I reblogged a fic I wrote in April 2013, in response to a prompt from
ikkinthekitsune:
AU in which Korra is Noatak and Tarrlok’s younger sister; Yakone finds out his daughter is the Avatar and the consequences thereof?I meant it to be a drabble, perhaps one or two pages, tops. It grew in the telling, though, so belatedly, here you are!
Tangled State of MindNoatak and Tarrlok were almost exactly three years apart, both of them born on frozen, starless nights, blizzards howling around the village as their mother fought to give birth. Korra, though—bright, bold, ferocious little Korra—screamed her way into the world at the height of spring, even as the worst plague in memory crawled across the Earth Kingdom. Tarrlok, the youngest, was already eight, and he remembered it perfectly: he and Noatak, almost sick with fear, running pointless errands that some adult imagined might distract them, Noatak’s fingers digging into his shoulder, painful and reassuring, and then their father ordering them to come inside the tent and see their new baby sister.
To Tarrlok, Korra had been impossibly tiny, her nose and mouth, hands and feet, dwarfed by everyone else’s, even his own. Her eyes, though, wide and blue, seemed to fill up most of her face, and her brown hair poked up in little tufts. He and Noatak stared down at her, fascinated.
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