being silly

[noindoorvoice]

Mun!

This place looks big and exciting! Not city exciting exciting or Korra exciting but super amazing exciting! Is there a water slide? Or an adventure? Or snow? Or volcanoes? Or-

[Babbles on for sometime.]

Comments

[deformed]

I'm not one of them. I'm your grandfather's friend.

[noindoorvoice]

Oh! Grandpa Aang really? I never got to meet him except in Korra only she can't bend air and she's not bald and-

Hi!

[deformed]

Hi.

[ Whoa, he doesn't speak Mile A Minute. ]

Korra can't bend air?

[noindoorvoice]

[Very few do.] I'm Ikki. How old are you? Are you super old or just young old? Can you bend stuff?

No, she's trying though. She can't be a leaf or dance.

[deformed]

I'm - uh. [ Just gonna pick one thing at a time, here. ] I'm Zuko and I'm eighteen, the Fire Lord from your time who helped build Republic City? You seem a little too young to ... know that.

Why would Korra need to be a leaf?

[ LOL u crazy airbenders and your training. ]

[noindoorvoice]

Oh! [She does know that. Sortof. She just needed a second for her mind to catch up.] I forgot cause you don't get a statue and you haven't got any wrinkles.

She needs to be a leaf so she can dance so she can Airbend.

[deformed]

Why don't I get a statue?

[ ftr airbenders are so weird, he will never quite grasp them and their leafy ways. Little miss, you are like Aang on a sugarhigh. ]

[noindoorvoice]

Dad said you're the one who gave Grandpa his. It's your own fault if you haven't got one. You should put in a waterslide! Or a mustache that turns into an air ballon!

[deformed]

... Oh.

[ Crouching down, he leans on a bent knee to see her a little better. ]

I guess that means I gave your grandfather a statue because he really deserved it, then. [ Mustaches, eh? That throws him for a second. ] I can't turn anything into an air balloon, but -

[ Breathing out through his nose, a fiery little mustache appears, flickering at the turned-up edges when he twiddles them. ]

How's this?

[noindoorvoice]

[At first she just looks a little confused, but then the giggles. So many giggles.] Great, Great Uncle!

[deformed]

I don't know if facial hair suits me, what do you think?

[ Stroking his chin thoughtfully, a long beard of fire appears to be attached to it. ]

Hmm ...

[noindoorvoice]

[Even more giggling.] Yes it does! Even Dad doesn't have a beard like that! How come Firebenders don't do that all the time?

[deformed]

[ Dispelling the flames with a wave, he whispers behind a hand. ]

Most firebenders aren't as fun as I am.

[ Zuko is All The Fun, don't let anyone tell you any different, kiddo. ]

Hey, what's your name? I didn't catch it.

[noindoorvoice]

[She believes it.] Did I talk too fast again? Sometimes I talk too fast and then Jinora makes this face [:||||] and everybody sighs. But I'm Ikki! And you're Zuko. [In case you forgot.]

[deformed]

[ He totes forgot, thanks for reminding him who he is. ]

Ikki's a great name. You can airbend, then?

[noindoorvoice]

Yeah! Everybody can bend except Mom! Air is the best element ever and soon I'll get a glider and we've got Oogi to ride on and the Temple! [Just thinking about everything does make her bounce around him as Airbenders tend to.]

[deformed]

[ STAY STILL, KID. ]

Who's 'everybody'?

[noindoorvoice]

Me, and Jinora, and Meelo, and Dad. [A pause for thinking but then back to bouncing.] I guess not Gran-Gran or Aunt Kya or Uncle Bumi either. Wanna see a trick?

[deformed]

... Sure.

[noindoorvoice]

Okay just a sec. [A quick look around.]

Look! [Airbending 102: Ikki suspends a marble between her hands and makes it whirl around and around in midair.] See? See?

[deformed]

Wow!

[ Super impressed, that is Zuko right now, eyebrows rising and a O-shaped mouth to complete the look. ]

That's incredible. You have got to be the best airbender I've ever seen, Ikki.

[noindoorvoice]

Really? [Super pride moment.] You like it? Dad taught us a lot and stuff! [Mildly modest.] Firebending can be pretty okay too.

/sneaks in here

[exuberance]

I'm working on it.

[Don't let their awesomeness fool you, being the avatar is hard work.]

It just doesn't make a lot of sense, that's all.

ohai

[deformed]

You're practicing though, right?

'Sup?

[exuberance]

That'd be what "working on it" means, don't you think?