video;

[flammatory]

Character: Zuko
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Player Name: Vivi, aka a total newbie... H-Hi.

Is this thing working? [Yeah, he sounds frustrated, and the video is of a slightly awkward close up of his face. Beep beep boop as he presses some buttons at random. His expression scrunches up, and suddenly the camera swings out, facing the scenery.]

I hate machines, [he grumbles.] What am I even supposed to be doing here? I have things to be doing at home, important things! I can't stay forever!

Don't people ever go home? Do I really have to get a job?

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vivi, vivi, come to us

[ex_diplomacy861]

Besides sticking around? We don't know. You're not obligated to get a job if you'd rather bum around all day long.

I believe I will, thank you <3 I'm apping, anyway!

[flammatory]

I'm not the bumming around type. I need something to take my mind off the fact that there's water everywhere.

Doesn't it get unsettling, living like this?

<3

[ex_diplomacy861]

Unsettling or not, you'll have to grow accustomed to it. Some of us have been here for years.

[flammatory]

Years?! [Practically yelping now.] And you just sit there and take it? Hasn't anyone been doing anything to get out of here?

[ex_diplomacy861]

I'm pretty sure there has. But as you can plainly see, no visible results have been obtained. There isn't much we can hope to do here as things are.

[flammatory]

How can you be so calm about this? I can't believe you'd just give up like that!

[ex_diplomacy861]

. . . Let me ask you, do you know the difference between waiting and giving up?

[flammatory]

... Yes.

But I'm terrible at waiting!

[ex_diplomacy861]

Many people are. You'll just have to learn to put up with it.

[flammatory]

I can't sit here and learn to put up with it! My entire country is waiting for me to get back. I can't abandon my duties and just... accept that this is the way things are!

[ex_fintastic398]

You're supposed to be having fun. I wouldn't worry too much about home, what happens here doesn't seem to change what happens there!

[flammatory]

[scornfully,] I don't have fun.

What do you mean, it doesn't change what happens there? What are you talking about?

[ex_fintastic398]

Well I mean, when I first got here, I was in the past compared to all my friends. You think they would have noticed if I went missing for a month, right?

[flammatory]

[He thinks about this...] Yeah, probably.

So, what, everyone's from different-- no, I don't even know how to say this. Different points in time, is that it? And while we're here it's like we're... off in the spirit world, or something?

[ex_fintastic398]

I don't know about spirit worlds, but it sounds like you've got the general idea down.

1/3

[flammatory]

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[flammatory]

--But this is crazy! Stuff like this doesn't actually happen! I'm not Aang!

3/3

[flammatory]

No, you know what, nevermind. Just tell me who you are. I at least want to know who I'm talking to.

[ex_fintastic398]

I'm Feferi! Nice to meet you!

[flammatory]

Zuko. ... Nice to meet you.

What do you do around here, anyway?

[limitless_land]

Yes, it's working... and you don't have to- but it beats doing nothing.

[He's silent for a moment, then smirks a bit.] They go home all the time. But, it doesn't seem to be by choice.

[flammatory]

It's a lot better than doing nothing. I don't waste time.

[Augh, smirking at him. Zuko just scowls more and folds his arms.] And they come back sometimes, too, right? I heard about that. What is with this place, does the coral get lonely?

[limitless_land]

Neither do I. [His smirks are his version of smiling; he never was as good at diffusing tension as his friends. Can't blame him for at least trying though, right?]

I know I have. Three times. [He shakes his head.] I don't know about "lonely," but...

[flammatory]

[Zuko just doesn't like people to start with. It's really not personal...]

You must be popular, [he says sarcastically.] Three is just excessive. --But what? What are you not saying?

[limitless_land]

[there there, Zuko. Maybe one day the derp will rub off.]

Guess so. [Ooh, sarcasm. Never in short supply, it seems.] ...Not everything in this world is as it seems.

[flammatory]

[Oh the derp has rubbed off on him a bit... we're just not on the right subject. xD]

You're talking like my uncle. [But he sighs, seemingly less angry about that, and lets some of his frustration go so he can have a calmer conversation.] If you have some message that you're trying to get across to me, could you just tell me it? I'm really awful at the interpreting wise sayings game.