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attackfish ([personal profile] attackfish) wrote2010-10-01 08:46 pm

Birthday AU Commentfic Meme!

It’s my birth month, and to celebrate, I’m hosting a commentfic meme!  I’m in the mood to write some AU fics, so that’s the theme of the meme.  I’m open to both Avatar: the Last Airbender and Harry Potter requests, and I’m also taking requests in any of my existing AUs (Except Children of Mars), including the ones I established im my last commentfic meme, as well as new ones.  Comment with up to five requests, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic.  I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me.  [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet , [livejournal.com profile] beboots , and [livejournal.com profile] floranna  get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because [livejournal.com profile] beboots  and [livejournal.com profile] floranna  are the best betas ever, and [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet  has a truly bizarre AU I inflicted on her rattling around in her head.  Also, anyone who wants me to write anything from my AU of Sun Child needs to ask [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet  and [livejournal.com profile] floranna , because it’s theirs.

*Closed and Finished*

Given that this meme has spawned a fair few universes, sorting the fics by requester would be clunky, so instead, I'm sorting them by universe this time.

One Shot Universes:

Another Wacky Day: Sokka3PO and KataraD2 (Star Wars/A:tLA fusion)
  requested by [livejournal.com profile] avocado_love 
Oh Come On, Of Course Zuko’s a HufflePuff (Harry Potter/A:tLA crossover) requested by [livejournal.com profile] avocado_love 
Zuko muses on his fellow ruler, his sister, and the big universal questions of morality NOTE-not actually AU, requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots
Dwarf!Toph (D&D fusion, sort of) requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Don’t even ask- I don’t even- What is wrong with you, woman? (Kyoshi Warrior Ozai) NOTE- Not AU, just crack, requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Suki's a Firebender requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Toph is the one who finds Aang requested by [livejournal.com profile] panaili 
Ozai doesn’t allow the Dragon of the West to join Zuko in exile: Parts One, Two, and Three requested by [livejournal.com profile] lavanyasix 

Mirrorverse (The Avatar is an evil spirit):


Meetings requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Aang's Little Crush requested by [livejournal.com profile] gamiel 
In This Verse, Azula Totes Rescues Puppies requested by [livejournal.com profile] avocado_love 

Lightning Strike (from this commentfic on a previous meme):

Sneaking out of Bed requested by [livejournal.com profile] lavanyasix 
Zuko and Kuei, chillin’ together requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

AU of Ice Flows Through:

Mai, taking Azula's plan down from the inside: Parts One, Two, Three, and Four requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

Quiet Shadowed Places verse (from this shortfic):

Zuko Finds Out He’s Blind requested by [livejournal.com profile] floranna 
Zuko Can’t Get Any Respect requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 
Fire Bending Masters requested by Hillary (anonymous user)
Agni Kai During Sozin’s Comet requested by Hillary
Toph and Zuko bonding NOTE- crack, and absolutely not universe canon, requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

Iroh Dies in S2 (from these three commentfics in a previous meme):

Crossroads of Destiny Parts One, Two Three, Four, and Five requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 
The Throne Room requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 
Royalty Lessons requested by [livejournal.com profile] beboots 

Fail!Incubus Zuko:

Attempted Seduction *warning for sexual coercion and slavery* requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Courting Mai requested by [livejournal.com profile] gamiel 

Life Spirit:

Toph Bei Fong requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Winter When He Goes requested by [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet 
Zuko and Iroh requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 
Sokka and Katara requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 

Koizilla Destroys the Fire Nation (from this commentfic from a previous meme):

Song requested by [livejournal.com profile] clockwerkchaos 

Modern Day:


Toph and Aang Meet requested by [livejournal.com profile] panaili 
Sleepover requested by [livejournal.com profile] panaili 

AU of Sun Child:

NOTE- Sun Child belongs to [livejournal.com profile] weirdlet and an index of fics in that verse can be found here.  This AU of the Sun Child AU began in these two commentfics from a previous meme *Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue*

