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This is rather late, but was unexpectedly discovered on a floppy long after the Great Virus Invasion of '05.
Title: High Tide- Twenty Facts About Katara and Haru
1.Haru fell in love for the first time for one glorious afternoon when he was seven jumping in rain puddles with his older cousin Fuyu-- before she scrubbed him red raw in the bath that evening.
2.His favorite color was red until he was eleven.
3.Haru wanted to be a hero like the monkey king from the puppeteer's show when he was ten, then gave up and wanted to be like father. His mother worries that he will.
4.His uncle was first teacher in earthbending, not his father. Haru remembers a soft voice, long fingers, and clay becoming fantastic creatures before his eyes. He died in the black pox plague during the seige of Ba Sing Se. Haru still has the unfinished monkey bird in the corner of his chest. He sold the rest of the collection to pay off the first back taxes on their shop the year after his father left.
5.His father didn't leave, he was /taken/ he keeps telling himself. It doesn't help much.
6.Haru fell in love for the second time when he was nine years old after discovering the baby squirrel in the back of Old Man Wei's place (where the best climbing tree in the entire village was) and spent three exhaustive weeks hand raising the newly christian JiJi (though his mother and Fuyu did most of work.)
7.He learned how easily earthbending could take away the ones you loved if you weren't careful. Haru vowed JiJi would be the last (he was wrong.)
8.Haru thought his father was the strongest person in the world until six days after his eleventh birthday. Then the masked soldiers came.
9.He rarely speaks his father's name anymore. He never speaks his cousin's.
10.His father's last words to him were 'you have be a man now, Haru, and take care of the people you love. That what being a man is.'
11.Haru fell in love for the third time when Umi, the weaver's third daughter, told him he was too cute to be so serious all the time and kissed soundly on the lips at the harvest festival before running off to flirt with Kaimo, the new brawny fisherman.
12.Looking in the mirror, Haru decides blue is a good color on him-- brings out his best qualities.
13.Haru stopped believing in the old stories about heroes a long time ago. Katara makes him wonder why he did.
14.His mother complains about the mess he makes in the storage room with the clay; he apologizes and keeps trying. His latest pendant turned out pretty good (even if the wave design got twisted.)
15.Katara tells him about her mother. When he sees his father for first in the prison yard, Haru doesn't stop hugging him.
16.Haru fell in love overlooking the sea; he just didn't realize it until four months later.
17.Katara taught him how to keep his promises.
18.Haru understood the strength of stone for most of his life, but now, he was never more grateful for the worth of water.
19.Haru gathered dozens of wild sun lilies and went to see Fuyu for the first time since she moved east of the village. The conversation was awkward at first, but his cousin had always had a sympathic ear and Haru ended up talking straight till sundown. He laid the flowers on the grave and promised to finish the story about the water tribe girl on his next visit.
20.Six months after taking back the village, Haru weights his father's words before signing his name to a list of volunteers for a cavalry unit headed to the far north.
Title: High Tide- Twenty Facts About Katara and Haru
1.Haru fell in love for the first time for one glorious afternoon when he was seven jumping in rain puddles with his older cousin Fuyu-- before she scrubbed him red raw in the bath that evening.
2.His favorite color was red until he was eleven.
3.Haru wanted to be a hero like the monkey king from the puppeteer's show when he was ten, then gave up and wanted to be like father. His mother worries that he will.
4.His uncle was first teacher in earthbending, not his father. Haru remembers a soft voice, long fingers, and clay becoming fantastic creatures before his eyes. He died in the black pox plague during the seige of Ba Sing Se. Haru still has the unfinished monkey bird in the corner of his chest. He sold the rest of the collection to pay off the first back taxes on their shop the year after his father left.
5.His father didn't leave, he was /taken/ he keeps telling himself. It doesn't help much.
6.Haru fell in love for the second time when he was nine years old after discovering the baby squirrel in the back of Old Man Wei's place (where the best climbing tree in the entire village was) and spent three exhaustive weeks hand raising the newly christian JiJi (though his mother and Fuyu did most of work.)
7.He learned how easily earthbending could take away the ones you loved if you weren't careful. Haru vowed JiJi would be the last (he was wrong.)
8.Haru thought his father was the strongest person in the world until six days after his eleventh birthday. Then the masked soldiers came.
9.He rarely speaks his father's name anymore. He never speaks his cousin's.
10.His father's last words to him were 'you have be a man now, Haru, and take care of the people you love. That what being a man is.'
11.Haru fell in love for the third time when Umi, the weaver's third daughter, told him he was too cute to be so serious all the time and kissed soundly on the lips at the harvest festival before running off to flirt with Kaimo, the new brawny fisherman.
12.Looking in the mirror, Haru decides blue is a good color on him-- brings out his best qualities.
13.Haru stopped believing in the old stories about heroes a long time ago. Katara makes him wonder why he did.
14.His mother complains about the mess he makes in the storage room with the clay; he apologizes and keeps trying. His latest pendant turned out pretty good (even if the wave design got twisted.)
15.Katara tells him about her mother. When he sees his father for first in the prison yard, Haru doesn't stop hugging him.
16.Haru fell in love overlooking the sea; he just didn't realize it until four months later.
17.Katara taught him how to keep his promises.
18.Haru understood the strength of stone for most of his life, but now, he was never more grateful for the worth of water.
19.Haru gathered dozens of wild sun lilies and went to see Fuyu for the first time since she moved east of the village. The conversation was awkward at first, but his cousin had always had a sympathic ear and Haru ended up talking straight till sundown. He laid the flowers on the grave and promised to finish the story about the water tribe girl on his next visit.
20.Six months after taking back the village, Haru weights his father's words before signing his name to a list of volunteers for a cavalry unit headed to the far north.