#lloyd jiang

You are eight years old

Kai absolutely does not play hockey. Have you seen the hockey hair? No way. Ray signed him up when he was small, and he threw an absolute fit after his first practice when he caught sight of himself in the mirror.

Nya fell in love with figure skating when she was small in spite of the pretty, girly side of it. When they signed her up for lessons, they signed Kai up too - it was that or get a babysitter or deal with his high energy running up and down the stands. When they were little, they were super competitive with one another in spite of not competing in the same event.

At 12, Maya signed Nya up for a pairs workshop in an attempt to teach her some teamwork. Overprotective Kai wasn’t keen on the whole ‘grab the girl wherever’ aspect. He was keen on the throw your sister around aspect. They’ve been skating pairs together ever since. He may or may not have dropped her a couple of times on purpose when she didn’t like his costume ideas.

(In honour of a male skater I used to know: Kai had no idea he was into girls until he met Skylor. All the guys he skated with were gay, he’d kissed boys before and liked it, so he just assumed. Only guy they know who had his bi panic backwards.)

Lloyd plays hockey only because I think he’d rock the messy hockey mullet.

I’ve seen Zane as a figure skater before, and it’s cute, but curling. Definitely curling. The strategy of chess, precision required to get it right, and a team (I think he struggles with being alone with his thoughts too much). He’s absolutely the skip. He’s likely to make the crazy complicated shot but miss the easy draw to the button.

Nya likes to tease Jay about his commitment issues even through he’s never even looked at another girl. He just can’t decide between aerials, ski jumping, and snowboarding. Boy can’t help it, he just wants to get up in the sky and fly. Add moving fast and he’s in heaven.

Cole. Mountain climbing. Up rock faces or ice walls, he doesn’t much care.

On the other side, Cole is forever feeling he has to chose one or the other, being a ninja and saving the world, or being with Geo/the finders and saving his small corner of the world. He must feel pulled in separate directions constantly, and it would be awfully hard not to worry about his people when he’s with the ninja and knows bad stuff is happening all over the place.

Everything goes double, I think, for Lloyd, destiny’s whipping boy and the grandchild of god, let alone the idea of making a commitment to someone knowing that either you’ll die (again) and leave them, or you’ll live like your dad and uncle, and outlive them would be horrible.