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  1. Peilin on Chapter 1 Thu 29 Oct 2020 10:05AM UTC

    I started rereading and oh how i love this, all the moments of subconscious metalbending (and earthbending / affinity to the element) make me so gleeful!

     

    Sometimes, he can only calm himself by imagining the ground breathing steadily with him. Up. Down. In. Out.

    He digs his feet in instead, the way he digs his fingers into the garden soil by the turtleduck pond whenever Mother’s not looking.

    For once, he knows how Azula must feel, how effortlessly prodigious, because after a few months the sword seems to move on its own, like it’s pulling his hand and not the other way around. 

    He grabs his opponents’ swords from their hands without breaking his own skin, he slashes through armor like it’s only silk cloth, he throws the knife Uncle sent him with precision even Mai envies-

    (isn’t it obvious, the whole mechanism rattles loud every time the tumblers fall into place)

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    1. mindbending on Chapter 1 Fri 30 Oct 2020 06:43PM UTC

      Thank you <3 There’s a ton of little signs of his earthbending in this chapter, and I was definitely hoping they’d pop out on a reread.

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