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This is the love of a peasant.
Together, we aren't a perfect example of elegance and manners (pff, as if Toph will ever act like a well-mannered lady): more often than not, we stand too close to each other or I had her practically latching on my arm. Our voices are too loud, every time we speak to each other, everyone hears us and our tones, especially hers, are just plain rude.
That is no way a prince of the Fire Nation should act.
A prince of the Fire Nation should have a traditional beauty with a respectful distance between them as his other half. They shouldn't speak to each other unless there is a third party with them, and even then, there mustn't be any arguments: the lady ought to agree with anything the prince says.
(So incredibly boring, as Toph would say. A relationship that doesn't make me feel anything.)
I haven't shed these upbringings yet, even after being exiled and then deflecting and so on. Even though I get emotional quite easily, I still try to be distant and just (but I rather… fail).
But anyway, I can't sit like that and do nothing when there is a girl in front of me who doesn't act like a lady. The little earthbender of an annoyance laughs at me but still I continue to tell her off about her behaviour, the way she talks, walks and generally acts.
"Hey, princess, why do you focus only on me?" once, she's asked me, "There are other girls out there too. Why don't you tell one of them to change their posture for a change?"
I'm still not really sure why it bothers me so much, her utter refusal of her family traditions and rules. She is a princess of sorts, for crying out loud! No one would know that if she continued acting like that! And what's the point of having a high rank and not showing it to people?
And the worst thing is that she's yanking me towards the same path. She wants to take away my meek attempts to be the model prince I want to be. And quite succeeds. And I can only get angry and trash around and throw tantrums and fuck up everything I've managed to do…
(This shouldn't exist.
She invokes way too many feelings in me.)
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