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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[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.

[eyeforaneye]

[ If you want to talk about broken trust and issues letting down walls as a result afterwards... he understands. ]

I'm sure he's far more aware of his mistakes than you are, or have ever been. He's lucky you saw past them.

[kyasdaughter]

[ katara considers for a moment. it'd be easy, validating even, to agree wholeheartedly with him there, to say: yes, he is lucky, other people wouldn't have extended the trust to zuko that aang and his group had. and maybe, years ago, she would have said something like that, but now? the sentiment feels grossly disingenuous.

she sighs, seeming to concede. ]

Yeah. But we're lucky, too. I don't know where we'd standing be if he hadn't had a change of heart. I'm not totally sure it'd be "on the winning side."

[eyeforaneye]

At least then you likely would've died with strong faith in your convictions and the knowledge that you fought for what was right. That's preferable to living with doubts, as he would have.

[ His expression momentarily sours when that fox stirs, approaching where he's sitting on the couch to just stare up at him. Why. ]

... i won't needle you for further information. I think I have a clear view of things now.

[kyasdaughter]

[ with anyone else, she'd probably approach this more delicately, but with sasuke... there's not really much point, is there? he'd sated his own curiosity, so she'll do the same. ]

What happened to your arm?

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... ]

A combination of super-heated electricity and a spiral of highly charged and compacted wind chakra.

[kyasdaughter]

... oh.

[ said in a way that is meant to convey 'i have no idea what this means, but. ]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[eyeforaneye]

It's just an arm.

[ It's just his dominant arm which he primarily relies upon in combat, the sole driving force behind his being and the only real thing he's devoted his will to in the past eight years at the very least. It's just that. ]

I can work around it.

[kyasdaughter]

[ it's unfathomable for her, and remembering what she does about naruto and sasuke's world - she knows she can't even begin to relate. so she just nods, accepting it as she pushes herself to her feet. ]

Well... let us know if you need anything. The Fleet's not a terrible place to be, most of the time.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Their world just needs to burn and start over tbh. Not that Sasuke is still advocating for that. He can control his need for revolution. ]

Aa.

... you could take this creature out of here. It's distracting.

[kyasdaughter]

What is it even doing in here?

[eyeforaneye]

Seems like it lives here. Lecture Zuko, not me.

[kyasdaughter]

When did Zuko get a fox?

[ she's suddenly baffled. ]

[eyeforaneye]

Blame Allen.

[ Is this a kneejerk response or... ]