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Between all of the death, destruction, politics, competitions, and general lack of anything resembling a decent day of relaxation, I've decided that I'm going to host a party. Not a big one, not for any particular occasion, but it's just going to be a bunch of people coming together to have a good time, recover, and if any of you have anything you would like to add that falls under the category of relaxing and letting go of some stress, let me know so we can plan it out appropriately. A live band would be especially desired.
[ A paper copy of the invitations will be delivered to everyone's mailbox in a fashion that breaks no windows whatsoever and is probably quite refreshing. On the back of the paper copy are directions to the block between Oak & 8th and Nettle & 8th. ]
Locked to Team RWBY, JNPR, and Sun
As you may have noticed, there are currently two candidates for City Guardian. I wouldn't exactly endorse either of them, but one of them I do want to make sure each of you know something about. If it ever comes to fighting against her, and I'm not saying it will but if it does, don't use anything based in fire or electricity unless you want her to win.
I don't know that it'll come to that and don't tell her I said anything either. Professor Ozpin said not to judge either of them based on their pasts, so I'm not, but I'm just saying! If one of them tries to burn down the city, I'd rather we at least have how not to get killed straight away.
Also, I need to speak to each of you about your roles in my party. [ Yes, she is entirely volunteering anyone in her team to help with this. ]
[ A paper copy of the invitations will be delivered to everyone's mailbox in a fashion that breaks no windows whatsoever and is probably quite refreshing. On the back of the paper copy are directions to the block between Oak & 8th and Nettle & 8th. ]
Locked to Team RWBY, JNPR, and Sun
As you may have noticed, there are currently two candidates for City Guardian. I wouldn't exactly endorse either of them, but one of them I do want to make sure each of you know something about. If it ever comes to fighting against her, and I'm not saying it will but if it does, don't use anything based in fire or electricity unless you want her to win.
I don't know that it'll come to that and don't tell her I said anything either. Professor Ozpin said not to judge either of them based on their pasts, so I'm not, but I'm just saying! If one of them tries to burn down the city, I'd rather we at least have how not to get killed straight away.
Also, I need to speak to each of you about your roles in my party. [ Yes, she is entirely volunteering anyone in her team to help with this. ]
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Kind of. I learned how to bend the right way, the original way, from the dragons. It involves tapping into your chi more than we're taught to, drawing upon our own life energy to fuel our bending rather than relying solely on the sun or letting our anger and hatred enhance its power. Azula doesn't bend like I do. [ his uncle does, though. he knew that now. the dragon of the west who didn't take out the last dragon, but was instead protecting them like zuko and aang were now. ] Keep what I said about the sun in mind if you ever need to face her. You'll stand a better chance of walking away from the encounter alive if you corner her at night.
[ he almost laughed at her last comment. that sounded an awful lot like his experience in trying to live in the earth kingdom without his uncle's assistance. no adults, no plan, no idea of what he was even doing or where he was going. ]
Sounds like you managed alright, though. Came up with a plan to take down that Nevermore, even if that meant sacrificing part of a forest. [ never letting that go. going to tease her with it forever as long as she lets him get away with it. ]
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[ It's been itching at her, but she finally decided to ask. ] I'm not a faunus, so my night vision isn't the best either.
The Nevermore was completely different from the forest! Anyway, that was Ruby's plan. It's probably one of the reasons Professor Ozpin chose her to be our leader. [ Which she isn't bitter about anymore. She understands that she needs to learn how to be on a team better. How not to be in charge all the time. Even if she thinks she was more qualified, there's a lot to be learned from not getting what she wanted. ]
And if you ever tell anyone about the forest, especially someone outside of Team RWBY, I'm not talking to you for an entire month.
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[ zuko thought it was more of an honor that he got to meet two of them and learn from them than it was to be able to say he slayed one. ]
I'm sure the forest feels differently. [ he laughed in the face of her threat. ] Me? [ he tried to look innocent. ] Who am I going to tell, Weiss? You have more dirt on me than the sages could ever hope to dig up. My sister would kill me in my sleep if she knew half of what I've told you.
