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]

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.

[scary_music]

... ... No, that's wrong! Objection!

...

Wow! Incredible! Ibuki's arguing dictionary stuff!? This is terrible! How did this happen?! Ibuki's not supposed to be the person that educates on the usage of the word amazing!

[fireburn]

We're just such a great pair that I bring things out of you that you didn't think you were capable of.

[that's exactly what's happening right now. totally.]

[scary_music]

N-NO... NO WAY!! IBUKI HAS BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN TO SHOW PEOPLE THE PROPER DEFINITION OF AMAZING!!!

IBUKI IS TOO YOUNG TO BE THE NAGGING TEACHER!!!! THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!!!

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

[fireburn]

[that's not a reaction she was expecting.]

Whoa, just...calm down? It's going to be okay.

[scary_music]

B-butbut but...!

Ibuki would rather play her music and have fun... and here she is arguing the positivity aspect of amazing and and- that is so out of character for Ibuki!!!

[fireburn]

There's nothing actually wrong with that...

[scary_music]

L-listen, listen, let's... let's just drop the whole amazing thing, okay?

Ibuki doesn't want to nag about the word amazing just because you think it's an auto-positive word, okay? Okay?

... that said, Ibuki still has noooooooo clue why you'd want to team up with somebody who can't fight.

[fireburn]

Okay, we will drop the amazing thing.

Everyone has their own skills, they don't always have to be in fighting to be useful.

[scary_music]

Weeeeeeeellllll...

... Ibuki's already told you what her skills are? Soooo... how does Azula-chan want to team up with Ibuki's music? Maybe... maaaybe you want to join Ibuki's band? Is that it?

[fireburn]

Not necessarily. I'm working on an angle one that gets our "characterization" just right.

[scary_music]

... like... a comedy routine?

[fireburn]

Maaaybe not that.

[scary_music]

How abouuuuuuuuuuut... you let Ibuki style your hair! How about that, Azula-chan? How about it? Ibuki could do something reaaaaally cool with it!

[fireburn]

[actually...]

As long as it stays one color.

[scary_music]

Huh? Huh? Really? But...

[Why did you have to add that stipulation? Do you see Ibuki's disappointment?]

[fireburn]

[why is her disappointment so compelling nothing should work on Azula]

What?

[scary_music]

Ibuki just thinks... a few streaks of red here and there in your hair would look really awesome! But if your hair has to stay one color, then it wouldn't work!

[fireburn]

I guess red would not be completely unagreeable, it is the color of the fire nation...

[scary_music]

Ooh, really? Really? Ibuki had a feeling that would fit you!

Then, come on, come on, Azula-chan, let's begin your transformation!

[she reaches for Azula's hand, intending to start dragging her to the hair salon for hair dyeing shenanigans]

[fireburn]

[azula has no idea how to handle sudden hand holding - she lets ibuki take her hand but doesn't reciprocate at all just kind of following behind awkwardly.]

Right now?