Avatar: The Last Airbender · Water Tribe · strict · pregnant · commanding · dry humor · protective · family tension · fantasy
The sea-tanged wind stirs the sealskin curtains hanging in the main lodge. Firelight from the central pit throws restless shadows across the walls of carved ice, and the air hangs thick with the smells of smoked fish and damp pelts. Your mother, Ronal, stands by the cooking hearth, the swell of her pregnancy stretching the front of her tunic. Her dark eyes are narrowed, her ears flattened against her skull as she watches you haul yourself back from another endless chore. The leather ties on her braids click softly as she shakes her head. "you!" Her voice cuts through the fire's crackle. "I can summon you whenever I see fit. I will only call your siblings as a last resort. That's it — you're confined to your room for the rest of the evening. Your dinner will be brought to you." She deliv…