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[ Has Weiss looked this surprised and a little flattered yet? Because she does now. And she is actually going to keep this a secret if Zuko is sworn to secrecy about it and still told her. Especially since it sounds like it's probably dangerous information. ]
We lured the Nevermore to a bunch of ruins and a cliff to kill it anyway, the forest was not particularly affected by anything involving the Nevermore! [ Weiss rolls her eyes. ] I don't know! I don't actually even know who you know here very well besides Azula. [ For all she knows, he's friends with Adam. If Adam has friends. ] I'm not going to go tell your sister what I know, so that's not much leverage.
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[ zuko shoved his hands into his pockets and shrugged. ] I trust you, and if an ancient Sun Warrior wants to spear me in the head for that, well... [ another shrug. ]
I've made a few friends, I suppose you could say. But none of them know as much about me as you do. [ usagi knew a few things, but weiss knew practically everything. ]
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except maybe like. a couple of people. but not in that way.But Zuko is especially on that list of people she doesn't want dying. ]No one I know? Because if it's no one I know then I definitely don't have anything to worry about you telling anyone. --Oh, if you know or meet a man named Adam, you definitely need to not even bring me up. For your sake.
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Adam? Who's Adam?
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He's a current member of a terrorist group that's been at war with my family since I can remember. Kidnapping, torture, killing, stealing. Any member of the Schnee family or Schnee Company has had a target painted on our backs since I was a young child. He's here in Genessia, but he's been.. he's alone and I'm the only Schnee here, so he's been behaving. At least enough that I was told not to make a big deal out of it.
[ She hates that idea, honestly, but she's not going to start a war and get everyone hurt if Adam doesn't make the first move. ]
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[ zuko can promise he'll stay away, but he can't guarantee the blue spirit will. he's dead set on finding a suitable mask, on taking up that mantle again since he's having to walk on eggshells due to his sister's presence. it'll give him more wiggle room, a means of doing things he can't do as azula's dutiful brother — and, ironically, something for azula to focus on that isn't "him" per say. ]
So, we both have wanted posters. [ zuko had two, technically. not that anyone outside of aang and his uncle (well, okay, and appa) knew that the blue spirit poster was his, too. ] I'll make sure not to bring you up.
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Wanted Posters? No, just a bunch of garbage that hunts my family because of some misinformed and stupid belief-- [ She cuts herself off, amending it just slightly. ] Hopefully unfounded belief about what my family's company does. Regardless of whether it's true or not, all they accomplished was to make me think that their entire species was scum until recently.
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Well, I have a wanted poster. And a bounty on my head. Sure you're not interested in collecting on that? [ he's teasing. azula wouldn't pay her and she didn't even have access to the vault deep within the dragonbone catacombs while they were stuck here. if they did, he wouldn't be working at a tea shop. ]
But, you changed your mind about that, right? Their species. Surely their actions don't reflect on the whole species?
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[ She's honestly certain that he has to be joking. ] How can you simultaneously be a prince who everyone thinks hasn't defected to the other side and be on a wanted poster?
[ She nods. ] They don't. I actually have two friends who are faunus now- though Blake wants to keep it a secret, so for all intents and purposes, it's just Sun. It's the current members of the White Fang and anyone who sides with them that deserve to be locked away in a prison without a key for the rest of their natural born lives.
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Azula and I are from different times. She's from a few weeks before I left. And when I did, I didn't exactly go quietly. I confronted my father. [ he rushes through the tale, leaving out how he called his father out child abuse and learned the truth about what his mother did the night she left. ] He tried to kill me, probably to spin my death into some piece of war propaganda, but I bent his lightning back at him. I hit him with it. I not only defied the Fire Lord, I struck him. Prince of the blood or not, I'm a traitor.
[ but he shrugs, as if he doesn't think much of it. because he doesn't. he felt confident in his choices for the first time in years. if he had the chance to do things differently, he wouldn't. maybe he'd go back to ba sing se and side with katara and aang instead of azula, but he still would've told ozai he was cruel and wrong. ]
I won't tell anyone. About your friend, Blake. Her secret's safe with me.
