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ATLA OC Week Day 1: Bending

Kyrna my beloved

Southern Water Tribe bender

Same age as Hakoda and Bato

Taken in a raid along with his mother when he was ~16, came home when prisoners were liberated ~20 years later

Was a first love of sorts of Bato before the raid (fic here :) )

Kyrna, along with other liberated SWT prisoners, has a hard time adjusting back to life in the South Pole, let alone relearning the basics of waterbending since he was taken so young. He has no immediately family left due to the war and struggles with finding meaning for the first few years.

Kyrna's relationship with his bending develops with his family, so I guess I must mention that he has a daughter with another prison survivor, both of whom are also water benders. When she was born his recovery was still tenuous and he had trouble living up to his new responsibilities on top of taking care of himself, and he becomes estranged for a while. They had a complicated and distant relationship for the first few years of his daughter's life.

she comes to live with him as a teen to learn more advanced waterbending techniques from the benders in his village, and helping her learn (beyond what he had ever bothered to learn, even) really brings them together and helps him accept and move on from the darker parts of his history with his own bending.

He enjoys kayaking, being alone and surrounded by water and building up muscles he lost. He also enjoys helping the older women in the village, being a gossip and embarrassing his daughter <3

rated T, oc/oc (kyrna/noski) pre-relationship, 2.3k 

“How have you been doing?” Noski tries.

Kyrna shrugs with one shoulder. “Fine.”

Noski nods and doesn’t believe it.

one look at a survivor of the waterbending prisons and a warrior of the southern water tribe, post-war.

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ATLA OC Week Day 2: Animal Companions

Kyrna's dog, Qimmiq

"Qimmiq" is the Inuktitut word for dog, and also specifically the word for the Canadian Inuit Dog (though please correct me if I'm wrong there!)

Like I mentioned in my Kyrna post the other day, Kyrna had some trouble adjusting back to life in the South Pole. After his daughter was born and he and her mother split, Kyrna was a bit unmoored, spending time alone and lonely, sitting with the old women, trying to build back his skills he lost over the years of war.

I think others would notice and try to help, but it can be difficult when some days he's overwhelmed by company and other days he's desperate for it. So, when someone's dog has a litter, they give him one. Kyrna being in a funk at the time doesn't get around to naming her anything more creative than essentially "dog" until she's far too accustomed to the name to change it.

So he is responsible for a little life, and he's in a better place than he was with his newborn daughter. In moden AUs I've imagined Qimmiq as being a service dog of sorts, trained to respond to panic attacks or dissociative episodes. If he has a bad dream she'd be trained to turn on the lights and jump on the bed with him. I think in canonverse she'd serve a similar purpose, nudging him or putting her head in his lap when he needs grounding.

She's a good girl and sometimes steals snacks :)