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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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I'm not concerned with you breaking my bones.

[ though if sasuke breaks his arm zuko is going to be furious you piece of shit ]

I'll be fine. Thanks for your overwhelming concern.

[ Well he can literally point back to this convo and say you asked for it. ]

Don't worry, I won't offer twice. I'll stop when you're down or when you ask me to, then, and for nothing else.

Or when you're unconscious.

[ zuko doubts either of these things are going to happen but if sasuke is going to be a dick about it then zuko is going to return the favor ]

You're only raising my expectations of you every time you speak. I'll be a very harsh judge just for that alone.

[ sigh sasuke ]

I'm sure.

[ zuko isn't going to agree to a spare until he's fully settled anyway so there ]

[ He's been effectively homeless for a long time now; he can settle fast. ]

So hand-to-hand combat and firebending. You must be at a natural disadvantage against someone who uses water.

Not necessarily.

[ read: katara kicks his ass every single time but she's also super terrifying okay ]

I can turn water into steam.

[ -- sometimes. if he's lucky. and if katara doesn't just freeze him into oblivion and dump him in an ocean. ]

Being able to possibly overcome it doesn't mean that it isn't still extra work.

Fire has a natural advantage over wind in my world, for example. [ Since it does after all have that bad habit of making fire much stronger. ]

I wouldn't know whether or not wind is weak in mine.

[ only aang can control air, and aang has beaten zuko with more than just an elemental advantage. the little bastard is fast as hell. ]

But waterbenders can control all liquid around them, so it depends on where they are.

[ -- and if they can bloodbend.

like katara.

fml. ]

Aa, you said the others couldn't generate their elements without help. [ What a strange thought, though water shouldn't be overly difficult to find.

His mind immediately goes to the human body, too, which says something about him. ]

Did you ever try to learn katon techniques? [ Even just out of curiosity. Sure, it'd be pointless, but it'd be an interesting experiment. ]

Yeah.

[ pause ]

My way is easier.

[ it's far less work and also far less intuitive. ]

[ Here he actually snorts. ]

Easier isn't always better. But sure, it's what you know naturally.

And other general shinobi techniques too, you've tried those?

Somewhat, but I don't like your style of fighting.

[ it doesn't feel smooth to him, or as well suited to his firebending. his style of attack is aggressive, fast, controlled, but also fluid. ]

Firebending doesn't work as well with your techniques. It's too choppy, and I don't need to go through that much effort in order to control fire.

[ aka u suck bro ]

[ . . . repulsed immediately. ]

That's why I said general techniques. If you don't think clones or replacements or disguises are useful then you must be very confident.

[ oh, that. ]

I've never tried to make clones.

[ the world does not need more than one zuko. but, he pauses, and then continues. ]

I've never had to.

[ zuko is adept tyvm ]

How fortunate for you.

Did you say you had fought me before? [ He's trying to decide just how offended he should be. ]

Yeah. A lot.

[ not, like. actual fighting.

bro fighting.

it's a thing for shounens. ]

[ Does that mean we only broke each other's fingers; I don't understand. ]

And you're still content to believe you'll win.

[ sasuke why would he volunteer if you kicked his ass last time you moron ]

It's almost like you don't want to believe that you lost.

[ -- truth be told, sasuke did lose the first time. mostly because he hadn't expected zuko to have such control over fire, and zuko just sent everything right back at him. but zuko lost the second time, because

um

his firebending kinda went away. because he grew feelings.

sasuke did have more wins in the end, but zuko was hardly a pushover, that is the point, sIR. ]

[ Because if someone kicks Sasuke's ass the first thing he wants to do is challenge them again and keep trying. ]

I don't. [ bluntly ]

Why would I? I'm much stronger than I was before the war began, and your boasts are just making me more ready to silence them.

[ jfc hot mess express ]

Sasuke.

[ as patiently as possible ]

It's a friendly spar.

[ not life or death bro chill out ]

[ He literally just finished fighting his best friend nearly to the death approximately ten minutes after ending a war; he's in hyper drive.

B r e a t h e, Sasuke. ]

... my fighting instinct is hard to suppress.

[ zuko wants to say his version of 'no shit sherlock' but. he'll be nice.

sasuke is gonna fucking eye-scan him anyway he may as well get it over with. ]

... you weren't expecting my level of control over fire, and decided to try and show off. It backfired.

[ literally. and explaining this is just another reminder that this isn't his version of sasuke, but zuko carefully ignores that. this is helpful, for the time being. ]

We were about even, after that.

[ Interesting. He almost thinks to tell Zuko not to give him the advantage of information, but... Zuko has that advantage too, doesn't he? Maybe this is just making it more even. He can respect that. ]

Your control of that kind of fire seems to be better than mine. [ There, he's admitted it. ] The version of me that you knew... at what point in his life was he taken to the world you were in?

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