ANYTHING BUT; avatar the last airbender

anything but

"I don't wanna be anything

but I would do anything just to run away

I don't wanna be anything like this at all

but I would do everything if you'd hear me say"

PRINCESS LIAN

    would do anything to escape the sterile air of the luxuries of Ba Sing Se. She would do anything to escape and run away from the hands of the Dai Li and the aching expressions that befall her father. She would do anything to just live, to escape, to feel like a kid with loving arms around her and kind voices in her ears. However, she is stuck with a father  who is hardly an adult, himself, and a mother who has been nothing but an unknown name and a dream in her long nights. She is a shadow in this world; she was born to follow the sun, to envy the stars, and to pity the moon. 

    She is a shadow to the world. 

    Lian is known among the world as such. She is a mystery, an unknown little thing. They do not know her face, nor her voice, or much more than her name. To the world, to the Earth Kingdom, she is nothing more than the daughter of the figure head. She is only the daughter of the Earth King, who has been sheltered from the real world for far too long. She is nothing more than that, to them. But to the sun, she is the very earth. The very thing that keeps them alive, the thing that shelters them from harm. She is anything but nothing. To the sun, she is everything.