thebastion | Day 295 [Open]

Who: Zuko and anyone
Open: Open!
When: Day 295
Where: Dragonfield
What: Rejection hurts.
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

When it comes to rejection and disappointment, Zuko's had years of practice. It should help that it wasn't really a rejection exactly, just nothing changing. Aoi didn't reject her as a person. They're still friends. Awkward friends, for the moment, as anyone who joins the morning swim lessons can probably attest to.

But this is the first time she's tried to handle it without getting angry. No one did anything wrong, so there's no one to be angry with, not even herself this time. She didn't do anything wrong, right? She doesn't think so, but there's still this feeling that won't go away, and maybe it is her fault.

What would Uncle tell her? It's hard to imagine. He only ever tried to talk to her about boys, and she always changed the subject.

She made tea for herself anyway to see if it would help, but in the end she just winds up sitting with the cup forgotten in her hands. Kizuna plays nearby, attacking various plants by the shore.

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Kohaku's still looking over her options. She doesn't see any miso, sadly, but that was okay. ~~No it wasn't it was blasphemy~~.

"Shing, which kind did you get?" She looked over at her boyfriend, curious.

"Ah... I think this has chocolate in it?" Shing holds up his cup of ice cream - chocolate chip - and then gets a spoonful for her to taste.

"It's really good! There's a lot of other stuff in here to try, too..."

"Twenty types, ten of them steady basic flavors like vanilla, the other ten switching regularly," Megaera observed. "Could probably expand the place later to throw in specific flavors people wanted. Saving most of my other shards for a project with Patchy, though."

She chuckled, hugging the purple-haired mage. "When time allows, I mean."

Ryu takes another spoonful, but a smaller one this time. "When I hold it in my mouth it gets warmer."

And bits of ice cream fly everywhere, so he grabs a napkin to clean up.

"Really? How regularly do they switch?"

As bad of an idea as he realizes it is, it's still tempting for Shing to just show up every day at the parlor to taste test everything. Because clearly this is a good idea that needs to be looked into more...

"What you've got is really good ..." She commented to Shing, then continued looking at the flavors.

"None of these have miso in it ..."

One-track mind. She has one.

"I think it's daily. What time of day's a good question. As for miso, uh... It might come up eventually?"

Megaera doesn't know what miso is, so she has no clue here whatsoever...

"I don't know if there even is an ice cream flavor that would have miso in it, Kohaku... we could always check back daily just in case?"

Or she could also add her own miso if it came to that. Either or would be something she'd do at this rate...

"What's miso?"

Everyone keeps talking about weird foods...

"Ah. It's basically red bean paste. Kohaku likes putting it on everything..."

Including foods that it really should not belong on, apparently.

"It's just so good! It goes good with everything!"

No, Kohaku, it really doesn't. Not to normal people.

"Even on ice cream?"

Shing has to make a little face at that; as much as he loved Kohaku, he thinks he will never understand her sense of taste...

Zuko doesn't recognize the term 'miso,' but bean paste?

"Why not?"

Of course, what she's thinking of is anko, which is rather different.

". . . you can do that?"

Miso and anko are definitely not the same thing, Zuko. Not that Shing realizes this since he's only really seen the miso...

"I guess you could try... though it doesn't sound very good."

Beans always look weird to him. Eggs and fish are much better for meals.

"Well, if there's a basis for it, then I guess it has to be good...?"

Though Shing himself still doesn't quite understand why you would mix miso into ice cream, of all things.

"It's worth a try! I think it'd be really good!"

Shing, look at your girlfriend. Look at your life choices.

He's wondering how it came to this. But on the other hand, she's definitely the best girlfriend. And really hot, to boot, so it evens out.

"Well, I guess if we find something like that on another day we could try it? Did you see anything with miso in it when you looked?"

"... I don't think so?", Megaera observed. "But I'm not sure. Only thing I can say for sure is none of the flavor descriptions say Miso."

Right, supernatural ability to read any language...

Edited 2015-04-28 22:12 (UTC)

"Ah... I see." Shing glanced over at Kohaku, frowning a little - on the one hand, no miso. On the other hand, well. No miso.

"Maybe another time, then? Since we're here, though, nothing wrong with getting some now..."

"This blue kind is really good!" It's some kind of blue raspberry thing, apparently.

Edited 2015-04-29 02:47 (UTC)

Kohaku nods. Might as well partake of some non-miso flavored ice cream.

"The one Shing had was really good ... the chocolate one? I think I'll have some of that."

"Yeah, I like it! Though I think I might have to try that blue one, too, if it's that good..."

Though part of him is worried that his tongue might end up blue if he eats it...

Megaera can't help but giggle openly at all of this.

"Friends. They're a wonderful thing, huh Zuko?"

"What are you saying that to me for?"

She knows that! Everbody knows that, don't they?

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