Zhao and Zura's Child is Born requested by [livejournal.com profile] floranna 

Zuko Hurt His Leg on the Run and it Won’t Heal (from this commentfic on a previous meme):

Teo and Zuko Bonding Parts One and Two requested by Hillary
Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing requested by Hillary

(Anonymous) 2010-10-15 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
HA!! the add at the top says "learn Hebrew in 10 days" not me with any language. Unless its swearing . . . H

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I rescue dogs, and one of my dogs is really nervous and clingy, because he was abused as a puppy, and every time I tell somebody, they all react with this appalled look and ask me how anybody could hit a puppy. Iroh's feeling the same way. He lost his son. The wound's still fresh. He just doesn't see how anybody could do that to their own child. Well, of Ozai doesn't want him...

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I speak English, Russian, Arabic, and a little bit of Hebrew, which I constantly mix up with my Arabic. I've always been good with languages, but as bad as my visual skills are, Rosetta Stone made me want to scream. I can't learn visually at all. Map reading makes me cry. I'm a verbal mimic, though. Made me a riot when I was in school./sarcasm

Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through)

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I said I wasn’t going to have anything from Ice Flows Through, but this is AU for that AU. If Azula had called Zuko’s bluff while he was bloodbending, and captured him, his uncle, Lu Ten, Rinzee, and Ruili... Well. Mai would have a decision to make, wouldn’t she.

I’m actually kind of surprised that you didn’t ask me anything from this verse (http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=295012#t295012). Oh, and you have three requests left. But no more promises of fics. Oh my God, I’ve written one for every single request so far, damn you.







His chest heaving with strain and cornered fear, Zuko could see in her face what she eagerly awaited for him back home, himself locked up, chained up, disfigured and blinded, unable to move against his bonds, trapped alone with his scornful fellow prisoners, shut away for all time. One of his hands sprang up between them, tensed, ready to throw her back away from him, to bend the blood inside her, ready to fail. He knew he would fail.

There was fear in the back of Azula’s eyes, cold and astonished fear. She started to run. The fire around her fists blazed higher as she ran for him. He shoved his arm forward, fingers tense, to grab her blood and bend it away, sick with his own fear, and closed his eyes.

Azula jerked back under her hands for just a second. She roared out her fury, and Zuko opened his eyes, so hopeful, so thankful that it was working, that he really could get them all out of it, for just a second before Azula wrenched her arms down. The blood spilled through his grasp.

Azula still had fire around her hands when she grabbed him. He screamed and screamed, and his fingers twitched and shook beneath the burn. She yanked him to his feet, but he stumbled, and her soldiers caught him. Her soldiers who he had only just bent to the ground. All around him, the soldiers were rounding up the rest of them, pinning them down. Ruili wailed, red faced, in the arms of a soldier, and her parents didn’t fight as the soldiers grabbed them too, leaving only Uncle free. He stood in the middle of the circle of soldiers, hands full of fire, eyes darting between the the soldiers and his family.

Azula bared her teeth. She grabbed her brother’s strange, white hair and held up two fingers. Blue fire swept over them as she held them in front of the unburned side of Zuko’s face. He shivered and shook as mucus and tears ran down his face, and he didn’t even seem to notice the flames. “Do you want me to blind him right now?” she asked. “Or maybe burn his head off?”

Iroh dropped his arms. Azula sneered.

~*~

Shadows writhed across the cell walls. Zuko’s eyes couldn’t pin them down and she couldn’t stop shivering. Azula pushed her foot under her brother’s chin and lifted it up. “Where did you dig him up?” she asked calmly.

“Nnnnggh,” Zuko groaned. His head lolled on her foot. She had him chained down to his knees. He couldn’t move, but it felt like he was turning over and over and over.

“Where has Uncle been hiding him for the last six years?”

Zuko shook his head convulsively. The words didn’t make sense. It was as if they weren’t connected to each other. They fell on his ears and rattled around his head, and he couldn’t sort them out again.

Face twisting in disgust, his sister lifted her foot up higher, until his back stretched taut against the chains. When she pulled it back, his head snapped down, back to his chest, and he curled up as much as he could.

“He’s going to lose that hand,” Mai remarked from the doorway.

