[ Zuko listens on, trying to follow, but after a beat he removes his face guard just to stare at Gokudera with the most bemused, incredulous expression. ]
...What are you talking about? You— want me to come up with a hypothetical life for you in my world? You asked me what kind of bender I thought you'd be, and I told you! I can't come up with imaginary travel stories for fun? If you were a runaway in my world, Goku— Storm... You'd most likely be a refugee from Fire Nation attacks in the Earth Kingdom! Or a Fire Nation soldier who defected from the army and now is living in the woods to avoid a life of imprisonment for treason. There's very limited travel in my world otherwise. Merchants, pirates, military, and refugees.
[ Zuko's not angry at all, he's just confused and serious and too literal. But he has poor volume control and poor sense of how his own tone sounds, doesn't tune in often enough to how his reactions may come across before he has them... He's all for being creative on his own terms, but if it doesn't make sense to him immediately, he struggles to play ball. But, really, even when he's being creative in his own right, it's seldom ever a flight of fancy like this; he doesn't do well with hypotheticals. This cute conversation is beyond him and he's getting high-strung only because he can't wrap his head around it, rather than annoyed at Gokudera for even asking, but... he doesn't say that outright. He just gets flummoxed and flustered instead. ]
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...What are you talking about? You— want me to come up with a hypothetical life for you in my world? You asked me what kind of bender I thought you'd be, and I told you! I can't come up with imaginary travel stories for fun? If you were a runaway in my world, Goku— Storm... You'd most likely be a refugee from Fire Nation attacks in the Earth Kingdom! Or a Fire Nation soldier who defected from the army and now is living in the woods to avoid a life of imprisonment for treason. There's very limited travel in my world otherwise. Merchants, pirates, military, and refugees.
[ Zuko's not angry at all, he's just confused and serious and too literal. But he has poor volume control and poor sense of how his own tone sounds, doesn't tune in often enough to how his reactions may come across before he has them... He's all for being creative on his own terms, but if it doesn't make sense to him immediately, he struggles to play ball. But, really, even when he's being creative in his own right, it's seldom ever a flight of fancy like this; he doesn't do well with hypotheticals. This cute conversation is beyond him and he's getting high-strung only because he can't wrap his head around it, rather than annoyed at Gokudera for even asking, but... he doesn't say that outright. He just gets flummoxed and flustered instead. ]