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Who: Uchiha Sasuke
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Marsiva
When: This very moment.

(broadcast)

[ Sure there are bound to be the occasional less-than-thrilling broadcasts but this one may be a new low, with the camera focused in on a nondescript blob that turns out -- with some acquired distance -- to be a knee. The feed shakes then and there's the loud metallic tap tap of the device being knocked against the framework of one of the generic cots aboard the Marsiva. Tap. Tap. Tap. The only other sound is that of the painfully bland music in the background, without a word being spoken.

At least this inept user finally turns the communicator around to inspect it at another angle, granting any viewer a flash of dark and impractically spiked hair before the camera then focuses on equally shadowed eyes and a severe expression.

No, he's not going to panic. He probably already did that internally before he even tried to figure out the communicator ~~less than successfully~~. Send aid. ]

(action)

[ Sasuke will be easy to encounter either sitting on that cot and fiddling with his communicator, exploring the bay thoroughly, or staring with incredible and difficult-to-read intensity out into the murky void of space. Godspeed. ]

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[ He nearly responds to the first remark but here Zuko is hitting him with that question, raising a brow. ]

How sudden. [ But not in a bad way, just very similar to the path his conversation with Allen had taken towards the end. ]

I can't know the answer to that yet. Since I assume it's what you're asking, I'll say I don't have any plans to. Any of my actions would be in self-defense or if I somehow got a hand on any of those that brought us here.

Then that's enough for me.

[ simply, without bothering to ask for details, or requirements, or offering threats.

but there's a slight pause before zuko settles back against the wall -- he's sitting on the floor of his personnel room, and he rests his elbows on his knees. ]

Everyone deserves a second chance.

[ including zuko, himself, which is still something he's trying to wrap his mind around, even though the war is long since over. ]

No one here is expecting you to be anyone but yourself. Which might be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on who you talk to. But so long as you're on the right path now, then that's what matters to me.

[ and, really, anyone else worth their salt. ]

[ Sasuke listens quietly to words he absolutely needs to hear but also intensely wants to reject, to say it's less of a second chance and more of a fifteenth. He hadn't just chosen to leave Konoha again after the war because he wanted to gather answers about the world, or because facing Naruto was difficult after their battle -- though both of those things are true. There had also been an element of him not knowing exactly where he belonged or how to live peacefully amongst people he'd threatened.

A new twist on survivor's guilt, maybe? He'd been willing to die after the war, after all. ]

You're speaking like you identify with the concept. [ Deflecting it onto him instead is just easier right now while everything's still very fresh for him. ]

I said we had things in common.

[ with the tone of weren't you paying attention. god, sasuke. ]

But that's probably a story for another day.

[ unless sasuke wants to hear it, in which case zuko feels comfortable telling it. but even zuko can recognize that it's probably a lot. ]

You'll be fine. That's my point.

I didn't forget, but now I have a more concrete idea. [ ... and he's slowly realizing just how much he doesn't want to talk about it yet, despite how much he also has to say. ]

I don't plan to stay here long enough for my reputation to matter, but I'd assume those are words you've heard before.

[ he almost says congratulations on paying attention but thinks better of it. ]

Yeah.

[ no

that's it

yup he's heard it before no you're not going to magically be the one to figure it out yeah you're probably gonna waste your time and no zuko isn't going to stop you ]

[ He'll waste so much time, you wouldn't believe. His record on sticking to a goal and seeing it through to completion is eight years. ]

Is there anything else you think I should know, then?

You seem to know most of the important things.

[ like... don't remove your augment. stay out of trouble. etc. he almost brings up the whole 'can't fly the ships away from the marsiva' thing, but then zuko realizes he didn't ask something pretty important. ]

What's your augment?

[ oh fuck no not this shit again ]

... when I try to think about it all I can envision are recipes. [ quietly...... ]

[ there's a sudden snort of what might be laughter, and then a pursing of his lips, because it's definitely not

funny!!! ]

[ -- and then a cough. ]

That's useful.

[ s m o o t h ]

Go to hell.

[ !!!!! ]

[ lmao sasuke fuck off you are not threatening to this child ]

It could be worse.

[ his augment is definitely worse ]

But you won't be able to use the ship properly, or pilot it or anything. Whoever gets you on their ship will probably be grateful, though.

[ you get more food with a cook onboard. ]

You're more than welcome to my ship, I'm sick of eating paste.

So essentially I have an ability that's useful to others and will possibly gain me favor with them. [ ... great. That's just what he needs.

A 'like me, I'm an asshole but I have food' augment. He keeps the sigh behind his teeth. ] Can they be altered?

I don't know if food is enough, but it's better than nothing.

[ your personality sure as shit isn't going to do anything. ]

And I have no idea. I haven't tried. I just ignore mine.

[ no really ]

[ The concept of actual sustenance isn't enough to override how terrible I am as a human being. Thank you, sir. ]

Which is?

[ no you're just obnoxious as fuck and also zuko has experienced the whole "YOU'RE A LUNATIC" thing and food definitely would not have done the trick bro ]

Personnel. I'm the ship's therapist.

[ pause ]

I use my office for meditation and putting my stuff.

[ he is obvi the best at his position ]

[ At least I don't look like a well-known Batman villain. ]

...

Therapist. [ Wait for the good part here. ]

You mean a physical therapist?

[ . . . ]

No.

[ THE URGE WAS SO STRONG TO SAY YES but he's not about to do that to sasuke and let the poor bastard think therapists mean such things ok ]

People talk to me about their feelings and problems and I'm supposed to help them.

[ pause ]

I know you don't remember who I am, but I'm terrible at it.

[ zuko is honest with his own failings man ]

Edited 2016-01-16 01:17 (UTC)

[ Yeah guess what we don't really have much of in Konoha that we need desperately. Other than orphanages. ]

Most people would be terrible at it if they didn't possess personal knowledge of experiencing what the other person had. Otherwise you're just blowing sympathetic smoke into their eyes.

[ or zuko is way too much of a hot mess to help anyone with their problems ]

I'm just not a... naturally sympathetic person, I guess.

[ aang would be good at it. but not zuko. ]

So I don't really use it very often. I mostly just use the office to sleep.

[ and also house his new fox apparently ]

And meditate. [ Which sounds like a damn good idea right now. As long as he can have a small dark room to sit in alone sometimes, he himself will keep his sanity. Whatever's left of it. ]

Your augment doesn't enhance your 'skill' at it then?

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