Korra had never seen two people touch so much. She could never remember touching or being touched by her parents so often, not that she hadn't had her share of hugs, but as she got older and her training had become more intense a lot of the touches had sort of stopped.

But Bumi never stopped touching his son, it didn't matter who he was talking to, or what he was doing, there was always some part of him in contact, be it a friendly dig in the ribs, a warm hand pressed to his shoulders, a quick ruffle of the perfectly styled hair, a quick one arms hug for seemingly no reason, draping over him to steal something from his plate.

There had even been a moment when Bumi had left the table for a moment, and dropped an affectionate, but completely hilarious kiss to his sons forehead, so he didn't forget 'dear old dad loved him while he was gone'. It was met like all the other touches where, with a roll of grey eyes and a retaliatory swat that made Bumi laugh.

The thing was that this just looked so unreal watching the quite possibly insane Commander Bumi, who she could sort of accept acting this way, given the way she'd seen Tenzin's kids act with each other, and how she'd observed Kya acting. But it was Tahno that made her stare unbelievingly. If the fact that Tahno was Bumi's son wasn't mind boggling all by itself, the fact that Tahno was perfectly comfortable with the touching, and didn't act at all how she had expected.

"Problem Uh-Vatar?" Tahno asked suddenly, letting her know she'd been caught staring.

"Uh… No…" she looked back at her plate and blushed.

Xxxx

Tenzin caught Korra's sudden blush and glanced across the table at his brother and nephew. He had long ago stopped noticing the odd behaviour between the two. Since Bumi had been a child he had always been affectionate, hugging everything that moved. Mother had often said he took after Uncle Sokka more than herself and Aang.

It had been no surprise therefore when he had a wife and child of his own that this had transferred to them (a fact Tenzin was glad of, because he could only take so much of his brother in one go). His wife, Fela, of the Swamp Tribe had been more than receptive to that particular quirk, as the whole Swamp tribe acted like just one huge family and behaved fairly similar.

When Fela had died Tenzin had worried that his brother's habit of touching everyone and anything would die with her (it surprised him that he knew he would miss it), he had withdrawn completely, holing himself up in their small house with his four year old son. But when the grief had passed he had returned much the same.

There were those who found it hard to see how Bumi and Tahno could be related, they looked so very different, behaved so very differently. Bumi drove Tenzin up the wall with his behaviour, and Tahno worried Tenzin greatly, more at the thought of what bad habits he would teach his younger cousins if left alone with them for too long. But Tenzin had only to see how Tahno touched others, a hand on Jinora's head when he spoke to her, a half hug when he was whispering plots in Ikki's ear, the way he would tuck Meelo under his arm just to annoy his little cousin, the way he took Pema's hand to guide her through a door instead of simply holding it open, or hugged Katara every single time he saw her, even if he'd left the room and returned after a minute.

He could see it in the way that he touched Bumi as much as Bumi touched him, nothing as obvious maybe, because really, no one was as obvious as Bumi. But it was there, when he caught hold of his father's elbow when they were standing beside each other, or swatted the older man's chest to make a point.

Yes, there were those who found it hard to see how they were related, but those people just didn't know how to look.

Just a little head cannon.

I have grown to love the idea of Bumi and Tahno as father and son, and the idea that when he's not playing up being an asshole, Tahno is very much a touchy, feely sort of guy who isn't afraid to show affection to the people he loves, most especially his family. And I just liked the idea of Bumi and Tahno just sort of causally being in each other's space, without really noticing they were doing it, and being all in everyone else's too, just because that is how they are.

Ah well, like I said, personal head cannon. Hope you enjoyed.

Disclaimer: I do not own, at all.