Azula glanced back at her brother’s wrist, burned black, all the way around. “Doesn’t matter.”

~*~

The door opened. Zuko didn’t look up. Mai couldn’t tell if he didn’t notice, or if he was ignoring her. He didn’t move except to shiver. He was sobbing, but there weren’t any tears left inside him to spill. The bowl was cold in her hands, and when she set it down next to him, he still didn’t move. “I heard some waterbenders can heal,” she said without inflection.

He didn’t react. She pulled out the key and unlocked the restraints holding his arms to the wall, but he just fell over, onto his side, moaning softly.

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Iroh's really glad Ozai banished Zuko, because otherwise, he'd be kidnapping him." Oh man... uh... I still have a few request slots left, right? Could I have a ficlet that utlizes this concept? Like, Iroh is starting to see the dangers, both physical and psychological, of Ozai's relationship to his son, and before that fateful Agni Kai ends up kidnapping Zuko for his own good (and possibly over Zuko's protests). Only later would Zuko actually forgive Iroh.

Re: Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through)

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for writing this! :D

"leaving only Uncle free. He stood in the middle of the circle of soldiers, hands full of fire, eyes darting between the the soldiers and his family." Nice image. Of course Iroh is the last one standing! And daaamn... Azula knows just where to hammer hard...

Ooh... she thinks that Iroh has been conspiring with the Avatar for six years? Interesting! Also, yes, Azula, show utter unconcern for your brother's well-being, that will get Mai's ire up... ;)

Yay! Rescue! :D Thanks so much!

Also, Holy crap I totally forgot about that 'verse! D: I shall have to rectify things... Two more prompts!

-Confrontation with Azula; the princess goes too far. (We all know what SHE thought of His Tea Loving Kookiness, and Zuko isn't going to have any of that. Possibly with Toph backing him up.)

-Royalty lessons, featuring Teacher!Zuko and Oblivious-but-Earnest!Kuei. ;)

Re: Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through)

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
And because she's Azula, and it don't mean a thing if it doesn't involve torturing Zuko, she at least threatens Zuko, instead of say... Ruili. Or Lu Ten.

No, she thinks he's been hiding Lu Ten somewhere for six years. She's not entirely sure why, but all of a sudden, Lu Ten's alive and all...

There's more to come. I have a couple of more parts left.

Daaaaamn, Azula, not bright. I'll get right on it.

Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 2/?

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Mai took a steady breath and picked up his arm. His eyelids fluttered. “Wha...”

Setting his wrist down into the water, she caught sight of blackened bone through the blackened flesh. His hand looked dead and buried. Azula should have let them cut it off already.

The water glowed blue. Lines, like waves under the ocean, glittered on the walls, chasing away the shadows hanging low around the cell. Zuko shuddered, and a faint gasp emerged from his throat.

When the light died away, Mai looked into the water. His hand bobbed to the surface, pink and puffy, dying instead of dead. She could see new, whole flesh over the bone of his wrist, but the charred black burn was still there, like a dark, crispy smudge.

Zuko didn’t stopped shivering. “M-mai?”

“It’s good to see you again,” she said neutrally.

The air caught on Zuko’s teeth and in his throat, echoing noisily. “What are you doing here?”

Mai rolled her eyes. “Drink the water. You’re going to need it.”

Zuko lifted the bowl and held it to his lips. “I could-” He gulped down a mouthful of the water and let it run down his throat. “I could take this and use it...”

Mai snorted and took the bowl out his hands when it was empty. “Give me your arms like a good boy.” Zuko nodded. For a moment, Mai was terrified he was going to cry. Her hands were numb around the shackles as she locked them around his arms again, above his elbows, far away from the burn. “Don’t tell your sister.”

~*~

Zuko heard the sound of a key sliding into the lock, and his head shot up. But it wasn’t Mai. Azula strolled across the cell floor. “You look better.”

“What do you want, Azula?” Without the fever, he hurt even worse.

Azula crouched down and lifted up her brother’s chained arm. “Where did you get the water, Zuko?”

Zuko held himself stiff. “We’re in the middle of the ocean, Azula.”

