done with having dreams

[resistivity]

Who: the avatar cast! (+ custom starters for folks)
Where: all over!
When: catch-all october log
Rating shouldn't be much!
What: the atlas and loks have a nice dinner together, and a few custom starters. if you want to toss a starter my way please do! or if you'd like me to write one for you just drop me a PM! c: we don't need pre-existing cr, just happy to oblige! also if anyone wants super awkward dates...

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[cuedoves]

[ mako so edgy........ but for real, zuko's brow furrows. while he's still wrapping his head around the idea of the future, some idealistic part of him is disappointed at the idea that people would still have to grow up without a real home. change doesn't happen overnight, but. ]

I see.

[ he frowns, but doesn't make any further comment. he has a feeling mako wouldn't want sympathy. it's probably a fact he's long reconciled with, like where zuko is getting to be with his own complicated past. ]

I've only redirected it. Uncle tried to teach me, but I was..... [ poignant pause here. iroh is still a sore spot; whenever he thinks of his uncle zuko always ends up reimagining himself betraying him. will he ever get a chance to apologize for what he did? etc, etc, monologue about how he let uncle down. ] I wasn't ready.

[ understatement. ]

[resistivity]

( he could mention iroh. that, after everything, he lived a good, long life. he saw zuko's daughter born and grow. and then he accepted death, and entered the spirit world and guided korra the same way he'd offered that guidance to aang and zuko. he could say all that, but. he doesn't yet know zuko well enough to know how he'd take it, so instead he simply looks down at his hands. even healed by allura, the left is still mottled with fractal scars. it's messy and ugly but he's not self conscious about it. like so many other things, it's just something he survived. )

Do you think you're ready now?

[cuedoves]

[ if he mentions iroh he's totally getting a monologue. he hasn't monologued in a while, he has material now. ]

[ but is he ready? he doesn't know. it always blew up in his face... like everything else in his life, but he can recognize now what iroh had been saying --- that it was his inner turmoil, his shame, that held him back. his conflicting feelings. sure, he still has shame now -- for different reasons --- but he's come a long way. still, the only answer he can give is: ]

I don't know.

[ would mako teach him? zuko wouldn't be opposed to that, even if it isn't iroh. mako's plenty skilled and talented, as he's just proven. honestly, it's beyond impressive that he even knows how -- only a select bunch of firebenders can produce lightning. and zuko isn't even among those numbers. ]

But I'd be willing to give it a shot. [ a beat. ] You know... if you want to show me.

[ he sort of asked??? ]