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

[daughterofursa]

No, he wouldn't.

[At least Zuko's finally got that one down.]

I know you wouldn't understand, but I left for the good of the Fire Nation. Not that it matters now.

[Baby dragon is getting antsy inside Zuko's shirt. How long does she have to stay in here? Azula will probably notice some strange movement under there as the dragon crawls around and up Zuko's back in search of the way out. Also a change in Zuko's expression because hello tiny claws.]

[fireburn]

Why would you --

[it's a little hard not to notice a tiny baby dragon and that is suddenly way more important here.]

What is that?

[daughterofursa]

It's nothing!

[Yeah, that is totally not a baby dragon head poking out of the back of her shirt beneath her hair. Zuko tries to nudge it back down with her hand.]

[fireburn]

It is clearly not nothing.

[daughterofursa]

[Baby dragon nips Zuko's fingers and pushes her way to freedom! At least as much as sitting on Zuko's shoulder is freedom.

Yeah, she can't really insist this is nothing anymore.]

Don't even think about hurting her.

[fireburn]

[dragon hunting is a great sport, but...]

What good what I get from hurting a baby dragon?

[it's better to kill them when they're big!! more xp!]

Where did you get that, anyway?

[daughterofursa]

I don't know, the same kind you get from scaring the turtle ducks?

[Unlike Zuko, animal cruelty is aboslutely on Azula's lifetime of evil list.]

Does it matter where I got her?

[Okay, someone else will probably unwittingly explain the Monument and shards to Azula, but Zuko doesn't want to be the one to do it. Who knows what sorts of things she'll make?]

[fireburn]

I'll figure it out one way or another. But you do realize it's more suspicious when you say nothing, don't you?

[daughterofursa]

I don't care.

And don't do anything when you meet Paarthurnax either. You'd turn the whole Bastion against you. [...why is she giving Azula advice.]

[fireburn]

Paarthurnax? Is he a dragon too?

[daughterofursa]

Yes. One who's thousands of years old. He could teach you a few things, if you listened.

[fireburn]

Maybe I will listen to what he has to say, then!

[or maybe not who knows]

[daughterofursa]

Will you really?

What do you plan on doing, now that you're here?

[fireburn]

Going home.

[obviously, zuzu, obviously.]

[daughterofursa]

Right.

If home is even there to go back to-- [and it's fairly obvious from her tone that she doesn't think it is] --then there's no way you can do it alone.

[fireburn]

You're assuming I won't make any friends.

[daughterofursa]

I didn't say that.

But you're not that good a friend.

[fireburn]

[how dare you!! how dare you

but its cool we can fight fire with fire #FireNation]

This coming from someone who cannot even make their family love them. I'll be sure to take your opinion into consideration.

[daughterofursa]

Our father never loved anyone but himself! That isn't my fault.

[fireburn]

Speak for yourself. He loves me.

[daughterofursa]

If you weren't as talented as you are, do you think he'd still care? If you messed up, would he forgive you?

Because that's what real love is about.

[fireburn]

Those things won't ever happen, I won't have to consider them.

[daughterofursa]

You can't be perfect your whole life.

[fireburn]

[uptown funk.mp3]

Yes, I can. I will ascend to greatness and nothing will be able to stop me.

[daughterofursa]

Greatness doesn't mean perfection.

...listen, I'm not trying to bring you down. You're my sister. I don't really want to see that.