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linnorabeifong · 1 year ago

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Korra’s Christmas

This is just an idea but if enough of you are interested I will do it and make a collection on Ao3.

Thirty one days of holiday Fan Art and Fanfic

All Thirty One Days of December are different ships and a prompt. I’ll write some and I’ll make polls and posts for suggestions. If you’d like to suggest rules, prompts or ships, message me. Send in prompts ! Tag your friends. I’ll try to post polls once I get enough. I’ll post all prompts before the end of the month.

If you like a ship that isn’t included then I can add it, as a bonus or replace a disliked ship with it. if you dislike a ship I can remove it just message me. If you dislike a tentative prompt I can swap it.

post your ideas and submissions with #Korra’sChristmas. I will reblog them.

if you have any question my asks are open. I tried to include every ship I could think of. I don’t want anyone to feel excluded or leave out their favorite ship.

Rules (so far, will add more if they are suggested or people are hateful) : No incestous or illegal ships will be permitted. No NSFW content with underage characters. NSFW content is welcomed, but must be tagged as such and rated appropriately please and thank you. Submissions can be no ship or platonic as long as they incorporate the prompt. If you’d like your prompt to be for a particular day/ship let me know. Feel free to send in prompts related to other winter Holidays or just the winter season. If you want a ship to be a particular day let me know.

Tentative Prompts:

Meet Cute

Meet the In laws

Tree Decorating

Movie Night

Naughty and Nice List

Spiked Eggnog

Christmas Proposal

Hot Chocolate

Wrapping Gifts

Christmas Cookies

Non-traditional Christmas

Christmas Vacation

Snowed-In

Working on Christmas

Modern Day AU

Submitted Prompts:

Secret Santa Gift Exchange 🎅🏽

Build a Snowman ⛄️

Snowball fight ❄️

Tentative Ships:

Amon/Lin (I’m joking this is a crack ship but if any of y’all actually like this one let me know and I’ll keep it otherwise it’s getting axed)

Asami/Bolin

Asami/Iroh

Asami/Korra

Asami/Kuvira

Asami/ Mako

Asami/OC or any character

Baatar Sr/Suyin

Baatar Jr/Kuvira

Bolin/ Korra

Bolin/Opal

Bolin/ Wei

Bolin/ OC or any character

Bumi/Lin

Bumi/ OC or any character

Izumi/Lin

Izumi/ OC or any character

Mako/Asami

Mako/ Korra

Mako/Lin

Wuko

Opal/Kuvira ( Winter Solstice)

Korra/Kuvira

Korra/ Tahno (Christmas Eve)

Kya/Lin (Christmas Day)

Lin/ Tarlokk or Linzin

Pema and Tenzin

Senna and Tonraq

Kai and Jinnora

Mr and Mrs Moon

Zolt/Lin

Update: So far we have 18 prompts ! We need thirteen more ! Please send some in !!!

#legend of korra #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 fanfic #tlok fanfic #tlok fanart #kyalin #pemzin #linzin #linzolt #linzumi #korrasami #wuko #bopal #Korra’sChristmas

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dont-blame-it-on-the-kids · 10 months ago

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”Where Blood Meets Metal”

”Where Blood Meets Metal” - Title suggestion by @linnorabeifong

I will only ever have ONE Lin got pregnant and had a kid au and that’s this one.

where Lin ends up being the mother of the Avatar.

I can detail the plot but do I have any of this written???

no.

The Avatar is an oc named Lao.

Aang had been sick for a while, his body just unable to keep going after the stress of living 160 plus years.

They all saw it coming. It was weeks of him on bed rest. Days he hadn’t eaten anything.

It was around that time that Pema started stepping in between Tenzin and Lin.

Wedging them apart slightly day after day.

Tenzin ended up breaking things off with Lin the day before Aang died

So Lin recently broken up with and grieving her uncle Aang (the closest she ever had to a father figure even with his frequent traveling) that night she goes out to get hammered.

Drown her sorrows and forget what was happening around her.

At the bar is where she meets a handsome water tribe man and they end up hooking up

(lmao would be so funny if it is still Tonraq and he was just in the city on business and gets caught up in Lin’s drunken bender night but he still fathers the avatar)

((in another version of this Au this is Amon but before he was the leader of the Equalists))

Lin wakes the next day half dressed in the hotel room with a major hangover and the stranger nowhere to be seen

And she ends up pregnant.

