#Bender Twins

[damianchuck]

Flesh and Blood

[koolaidashley]

One could say they’re……twinning……

[dandelion-blues]

Yin and Yang

Intro:

Percy Jackson is reborn in the Avatar world as Yue's twin.

PJO × ATLA

Chapter 1: The Pull of La

In the Land of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. The land where humans reside who can bend one of the elements sans one being — the avatar who could bend all four and was known to bring peace to the lands as a balance between the Human and Spirit realms.

It was in this land that a demigod — the demigod child of the sea — was reborn. Perseus Jackson, who died much too young. But before we can get to that, Percy must remember who he once was. He must become.

~~~10 years after Percy's rebirth~~~

“Sea!” The older sister gasped laughing. The cold open air sending goosebumps across her skin, her breath warm and visible to the cold air. Still, her heart beat with excitement in the cold winter air.

“Moon,” the younger twin, Sea, said excitedly using the nickname and alias of their sister so no one would recognize their names as Sea pulled their sister along through the snowy and icy streets.

“C'mon we're almost there,” Sea said, urging their sister along.

The two children giggled along the way, sticking to the shadows, cloaks hiding their small forms.

“Up here.” Sea whispers to Moon.

Moon bit her lip, looking at the looming ledge to climb up.

Sea smiled and knelt on the ground, “Here, I'll help you up.”

“Thank you, Sea.” Moon said, a bright smile directed to her twin.

Moon got up, her sibling pushing her up the ledge, her cloak falling from her head, and great silvery white hair bounded down her shoulders.

“Alright now I'm coming up.” Sea said, putting use in all the trailing they're done in secret to the test. Girls weren't allowed to train, but well Sea has never felt like a girl. If anything, they felt more at peace being like a boy, but Sea still wasn't sure because of how other people would react, and so for now they settled to stay in the inbetween. They've only told Moon this because, well, they got the idea from her, but for now they're just glad that their sister is so cool and accepting.

Moon reached her hand out to help Sea get up the last bit, and Sea accepted their sister's hand.

Finally, both the siblings turned to what they came up to see. Sea removed their hood, the black hair with undertones of blue falling down their shoulders in waves unlike Moon’s straight hair.

Sea and Moon gasped as they looked at the sight beyond them. Out from their icy village were the glittering stars of the night dancing on the dark ocean waves, with a full moon lighting up the sky.

The moon and sea called on the both of them in indescribable ways. They felt the pull and lost themselves in the moonlight and lapping waves. It seemed to sing to them, a whisper to their senses.

Even as the siblings stayed rooted in place, too hesitate to take that leap, for they feared they would never come back. They felt the presence of the moon and ocean wrap around them, possessive and lovingly for the children they claimed as theirs, and the siblings’ skin glowed a bright silver. The siblings no longer felt the biting cold but felt as if there was a warm blanket around them — surrounding them like a hug.

Power called to them just as they felt the love of the moon and sea.

Moon’s eyes shone, her silver-blue eyes seeming to glow as brightly as the moon, while Sea's eyes glowed a beautiful dark blue of the sea. The two clasping hands in disbelief and awe. The two, a perfect balance of the moon and sea.

Sea leaned on Moon, and Moon leaned on Sea — the two siblings enjoyed the perfect night, trying to ignore that beautiful call that reached out to both of them.

The two smiled at the moon and the sea, and the moon and ocean seemed to pull back their call, sensing that the children would not come to them, but left a whisper to their senses that they were always welcome.

The twins were just glad they could escape their duties for just one night and just be children tonight and see this amazing sight.

~~~~~~

“Where were you two?!” Their father shouted, his blue eyes narrowed in rage.

The two remained silent and still as a rock, fearing their father’s rage.

The father breathed out a tense breath and looked to Moon, “Yue, where did Umi take you two?”

Umi, or rather Sea, looks down in betrayal. Father always assumes the worst of them.

“We just wanted to see the moon tonight, Father, since it was full, so we watched the sky.” Yue, or Moon to Sea, answered, a perfect and poised response expected from the chief's daughter.

Father sighs, “Fine, but next time, alert me or your guards. I can not have my daughters just wander around like commoners now, can I?”

