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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[honorbends]

[ he eyes them for a moment ]

... what is she using for metal?

[ warily.

is he going to have his door removed is this what's happening rn ]

[mikangirl]

[If she knew that's what you were thinking she'd totally be mean about this, but Nami puts his mind at ease instead.]

I brought her some scrap she can use. Hopefully, anyway. [It's slung over her shoulder, mostly hidden from view, but she'll turn a bit to show him. She haggled for some aluminium-ish struts from one of the mines.]

So she's from your world?

[honorbends]

[ oh. well. good. ]

Yeah.

[ team avatar and all that ]

From the Earth Kingdom, obviously.

[mikangirl]

Obviously. [Dryly.] Earth Kingdom people control metal. It's clear as day.

[honorbends]

Actually, only Toph can do that.

[ duh ]

But in theory, only earth benders can bend metal, and they generally live in the Earth Kingdom.

[mikangirl]

[Oh my mistake.]

She's talented, then, huh. [Earth, metal, guess it makes sense.] Your world sounds pretty interesting.

[And also carefully ordered, in some respects.]

[honorbends]

She is. She made me a set of swords for Christmas.

[ which are great ok ]

And it is -- it's home, anyway.

[ he misses the fire nation, on occasion. he much prefers it to space. ]

[mikangirl]

[Which he hasn't seen for a long while, she realises, if he was stuck in Adstring first. Hooray, guess they're both in the same boat there.]

So you're a swordfighter too? Which do you prefer?

[honorbends]

I use a dual sword technique, and I can firebend while doing it.

[ so.

both!!! ]

[mikangirl]

That's pretty impressive. I wonder how you'd get on with the swordsmen on our ship.

[honorbends]

Who are they?

[mikangirl]

Ah-- [This is the problem with having a ship before this.]

They're not here. I'm the navigator of a ship back in my own home. Our first mate and our musician are both swordsmen. They'd appreciate seeing your technique, probably.

[...and she hasn't seen either of them in so long.]

[honorbends]

[ . . . oh. ]

... you have a ship musician?

[ lmao ]

[mikangirl]

You don't?

[You poor man. Don't be dissin her skeleton yo.]

[honorbends]

No.

[ god ]

Or if we do, it's not me.

[mikangirl]

And you seemed like such the musical type.

[Hee. But she sobers.] He's more than just a musician. But, you know, it's nice to have music from time to time.

[honorbends]

I guess.

[ zuko didn't really grow up with music, but music has a strong culture in the fire nation. ozai just hated fun. ]

I'm sure someone on the Fleet plays something.

[mikangirl]

Probably. We've got a wide variety of people here and it's a common pastime. [Though Nami isn't particularly musically inclined herself, so she shrugs.]

Anyway, he uses cold attacks with his sword. And the other swordsmen wields three at once.

[So have fun with that.]

[honorbends]

[ . . . cold attacks, ew. ]

Cold attacks -- like ice, water? And how do you use three at once?

[mikangirl]

Like his blade is freezing. He'd probably tell you it's the cold of the dead or something like that. [Which given it's Brook... oh, and she grins.]

And the other guy holds one in his teeth.

[honorbends]

... how is that even remotely helpful?

[ blank staring ]

Holding a sword in your teeth, not the -- cold thing.

[mikangirl]

You got me. I would have thought it stupid if someone described it to me before I ever saw him in action, but... guy's got a good grip. [She grins with a little pride.] Zoro wants to be the best swordsman in the world. I think he's already at second, personally.

[honorbends]

Who's number one?

[ you can take zuko out of the militaristic fire nation supremacy culture, but you can't take the militaristic fire nation supremacy culture out of zuko ]

[mikangirl]

Mihawk. He's on the fleet, actually.

[For like another three days or so. Sob.]

[honorbends]

[ . . . huh. ]

Maybe I'll talk to him.