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Who: Zuko [

honorbends] and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: The Marsiva!
When: Now!

[ zuko is sitting on a couch playing what appears to be super mario bros. The old school nes version, naturally, and zuko has discovered that 1) video games are amazing and 2) he isn't actually terrible at them.

what zuko is terrible at, however, is controlling his sheer disbelief that the knowledge that all mario needs to do in order to firebend is eat a flower. is that it? seriously??? if it were that easy in his universe, he wouldn't have had to climb up a goddamn mountain in order to regain his skills and talk to a freaking dragon. he would happily --

but his inner monologue is interrupted when zuko finally makes it to the castle, and he looks pretty satisfied with himself at beating this thing (eat shit bowser!!) but then -- ]

-- she's in another castle?

[ ARE YOU SERIOUS and the nes controller is thrown at the ground in a huff. ]

I went through three firebending flowers for that? Unbelievable -- !

[ luigi is better anyway. :c ]

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[ you would think camping for over a year and running in the woods would teach zuko anything but the only reason this boy is not dead is because iroh monitored what he was doing okay ]

... so none of them can be trusted.

[ BASTARDS >:c ]

Ah....

I'm not sure you're supposed to think that much about it, Zuko.

What's the point of having different mushrooms if they don't have different motivations?

[ he says as he calmly squishes a goomba ]

There's got to be some reason why this world is out of balance.

[ . . . ]

[Zuko you're starting to sound like you've been taking some shrooms, okay.]

[But you know what? He's just gonna go with it.]

Maybe there's a...curse on the mushrooms?

[ ALLEN THERE IS A FUCKING PLOT TO THIS GAME ]

I guess.

[ frustrated!!! ]

The stupid game makes no sense, so that's as good a guess as any.

[He gives a sheepish laugh]

Mario games aren't games you really play for storylines and sense anyway. There's other games that focus more on those things if you want that.

Like what?

[ omg eaT SHIT BULLET BILL and zuko grits his teeth as he restarts the level, poor mario falling to his death. ]

Oh- jump over those guys!

[Anyway. He makes a hmmm sound as he thinks of a game]

Well, I remember playing this one game...Last of Something? I can't remember exactly- but it's about a teenage girl and older man traveling across a zombie infested country, and they develop a close father-daughter relationship?

It was a really good story. It even made me cry a few times. [More like regularly bawl but hey!! They were such a good family ;;]

[ zuko doesn't know what a good family is allen

the last of us would ruin him ]

... people want to play that?

[ sorry mario just died again because zuko is staring incredulously at allen

that just sounds sad af allen jfc ]

Well sure, you get to shoot zombies in the head.

[That's why he picked it!]

You wanted something with stories. Not all of them are happy.

- Mario's dead again.

I know that, but isn't the point of these things to have fun?

[ who purposefully plays a sad story, and zuko reloads the game ]

And Mario is fine.

[ he has like 10 more lives ok ]

Sometimes that is fun! Haven't you ever enjoyed reading or listening to a story that isn't all happy?

[ -- hm. ]

I guess it'd depend on how it ends.

[ carefully, as mario hops along.

zuko has had enough of stories with bad endings, to be honest. ]

Ha- fair enough.

[Bad endings do tend to suck, he can agree with that]

...Though I should tell you, you have about seven more castles until you find the princess.

[ oh my god

there is a bit of a silence before zuko pauses the game to stare at allen, then at the nes, and then back at allen.

and then, in the most indignant of tones -- ]

Who has seven castles?!

[ THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ARISTOCRACY ALLEN

THIS IS IT ]

[He looks back and after a moment, gives a bit shoulder shrug]

I don't know. Spoiled Royalty?

[HE'S WITH YOU ZUKO, ARISTOCRACY SUCKS]

I don't have seven damn castles.

[ under his breath, hopping along ]

I barely have one.

[ the war kinda shitwrecked the fire nation whoops ]