“Yes, I know that, Zuzu.” Azula glanced up at the ceiling and shook her head. “Do you expect me to believe you bent the water all the way up to here without your arms? You aren’t even facing the window.”

“You can’t keep the water away from me, Azula,” he told her. “Not here.”

~*~

Lu Ten turned to the wall when the door opened. “I’m not going to tell you anything.”

“I didn’t ask.” Mai stood in the doorway.

“But you’re going to, and I’m not going to tell you anything.”

Mai huffed. “Your cousin’s doing better.”

“Hey,” Lu Ten turned to her. “I know where I saw you before. You went to school with Azula. You were at the palace all the time.”

Mai nodded.

Lu Ten swallowed. “Tell me how my daughter’s doing.”

She shook her head. “I haven’t seen her yet.”

“Did-” Lu Ten looked down. “You’re at least keeping her with my wife, right?”

An expression flitted across Mai’s face and disappeared to fast for him to see what it was. “No.”

“She’s not...” Lu Ten tried to reach for her, but with his hands chained behind his back, he almost overbalanced himself instead. “Alone?”

Mai closed her eyes.

“Oh spirits,” he whispered. “You can’t leave her like that, please, please get her out of there!”

“Princess Azula wants to know where you’ve been hiding for the last six years.”

Lu Ten clenched his teeth. “I can’t tell you that.”

“You’re all probably going to be executed,” she said, folding her arms and leaning against the doorway. “Unless you give Azula some reason you shouldn’t be.”

“I didn’t do anything!” Lu Ten tried to push himself on the wall without his arms, but his legs slipped out from under him on the dew-dampened iron floor.

Mai waved one of her hands carelessly. “Look, she just wants the throne. She thinks you’ll get in the way. You give her a reason you won’t, and she’ll let you live.”

“And Zuko?” he challenged. “He can’t get in her way anymore.”

And Azula wanted him dead anyway.

Mai turned away.

~*~

Concentrating on working his arms around from behind his back, Iroh didn’t hear the door open until Azula nudged him with her foot. “Hello, Uncle.”

Re: Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 2/?

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh... there's more? Huzzah! :D

Aww... Mai helping Zuko use his barbaric waterbending to heal himself. ;) I really, really like that Zuko didn't reveal where he got the water from, and is lying by overstating his abilities. I loved this line: “We’re in the middle of the ocean, Azula.” XD

And also, concerned!Lu Ten is concerned! And hopefully that concern is contagious!

I look forward to more! :)

P.S.: You are and will always remain awesome.

Re: Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 2/?

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Zuko's like "Oh spirits! I just lied to Azula. And she believed it! Maybe! I can't tell, but I think she believed it!"

Smart!Lu Ten realizes that if he's competition, so's Ruili. Poor guy.

Thanks :D

Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 3/4

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
“Azula,” be breathed.

“Why did you hide your son six years ago?” She stood back. “What did he do?”

Iroh turned his head to the wall.

“See, I’ve been trying to figure out since we found you why you would hide him away. You lost the throne, you lost your command, It just doesn’t make sense. Uncle...” She let her expression soften, and she knelt down to touch his face. “Did he fake his own death? And let you suffer all these years.”

“Azula.” He pulled away from her. “You do not know what you are talking about.”

She stood back up and looked down on him. “Waterbending healers can be useful,” she said coldly. “If we can be sure of their loyalty...”

Iroh’s eyes grew wide. “What do you want?”

“Zuzu doesn’t have to spend the rest of his life in a cage.” She said softly.

“That’s Ozai’s discission,” he reminded her. “You have no power.”

Azula’s face twisted hideously before she left. “I hope you enjoy watching them die before they execute you.”

~*~

“Rinzee.”

The woman in the corner of the cell scrambled to her feet and hobbled into the light. Her braid lashed around her head as she clung to the wall.

Mai closed the cell door. “I came to talk to you about your daughter.”

“Is she okay?” Rinzee stumbled forward, straining against the shackles on her ankles. “They won’t let me see her, is she with Ao-” She closed her eyes and opened them again. “Lu Ten?”

