Bo, calm down. You just said you have the flu. We're not doing any training while you're sick.

( he doesn't feel so hot himself, (ha, ha, #formerfirebenderpun) but he's so used to muscling through any ill feelings that it barely even registers. his brother is sick!! he should be resting in bed. in fact, that's where mako starts to gently usher him off to. he's claimed one of the rooms in a stone house already, so he'll just... tuck bolin into his bed and have done with the whole thing. maybe make him some tea. )

And... yeah. I mean, of course I do.

( all bias aside. objectively speaking, he does think bo's the best. he doesn't necessarily think he'd win in a real knock-down drag-out fight against a beifong, but that's less skill and more experience. lin has a killer instinct that bolin lacks. that mako's glad he lacks. it means he did his job as a big brother, trying to keep him safe for all those years. )

You've never let me down. Not once. There's no one I'd rather have at my back in a fight.

( korra's a force of nature, but his synergy with bolin is born from almost fifteen years of them only having each other for survival. that's hard to beat. )