Day 246 [Open]

[daughterofursa]

Who: Zuko and anyone
Open: Open!
When: Day 246
Where: Around the Bastion
What: Daily Zuko stuffs
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

Zuko keeps herself pretty busy around the Bastion. She likes to get involved in whatever's going on--not because she's a social butterfly, as anyone who talks to her can figure out, but because she feels it's important. Even if there isn't anything special going on, she's unlikely ever to be found lazing around. Her typical mornings have developed a certain routine to them.

A) Pool
This is one of the closest things Zuko has to a hobby, and she still approaches it entirely too seriously. Well, aside from the fact that she has yet to obtain a swimsuit and is in fact swimming laps in pants and a halter top. She's not remarkably fast or doing any fancy strokes, but she can make quite a few laps before stopping to rest, unless someone wants to interrupt her.

B) Training Building
Somehow, Zuko seems to keep picking up students. At the moment, it's just Rin and Rob whom she trains with any regularity, and she makes herself available at the training building for part of the morning if they or anyone else is interest in practice.

Personally, she prefers to train out of doors, so until anyone shows up, she can be found outside the building running through firebending forms (sans any actual fire).

C) Lake
Around midday, Zuko picks up some food from the distillery and makes her way over to the lake. There, she sits down crosslegged to eat, tossing crumbs of her bread out to the turtle ducks. It's about as relaxed and leisurely as Zuko gets doing anything, and a good time to grab her before she sets some other task for herself.

Comments

[daughterofursa]

...

I don't know. It just seems to happen.

[bedheadstyle]

Hmn. Well... I can be your friend!

[daughterofursa]

What? You don't even know me.

[Why does this keep happening.]

[bedheadstyle]

I know, but that means I can get to know you!

[Your life is an anime Zuzu.]

[daughterofursa]

Shouldn't that come first? You might not like me.

[bedheadstyle]

Why wouldn't I like you? You've been nice so far.

[daughterofursa]

But, that's just so far.

[bedheadstyle]

Mean people don't bother hiding that they're mean.

[You're not getting out of this.]

[daughterofursa]

Yes, they do. It's called being manipulative.

[Which Zuko would be terrible at.]

[bedheadstyle]

But see, if you'ere being manipulative you wouldn't have told me that.

[daughterofursa]

...you don't know that.

[bedheadstyle]

Why would a manipulative person admit to being manipulative? That's just counter productive.

[daughterofursa]

Maybe I'm... bad at it...

[Obviously.]

[bedheadstyle]

Mmmmmn.

[Haruka sits up, giving Zuko a long look before shaking his head and smiling wide.]

Nope.

[daughterofursa]

[She's absolutely losing this argument about how... likeable she is..]

...

Do you even know my name?

[You can't decide to be friends with someone if you don't even know that much, can you?]

[bedheadstyle]

[Completely.]

Nope! But I can find out!

[And there's a hand being held out.]

I'm Haruka Kokonose.

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko kind of knows what a handshake is, but she still looks at that hand for a minute before taking it with a certain degree of resignation.]

Zuko.

[bedheadstyle]

[There you go, Zuko. That wasn't so hard, wasn't it?]

Nice to meet you, Zuko-san!

[daughterofursa]

[She just doesn't understand.]

Just Zuko. I don't need any titles.

[bedheadstyle]

[She will learn.

Slowly.]

Alright. Zuko.

[daughterofursa]

[What now?]

You finally catch your breath?

[bedheadstyle]

Yup!

[Awkwardness, apparently.]

[daughterofursa]

[This is the person you wanted to be friends with, Haruka.]

Good.

I guess you can get back to your jogging.

[bedheadstyle]

I probably should. Enjoy your day then!

[And off he goes!]