konpeito_aji: (fight TO THE PAIN)
Oda Nobunaga ([personal profile] konpeito_aji) wrote in [community profile] avalononline2021-05-13 08:52 pm

video un: konpeito_oni with un: fireprince

Make sure you get my good side!

[Oda Nobunaga is being filmed by someone else, and as he quickly makes apparent: hunting in the forest.]

Okay! This is Oda Nobunaga, Demon King of the Sixth Heaven. [He'll get tired of that mouthful... eventually.] Hijikata-sama is busy doing super important police work so I got Zuko to provide backup so I can show you proper sumo techniques on a bear fir! Those are trees in the shape of bears. Don't worry, if I get eaten, and can't cut my way free, Zuko will set it on fire, and then we'll show you how to make sure it doesn't spread to the forest!

First you need to lure it! [He has a fish for the bait.] In my time, we would give offerings and sacrifices, but since I want to wrestle one, not appease it--

[He doesn't get to finish the sentence before he gets sideswiped by an irritated bear fir. It was not lured by the fish. It was flushed out by Nobunaga's oni, but who's counting?]

[Nobunaga crashes into a tree, gets the wind knocked out of him... but he's grinning ear to ear.]

[And tackles the bear, trying to wrestle, or ride it, or... who the fuck knows?]

[It's a bit insane. But eventually he winds up inside it and cuts himself free...]

[And looks sorely disappointed.]


Ah... that's it? I didn't get to show anything off... Okay! Let's do the fire anyway! Zuko set me on fire!

[This can only end well.]

[On cue, a small puff of flame appears from the cameraman's unseen hands. The flames are weak. After another, only slightly bigger puff, a grumble can be heard, before one more unsteady, unimpressive lick of flames appears from thin air, followed by a hoarse:]


What the fuck?!

[Muttered under the firebender's breath. Finally, fourth must be the charm... and a gust of fire shoots forth, striking Nobunaga straight-on. Thank goodness the daimyo has healing magic because, uh, Zuko is clearly not fully in control of this fire he's magicking up. And he's very embarrassed to be short on juice on a live public feed. This whole thing isn't going exactly to plan, is it?]

[The grown warlord then holds up a finger, as his cuirass (at least it's not his Japanese armor? Is that better or worse?) smolders and gets hotter!]
This technique isn't taught in my time, but you should all know it!

Stop! Drop! And roll!

[And he demonstrates.]

[The bear fir in the meanwhile has recollected, REFORMED itself... and just decides an idiot on fire is not worth trying to eat again. Good thinking. Off it goes!]

[No idiots were maimed in the making of this video. Don't play with fire. Or bear trees.]
onecupdrunk: (10)

[personal profile] onecupdrunk 2021-06-03 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
So?

You both lived to talk about it. It's not like you actually caused a lot of damage or killed anyone. You didn't betray anyone's trust either, from where I'm standing.

I might have been giving you a hard time, but you're taking this too seriously -- even if you think it's a mistake.
rediscovering: (breathe)

[personal profile] rediscovering 2021-06-03 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...Okay.

[ The most lackluster response but in fact, inwardly, Zuko's quite touched, and thinks Masamune must be a good vassal to Nobunaga. He really liked that response. It disarmed him and made him think about this silliness another way. He likes that in a person. However, a flat "okay" doesn't... exactly convey all that... ]
onecupdrunk: (Default)

[personal profile] onecupdrunk 2021-06-04 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ The response is lackluster, but it feels like Zuko is finally relaxing a little about it. Which prompts Masamune to smile, because finally the kid's not beating himself up anymore. ]

I'll see you around, Zuko. I need to go make sure Shogetsu isn't getting himself into too much trouble.
rediscovering: (it can't be)

[personal profile] rediscovering 2021-06-04 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. We'll talk again.

[ Masamune is not as... transparent, perhaps is the word for it, as Nobunaga. But there's a draw to him, too, strange as he is. He's rougher, slyer, Zuko can tell just by one conversation, than the boisterous lord he serves. But Zuko's increasingly fascinated with this new circle he's fallen in with. It's rare he wants to talk to someone again right after meeting them. Huh. Odd bunch. ]