Birthday AU Commentfic Meme!

[attackfish]

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

Comments

[floranna.livejournal.com]

I just saw Buried and I am trying to not to vomit.

So my first prompt is: Zuko is buried. Because of a landslide, EK forces, anythin g, but he is buried.

I'll post the rest when they pop in my mind.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Okay, never heard of that movie before you mentioned it. *Reads summary and cant stop shivering* thanks ever so.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

It acem to Finland just last friday. I am afraid I am going to get nightmares about it.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Your AU of Sun Child: Child is being born.

Your Harry Potter Avatar AU is really intriguing, so...What if Voldemort is Zuko's father? and if that isn't in your canon, then someone giving shit to Zuko.

Blind!Zuko AU: The beginning. When he found out he is blind, and/or Ozai's reaction to it.

Zuko changes into a girl every night.

Zuko died when he was a baby, but Ursa made a deal with somekind of a fire spirit. Which means that Zuko isn't completely human...

Zuko is chronically, deadly ill. Has been since his childhood.

AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

It was always summer in the Fire Nation. The tropical heat dripped through the open windows. Sweat soaked into Zura’s shift and mingled with the liquid running down her legs and onto the bed beneath her.

She yelled as the baby’s head slipped free of her body, and he breathed, half shout of pain, half victory cry. The baby started to cry too, loud, healthy screams. Her courtiers all around breathed sighs of relief. Zura breathed deep. The world widened to include them too, and a knot of embarrassment pressed against her lungs. They had come to see their Firelord bring a new heir into the world. Her mother had done this.

Her mother had brought her into the world this way, surrounded by all these people, there to see something more than a child being born, to see a princess being born.

Her son was being born to a dead father. Lucky son.

Zura tried to smile, but she was just too tired, so she just lay there and panted as the doctors cut the umbilical cord and handed her son to her.

No one was ever going to try to deny her children their titles ever again.

It was easier this time, even with all the people; she wasn’t stuck in the middle of some swamp, she was home, she was...

Home was the part that mattered.

It was how Lan Min should have been born, but that didn’t matter anymore.








By the way, as to my Harry Potter Fusion, I wrote it with the idea in mind that Voldemort was Zuko’s dad (The kid can’t catch a paternal break, and who else would be Bellatrix’s baby daddy?) but I just can’t make the timeline work with Bella having Zuko in prison and Zuko starting school after the war. Did disembodied spirit!Voldy impregnate Bella? Kinky!

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

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

:)

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

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

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

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

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...

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

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?

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

The thought that several nobles would witness the birth squicks me a bit, but I love it. The kid was born after the third season, right?

Well, I would say that Bella survived the second war, but died few years later in Azkaban, and that this story happened several years after the war.

Or that Zuko was sent to Iroh afterwards and kept those years in a different country, away from England and all the troubles there, then Iroh comes back to help at the rebuilding, or something like that.

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[beboots.livejournal.com]

"The thought that several nobles would witness the birth squicks me a bit, but I love it." It happened in England during the Renaissance era, I believe, and possibly before & after!

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. But for me, giving birth feels so...personal. I would only want there the hospital people needed, my mum and partner. Not anyone else.

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

My mom almost gave birth to me in a hot tub. Very public.

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Which was exactly what I was thinking of. It was common throughout dynastic European nations until modern times, and I have no idea about Asian ones.

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[beboots.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about Asian societies, either, but I wouldn't be surprised. I think that the idea in Europe was that if a bunch of people witnessed the birth (and the gender of the infant), nobody could then go and switch the legitimate (girl) baby for the newly-born son of the milkmaid or something.

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Yep. Oh God, it would freak me out so much if it were me, and I'm amazed she didn't set them all on fire.

But Molly Weasley killed her so EPICALLY, and I don't want to touch that. I see Zuko being born between the two wars, and coming to school between five and ten years after the start of the second war. Maybe the first thing Voldy did after coming back was go for a booty call, even before he broke his lady-love loose? Or maybe Voldiwhisp and she tried to conduct a ritual in Azkaban, in which she would conceive of a new body for him, but it didn't work, and she had babies instead?

Also, in this fic, Iroh's the head guy at said orphanage. And, Azula's Zuko's twin, and she's pissed about being sorted into Slytherin, because she thinks it's a bad career move if she wants to keep her machinations secret. The girl inherited daddy's creepy child thing so much.

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[floranna.livejournal.com]

Maybe he and Bella had planned a special, secret fail-safe plan beforehand and it failed spectacularly?

I want to read more of it.

Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko finds out he’s blind

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Zuko saw things. They drifted past him through the pain before he could grab onto them. Time passed like melted stone. Time didn’t exist, not for him.

(Ozai turned his back and walked away from the arena, and it took hours for anyone to summon the courage to lift his son, to hurt even to scream, up from the floor and carry him back into the palace.)

Sometimes, Zuko thought his mother was there, but then other times, he thought his mother was there instead. He heard his father’s voice, cold and dismissive, and he heard Uncle’s voice, angry and loud, but that couldn’t be right. Uncle was never angry anymore.

(Iroh closed the door to his chambers and watched the somber little procession winding its way down the hall. “What is going on?” He grabbed his nephew’s hand. “He’s not...” He felt the pulse and closed his eyes, the sick wave of terror spilling away for just a moment. There were so many things to still be terrified of for Zuko’s sake.

“Firelord’s orders,” one of the doctors mumbled. “He’s not allowed to stay in the palace.”

Iroh’s eyes widened, and then narrowed into slits. He opened the door behind him. “Take him into my room. I’ll talk to Ozai.”

He snuck his nephew into the war meeting. He could sneak him into the palace.)

But he saw things. He knew he did. Even when his eyes were closed.

(The Firelord’s guards smashed the doors open so hard they slammed against the walls. Ozai pinched his lips together hard enough to force away all of the blood. “You have no right, Iroh-”

Iroh leapt to his feet. “I have no right?” he snapped, and grabbed his brother’s arm. The guards moved to stop them, but Iroh just looked at them and they backed away.

“You aren’t the first in line for the throne anymore, Iroh,” Ozai snarled, trying to jerk his arm away, but Iroh’s hands just gripped tighter.

“This is your son,” Iroh whispered.)

He kept his eyes closed as much as he could, because every time they opened, he saw the creatures that had poked and cut at them, and tried to take them away from him. He could hear them in his dreams, and his eyes hurt, even through the strange haze over his body. Whenever he tried to reach them, to cover them, someone pushed his hands away. Uncle’s voice accompanied the hands that pulled his ams down and tucked them back under the stifling blankets. But it should’t be Uncle. Why would it be Uncle? Uncle was a ghost. Since he had come home from Ba Sing Se. He kept to himself and almost never spoke, and Zuko didn’t...

His eyes hurt so much.

Uncle never wanted anything to do with Zuko’s father. He shouldn’t be there.

(The doctors held held Zuko down. The smell rising from the wound filled the room. They held his eyelids open. His eyes weren’t eyes anymore. The heat had boiled and burst them. Pus oozed out. The knife slipped into their socket and cut them away. The doctor’s fingers swept them out.

The glass eyes rolled around on the table and watched until the doctor with the knife put them inside the sockets.)

The floor moved under Zuko’s body, tilting from side to side, rocking him back to sleep each time he floated up above the sticky, numbing fog. Sometimes, he heard whimpers, and screams, but he couldn’t tell whose they were, and it didn’t really seem important.

(They carried him up the gangway and into the belly of the tiny ship and laid him on the futon before he even woke up. Iroh followed. As soon as they left, he ran his fingers through what was left of his nephew’s hair.)

Zuko saw things. He knew he did.

~*~

Zuko sat up on the futon and pushed away the cup his uncle offered.

“It’s just tea.” Uncle told him, and curled his nephew’s fingers around it.

Zuko touched his closed eyelids with his other hand. “I don’t want it.”

Iroh picked up the new, thin reed cane from off the floor and curled his nephew’s hands around that too.

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[beboots.livejournal.com]

Daaamn... ;_; I love protective!Iroh and this Zuko being all confused about his uncle's presence... I honestly do think that Ozai lost ALL respect in Iroh's eyes when he hurt his son, in canon and in this fic.

Thanks for writing! :)

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Iroh's really glad Ozai banished Zuko, because otherwise, he'd be kidnapping him.

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[(Anonymous)]

OMG what an amazing job. I got a little sick to my stomach reading that. I can imagine that stinky wound smell. Yeech. How horrible that he was just left there - no one came to help him until Iroh did - and made sure he diddnt die of septic shock later. My heart goes out to him and rejoices at how wonderful Iroh is. H

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[beboots.livejournal.com]

"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.

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[floranna.livejournal.com]

Imph.

I love fics which deal with the exact time Zuko was banished. It's always just so heart-breaking.

The fact that he thinks he sees things is a bit creepy, but I love this. Mmm. I love your writing.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Really? because they always give me the urge to do some act of unspeakable violence against Ozai.

That's one nasty fever our boy's got.

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[floranna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that too.