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two whirlwinds. WRITTEN.

Hi! This is Ikki. I'm writing this time. Since people keep asking about mommy and daddy, I drew pictures. And then some of people here who I met and my family here!

This is my family at home! That's me and my sister Jinora, and then Meelo is on Daddy's head, and Mommy and Daddy are holding Rohan. We're all at Air Temple Island there!

This is my family here! We're in a pink place because I wanted to use pink. It's me and Grandpa and Katara and Uncle Sokka and Aunt Toph and Uncle Roku and Uncle Zuko!

And this is everyone I met so far! It's Shikamaru who's super nice and cool and makes really really great shadows, and Nomi and Luke who are like an Avatar but not, and Chien and Soren, who don't bend air, and Vivi, who has the prettiest hair ever!

Also I got a swim suit and an apple and candy and soda and a room in our house, and it's the best best best best house ever!

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Well... boys usually grow a lot less hair so it would look weird. So we get mustaches and beards instead! And girls' hair are nice enough that it's worth keeping some of it.

[ that is definitely a different answer.

SHE LIKES IT. ] That makes sense!! You'd look pretty funny with long long hair, huh?

[He might not have paid attention to actual reasons...]

I would look pretty funny! Sometimes in my dreams I have really big hair.

[ Like grandfather, like granddaughter. The actual reasons weren't as reasonable clearly. ]

Big hair? Like - poof? [ Ikki demonstrates by holding her hands up behind her own head. ]

It mostly goes up. And sometimes it's really spiky. [Pause] I did have a little hair in real life for a while, because we had to hide from the Fire Nation.

Do you want big hair? [ Ikki looks scandalized to learn that Aang had hair at one point. ] Really? What'd it look like? [ she looks around, then pushes her art supplies at him, leaning forward on the table and sitting on her chair on her knees. ] Draw it!

No! I don't want hair. [Even if Katara did like the way it looked, Aang still considers it to be one of the lowest moments of his life. But he keeps a smile on and hastily begins scrawling a drawing.] It was something like this. [There's a drawing of Aang with some short brown hair and the hint of an arrow. It's a slightly decent drawing.]

[ Impressed look. He has mad skills if you ask a seven-year-old granddaughter. ] Wo-ow, you're good! That's the color of Jinora's hair and my hair and Rohan's hair and Meelo's hair when he has hair, 'cept we have all different shades.

And it's really lovely on you. I'm glad that you all got to put my hair to use, if I couldn't. But you have a little of Katara in your hair which gives it extra prettiness!

[ all the beaming. So much beaming! ] But! But I met someone with even prettier hair. Vivi has the prettiest hair the whole wide world - worlds. It's blue and pretty and shiny and blue!

That's her in your drawing, huh? I can see how it's really pretty! There are lots of people here with different hair colors. But I don't want to think there's any hair better than my family's. [It's still weird but also heart-lifting to be able to use that phrase. He smiles and ruffles her hair.]

Yep! But it's okay, 'cause I'm going to let her be my little sister. [ /child logic. Who says she can't adopt everyone? ] Hey hey hey Luke and Nomi said they know you!

If you keep that up, this is gonna turn out to be a real huge family. [Not that it bothers him. The bigger the family, the better.] Yep! They're friends of mine, you could say. I see you met Shikamaru, too.

[ Ikki looks unbothered by that. Of course, she definitely knows the names of every single Air Acolyte at home, and all the sky bison, and has named all the lemurs. And passing birds. And koi fish. So. ] That's okay, my family is always really big!

Shikamaru? [ she nods, clapping her hands together and then throwing them wide and wiggling her fingers. It's a demonstration. ] He's a shadowbender! And he made animals and we talked about how they're two things for him when they're one thing for me and he said people drink out of the fountain and also we talked 'bout our parents and he told me about ninjas and we talked about food and it was really, really fun!

[He gives a light laugh at the "shadowbender" talk and smiles goofily. He didn't think Shikamaru was so good with kids, but it looks like it's the case.]

That's great. It sounds like you had a lot of fun playing with the ninja shadowbender. He's a real good friend of GranGran and mine, you know.

Yep! He said he was G - Katara's friend and sat with me while she finished up shopping and we had lots of fun! How long have you known him, Grandpa?

I've known him for a few months, pretty much as long as I've been here. I know Gra- Katara's known him for longer.

'Cause she's been here longer. [ knowledgeable nod. ] And he's not a Straw Hat Pirate.

Yeah, he's been here pretty long. I forgot how lo- right, he's not a Straw Hat Pirate.

G - Katara said they're interesting and nice and if I need something I can ask them if she's not there or you're not there or Uncle Sokka's not there or Uncle Roku's not there or Aunt Toph's not there or Uncle Zuko's not there [ SHE COULD GO ON ] 'cause they're nice and interesting.

I've only met a few of them so far, but they do seem nice! [He doesn't want to imagine a circumstance where they're all gone, leaving Ikki alone.] You can definitely trust Shikamaru and Luke, too.

Yep! And Nomi, right? We went and got cookies together, it was lots of fun. And Crys, too, she told me I can't get my journal wet 'cause I should take care of it.

Yeah! Nomi too! [A little awkward due to her time here being limited, but...] Cookies, huh? You really had some adventures when we weren't around! I don't think I've met Crys. Is she nice?

She says she can come out more than Luke can, when it's different. [ confiding tone. And then back to LOUD. ] Crys is Crystal! She has a friend called Xatee who is a Xatu, and can make psychic magic wands, and she says the animals in her world are called Pokemon, just like Chien's Soren who's a Swellow but whose name is just Soren.

[When she talks about Nomi and Luke, he nods as if accepting a secret.]

They both sound nice. I'll have to make friends with them too! So you've met Pokemon. They're really neat kinds of animals, right?

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