Mai shook her head. “She’s fine. Azula thinks that if you’re kept apart, if all of you are in separate cells, you won’t try to escape.”

“She’s going to kill us,” Rinzee whispered.

“She’s not like that,” Mai snapped, and jerked back with surprise. “She just needs to know that you’re not going to try to put Ruili on the throne instead of her or the Firelord.”

Rinzee blinked the tears out of her eyes. “She can’t know that unless we’re dead. And Lu Ten told me-”

“Told you what?”

“Nothing.” She braced herself against the wall like she couldn’t stand up without it.

Mai felt her expression harden. “Tell me.”

“I’m not going to give the Firelord one more reason to kill us,” she hissed. “Leave.”

“I’ll see what I can do about your daughter.”

~*~

“What were you doing?”

Mai turned around, the key still in the lock. “Interrogating the prisoner.”

Azula smiled. “Get anything?”

“She wants to see her daughter.” She pulled the key out of the lock.

“Stay away from them, Mai,” Azula rolled her eyes. “The longer we leave them alone, the more they’re going to talk.”

~*~

Mai unlocked the chains around Zuko’s arms. “Why are you doing this?” he asked hoarsely.

She pulled his arm away from his body and put it in the water bowl. “Just shut up.”

The water turned blue and started to glow around his wrist again. The angry yellow and red skin on his hand calmed. The blackened burn flaked away into the water. Where the burn had been, when the water stopped glowing, Zuko had a thick, dark red, wrinkled scar on his wrist. He wiggled his fingers. “Thanks.”

“Your hand looked better than it did when I left last time,” she observed. “I mean, before you put it in the water.”

“Yeah, well there’s sea spray,” Zuko tried to smile.

Mai grabbed his arms and wrapped the chain back around them again and hooked the lock back through the links. But she didn’t lock it. Before she left, she put her key in the lock of the shackles holding his legs to the wall, and it clicked open.

~*~

“It’s good to see your wrist’s healing so nicely.” Azula gazed out the window in his cell for a minute, then looked back to her brother.

“Nice to see you too,” he shot back, sullenly.

She smirked. “My soldiers are tracking the Avatar.”

“What do you want?” He hung his head and tried to keep his arms still, almost crying. “You keep coming here, and- What do you want with me?”

Azula didn’t have an answer.

~*~

Ty Lee stood in front of the cell. “You know Azula doesn’t want us to talk to them.”

“She’s a kid, Ty Lee.” Mai shoved the key into the lock and spun it around. “She’s not going to tell us anything."

Re: Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 3/4

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, Azula, trying to play Iroh's weaknesses for his family... NOT GOING TO WORK, HE IS TOO AWESOME.

And a conversation with the child... :3 Exciting!

Re: Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 3/4

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Azula, Iroh grew up with Ozai. You are out classed.

Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through) Pt. 4/4

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
“You don’t even like kids,” Ty Lee pleaded. “What do you want with her?”

Mai looked into her friend’s eyes. “Don’t ask.”

“I don’t know what you’re doing with them.” Ty Lee grabbed for the key ring. “Just don’t hurt her.

Mai whirled around like she had been slapped. “Don’t worry.” Ty Lee backed away from the door. Mai glanced at the red blotches on her friend’s face. “Have you been crying?”

“No.” Ty Lee hunched her shoulders.

Mai put her hand on her friend’s shoulder. “Don’t lie.”

“It’s nothing.” Ty Lee waved her away. “Do whatever you were going to do. Just leave me out of it.”

“Don’t worry,” Mai repeated. She pulled the door open. She heard Ty Lee’s footsteps growing farther away down the prison hall. The little girl cowered away from her when she walked in. Mai crouched down low and held out her hands. “I’m not going to hurt you.”

She just sank further into the shadows. “Mamamamamama,” she whined, and Mai glanced up at the metal ceiling.

When Mai got close, the girl tried to slip under her arms, but Mai pinned her and picked her up. “Come on. I’m going to take you to your mom.”

Sparks blossomed off the little girl’s fingers, and Mai stroked her hair absently, the way she sometimes did with Tom Tom when she couldn’t avoid him. She squirmed, and Mai held on tighter, and when she started to scream, Mai clamped her hand over the little girl’s mouth.

