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]

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.

[fireburn]

No? Then what was the point of telling me I didn't know how to have friends? Because I'm pretty sure that wasn't supportive and nurturing.

[daughterofursa]

I'm not that good at this either.

[Frankly it's a little weird having this conversation at all. She never did get the chance to just talk to Azula after she figured herself out.]

[fireburn]

Clearly.

[she's quiet for a minute.]

Maybe we can start over.

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko is... definitely skeptical of this because it is Azula. Chances are good she doesn't really mean it, she has some ulterior motive, and even if she does mean it, it's not like it's an easy thing to do, but...]

...

I'd like that.

[fireburn]

Me too. If we work together, we have a much better chance of figuring things out.

[daughterofursa]

Yeah. Or at least of surviving.

[Until Azula stabs her in the back?? Hopefully not.

Absently petting baby dragon because baby dragon is 500x more trustworthy.]

[fireburn]

[don't stop believing, just hold on to that feeling]

Exactly.

[daughterofursa]

Well- you might as well get settled, first. Figure out what's what. You're going to be here a while.

[She wonders if this is how Team Avatar felt when she joined them.]

[fireburn]

Try and be positive, Zuzu, we could still get out of here soon.

[daughterofursa]

Don't call me that.

[Also, you're seriously asking Zuko to be positive??]

[fireburn]

Touchy. What happened to starting over.

[daughterofursa]

Starting over doesn't mean I like that stupid nickname any better.

[fireburn]

It's cute.

[just like you now that youre apparently a girl]