Text; un: Smoking Bomb

[bakudan_bambino]

Aurora and Zuko are no longer here in Avalon.

[Gokudera will not be attending his classes, showing up to work, or training at the dojo for several days. He just lost his boyfriend and girlfriend and he’s tired from fighting wraiths. Mostly, he’s just being an angsty teenager.

Feel free to blow up his IC inbox. Messages on this post will likely get delayed responses.]

Comments

[bakudan_bambino]

[Gokudera isn’t so dead-set on trying to quit anymore. He’s not stressed enough to need to be chain-smoking alone in his apartment, but the occasional cigarette feels familiar and oddly… comforting.]

I know that Aurora didn’t want to leave, so I can’t be mad at her. But… Zuko has a whole kingdom to get back to… He didn’t want anyone here to know his standing there, or for me to talk too much about him. I think while he was here, he just wanted to lay low.

And all of his friends left him at one point. But right around the same time one of them showed up, he was gone. Right after that invasion… which I’m not grateful for. [People got hurt, and he’s not happy about that. Not happy that they were targeted because some idiot tried to resurrect/wake-up/exhumate someone.]

But it was a good distraction for a minute…

[mayoninofukucho]

Battles are always a good distraction.

[A distraction and an opportunity to channel sadness, grief, and anger into violence. Totally healthy!]

So you really landed yourself an actual prince! That's pretty amazing.

[In Hijikata's opinion it speaks well of Zuko that he kept a low profile on Avalon, even if it was only for practical reasons - that shows that he thought it through smartly, and in either case he clearly isn't the pompous kind of royalty.]

Aurora didn't want to go? Is she from an unpleasant world?

[He hopes not, but if it's something weighing on Gokudera's mind he can at least share his worries.]

[bakudan_bambino]

[Except for the fact that he’s been spending over a year getting the hang of his magic and utilizing it in place of his dying will. Gokudera’s not sure what is actually productive. As far as he knows, it’s okay to cry, but not to give up, and… what would make time go by faster? It’s waiting for himself to heal that’s getting difficult.]

Yeah…

[Gokudera doesn’t think he deserves any credit. Zuko was the prince, after all. A far better man than him. And Aurora…]

Mnnn she’d just discovered a lot about herself and… she was royalty as well. I didn’t belong with either of them.

[They could have just been happier with each other and never involved him, but… he knows that’s not the truth. That feeling comes from hurt, lashing out at himself internally is what he’s good at.]