“Come on.” Mai muttered. She marched down the hall, the girl under her arm. When she opened the door to Lu Ten’s cell, she almost threw the girl into his arms. “There. You have your daughter. Get Zuko and get out of here.”

Lu Ten pulled his daughter to his chest. “I’m not leaving without my father. And Rinzee.”

Mai held up the keys. “Fine. Come with me.”

~*~

The lifeboat rocked gently in the water. “Come with us,” Zuko murmured.

“I can’t. I have a family.”

Zuko held his hand up to her. “If you stay here, Azula’s just going to kill you. She’ll know it’s you.”

Iroh held his head up. “We can get your family.”

“Come with us, please, Mai!”

Mai shook her head and cut the rope.

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
ha! A request from you I'm not going to fill! Victory is mine!

Iroh would kidnap Azula too, and then all hell would break loose.

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Curses!

And oh yeah, the former heir to the throne kidnapping the two heir aparents? CHAOS. A significant portion of which would be instigated by Azula.

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-15 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
She wouldn't like not being the favorite anymore. Zuko's equal is just not good enough.

The Earth Kingdom would get a huge break while the whole Fire Nation army tried to hunt down the traitor, and the poor, sweet heirs, and Zuko loves his daddy, so Azula convinces him to pull most of the shit... Heheh. Iroh would have his hands sooo full.

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
There would be like, Ember Island Players plays made with scenes like THIS: http://3info2u.com/Image/Princes_in_the_Tower_Painting.jpg , where Iroh would steal upon the two helpless children in the night and it would be full of drama and woe.

I can definitely see some unscrupulous non-Fire Nation types trying to get to the heirs FIRST for ransoming purposes. Also, Zhao would be looking, for the glory, if he has to put invasion plans on hold ANYWAY...

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, Shakespeare doesn't write in the Fire Nation, or he could have made a good story out of this...

Oh yes. It's so bad, Iroh knows he has to flee the country. Now where would he flee too? I wonder.

Iroh dies in s2: Royalty lessons

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
“But why would they live like that if it’s so awful?”

Zuko put his head in his free hand. “They don’t have any money. It’s not like they have any choice.”

The Earth King looked at him with the same, blank, confused look he had been wearing all along. Looking back up, Zuko was terrified Kuei was about to ask him what money was. “And none of these people get to go to my parties?”

Zuko groaned. “No!”

“Then did Long Feng talk to all these people?” Kuei blinked and furrowed his brow.

“What are you talking about?” Zuko tugged half-heartedly against the stone cuff pinning his wrist to the Earth King’s.

Kuei sat down, dragging Zuko down with him. “Long Feng always told me I had to listen to all the important people in the Earth Kingdom when they told me how I should rule, which is why I was supposed to have the parties, but...”

“Long Feng probably didn’t see poor people as important.” Really, Zuko would give anything to get out of there. He glared down at Toph.

She laced her fingers behind her head and lay back against the ground, grinning. “Having fun?”

“Let me go!”

Kuei sank back. “I’m sorry about all the trouble.”

Zuko lay back against the ground. “It’s okay, just... It’s okay.”

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
He would go to BA SING SE, clearly. It's defensible against the Fire Nation at least, right? ;)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Royalty lessons

[identity profile] beboots.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
AWESOME! <3 I really like that Kuei just, uh, doesn't GET the idea of poverty. This line also cracked me up: "Zuko was terrified Kuei was about to ask him what money was." XD Thanks so much for writing!

Re: Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
The question is, will Zuko and Azula stop kicking his shins long enough for him to get them there?

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Royalty lessons

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
I almost had Kuei say "Wait, armies are made out of people?!!?!?!?!?11" too. Zuko's brain hurts so much.

And of course Toph cuffs them together. Keeps them from wandering off!

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Royalty lessons

(Anonymous) 2010-10-16 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Just wait till he asks where people come from . . . diddnt you know that people grow out of the ground like cabbages!? then he will get to see zuko blush five shades of red . . . grins evilly

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