Uncle Zaheer and Aunt P'Li headcanons Midori and Suiren please?
oh my god I finally get to talk about them yes
Zaheer and P’Li roasted the absolute shit out of Ghazan and Ming-Hua when they found out Ming was pregnant with Suiren. It was even worse the second time around
“One time I can understand, but two? Come on, Zanny, have some self control!”
Ming-Hua’s lower back really hurt during the later months of both pregnancies, and P’Li discovered that if she made her hand warmer with fire bending and placed it on the sore spot, the pain would get easier. Ming-Hua would normally already spend hours in P’Li’s embrace, now she has a handy excuse
(I’ve been laughing at that godawful pun for two minutes now)
They were there for both births because there’s no way in hell they’d let Ming-Hua go through that with only Ghazan at her side, and miss the expansion of their family
They completely and utterly adored their nieces.
Both of them are the epitome of “I never understood why people had children until I got a niece. I’ve only had her for a day and a half but if anything happened to her I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.
P’Li is generally very good with children, while Zaheer sees them more as little-sized adults and sometimes has to be reminded that “they can’t even pronounce anarchy yet let alone know what that is.”
There were times when P’Li would cradle the girls as babies in her arms and just silently stare at them for hours. No one really knew why.
Zaheer attempted to get them into poetry and philosophy as soon as they were able to comprehend full sentences. Midori tried to listen and understand, she really did, but mostly always ended up falling asleep halfway through. Suiren didn’t even bother.
“Let me tell you about the poetry of the great Guru Laghima.”
Despite this, Suiren did somehow memorise the whole “empty and become wind” thing, and now, as an adult, sometimes wishes she could do as it commanded
P’Li is their auntie and they refused to refer to her as anything else
They clung to her like little marmosets because she was always nice and warm and gave the best hugs
Also at night they insisted on sleeping next to her whenever she and Zaheer visited because she makes for a very warm and comfy pillow
“No I am not jealous of my nieces because they kicked me out of bed and stole my girlfriend. Being jealous of children in matters like this is low and undignified. Shut up Ghazan.”
Firebenders being walking heat packs is one of my favourite headcanons can you tell
Whenever they visited Ghazan and Ming-Hua, Zaheer would tell the girls stories about their travels. They’d have to remind him to stay on topic cause he’d go off on philosophical rants about the injustices they saw
P’Li would always bring them little gifts from whereever she and Zaheer travelled to. Midori still has them all in a box somewhere
The plan was that once Suiren and Midori were old enough, Ghazan and Ming-Hua would take them and join P’Li and Zaheer in travelling. The girls were practically counting down days until they were old enough because they wanted to help their family change the world. P’Li was the one who insisted they wait a few years so that the girls don’t get too overwhelmed and have a sense of normalcy growing up.
(These ones are gonna be angsty. Also they’re mostly based on P’Li’s backstory from Lost and Found by @felicity-kitten)
P’Li’s tattoo is one of the things that isn’t talked about in their household. They were free to ask, of course, but they knew not to expect a concrete answer. The adults collectively agreed that P’Li’s past was too horrifying to disclose to little children. They would’ve been told when they were older, if their parents weren’t imprisoned.
Suiren and Midori never knew why Auntie always looked so sad whenever she watched them play. She’d get this distant look in her eye until either Dad or Uncle lightly tapped her on the arm, which is when she’d snap out of it
In reality, P’Li saw herself and her sister in Suiren and Midori. That same childhood innocence in their eyes. She swore that she’d protect her nieces like she wasn’t able to protect Lien-Hua. That they’d get to grow up safe and happy and with their family. Breaking that promise almost drove her mad in prison, she kept imagining the girls with her sister’s terrified look on their faces.
She almost slipped up and called Midori ‘Lien-Hua’ on multiple occasions.
If she ever found out Suiren ended up as an assassin, that would absolutely break her heart. That was essentially what she was groomed to be, and she would never wish the burden of taking someone’s life on your conscience onto anyone, especially not her little niece who she remembers being so tiny and bright eyed and happy.
