#decorum

Not only does he like that, Zuko's whole story arc in the AtLA cartoon is about learning that he can't let monsters define honor for good people and he has to stop paying attention to the opinions of those monsters.

Now, granted, there is some wiggle room here. If Mai is murdering and eating children, Zuko probably wouldn't approve and might even start an argument over it. ;)

But, overall, I don't see Zuko as being the type who wants to avoid rocking the boat, never mind trying to force Mai to go along with it. They love each other because they value each other's values, and both of them were social outcasts because of it- Mai metaphorically, and Zuko quite literally. Remember, his outburst in the war room was a breach of decorum, and as a result his father made him fight a death duel that led to his banishment and permanent scarring. If anything, Zuko is going to be harshly triggered by people who make too big a deal about decorum.

And I think we can't ignore the character of the people who would really cause trouble for Zuko as Fire Lord just because his girlfriend breaks decorum. If these people are the types who are going to hurt their own people and nation over something meaningless like arbitrary decorum, then they're probably the type of people Zuko is actively trying to remove from power.

I've been working on a game!! (Not the one I posted about before, this is a shorter thing I've been bouncing around for Halloween)

Last year I got the idea of making a short horror game for Halloween about my OC Dorian, called Decorum, and I decided this year I was going to try and finish it before October so that it's ready for Spooky Season! The game takes place over the month of October, with Dorian trying to help Sana (his gf) with prepping for a work party while also balancing all the stuff he's got going on (which is a lot, including Murder Blackouts and being investigated by police).

So far I've just done some basic animations and set up the main menus in GDevelop, but my plan is to have it in a functional state by the 26th of September! I'm planning on a couple little minigames for tasks, and some alternated endings depending on what's focused on. I've realized I like using GDevelop; I can figure out how to code game mechanics pretty easily, and the biggest hurdle is just having to draw all of the animations and graphics (that title screen background is killing me bc my Edgy Baby lives in the woods and the game is in the fall)

But yeah, I'm really excited to be making progress on this! Once I get the power cord for my camera I'm going to start doing streams while I work and maybe actually uploading some stuff to my Youtube; I want to start streaming more often now, instead of the sporadic every now and then.

Some decorum, please.