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[honorbends]

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 ]

Comments

[honorbends]

[ god forced interaction with strangers zuko's favorite!!!! but this zuko is a little more willing, and so when he picks up the controller, he doesn't tell this boy to move ]

... I think it's a Nintendo.

[ zuko is 95% sure he said that right ]

[huaaaaagh]

Ah- [Right, that's the name most people know.] They're the same thing. It was first released in my country under the name Famicom.

[honorbends]

[ wtf why does everyone else get this cool stuff!! ]

We don't have things like these in my world -- and the world I came from, before here, we didn't have anything to power it even if it did turn up.

[ adstringendum sucked bro ]

[huaaaaagh]

[Wow, both of those sound terrible. A world without video games is a bleak place.]

That sucks. I mean, we don't have much in the way of entertainment on the ships, but the potential's at least there.

[honorbends]

I wonder if we could just steal this.

[ zuko gives approx zero fucks that this nintendo probably belongs to someone he wants it >:c ]

Who else would use it here once we go back to the ships?

[huaaaaagh]

Probably no one. We should definitely try.

[Maybe the Atroma are hoping to stop the ships from fighting for game-playing rights when there's not enough systems to go around. But wouldn't that make for good TV drama?]

[honorbends]

{ . . . ]

Which one are you taking?

[ there are lots okay ]

[huaaaaagh]

Hmm... a lot of the systems I've seen are old enough that I haven't played them yet. I'd like to give them a try first.

[So now he's eyeing the system. Were there two-player games on this console...? Surely there must be.]

[honorbends]

[ what luck, it happens to be two player. and once zuko realizes what the problem is, he digs up another controller, plugs it in, and hands it over ]

Here.

There are two brothers, I guess, and you can take turns with the levels.

[huaaaaagh]

[Kirito is practically hungry for it as he accepts the controller, tucking his feet up under him and hunching in. Video games, they are Serious Business.]

Awesome, thanks! I've never played this one, but I'm pretty good at platformers. Bet we can get to the last castle in no time like this!

[honorbends]

You'll probably be a lot better than me.

{ with a heavy sigh, scowling at the television. but having a useful ally on his side is something, so -- ]

Are platformers a type of game?

[huaaaaagh]

Yeah, it's a popular genre. Mostly with indie games these days - at least, in my time - but it used to be really popular. Mario's probably the most well-known series.

[Don't get him started, Zuko, he's a gamer nerd.]