#aunt lin

[synne-i]

The wonderful and sweet @dont-blame-it-on-the-kids commissioned me to draw this. You guys gotta go thank them. They have some really nice ideas for what is happening in this picture with Ikki and aunt Lin❤️

[holoceneatla]

Lin and the air babies head cannons?

Okay so this got out of hand a little but:

- Lin is very awkward around them first, because the only child she’s ever been around is Su

- Jinora is the first one she warms up to, because she’s quiet and just has her nose stuck in a book all the time

- Tenzin must have mentioned about the book exchanges they used to have, because Jinora starts asking questions about books she’s reading from the Island’s library

- She starts recommending books for Jinora to read

- When she’s older (and when Linzin have struck up their friendship again), the three of them have a book club

- Ikki takes a while for Lin to warm up to. She asks way too many questions that Lin just doesn’t know how to answer without being mean.

- One day, Ikki is sick when she and Kya are watching the kids and Kya is nowhere to be found

- Lin begrudgingly cleans up the mess, but the girl is feverish and clingy and whiny

- She asks for a cuddle and a story, so Lin obliges, sitting down in Aang’s old rocking chair, telling Ikki a child-friendly version of her detective days and the girl falls asleep on her

- That’s the moment Ikki worms her way into Lin’s heart

- Meelo is loud and hyper and disgusting, everything she hates about kids, and she tries not to have too much to do with him at first

- But she kind of likes the hero worship

- She also enjoys indulging in pranking the cloudkids with him

- As he grows up, he decides he wants to become the first airbending police officer and Lin is so immensely proud

- She gives him advice and goes to his graduation ceremony and she can’t stop smiling the entire time

- I hc Rohan as a waterbender and he always feels like the odd one out growing up

- He’s quiet and studious and waterbends like an airbender. Lin likes to show him some earthbending techniques so he can learn to incorporate those into his bending style

- She absolutely loves reading stories to all of the kids, and she’s amazing at the voices

- They all adore Aunt Lin’s cuddles but she swears them to secrecy about it so that nobody can know she’s a giant softie

- Ikki is the first one to call her Aunt Lin and Lin wells up the first time she hears it

- The first time Ikki gets her heart broken, Tenzin has to stop her from hunting the little shit down

[holoceneatla]

I hope you’re still ok getting KyaLin prompts. I’d like to ask for Lin admitting just how much she’s fallen for Kya to someone, maybe Katara or Tenzin or Bumi. Or a really soft evening between Kya & Lin, when the whole world slips away & it’s just them, making each other happy, being kind & wanting to make each other happy after so long being apart.

I’m not sure how coherent all that is but I love your writing & I think you have a brilliant grasp of their characters & anything you write will be ever so welcome. *waves geekily*

thank you so much! i couldn’t get this to form in a prose kind of way, but i kind of like the bullet style tbh.

- ikki shows up at police station

- cue confused and disgruntled!lin

- she’s on her lunch break

- kya’s in the SWT visiting katara

- ikki does not seem to be leaving

- ‘do you like aunt kya’

- lin spits out her drink

- she thought kya had had this talk with them

- ‘yes’

- ‘how much do you like her?’

- lin’s trying to toe the line between not answering and not upsetting the child

- ‘a good amount’

- ‘do you love her?’

- ‘...(sigh) yes’

- ‘how did you know?’

- ffs lin’s ready to kill you ikki

- ikki begins rambling about pemzin and lin reminds herself of several reasons why a drink is not an acceptable choice at work in front of a child

- lin contemplates the question

- there wasn’t ever a moment, she just kinda knew

- kya asleep on the sofa when she gets in from work in the early hours of the morning

- the way she drops into lin’s office with takeout when she’s snowed under

- how she sings and dances as she flits about the kitchen cooking dinner

- the sleepy smile on her face as she wakes in the morning

- ...yeah, there’s no way she’s telling ikki that

- ‘idk what to tell you kid, sometimes there’s a moment, and sometimes you just realise you’re in deep’

- she thinks that will be the end of it

- but no

- ‘what’s the difference between falling in love with a boy and falling in love with a girl’

- it’s bad but she’s kind of wishing for an emergency to call her away

- how can a child have so many questions??

- oh god, please don’t ask where babies come from

- ‘there isn’t one’

- ‘can you like boys differently than you like girls?’

- there’s a hope in her eyes that resonates with lin

- the chief softens slightly

- ‘i suppose... i like some boys, but i like lots of girls’

- it’s simplifying the answer, but it’s not really wrong

- ikki looks relieved

- ‘okay good because i thought i liked this boy that all of my friends like but then i met this girl and she’s so pretty’

- lin will forever deny the sense of fondness she feels growing as ikki describes her crush

- it then flips to seething rage when ikki tells her how her friends made fun of her when she told them

- she’s like 0.2 seconds away from marching out and arresting them (are they even old enough to arrest? she’ll arrest their parents if not) when she gets a call from tenzin freaking out bc he lost his kid

- she tells ikki it’s time to go home but says some nice reassuring aunt shit before she does

- ‘find better friends’

- that’s what aunts say, right?

- agni, kya would be better at this

- ikki gives her a hug and lin grumbles but she kinda likes it

- she says ‘thanks aunt lin’ and flits out of the office

- aunt lin

- maybe she doesn’t mind as much as she should

- she’ll never admit it

[alouminumfalcon-blog]

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think of an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man in a bowler hat

Aunt Lin, The Franchise Affair

[alouminumfalcon-blog]

'A last-minute reprieve with the rope round the heroes neck? That happens only in detective stories and the last few minutes of horse-operas' 'Not at all. It happens every day, somewhere in the world... Providence does take a hand, you know, when other methods fail.'

Robert Blair + Aunt Lin, The Franchise Affair