She keeps the kid half convinced it was Tenzins although she knows better. And she and Tenzin get back together under the assumption the baby is his while the little boy grows up.

It becomes painfully obvious Tenzin is not the father. Lin’s features and the strong watertribe features blend perfectly for a handsome baby boy.

First Lao developed water bending. Lin was a touch upset that she couldn't share her element with her son but she knows a few really good water benders and healers and is excited to see if he develops the ability to heal.

Then Lin noticed he was earthbending as well when he was five. And she realizes who she's dealing with now. She cries that night because she knows Aang was reincarnated into her son now and that he was still with her even if in a different way.

She tries to keep it a secret having heard about the white lotus trying to track down the avatar to hide them away in a camp somewhere in the south and the red lotus trying to find the avatar for their own nefarious reasons.

she succeeded in hiding him for a few years but with Tenzin living with them he ends up finding out and reports to the White Lotus that he knows where the avatar is, Lao is about 7 years old Lin should be 40 if I understand the timeline right.

(120ag, she would be 33 when Aang died in 153 ag, lao born at the end of that year makes him 7, now its 160 ag Tenzin would be 41 now and Pema would be 25 now. Yeah i think i’m on track)

Lin is pissed he would betray them and Tenzin feels he’s right because the red lotus is a real threat and they’re lucky they haven't found them yet, lin and Tenzin trying to fight them on their own would be bad news.

The WL show up and there’s a fight because Lin doesn’t want them to take her boy but she loses and they take Lao to be trained and Lin and Tenzin break up for good this time and she hates him so much.

(This would be a year Jinora is born)

Lin tries but is Absolutely Not allowed to see or talk to Lao

They don’t trust she wouldn’t try to take him back and they need to protect him from the red lotus who’s been an issue for a while (they’re right she would have probably tried to hide him in Zaofu if she got lao back and Suyin agreed to it but them not letting her see him is still bullshit)

Tenzin is tasked with keeping watch on Lin both to make sure she doesn’t do something drastic or try to find Lao.

Lin falls into drinking and buries herself with work

Katara tries to help by smuggling letters between Lao and Lin but as the years pass Laos letters start reading more like homework and not actually wanting to write to her. So they slowly stop sending any

Then we get to the start of the series.

Lao is 17, so its 170 ag

since he was kidnapped and held in captivity he kinda has the same spirit and air problems as korra but not as a personality fault (though he does have lin’s stubbornness) but because that connection was basically severed when he lost his mom and was whisked away at a young age

Lao escapes Korra style (his animal companion is a shirshu tho, Akna)

And makes it to the big city.

He actually sees Korra, setting off to find her own in the big city and he helps her out of a tight spot with the triads. (Naga and Akna get along very well)

They both end up arrested and Lin realizes who he is but he has no idea who she is

And she’s not going to push her luck in case the white lotus was still keeping tabs on her contact with him. So Tenzin gets Lao out of trouble and Lao is able to weasel Korra out with him.

Lin goes and breaks down into sobs in a bathroom because that was her boy and he was almost all grown up and she missed everything with him.

Tenzin refuses to tell Lao who his mother is because he needs to focus on his air bending training

Lao keeps sneaking off trying to find any clues as to who his parents are.

And since Lao has a shirshu he tries to track his mom down using scent but they can’t get a clear scent map since the letters are at least five years old and had to go through Katara but because he’s riding a Shirshu around the city he keeps running into Lin and her officers telling him to stop scaring the citizens!

Korra and Lao are fast friends and she joins the fire ferrets and he enjoys watching the matches.

Korra teases him about not “being the leaf” and is always cracking jokes about Tenzin being so serious and is trying to be supportive but also is still Korra.

Mako still gets run over by Asami

The plot kinda progresses the same only with Lao as the avatar with the Krew. He watches the matches because they’re his friends and it gets him away from ATI for a bit.

It’s not until after the pro bending games after Amon attacks and they're all fighting him, when Lin's making sure the kids are alright she cant help but hug him because she almost lost him again and that's when he realizes

but it's only a second and lin pulls back and Tenzin comes up and is asking if everyone is okay

so it's not addressed then.

probably a short scene where he’s talking with the Krew and is all

“How??? How is she my mother??? Woman clearly hates me!?”

But it’s because the WL is like breathing down her neck about not distracting the avatar and is keeping an even closer eye on her incase she tries to take him back again.

