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thebastion2015-07-17 07:54 pm
daughterofursa) wrote in thebastion2015-07-17 07:54 pm
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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.
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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You're going to wind up hurting someone you don't mean to if you don't learn to discipline yourself.
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I've been there. I let my anger get the better of me and it put my allies in danger.
I don't think you want to do that.
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[no motion this time. she managed to keep herself completely still.]
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I couldn't count on you to listen to strategy. I couldn't count on you to help our allies.
That can't happen again, and I think it's better if you don't leave the Bastion until you know it won't.
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[Weariness, pain, disbelief and weak protest all at once. It's probably quite clear now, if it wasn't before, that this topic is very unwelcome.]
[To take that a step further (and risk some soap opera), the tone itself seems to be asking you why you're doing this - if the whole reason you came to her was just to reopen her wounds.]
[Just because she can hear you doesn't mean you're getting through.]no subject
I know. That wasn't easy for any of us. It's still... not easy.
...
I'm not sure what I can do to help. I just know that kind of anger burns. Holding on to it won't help.
just enough time and inspiraton for one more
[Why did you take her
relativelypeaceful sleep away just to tell her what she'd already been thinking about? This isn't helping!]You're hurting.
{and alas, the manner in which she means that puts a missing me at the end of the sentence.]
[she told you plain enough she didn't want to talk right this second, that she'd talk to you later; why wouldn't you accept that? why couldn't you leave her alone?]
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If you're not going to talk to me, you need to talk to someone. Ignoring it won't make it go away.
I...wouldn't blame you if you were tired of this by now, heh. :'D
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]but she's actually talking now!
A response with crying. Why did she think she could do this? How can anyone have seriously called her a nice person? She's the worst.]
I-
You're not a monster.
You just need help.
there is that. |D albeit with a side of EMOTION-ALLS
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...?]no subject
[What would Uncle say?
And can she get that on a button?]As long as you're open to change, then you can change.
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[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.]
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Zuko fidgets and then reaches over to awkwardly pat Ikuri's shoulder. There, there?]
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> Comforting shoulder pat: failed
Now what is she supposed to do? She's fairly certain tea is not going to solve this.
...
But can she be sure without trying it?
No, she's just going to sit here for the moment, maybe exchange glances with tiny dragon.]
... Are you cold?
[/?]
Go.
Leave.
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[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.]
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You can't go alone.
[She's had that policy since Night died. No one goes onto the Skyway alone. It's too dangerous.]
[/3?]
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.
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...Not to you. Never you.
[3/3]
[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.]
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If Ikuri goes off and gets herself killed now, there's no question that it would be Zuko's fault. She pushed her to this. Why is she so bad at people?
She takes off running after the girl. She may not be superhuman, but Zuko does have longer legs and Terminator stamina of her own, so hopefully that lets her catch up.]