#pingua just picks her up. like no literally he picks her up and puts her on his back andflies off with a “good evening to you nice people!!”

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michiru wins prize for “weirdest and longest list of adults that pick her up after school” (I did not win a prize for catchy names btw)

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random question but. if the bna characters [whichever ones you feel like talking about] were in the atla universe, what kind of bender would they be If they were a bender? nonbenders? do any of them have avatar vibes?

(I told myself to answer this and then I forgot hold on give me a sec)

ok so my immediate thought is “I would think that the shirou and nazuna dynamic would be the same.” how i’d go about that is shirou being the avatar (there are the Parallels: the 100 years-1,000 years, the power, the responsibility) and nazuna of course pretending to be the avatar (because no one knows where the real one fucked off to and she’s gonna take a grab for the publicity and also she wants to give people hope, and if the real deal isn’t here for that, well).

shirou: avatar, likely hailed from earthbenders (I’m taking their strength, their determination and stubborn nature into account). lone wolf as always, extremely powerful, trying to give the illusion of “I have a plan”, corey, they do not have a plan.

nazuna: ok so this is hard, because my initial thought was “oh! she’s a non-bender” but I think that’s difficult considering the role I put her in. so perhaps a firebender (but then again, I think it’d be too easy to put her there, I think it’s too obvious). I don’t think she’s an immensely powerful one, I think she’s just good with words and can find people in high places to help her pull this all off.

boris still exists as part of her group, a beacon of wisdom (lies). he’s a firebender, hiding a lot of power, his “i wish to help you achieve your goals” mirage slowly fades with more word of the real avatar/nazuna being influenced by the words of some earthbending girl (no, I have not worked out this part wygwygwhg).

*normal grip* marie is a non-bender, definitely a chi-blocker. I think that’s very obvious, with her agility and the scene where she rendered boris quite literally immobile. she’s got a bit of a june role, if june appeared more often. probably one of nazuna’s people in high places, of course is only here for the cash and the fact that being “friends” with a false avatar gives her some protection (allegiance changes once the real avatar appears, revealing a slight vulnerable side of “this is the real deal, this is genuine, this isn’t another fake.”).

occasional mentor to michiru, misleading muse to nazuna, informant and hinderance to shirou, nefarious pick-pocket with chi-blocking on her side.

michiru: earthbenderrrr. i think once shirou gets back into the avatar biz (subtly, of course) michiru is the “are you ok? are you alright?” to their *violent sounds of violence* when it comes to looking out for people. let’s be real, they aren’t the best at communicating, and sort of need someone to help the people they save verbally, instead of “get up bitch, you’re fine *sound of wall of water slamming into attackers*

still her excited and awe-struck self, embodies the toph “please let me outta here” mindset. shirou did not plan to take a kid with them on their journey to confront their fake, but she’s like “teach me the mystic ways of earthbending” and they wish to teach her the “mystic ways” of minding her own business.

pingua is a very experienced airbender, I feel like that’s the only accurate choice (being a pilot, a literal bird). like marie, appears sometimes to drop some “useful” advice and to mainly hinder others (sometimes unintentionally, in his case). his main goal is really just to explore. just to see the world, learn all he can, take in the cultures and the land and anything he can.

sometimes has to have his priorities forcibly adjusted (by shirou and/or michiru) because of this desire to drift around, and how it sometimes overshadows the need to do the right thing (again, similar to marie). also helps shirou learn airbending, shirou does NOT like this.

nina is a waterbender fleeing from a strict family in the northern watertribe, fleeing to explore the world and learn her place in it. a little out of her depth, I think she’d be part of nazuna’s posse, considering her experience with “stage.” (defects shortly after finding this role, morals getting in the way).

the bears are earthbenders, I don’t have a role for alan yet and uhhh yeah!! this got long I’m sorry UWGWWGHGWHW.

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additional: would you like to see marie held?

she deserves it so much (sort of). I just. want to see her be….. vulnerable. trust herself with someone, anyone, just to….. hell, just to break for a second. she wouldn’t know how to deal with it, any of it, but she needs it a lot, no matter how cool and unfazed she acts.

I want….. michiru to hug her one day, just without thinking. she was included in that final shot of nazuna and the bears for a reason, and the reason is michiru holds some care for her. I want her to hug marie, I want marie to freeze up because why would she do this?? also the absolute unbridled fear of michiru seeing her across the room and breaking out the stretchy arms.

I also would like!! for pingua to!! scoop her up after finally landing back in the city, he’s missed all of these weirdos so much and she isn’t excluded from that group, she’s part of this. and he’s very excited, literally picks her up off the ground and she thrashes for a solid five seconds before hanging there, “this means you aren’t gettin’ out of rent this time, ‘kay?”

I would…… like…. for shirou….. to…. to….. thinks aggressively hard about how marie was leaning on michiru, about how she put her hands on her shoulders, thinks about how she knew her for at best a few weeks, thinking about what this could possibly say about…. of course she’d be affectionate with him, really get under his skin, of course they’re used to each other, he is the exception by trusting her, who’s to say he isn’t the exception in other things? affection? well, no one, not even god, this is MY circus now. I think they hold each other often, I think they find some stability, I think the world will come for them in a couple more hours, they’ve still got time, etc etc etc.

oh um I don’t like it btw.

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