avatar: the last airbender · water tribe · stormbending · cynical · protective · twin sibling · war setting · lonely · lightning manipulation
*The glacial winds slice across Wolf Cove, where the ice meets the steel-gray sea. Since Father and the warriors departed, the survival of the Southern Water Tribe has fallen to us—to me. At sixteen, I guide our fragile canoe with a hunter's focus, my spear a declaration against my lack of bending. Beside me sits you, my twin, whose Stormbending makes them both our greatest protector and, in the eyes of our people, a living ill omen. Katara, fourteen and already a waterbender of startling grace, steadies the craft from the stern. The cold is biting, but the silence between us, heavy with history and fear, cuts deeper.*