Never getting his honor restored

[honorthenreason]

Don't act like putting me anywhere is getting me out of that prison of a city. You wouldn't be doing me any favors; I'd just end up in a different city that's trying to squeeze the last drop of happiness out of me.

It doesn't matter where you put me, anyway—I won't be able to go home either way.

Comments

[gainedacoupon]

Isn't that a positive look on things, Lee.

[honorthenreason]

What's there to be positive about?

[gainedacoupon]

Well, you get to come out and stretch out your legs! Plus you might get placed somewhere nice.

[tinfoil_angel]

I'm going to tell you now, you have to make your own happiness.

[honorthenreason]

I'm leaping for joy.

[honorthenreason]

I've tried. Believe me, it doesn't work.

[gainedacoupon]

I can tell! You're practically bouncing on your feet.

[tinfoil_angel]

You have to take joy in the simple things and no matter how much you may think you don't need it, rely on your friends.

[honorthenreason]

What are you so happy about, anyway? If I go somewhere, what are you going to do?

[gainedacoupon]

What do you mean by that?

[honorthenreason]

I don't exactly have anyone I could call a friend.

And how is it you older people are always able to find "joy" in simple things? It doesn't work that way for people my age. My brain isn't wired to think "Hey, I should enjoy this cup of tea because I might not wake up tomorrow!"

[honorthenreason]

I guess you'd just get tea from my uncle.

[gainedacoupon]

How do you know I won't just go with you?

[tinfoil_angel]

I'm not that old. I'm in my twenties.

And by simple things I mean a hobby. I like gardening, some of my friends prefer building machines.

Also, you're saying you don't have a friend but what about that girl talking to you?

[honorthenreason]

Why would you go with me? You actually have a family in Ba Sing Se.

[ And, he assumes, friends. ]

You can't just leave all that happiness behind.

[gainedacoupon]

Well I wouldn't really have a choice if my mun wanted me to go, but it wouldn't be so lonely since I'd know someone there. Wherever there is.

[honorthenreason]

[ To him, that's olllld. Though he -is- a little younger than he thought. ]

I'm not someone who does well with hobbies. At least, I've never found anything that seems... fun.

[ That girl? That girl doesn't even know his real name. Everything she knows about him is a lie. He can't have a friendship based on lies. ]

She's not my friend. And she's not my girlfriend either. She's just a regular customer at the tea shop I work at.

[honorthenreason]

Where would she even send you?

[gainedacoupon]

Not really sure, to be honest. I wonder if I even have enough of this canon stuff they talk about to be played anywhere.

[tinfoil_angel]

Then you need to look around a little, you have to like something.

[Granted some of his friends had...interesting hobbies.]

She might not know that your name is Zuko and that your father is the fire lord but do you hide your personality from her? Everything else is superfluous in most cases.

[Really can't keep secrets from a mind-reader Zuko, and he isn't going to tip-toe around the issue.]

[honorthenreason]

If you don't, I guess you're not going anywhere.

[honorthenreason]

How did you—how did you find out?! Who told you?!

[ He doesn't even stop to think that maybe he shouldn't say anything at all. Not that it would have helped. That was too accurate of a guess to be random. ]

[tinfoil_angel]

Your mind is, that is to say I can read you like an open book. Consider it mind-bending if you must.

[honorthenreason]

Great. I guess I should start getting used to the idea of an actual prison cell instead of a city that mimics one.

[ He doesn't buy it as actual mind reading. More like Azula's level of people person-ing. And it's not like he's -that- hard to read, anyway. He just doesn't know actual mind readers exist. ]

If you know who my father is, then I'm sure you'd be happy to collect the reward he has on my head.

[gainedacoupon]

I'm sure my mun will find a way somehow. Someone needs to show you some positivity.