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deerlyBeloved: firebug
Mako / 22 / male / It's always complicated

Are you looking to be somebody's It's Complicated? With this fiery hearthrob, everything's complicated! But it's worth it: underneath that gruff exterior and painful awkwardness, he's a sweet guy with some killer thighs. Give him a chance to sweep you off your feet. Every other person in his friend group has! Third time's the charm, right?

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[helpdesk_hero]

It will be, which I don’t mind at all. In the mean time, well, I suppose I just have to get through.

Wait, can you be near ice that long as a fire bender?

[He’s long since lost his knowledge of it.]

[arclightning]

[ David can't hear it but Mako actually laughs aloud, grinning down at his Fluid. ]

I can be near ice. If I'm too cold for too long my bending gets weaker, but I don't run hot enough to melt the rink out from under you or anything. Don't worry.

[helpdesk_hero]

[This is where someone could make a comment about Mako being MORE than hot enough to melt ice. But... Well, that’s definitely too forward.]

Well then, winter wont’ suck for you.

[arclightning]

[ Mako doesn't even know what he could have been dealing with and is still grateful for it. That would send him into a bit of a spiral trying to figure things out. ]

No, it won't. I learned a long time ago how to keep warm through the winter. It was my brother I had to worry about. It gets cold in Republic City.

[ And they were on the streets, and they could barely afford food, much less warm winter clothing. There was one winter Mako had to stuff newspaper into both of their boots to keep their toes from freezing off. He'd spent terrible sleepless nights curled up together with Bolin, pushing heat over and over again into his shivering limbs. He has nightmares sometimes that he didn't succeed, that he fell asleep and only he woke up.

Winter will never be Mako's favorite season. ]

Maybe the pond will freeze over and you can skate on that.

[helpdesk_hero]

I imagine fire bending is good for keeping warm.

[arclightning]

If you get too cold on the pond I can just heat up the air around you. Firebending's dangerous but it's also pretty useful.

[ Mako guesses this is... going to be a thing, at some point. He almost says something stupid like it's a date but that—feels like too much. It's not a date, it's just going to the pond, maybe, to watch David ice skate. Maybe. ]

[helpdesk_hero]

If you’re really offering to keep me warm, I’m not going to say no.

Guess I need to survive through October and November in hopes we get the chance.

[arclightning]

I am. If you need anything, by the way, let me know. Korra and I have a lot stocked up—water, food, and that incense stuff.

[helpdesk_hero]

I’ve got all of that too, so I’m fine. But thank you for the concern.

[arclightning]

If I wasn't concerned this month something would be wrong with me. Stay safe.

[helpdesk_hero]

Oh, I never do. But thanks for caring.

And Mako? If I ever make you feel uncomfortable, you can tell me to back off.

[arclightning]

[ That's his secret, David: Mako's always uncomfortable! Well, not always. Talking to David is a lot better than the several months after he and Asami and Korra were all just friends again. ]

...noted? Thanks. I'll let you know.

[helpdesk_hero]

Of course if you don’t say stop I’m going to take that as, you know, permission to maybe nice things about your eyes.

[arclightning]

You have permission but they're just eyes.

[helpdesk_hero]

They have the same color as the warm light of embers in a camp fire, which makes me think of the warmth of summer.

[arclightning]

What. Come on. That's not a way anyone has ever described eyes. Except in those terrible novels.

[ W H A T this does not happen to him, obviously vague humor is the only way to deal with the fact that someone actually just compared his eyes, of all things, to a fire. And summer. Mako isn't great at compliments, especially teasing ones. ]

[helpdesk_hero]

It’s a way I’m describing yours. Because it’s the way they look. Poetic.

[It’s happening to you, Mako. Right now, it’s happening.]

[arclightning]

My EYES look poetic? Now you're just making things up, c'mon.

[helpdesk_hero]

You don’t know me if you think I’m making it up. And it’s less your eyes looking poetic, and more me feeling poetic about your eyes.

[arclightning]

So you write poetry about people's eyes a lot, then.

[helpdesk_hero]

No. I really don’t. But sometimes you find a pair too beautiful to pass up.

[arclightning]

[ !!!!!!

!!!!!!!!

he has to go show this to Korra to ask if he's being messed with.

Except not, because she'll make fun of him forever, and David did say he'd stop except Mako isn't uncomfortable, exactly, he just has no idea what to say. That's the kind of thing he used to say to Asami to make her laugh, and the words always felt unnatural on his lips. Mako's not really a romantic person. ]

How. Do you just. Say stuff like that.

[helpdesk_hero]

I didn't say it. I typed it. So I guess the 'how' comes down to the motion of my thumbs.

[arclightning]

[ That's enough to break Mako out of his slight panic into a snort of laughter. ] OKAY, yeah. Your thumbs can really come up with some lines.

[helpdesk_hero]

The rest of me comes up with far better things than that.