#humbledwaves

Lily were walking around the village, she needed some supplies that she could use for her medicine, being a healer wasn’t an easy job specially when she lives in the forest close to a mountain, but she manage to practice her earth bending, she looks around the market close to the docks, she have more chances to get want she needed there.

She have long white hair like Moon’s dust, pale skin like a pearl and green eyes like an emerald, however her right eye is blind from birth which why part of her hair were covering it, some people looked at her rather curious but she mange to ignore it.

She keep walking and looks around a few plants, keeping in mind the money she got, also paying attention to the stage a few plants must be, she were focus on it that she accidentally bumped into someone, dropping her thing on the floor.

“Oh my, I’m so sorry, I got myself distracted” she said to the other person, unaware of who he was.

//Yes! At least after he saw the heated tea & made the connection between that & fire bending, he was instantly having a flashback in that triggering moment & unable to really separate that moment from the first instance of trauma, Mongke burning his village. Here’s a link on ‘the Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma’ by Bessel van der Kolk, and this section is very true:  “Thus, victims of trauma respond to contemporary stimuli as if the trauma had returned, without conscious awareness that past injury rather than current stress is the basis of their physiologic emergency responses. The hyperarousal interferes with their ability to make calm and rational assessments and prevents resolution and integration of the trauma.They respond to threats as emergencies requiring action rather than thought.”

he was very much at a breaking point--& sought to revictimize himself especially in the way of taunting Zuko to firebend at him--he doesn’t understand that he is unconsciously sort of seeking to self harm by proxy. His life is marked by violence, by stress, he is a teenager like, he doesn’t have coping methods other than what he’s always done: survive & fight. 

this is amazing!