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death emizel,
zuko

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Character(s): Zuko and anyone!
Content: Letting off steam
Setting: Castle Garden
Time: Daytime
Notes/Warnings: Honor

Zuko doesn't have the best coping mechanisms. He's prone to anger and frustration and taking them out on others, and he knows that. It's something he's coming to realize he doesn't particularly like about himself, but he hasn't quite figured out what the solution is.

Especially not with his constant frustration with his situation. It's like Ba Sing Se again, knowing he has something important to get back to but feeling like there's just no path to it. And maybe it's too late. Sozin's Comet may have already come and gone, without him playing any part in it. Thinking about that makes him angry, with this place, with the people in it, but most of all with himself.

Anyone who frequents the castle might find him outside near the gardens, practicing his firebending in an effort to work out his frustration and maybe to figure out a plan of action. He doesn't want to leave the castle permanently, not when his Uncle is content to stay, and not when that portal is the only one he knows for certain connects to home. But setting out for other places nearby, talking to what passes for people there... It has to beat sitting on his heels, waiting for some kind of miracle.

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Another day and still a broken gate. If Valvatorez wasn't so set on training the Prinnies here, something might be done already. That seemed to be how things went normally anyway. If Emizel could find him, maybe he could talk some sense to him. There were more important things than Prinnies right now, for all they know there might not even be a Hades anymore given the condition things are still in.

Emizel walked past the garden with little interest until he got a glimpse of the flames, and soon where they were coming from. It had been the same guy he bumped, quite literally, into before.

So he was a fire user, interesting.

Zuko was focused on his firebending forms, but not so focused that he wouldn't notice anyone approaching. He'd had cause enough to keep his guard up at home, and with the reputation these demons had, he definitely hadn't slacked off on that here.

When the demon drew close, he made sure to find his feet and turn in his direction, hands still up-- oh. It was that kid he met when he arrived. He lowered his hands slightly.

"Did you want something?" What are casual conversations.

What are those indeed.

"Huh? What no. Nothing," he said outright. Wasn't even trying to watch anyway, just got...a little distracted.

He let out a sigh and rifled a hand through his hair. He was kind of rude to this kid earlier, maybe he should make some effort not to be. They were in the same boat, after all.

"I guess you haven't found anything either?"

"No, not yet," he didn't sound very thrilled about that either. Would be nice if there was something more to go on than what they knew so far, but then that's where getting some extra help might, well...help.

But, since Emizel was here now, and questions were being asked, he had better say something more than that.

"So..you use fire too?"

Zuko looks a little more interested at that 'too.'

"Yeah. You're a firebender?" He might have guessed with the kid's hood being on fire. Well, not that Zuko really has any idea how he's doing that, but firebending makes more sense than anything else.

"Firebender?" that sure hadn't been a term used before.

"Ah..well I do have other elements besides that."

"...what do you mean, other elements?"

It was true the kid wasn't human, but still. Demons had to have their limits, too, didn't they?

Once again, a little confused too. The concept of multiple elements wasn't supposed to be that rare, was it?

"I mean exactly that," Emizel said. To demonstrate, maybe he do something. Since fire was already mentioned that won't really work, wind was the less destructive of the three. Yeah, let's go with wind then. He cast a little short gust, nothing too major, but enough to make a point.

"What the--?"

Zuko actually took a quick step back from the spell, even if he was nowhere near it. Some combination of surprise and instinct, maybe, since the last time he saw Aang, they were still enemies.

"You're an airbender, too?" And he'd done it so casually, like it was no big deal where he came from.

There's that word again..

"Around here, we usually just call it magic," that...'bender' stuff sounded a little weird. "There's about 4 different kinds of it, but with practice, anyone can learn them. Even humans, probably."

"I happen to know three of them."

Not just two, but three of the four elements? This kid was practically on par with the Avatar, and still talking like it was normal. Sure, he'd been warned that demons were probably stronger than what he was used to, but he didn't expect that to mean mastery over so many of the elements.

"How can you act like it's nothing? People can't just do that where I come from. There's only one person in the entire world who can bend more than one element."

No, not going to stop calling it bending.

"Really? I see it done all the time."

Still not quite getting what the big deal is, sorry Zuko.

"How can you not understand what kind of power you're wielding?"

For some people, like his father, being a bender at all made them dangerous enough.

That may have been Emizel flinching and hiding behind his staff a little from what could've been taken as scolding...Sort of a habit lately.

"It's not that powerful. Well it can be, but it doesn't hold a candle to what my real power can do someday," and he is working on it!

Zuko was a little taken aback by that reaction. He wasn't trying to scold the kid, but he did have a problem with raising his voice. Oops? He let out a breath and tried to continue with more composure.

"What are you talking about?" What real power?

Being yelled at was a little bit normal though. Or at least, it had been. The suddenness of it was what really caught him more than anything.

"I-I am Death, after all..." Hellbringer of Lost Souls, Destroyer of All. That one.

"What?" The concept was a foreign one. How could a person--or a demon--be something as formless as death? Did this have anything to do with why several people had tried to reassure him that he wasn't dead when he first arrived?

He doesn't what who Death was either? Oh for love of..

"I get to send souls where they need to be after they die!"

"...but you're just some kid."

Zuko didn't mean any offense by it. It just didn't seem like someone claiming to be 'Death' should stammer.

"I'm working on it!" He's done it once, alright?

"Are there more than one of you? I'm pretty sure death has been around a lot longer than you've been 'working on it.'" Whatever that means.

Maybe the kid is making all this up? Bending all the elements, helping people reincarnate... After all, all Zuko knows for certain is that he can airbend.

"There's others that do it too. No way that one demon could do everything," but yanno, saying that first doesn't make it sound nearly as cool.

"That... makes a little more sense."

Still not a lot of sense, but more.

"...It's still really that strange?"

"Death is just such a... universal force. And it's not something you expect to meet until, well, the end."

So, yes. Yes, it is.

"...When you put it like that, yeah, that does sound kinda reasonable."

Not many reapers actually encounter humans until the time comes. But still, most of them at least know they exist.

Zuko lets out a sigh. "This place is so bizarre."

You poor thing. Maybe Emizel does feel a little sorry for him.

"It's not that bad," well, his Netherworld is still better. But hey.

"I guess any situation could always be worse."

"Uh... yeah."

"I mean hey, you said you only knew one element right? You probably could learn others while you're here."

That is, assuming magic and this 'bending' thing was even the same thing. Then again, anybody can use magic if they at least tried.

"What?" Zuko looks almost insulted by the suggestion. It's just so contrary to his identity.

"However things work around here, I'm a firebender. That isn't going to change."

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