“Yes, Father.” Both siblings answer in sync.

“Good, now get to bed. You are only ten and need your rest before you begin to learn more lessons tomorrow.”

The two bow to their father, Chief Arnook, as he leaves the room.

When the twins feel that their father is out of earshot, they both slump in relief, “I’d thought we were done for.” Sea says.

“Me too.”

“I guess we should sleep.” Sea says.

“Yeah, I guess so.” Yue responds.

Still, as much as the two try to fall to rest, the mystical sight of the moon and ocean gives them a restless sleep at most.

Then, in the morning they are groggy at best, but at least they'll always have one another, so they'll get through all their lessons about what is proper for a chief’s daughter and at night they'll dream of the moon and sea.

~~~Six years later~~~

“The Avatar is here. Can you believe it?! Now things can surely change for the better!” Yue states excitedly, looking toward her brother in their shared room.

The room that they have had since childhood. High walls made of dark wood. Carvings of stars and animals in its posts. Two large beds placed on opposite ends with bunks at the end to place a few special belongings. Along with an ornate mirror and desk and chair for getting ready for the day in the left corner of the room placed beside their wooden wardrobe.

A room that held all the necessities for the chief's daughters but was not personalized beyond the two siblings's few well kept dolls and wooden trinkets adorning a small wooden dresser by their beds as it was not proper to have too many personal things as their duty was first to their village and not to themselves. Then, of course, a large bookcase with old and new books upon its shelves in the right corner opposite their dresser.

Sea returns his focus from their room and onto Yue. His sister with hope in her tone, but resignation in her silver-blue gaze. Sea wasn’t having any of that.

Sea rolls his eyes, “Yeah, well, Father just announced your fiancé who you barely even tolerate. I doubt that the kid will be able to do much as Father even used the Avatar’s notoriety to publicize his chosen partner for his daughter.”

Yue puckers her lips, “C'mon Sea. It's for the good of the tribe. At least you aren't being married off.”

Yet, but Sea holds his tongue because that isn't fair to his sister.

“Just try to look on the bright side, okay, brother.” Yue says, her bright silvery blue eyes showing sincerity.

Sea huffs, crossing his arms over his binded chest, “Alright, I will.”

Yue smiles and hugs Sea. “Everything will turn out alright!”

Sea smiles back, but for some reason, in his heart, he knows something is bound to go wrong.

“Yeah,” Sea says softly.

Then, to lighten the mood and tease his sister, Sea calls, “And don’t think I haven’t noticed you looking at the Southern Water Tribe boy.”

“Sea!” Yue yells and blushes, “It’s nothing, and besides I’m in an official relationship, you know.”

Sea feels anger rolling off him from that. His sister deserves to marry whom she pleases, not just be given off to someone that only pleases Father.

“Sea…” Yue starts.

“I know.” Sea finishes.

The two get ready for bed in silence. Sea is ready to call it for the night, expecting the night to continue in silence, but…

“Goodnight!” Yue calls happily, her voice already bringing a smile to Sea’s face, “Also, make sure to take the binder off before you rest or you'll injure your chest.”

Sea smiles. He is so thankful that his sister helped him figure all this out with him being male since the village sure wouldn't help out. Everyone in the village is rigid in their roles of what is expected of men and women, and Sea has never really fit it.

“I will,” Sea says, smiling softly, so glad that Yue wasn’t really mad. Sea loves his older twin sister so much, and he doesn’t know what he’d do if Yue pulled away from him.

From a young age, Yue was all Sea really had. Even now, Sea doesn’t really have anyone else. Sea has always felt so wrong in his own body, hated how everyone called him and perceived him. It caused him to isolate himself and hate himself. It felt like he was an outsider in his own skin. And Spirits, he hates his birth name, Umi. It just feels so girly.

Then, Yue just goes and flips Sea's world upside down by saying years prior, “Maybe you're not a girl.”

Since then, Sea confined more to his sister about his feelings, and they both figured out together what was right for Sea. That he was a man, even if he was born a woman. Even if only Yue knows, helps him with all of this, it’s enough for Sea to at least feel like himself. To feel like he’s a person again.

Thus, Sea takes off his binder that his sister helped him make, allowing his chest to be free even if it makes him uneasy in his body.

Still, Sea can now rest with a sound mind, and he whispers, hoping his sister is still awake to hear, “I love you.”

