#sotrl

A big part of the reason she's so fucking stressed all the time isn't even that she's an assassin or worries 24/7 about her sister or the repressed trauma, she's just in extreme sensory overload 90% of the time. She needs a light airy dress to change into and for someone to gently pin all her hair up and out of her face and maybe then she'll actually relax for at least a second

Is very scared of thunderstorms. Like, to a paranoid degree. It began very innocently when she was a child easily startled by loud noises and sudden lights. Unfortunately, her aunt believes in exposure therapy, which as you can imagine, served to make her fear much more intense

Sleeping cuddled up with your pet stopped being endearing when said pet grew to be 10 feet tall, but that does not stop her. If the room gets too stuffy for her at night she'll sneak to the backyard and sleep on the grass with her moose lion. It gets her yelled at but she's beyond giving a fuck.

Has never shaved her legs once in her life, god bless

It takes a lot for her to be severely affected by hunger pains. Usually only remembers she needs to eat when she suddenly has no energy for anything

Looks almost exactly like her mother and both loves and hates it at the same time

Very very touch starved but also rejects any and all affection that isn't by her sister, which seems counterproductive but it's trauma and trauma doesn't follow the laws of logic

You ever see those pictures of baby bats wrapped up in blankets to mimic their mother's wings? Yep, that's her.

Call her Renny and you die (Midori being the exception obviously). Bolin most likely tried it once and now gives her a six feet berth.

Wraps Water-Tribe-style bandages around her arms under the pretence of a fashion statement. In reality she's been throwing herself headfirst into life-or-death situations for six years and has a bajillion scars and marks from it. The wrappings are A) To stop people from staring, B) To stop Midori from worrying, and C) To keep her chosen profession more securely under wraps (I'll escort myself out)

Is a distinguished lesbian but extremely picky. Her ideal partner is someone who sees "I'm gonna sink my teeth into your fucking throat" as flirting and considers knives and threats to be extremely hot (unfortunately the one person who does is the one she has to kill rip)

The cause behind like a dozen female air acolytes suddenly questioning their sexuality. Between her and Midori the rate of rogue members of the air nation probably skyrockets lmao

Her bending is very dependent on her emotions. If the air around her is humid the temperature of it will alter according to wether she's angry or startled or whatever. Her bending's mostly fueled by anger so when she actually start on her healing from trauma journey she'll probs have very Zuko-esque problems. Except you can't exactly have the moon teach you bending forms like dragons do so...

Sure thing!

oh my god I finally get to talk about them yes

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Zaheer and P’Li roasted the absolute shit out of Ghazan and Ming-Hua when they found out Ming was pregnant with Suiren. It was even worse the second time around

“One time I can understand, but two? Come on, Zanny, have some self control!”

Ming-Hua’s lower back really hurt during the later months of both pregnancies, and P’Li discovered that if she made her hand warmer with fire bending and placed it on the sore spot, the pain would get easier. Ming-Hua would normally already spend hours in P’Li’s embrace, now she has a handy excuse

(I’ve been laughing at that godawful pun for two minutes now)

They were there for both births because there’s no way in hell they’d let Ming-Hua go through that with only Ghazan at her side, and miss the expansion of their family

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They completely and utterly adored their nieces.

Both of them are the epitome of “I never understood why people had children until I got a niece. I’ve only had her for a day and a half but if anything happened to her I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.

P’Li is generally very good with children, while Zaheer sees them more as little-sized adults and sometimes has to be reminded that “they can’t even pronounce anarchy yet let alone know what that is.”

There were times when P’Li would cradle the girls as babies in her arms and just silently stare at them for hours. No one really knew why.

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Zaheer attempted to get them into poetry and philosophy as soon as they were able to comprehend full sentences. Midori tried to listen and understand, she really did, but mostly always ended up falling asleep halfway through. Suiren didn’t even bother.

“Let me tell you about the poetry of the great Guru Laghima.”

“Zaheer she’s two.”

Despite this, Suiren did somehow memorise the whole “empty and become wind” thing, and now, as an adult, sometimes wishes she could do as it commanded

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P’Li is their auntie and they refused to refer to her as anything else

They clung to her like little marmosets because she was always nice and warm and gave the best hugs

Also at night they insisted on sleeping next to her whenever she and Zaheer visited because she makes for a very warm and comfy pillow

“No I am not jealous of my nieces because they kicked me out of bed and stole my girlfriend. Being jealous of children in matters like this is low and undignified. Shut up Ghazan.”

Firebenders being walking heat packs is one of my favourite headcanons can you tell

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Whenever they visited Ghazan and Ming-Hua, Zaheer would tell the girls stories about their travels. They’d have to remind him to stay on topic cause he’d go off on philosophical rants about the injustices they saw

P’Li would always bring them little gifts from whereever she and Zaheer travelled to. Midori still has them all in a box somewhere

The plan was that once Suiren and Midori were old enough, Ghazan and Ming-Hua would take them and join P’Li and Zaheer in travelling. The girls were practically counting down days until they were old enough because they wanted to help their family change the world. P’Li was the one who insisted they wait a few years so that the girls don’t get too overwhelmed and have a sense of normalcy growing up.

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(These ones are gonna be angsty. Also they’re mostly based on P’Li’s backstory from Lost and Found by @felicity-kitten)

P’Li’s tattoo is one of the things that isn’t talked about in their household. They were free to ask, of course, but they knew not to expect a concrete answer. The adults collectively agreed that P’Li’s past was too horrifying to disclose to little children. They would’ve been told when they were older, if their parents weren’t imprisoned.

Suiren and Midori never knew why Auntie always looked so sad whenever she watched them play. She’d get this distant look in her eye until either Dad or Uncle lightly tapped her on the arm, which is when she’d snap out of it

In reality, P’Li saw herself and her sister in Suiren and Midori. That same childhood innocence in their eyes. She swore that she’d protect her nieces like she wasn’t able to protect Lien-Hua. That they’d get to grow up safe and happy and with their family. Breaking that promise almost drove her mad in prison, she kept imagining the girls with her sister’s terrified look on their faces.

She almost slipped up and called Midori ‘Lien-Hua’ on multiple occasions.

This is an ode to SotRL which idk if I will ever finish because continuing it involves rewriting what came beforehand. And also because I have no idea what to do with the Suiren and Kya convo