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Okay, so I went and wrote a skipping rhyme for Water Tribe girls in Republic City to use when they’re playing jump the water whip. I actually have an idea for a story I’m going to use this in, but I’m not sure if/when I’ll write it, so for now here’s this:

Thunderclap from a clear blue sky

Asked the moon who’ll be my guy

Fire and flood, death and birth

I’ll marry a man who can bend the earth

All Earth’s creatures, use your eyes

What if my earthbender dies?

Princess Yue, chieftain’s daughter

I’ll marry a man who can bend the water

Under heaven, bow together

He up and left when we got hot weather

Tui and La, who can jump higher?

I’ll marry a man who can bend the fire

Spirit Oasis, leap and dance

He went and burned my favorite pants

Hotman, you had best run far

I’m gonna marry the Avatar

The first lines of the verses are based on the following enlightenment poem by Wumen Hui-k'ai, which I got off of Wikipedia:

A thunderclap under the clear blue sky

All beings on earth open their eyes;

Everything under heaven bows together;

Mount Sumeru leaps up and dances.