Sea waits a moment in silence before Yue whispers back, “I love you too.”

Sea smiles happily and lets himself listen to the wind outside their room. Lets himself feel the soft humm of the ocean’s waves beneath him, and he lets himself fall asleep.

“Percy.”

Sea turns around toward the voice. It sounds familiar and comforting like a mother's voice, but for some reason, the voice digs into his very soul. He feels tears pricking at his eyes. Sea lets the tears fall from his eyes and into the inky expanse.

His tears drop below him into the great chaos of darkness, and it ripples across the darkness and glows a bright aquamarine. Sea’s perspective shifts, and he sees currents shift by him, brushing by him as he breathes in the salty water as he would air.

Little one, It's finally time for you to learn.

The voice rumbles from all around, sounding like the crashing of waves, but its voice all too familiar. Sea recognizes it in his very soul. The ocean personified in this voice.

Sea kneels before the great spirit, his head bowed in reverence and respect for the one he owes his very life.

“Great La, Spirit of the Ocean. What must I learn?”

Everything.

Sea looks up momentarily, meeting the inhuman eyes of swirling whirlpools for pupils, eyes with from the deepest to shallow depths of the seas as its iris, and frothing seafoam as its whites. And great shimmering black and white scales of its koi body.

Sea falls into the Spirit's all-consuming embrace. The pull is too much to deny.

Sea begins to see everything. He sees himself as a baby too weak to live another day next to his twin, who is much the same. He sees their matching pure black hair and light blue eyes. Then, the twins are placed where the Spirits Tui and La reside. Two koi fish, forever pushing and pulling amongst themselves, who gave their power to the mortal realm to form the very moon and sea. A sacrifice and gift to the mortal realm in which they now forever reside. Their dance is fervent and slow, as their power and divinity seep from their small pond into blessing for the twins. Yue's hair becomes a shining white, her eyes now a silvery blue as Tui blessed her with life. While Sea's hair became tinted dark blue, his eyes forever changed to match the water's ever changing tides. The Spirit’s power resides forever now in the two mortal twin's lives, a soft glow around the two that is invisible if one is not blessed with the ability to see Spirits.

Then, Sea saw himself grow up more, saw how the ocean loved him, begging him to take a drive into the frozen waters down, down below.

Sea saw how he and his sister became so close to the Spirits’ might that fateful night six years ago. Only for his father to separate him from the tides and his sister from the moon. Saw as the twins became sheltered into a life that drained the ocean and moon from their lives.

Even as Sea was surrounded by the ocean, its power thrumming under his feet, he became disconnected from its tides.

Sea saw as Tui and La had finally had enough. Saw the furious ocean crash into the village’s icy walls, cracking them from the foundation, and saw a full moon become dark and make the benders' power over the coming tides weak. Tui and La were furious with their chosen being kept from them. Saw as Yue and him were smiling peacefully in their sleep, even as the ocean and moon reeked havek around them.

It was only a matter of time.

Sea saw how Yue started to lose her divine glow, mortality seeping more into her soul as she became burdened with Father’s goals, while Sea’s aura only became wilder as he sought, searched, rebelled against Father’s laws. The ocean called so strongly to him, and he was never strong enough to resist like his sister always did.

Sea wanted to reach out to Yue, but the visions shifted too suddenly.

Sea saw himself practicing water bending in secret. Saw as he hid amongst the Master Bender’s lessons and kept watch, so he became self-taught in bending. The ocean in his soul calling to him more and more.

Sea saw as he dove into the surely frigid waters after Father refused to see him as more than just a daughter who was weak and needed to be protected. Saw as the current swelled amongst him, and the ocean sang to him. Sea heard the fish whisper to him and heard their voices as surely as his own.

Sea saw the avatar making his way into their home. Saw the chaos he brought, but the hidden hope in his face that he could make a change. Saw that hope crushed in sad defeat when he realized that Aang was just a twelve year old kid, and his sister was being forced to marry anyway.

He saw everything.

Sea's eyes were opened wide, and he looked over seeing the glow of another in front of him. The other mirrored his expression. Sea saw himself in this person even as they looked different, Sea felt that he knew this person in strange clothes and scarred skin.

