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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.

weirdlet ,

beboots , and

floranna get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because

beboots and

floranna are the best betas ever, and

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

weirdlet and

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

avocado_love
Oh Come On, Of Course Zuko’s a HufflePuff (Harry Potter/A:tLA crossover) requested by

avocado_love
Zuko muses on his fellow ruler, his sister, and the big universal questions of morality NOTE-not actually AU, requested by

beboots
Dwarf!Toph (D&D fusion, sort of) requested by

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

weirdlet
Suki's a Firebender requested by

clockwerkchaos
Toph is the one who finds Aang requested by

panaili
Ozai doesn’t allow the Dragon of the West to join Zuko in exile: Parts One, Two, and Three requested by

lavanyasix

Mirrorverse (The Avatar is an evil spirit):

Meetings requested by

clockwerkchaos
Aang's Little Crush requested by

gamiel
In This Verse, Azula Totes Rescues Puppies requested by

avocado_love

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

Sneaking out of Bed requested by

lavanyasix
Zuko and Kuei, chillin’ together requested by

beboots

AU of Ice Flows Through:

Mai, taking Azula's plan down from the inside: Parts One, Two, Three, and Four requested by

beboots

Quiet Shadowed Places verse (from this shortfic):

Zuko Finds Out He’s Blind requested by

floranna
Zuko Can’t Get Any Respect requested by

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

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

beboots
The Throne Room requested by

beboots
Royalty Lessons requested by

beboots

Fail!Incubus Zuko:

Attempted Seduction *warning for sexual coercion and slavery* requested by

weirdlet
Courting Mai requested by

gamiel

Life Spirit:

Toph Bei Fong requested by

clockwerkchaos
Winter When He Goes requested by

weirdlet
Zuko and Iroh requested by

clockwerkchaos
Sokka and Katara requested by

clockwerkchaos

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

Song requested by

clockwerkchaos

Modern Day:

Toph and Aang Meet requested by

panaili
Sleepover requested by

panaili

AU of Sun Child:

NOTE- Sun Child belongs to

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

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

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I was thinking more like a Soylent Green moment.

The spirits. They hate Zuko.

Zuko could probably be made to feel guilty enough by his uncle, eventually. Azula, on the other hand, may require hog-tying. But carrying around a little girl all tied up like that is bound to be suspicious...

Actually, I picture Zuko as the more obvious problem. I think, skilled manipulator that Azula is, she would try to turn the situation to her advantage and comply with her uncle on the surface, while whispering in Zuko's ear how frightened she is of Uncle, and how much he needs to fight, and generally get Zuko to do her dirty work and try to sabotage Zuko and Iroh's relationship as much as possible. In short, she need a gag...

It's one thing to know that such-and-such is Zuko's origin story- and it's another to really let yourself comprehend it fully. You've got an especially wrenching turn of phrase, and it takes the worn 'know this already' pattern and really runs fresh- grief, disgust, all that there fun stuff, through the channels again.

Thank you, I think? I always feel so awkward writing this sort of thing, because it really is something everybody already knows, and I feel like it's not going to be interesting.

I got some perverse pleasure at hinting at the truly awful lack of sterilization in Avatarverse medicine too.

Does this mean I can entice you to write more "Sun Child" fics?

Nah. they LOVE Zuko in ALL the wrong ways. All the humorous and sadistic ways, not the nice cuddly ways.

Katara was in the house, no one else. When they were all there, it was different. When they were all there, Zuko didn’t have to talk to anyone. No one prodded at him, or tried to get him to talk. They could talk to each other and leave him alone. Only Toph wouldn’t let him hide, and he couldn’t do anything about that. But he couldn’t be alone in that house with Katara.

His feet wound their way through the garden lined pathways without his direction. It was easier just to wander aimlessly than to find somewhere to go, or to go back to the guest house, or to face anyone.

The red palace wall rose beside him, and he looked at it, startled. At least he knew where he was now. He might as well go in. It wasn’t like he had anything better to do.

It was... easier talking to Kuei. Kuei never looked at him with that horrible look the Avatar and his friends had every time they looked at him, the look that said they kept seeing him chasing them. Kuei had a hard time remembering he was supposed to be an enemy at all.

The guards didn’t even look at him as he slipped through a side door. Deep inside, he wondered if they were laughing at him. It didn’t matter. The hallways were empty, except for a handful of servants. The servants in the Earth King’s palace were bizarre, inhuman, like the Joo Dees, or the clockwork soldier he had seen in a play with his mother, and Zuko tried not to look at them as he shuffled past them.

His fingers slid on the door handle. He gripped it tighter and pulled it down, and it opened out to him. The Earth King wasn’t even there. Figured. There were just three Kyoshi Warriors kneeling on the ground. They weren’t like Kuei. They would have that look in their eyes when they looked up.

He moved back across the threshold and started to close the door, but one of the girls got to her feet and looked straight at him. “Oh no, Zuzu. Stay.”

