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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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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?

[ well. firebending is closely tied to emotion, unlike other benders. relying on anger and hatred instead of your own inner peace can lead to disastrous results, so being out of touch with how you feel can also inhibit your bending. so in that way, zuko supposes it enhances his skills.

but only because it reminds zuko that he probably needs a fucking therapist. ]

Firebending. And no, not really.

{ and zuko flicks his right wrist, a few sparks appearing to turn into flames, letting them roll across his fingers before puffing into a burst of smoke. ]

I haven't felt any difference since coming here.

[ except for the lack of natural sunlight in space. that is absolute fucking garbage and he hates it. ]

I remember. [ Once again. Give the man a prize.

Would that he could read Zuko's thoughts so he could commiserate, powers very literally honed through psychological pain and anger is a surefire way to make them that much sharper. And also to cause them to be directed the wrong way completely. ]

How useless. [ A pause. ] At least you get a room. [ grats bro ]

[ you know what sasuke he literally lost his firebending because he grew a conscience so come talk to him after you have to climb a goddamn mountain with the avatar while helpless bro ]

It isn't the worst tradeoff.

[ besides the totally invasive brain drilling, obviously ]

The Blue Fish has our own rooms, but some ships don't. It makes for nice privacy.

[ also it gives zuko a larger room and a free couch and desk. it's pretty sweet. ]

[ Only if you call him after you've had your dead brother's corpse raided for eyes just to have your own ripped out and those put in. He didn't meet a dragon though. ]

Aa, I've seen evidence of some that don't through these messages. [ Hip to the tech lingo. ] I won't hold my breath in expectation of amenities.

You can always just transfer to a ship that has what you want.

[ zuko did. though he transferred to be with his friends, and not with a group of strangers. ]

A ship that has a communications officer allows you to lock messages for privacy, which is useful. A securities officer lets you into the armory for weapons.

[ or you can just... know toph, who makes them for you. ]

The only thing the Blue Fish is missing is what your augment is [ look at him be delicate to your sensitivities ] but we have three communications officers.

[ for some freaking reason. ]

[ Super encryption. ]

So far it doesn't seem as if there's any great need for weapons, though I wouldn't pass up the advantage. [ Not that he even needs them given how capable he is of inflicting damage bare-handed. Still, it's the thought that counts. Just having access to any would be a somewhat comforting reminder of home... aka a world he doesn't find comforting. ]

So you have two redundant members, functionally speaking.

Functionally speaking.

[ katara isn't redundant!!! ]

We also have two personnel members, but I don't do what I'm supposed to be doing, so.

[ the other personnel member can do that for all he cares tbh ]

[ He contains a sound of amusement that's more a huff than even a full snort. ]

That's been shown through this conversation. It's a little lazy to shift your responsibility but given the circumstances, it's probably wise.

I delegate.

[ anakin skywalker already yelled at him over this uchiha sasuke HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR SASS ]

Delegation usually implies leadership.

Or the realization of your own weaknesses.

[ zuko can be a leader, and is one, now -- but he also recognizes where his failings are. mostly because he's failed a lot. but with failure comes learning, young nephew.

or something. ]

Which also makes for a good leader.

[ fyi

but zuko seems to pause, considering something, before continuing ]

You can just ask questions; you don't have to fish around.

I thought the implication was obvious. You have to rule a country so you shouldn't shirk away from tedium. That's part of the process. [ He shakes his head, however. ]

But if you want me to ask a blunt question, then I'll ask the unrelated one that's been on my mind.

What is it, in full, that you know about me and my past actions?

[ sasuke he is not going to be court therapist when he is firelord okay take ur lectures elsewhere.

but at his prod, the question he had been expecting comes up, even though it's still unwanted. ]

All of it.

[ he seems to think that should be enough without going into the gross details of itachi murdering everyone and madara being a massive piece of shit ]

You can actually say that confidently without knowing where I've just come from, yet?

[ But he has to wonder if it's actually true, and how that makes him feel. Intruded upon, mostly. ]

Yeah, I can.

[ evenly. not confidently, exactly, or boastful. zuko mostly looks weary. sasuke's past sucks even more than his does, in his opinion. ]

You wouldn't have bothered talking to me for this long if you were still in the middle of it.

... I wouldn't bother talking to anyone. [ No, he'd be too busy trying to get back to it, to succeed in seeing his goals carried out. ]

But the war's ended now.

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[ zuko supposes that's true. ]

-- Good.

[ really, truly. war is terrible.

zuko pauses. ]

Mine is too.

[ he has to keep reminding himself that this sasuke doesn't know, but at least it takes some of the spotlight off of sasuke, and some of the pressure. and a quiet invitation that he can ask questions, too. ]

[ It's not a surprise to hear another commonality now after Zuko has stated others, really. ]

Who did you fight? [ After another one of those short pauses in which his thumb hovers over the button to disconnect. He's interested but it feels like too much at the same time. ]

[ he almost moves to be brutally honest (my family), but even zuko has the tact to realize that might be too much. and he considers it for a moment, settling back against the wall. ]

The old ruler of my nation.

[ my father. the murderer of his mother, probably. currently without his ability to firebend, in jail for the rest of his life. my sister. insane, unbalanced. chained, because she can't be trusted to be free. ]

He was tearing my world apart, and needed to be stopped. We succeeded.

[ but, before sasuke can ask another question, if he so chooses -- ]

I can tell you more after you're settled on a ship.

[ Sasuke immediately gives images to the words but the people he can envision that were tearing his world apart were his own relatives... and himself. The thought that Zuko apparently already knows that weighs him down and serves to do nothing much more than potentially deepen the dark circles under constantly over-stressed eyes.

He hates being at a disadvantage, and more than that he despises invasions of his private history. ]

Aa. None of it's changing now... It can wait.

It can wait.

[ in quiet agreement -- but sasuke seems to have gotten what was bothering him out of the way, and zuko has given him enough to think about. so he switches subjects. ]

While you're on the Marsiva, I'd take advantage of the food and facilities. You won't have something as nice again for awhile. Explore and stretch. The ships are a lot smaller than the main one.

[ what else, what else ]

You should be shuffled in two or three days, so you have a decent amount of time to look around. Enjoy the privacy while you still can.

[ while zuko loves his friends, the ships are confining. the marsiva is infinitely less claustrophobic. ]

I'm accustomed to being kept in a small place with unbearable people. [ He did live in various cavelike tunnel hideouts with Orochimaru and Kabuto for two and a half years, to say nothing of dealing with Karin and Suigetsu at any point. Juugo, the occasionally homicidal maniac, was the most tolerable one. ]

But I will. Already I feel too lazy just sitting here and doing nothing.

... not that you would understand that. [ l o l look he's developed a really terrible sense of humor. ]

[ well zuko doesn't think most of the people are unbearable, and he's about to open his mouth and say that -- ]

The people here aren't --

[ did uchiha sasuke just tell a joke ]

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