Brace yourself, young one.

Sea blinked, and the vision of the other person and La was gone. Sea felt himself fall more into the embrace of rest, but he would not forget what he saw even after he awoke from his eventful dreams.

Notes:

I had a lot of fun writing this! Can't wait for Percy's or, rather, Sea's (for now, hehe) journey to begin!

[minor-dot-inconvenience]

i love it when the ship trope is two characters that would brutally kick someone’s ass and then celebrate with a disgustingly sloppy make out session

[original-sheepsandwich90]

[cherry-pop-elf]

Weasley Twins As Firebenders

SOMEONE gave me this brain rot, and you know who you are. So, here we go-!

The twins would own a Cultural Shop of sorts. Having pride in all four nations. Still a joke shop, but they embrace and adore what the rest of the world has to offer. Like selling things the local water tribe make so they can earn their deserved money. Spread the practices of the Air Nomads. They invent and are curious. They LOVE all elements and sister bend types

They 100% know combustion, but branched it off when learning lighting. They know these powerful sub bending types, just to invent their own type. That type is making fire works in the palm of their hands. They are able to make sparks and such. Weasleys. They love to be brilliant and powerful, just for the sake of the fun of it

Yes, they have a blue Spirit gig going on. Fred has a purple mask, while George has an Orange one. And yes, it’s the cliche Kistune Fox. It’s cliche, but they sure get the job done. George is orange dominate with purple accents, and Fred is purple with orange accents. They will show you why the fire nation were devils of the 100 year war

They grew up around dragons, due to Charlie working on helping rebuild the population. So they are very respectful, and know a thing or two about the spirit world. Having been very connected to it. From being identical twins, and exposed to such important spiritual connections. One can argue that’s how they were able to learn combustion so young. Learning from the ORIGINAL fire benders

When George loses his ear, the water bender who healed him did their best. They couldn’t recover the ear, but by proxy healed over the wound entirely. So most people think he was just born without a ear, so he has a tattoo over it. Is it a White Jade Bush? Or a White Dragon Bush? Much like the twins, it depends on how you treat them

Depending on if it’s ATLA or LOK or even just Modern In General, they’ll still be plot important because Weasley Twins are Weasley Twins. If it’s ATLA they are 100% the types to always show up when you need them the most to cause a distraction. In LOK they are your go to for black market goods, and always have the important gossip that Korra needs. Along with just ALWAYS having beef with the Metal Bending Police Force. Lin Beifong is their Minerva. If it’s a modern setting in general, it’s all the above. Because I said so. Bleh

Yes. They have turtleducks. They have their own garden for them and everything. It started off as a small from Charlie. As a means to give them a pet. They love their pond dearly and use it to unwind. A peaceful garden that is also used to pick plants and fauna for their shop. To make dyes and such. A place of work and play. You can always go there for some peace of mind

I will be making more of these because two brain rots. Two major brain rots. Please ask questions. I love ATLA/LOK and George Weasley. PLEASE-! And yes. Belladonna would be a water bender. Because I would be. Bleh

[didymousrising]

holds boleska and deswu in my hands

my beloveds,,

[knightofleo]

Aphex Twin | #15 (Shiny Metal Rods)

[tropicalfreckles]

I remember I had an idea a few weeks after rewatching atla and lok for a set of twins for the next earth nation avatar post Korra, the earth bender is obviously the avatar and she has a twin sister who is an airbender. What usually is seen as two forces trying to push against each other works together oddly well and because of her twin the earth nation avatar is more attuned with her spiritual side.

I haven't thought up designs yet but since the rapid advancement of avatar world's technology and culture I would imagine the next cycle being closer to a more modern setting while still being connected to the spirit world.

[lunar-rotation]

16 Oct 2023

I think I managed to tell a little bit of a story this week. Definitely a feel of pursuit and fighting and overcoming and then being a little silly and then just kind of living on. Also this contains two songs from my "I don't do burlesque but if I did" playlist.

This week’s playlist:

Like No One Else by Teri Gender Bender

Monsters by Foreign Air

get you by Eve 6

Raw Raw by K.Flay

Nightmares by Huxlxy

