"Yup. Figured it'd be good for everyone, so..."

[spiria]

"Really?? Ice cream is so delicious!! I wonder if miso would go good with ice cream ..."

Kohaku. Think about your life choices.

And she does. For a moment.

"Ahh, who am I kidding?? Miso goes good with everything."

[oursomalink]

Where Kohaku is... Shing usually shows up shortly after, and he certainly does once he spots her and just about everyone else crowded around the new building.

". . . what's going on? Did I miss something important...?"

[daughterofursa]

Zuko glances between Megaera and Patchouli. Normally she would be too oblivious to even notice, much less think anything of it, but she's a little sore on girls right now. It probably doesn't even mean anything.

You know what? She's just going to have a seat at one of the tables. Kizuna crawls down her arm in an attempt to get at the ice cream, but Zuko digs some jerky (regular, no chocolate chips) out of her tunic and offers it to the little dragon instead.

[spiria]

"Shing!" Kohaku calls out to her boyfriend as she sees him, then rushes over, grabs his hand, and drags him over the rest of the way.

"They have ice cream! They might even have miso ice cream!"

[twinked_witch]

Megaera chuckled, sitting down next to Zuko with her cup.

"... I must admit, I didn't expect this many people to show up..."

[oursomalink]

"Eh? Ice cream? Here?" Well, that was news to him - he hadn't had the stuff in a while, so clearly the best idea was to partake of it while it was still here!

. . . though he does make a visible face as he glances at Kohaku, mild disbelief on his face as he can feel his stomach roll at the idea.

"Miso ice cream...? I don't know, that doesn't sound like it'd taste good..." If they even did somehow find miso ice cream in there, anyway...

[amnesiadragon]

Ryu goes to get a bowl and scoop some out, and he plops some blue ice cream into it.

He takes a spoonful and -

"Augh! It's really cold!"

No... why is it cold? It looks so tasty...

[daughterofursa]

"Guess everyone really loves ice cream," Zuko observes to Megaera. "Either that, or they were all really bored."

She glances over at Ryu at his exclamation, quirking her eyebrow. What was he expecting from something called ice cream?

[oursomalink]

"Ah... that's why it's called ice cream. It's served cold!" Shing responded to Ryu with a grin, as if that would explain everything he needed to know.

Already, he's already getting himself a large scoop, eating some - oh, now this was really good! He glanced over at Kohaku, wondering if she'd spotted anything she wanted just yet.

[spiria]

Kohaku's still looking over her options. She doesn't see any miso, sadly, but that was okay. No it wasn't it was blasphemy.

"Shing, which kind did you get?" She looked over at her boyfriend, curious.

[oursomalink]

"Ah... I think this has chocolate in it?" Shing holds up his cup of ice cream - chocolate chip - and then gets a spoonful for her to taste.

"It's really good! There's a lot of other stuff in here to try, too..."

[twinked_witch]

"Twenty types, ten of them steady basic flavors like vanilla, the other ten switching regularly," Megaera observed. "Could probably expand the place later to throw in specific flavors people wanted. Saving most of my other shards for a project with Patchy, though."

She chuckled, hugging the purple-haired mage. "When time allows, I mean."

[amnesiadragon]

Ryu takes another spoonful, but a smaller one this time. "When I hold it in my mouth it gets warmer."

And bits of ice cream fly everywhere, so he grabs a napkin to clean up.

[oursomalink]

"Really? How regularly do they switch?"

As bad of an idea as he realizes it is, it's still tempting for Shing to just show up every day at the parlor to taste test everything. Because clearly this is a good idea that needs to be looked into more...

[spiria]

"What you've got is really good ..." She commented to Shing, then continued looking at the flavors.

"None of these have miso in it ..."

One-track mind. She has one.

[twinked_witch]

"I think it's daily. What time of day's a good question. As for miso, uh... It might come up eventually?"

Megaera doesn't know what miso is, so she has no clue here whatsoever...

[oursomalink]

"I don't know if there even is an ice cream flavor that would have miso in it, Kohaku... we could always check back daily just in case?"

Or she could also add her own miso if it came to that. Either or would be something she'd do at this rate...

[amnesiadragon]

"What's miso?"

Everyone keeps talking about weird foods...

[oursomalink]

"Ah. It's basically red bean paste. Kohaku likes putting it on everything..."

Including foods that it really should not belong on, apparently.

[spiria]

"It's just so good! It goes good with everything!"

No, Kohaku, it really doesn't. Not to normal people.

[oursomalink]

"Even on ice cream?"

Shing has to make a little face at that; as much as he loved Kohaku, he thinks he will never understand her sense of taste...