daughterofursa: (serious face)
Zuko ([personal profile] daughterofursa) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2015-07-17 07:54 pm

Day 325 [Open]

Who: Zuko, Colin, Ikuri, and anyone else!
Open: Open!
When: Day 325
Where: Around the Bastion, Dragonfield
What: Time for some Talks
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor. Also fury, and not much patience.

It's been a few days since the disaster of Crona's death. Zuko would like to think that that's given her time and distance to process it, but most of her feelings haven't changed much since their return. If anything, she's just forced herself to focus on other things, and avoid dealing with her grief, and her guilt. Not that she's realized it.

It probably doesn't help that she hasn't gotten a decent night's sleep since. But she's used to that, and if she's going to lose sleep, she can at least do it standing guard instead of tossing and turning. She's been taking regular shifts guarding the prisoners, and she's taken to carrying her swords with her within the Bastion, as a precaution not only against escape attempts, but any threat of outside attack as well.


And the swords are also for Colin. Once she's finished a guard shift, she'll be looking for him to take him up on his challenge, and also for Ikuri, for the talk she thinks she's clear-headed enough now to give.


[Later...]
Besides all that, she is still a dragon mom, and that's probably the only thing that's gotten her to settle down at all. Later in the day, she can be found near dragonfield attempting to teach Kizuna how to breathe fire. In addition to a short demonstration, this seems to involve lying down on the ground with the little dragon on her chest so she can feel Zuko's breathing.

So far it doesn't seem to be working, but neither of them appear discouraged. For Kizuna's part, it may be because she doesn't know she's supposed to be breathing fire.
freedom_engineer: (Wicked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm rated in fire-fighting, I know how to minimize the harm, and my natural instinct to be afraid of fire has been suppressed. So yes, for all intents and purposes, I am flame resistant.

And I brought you out here to try and get through to you and maybe let you work out some aggression. The insults are just a happy bonus.
bakegarasu: (when there's nothing left to lose)

[personal profile] bakegarasu 2015-07-18 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I... don't really know much about being a doctor. I... I can try, though.
freedom_engineer: (Wicked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah, you bitch! He actually raises his arm to block that one, and he then spends the next few seconds putting out the fire and glaring after her.]

Reminds me of everything you told me about your father.

[He actually doesn't know hardly anything about her dad, but the anger? He's betting that will hit a mark.]
freedom_engineer: (Wicked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bingo.]

Am I? Am I really?

All I've got to use against you is words, and the hope that you might actually see an opposing viewpoint.

You're the one throwing fireballs, and ignoring me because you don't like me. Well, and because I'm insulting you, but that's only new to today.

Tell me... just how far from the mark am I?

I...wouldn't blame you if you were tired of this by now, heh. :'D

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Was going to talk to you! Wanted to, you said! [And you did.]



Ikuri scared. So scared... of me. Of monster. Can't sleep or I'm monster again...

Can't sleep or Ibuki dies. Ippo dies. Colin dies. Myrrh... Megaera...

Can't sleep or the lies come back. Ikuri becomes lie too...becomes monster. Stays.


[She's...way too close to crying by the time we've come here. Whoops. also yeah that sure was a namedrop]

Who's going to die?! Who else-- will I lose?! [okay, yeah, almost definitely crying again there]

Who will I kill--?!


[smaller font is deliberate, her voice is weaker now]
bakegarasu: (you searched for so long)

[personal profile] bakegarasu 2015-07-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't... know.

[For once, his expression shifts to something... with a little bit of fear in it. Facing the fact of not knowing, of having no purpose... it's terrifying to even him.]

I don't know what I want to do. I never... until here I never even had the chance t pick.

there is that. |D albeit with a side of EMOTION-ALLS

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[she shakes her head violently, even while clutching it]

Don't see what's inside me! Don't see what's around me!

Can't help me! Can't!



[...Tiny dragon is starting to take notice of this too, most obviously because of the noise, but- perhaps he can sense what's going on? Mun has seen dogs in life react to other people's grief before, so maybe...?]
freedom_engineer: (Wicked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh please.

Your father was a piece of rancid smegma on a flacid cock. As I recall, saying a variation of that's what pissed you off towards me in the first place. But since you want to get vulgar, listen here you pitiful stain on the frayed edge of the tapestry of your mother's honor.

[Don't start cursing at him unless you're prepared for it to come back at you, Zuko.]

If I wanted you to feel bad, I'd be trying to worm my way into your good graces, eroding your confidence with thinly veiled platitudes. You don't listen to a word I say, so trying to make you think you're worthless is a plan that's doomed to failure. People only care about what people think about them if it's people they LIKE.

I'd been hoping that I could get you to want to prove me wrong, show me up, but I missed that mark. Probably because I also wanted to hurt you for your callous treatment of your fellow survivors. Which, by the way, is closer to your father than you'll EVER admit to.

You're going to get more people killed, princess, because you're too proud to admit when you're wrong. I'm proud too, I won't argue that. But my pride is tempered with tolerance for different beliefs, and the knowledge that I shouldn't be leading anything but rebuilding efforts.
bakegarasu: (always in the end)

[personal profile] bakegarasu 2015-07-18 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I've tried, but... I don't know if I'm actually doing anything worthwhile. I... don't really know what the choices are for someone like me. It's not like I have a lot of skills outside of killing.

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[If that had any effect, positive or otherwise, it doesn't seem to show. The crying is a quiet thing, but she's curled up and shivering to make up for it.]

[Tiny dragon jiis at Ikuri, then picks up the jerky - he still has some left - and puppywaggles toward her face. Once there, he stares at her while holding the jerky in his mouth. After a moment, he inches closer, and then leans his neck forward to drops the treat in the grass, as though offering it to her.]

[And he whines.]
freedom_engineer: (Drained)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I would love NOTHING better than to live in a world where you and I never again had to interact.

That's not the world we live in.

[He's going to circle around her and get in her way. And yeah, the soot and smoke on his arm is one of those reasons why he didn't want to wear a shirt out here.]

You think I'm happy doing this? You think I LIKE insulting people? Let alone someone who SHOULD be one of our biggest assets?!

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She flinches when you touch her, oh man what a flinch. And the shivering might...even be the harder for it.]
bakegarasu: (the lesson today)

[personal profile] bakegarasu 2015-07-18 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I... I don't know. I really never did well at anything in school. I never did sports, though I guess I could have. At home it was basically training until I was needed for something.

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