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[Nov. 21] [Avatar] Dancing on a wire
Title: Dancing on a wire
Day/Theme: November 21 - on the path of dreams
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ty Lee
Rating: PG
Up is down and down is up and back is forth and round and round and round she goes, cartwheeling down the halls. Cartwheeling past teachers and threats of detention. Upside-down and downside-up, skirt round her head, hands on the floor and heels in the air.
Heels in the air, and dancing on her hands because she ignores gravity like she ignores detention. Ty Lee's in trouble again, once more in trouble, but she can't make herself care. She doesn't care because her aura is pink today, pink against Mai, who is graygraygray, and Azula with her coldfireblue.
(And thinking about Azula is dreaming of dancing on a wire... got to keep moving, got to keep from falling, can't think of falling, can't stop, can't ever stop, and the wire cuts into your feet.)
Braid whips, back bows, hands slap against stone. Her laughter spins out, turning the world pink. She's failed history again, drawn flowers on her test, a chain of five-petaled daisies looping round and round the names of Fire Lords past.
Handsprings carry her away from history tests. They carry her away from her parents' dreams of a good marriage and a demure daughter, dutiful daughter, who keeps her heels on the ground and her head out of the clouds.
Heels in the air, and Ty Lee's gone away, she's cutting school, she's off the grounds and out of bounds. She's past the guards, knocking them down with a tip-tap-tap, cutting their chi and her apron strings.
She's running away, she's joining the circus today, this very day, this pinkest of days.
She's joining the circus and she'll dance on a wire, up and down and down and up, back and forth and to and fro, always moving, never stopping. She follows her dream and a dream follows her, coldfireblue burning, flickering at her heels, and part of her knows she'll forever be dancing on a wire, even when her feet are firm on the ground.
Day/Theme: November 21 - on the path of dreams
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ty Lee
Rating: PG
Up is down and down is up and back is forth and round and round and round she goes, cartwheeling down the halls. Cartwheeling past teachers and threats of detention. Upside-down and downside-up, skirt round her head, hands on the floor and heels in the air.
Heels in the air, and dancing on her hands because she ignores gravity like she ignores detention. Ty Lee's in trouble again, once more in trouble, but she can't make herself care. She doesn't care because her aura is pink today, pink against Mai, who is graygraygray, and Azula with her coldfireblue.
(And thinking about Azula is dreaming of dancing on a wire... got to keep moving, got to keep from falling, can't think of falling, can't stop, can't ever stop, and the wire cuts into your feet.)
Braid whips, back bows, hands slap against stone. Her laughter spins out, turning the world pink. She's failed history again, drawn flowers on her test, a chain of five-petaled daisies looping round and round the names of Fire Lords past.
Handsprings carry her away from history tests. They carry her away from her parents' dreams of a good marriage and a demure daughter, dutiful daughter, who keeps her heels on the ground and her head out of the clouds.
Heels in the air, and Ty Lee's gone away, she's cutting school, she's off the grounds and out of bounds. She's past the guards, knocking them down with a tip-tap-tap, cutting their chi and her apron strings.
She's running away, she's joining the circus today, this very day, this pinkest of days.
She's joining the circus and she'll dance on a wire, up and down and down and up, back and forth and to and fro, always moving, never stopping. She follows her dream and a dream follows her, coldfireblue burning, flickering at her heels, and part of her knows she'll forever be dancing on a wire, even when her feet are firm on the ground.