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[banishment]

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[ unbelievable. of course weiss would sign him up for this, and of course he'd get stuck having to get a gift for his girlfriend's could've been love interest of all people. zuko very much didn't want to do this, but he promised weiss he would play along and at least try to be festive. the latter likely wasn't happening, but he could at the very least (begrudgingly) participate in the secret santa she went out of her way to organize, even if that meant getting a gift for neptune vasilias.

which was where a certain pink loving circus freak contortionist came in. ]

I need a favor.

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Zuko wasn't going to have much of a direct hand in selecting Neptune's gift, but he was in the selection of others. Which was why he could be found window shipping with Weiss's Charizard in tow, walking through the Genessian mall as if doing so with a dragon-like Pokémon at your side was the norm. And when he paused to look at something in a window display, Char would peer over Zuko's head to see what he was looking at, huffing out a puff of hot air through his nose and fogging up the glass.

"Too close, back up," he told him, elbowing the beast until he stepped back with an unhappy rumble. "You're going to leave nose prints on the glass."

Comments

[banishment]

[ charm quest? was that how weiss obtained him? ]

Uh, no. He's my girlfriend's, technically. Weiss Schnee?

[dreamingartist]

Oh! No, I don't think I've ever met her.

[banishment]

[ weiss was pretty well established here, but it was a little refreshing to hear that there were still those who didn't know who she was. ]

I take it you have a Pokémon, too? [ zuko nods towards the ball. ]

[dreamingartist]

Yes! Sneako, my Sceptile! He's pretty, well, sneaky and thinks he's tough but he can be really nice, too!

[banishment]

I don't know what a Sceptile is.

[ he was only familiar with charizard because he was essentially a dragon, and dragons were something zuko had dealt with before. not that anyone outside of weiss knew that he had relearned how to firebend from the dragons themselves. ]

[dreamingartist]

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<small[Calls Sneako out of his ball!]</small>

This is a Sceptile! Sneako, this is...er, sorry, I don't think I got your name.

[banishment]

[ jeb's sceptile looks like some sort of horned lizard to zuko. ]

Zuko. It's Zuko.

[dreamingartist]

I'm Jeb. It's nice to meet you! [Sneako kinda gives Zuko a once-over, not sure he trusts anything or anyone involving fire...]