/takes the huntress out back and buries it (jan mingle pt. II)

[scrubscrub]

Who: Anyone on the SS Huntress! Crew and visitors.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Huntress
When: More of January! We got three new crew mates and it will be messy.

IT'S ANOTHER MINGLE FOR OUR EVER-EXPANDING SHIP.

Also, we need an update on how well Koala is doing at pinball.

God, help this ship.

Comments

1/2 you asked for this shitstorm tldr

[honorbends]

[ zuko knows, logically, that the concepts of chakra and chi are pretty similiar in nature, but different in practice. still, that sounds the same as his world. your inner fire, what drives you, what motivates you. what causes you to get up every morning, what causes you to want to get up the next morning -- all of those things play a role in your ability to create, and your ability to destroy.

zuko knows, through great difficulty and struggle, how difficult it is to maintain that level of peace. he had done well, when he was younger, albeit not as well as his sister, but he had done well. and then his mother left, and his father stripped him of his birthright, and he had become so consumed by self-loathing and hatred and anger that it had affected his inner being. there was no peace, there was only conflict, and hatred. zuko only wanted to get up every morning to try and restore his honor, and if he hadn't had that stupid pointless quest to hang onto, he probably wouldn't have bothered getting up at all.

but then he had decided that that was enough. and he changed his path in life -- after royally screwing it up, potentially beyond repair, but he decided enough. and once he had let out the poison in his life, his firebending disappeared. but it had come back, through hard work. discipline. control. faith, in himself and in the avatar, that their world would be just fine after all. and now, past the war, zuko is stronger than ever.

but to hear a statement as simple as 'your chakra is a good color' in the context it was meant is such a crushing relief that he almost doesn't really know how to respond. ]