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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[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.

[mikangirl]

[Nami thinks for a moment just how much they'd irritate each other and grins. But she will be nice about this.]

If you do, he's not a very patient man. People probably challenge him all the time at home.

[honorbends]

Is being the best swordsman in the world that coveted?

[ for real ]

[mikangirl]

For certain idiot swordsmen, definitely. It's not so much the title, it's bragging rights. [Awful lot of macho bullshit in the Grand Line. That being said, Zoro is different.]

My crewmate just wants to be that strong. For his own reasons. To protect the rest of us. [Etcetera. He's a moron, but she can understand dreams.

...man, she misses Zoro.]

[honorbends]

[ . . . hm.

zuko can understand that, he supposes, and he frowns a little. ]

Maybe he'll turn up here and be able to meet him, then.

[mikangirl]

[Grin. She won't bring up the fact Zoro already fought Mihawk once and lost. That's more personal, and it also happened at a time when she was being kind of a bitch. But--]

They've already met. Our crew separated for two years to train. Zoro trained under Mihawk.