Captain of The Waterbender

My name's Kai, Captain of the pirate ship The Waterbender. I do my best to take care of my crew. I'm now in a happy relationship with Jinora Gyatso. (Yes, Yung was right. You don't have to rub it in.) [ooc: tracks the "anchor au" tag; header art done by @kuno-chan, icon by rowatree & edited by thethiefandtheairbender]

[ltwilliammowett]

A pair of solid gold earrings, modelled as galleons, with gold wire masts & rigging, enamel decoration and pearls, 1600s

[thievesandbeggars]

[thievesandbeggars]

So many people have reblogged this with such intense yearning in their tags and it makes my heart happy every time.

[boatcats]

For anyone looking to describe wind in fic! Beaufort Wind Scale. I found some of these descriptions amusing.

Update: Sorry this is so hard to read. I may type it out when I have a minute.

Further update: Source is The Complete Sailor by David Seidman which is really very helpful and well written!

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

[dduane]

...Also: "Lie ahull."

[pedromgabriel]

- April sunset -

by Pedro Gabriel

[atroy9]

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[desflorecia]

[desflorecia]

[metaphorformetaphor]

And if suddenly The sea existed somewhere For you And for me

Dénise Jallais, from ‘Week-end,” Serving blood : New Poems by French Women (Wampeter Press, 1979)

[thethiefandtheairbender]

How did Kai's sister feel when their mother worked as a prostitute and if it's not a spoiler does she look a lot like her father since Kai got his mother's genetics

His sister was largely too young to really know or understand the nature of her mother’s work—Ming likely worked as a prostitute when she was very young, around 1-3 years old to make ends meet before her mother got a more secure job. And even then, if she’d been older, I think she only would have cared that her mother was given the respect she deserves, regardless of her occupation. Sex workers are hard working people just like the rest of us, after all. As for Kai’s sister, no, she does not look very much like Kai’s father, either. The reason for that will be revealed much, much later.

[thethiefandtheairbender]

ANCHOR MEME: [1/7] main characters ➝ Kai Tashi Fong-Gyatso

“I ran away in Paradise because I messed up,” he whispered. “I had been carrying some supplies and it ended up going overboard, and I thought that was it, that Zaheer would have my head and that even Yung would call it quits so I just…I just ran.” He wanted to seek comfort in her warmth, but forced himself to keep looking her in the eye. “And I ran right into the gang I had stolen from in Omashu, the Triple Threat Triads, and they were going to teach me a lesson when Yung and Imaru and Lefty and Otaku and Ryu and Daw and Longshot all found me, a―and they kept me safe… they never even told Zaheer that had run off, said it’d stay our secret. And that was the first time I ever really felt like I belonged somewhere.”

[thethiefandtheairbender]

ANCHOR MEME: [1/6] side characters ➝ Shen Shen Sesi

He didn’t know what to make of Shen Shen. Behind her flirting there was a serious, skeptical mind at work, and he dreaded the day he legitimately wound up on her bad side.

[the-captainkai]

Would you describe anchor Kuvira as a good person cause the way describe her seems like she's not that corrupt like she was in legend of Korea.

Kuvira is not corrupt the way she is in LOK. She has many of the same characteristics: ruthlessness, bitterness, persistence, resolve. But her motivations and life experiences are different, and obviously her ambitions are on a different path.

I think Kuvira is a good if misguided person who carries a lot of bitterness in her heart.

[the-captainkai]

Which pirates is Kuvira most eager to capture and what did you mean by her family did not approve of her career path, why is that?

Kuvira probably wants the big names: Quil, Hama, Koh (before he died), Zaheer (before he died), Kai, Jet of the Freedom Fighters. There’s a vindictive part of her that would like to get Korra and the Avatar crew, granted that she could pardon Opal for whatever charges could be held against her. She may not approve of what Opal’s doing, but their personal relationship keeps Kuvira from wanting her to die for it. She just wants Opal to stop and be safe - and Opal’s occupation as a pirate is what sets Kuvira at odds with the rest of the BeiFongs. Just because they lost a child doesn’t mean they want to forsake another

[the-captainkai]

Was Kuvira cast away by her parents like in lok and how did Suyin find her. Also does she have a strained relationship with her and the rest of the family.

Kuvira was orphaned at a young age and taken in by the BeiFongs shortly afterwards. She’d wandered to ZaoFu, or maybe Suyin while on a business trip saw a small girl wandering the streets and took her in. Kuvira loves her family dearly, but she’s never been the same since Bataar Jr. died. Mostly, she’s a very angry person against pirates, and can’t see that they aren’t all the same (like Opal, or Kai, for example) which obviously isn’t a good way of thinking. So yeah, her relationship with them is strained because Opal is still a pirate, and Kuvira is still persecuting them

[the-captainkai]

Did Korra and Asami date in anchor or did Korra only date Mako. And how did Asami become one of the crew members on the ship.

Korra is kind of in a polyamorous relationship with Mako and Asami. Asami, after the fall of her father and family company, decided to start over as a sailor on the Avatar, and then got drawn into the pirate business after that. Asami is Korra’s longterm partner. Mako, on the otherhand, mostly because he lives on land, is someone Korra fell for around the same time she was falling for Asami. They all agreed on the relationship between them, which is pretty much that whenever Korra visits where Mako lives, they sleep together, go on dates, etc. and are a couple. While sailing, Korra and Asami are together and do those things too.

It works for all three of them

[the-captainkai]

How did Kuvira establish a WHOLE company at such a young. I know that she's bad business for Kai and the crew, but I gotta admit that's badass and inspiring.

Pretty much she got the funding needed from rich people who were losing business to pirates, and opened a police department specifically. Coming from a well-off family with connections (even if they didn’t improve of her career path) with a kick-ass university degree in politics doesn’t hurt either. Eventually the department grew massively and was a big success, but there’s also a lot of corruption, which she does do her best to weed out. She can’t always directly have a hand in local officers’ affairs, like in Geishou tho, if she’s running the whole operation. And yes, she is a badass

[thethiefandtheairbender]

How could Opal become a pirate after her oldest brother was killed by pirates. And how did it affect her family.

She became a pirate before Bataar Jr. died, but she does (obviously) have a VERY strained relationship with Kuvira. Her family was devastated, but BeiFongs stick together, and they also know that the way Opal and her crew practices pirating isn’t what traditional pirates do - in other ways, they’re another crew that is “pirates with morales”