Zuko’s hands fell off the door handle, and he fled down the hall. He heard his sister’s voice behind him, and Ty Lee’s high trill following just behind him, but he didn’t turn around to look. He couldn’t slow down. If he could just get outside, he’d be safe; whatever Azula was doing, she wouldn’t risk getting caught before she had to be, and...

And that was the wrong way. Azula rounded the corner behind him and backed him against the dead end. Zuko spun around, away from the wall. “Okay Azula,” he shouted, hands filling with fire. “Fight me.”

Zuko blocked the fire that sped for his face. It filled his eyes until he couldn’t see anything else, not even the knives that caught his clothes and dragged him into the wall behind him. The fire died. Azula stepped forward through where it had been. “No thanks.” She folded her arms and glanced back at her companions. “Ty Lee.”

Zuko snarled, snorting fire out of his nostrils. Ty Lee leapt forward, hands behind her back until she balanced on her toes in front of him. Her fingers jabbed hard into his arms, legs, and stomach and he slumped against the knives, breathing hard against the numbing stillness sunk deep into his body. As Mai came to pull her knives out of the wall, Zuko closed his eyes.

~*~

“You’ve got company.”

Zuko looked up as the rock wall opened, and Katara rolled down. He unfolded himself as she yelped, bouncing off the stones. “Katara!”

Katara put her hand to her head, over a large, purpling bruise. “What happened?”

“I walked right in on them,” he told her dully. “They were right there, in the throne room.”

“I was in the apartment...” She squinted her eyes and grimaced. “I need water.”

When he tried to give her his hand, she swatted it away, stumbling to a slimy puddle in the middle of the cave. “Great,” Zuko mumbled, sliding back to the floor and knocking his elbow into the cave wall. “How are we going to get out of here?”

“We?” she shot back. The water in her hand blazed blue as the bruise faded away. “Why did they even put you down here anyway? Why aren’t you upstairs getting cozy with your sister and her friends?”

Ooh... MOAR fic? :D Glee! Thank you so much!

"Kuei had a hard time remembering he was supposed to be an enemy at all." Love love love. :)

Zuko never really had a chance against Azula and her posse, did he? ._. He never really does. ;)

Also, I think it's quite in-character for Katara to be suspicious. I look forward to having those suspicions dashed. :3

Kuei and Zuko are just adorable. Adorkable.

*pets Ty Lee and Mai* No, he never does. Usually I'm Maiko all the way, but this universe ships Toko so hard. In a kind of dysfunctional kind of way.

Or not dashed, as the case may be.

"... but this universe ships Toko so hard. In a kind of dysfunctional kind of way." I seriously love Toko, maybe even moreso than Maiko in many situations. Toph is just so hilarious and badass.

I love Toko too. But I like it better when they're both adults, and neither of them are twelve. But Toph is so wonderfully forward, and Zuko's so retiring. It's a match made in heaven!

I hope to^^ I'll get back to it in time, I've got a couple of ways it can go in my head, especially the time in Ba Sing Se- it's just pinning the sucker down that's being a pain. Hm- maybe a mini-meme? I've got a ton of prompts to fill in the rest, but maybe going at it sideways instead of head-on...

A SUN CHILD MINI MEME? I INSIST THAT THIS IS A WONDERFUL IDEA, AND YOU MUST DO IT RIGHT AWAY!

Erm, I mean... No, I'm not a greedy fic reader, how could you say such a thing?

Hee. See you at t'other journal.

*Rubs hands*

Zuko glowered at her over his folded arms. He was a traitor now. It wasn’t just what was on the wanted posters; he was a real traitor. He had been following around the avatar for months, and he hadn’t even tried-

They were going to tie him up in front of everybody and set him on fire, and his father was going to watch.

Zuko remembered the way she had yelled at Jet when he had found out Zuko was a firebender. “Let’s just figure a way out of here.”

“I just don’t get it!” Katara groaned. “She’s your sister, why does she want to... You don’t even like us.”

“No, I don’t, shut up.”

“I just don’t get what she has against you.” Katara turned her back to him, examining the cave walls for cracks. “You’re supposed to be family.”

“Why does it bother you?” he snapped back sulkily, touching the pouch with his uncle’s ashes, resting against his hip. “She’s my sister, not yours.”

The wall rumbled and exploded in at them, scattering crystals over the floor. Zuko coughed on the dust. The Avatar stepped out of the cloud of debris with Toph, and it was all Zuko could do not to duck past them and run back up the tunnel, and get as far away from his sister as he could.

“Aang!” Katara cried, rushing forward to wrap her arms around him and pull him into a tight hug. “Aang, I knew you would come!”

“What, no hug for me?” Toph grumbled loudly. Reluctantly, Zuko opened his arms, and she rushed into them with a smirk. Holding Toph like that was nice. Having someone want to hug him shouldn’t feel as good as it did.

“Come on,” he said at last, patting Toph’s head awkwardly. “Let’s get out of here before Azula shows up.”