Palace of the Innocents by The Glitch Mob

Final Boss by margø

Alt3r3ddr3ams//Und3rgr0und by Twin Pumpkin, measyou & Mary More

Pinecones by Bug Hunter

Exiles Among You by The Weakerthans

Lunar Rotation Weekly by Winifred Yost

[damianchuck]

[missing-sector]

I headcanon Leela as asexual too! 😄

A fellow intellectual I see 😎

[mysticalstreamsalutations]

No, my hair isn’t actually buzzed all short (just the 1 side and undercut), and the one on the right is using Snapchat’s filter that is supposed to “turn you into your opposite sex twin,” or some shit.

Is this maybe… gender euphoria…. Or is it the Sleep Deprivation?

… the world may never know.

Btw, My love @ultraterrestrialstars did the cut <3

[thingsiwannareblog]

If you’re bi and trans, would waltzing with yourself technically be hetero?

I do love a good dance with yourself. evil clone? alternate reality version? past version? future version? metaphorical representation of the true self? they should all do a homoerotic little waltz

[skipppppy]

The life of Stanford Pines must be so bizarre from the perspective of a random townsperson who doesn’t know him. Imagine you live in a sleepy lumber town, where the most interesting thing you’ve heard this week is that a plot of land on the outskirts of the woods was sold and someone has started constructing a cabin on there.

You later learn by word of mouth that he’s a phd student doing some kind of long-term research project. You don’t see his face until one night he comes blasting down the street on a trail of destruction, eyes yellow and glazed over, trashing public property, inflicting gruesome injuries on himself, and laughing like he’s on an erratic, drug-fuelled bender. He then goes home and locks himself in his cabin again. This becomes a cycle; he stays isolated for weeks, then comes out once in a blue moon to wreak havoc and be a nuisance to the authorities.

Then one day it stops. He doesn’t come back out. The next time you see him he’s at a grocery store looking completely different to how you remember; his hair is grown out, he’s put on weight, his clothes are completely different and he’s stopped wearing glasses. Some townsfolk finally work up the nerve to talk to him and you learn that he invited them to his cabin on a tour. His home is apparently FULL of dangerous research equipment and the scientist, who had allegedly been very quiet and level-headed on the days he wasn’t having his “episodes,” has had a complete personality change, he’s loud and confident and less than honest and a little sleazy but a damn good salesman and entertainer.

He hosts tours out of his home for the next 30 years. Over time he’d changed it into a museum of sorts that sells overpriced knickknacks to unsuspecting tourists, but aside from his shady business practices he’s a well known member of his community. He changes up the exhibits every few months, brings his niece and nephew to stay one summer and they become town darlings, and even exposes a beloved public figure for running a spyware scheme.

One day you hear he got visited by the FBI. They start going round town asking about him. A week or so later he gets arrested. The town goes CRAZY theorising why but then there’s a massive earthquake and in the chaos of that you forget what happened to him. One minute you hear that the feds were surrounding his house and the next they’re all leaving like they forgot what they came for. Another week later he resurfaces and announces he’s going to run for Mayor, dominated the polls, wins the popular vote, but loses his position immediately due to an extensive criminal record.

Then there’s gossip that he completely changed his appearance again. He’s lost his fez and is walking around in a coat and cable knit turtleneck in the middle of the July heat. Then you hear from someone else that he looks the exact same and didn’t change anything. Then you see two identical men walking down the street, one matching the description you saw. People are BUZZING to know what happened and you eventually learn that the “new guy” was actually the same Scientist and the guy that had been running the museum was his twin brother who stole his identity after he went missing. Then the apocalypse happens

[dykeofmisfortune]

roommates were mentioning me while they thought i wasn't here or listening and they characterized me as so nothing i'm so relieved... i just came in around 4am last night while they were puking and told me they think they got roofied and i said ".....okay." to which the other one they're telling the story to said (as me) "okay weirdos." WOWIE!!! they think i'm nonchalant and judgmental :) i'm unironically so happy they don't see me as a weirdo loser my avoidant social mode and inability to portray emotions actually just make me look aloof and cold instead of autistic freak. yippee