Day 309 [Open]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who: Anya, Ibuki, Patchouli, and anyone else!
Open: Open! Mostly.
When: Day 309
Where: All over the Bastion
What: SNOW!
Format: I'll match
Warnings: It's Anya.

[For Ibuki and Patchouli]
[Sometime after lunch, Anya takes off to look for two of her best lady friends with a spellbook under her arm and some key ingredients in her pockets.

She's quite cheerful about it, a little oblivious to whatever else might have been going on lately. Cheerful, and insistent. She will track you down.]


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[Later in the day, Bastionites may be surprised to look up and notice that... it's snowing. Not only that, but the temperature has dropped.

At least in the more southerly parts of the Bastion. The farmlands might get a few sporadic flurries, but it isn't cold enough there to stick.

So if you've been missing snowmen or snowball fights or any of those activities that require winter to happen, now's your chance. It's probably not going to last very long.]

((OOC: And feel free to just use this post for mingling!]

Comments

[daughterofursa]

Of course not.

I just want her to enjoy herself.

[fireburn]

Should she not enjoy living her purpose?

[daughterofursa]

What exactly do you think her "purpose" is?

[Kizuna is obviously too young to have that figured out so Zuko doesn't know how Azula would know.

Also the snowman pile is cold, Kizuna is wading out of it and going back to Mommy to warm up.]

[fireburn]

She's a dragon.

[come on sister you're from the fire nation this conversation should be pretty straight forward like yes the sky is blue.]

[daughterofursa]

...and?

[Pls don't tell her you expect her daughter to go around burning things and eating everyone.]

[fireburn]

[yes???]

You have become too complacent in this place.

[daughterofursa]

Not everywhere is like how we were brought up in the Fire Nation.

[Like, some people don't go around burning things.]

[fireburn]

[say it isn't so....]

Different does not equate with being right.

[daughterofursa]

No, but there were a lot of things wrong with our nation.

[fireburn]

Just because you could not live up to its standards -- [she snaps and then calms herself, narrowing her eyes a little but trying to not flare up here] Why do you like it so much here? You don't belong here.

[daughterofursa]

[That actually stops Zuko short for a second. She's never really put it like that to herself, that she likes it here.]

...maybe I do, for now.

And maybe there was something nice about having a fresh start.

[fireburn]

You didn't need a fresh start. You needed to get your act together and do what was right.

[though, to be fair, she's a little turn: zuko screwing up in the eyes of dad was always better but admittedly there was (a small) part of her that wanted (????) her sibling to be home (???????????)]

[daughterofursa]

That's exactly what I was doing.

[fireburn]

That isn't what this is at all. This is all just like playing pretend.

[daughterofursa]

I meant back home, but--

How is this for pretend? We're all trying to survive here, together.

[fireburn]

[back home is definitely a whole other story]

I refuse to believe that our home is destroyed. And if that is true, than all of this? It's just a minor obstacle.

[daughterofursa]

Even if it is temporary, that doesn't make it pretend. The people here matter.

[fireburn]

Will they? Or will they just go back to their worlds and forget you?

[daughterofursa]

[As painful as that thought is, just... ???]

That's not the point. People don't stop mattering when we're not around.

[fireburn]

[woman up and face the pain sis]

They are no use to you, then. It's easier to forget them than think about how they left you.

[there is like this small glimmer of actual feelings in there. its like playing wheres waldo]

[daughterofursa]

[Wait, are those feelings in there? Is Azula having a human moment?]

That's... not the only thing you think about, after someone's gone.

[fireburn]

[shhhhhh]

What, then?

[daughterofursa]

Well- You think about things they taught you. You think about- good memories.

You wonder what they'd think of you now.

[fireburn]

And if the answer is that they don't?

[daughterofursa]

You're not going to get an answer if they're not around.

But you're not exactly forgettable.