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.

The rules for posting to

avatar_500 can be found here.

You don't have to belong to

avatar_500 or have ever participated in it before to earn a request for commenting, and if you do want to join to post a fic for the round, all you have to do is click the "join the community" button, and you're in, easy.

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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Korra tugged against her mother's hand. "But it's got candy!"

"I don't care, Korra," her mother said tiredly. "We're not going there."

As Korra pulled, the hard, compacted snow melted and refroze under her mother's feet, turning into a glassy sheet of perfect, slick ice. Senna slid on the ice as if wheels had been attached to her feet, as if she wore freshly sharpened ice skates. And no matter how many times her mother shouted "Korra, no!" Korra kept dragging her behind her in her small, relentless wake.

Korra, blithely unaware of her newest show of waterbending, in pursuit of the booth with candy, as she had been unaware of all of them previously, sauntered under the booth canopy, and favored the woman behind the table with a wide, guileless smile. The woman behind the table frowned forebodingly down at her, and Korra's smile faltered.

"My, Senna, your girl strong," one of the women shopping chuckled, the lines on her face softening into a smile. Her gnarled fingers plucked one of the strings of fruit flavored sugar lumps from a hook on one of the poles that held up the booth's canvas roof. They shimmered like ice in the light that filtered down through the canvas. Korra popped one of the candy beads in her mouth, It was lemonberry. Her favorite.

"Those are imported!" the shopkeeper gasped furiously. "You can't just-"

"Oh calm down Nigaq." The old woman clucked her tongue and patted Korra on the back. "You know I'm good for it. Such a strong child."

"Well I heard that happens when they're mixed," the shopkeeper growled. Korra didn't think she liked her very much.

"Don't be nasty," the old woman scolded. "Besides, it's an old wives' tale, and both her parents are Water Tribe anyway."

"Okay," Senna cut in quickly. "You've had your candy, Korra, thank the nice ladies so we can leave."

Korra stuck her lip out stubbornly and pointed at the shopkeeper. "She's not a nice lady."

The shopkeeper's mouth dropped open. "Well I never!"

"Korra!" Senna grabbed her daughter's arm.

The old woman snorted. "She has you pegged, Nigaq."

"Your daughter is a miserable little brat," the shopkeeper sneered, hauling herself up to her feet to loom menacingly over her table. "I hope you're happy with her, Senna. Serves you right for not settling down with a nice Southern boy."

"I hope you have a lovely day, Nigaq," Korra's mother retorted. She turned to the old woman who had given Korra the candy and took her daughter's arm. "That was very sweet of you, Kirima thank you. Come on, Korra, let's go."

Korra watched the women as her mother let her out of the shop, sucking on the lump of candy uncertainly.

I'll admit, despite being the one to request this one, I was hesitant when the email notice popped up in my inbox. I dreaded seeing what kid!Korra would be subjected to. Like what's behind a closed door, what you haven't seen yet is infinitely more horrible than whatever is there when you open the door, so I'm glad Korra didn't suffer overly much here.

I'm a puzzled by what the old wives' tale is supposed to be. Is it that the stereotype of a north/south kid is physically strong or just a strong bender?

Honestly, most of it went right over little Korra's head. *pets her*.

The old wives' tale is that kids whose parents are from two different elements are stronger, and our sour shopkeeper was applying it to Korra, even though bother her parents are Water Tribe. I hear tell some people have the headcanon that no one is actually a nonbender. They just aren't born into the nation of the element they would be bending. So kids with parents of two elements would have double the chance of being born into the right nation for their element. Eh, just go with it. I was tired when I wrote it.

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