one fish, two fish, red fish, (blue fish)!!

[honorbends]

Who: The passengers of the Blue Fish and visitors!
Action: The Blue Fish!
When: It's a mingle for the month of January, losers!

[ mingle for the month for the blue fish, to meet up with new crew members, hash out stuff. come get free therapy from zuko, who has 100% put up a sign on his door saying 10 credits because allen owes him money. ]

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[thebloodseal]

And here I thought you didn't like foxes. ['sup friend, Al's been stocking your ship with meat and is now taking a look around your ship.]

[honorbends]

Allen gave him to me.

[ in irritation. (zuko thinks the little thing is cute, but he's reluctant to let allen think he did a good thing.)]

Now I can't get rid of him.

[thebloodseal]

I think you'll have to learn to live with it, then. I just made a meat delivery, so at least you'll be able to feed him well. ... if Sokka doesn't get to it first.

[honorbends]

[ g r o a n ]

The last pet I had, I gave to Katara.

[ which is 100% true ]

We didn't have pets, at home.

[thebloodseal]

Me neither... though I'm sure you know about my habit of trying to hide kittens in my armor. Oh, and my friend May had a tiny panda bear who traveled with her.

[honorbends]

[ zuko

did not know that about alphonse but you know it's not exactly shocking. ]

I think I met May, once.

[ the tiny panda sounds familiar, anyway ]

Did the panda bite?

[thebloodseal]

Yeah, she did- she even tried to bite me once and immediately respected me when I couldn't feel the pain of it.

[honorbends]

Then I've met May.

[ or at least her fucking panda ]

[thebloodseal]

She has quite the crush on me. ... I have to admit that I puffed myself up to her when she asked me how I look in my original body.

[honorbends]

{ ah, right. ]

I'm still not really used to seeing you not in your original body.

[ to be honest. ]

What did you describe to her?

[thebloodseal]

It's got to be weird, huh? [He gave an embarrassed laugh.] I told her that my face was a lot kinder than Brother's, and that my hair was crisp, fresh and kept cut short. And that I lack Brother's temper.

[honorbends]

[ zuko considers alphonse for a moment, remembering what his version of al looks like... ]

-- I don't think that's unfair.

[ with a casual shrug ]

You are a lot nicer than Ed.

[thebloodseal]

Well, someone has to be- Brother needs someone to balance him out.

[honorbends]

I guess.

[ zuko has never been particularly close with his younger sibling, so. um. ]

You two do work well together.

[thebloodseal]

We always have- once we grew up enough to stop fighting, that is. Ed didn't like being a big brother at first, but Dad said something to him one day that got him to stop picking on me and start looking after me instead.

[honorbends]

Hm.

[ he considers that for a long moment ]

I'm an older brother, too, but my sister and I don't... get along.

[thebloodseal]

Oh, really? [Al sounds a little sad- given how he'd gotten stuck in this body in the first place because he loved his mother enough to want to bring her back, and loved Ed enough to go along with such a plan, it made him sad when families didn't get along.] I'm sure there has to be a good reason for that, though.

[honorbends]

Differences in opinion on how to rule a country.

[ yeah

that's it. ]

[thebloodseal]

Yeah... that can cause a lot of strife. My country is a military dictatorship, so I know all about how differences in opinion can tear people apart.