AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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[cuedoves]

Trust me, you don't want that.

[ but the overconfidence is kind of cute. he almost laughs, before going back to serious exposition mode ]

... Yeah. My world is at war, and my family's the one who started it. My great grandpa, but my dad's not any better. There's a comet going around that's going to enhance every firebender's power by a hundredfold... and he was going to use it to literally burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground.

[ he was also great at politics ]

[retellers]

He was going to what?!

[ thank god zuko is expositioning to an npc that would think thats horrible ]

A whole kingdom? How many people live there? That's awful. What are they even fighting for?

[cuedoves]

Yeah, it's really messed up.

[ damn who are the sociopaths on the npc team that would be chill with this???? ]

Growing up, I was taught that it was to share our greatness with the rest of the world. It took me years to realize just how big of a lie that was. My dad and sister.... they just want power. And they don't care what they have to do to get it.

[retellers]

[ wolf voice: yea that seems like a normal war crime ]

So they're just trying to take it all over? But you're fighting them now? You switched sides?

[ they've turned to look at zuko by now, apparently very intent on learning more about his shitty family ]

[cuedoves]

[ that's not the same thing as being chill and wolf would spend an entire chapter trying to fight it ok ]

Basically, yeah. The war's been going on for a hundred years, and he just wanted to end it in the cruelest way possible.

[ dramatic nod. ]

Yeah. I've got a complicated past, but.... I'm good now. Or at least, I try to be. And I just couldn't stand by and let that happen.

[retellers]

A hundred years ... They've been trying to conquer everything for that long? That means people are fighting back. That's good.

[ okay there's a pause and they smile a little at the complicated past line. dramatic. ]

Just like you can't stand by and let bad things happen here, right?

[cuedoves]

Yeah. Plus, uh, there's the Avatar. Master of all four elements. Essential to bringing peace and all that. It's his destiny to defeat the fatherlord. I'm just helping him do that.

[ he's a dramatic bitch ]

... Yeah. But it's harder to know what to do about it here.

[retellers]

[ uh ]

Did you just say the fatherlord?

[cuedoves]

I said the firelord.

[ no he didn't ]

[retellers]

Noooo, you totally said "fatherlord".

[cuedoves]

No I didn't. Clean out your ears.

[ yes he did.... ]

[retellers]

[ :T ]

Yes, you did. You clean out your ears!

[cuedoves]

[ i'm glad they got so derailed by this ]

My ears are fine! You're the one in a hood!

[retellers]

What does that even mean??? It's not soundproof!

[ theyre so smart ]

[cuedoves]

[ he's gonna reach over and try to tug the hood down over their face ]

[retellers]

[ they teleport behind him and try to shove his shirt over his head ]

[cuedoves]

[ he's got pretty good reflexes, so he whirls around and tries to tackle them!!!! ]

[retellers]

[ It works!

THEY'RE ON TOP OF THE CROW'S NEST SO THEY'RE IDIOTS AND GO FLYING DOWN while holding onto zuko ]

Gah--

[ they teleport them both safely to the ship ]

Watch it!!

[cuedoves]

[ this idiot was already trying to flip them around in the air so he'd take the brunt of the fall and cushion swan ]

... I didn't mean to do that.

[retellers]

You're so lucky I didn't dump you in the ocean. [ they brush their cloak off ]

[cuedoves]

Yeah, yeah. Sorry.

[retellers]

[ ... tugs his shirt over his head again ]

[cuedoves]

[ he allows it but hes going to try to pull their hood down over their mask again ]

[ but like in a very slow and easy to dodge way ]

[retellers]

[ they let him but stick out their tongue maturely ]

You still said fatherlord.

[cuedoves]

No, I didn't.

[ yes he did!! ]

.... But I guess it's kind of right. He's the fire lord, my dad, and... right now? My greatest enemy. So...

[ awkward ]