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I'm sorry.
[ No matter what sort of things that he did, the Fire Lord was still his father. Your own father trying to kill you.. Weiss had been through a lot in her childhood, and not all of it was pleasant. A lot of the unpleasantness usually happened when her father came home after the White Fang did something, and the brunt of it.. tended to end up on her shoulders. That much hurt. She couldn't imagine him trying to kill her, though. She couldn't imagine how much that would break someone's heart to have their own blood be the one to try to end them. Or to have to be the one to put a stop to it. ]
No matter what he did and still does, he's still your father. I'm sorry that happened.
[ She nods. Why did the mood keep diving the more they talked about themselves? Everything was so.. complicated. ]
Thanks. The only people who know are you and my friends, probably Professor Ozpin, and some... individuals from her past. [ It was still hard to call any member of the White Fang a person, honestly. It was hard to recognize people who could do that as people. ]
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but it was over, whatever it was. he was sorry, but he was also selfishly relieved that he didn't have to figure out what it was or where he stood on top of sorting through the mess of who he was and what he wanted out of life. what he'd even do with his life if he managed to live through the end of the war. ]
No, he's not. [ if she thought he spoke passionately about firebending, the way he's speaking now surpasses that. ] I have a father. Someone who's been more of a father to me than Fire Lord Ozai could ever hope to be, and his name is Iroh. My uncle. The rightful heir to the throne. The man who took me in after Ozai burned my face, who accompanied me on a fruitless quest for the Avatar, who never once lied to me, who still treated me like I was worth something when nobody wanted me. [ not even his own mother, who left him at the palace while she fled for her life. couldn't she have foreseen the kind of life he'd be forced to live without her there to protect him?
she was alive. she's been alive all this time and not once did she come for him. not even after ozai disfigured him and kicked him out of the country.
...he was not going to cry. he wasn't. that was just his hair getting in his good eye. all the same, he looks away so he can properly scrub at that eye with the butt of his palm. zuko looks back to her once he's recollected himself. ]
Professor Ozpin? Is that one of your teachers?
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Then again, she didn't really have anyone until she went to Beacon, so there were differences. More than she'd thought there was before. So she didn't really understand. There were a lot of things that they had connected on, but this wasn't one of them. Weiss was still glad that he had someone though. That was important. Honestly, she was fairly certain that had to be what had kept him connected with the possibility of being a good person despite his past. ]
Then you're lucky you have someone still.
[ Honestly, she didn't really know what to do here, especially not when it was really obvious that he was wiping his eyes. Weiss wasn't the most.. comforting of person. Nicknames like Snow Angel and Ice Queen didn't pop up because she was a warm person. ]
He's our headmaster.
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Oh. Is he here?
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[ Your sister and some kind of weird animal. ]
He said no.
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[ it wasn't an insult towards the headmaster. azula's intimidating. he wouldn't blame anyone if they didn't want to go up against her, especially now that they've seen what she can do. ]
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[ Which given what she knows about at least one of the members of Fairy Tail, she isn't sure how much she doubts. ]
I still don't know how I feel about that, but I can't make him run and I'm not experienced enough to do something like that myself.
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[ he didn't have a choice in the matter if he was going to keep up his rouse. he would vote for his sister. and he doesn't care much for what he's seen of mewtwo, his ghastly animal-like appearance aside. ]
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[ Not because she really had that much against Mewtwo that was substantial or because she liked Azula, though. ]
Frankly, I don't like the idea of having someone who I learned after research apparently used to strongly dislike humans and decided that instead of helping people in need, announcing his campaign was a good idea. Azula might be completely unstable, but she has someone I trust near her to keep her from being an absolute terror.
[ It wasn't like it was hard to look up past posts, even if she did hear a bit about him from Ozpin. Then again, not being human or at least faunus gave her an excuse not to trust him too. ]
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