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A [[Flash Fiction|brief]] [[Slice of Life]] [http://archiveofourown.org/works/3909817 fanfic] based on ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', written by
It's set just after the finale of Book 3, and involves a twelve-year-old girl reading a newspaper article about the events of said finale while waiting for the school bus. Details about the viewpoint character emerge throughout the narrative.
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* [[All There in the Manual]]:
* [[Big Eater]]: Hakini [[Justified Trope|is a growing girl]]{{spoiler|—possibly quite dramatically so, if [[Statuesque Stunner|her birth mother]]'s genes leave their mark—}}who's [[Huge Schoolgirl|already big for her age]], and the "increasingly ravenous appetite" that she has to show for it gets a brief mention.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]:
* [[Elsewhere Fic]]: Although it's roughly concurrent with the Book 3 finale, it's set "somewhere in the Fire Nation." As such, no canon characters actually appear.
* [[Flash Fiction]]: Clocks in at just over 200 words.
* [[Give Him a Normal Life|Give Her a Normal Life]]: Implied{{spoiler|, although the choice wasn't made by her biological parents}}.
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Hakini draws a distinction between "[[Good Parents|her parents]]" and the (unknown to her) "people who'd brought her into the world."
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: She's a twelve-year-old student, described as gangly and awkward, who—at a confirmed height of 5'11" and still growing—is already promising to be taller than her adoptive father. {{spoiler|(Not too surprising, considering that her birth mother was 6'8"...)}}
* [[Kid Fic]]: An [[inverted]] example, in which characters with no apparent connection to the plot have [[Happily Adopted|adopted]] the biological daughter of {{spoiler|a [[Unholy Matrimony|canon antagonist couple]]}}.
* [[Nameless Narrative]]: Canon characters are mentioned, but not named. Hakini's name (the author has admitted that, when it was written, she hadn't yet actually been ''given'' one) and those of her adoptive parents [[No Name Given|are not revealed in the story proper]].
* [[No Infantile Amnesia]]: [[Downplayed]]. Hakini was born in the [[Seasonal Baggage|summer]], but her earliest memory is of "bone-crushing cold." {{spoiler|Considering her age, she'd have been conceived shortly before the Red Lotus were incarcerated and born in [[Tailor-Made Prison|P'Li's cell]]; ice crevasses tend to be cold throughout the year.}}
* [[Patchwork Kids]]: Averted; although something about {{spoiler|Zaheer's mug shot}} looks vaguely familiar to her ([[Word of God]] is that it's {{spoiler|the [[Villainous Cheekbones|cheekbones]]}}), she's implied to mainly just have a [[Strong Family Resemblance]] to {{spoiler|P'Li}} (or, at least, to have inherited {{spoiler|the [[Huge Schoolgirl|height]] and the [[Playing with Fire|bending element]]}}.
* [[Playing
* [[Seasonal Baggage]]: A contrast is drawn between Hakini being a firebender born in summer and her distant memories of cold.
* [[Slice of Life]]:
* [[Tell Me About My Father|Tell Me About My Birth Parents]]: Defied. Sure, Hakini asked once...only to find out that [[Locked Out of the Loop|the information had been deliberately withheld]]. Hence...
* [[Title Drop]]: In the second-to-last paragraph. Applied not only to Hakini, but to her adoptive parents as well.
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