zuko catchall

[exercisms]

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[cuedoves]

It was a bad joke.

[ he shifts. it does ease his pain, to know that the other side was.... harmless. a lot of the same things, without the murder. ]

[ it helps to know, that they weren't suffering. ]

I don't know if I would feel the same way, if it had been me. But I'm glad.

[exercisms]

. . . If you'd done that, you would have suffered a lot. That's worse than a joke.

[Even if jokes about dead bodies are also bad.]

[cuedoves]

[ me desperately trying to guide this convo away from zuko's manpain and yet!! ]

... I suffered more, because of what happened.

[exercisms]

[Shhh, it's manpain hours.]

Because they made it a joke?

[cuedoves]

Because they went behind my back to make sure I wouldn't be called upon. Because none of my friends thought I could handle it, so they never even told me he was splintering. The teammate who did it lied to my face.

And because... of the way I found out, and saw him, because of the mockery they ended up making....

[exercisms]

Oh.

[Well, that's a little different.]

They should have told you.

[cuedoves]

[ and that's what mob missed on glee! ]

Yeah, they should have.

[exercisms]

[It sounds like a lot of drama, but also, if Zuko expected Emet-Selch to be a nice guy, that seems like a him problem. Mob doesn't think that, though. He legitimately feels bad for him for this.]

. . . I don't think it's bad, if killing him wasn't something you could have done. But it's not right to make that choice for someone else.

[cuedoves]

[ nah it's all his friends that plotted with emet-selch and covered for him that he's upset with. es is a dick he has no illusions there. ]

... Yeah. I understand wanting to protect people from that. That's the reason I volunteered to do it, I saw how hard it was for... the people who had already been asked. But I wouldn't take away someone's choice.