[ He knows they're talking about Sokka, but he smirks to himself at the remark, leaning back into the pillows of his bed. Gokudera's always been a great listener. It's nice to have someone to listen to his feelings about Azula for once. He keeps them all inside always. It's hard and makes what's already extremely confusing all the more so. ]
...You're serious? You'd do that for her— for us? I wouldn't want her to think I'm trying to pawn her off on you or something. But— ...if anyone could get to know her, I mean know her, more than she wants to show— ...I'd like it to be you. You're a good friend, and— I dunno, you get the complicated shit! Yamamoto, too. Yamamoto just accepted her for how she is back in Lunatia, and I— I was always so thankful to him for that. From day one. It's like he adopted her, ha. She moved in with you guys and everything! It... ended... And that hurt her a lot more than she admits, I think. A-And now I'm glad things ended up the way they did! Because then we grew closer than I ever expected, but— she needs normal friends. Not just me. She's used to being able to control people, being around people who just let her have her way, defer to her like royalty, like Ty Lee always did, and Yamamoto always just kinda laughed it off. I dunno. It worked.
[ It feels so much better to talk semi-candidly about Azula behind her back with someone at long last, almost guilt-free for the first time, opening up way more than he'd planned or expected he'd want to. Granted, she attacked Gokudera, too, but she never killed him — she actually murdered Aang. Katara had to heal him for weeks to bring him back to life, uncertain if she even could; it was horrible, surely. Zuko doesn't even know the half of it. They thought they'd lost it all. Sokka's willing to be kind to her because Zuko had grown close to her again, and Zuko didn't overlook the profundity of that, but it made him nervous to bring her around them more, at the same time, knowing it was a fragile, tensile truce. Toph had expressed her distrust but stayed seemingly open and neutral, but Zuko knew Katara and Aang would never readjust their feelings toward her. Uncle, worst of all, distrusted her most — because he loved Zuko most. And knew Azula longest. All of it seemed quite fair and reasonable yet... unfair, somehow, at once. With the mafia, it was a cleaner slate, a more level playing field. A new chance at something. And Zuko's always appreciated that the Vongola turn enemies into allies, from what Gokudera has told him, so if there's anyone to give Azula another chance, it's those guys. ]
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[ He knows they're talking about Sokka, but he smirks to himself at the remark, leaning back into the pillows of his bed. Gokudera's always been a great listener. It's nice to have someone to listen to his feelings about Azula for once. He keeps them all inside always. It's hard and makes what's already extremely confusing all the more so. ]
...You're serious? You'd do that for her— for us? I wouldn't want her to think I'm trying to pawn her off on you or something. But— ...if anyone could get to know her, I mean know her, more than she wants to show— ...I'd like it to be you. You're a good friend, and— I dunno, you get the complicated shit! Yamamoto, too. Yamamoto just accepted her for how she is back in Lunatia, and I— I was always so thankful to him for that. From day one. It's like he adopted her, ha. She moved in with you guys and everything! It... ended... And that hurt her a lot more than she admits, I think. A-And now I'm glad things ended up the way they did! Because then we grew closer than I ever expected, but— she needs normal friends. Not just me. She's used to being able to control people, being around people who just let her have her way, defer to her like royalty, like Ty Lee always did, and Yamamoto always just kinda laughed it off. I dunno. It worked.
[ It feels so much better to talk semi-candidly about Azula behind her back with someone at long last, almost guilt-free for the first time, opening up way more than he'd planned or expected he'd want to. Granted, she attacked Gokudera, too, but she never killed him — she actually murdered Aang. Katara had to heal him for weeks to bring him back to life, uncertain if she even could; it was horrible, surely. Zuko doesn't even know the half of it. They thought they'd lost it all. Sokka's willing to be kind to her because Zuko had grown close to her again, and Zuko didn't overlook the profundity of that, but it made him nervous to bring her around them more, at the same time, knowing it was a fragile, tensile truce. Toph had expressed her distrust but stayed seemingly open and neutral, but Zuko knew Katara and Aang would never readjust their feelings toward her. Uncle, worst of all, distrusted her most — because he loved Zuko most. And knew Azula longest. All of it seemed quite fair and reasonable yet... unfair, somehow, at once. With the mafia, it was a cleaner slate, a more level playing field. A new chance at something. And Zuko's always appreciated that the Vongola turn enemies into allies, from what Gokudera has told him, so if there's anyone to give Azula another chance, it's those guys. ]