When do the kitras first meet other kids? How does it go?
It’s a minor disaster. As most things are when you’re a new parent, honestly. Kyra slashes a little boy for taking a plastic shovel she was using.Kyra is maybe 20 months old, so just before she turns 2 (kids start to exercise empathy around 2)
So when everyone starts to panic and the kids is BAWLING and covered in blood she’s just like,,, wow,,, this is very interesting.Ezra’s a little more in touch with his empathy at this stage. In fact he’s probably also bawling. It’s a mess.
Kyra likes to brag about it when she’s older. “When I was 2 I clawed a kid’s eye out!” and whoever she’s speaking with is like “For real?” and she’s like “…Okay it was actually a really serious situation and I probably shouldn’t joke about it…” she doesn’t at all remember the situation but she does feel remorse for her actions by then.
Ezra’s more personable than Kyra. He is shy but he gets along better with others. He helps one of the others build a sand castle. Then Kyra comes over and kicks it apart.But he’s not upset about it. He has Kyra sit down with him and they make a new pile of sand out of the ruined shapes and then kick it down together.
Sometimes Kyra gets too excited and she will hit or kick. She doesn’t really mean it in a malicious manner. She just has a lot of feelings. Usually when that happens the best thing to do is take her to a quiet room to calm down. Adora and Catra have lost count of the times that she’s bitten Ezra (he actually lets her do it, mostly, but if she holds on too long he starts to make this high pitched whimpering sound. It scares them everytime.)
Neither parent knows where Ezra’s patience comes from. Bow, probably, because Gods know neither of them were so calm as children.
Both kids make friends. Kyra is more rough and tumble. She likes to wrestle and play sports. Ezra is patient and kind and friends with basically everyone. Nobody is mean to him because he doesn’t have a cruel bone in his body. If a kid tries to hit or kick him or take something that’s his, he lets them. Oftentimes if they want something that’s his, he will give it to them.
But one time, he’s hanging on to a scrap of cloth (a piece of the blanket from the Horde cot Adora and Catra used to share), and rubbing it to soothe himself, and another kid takes it from him. He asks for it back, because it’s important to him. They refuse. He cries (Ezra cries a lot). Others ask him what’s wrong but he won’t say. They try to give him their things (he’s taught everyone in the class a lot about sharing. They become nearly as generous with their things as he is with his), but nothing will calm him down.
Kyra sees the one boy with the scrap of cloth.
She gives him a black eye and is suspended from school for three days.
She leaves the scrap of cloth somewhere she knows Ezra will find it. When asked WHY she beat this kid up she refuses to say anything other than ‘he was mean’.
