#✧ ⌢ ˎˊ˗ heir of fire ≫ in character .

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@untoldwithin : korra ⸻⸻ starter call , zuko

❝ well , it's not something i think is a strategy in a board game . do you normally have a tendency to act more playful when bored ? ❞ thoughtful reproach is held . hand moving repetitively over beard . expression woefully trained on the pai sho pieces before them both .

❝ perhaps it's doing this , i'm sure there's something else to do . i've found it allows me to think more clearly while busying my hands in my old age . ❞

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@lifebinds : reiko ⸻⸻ starter call , zuko

estranged is even a far off explanation of whatever they were . nerves settle white hot on skin , carving their way down to bone . he sits , stressed & intimidated before her . watching the way she so easily works herbs & minerals into things . questions burn at his mind , but unlike uncle . . . she is quiet , hardly speaks at all . it is unlike dismissive or harsh disappointed silence . it is comforting . the weight of sincerity in time spent . wordlessly preparing things to the prince's preferences . tea made just right . adjusting distance to ensure he's comfortable .

it hurts in a way . familiar ache of what it would've been like to be raised by the two of them rather than his own parents . what it would've been like to have been able to accept unconditional love much sooner in life . perhaps that is why lu ten was so playful , so laid back . but he too had a mother driven away by choices that still haunt her . ever present in the sadness lingering in golden hues . zuko cannot bring himself to speak . grip tightens on fabric against thighs . fearful that if he does , it will be to needlessly apologize .

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ZUKO TAGS

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