Day 285 [open]

[fireburn]

Who: Azula & anyone
Open: Open
When: Day 285
Where: Northern Bastion
What: Azula arrives in Bastion.
Format: bracket-action but happy to match
Warnings: n/a for now.

[Azula was angry. Whether or she actually believed that her world had been destroyed, blah blah blah was a different question entirely. It all sounded crazy (this whole world sounded crazy - maybe it was all just one giant hallucination and that's a terrifying thought), but more importantly she had better things to do. If this was some kind of spirit-world shenanigan, she wanted no part in it. She had been in the middle of something important, damn it.

Which is why, naturally, she gets herself quickly and fairly easily from the Skyway to Bastion. If anyone was capable of figuring it out, it was her. And when she's on a mission to get to the bottom of something, that drive can move mountains.

When she questions the person who told her about this "calamity" she doesn't get answers she wants and sets a tree on fire in retribution, but the action is...oddly taxing? And for the first time in her career she actually feels like it's difficult to firebend which angers her more, RIP patches of grass.

Since all of that is clearly getting her nowhere she proceeds to go question anyone who is around in the most tactful and personable way possible:]

You there! Tell me what is going on here immediately.

Comments

[fireburn]

[Azula considers this for a moment. but there's something much more pressing here.]

Do you always talk about yourself in the third person?

[scary_music]

Nope! Sometimes, I don't feel like talking in third person, but it's one of Ibuki's endearing character traits!

[...]

[fireburn]

Endearing...

[maybe to someone else]

[scary_music]

Yup!

Where would Ibuki be without one of her endearing character traits?! Somebody that isn't Ibuki! How tragic that would be, right?

[fireburn]

You have more than one?

[why is she still asking about this]

[scary_music]

Yessss!!!

Like being a total spaz! And her ability as the Super Ultimate Level Music Person!!

What kind of person only has one trait? Then they'd be one dimensional!

[fireburn]

Not everyone has quite so many "endearing" ones.

[scary_music]

Sad, but true! Some people are just totally boring! How shameful!

[fireburn]

[she's so cheerful...and actually slightly endearing...why.

it's actually a bit like Ty Lee-- wait a minute. Azula breaks out into a smile (you should probably run.)]

Well that's why everyone needs a team member who is endearing to make up for that, don't you think?

[scary_music]

Exaaaaaaactly! Ibuki's like the morale officer or something around here! Breaking the kneecaps of boredom, that's Ibuki's job!

[fireburn]

Tell me, Ibuki, do you have any other special skills?

[scary_music]

Ibuki's number one skill is definitely her music, buuuuut... she also has a reaaaaaaaaaally good memory!!

But, but hey, we've gone on for this long but Ibuki doesn't even know your name yet! Okay! Let's do a proper introduction!

The I is for Incredible! There's the B is for Bountful! Up comes the U for Undeniable! Watch out for K, it's a Kitty! Another I for Invaluable!

It all comes together to form Ibuki Mioda! Nice to meet you!

[fireburn]

[well that just happened]

My name is Azula. I am sure that we would be a very powerful team, Ibuki. Perhaps we could even find some of those shards I heard about?

[she can play music and charm away the monsters i dont know]

[scary_music]

Azula-chan, then!

Ibuki has a confession to make! She's totally not powerful at all, she just sponges off Patchy-chan all the time! Ibuki tried to serenade the monsters once, but they just chased her away! It was a shameful display...

[fireburn]

I'm sure we'll figure something out.

[like azula can't take care of herself at all so you know trading hair brushing for protection thats legit right]

[scary_music]

[Maybe Azula could let Ibuki style her hair sometime-]

Weeeell, you can always tag along with Ibuki and Patchy-chan? The more the merrier!

[fireburn]

[azula doesn't tag along with anyone, but sometimes you have to know when to hold your cards and when to play them.]

I will consider it.

[scary_music]

Hmm... interesting, interesting.

Your enthusiasm took a noticeable dip when Ibuki suggested a third person...

I see, I see... so that's how it is.

So, Azula-chan just wants to get Ibuki alone somewhere, is that it? Iyan! So bold, Azula-chan!

[...]

[fireburn]

Yeah, that's...exactly it.

[no. no it's not.]

[scary_music]

Jus-... ...

[Wait, what? Sorry Azula, that wasn't the reaction she was expecting, so-]

Wow, that's totally suspicious! Amazing!

Ibuki has no idea what you're actually planning, but she's too genre savvy to fall for it!

[fireburn]

Wait, you like that it's suspicious?

[what even is this girl]

[scary_music]

What?! I do?! Ibuki didn't say anything like that?!?!

[fireburn]

You said it was amazing.

[scary_music]

...

...

Amazing isn't restricted to a positive sense, Azula-chan! Shame on you!

[fireburn]

I don't know, it seems pretty positive to me.