The krew kinda agreed that there had to be a mistake or Lao was wrong, but it was weird she hugged him. But Tenzin confirms Lin is his mother.

after that it would be a touch awkward at first. Lao was expecting a mother but found Lin… rough and cold. Literally the iron mother in the monkey experiment lmao

At least to start. Her walls come down some over the course of the show like they would naturally but he learns to pick up on the small signs she gives.

And she learns who her sweet baby boy grew up to be.

Then the plot moves forward and we get to the sacrifice and taking down Amon.

Amon, because he knows more from intercepting the communications in the city, makes Lin's de-bending public. The next day at city hall a big crowd, broadcasted it on the radio, to make sure Lao knows. He got his mother.

Lao is Furious because she was supposed to be with the airbenders!

The krew have to hold him back. And if he could enter the avatar state he would have.

(I have my many hc for what happens to Lin in the four days to a week it takes for Iroh II to show up and help)

Korra still loses her bending, Lao loses the connection to the three elements like in the show.

But Amon escapes, does not try to take his brother, but gets outta there and is rebuilding his Equalists in another city where he established they would all meet up in should the benders oppression prove unmanageable in the city.

they all get to the south. Lao tries to pick a fight with Tenzin for leaving Lin behind and Lin’s just so tired, trying to recover and upset because she failed everyone and lost everything and now her son is suffering because of her.

(Also sprinkle in my hc that the scars left damage to her eye so she can’t see out of that eye and she lost her seismic sense to make up for it. Depth perception is off, she gets startled easily when people come up on that side, and she keeps running her shoulder into door frames and corners on accident. And that since she lost her bending her sense of touch is numbed. Things don’t feel right and she sometimes grabs things with too much pressure to make up for it and has dropped several glasses, also my hc that Zolt gave lin the scars not Suyin /X/X/)

Then he and Korra go off into the snow on their own and he gets to meet with Aang and restores their bending

(I also have my hc that Lin gets to see Aang again when the bending is restored and he thanks her for protecting the air kids and reminds her that he’s so proud of her and loves her so much T-T)

then it kinda fuzzes out because B2 is a bunch of love triangles he’s not involved in and origin story but he never loses connection with the other avatars because that was always a poor choice! Maybe he still needs to save Raava but the previous avatars are a part of her, she promised to preserve them so they come back with her.

and in B3 he’s with the family!

Suyin is PISSED she didn't know

so Lao is getting to know his relatives and finding the new air benders.

she's not happy she can't manipulate him that well. (he's too much like lin)

He learns metal bending rather quickly (i mean look at his mom) and even starts to pick up on the seismic sense that lets people be truth seers.

After the attack he realizes how dangerous this is and doesn’t want his mom in the line of fire again. So he and the krew sneak off.

That Naga jumping at Lin scene But with a Naga AND Akna! 👀

Lin doing everything she can to find them

Lin has to watch him fight the red lotus and get poisoned

Then B4 happens where they don’t know where he is and they’re all worried.

and Toph is upset Lin didn't tell her about Lao but understands and is all like "welcome to the family twinkle toes."

BUT imagine Amon comes back with an even bigger army of Equalists and had stolen or had his spies infiltrate that mech Kuvira made and then he controls it

After the explosion Lao and Amon are in the middle of the city and Lao is stronger now, not That naive “half-baked avatar” he was in B1.

Amon is stronger too and gets hits on Lao’s side to chi-block his bending but Lao falls into the avatar state and bloodbends Amon whos like Shook because It's most definitely not a full moon and he hasn't been bloodbent since he was a boy with his father.

Lao is so angry with him as he sees the chaos and destruction of his city, remembering how sick Lin was and what Amon’s done. He may accidentally tear Amon’s organs apart within his body with the bloodbending.

“How?” Amon would cough up chunks of his heart and lungs before collapsing to the street.

Everyone is like “Do we arrest the Avatar for bloodbending now?”

Korra and Asami still get together

Mako is with Rina(oc) with his twins.

(My hc is that Mako gets with Rina around B2 and has the twins in B3 so with the time skip they’re like 3 almost 4 now? And Mako is PISSED that Wu is keeping him from his family 24/7 and then after the fight he’s injured and can't find his wife and kids, i have more posts with friends under Firecrackers but they have different timelines for it lmao /X/)

I do like the Bolin/Opal ship.

