Author's Note: Greetings, fellow Jinora fans. I am GrossGirl18, but usually I go by Gross (or Miriam, if you prefer IRL names).Now, because Jinora is my favorite character in LoK, and quite possibly all of Avatar, I felt the need to write about her. Thus, I have decided to start this drabble series. It actually wasn't meant to be a drabble series at first, but when the first two chapters were both under my usual thousand-word limit, I decided they would all drabbles. I may even update this regularly, because I already have the first three chapters written, with the fourth partially done. It will continue to be worked on as soon as I finish this AN.
Now, just a few quick notes. Some of these chapters will contain Jinora/Bolin. Most of this will probably be a one-sided crush on Jinora's part, but I feel the need to tell you in case you don't like that shipping. Those chapters will be labeled, however, so you can skip them if you'd like. (This is not one of them.) Also, a couple chapters may be AU, although those will likely be few and far between.
Last thing: in order to keep up my inspiration, I will be accepting prompts. It can be anything- a word, a phrase, whatever. I will attempt to do every prompt, although I'm trying to keep this story rated K+, so please keep that in mind. If I feel like the prompt doesn't fit as a drabble, I'll try and work it in as a oneshot, or, if it really gets my mind working, a fully fledged story. This will help me get through the weekly gap between episodes, so I can update every few days instead of weekly, even through school. This will doubly help since I've already watched the first two episodes online, so even thought the show premieres in two days, it'll be another two weeks before I see anything new.
And now I'm done making this chapter look so much longer then it is. As a general thing, future ANs will not be this long.
Enjoy!
Air Bender Girl
It wasn't that Jinora didn't like being an airbender. She did. Really. It was amazing. The freedom of flying, of being able to launch herself into the sky was liberating. Truly.
But it maybe-sorta-kinda-might have been a little… well… lonely at times, being one of the only two airbenders in the world. Especially since the other was her father. Her father who was… not strict, maybe, but kind of stringent about things.
Her mother, of course, had always told her stories about how her father had reacted when Katara had declared that she would be an airbender.
"He shot up twenty feet in the air." Her mother would always say. "And he was so excited- you should have seen him when we were decorating your room. He went absolutely crazy, insisting everything had to be perfect. And then, when everything was finally to his satisfaction, he would walk in the next day and shout the curtains were all wrong."
And, yeah, sure it was great that her father was her teacher, but she couldn't help but remember the way people had stared at her when she walked with her father or mother. Of course she had only been two when Ikki was born, but having your little sister be like you was only a little better than having your father be like you. (Okay, so maybe it was a lot better… but it wasn't better enough.)
But even with all the stares she attracted (especially that one time her mother had taken her to the market when she had the sniffles and when she'd sneezed shot up ten feet in the air); it hadn't really bothered her much until she was seven.
She had met a group of kids with her mother at the market. Ikki was home sick, and Meelo was too young to wander on his own. Pema had let Jinora wander around as long as she promised to be careful and stay in the market area. Jinora had happily agreed and ran off. She'd then met Makoto, Ai, Ichigo, Ami, Fuji, and Genji.
Having never really met anyone her age but her siblings, Jinora was at first shy, but they had convinced her to play 'bender-ball,' a game in which they used their bending to keep the ball in the air. All but Ami (who was a snob, if you asked Jinora) were impressed when Jinora showed off her bending abilities.
Eventually, Jinora was forced to leave because her mother had finished her shopping, but she left under promises of arranging a play date. It happened a week later, at Ami's (which was most unfortunate, as it turned out).
What had happened…
Well, she really didn't want to think about that, if you please.
And you do, of course, since this is Jinora's story and thus will be told in her own time and way.
Because with Jinora, that's simply how things work.
