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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[eyeforaneye]

[ Good. He reaches out to take it with his right hand, slightly annoyed by how much slower only having one makes things but he's managing. ]

No. I have said this three times now. I'm using his furniture.

[kyasdaughter]

[ it's definitely weird to see that, too, but she doesn't gawk or stare. instead, she just watches him use the rag. ]

Sorry, I guess I'm just not... getting it. [ her eyes tick back up to his face. ] Did you ask him or stage an invasion?

[eyeforaneye]

Occupying an empty room without asking for permission isn't an 'invasion'.

[ So. The second one. ] Are you worried about his privacy? [ It's cool, he already went through all the drawers. He doesn't need to do it again. ]

[kyasdaughter]

It is when it belongs to someone else. He does kind of have his name on the door.

[ she wrinkles his nose a little at his question. ]

And what privacy? If what they say is true, millions of people are watching us all the time anyway.

[ oh, sasuke. you're just like she remembered. ]

[eyeforaneye]

Which is my point. There's no harm in my being here. [ Thank you, Katara. ]

[kyasdaughter]

[ she'll just thump down into a chair, regarding him expectantly. ]

Well, it is a therapist's office. I'm here for my session.

1/2

[eyeforaneye]

[ ....,, okay never mind, Zuko is free to hurry his ass up and deal with this on his own. ]

2/2

[eyeforaneye]

[ Right. Anyway. ]

Seems you'll have to wait. [ a pause. ] He spoke about you.

[kyasdaughter]

[ okay, that catches her off guard. ]

What did he say?

[eyeforaneye]

That you're from his world, firstly. That your relationship wasn't always a positive one.

[kyasdaughter]

[ that's all true, but she can't begin to imagine how that might have been brought up. she manages to quash the surprise on her face almost as soon as it appears. ]

Yeah. He spent a long time chasing after me and my friends.

[eyeforaneye]

[ A lot of things have come up in our conversations already. Too many things, Katara. ]

That alone isn't excessively criminal. There's clearly more to it.

[kyasdaughter]

[ she is kind of surprised that he's found out so much in such a relatively short amount of time. ]

How much did he tell you?

[ because katara isn't sure how much detail she should go in herself. ]

[eyeforaneye]

He discussed how he'd wronged you and your group and how it was made public knowledge in Adstringendum by someone he knew. A female. [ Which... he finds irksome, but agrees that she had every right to do it. ]

I wanted to hear your perspective.

[kyasdaughter]

The way time works in places like these can really complicate friendships. That's really all that matters at this point.

[ not that she's being dismissive, but -

okay yes she's being dismissive. sorry, sasuke: she seems to be gently saying that it's none of your business. ]

[eyeforaneye]

It isn't all that matters.

The topic was the nature of your relationship in your own world. I'm not going to pry about whatever happened in Adstringendum; any version of me that might've been involved is unlike the me that I am here.

[kyasdaughter]

So instead you're prying into the nature of our relationship in our own world. Why?

[eyeforaneye]

Because I'm interested in the number of similarities between us.

[kyasdaughter]

[ urgh. ]

Alright. Tell me exactly what you want to know.

[eyeforaneye]

I want to know specifically what he did to you and your group that caused you to initially hate him.

[kyasdaughter]

He was trying to capture my friend, who was the Avatar in our world. The Avatar is the one person in the whole world connected to and able to control all four elements, and it's his job to keep the world in balance.

Zuko and his family wanted to stop Aang from doing just that.

[ she takes a breath. ]

He was really mean about it, too. Just saying.

[eyeforaneye]

[ He looks at her like he's expecting her to keep going, and then she just doesn't. Well. ]

'Really mean' is somewhat vague. You mean that he took out some of your comrades? [ Because that would be Sasuke's definition. ]

[kyasdaughter]

I was trying to be funny.

[ lmfao tho katara you should know better than that. she shakes her head, frowning softly. ]

He stalked us, harassed us, did terrible things and used them as leverage against us - [ she's talking about her mother's necklace, haha... ] - and then immediately stabbed me in the back the first time I trusted him. He was dangerous.

[eyeforaneye]

[ He tries to contextualize it against the Zuko he knows now but for him perhaps it's easier, realizing that he was motivated by filial attachment and that's really all he needs to know ]

And then he changed. I'd imagine trusting him a second time would've been difficult.

[kyasdaughter]

It was.

[ she doesn't know why she was expecting sasuke to - well, not get it, but she's weirdly relieved when he does. ]

But... people change. If you'd told me back then that he'd be one of my best friends, I probably would've told you to lay off the cactus juice.