Line #23 Fanfic/BetterOffNotKnowing


1	A [[FlashFiction brief]] SliceOfLife [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3909817 fanfic]] based on ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', written by Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn user [=RhazadeWaterbender=].
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3	Roughly concurrent with the finale of Book 3, the story 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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6	!!Contains examples of:
7	* AllThereInTheManual: The story summary is the only thing that discloses the viewpoint character's place of residence, and [[AllThereInTheScript her name is revealed in the tags]]. The author has also offhandedly revealed other details elsewhere.
8	* AllThereInTheScript: The viewpoint character's name is given as "Hakini" in the work tags.
9	* BigEater: Hakini is a growing girl who is [[HugeSchoolgirl already quite big for her age]], and the "increasingly ravenous appetite" that she has to show for it gets a brief mention. It's implied that [[spoiler:her height stems from [[StatuesqueStunner her birth mother]]'s genes, which means she could potentially get even taller than she already is]].
10	* DramaticIrony: It becomes increasingly clear to the reader that Hakini is [[spoiler:the biological daughter of [[ArcVillain Zaheer]] [[UnholyMatrimony and]] [[TheBrute P'Li]]]]. She herself, however, is mercifully unaware of the fact.
11	* ElsewhereFic: Although it's roughly concurrent with the Book 3 finale, the story is set "somewhere in the Fire Nation." As such, no canon characters actually appear.
12	* FlashFiction: Clocks in at just over 200 words.
13	* GiveHerANormalLife: Implied to be the reason that Hakini was given up for adoption, although [[spoiler:the choice wasn't made by her biological parents]].
14	* HappilyAdopted: Hakini draws a distinction between "[[GoodParents her parents]]" and "the people who'd brought her into the world."
15	* HugeSchoolgirl: Hakini is a twelve-year-old student, described as gangly and awkward, who—at a confirmed height of 5'11" (slightly over 180cm) 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" (2.03m).]]
16	* {{Kidfic}}: An {{inverted}} example, in which characters with no apparent connection to the plot have [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] the biological daughter of [[spoiler:a [[UnholyMatrimony canon antagonist couple]]]].
17	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Neither Hakini nor her adopted parents know who Hakini's biological parents are, and they seem to have no involvement in politics or the events of the plot.
18	* NamelessNarrative: Canon characters are mentioned, but not named. Noncanon characters are referred to only with epithets: Hakini is referred to as "the girl," and while she has a name, it isn't revealed in the story proper--it's simply [[AllThereInTheScript listed in the character tags of the fic]] (the author has admitted that, when it was written, Hakini didn't even ''have'' a name). Similarly, the names Hakini's adoptive parents [[NoNameGiven are never revealed in the story]].
19	* NoInfantileAmnesia: Downplayed. Hakini was born in the [[SeasonalBaggage summer]], but her earliest memory is of "bone-crushing cold." [[spoiler:Considering her age, she would have been conceived shortly before the Red Lotus "[[QuirkyMinibossSquad op team]]" were incarcerated and born in [[TailorMadePrison P'Li's cell]]; ice crevasses tend to be cold throughout the year.]]
20	%%* NurtureOverNature: Teased at.
21	* OriginalCharacter: Hakini is one, as are [[HappilyAdopted her parents]]. [[spoiler:"The people who'd brought her into the world," however, are canon antagonists]].
22	* PatchworkKids: Averted. Although something about [[spoiler:Zaheer's mug shot]] looks vaguely familiar to Hakini[[note]]WordOfGod is that it's the [[VillainousCheekbones cheekbones]][[/note]], she's implied to mainly just have a StrongFamilyResemblance to [[spoiler:her mother P'Li]] (or, at very least, to have inherited [[spoiler:the [[PlayingWithFire bending element]] and the [[HugeSchoolgirl height]]]]).
23	* PlayingWithFire: Hakini is stated to be a firebender. [[spoiler:Yet another way in which she takes after her birth mother.]]
24	* SeasonalBaggage: A contrast is drawn between Hakini being a firebender born in summer and her distant memories of cold.
25	* SliceOfLife: The story is ultimately just a short moment about a kid reading the newspaper while waiting for the bus.
26	* [[TellMeAboutMyFather Tell Me About My Birth Parents!]]: Defied. Hakini only asked her parents about her biological family once...only to find out that [[LockedOutOfTheLoop the information had been deliberately withheld from them]]. While Hakini does wonder sometimes, she mostly decides that she's content not knowing her birth parents' identities.
27	* TitleDrop: The second-to-last paragraph quotes the title verbatim:
28	-->"She’d asked her parents, once, about the people who’d brought her into the world. They [[LockedOutOfTheLoop hadn’t been told names]]—only that they were better off not knowing."

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