And I don’t have a love interest for Lao rn

But after the series he lives with Lin in her house for a short time before getting an apartment and Lin gets her son back as well as basically adopting Mako Bolin and Asami

UNOFFICIAL ending - He’s devastated when Lin’s killed a few years later in an altercation she shouldn’t have even been a part of but was called to the scene and Lao was a minute too late to get there. (she’s like almost 65ish)

Total Bending Abilities for Lao

Water - Healing, bloodbending

Earth - Metal, seismic sense / truth seeing, (Lin also teaches him how to sculpt lmao)

Fire - Electricity, that cool flame blade

Air - energy bending

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Art of Young Lao by @mgthejerkbender

#I want to write this so bad #but its just a LoK rewrite lmao #Avatar Lao Au #hc #LONG POST #If i've talked with you before about this its a lot of the same #with some added plot points #and commentary lmao #tw gore mention #everything subject to change #my mind is too full rn #I've had this AU for years now #lao is my precious baby #i love him so much #B2-4 are a blurr for me #i may update after i've watched them again

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bendingmuses · 2 years ago

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♬ for multiple characters, whoever you'd like.

♬ : Does your muse sing well? Regardless of whether they sing well or not, do they enjoy singing?

I'm gonna go through all my muses cause I can. At least my canon muses anyway. Since all my OCs are deaf. Singing just doesn't interest any of them.

Zuko:

He absolutely cannot and does not sing. Don't ask. Your ears will bleed lol. He can play some instruments if pushed, but refuses to sing.

Izumi:

She loved singing lullabies to her kids when they were little. She's not the best singer, but her voice did the job at soothing them when it was needed.

Iroh II:

Iroh isn't much of a singer, but he does have the voice of one. He enjoys singing quietly, but he won't if asked. He's got much better talents and skills than singing.

Yua:

Absolutely loves singing. Maybe not in front of people or crowds, but with smaller groups of people and along with a band. Anything with music, Yua is all for. Especially dancing and singing.

Mako:

No. Don't even ask. He'll look at you like you've grown a second head if you try to get him to sing.

Tonraq:

He has one of those voices you would expect to hear when listening to tribal music. Deep and melodic. On that carries his culture and history with ease.

Ghazan:

He doesn't do it often, if at all, but his singing voice is hypnotic. In a sense. You just can't help but to stop and listen intently on the rare chance that Ghazan decides to sing something.

Pema:

She has a sweet, soft singing voice. A voice designed for the songs and culture of the Air Nomads. The singing voice you would expect a mother to have.

Piandao:

He cannot sing. He's more of an instrument player. Much preferring to let the tools speak for him instead of his voice. He's not a good singer even if he was asked.

#headcanon: izumi #headcanon: zuko #headcanon: iroh ii #headcanon: yua #headcanon: mako #headcanon: pema #headcanon: piandao #headcanon: tonraq #headcanon: ghazan

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blade-liger-4ever · 9 months ago

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.....Is now a bad time to mention that I headcanon Tonraq being paternally descended from Kuruk via an OC brother of Kuruk's, or....??

I would pay to see this duo interact

#atla #tlok #avatar the last airbender #legend of korra #the legend of korra #korra #tlok korra #avatar korra #korra fanart #kuruk #avatar kuruk

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writers-pond · 2 years ago

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Hmmmm…a few Bumi ii aus/other Cloudkid aus

AU in which Bumi meets a newly banished Tonraq (via Katara and Kya) and things begin to happen wink wink. Some fluff and familial-related angst here.

Similar AU to the previous one only Bumi falls for Tonraq later on (maybe somewhere during or post-canon) and he, Senna, and Tonraq just form a polycule.

AU in which Kya (Katara and Sokka’s mom) meets her grandchildren. How so depends. Probably the ways of the spirit-world or sudden resurrection.

Bumi x OC AU. In which Bumi and Solrus (my oc) first start off on the rough side of things but eventually become closer and bonded over time

Genderqueer/trans Bumi au. In which at an old age, Bumi ii starts to make a few realizations about himself

#(idk how old Tonraq is but after some loose calculations and some searching I’m assuming that Tonraq would be half of Bumi’s age #tlok #lok #legend of korra #the legend of korra #atla #avatar the last airbender #bumi #bumi ii #tonraq #bumi ii/tonraq #kataang kids #cloudkids #kya #oc: solrus

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rainbowgato · 3 years ago

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Desna: Hewwo.

