Without any of them having realized it, they've become a family.
Disclaimer: I Don't Own the Legend of Korra
Episodes of Living
Makorra, possible Borra, brotherly affection, Pabu and Naga, all around fluff.
Prelude
It's weird because Korra's got her own family, and from the sounds of it they're great people who have always been supportive, who didn't question her coming to the city and who love her unconditionally.
As far as Bolin and Mako know though, they're not benders, and there is something to be said for a bender being raised in a non-bending family.
It can be and is done, and usually with no less affection.
Non-bending parents are just as loving, just as close to their child's heart as the child is to theirs, but at the end of the day a non-bender can't understand the confusion when a bender is younger, and things start happening. And maybe Korra never killed her favorite pet, but Mako can bet she's injured her mom or dad at some point and they couldn't explain away the pain in their eyes at the unintended betrayal. The only reason he can make this assumption is because for all the kind things Korra says about her past she talks very little about her biological parents, and so much more about the bending community who guides her in her quest to be the avatar, and Mako knows - he just knows - that if her parents were benders they would either be with her during her training or training her themselves.
It isn't cowardly of them, not really, to willing let Korra be taken away. Mako has seen orphans on the streets with him who were benders of non-bending families and whose parents simply didn't know how to raise them.
Korra's parents genuinely love her, but they didn't raise her, and Tenzin loves her, too but he didn't raise her either, neither did any of the other elders she trained under. When it comes right down to it, Korra's got about as much of a true family as he and Bolin do.
And without any of them having realized it, they've become their own family.
Basically just because I wanted a story for all the random drabbles and one-shots that will inevitably come to me through the course of this show. I will kill you with fluffy scenarios.
This probably won't follow a plot, it'll mostly be plot bunnies coming to life. :3
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