AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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[cuedoves]

Where does that kind of thing come from? Do you know?

[retellers]

[ they tap their chin ]

I think that there are more things that people aren't sharing that the general population don't know about.

[cuedoves]

Yeah. [ he figured ] I get why.

... I just want to know those things. [ sulkily!!! ]

[retellers]

Oh my god, you big baby.

[ sulky.... ]

There's not really much I can say because of the whole can't out people rule. I just get to overhear a lot of interesting conversations.

[cuedoves]

I'm not a baby! If you were in my shoes, you'd want to hear, too!

[ he is definitely a baby ]

What about the... powers or items or whatevers? Is it a bonus for killing people?

[retellers]

What? Oh, no. That's just from getting nova. The other teams have been getting them for a while now, but since we suck, we didn't get shit until now.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, I know. I'm trying. [ he's trying!!!! ]

Is it something you guys can give them?

[retellers]

What do you mean?

[cuedoves]

Special powers or items...?

[ he doesn't know where else they'd come from ]

[retellers]

Mm... it's more like the Realm is rewarding people for certain things. Like how people got items from their little adventures? We're not physically handing anything out.

[cuedoves]

So, murder, adventures in memory clusters.... what else is being rewarded?

[ something else occurs to him ]

-- Hey, did you get a memory back?

[retellers]

[ they shrug at the first question!!

but at the second there's a slow nod. ]

Yeah, I did.

[cuedoves]

... At least something good came out of all of this.

What'd you remember?

[ wow zuko you can't just ask an amnesiac what they remembered ]

[retellers]

[ they just give him a long look. ]

Getting shot and dying.

[cuedoves]

... Seriously?

[ that's rough buddy ]

[retellers]

Mmhm.

[ they slide off the counter. ]

Pretty fucked up.

[cuedoves]

[ he nods but he's pg rated so he can't say fuck. ]

[ what he does say instead, is: ]

... I'm sorry.

[retellers]

[ that makes them pause. ]

Well, you know what they say--the hot ones are the first to go.

[ who says that ]

[cuedoves]

I've never heard anyone say that.

[ he doesn't even know what tiger looks like ]

Hot or not, it's really screwed up.

[retellers]

It's definitely hot.

[ tiger wants that to be clear.

... ]

But there's no point in moping about it.

[cuedoves]

I don't know what you look like.

[ but he believes them?? ]

I don't know. I'd be pretty mad if I were you. I'd want to smash things.

[retellers]

That's your fault.

[ anyway ]

Well, presumably whoever shot me isn't here, so who am I going to get mad at?

[cuedoves]

Why is my fault? You guys are the ones who don't want to take your masks off!

[ gosh. ]

I don't know, just mad? At the situation? [ he does that a lot. ]

[retellers]

Think about it.

[ think about what. ANYWAY. ]

Oh, I am a very petty person. But if I'm going to cry about my trauma that I just discovered, I'll do it on my own.

[cuedoves]

Think about what?

[ .... ]

You don't have to be petty to get mad at that. And.... you don't have to deal with it alone. I'm.. bad at dealing with crying, but good at setting things on fire and breaking things. If you... want to do that.

[ he is so awkward ]