Regarding Storyboards and Spoilers for Episode 4

[abitofawildman]

No, I don't want to talk about it.
Yes, I'm fine.
That was a private moment you just went and stomped all over, thanks kindly.

Just...leave me be.



...


And you might want to consider dusting in here every now and again. Stuff keeps getting in my eyes.

Comments

[savedtheworld]

Hey... I feel very proud of you already. Just think of much that will grow over time!

[abitofawildman]

[Bumi can't help himself, he silently laughs in the way that makes it come out as more of a snort through the nose.]

I'll keep that in mind, though it sounds like the kind of thing that requires math.

[savedtheworld]

Oh, who needs math anyway? Just pretend it's a lot more than a lot! [Excuse him if he starts to drift off for a moment there - he just saw That Picture.]

[abitofawildman]

[Bumi laughs and then...slowly stops as he notices Aang drift away mentally. He snaps his fingers in front of the boy's face a few times.]

You still in there, kid?

[Bumi, he just saw the picture of his whole future family. Give him a second to digest.]

Huh? Oh that thing that Mom gave Kya? You know I've been wracking my brain trying to remember when that was taken. I'd forgotten all about it. Back in the days when I was taller than Tenzin...

[savedtheworld]

[He does giggle a little at Bumi's reaction - but wow, that is some mix of beauty and adorability contained to one photograph.]

Yeah, it looks like you were! But to be fair, I guess most people would be taller than a baby...

Speaking of dust..... /sheepishly dusts her off

[metal_bending_hardass]

These people like to do that a lot.

HAI!

[abitofawildman]

gluttonsforotherpeoplespunishmentiswhattheyare.

[Bumi sighs, runs a hand through is hair, and calls forth a smile from...somewhere.]

Lin.

Hi hi <3

[metal_bending_hardass]

Agreed.

[His smiles always come from somewhere even when he really doesn't have anything to smile about. Just one thing that will always amaze her about him.]

Bumi. Just ignore them if you can.

[abitofawildman]

Oh yes, because that's likely to happen.

[zombiedad]

[As a man, Meryl knows not to comment on "dust" getting in another man's eyes. But he does have to say something. He tries to look normal, but there's definitely an odd fondness - as well as a sadness - in his eyes.]

...You must be the eldest.

[abitofawildman]

Oh? And what makes you say that?

[zombiedad]

[He smiles a little.]

Well, there are two boys, and the younger one is the airbender...right?

[abitofawildman]

Do I know you, friend?

[burnedbrighter]

They have no respect for privacy. It's unsettling.

[abitofawildman]

At the least. At the most it's rude.

[burnedbrighter]

It's like they were raised by badger frogs.

And yet we're at their mercy. Humiliating.

[abitofawildman]

It can be...but it doesn't have to be.

o/

[iroh_man]

We can only enjoy them when we get them. I won't pretend to understand how that is, but I can at least sympathize Commander.

[Being an only child definitely limits him in this regard.]

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[abitofawildman]

Anytime you would like to enjoy mine, please feel free to be welcome to them.

[He doesn't actually mean that, but it's not like Kya and Tenzin are around anyway.

[iroh_man]

[Oh he knows.]

At this point, the only way for your vacation to go would be up. Wouldn't you say so, Bumi?

[It's not often he drops the title.]

[abitofawildman]

Well...one of the children could still urinate on me, that could make it worse I suppose...

[greatest_earthbender_ever]

[Have one of Toph's back-pats. She says nothing for a moment until finally, just three words.]

He was. Very.

[abitofawildman]

[She hit him so hard that his eyes watered. Yes, that is in fact his story, and he's sticking to it.]

[greatest_earthbender_ever]

[Hey, with Toph, it's likely to happen. And you won't hear her fighting that story. ...She just hopes Lin hasn't had similar conversations with the statue of her at RCPD HQ.]

[Which, for the record, is much taller than Aang's statue, and made of GOLD.]

[abitofawildman]

[A soft and girly metal, his Uncle Sokka used to say.]

....I remember telling him that my enlisting was Enlightenment Through Superior Firepower. He never laughed as hard as Sokka did.