Sofi: Hihiiiiii!

Eska: Greetings, Humans.

Tonraq : Three kinds of people.

Unalaq: ...

Senna: Four kinds of people.

Korra: WHAT’S UP FUCKERS?

Tonraq : Five kinds of people.

#legend of korra #incorrect quotes #oc insert #eska and desna #tonraq #Korra #unalaq #senna

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amaarok · 3 years ago

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multimuse is a slippery slope b/c here I am with 12 drafts, 1 missing bio, and dreams of 2 new muses.

#;; ooc #;; ( thankfully I have a very busy day and can do nothing about these dreams )#;; ( but imagine a forest based witch OC with a penchant for botany but careful she can and will impale you with pine needles )#;; ( and also a mermaid boy )#;; ( I could tie them all to Iolani and Tonraq but they wouldn’t be part of the Kesuk family )#;; ( hmmm )

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thevictorianghost · 6 months ago

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I know @stargirl-judooz ! It's so hard to choose!

Of course, there's a lot of reasons why I would want to cast Zuko as Tristan and Katara as Yvaine. The whole "you rise with the moon, I rise with the sun" thing fits so well. And Zuko has a similar character growth as Tristan, dealing with his elitist love interest, starting out as pathetic only to grow into his own, etc.

But I've come to the same conclusion as you: I think I'm going to go with Katara as Tristan! I think her journey across the world fits very well, as would her familial relationship, though Zuko will still be the one getting a makeover!

If I were to go with Zuko as Tristan, I really like the idea of Mai being Victoria, too, but I think that would put her in the same role as my Mai as Caledon Hockley from Titanic in my Never Let Me Go fic. The snooty suitor who looks down upon others. Same vibe, different font. It would feel a bit redundant.

Plus, I like my role reversal AUs. I find them much more interesting that way :)

As for the others, I've toyed with the main cast a bit and I've found my princes! And I didn't even have to make OCs! The Northern Water Tribe (being more conservative than the Southern Water Tribe) has a lot of older men with tragic or villainous traits, so I've picked and chose those from the ATLA Wiki. Most are from LOK, which I still haven't watched, but I don't care lol.

Amon/Noatak as Prince Primus

Tarrlok as Prince Secundus

Yakone as Prince Tertius

Pakku as the ghost of Prince Quartus

Kuruk as the ghost of Prince Quintus

Tonraq as the ghost of Prince Sextus

Unalaq as Prince Septimus

(Also, if anyone thinks I should switch which prince is which, please tell me!)

Now, I just need to find a good explanation for why Zuko is a star and Uncle Iroh and Azula are not (it'll probably be related to Zuko's scar) and we're in business!

Okay Zutara Fandom, I need your help

So it’s been a while since I’ve written Zutara fic, and since I’ve watched Stardust (2007) this weekend, I want to make a Zutara AU for this amazing movie!!

If you’ve never seen it (go watch it!), it’s about a young man named Tristan who decides that, to win the heart of the prettiest lady in his village, he must go and find a shooting star that fell on the other side of a magical wall, only to find out that the star is, in fact, a young woman named Yvaine, who is being hunted by both evil witches and murderous princes.

Now, my question for the Zutara fandom is: who should be Tristan and and who should be Yvaine? Because I know it would seem like a no-brainer that Zuko is Tristan and Katara is Yvaine, but I am also torn with the idea to make Katara Tristan and Zuko Yvaine (like my Zutara Titanic AU, where Zuko was Rose and Katara was Jack).

If I were to have Zuko be Tristan, the characters would be like this:

Tristan: Zuko

Dunstan: Uncle Iroh (or Noren, from the comics?)

Old Man at the Wall: Bumi

Yvaine: Katara

Victoria: Mai

Victoria’s friends: Azula and Ty Lee

Humphrey: Chan (The Beach episode guy) or maybe Jet?

The witches: Hama, Lo and Li

The princes: 7 OCs

The King: Ozai (or Azulon?)

Sal: Joo Dee

Una: Ursa

Captain Shakespeare: Aang (or Uncle Iroh? Depends on who I pick for Dunstan)

Pirate crew: Sokka, Suki, Toph, Appa, Momo

Star who talks to Tristan: Yue

But if it were to be Katara as Tristan, then the cast of characters would be like this:

Tristan: Katara

Dunstan: Hakoda

Old Man at the Wall: Bumi

Yvaine: Zuko

Victoria: Jet

Victoria’s friends: Smellerbee, Longshot, Pipsqueak

Humphrey: Jin? Or Song??

