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[honorbends]

Who: Zuko [honorbends]
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Blue Fish. It's best to just not.
When: Now.

Two questions.

1. What does it take to get an entire ship to yourself?

2. How do you shut this communicator off?

PS: If one more person texts, calls, or asks me about a blender, I am going to go through each and every ship and destroy each and every blender so we're all even.

[ how's that for a royal fucking decree

and then, four seconds later: ]

Someone read this to Toph, I'm going to sleep.

[ he will respond to all of your (probably stupid) responses when he wakes up. in about ten hours. ]

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[alwayscomeback]

[You people are going to give him some sort of stroke. ]

Oh sweet flying penguinotters I'm fixing the stupid blender.

[He makes a few loud clanking noises from his workstation to be heard throughout the Blue Fish.]

Hear that? That's the sound of a blender being fixed.

I swear if I hear or see the word blender once more today I'm confining everyone involved to the brig.

...Right after I make a brig.

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[save_the_souls]

[Ugh...this is not bringing a good feeling to his chest.]

I'm really sorry about this, Sokka. I didn't think it'd escalate like this when I went to talk to Zuko about it.

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[alwayscomeback]

It's okay. It takes a long time of knowing Zuko to be prepared for ... Zuko.

If you want, I can drop you guys off on a waystation and you can have a life-altering field trip together. That usually works.

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[save_the_souls]

[Allen knows Sokka is trying to console him. But...the first part sits with him in all the wrong ways that it causes him to make a frustrated sound on his end]

I have known Zuko a long time! I've known him since I was 18! He just doesn't-

[- remember. Except he does this time. When this Zuko showed up, he knew who Allen was. He talked to him like he was a friend. He thought that it meant that the hell of being forgotten again and again could be over. But...maybe he was wrong. Maybe he had overestimated how well Zuko knew that other Allen, or remembered him. There's a pause as he tries to breath]

...Sorry. Maybe I just overestimated how well he knew me.

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[alwayscomeback]

[Allen can't hear it, but Sokka gives a tired little laugh. ]

You're both really similar in how you guys deal with stress, did you notice that? Probably not, but I have. Neither of you actually go out of your way to be jerks. You just both let the tension build up in you then release it like a giant Jerkwad Bomb, taking out whoever's close enough to catch the shrapnel. You don't mean for it to happen, it just does. Then once the smoke clears you both realise things got outta hand and feel crappy about it, then go about fixing things again.

It's not that either of you are bad people. You're both the opposite of that. You just get..I dunno. Caught up in it all. It wouldn't make me want to swap either of you.

[He loves you all you giant pain in the asses. ]

So just...let the smoke clear, give it a couple days and you'll both feel better about it. And I won't have a stroke in the process.

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[save_the_souls]

[uuuuugh Allen hates it when people psychoanalzye him. Especially when it's about something about him he doesn't like: his temper. He hates being reminded that he has one, even though he knows that it's there. That no matter how much he tries to be like his dad, his temper is still there]

[So there's a long pause. He's probably typing up several defenses and denials- then deleting them. Right. All come off sounding like he's snapping. Which would completely prove Sokka's point. UUUUUGH.]

....Ugh, fine. I'm going to go to the Iskaulit to walk it off. [Gonna walk the entire ship he will]

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[alwayscomeback]

[Sorry, bro. He wants you guys to find some common ground so you both stop being idiots. ]

Ok.

Let me know if you need anything.

Text;

[save_the_souls]

[ There's a pause ]

Some food when I get back would be nice, please.

Text;

[alwayscomeback]

Can do. We'll have a veggie paradise awaiting your return.

[You weirdo herbivore, you. ]

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[save_the_souls]

Thanks Sokka.

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[honorbends]

Let me know when it's finished.

[ zuko will provide manpower ok ]

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[alwayscomeback]

Will do.

You need anything? I'm guessing you're gonna hole yourself up for a while.

[Not guessing, he KNOWS this. ]

Text; 1/2

[honorbends]

[ augh sokka he wants to be angry and you're making it DIFFICULT ]

Text; Private

[honorbends]

[ -- but the second statement has sort of instantly mollified him into realizing this is about more than a stupid blender, and he stares at the communicator for a long moment before responding. ]

No, I don't need anything.

I'll talk in two days.

Text; Private

[alwayscomeback]

[He knows Zuko needs times and space. To do that meditating thing he does, find himself again and so on. Sokka doesn't pretend he understands how it works, but he doesn't have to. He knows it works for Zuko, and that's what matters. ]

OK. You know where I am if you need me.

[Take care of yourself, Problematic Brother. ]

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[honorbends]

I know.

[avaricious]

Now that's captain talk.

[alwayscomeback]

[OH MY GOD GET OUT GREED B|]

I wasn't asking you!!!!

[avaricious]

Don't ruin the moment, kid.

[alwayscomeback]

[Such unheard groaning. SO MUCH. ]

I'm just trying to get everyone relaxed again, okay?

[avaricious]

You should take your own advice.

[alwayscomeback]

Yeah, I get told that a lot :|

[avaricious]

Weird, huh?

[alwayscomeback]

There you go, being hilarious again.

[avaricious]

It's a gift.