dramadramaduck | attempt number nineteen ♻ (voice)

[ WHAT IS THIS SOMEONE WITH FAITH IN HER?? excuse the persistence of the surprised, touched pauses. at least she's not blushing. 8( best day everrrr. ]

Not me. Nathan. He did it.

[It's okay, Zuko's still the same way about people believing in him. He gets it.

He waves a dismissive hand.] Whatever, same thing. You were in it together, so as long as you accomplished it, it counts.

You're totally gonna hate me for this but ... thank you. For having faith in me. And I know you don't like the whole sentimental thing, so I'll leave it at that, but you deserved to hear it.

[Oh. A girl is complimenting him. Today this makes him visibly awkward instead of tsun.]

...You're welcome, but it's the truth. This was too important for you to fail on.

I just figured I'd let you know how much I appreciate it, that's all. [ she'll drop it. she's a bro. ] Anyway. I'll give you the cliffnotes when I get there. Which should be this weekend.

It's, uh, known.

[Cliffnotes? Whatever. Zuko can't care about all this Earth stuff.] I'll have some rooms prepared for you. ...If anyone asks, you're a friend of Avatar Aang's. That's what I said when Peter was here and it worked out fine.

Why can't I just say I'm a friend of yours?

Because you have yellow hair and the Avatar has crazy friends! If you say you're a friend of mine, they'll want to know where I've been and what I've been doing. I'm the Fire Lord, I don't exactly escape public scrutiny.

...Besides, Aang is a friend of mine, so no one would be surprised to see me hanging out with his friends.

... It's called blonde. That doesn't make me crazy, it makes me ... genetically gifted. [ yeah, there's kind of a snobby straightening up at that. hdu insult her beautiful hair. ] I can't seriously be the first blonde you've ever seen.

...I've met Ed? He has y-- blond hair. And I've seen some people at community parties.

Otherwise, no, there isn't anyone like that here. The Northern Water Princess had white hair, but she was touched by the moon spirit.

Guess I probably can't get away with being touched by a moon spirit. [ sighhh ] Friends with Avatar Aang it is. But, just so we're clear, you're obligated to introduce me to this guy now.

[groaning] Ugh, fine. He's not on the community anymore, but he used to be, so he knows what's up. Just don't blame me if you find him annoying.

I'm pretty hard to annoy.

Yeah, well, he's pretty annoying. At least he's older now, he's calmed down a little. ...A little.

How old is older? I thought Avatar was like ... an important title or something?

It is, but it's passed on through reincarnation, so they grow up that way. Aang's fourteen.

[Technically a hundred and fourteen, but that's another story.]

... Wow. Talk about responsibility.

...Yeah. He found out when he was twelve. He didn't take it well, but he's grown into it now.

Anyway, he's the Avatar, so he can get away with anything. And he's... nice.

He's your friend, of course he's nice. [ she says it in a way that's more like "silly zuko, you're not that bad." ] Hopefully he'll join or something so I can get the chance to meet him. [ by this point, she's well-versed in "if they aren't from the community, they won't remember me anyway." ]

No, he's really nice. He doesn't even believe in revenge - he's a monk. He's been on and off a couple times, I think, so he might be back.

I thought monks didn't believe in the internet or something. Is he really allowed to join?

We don't have the internet, so it's hard to have rules about it, Claire.

...And there aren't any other monks anymore. It's up to him what he's allowed to do.

What happened to the other monks?

[...sighs]

My great-grandfather Sozin killed them all, to prevent the Avatar from reincarnating again. Aang's the one he missed.

... Oh. [ awkward. ] I guess with everything you've told me about your family, it'd be a waste of breath asking why he'd do something like that.

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