RL with Azula - So you thought you were safe?

[chimeranomore]

Zel was in a very good mood. Quite apart from feeling as if he was drunk out of his mind, he was almost certain he'd actually managed to win an argument with Azula for the first time in... ever. He managed to force himself to stop being smug, being aware, if only through a haze of alcohol he hadn't actually consumed, that this would not be useful in helping Azula.

He was still having trouble with the concept of her not wanting his help - surely if the virus was that bad she should welcome someone willing to help her relieve it? Eventually he dismissed it as Azula being her normal difficult self and decided that she'd surely warm up to the idea eventually. He couldn't help giggling a little at the unintentional pun in his own internal monologue, either.

He hummed happily to himself as he he gave a slightly arrhythmic knock at the door to her room. "Hello, Fire Lord?" he called out.

Comments

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Yes. You are."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Let's try this again. You're making a big deal out of me being sarcastic, so I'm an idiot. And you claim to be logical."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"You're making up this big deal all on your own."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Judging by your tone earlier, I'd say you were."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I'm annoyed. Of course my tone is going to be less than friendly."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"You know, for someone who claims to be logical you seem to skip a lot of steps. Like the one where you actually have a reason to be annoyed at that comment as opposed to admitting that no, you can't control your actions when you're asleep."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"You don't know what I can do."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"You don't have any special abilities apart from being a very good Firebender, do you? Because unless firebending has anything at all to do with sleep, you've got no reason to be able to do anything like that."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I'm good at controlling myself."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"No one's that good."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I am."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure if you're just being contrary or you actually believe you can control yourself while you're unconscious."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I can control myself whenever I want." But really, she knew she couldn't-- and that scared annoyed her.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Azula, there's this logical disconnect you don't seem to be grasping here."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Just because it's not logical for you doesn't mean it isn't for me.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"You're a human, too, Azula. It isn't physically possible, no matter how inflated your ego is."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Anything is possible for me."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Zel sighed. "Azula, please tell me this is just some misplaced sense of pride and you don't actually believe this."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She huffed. "I don't see what the problem is."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"The problem is that if it was just a willpower and self-control thing, you probably could, but those don't apply when you're unconscious," he insisted.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"It does for me," she insisted right back. "There's always a level of subconscious control."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Subconscious control still doesn't work when you're unconscious. And you can't control your subconscious anyway. That's why it's called that."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I can control anything that I want to."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry, Azula, but it just doesn't work like that."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Maybe not for you."