and although i was burning | waava week 2024 - memorial
summary: The flashes of light, the faces she’s known and the ones she’s never seen disintegrating in a burst of flame. The last face that lingers longer than the rest. That one repeating over and over again, and her chest aches. Korra says, "she just realized they’re all gone.” // Korra, Raava, and collateral damage. Post-Book 2 Finale. Pretty heavily implied Wan/Raava (obviously, it's me).
notes: OKAY okay...listen. i watched the book 2 finale for the first time in YEARS yesterday during a tattoo appointment, which only mildly numbed the pain (of the finale). today, i opened google docs to work on chapter 5 of claw machine, then classic twilight soundtrack banger A Thousand Years by Christina Perri came on autoplay, i lost my mind for a little bit, and when i came to, we had this. i'm so sad bro. 11 years, and there are some wounds time will never heal...waava week is not over for me
There is light. It’s blinding. It’s pain.
It’s tendrils of iridescent white smashing against rock and Korra is reaching, but she can’t reach far enough, and every strike brings new pain.
It’s faces. There are faces.
There are faces she knows, and faces only Raava knows. She is seeing through Raava’s eyes instead of Raava through hers.
Aang. Roku. Kyoshi. Kuruk. All of them her, all of them lined up, all of them burning.
She’s feeling what Raava feels.
They burn faster and faster, and all Korra hears inside of her own head is Raava’s voice, Raava’s pain, Raava’s screams .
Then there is Wan. Only Wan.
They see him longer than the rest and on a nightmarish loop, Korra feels her beg—
Please let me keep this one—please, please, please, let me just keep this one, not him, please—
