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[firesifu.livejournal.com]

Some time after talking with Steph, Zuko still has no idea how to go about approaching the many people who he should proably talk to.

Instead, he's focusing on something that puts it all off very nicely, and practicing firebending forms out in the training field. They really do make much more sense after visiting the Masters - without having to spend to much effort on brute force and anger to produce the flame, everything flows more, and that in turn is levelling out his thoughts.

So. Another version of him had children. And they're here. They also seem to think he's their father- at least, the version that they knew. He should talk to Mel first, then. He's not sure what she thinks, but he should ask, in any case. And Iroh should know.

Later. He finishes off a form, and moves onto the next.

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[slayer_fray]

He looks different. Moves different.

And that isn't just because Mel's husband was wheelchair bound for months. She knows firebending; what it looks like, how it flows - or at least she thought she did.

Zuko moves differently. Things flow more. She sees a connection with the fight she'd never quite seen in her Zuko. And treacherously, she relates to it.

She pauses at the edge of the field, leaning on the handles of the twin buggy, and watches him finish off.

[selflesslight.livejournal.com]

...huh.

Okay, that's kinda cool.

Val pauses to watch for a few moments, and somehow finds herself sitting in the grass on a chair made of glowing white tentacles, studying how he moves and the way the fire flows from his feet and hands.

Some of what Steve gabbles on about sticks in her little brain. Enough to make her wonder about the science of this ability. Somehow it doesn't quite look like he's a mutant.

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

And, you know, while he hadn't been consciously avoiding Zuko, it was kind of coincidental that Sokka is only just now coming across him.

After all, he was consciously avoiding Iroh. There's a list of people Sokka consciously avoids and it's getting disturbingly long.

But Zuko had not been on it, really, and he has a spectator now, trying to stay out of the way, but curious in watching all the same. Like Mel, he can see the differences in the firebending, the smoothness of his movements in the kata. And it's all so terribly, completely different from the firebending he remembers a similar scarred young man doing.

And that's... kind of comforting, honestly.

[serinusniger]

OH HAY IT'S NORTHERN SHAOLIN.

With pyrokinesis. Dinah goes pfffft at pyrokinesis. She's more interested in the style and the technique.

OK, so watching a few Shaolin katas and the flames they produce kind of help her figure out how firebending works: the flames follow the flow of the qi, it's simple. And kind of cool.

She's not standing and watching, though. She gets all this on her walking approach.

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

OH GOD WHY DID NOBODY TELL HIM ZUKO WAS HERE THIS IS NOT FAIR WHAT IS GOING ON OH MAN D: D: D: D: D:

Well ... well ... well ... WELL HE CAN TAKE ZUKO ANYWAY.

Even if the other boy seems to have gotten suspiciously better at firebending.

Sokka frowns, deeply, leaning on a fencepost at the edge of the training yard. Glare glare glare glare. C'mon over, Zuko. This glare is for you!

[dragonreturned.livejournal.com]

Iroh watches for a while, smiling to himself, before eventually calling out. "You have improved, Prince Zuko.