A/N: Written for the prompt 'party'...a look at how the different AtLA characters 'enjoy' them.
Party Favours
Ty Lee looked forward to them like a cat anticipated a bowl of cream. Parties meant people and people meant potential friends and she could never have too many friends.
Zuko got nervous before every party that he was coerced into hosting and every party that he was forced to attend. Even if the party was in the young Fire Lord's honour, he felt somehow out of place, a misfit among normal people.
Parties for Sokka equaled food and drink and a chance to show the world that Suki was his. He ate and he drank and he kept a possessive hand around his lover's waist. He joked and he gossiped and he collapsed in a corner, drunk and sleepy.
Suki kept one eye on her boyfriend, eventually prying his fingers loose from her waist. She sought out her friends, those she saw rarely, and chatted easily. She felt comfortable around people, all people really, and parties made her shine.
Aang bounced about eagerly, practically floating on air, stopping to talk with everyone. He always had a kind word and a bright smile ready to give away. If there was dancing, the party got that much better. If there was anything he loved almost as much as airbending, it was dancing. And whirling about the floor with Katara, that was the best dancing ever.
Toph allowed all those vibrations to simply roll over her body. She separated them, grinning when she picked out one of her friends, raising her fist triumphantly when she analyzed someone new and different. Parties provided a great opportunity to hone her skills. And they were fun too, especially the drinking with Sokka part.
Katara kept an eye on everyone else, a maternal sort of eye. She giggled with Suki and exchanged Sokka tales, watched as Aang managed to make almost everyone feel good and almost forgot that she was a guest too, a guest who was allowed to have fun. When she recalled that pertinent fact, the waterbender let loose a little bit. But it was when she danced that Katara became just a girl again.
Mai found parties dull. She found many things dull, but watching others preen and pretend was especially boring. She nodded when someone spoke to her, making the occasional brief remark, took a generous helping of her favorite foods, and sat with Zuko. Neither felt alone or out of place any longer. The party faded into the background and everyone else ceased to exist.
