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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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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.
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Zuko's fists are balled up so tightly she's shaking, and smoke comes out of her nostrils when she exhales, but she's not going to give him the satisfaction of attacking him again. She's not going to do it.]
I don't need you to tell me when I'm wrong and I don't need you to tell me to do better. [She'll do that to herself plenty as it is. And he's absolutely wrong if he thinks he doesn't have the power to make her feel awful about herself just because she doesn't like him.]
Don't. speak to me. again.
[The thing is, she was willing to listen to him before. She tried to filter out the attitude because she knows he's smart and he has good ideas, but she just can't deal with it on this level. Every word out of his mouth tells her he has no respect for her.
Skyway bridge. That is where she's going.]
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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?!
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Zuko glances at his arm and proceeds to try walking around him.]
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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.
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Instead of acknowledging either of his points, she pulls her amulet off over her head, chucks it at him, and makes another attempt to walk around him. Whatever he says now, she won't understand unless he actually knows Chinese.]
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