attackfish | The Avatar_500 Jump Start Posting And Comments Meme

Alright, I'm unwilling to let

avatar_500 go without a fight, so I am going to incentivize participation. Write and post a fic for Round 65 - Air, and I'll fill a drabble request of yours. Comment on all of the fics in the round (everybody said they wanted more comments), and at the end of the round, link me to all of the comments and I'll fill a request for you. Do both, and I will fulfill three requests for commentfic.

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About which I will not write (so don't request):

Ty Zula
NC-17
Incest
Ships where one party is much older or younger than the other(s)
Rape
Other people's OCs

Other than that, everything is fair game.

The deadline to post fic is Saturday December 1st at 11:00 PM EST. The deadline to post comments is Saturday December 8th at 11:00 PM EST.

Fics in The Round So Far:

Marking Boundaries by

attackfish
The Need to be Seen by

lalunatique
Playtime at Air Temple Island by

wolfs_lament
What Are the Odds? by

c3childs
Wrong by

chordatesrock
Four Element - Air- Third Stanza by

clockwerkchaos
How Tenzin Met Pema by

lavanyasix

Fills:

For

wolfs_lament:
For a story: Hufflepuff Zuko, Secret Tunnel

For

chordatesrock:
   For a story: Holding This Breath: the Aftermath of Kidnapping Aang
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Quiet Shadowed Places: the Cooler
   Bonus: Zuko/Toph, all grown up and surviving state dinners

For

lalunatique:
For commenting on everyone's fics: Ty Lee and Suki - Sake

For

somariel:
For commenting on everyone's fics: The Grand Lotus puts out a call

For:

c3childs:
   For a story: Hama - Katara wasn't her first pupil *Warning for violence and death*
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Amon - the vigilante of Republic City
   Bonus: Yakone - he owns Republic City

For

lavanyasix:
   For a story: Lin Realizes Toph is a dirty cop
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Pre-series - Korra encounters prejudice due to being half Northern and half Southern
   Bonus: Ozai marries his son off into an insultingly low-ranked colonial noble family. Zuko/Kori

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The iron door crunched off its hinges and swung around until it hit the wall before sagging to the floor. Captain Lin Bei Fong stalked in like she didn't even notice the damage, and Toph had to suppress a grin. The resemblance between them wasn't usually so obvious. "Linnie! How're you doing?"

Instead of answering, Lin slammed one of the canvas evidence bags with a knife inside down on her mother's stone table. "I read the evidence report! We did not find this at Peng Li's apartment. One of my officers found it in a gutter a block away from where we found the body!"

Toph's secretary, who had done the actual ink and paper writing of the report in question edged out of the room, and Toph felt her daughter's hands twitch with the impulse to bend the door closed to stop him. "Maybe you just aren't remembering it right."

"Mom!"

"Wow," Toph whispered. "You haven't called me that in a loooong time, Linnie."

"This is serious, Mother." Lin clenched her teeth. "Did you falsify evidence?"

"He was lying." Toph stood up and swept around to the other side of the table, to stand before her daughter. "I felt it. He butchered his pregnant wife and left her in a ditch."

"So you framed him?" Lin demanded, eyes wide, hands shaking.

"Yeah, I framed a man who is guilty," Toph spat. "You know he's guilty, I know he's guilty, and I'm not going to let him get away with it."

"You broke the law."

"Don't tell me you're going to report this." Toph folded her arms. "Let him walk out of prison, get married again, and do this to some other girl."

"No, I won't." Toph could feel the unhappiness radiating off her daughter, and everything in her wanted to reach out a hand to her, but Lin stepped back, out of her reach. She turned around and walked out of the room, and Toph didn't call her back.

I could see how this would feed into Lin becoming the rule-bound, no-privileges sort of person we see in the present day. After all, if Toph's lie detecting doesn't work on the likes of Azula, false positives should also be in the realm of possibility. That'd seem the sort of thing to nag at Lin, even if she thought the suspect in this particular case was guilty.

The bit about Toph having a secretary to write her reports raises a good (and obvious) point. Her position would involve a lot of paperwork, so Toph would need to dictate her reports to someone. That could be an interesting relationship.

I've sometimes fanwanked the idea that metalbending could allow Toph to learn to read and write, if she put iron salts in her ink, but on reflection I wonder if she'd actually be that interested in learning either skill. She wouldn't need them until she becomes a police officer, and that's probably into her twenties. Between her police work and training metalbenders, and possible a marriage as well, that wouldn't leave a terrible amount of time for her to become literate.

She doesn't even necessarily need a false positive on a lie to accidentally frame an innocent person for murder. What if next time, somebody's lying about their alibi, because their real alibi was that they were with a lover? This must terrify Lin, that her mother is so confident in her own infallibility that she would do something like that.

It would have to be an incredibly intimate relationship and I can't imagine Toph would be an easy boss to work for, especially in a relationship that intense.

On Toph writing, I'm sure she could find a way if she wanted to, but speaking as somebody who has disabilities, a lot of it is about picking battles, and I'm totally okay with Toph looking at reading and writing as something she doesn't care about enough to figure out the workarounds.

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