Friends in Need; RL with Azula

[iknowucan]

After securing a worldhop (which was actually pretty hard to get, considering all the crazy "shadow" things going on, but Ryan is magic and gets what he wants), Ryan showed up at the AU house that's completely empty. Well, okay then. Azula always struck him as a minimalist so, cool.

He wandered through the place a little cautiously, since he knew that Azula was a little... um, easily annoyed. "Azula?"


((OOC: THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU DON'T MAKE EXECUTIVE DECISIONS let me know if any o this should be changed :X))

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[iknowucan]

"I can totally understand that." He stretched his arms over his head. "I mean, you have way more responsibility than me, but being stuck at home sometimes can drive you crazy."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"And I haven't abandoned the Fire Nation," she said somewhat defensively, as if expecting him to accuse her of just that. "I meet with my advisers every day, and I make appearances, and I do paperwork and direct troops and settle disputes..." Her voice trailed off.

[iknowucan]

Ryan raised an eyebrow. "I wasn't going to say you had..."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Good. Because it's a stupid accusation."

[iknowucan]

"I think I know you well enough to say that you love your country too much to just leave it."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Precisely. I have a duty."

[iknowucan]

"I hope you don't let what people say on the community get to you."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Why would I? They don't know me. They don't know anything about me."

[iknowucan]

"Exactly why you shouldn't listen to them." He smiled. "It sounded like you thought I was going to listen to them myself."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Most of you listen to each other." Azula yawned.

[iknowucan]

He laughed. "If I listened to them, I wouldn't be here." He rubbed his chin thoughtfully - actually, "If I listened to them all the time, I wouldn't have thought Chuck Bass could be nice in any sense." He made a face as he remembered the one time he had gone along with people on the community - he ended up at a strip club. Blehhhhhh.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She raised an eyebrow. "He can't be nice in any sense."

[iknowucan]

"I know, right? You wouldn't expect it, but - other than tricking me to go someplace totally gross, which actually was Jim's idea, I think - well, he was pretty nice to me when we were handcuffed together for a virus and... I don't know." Ryan was a firm believer that everyone had a soft, fluffy center.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"'Nice' in your mind means that he didn't murder you in your sleep." By that definition, Azula was being pretty nice to him right now.

Though if she took the time to think about it (which she really didn't), she'd realize that she didn't necessarily mind having him here right now. She didn't like him by any stretch of the imagination, but company was... well, nice.

[iknowucan]

"Well... I'm pretty sure that counts for everyone." He grinned and waved a hand. "But no, he is a jerk most of the time, but he can be nice. I almost had a heart attack when I found out."

He wasn't supposed to tell anyone, either, but Ryan still owed him a little payback. "Nice for me just means that you show some actual compassion once in a while. I'm pretty easy to please, yeah, but trust me, I know there are bad people out there."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula closed her eyes and folded her arms over her chest. "Like me."

[iknowucan]

He rolled his eyes skyward briefly before looking back at her. "No, not like you, Azula. You know you're not going to convince me you're a bad person, don't you?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I'm not. But I'm also not compassionate."

[iknowucan]

Ryan shrugged. "Maybe not, but you're not a bad person. You run a country, so I figure you must at least be... you know, just. Or fair, at least."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She gave a small shrug of her own. "To my citizens."

[iknowucan]

"That says more about you than a couple of nice comments to someone really could." He grinned; Ryan was a master of justifying the actions and attitudes of people around him. He had to be, with a sister like his.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I I know that." And it was strange that he did, too. After all, wasn't he stupid?

[iknowucan]

"I know you know." He laughed and shook his head. "I think there's a saying, like, uh... Oh, right. Watch how people treat their employees to see what kind of person they are. Except with you, it's 'subjects' or something."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Employees and subjects are different." While she obviously worked for the greater good of the Fire Nation, she didn't exactly always treat her servants with respect and fairness-- but after all, they were only servants.

[iknowucan]

Ryan would probably have to lecture her about being nice to the people who cook your food, being that he knew what happened when you weren't, but he was content to not ask after her relationship to her servants. "I guess, but the general idea is that people show their real nature when they're dealing with people who aren't as important as them."