The witches: Azula, Mai, Ty Lee

The princes: 7 OCs

The King: Chief Arnook

Sal: Hama

Una: Kya

Captain Shakespeare: Uncle Iroh

Pirate crew: Zuko’s crew + the Gaang

Star who talks to Tristan: Yue

I can’t decide which one to choose!! Can anyone help me, please? Thank you!!

(I’ll also tag a few people who could help, and if I forgot to tag you, I’m very sorry!!)

@cynical-mystic @sunnylune @juldooz @burst-of-iridescent @darkcrowprincess

Also, as you can see, I’m mostly brainstorming here, lol. But it sounds like a cute idea!!

#zutara #zutara au #zutara fandom #stardust au

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kyoshis-gf · 3 years ago

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Sample 01 - Welcome to Republic City

Disclaimer: This is NOT a “fix-it” series, much less a “rewrite”. I do not enjoy those, and I very much love Legend of Korra perfectly as it is. This is merely testing my own writing skills by trying to portray small scenes I’d loved to see throughout the show!

This scene takes place after the dinner with Tenzin, but before Korra sneaks out to RC.

EXT. Southern Water Tribe, MARKET - Night

Tenzin, Korra, Jinora, Tonraq and Senna walk around the market. Korra’s parents are more to the back, talking amongst themselves, while Korra, Tenzin and Jinora take the front.

KORRA

C’mon, Tenzin! Can’t you think about it just a liiiitle bit more?

Tenzin carefully shakes the snow off his cape, a weary look to his eyes.

TENZIN

I’ve thought about it plenty, Korra, and I believe we’ve discussed it at length. Your staying here in the South Pole with your family is the best decision in the long run.

Korra runs ahead of him, spreading her arms to point around them, to the people.

KORRA

Best for WHO? Certainly not me! And I can’t believe the rest of the world is super happy about their avatar being locked up--

TENZIN

(Sighing)

You’re not locked up, Korra. You’re… Training. In a safe environment, away from distractions, and--

KORRA

And people, and other cultures, and masters of all forms of sub-bending I probably haven’t even heard of!

TENZIN

You truly believe the world is much more exciting than it actually is.

Korra kicks the snow from under her feet.

KORRA

How would I know? You guys never let me leave and see it for myself. I’m the first avatar who hasn’t gotten to travel to the world.

Tenzin puts a calming hand to her shoulder.

TENZIN

You’re sixteen, Korra, not a hundred and six. There will be plenty of time for you to see the world and live all there is to be lived.

KORRA

(Under her breath)

Yeah, right. As soon as you manage to free up your schedule a little bit, right?

TONRAQ

C’mon now, Korra, don’t be brash. I’m sure Tenzin is doing the best he can. He is just a very busy man.

TENZIN

Believe me, there’s nothing I want more than to preserve my father’s legacy, and that includes passing down his teachings to you. But he left more to this world than his reincarnation, and taking care of Republic City is as dear to me as any other endeavor.

Korra opens her mouth to reply, but, at that very moment, a kid runs past her, bending the snow and making it fall on both Tenzin and Jinora.

KID

Outta the way, lady!

Jinora sneezes. Korra quickly bends the snow off Tenzin’s and Jinora’s robes and then drops to one knee in order to hold a flame near Jinora to warm her up.

KID’S MOTHER (O.S)

Be careful! That’s the Avatar!

KID (O.S)

(Suspiciously)

And what’s that supposed to be?

Korra and Jinora exchange a glance.

KORRA

Yeah, I’m sure the new generation is feeling suuuuuper in tune with their Avatar right about now.

Tenzin stammers. Moves his hands about, not really sure of what to do with them. Then gives up. Senna steps in to mediate the situation.

SENNA

We should go get snacks! Master Tenzin rarely ever comes to the South Pole, and he wouldn’t want to miss our algae-cake, right?

TENZIN

Uh….

SENNA

Great!

Senna pulls Tenzin by the elbow. Tonraq walks up so he can talk more directly with Korra.

TONRAQ

Don’t be so harsh on him.

KORRA

I’m not being harsh. I’m just tired of waiting.

TONRAQ

The world will be a better place with a well-trained Avatar… And…. It kind of sounds like you can’t wait to get rid of your parents.

