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beckyh2112) wrote2010-04-17 11:51 pm
beckyh2112) wrote2010-04-17 11:51 pm
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[Avatar Fic] Stick in the Mud
Title: Stick in the Mud
Rating: G
Words: 200+
Characters: Bumi, Pakku
Summary: Bumi makes a new friend.
Author's Note: Written for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
avatar_500's prompt of 'element'. Also, practicing my Bumi voice.
Stick in the Mud
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The Water Tribesman stands ankle-deep in the river, eyes cold. He's less than half Bumi's age, barely out of his teens if the earthbender is any judge. A slight tremble runs through his frame, but Bumi doesn't mistake it for fear. Not from this scowling brave with the armband of a master on his left arm.
Bumi grins. He hasn't had a fun fight, not since Aang vanished and Kuzon withdrew.
His grin makes the Water Tribesman scowl all the more.
"What's your name?" Bumi calls, bare feet sliding on the white, white sand of the riverbank. "Got to know a man's name before you bury him."
The water around the Tribesman stops flowing. "What's yours?"
"Bumi!"
"Pakku," he says, and the river roars high behind him like a dragon.
***
It is a fun fight. Pakku is fast and slippery, harder to hold onto than an eel. Bumi's soaking wet before too long and half-drowned, but there's enough earth in the water to make it hard for Pakku to bend. Definitely a master that he can still bend it at all, but a young master. Bumi has thirty years on him, and he bends mud as easily as stone.
He chortles as Pakku comes up spluttering from a dip in the mud, filthy as an earthbender. The Water Tribesman spits out mud, making faces, and Bumi just laughs all the harder.
Pakku scowls at him, then picks up a handful of mud and throws it.
It spatters against Bumi's chest, and he finds himself rolling on the ground with laughter.
The Water Tribesman laughs, too, and Bumi decides he'll do whatever it takes to make his new friend laugh again.
-End-
Rating: G
Words: 200+
Characters: Bumi, Pakku
Summary: Bumi makes a new friend.
Author's Note: Written for
avatar_500's prompt of 'element'. Also, practicing my Bumi voice.***
The Water Tribesman stands ankle-deep in the river, eyes cold. He's less than half Bumi's age, barely out of his teens if the earthbender is any judge. A slight tremble runs through his frame, but Bumi doesn't mistake it for fear. Not from this scowling brave with the armband of a master on his left arm.
Bumi grins. He hasn't had a fun fight, not since Aang vanished and Kuzon withdrew.
His grin makes the Water Tribesman scowl all the more.
"What's your name?" Bumi calls, bare feet sliding on the white, white sand of the riverbank. "Got to know a man's name before you bury him."
The water around the Tribesman stops flowing. "What's yours?"
"Bumi!"
"Pakku," he says, and the river roars high behind him like a dragon.
It is a fun fight. Pakku is fast and slippery, harder to hold onto than an eel. Bumi's soaking wet before too long and half-drowned, but there's enough earth in the water to make it hard for Pakku to bend. Definitely a master that he can still bend it at all, but a young master. Bumi has thirty years on him, and he bends mud as easily as stone.
He chortles as Pakku comes up spluttering from a dip in the mud, filthy as an earthbender. The Water Tribesman spits out mud, making faces, and Bumi just laughs all the harder.
Pakku scowls at him, then picks up a handful of mud and throws it.
It spatters against Bumi's chest, and he finds himself rolling on the ground with laughter.
The Water Tribesman laughs, too, and Bumi decides he'll do whatever it takes to make his new friend laugh again.
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Bumi is a tricksy bastard to write, he is.
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Pakku would be surprised by that. But not for long.
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"King of Omashu" led me to think that Bumi really enjoys a good, friendly fight.
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Sometimes you just gotta work with what you have. *grins, ruffles Pakku's hair*
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I loved this line: "Got to know a man's name before you bury him." XD I can hear Bumi's squeaky old man voice saying this.
Also, seriously, mudbending is an epic competition for Earthbender-Waterbender fighting. :3 Puts them on more even ground, I think.
I also quite liked Bumi comparing Pakku to an eel - very slippery indeed!
And this is also an excellent start to their friendship. :3 Bumi should be able to teach Pakku to lighten up a little, at least around him, right? Bumi is GOOD at that. :3
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In my headcanon, Bumi is one of the few people who can make Pakku laugh and one of the few people Pakku trusts absolutely. Which is pretty key later on when Bumi says things like "hai, I invited the Dragon of the West to join our secret society!"
Mudbending is the best sort of competition. I loved it when Toph and Katara got into one in whatever episode that was. (Or perhaps I hallucinated it. I do that sometimes for shows.)
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Nope, I remember that hallucination as well! ;) It was between like episode 2 and episode 10 of season 3, I think. They were in the Fire Nation, still hiding out, but before Zuko got there.
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.... yeah, I have way too much minutiae stored in my brain.
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My brain insists this should be 'hasn't had a fun fight', but my brain may well be wrong.
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