Day 256 [Open]

[daughterofursa]

Who: Zuko and anyone
Open: Open!
When: Day 256, evening
Where: By the lake
What: A failure to meditate
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

Zuko knows she's always been hard on herself, but she's never really considered it to be too hard. But some of the things people have been saying about her... Well, people in the Bastion have always expressed a more positive view of her than she thinks she deserves, and she always figured it was because they don't know what she's come from, but she's finally starting to wonder. Maybe the flawed perspective is her own.

Which is why she is attempting something else which, like positive thinking, she is not very good at: meditating. Whoever really wants to can find her by the lake, sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed and... definitely scowling more than she ought to be.

Comments

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko nods.]

I know Toph is out there somewhere, at least.

[notachickenhawk]

<I've been keeping an eye out for people as much as I can.>

[daughterofursa]

Thank you.

I'm sure she's fine, but... [Zuko misses her.]

[notachickenhawk]

<Yeah, I understand.>

[daughterofursa]

She'd probably think me being out here like this was stupid.

[notachickenhawk]

<Do you think it is?>

[daughterofursa]

I don't know.

It feels like it. Toph is so confident, it doesn't seem like she gets hung up on anything. She's never made the mistakes that I have, so why would she doubt herself?

But, it can't be that easy for everyone.

[notachickenhawk]

<... A lot of times those kinds of people just put up those kinds of fronts so they don't have to talk about things. I know at least one person who does that all the time. It doesn't mean that they don't make mistakes or doubt themselves - they just don't let other people know. Which... kind of worries me since that means they're just putting it aside and not dealing with it.>

[daughterofursa]

I don't think she's like that. I know she's got some issues with her parents. She actually talked to me a lot about them, only I... wasn't paying that much attention.

Besides that? She just thinks she's amazing. And it's true.

[notachickenhawk]

<Maybe. I don't know, I've never talked to her.>

[daughterofursa]

Hopefully you'll get the chance.