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]

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.

[fireburn]

It wouldn't bother you if your "friend" had a whole new life without you?

[daughterofursa]

[...Azula do you mean her girlfriend? Because she actually does have friends in the plural.]

Of course it would.

But I don't want anything bad for her.

[fireburn]

If it it meant leaving you?

[daughterofursa]

Even then.

...especially then. If I'm not with her, I can't look out for her.

[That may be the worst part of this hypothetical situation.]

[fireburn]

[azula is quiet for a long moment.]

I don't believe you.

[daughterofursa]

You think I'm lying?

[fireburn]

I don't think it's that simple.

[daughterofursa]

Why would I hate someone I love for having to leave?

[Pause.]

...is this about Mom?

[fireburn]

[wow zuko you're not supposed to know that!!

i mean no of course it isnt.]

Why would it be about her?

[daughterofursa]

Because she had to leave us.

[fireburn]

That's different.

[daughterofursa]

It's probably always different.

[fireburn]

When it actually is. Yes.

[she's gonna kick another snowman where the sun don't shine!!!]

[daughterofursa]

[What is that even supposed to mean?]

...

I'm sure Mom thought about you.

[You don't have to keep murdering snowmen.]

[fireburn]

[no, now rather than murdering them one just spontaneously ignites. what a waste of one of her firebending uses today tbh]

So what if she did?

[daughterofursa]

[These poor snowmen. Although Kizuna seems really interested in the firebending, Azula has her rapt attention.]

Didn't it... bother you thinking she didn't care about you?

[Zuko was pretty focused on herself and her anger at the time, but she's pretty sure that came up during their special night at the beach.]