𝐓𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐒 ꦼ ༄ 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀

𝐓𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐒 ꦼ ༄ 𝐎𝐍𝐄

𝐓𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐒 ┊ 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀

ONE ┊THE WATERBENDING MASTER

NANAMI OF THE NORTHERN WATER TRIBE WAS SITTING UNDERNEATH A PILLAR OF INTRICATELY CAFTED ICE OUTSIDE THE PALACE ENTRANCE. The buildings made of ice shimmer like glass underneath the sun hidden by clouds. Snowflakes softly fell from the sky, melting into her ivory colored hair that cascaded down her back into neatly woven braids decorated with small blue beads that her mother insisted on doing earlier. She rests the book she has read a thousand times on her lap and raises her hand to the sky, and makes the snowflakes in front of her spin around in a tiny flurry and smiles to herself, her ocean blue eyes sparkle like the moon reflecting off the ocean. Nanami found herself pleased with this moment of peace, she often doesn't get them with her parents rather controlling ways.

Nanami was the only child of her soft spoken mother, who was a waterbender who healed the sick and injured and was known for far and wide for her talents, and her father, who was a diplomat that worked closely with Chief Arnook. Nanami was born a waterbender but ever since she was a little girl, she was forbidden from ever using her abilities by her parents, who feared that one day if the Fire Nation were to ever get past their icy defenses, she could be taken away if they learned of her abilities. It wasn't like she could learn anything besides healing anyhow. In her tribe, it was forbidden for female waterbenders to learn waterbending for combative purposes. Instead, they were trained as healers and only allowed to use their bending to heal wounds.

Nanami found the rule ridiculous and unfair, and she protested it every chance she got but she ultimately went unheard, while her father was a very well respected diplomat, any act of rebellion or defiance from his beloved only child could ruin his reputation. She was forced to steal waterbending scrolls from the libraries and learn on her own in secret but she still didn't know much besides a few simple defensive moves. Nanami also had a strange ability that she kept hidden from her parents, she had the ability to communicate with the moon and ocean spirits, Tui and La.

She couldn't speak with them in the terms of words but more so through images and visions. Through visions and images, she could understand the personifications of ocean that gives all water tribe people life and the moon who gave them power and the two spirits have who have kept balance ever since in an eternal dance of push and pull as they resided inside the spirit oasis as koi fish. She never really understood how though, but it often made her visit the spirit oasis where she often ran into Princess Yue, who she didn't know much about despite their fathers being close with one another.

She is drawn out of thoughts when she takes notice of strange sight. There is a boy, no more than a couple years younger than she is, with a light blue arrow on his head and clothing of the air nomads with a flying lemur resting on his shoulder, a strange sight seeing as the peaceful nation was completely wiped out in the start of the one hundred year war, in a truly cruel way, as an attempt to destroy the next avatar in line.