He nudges her jokingly. Korra blows a raspberry.

KORRA

(Whispering to Jinora)

Whad'ya say? Wanna ditch those booooring old people and go penguin sledding with me and your siblings?

Jinora beams, but she is not entirely sold on the idea yet.

JINORA

Mom says we shouldn’t stray from the course. The market is pretty big…

KORRA

You tell me! You think I’ve seen half of this place? But a little birdie told me Katara used to go on penguin sledding, and…--

JINORA

-- If gran-gran did it…--

KORRA

--So can we!

Korra looks up, expectantly, at her dad. Tonraq seems a little bit doubtful, but yields.

TONRAQ

All right, just don’t go far. And yell if anything happens!

KORRA

Yes!

Korra whistles. Naga finds her, sniffing the air around them until Korra scratches her behind the ears. Korra carefully puts Jinora on Naga’s back.

When she turns back, Tonraq is gone, probably off to find his wife and Tenzin. Korra readies herself to jump on Naga’s back as well, but, before she can do so, she is called:

WOMAN’S VOICE (O.S)

Look over here!

KORRA

Huh?

Korra turns towards the voice. From one of the fish stands, approaches a woman, in her 40s. She looks like one of the market vendors’.

WOMAN

You’re the Avatar, right?

KORRA

Sure am. You need help? Is there something bothering--

WOMAN

No, not at all! I just wanted to see you up close!

KORRA

See me…?

WOMAN

Well, it is quite embarrassing to say this, but… Oh, Korra. You spend so much time locked up in that compound, many of us have forgotten what you actually look like…

At the other side of the Market, Tenzin, Senna and Tonraq eat away at their meal, when one of the vendors catches their attention:

VENDOR

Isn’t the Avatar Girl with you?

At the other side of the Market, Tenzin, Senna and Tonraq eat away at their meal, when one of the vendors catches their attention:

VENDOR

Isn’t the Avatar Girl with you?

Tonraq very slowly puts his bowl down.

TONRAQ

She has a name.

VENDOR

Has she now? With the way the lot of you keep her away from us, you’d think you were trying to make us forget her.

SENNA

That’s not--

VENDOR

But what do I know? Legends and stories and all that rubbish. Maybe our Avatar is a different kind, huh? One that doesn’t like to meddle with people

Back to Korra.

WOMAN

But you’re such a pretty girl! I remember you, when you were just a baby, running behind Senna when she came to pick up the fish! So cute! But you’re all grown up now. It’s a shame you never actually got to know the Tribe. And you’ll be leaving us for that “Big City” soon…

KORRA

(Mumbling)

Maybe not so soon.

WOMAN

What was that?

KORRA

Nothing. I, uh, just talking to myself, I guess.

TONRAQ

Korra is receiving the training she’ll need to protect the world.

VENDOR

Sure. But what about us?

SENNA

… You?

VENDOR

The world isn’t just buildings and your big people's games, y’know? How is she supposed to love the world if she doesn’t even know the people she’s supposed to be protecting?

KORRA

Thank you. For, uh, for talking to me. I really needed that. But now I may have promised a little airbender I’d show her our tribe’s famous penguin sledding…

The woman chuckles.

WOMAN

Of course! Wouldn’t want to stand in the way. But, before you leave:

The woman moves her hands towards Korra, lifting some water up from the snow. She then bends the water into a… weird-looking and definitely asymmetrical but yet still endearing ice-flower, and puts it on Korra’s hair.

WOMAN

Come back to the tribe someday. And we’ll be sure to teach you how to do this and everything else you didn’t get to do.

Korra gets choked up, so she simply nods. She gets on Naga’s back and adjusts herself around Jinora.

TENZIN

I’m sure you have the Avatar’s best interests at heart, sir, but please refrain from insinuating such things. Korra is far from alienated from her people. Her training is simply more important, and her family understands that.

Tonraq and Senna share a look of doubt, quickly hiding it behind tight smiles when Tenzin looks back at them for approval. The vendor scoffs.

JINORA

You all right, Korra?

KORRA

Yeah. Yeah, sure. Just got a lot on my mind.

She keeps Naga walking, but her eyes are off the road. She looks determined, her mind elsewhere.

It’s at this moment she decides she’ll have to go to Republic City, one way or another. And it’s at this moment Senna and Tonraq both agree with her.

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