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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.

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[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Body tremors seem to calm, gradually and abruptly at once... up to the point if nearly ceasing. That should be a relief, right?]

Go.

Leave.

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now, here's the thing. You might've been thinking she was telling *you* to leave. Not only her speech habits, but her vocal tone might've been hinting at that.]

[But she doesn't even give you a chance to fulfill it. She plants her hands on the ground and pushes herself onto her feet, less than a second - something oddly mechanical about the movements, and perhaps bizarrely smooth. Tiny dragon, of course, backpedals right away.]




[You tell me how friendly this looks. Actually, I don't think you'll need to: ]

Can't sleep now. Lost.

You took from me.

...Going to Skyway.


[There's a knife-edge warning gliding just below those words: through eyes, voice, and body, but not said outright. you are not to follow me.]

Edited (rephrasing) 2015-07-18 22:47 (UTC)

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[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[...she turns her back on you, and starts walking away slow and menacing, a la Terminator. Tiny dragon is completely ignored, as his treat; he turns his head to watch her go, but his own body language might suggest he doesn't like what he's seeing.]

[But she does abruptly stop after some steps...and speaks again, actually, with her back still to Zuko.]


...To kill them. Best place is darkest. Monster with other monsters.



Who dies first?

Belong there. No fear. No waver. Only purpose, true.

How many can I kill?



[...she raises her fist, balls it. Looks down at it.]


Otherworld's last fighter. Will be worthy.

Won't go quietly to extinction. Will bring it to all.






But not here.

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[...and she finally turns to look at you, but her face has a very different look on it now. There's a strong feeling of apology about it.]

...Not to you. Never you.

[3/3]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[and that is when she takes off running. boy that girl can book when she wants to.]

[Tiny dragon will simply stare off after Ikuri, his posture quite still - but eyes, among other things, suggesting that he's processing his own tiny dragon equivalent of I am confused by this, what am i seeing and should I be afraid of it.]



[...I suppose you could pursue if you wished, Zuko, but make your own judgment on how good an idea that is.]
twinked_witch: (Wait what did you just do???)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-07-18 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It was... Still a big error. And makes me wonder if I'm better off embracing the deal I made before this all began.
freedom_engineer: (Irritation)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-19 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Colin keeps walking backwards in front of her, pointedly staying in her way trying to figure out some possible way to reach her, but yeah, he lost this one.]

Fine. Then let's make two things clear and I'll leave you alone.

One, you stay out of my workshop. You cross the threshold, you're getting pasted to the wall and then bodily removed. That's your warning.

Two, you stay away from Ikuri. You've done ENOUGH damage there.
scary_music: (Deep thoughts by Ibuki Mioda)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-07-19 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Ibuki's passing by and...]

[... well, okay, apparently the musician is just gonna flop onto the ground next to Zuko]
freedom_engineer: (Cocky)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-19 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles then, catches the amulet, and then just tosses it aside. Your point is well made, but he's said what he has to say... and you need your amulet more then he does.]
scary_music: (BURGERS)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-07-19 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[She can be quiet when she wants to be!]

Hey, Zuko-chan!

[... and then she proceeds to do a pretty good imitation of Kizuna's chirp back at the dragon]
scary_music: (Ahaha...)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-07-19 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Ibuki's doing pretty okay!

[... but the memories she regained are still kind of wearing down on her a bit-]

... the mood's kinda down in general around here lately, though.
scary_music: (Ayyy!)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-07-19 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Why's Zuko-chan apologizing?

It's not like you went and did a thing? Or did you? Did Zuko-chan secretly do a negative mood bomb on the Bastion?
scary_music: (Ahaha...)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-07-19 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ibuki wouldn't know anything about that but...

... you thought it was just a talking thing you were going to, right? I mean, did we have any clue about -

... okay I guess there's the thing about somebody doing something weird around the bastion and stuff, and...

... well, Ibuki doesn't blame you, anyway.

[... course, it's easy to say so when she'd never even spoken to Crona or Ragnarok before...]

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