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[inmydrcams]

@metalscarred​ said: “what does that mean!?” - for tenzin?

             He didn’t want to do this. He doesn’t love her any less and he has to fight every instinct in him not to reach for her, to hold her and tell her to FORGET all about this. They can make it work, they… But his mind keeps insisting his heart is wrong and they can’t though, that they should’ve done this long ago, that they’ve been dragging it for long enough and he’s getting older and Aang is dead and the WHOLE future of the air nomads is on his shoulders. Does Lin understand how suffocating that is? How he keeps feeling like he’s running out of time, like he’s gonna disappoint his dad if he doesn’t at least TRY as hard as he can? They’re both getting too old to not make it something serious and… Well, she has made it more than clear that her priorities lie elsewhere. He gets it, not everyone thinks the same, people are different and we should respect their differences but maybe it hurts him that she’s apparently not willing to try and see things his way.

          ❝ You know what it means, Lin. ❞  He keeps his distance so he won’t betray himself, looks to the ground as he takes a breath.  ❝ I love you, Lin. I have not stopped loving you but… ❞  A sad expression crosses his face and he looks at her, she deserves that much from him.  ❝ We are fooling ourselves pretending there’s a future here… Aren’t we? ❞

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mina rarely came to republic city. she’d been once when she was young and it was the same reason she was here now — business. her family had connections in town, fellow farmers, that they traded with and dined with once a year. usually it was her parents that would come but mina, determined to even get a glimpse at the pro-bending stadium, had done everything she could until they gave in and let her take their place.

cue to now - business taken care of, stomach full of food, a pro-bending match listened to with a strong connection on the radio. it was the most exciting day of mina’s life. and the most confusing; small towns didn’t need directions but big cities did. eventually she finds a police station. paper with the name of her inn on in hand, mina steps inside, smile bright enough to melt metal as she makes her way to the officer nearby - an older woman, hair as short and curled as mina’s own. somehow she looked familiar. “excuse me, uhm, do you happen to know where Jin’s inn is, do you? I’m kind of lost.”

[kasaino]

STARTER CALL.      ➲             @metalscarred​

“     You wanted to see me,  Chief?      ”      Mako ask as he  steps  into the the office.  Lips  press  together in   m i l d   nervousness as he he shuts the door behind him.

[guazhu]

     ❛           he    couldn’t    have    died    at    a      worse      time.           ❜

@metalscarred​     liked   for   a   starter   !

[sccharin]

☆ - Knocking on their door at 3AM. @kuvira

     her sleep had not been deep to begin with, so lin’s knock jolts her straight out of bed; confusion filling her mind as she tugs her robe tighter around her frame & moves to open the door. to find lin standing there, & kuvira immediately grows concerned. “ captain, what is the problem? are we under attack? “ when she notes the look on her face, however, her concern grows. “ come, “ she steps back, opens the door wider. “come inside. sit down -- do you want me to make some tea? “ whatever her confusion & questions, it’s all pushed aside when she sees lin like this. her priority was making sure the woman was alright.

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[kidncpped]

Meta about korra and airbending?

meta meme, open 

Airbending has always been elusive to Korra. She wasn’t able to bend air from childhood, as she did with the other elements, and she did not have access to a master as a member of the Red Lotus. After mastering firebending as a teenager under P’Li, Korra instead turned her focus to meditation. Growing up under the instruction of the Red Lotus opened Korra up the spiritual aspects of her role as the Avatar more easily than it came in her canon portrayal. She meditates with Zaheer consistently, even before mastering the other three elements, and if focused enough, can access the Spirit World with him. Because of this, air may be more so frustrating to my Korra, as she feels like she should be able to bend air after what she considers mastering the spiritual side of the Avatar.

Another idea I like to consider with airbending is her freedom. In canon, Korra is not free for the first seventeen years of her life. Under strict surveillance of the White Lotus, she cannot even leave the compound without telling a guard where she is going and when she will be back. On the opposite end though, my portrayal of Korra first experiences freedom from a very young age. Throughout her life, Korra is moving around various parts of the Earth Kingdom, the Northern Water Tribe (where she stays with her uncle when visiting), and the Fire Nation. While, yes, she is in hiding the entire time and thus does have restrictions on her freedom, she has an active role in shaping her future and has the autonomy in the Red Lotus to make decisions for herself. There’s the idea of captivity that I play with in my AU because technically Korra is held captive with the Red Lotus, but in that captivity, she experiences more of the world, more freedom, and more spiritual connection than she does in canon where she has not been kidnapped.

She starts training air when Zaheer discovers his ability to airbend after Harmonic Convergence. At this time, Korra has given up Raava and is the world’s last Avatar. I would like to think some specific event triggered her to unlock airbending, sort of like in canon, but I have not thought about specifics to this right now. And I guess the event would have to happen before she gives up Raava, so that she still has the ability to bend air, period.

After Harmonic Convergence, she feels more lost than ever before. For the first time, she is no longer in hiding from the world and the Red Lotus starts to take on larger, and more risky missions now that they’ve completed their mission with Korra. And she feels that from them –– like they are done with her. Because of this, she feels as though she constantly has to prove her loyalty to the Red Lotus and their mission, despite having already given up the Avatar spirit for their cause. On top of all of this, Korra also is grieving for the Light spirit. Raava’s absence is tangible to Korra. She can feel the space where Raava was, and she can feel her absence from her being. This triggers a lot of dreams/hallucinations haunting Korra (think Korra Alone-ish). 

Zaheer excels at airbending, but Korra struggles because of the state of her mental health after Harmonic Convergence.

[sungdreams]

        ❛  did  you  always  want  to  be  chief  of  police ?  ❜   from   what  she’s  been  told  when  she  was  younger  it  seemed  to  be  her  aunt’s  life  dream,  but  with  all  the  new  revelations  lately,  opal  figured  there  was  probably  more  to  it.   she  couldn’t  really  imagine  aunt  lin  doing  anything  else  despite  the  short  while  she’s  known  and  been  around  her,  though.   ❛  were  there  no  other  professions  you  wanted  to  pursue  aside  from  it ?  ❜

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TENSION in the air is thick enough to be cut with a knife. chiharu had only been made aware of the woman’s connection to avatar korra mere seconds before stepping through the door. the thought of living through the lifetime of two, three even, different avatar cycles, knowing all of them, chiharu couldn’t imagine it, and yet here this woman was. “uhm,” throat clears, “I’m chiharu. the, uh, the new avatar.”