Katara nodded and let go of Aang, threading her way through the piles of rock shards into the tunnel, Aang close behind her. The ground bucked beneath their feet. Toph broke away from Zuko and dove down the tunnel after her friends, but before Zuko could follow, a column of the eerie glowing green crystals launched themselves out of the cave floor and swept forward to capture Zuko and slam him into the wall. He blinked furiously against the pain was he heard the tunnel mouth slam closed. Azula slid down the sloping cave wall with two of the Dai Li. Of course. Of course she would have the Dai Li working for her as soon as she came into the city. Of course she managed to show up right before they were about to leave, and never look back.

But of course he was with the Avatar, and the world, Ba Sing Se, was his responsibility, and he never would have let them leave.

Except the Avatar had already left, along with Katara and Toph, and they had closed the wall behind them. Zuko stared open-mouthed against the faceless rock wall that had just been a tunnel, sick with fury and a strange sense fo betrayal. He hadn’t liked them. He knew they didn’t like him, but he thought... He twisted against the crystals, grinding his teeth together.

“They left you behind, Zuko.” Azula strode across the cave floor and stopped just out of her brother’s reach. “You betrayed our family for them, and they left you behind.”

“What do you want, Azula?” he demanded, voice garbled with emotion.

She laid her hand on his cheek, not even bothering to swat away the sparks gathering around his fingers. “It’s not too late for you Zuko. You can still redeem yourself.”

“You’re-” Zuko choked. “You’re lying.”

“The last couple of months don’t matter,” she wheedled. “We can tell Father you were spying on them, gathering information vital to the war effort.” Her lips curved. “And we wouldn’t be lying.”

“What?” Zuko stared, transfixed. “I was-”

She cut him off with a sharp look before he could say anything else. “I need you Zuko. You know how they think, how they work together, if I want to bring the Avatar back to Father alive, I can’t do it alone. At the end of this day, you will have your honor back. You will have your father’s love. You will have everything you want.”

I totally agree! :D I also quite like the political aspects of the match... and how Toph, of course, is not about to take shit from anybody at the Fire Nation court. :3

"They were going to tie him up in front of everybody and set him on fire, and his father was going to watch." Daaamn... Totally makes sense for a Fire Nation execution, though. D:

"“What, no hug for me?” Toph grumbled loudly. Reluctantly, Zuko opened his arms, and she rushed into them with a smirk." XD Oh Toph...

Also, I'm pretty sure that Zuko has abandonment issues... and will have them even more now. ;) Although I have to wonder how Toph missed Zuko being snatched out from their midst?

“We can tell Father you were spying on them, gathering information vital to the war effort.” Her lips curved. “And we wouldn’t be lying.” That sounds VERY Azula. And if this plan goes forward, because she knows the truth, she still has a whole whack of blackmail material against him!

DON'T LISTEN TO HER, ZUZU!!! TOPH GIVES YOU HUGS!

Actually, for all I like the personal aspects of Toko so much, I feel about the political ones the same way I feel about the political aspects of Zutara. It would be a raging mess. I get the feeling the Fire Nation at least carefully breeds firebenders for heirs, and therefore, no powerful benders from other nations may apply. No way Toph's kid's going to be anything but Earth, even with Zuko mixed in. It would be a nightmare.

And Toph would hate being royal so much.

And someone has to write this now. Really, yes, they have to.

It has an added benefit when killing firebenders that everybody gets to see how much of a coward and traitor they are as they struggle against their bonds and try to bend with whatever they have left. Obviously, anybody who was really loyal and brave would let themselves die because their Firelord willed it. Ick.

That's right, Zuko, hug your rescuer. It's polite!

Toph felt the earthquake, and the crystals popping up, and I think earthquakes mess with the vibrations, and she didn't realize he wasn't with them, and when she does...

But yeah, Zuko and his abandonment issues? Growing worse by the minute.

She's an amazingly horrible person, our Azula. And she really really likes having Zuko around as her fall guy. At least that's what she tells herself.

AZULA ALWAYS LIES, ZUKO!! DON'T BELIEVE A WORD SHE SAYS!

what do you think of how his date in BaSingSe would pan out. She still thinks he is cute. Her attention helps him smile again-but he is unsure if he can protect her out at night. . . Uncle still forces him out of the house that night . . . ? any thoughts?

So how does Teo get him to open up a bit . . . Zuko can be pretty offputting. But Teo is a whole different breed of stubborn . . .and a really good listener.

any bites? H :-)

Lol, Zuko's stuck in the back room making tea, so Jin never even gets to see him. Which kind of puts the kibosh on Zuko's social life.

I thought of that. He passes the tea out somehow though. (an order window maybe?) So she sees his face and how his shoulders are broad. She doesnt see the crutch or the missing leg. So she walks up while he is enjoying the sunshine before the shop is open-thats when she really sees him. She still doesnt care. . . she sits down next to him and just starts talking . . . (does that follow well enough?).

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Birthday AU Commentfic Meme!

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Royalty lessons

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

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

Re: AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

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

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

Re: AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Royalty lessons

Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

Re: AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

Re: AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

Re: AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 2/?

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 2/?

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 1/? (Damn it!)

Re: Iroh dies in s2: Crossroads of Destiny, Pt 2/?

Zuko-hurt leg . . .

Re: Zuko-hurt leg . . .

Zuko hurts his leg . . .