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]

... 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.

[honorbends]

[ ... but. ]

He's training underneath the man he wants to defeat?

[mikangirl]

Don't ask me. I guess Zoro's got nerve and Mihawk's easily entertained.

[honorbends]

So Mihawk doesn't actually believe Zoro can defeat him?

[mikangirl]

[Giving that due thought. She might have believed that, but she's met and talked with Mihawk several times by now.]

I think Mihawk thinks he can eventually, and is entertained by the prospect.