Bro, if anything a squirrel ever does to me is actually near fatal... [ Actually, thinking about that. The one that bit him was kind of a mean one. Maybe it's not as impossible as it seems. ]
Well, mostly just consider me really impressed. I won't hold it against him.
[ Join us next month when he's nearly gored by one of those Monty Python rabbits. In the meantime, he'll roll his sock down or his pant leg up or whatever, my cold meds don't allow me to think about the intricacies of these boys and their clothes in the drabwurld. ]
... If you die from a squirrel bite I am going to be so pissed with you. Anyway...
[ mako pauses for a moment and takes a deep breath, like he's about to firebend — and exhales a bloom of pale blue fire into his hand. a breath of life gone azula, only, instead of the cold blue light of a hot flame, this seems... warm. faintly iridescent instead of bright, and with a substance that regular fire doesn't hold. ]
Yeah, but I kind of run that risk no matter what I'm doing. [ He doesn't pursue pissing Mako off, but one has to learn to live with it being a possibility.
And it's been a long time since Mako had something new to show him with his firebending, but for all that time, it's about exactly as cool as Bolin remembers it being. Mako, please. Contain your coolness factor. ]
Wait, since when did you go blue? [ and what does it have to do with healing, he guesses, but most importantly, since when did you go blue. IF HE COULD SHOVE MAKO OUT OF THE WAY OF HIS OWN FIREBENDING TO GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE FIREBENDING, MAN. ]
Since this morning — and it's not just "going blue", bro, it's completely different, look:
[ AND WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD HE PUTS THAT HANDFUL OF BLUE FIRE ON BOLIN'S LEG.
mako the abusive brother, has finally snapped. under all the severe mental strain of dealing with the fact that he has the weapon that orphaned them under his own skin, he wants to share that pain.
just kidding!
it actually feels really nice — not hot, just warm, and maybe a little ticklish as mako's chi interacts with bo's encouraging the skin to knit itself back together, without even a sign of the fact that bolin almost got killed by a rodent earlier. ]
[ Stands there, probably thinking of the weather or some dumb shit while his brother is busy applying fire to his leg.
The "afraid of Mako burning him" train never even made a stop at this station, sir, we can't refund your ticket fee without external influences like smiledogs, magic, or disorienting injuries. He'll also let the completely different comment slide right on by, because tbh between the two of them, Mako's kinda the fire expert. A blue flame is a blue flame as far as he can figure, up until the point where it doesn't orphan him of his leg skin or whatever.
But damn, consider his interested piqued. ]
Whoa, check you out! [ WOW HE CAN TAKE HIS LEG BACK AND PUT THAT HORRIBLE SQUIRREL-RELATED TRAUMA BEHIND HIM NOW...... another distant terror to awaken in the night about. ] Mister "fire is life" over here, huh? Yeah, you know, that makes a lot of things about asking me to come up here make a lot more sense looking back.
[ fire is life is right, bo! mako grins, bolin's enthusiasm being contagious as it is and lifts his hand as the blue fire dies, leaving unscarred but nasty hairy teenage boy legs behind. no more squirrel rabies risks or whatever!!! he burned out any infection too. ]
Just don't think it's an excuse to get bit more, Bo — I can't do much with it yet.
Ohh, no, no, trust me, the last thing I'm looking to do is get a squirrel mad again. [ Like, the whole approach a few days back was to accomplish the opposite of that. For all that it worked out. But hey, thanks for the leg, he's taking it back now. Hair and all. ]
That's still some seriously cool stuff, though! Don't mind Mako, everyone, he can just patch people up with magical blue fire. [ Prooood. ] You're totally excited, aren't you?
That really stings, Mako. Right in the heart. [ gently pats him on the face-smushing hand. ] I mean, it isn't even how you pronounce charm, but I don't know why you'd wanna cure it so much anyway.
12/15.
Yeah, sure! Learn something good? Did you get apprenticed to some legendary healer we've never heard of who lives across the world? [ You crazy kid. ]
12/15.
12/15.
Well, mostly just consider me really impressed. I won't hold it against him.
[ Join us next month when he's nearly gored by one of those Monty Python rabbits. In the meantime, he'll roll his sock down or his pant leg up or whatever, my cold meds don't allow me to think about the intricacies of these boys and their clothes in the drabwurld. ]
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[ mako pauses for a moment and takes a deep breath, like he's about to firebend — and exhales a bloom of pale blue fire into his hand. a breath of life gone azula, only, instead of the cold blue light of a hot flame, this seems... warm. faintly iridescent instead of bright, and with a substance that regular fire doesn't hold. ]
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And it's been a long time since Mako had something new to show him with his firebending, but for all that time, it's about exactly as cool as Bolin remembers it being. Mako, please. Contain your coolness factor. ]
Wait, since when did you go blue? [ and what does it have to do with healing, he guesses, but most importantly, since when did you go blue. IF HE COULD SHOVE MAKO OUT OF THE WAY OF HIS OWN FIREBENDING TO GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE FIREBENDING, MAN. ]
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[ AND WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD HE PUTS THAT HANDFUL OF BLUE FIRE ON BOLIN'S LEG.
mako the abusive brother, has finally snapped. under all the severe mental strain of dealing with the fact that he has the weapon that orphaned them under his own skin, he wants to share that pain.
just kidding!
it actually feels really nice — not hot, just warm, and maybe a little ticklish as mako's chi interacts with bo's encouraging the skin to knit itself back together, without even a sign of the fact that bolin almost got killed by a rodent earlier. ]
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The "afraid of Mako burning him" train never even made a stop at this station, sir, we can't refund your ticket fee without external influences like smiledogs, magic, or disorienting injuries. He'll also let the completely different comment slide right on by, because tbh between the two of them, Mako's kinda the fire expert. A blue flame is a blue flame as far as he can figure, up until the point where it doesn't orphan him of his leg skin or whatever.
But damn, consider his interested piqued. ]
Whoa, check you out! [ WOW HE CAN TAKE HIS LEG BACK AND PUT THAT HORRIBLE SQUIRREL-RELATED TRAUMA BEHIND HIM NOW...... another distant terror to awaken in the night about. ] Mister "fire is life" over here, huh? Yeah, you know, that makes a lot of things about asking me to come up here make a lot more sense looking back.
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Just don't think it's an excuse to get bit more, Bo — I can't do much with it yet.
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That's still some seriously cool stuff, though! Don't mind Mako, everyone, he can just patch people up with magical blue fire. [ Prooood. ] You're totally excited, aren't you?
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[ shoves his hand in ur face ]
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