Notes: LoK is killing me softly. I love it. So much is packed into each episode the major plot factors are primetime and there is character development and it is delicious but I need more of it! LoK fandom on Tumblr is also ridiculous in the best of ways and I'm addicted. This is my form of therapy. Enjoy!
'Legend of Korra' is the brainchild of DiMartino and Konietzko, I humbly borrow their characters to idle my time away and give myself warmfuzzyfeelings.
It was wrong of him to care about her now- only after he'd seen differently- after he'd refused her. What right did he have? He made a choice- not her- and it was- is, dammit, is- what he wants. But he can practically feel her lungs clench around her rough sobbing- he feels it in his own chest, and being witness- being part of her crumbling like this- he's torn between resigning himself to secretly share in her painfully restrained anguish and taking her in his arms- tears and all- and taking it on himself. He's taken her peace of mind, why can't he take something she doesn't need.
He gnashes his teeth with the effort it takes to stay put on the other side of the now inanimate gates. He's unsure if it's guilt, shame, or out of respect for her that he doesn't move. He doesn't go to her, nor does he leave. But he knows that no matter what else she goes through- what else he will put her through- at the very least-
Mako will stay.
Takes place post 1:07, Air Temple Island, between the spinning gates