Team: Earth Kingdom
Round: 6
Category: Drabble
Prompt: Gold
Word count: 257
Gold has always been life changing. For the first few years of her life, Asami thinks gold is a coin, just like silver and copper, it's what her father gives their staff and what her mother gives vendors so Asami can get her sweets.
When she was six, gold changed to pain. It was the burning hot fire that flashed across her face as it ends her mother's life. It's all her father is focused on ad he shuts the office door and it is always in her dreams, her nightmares. Now gold is "Where's the money," and her mother's yells echoing through the house.
Gold again changes when she's seventeen, it's now a probender's eyes. It's her first friendship with people her age that isn't about money. It's "I feel safe with you," and Team Avatar. It's safety and protection and friendship and her anchor in the storm that has become her life. Even through tear filled eyes gold promises to be there, that she still has a place in their little stitched together family. Perhaps gold isn't so bad after all.
Gold gets ever brighter at twenty-two, in the rubble of the city they saved. It's the still fresh wounds of her father's sacrifice and Korra's disappearance. It's the gold shadows across Korra's grin from the portal as they take hands. It's her heart beating so loud she's certain Korra can hear its cadence and the celebration of their friends as they kiss. Suddenly Gold is her second favorite color, behind Korra's deep blue eyes.