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

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

1. Suki's a Firebender. How does "Kyoshi Warriors" play out now?
2.A continuation of this *http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=287332#t287332

3. I've seen a couple future based AU's floating around for Avatar. How about your take on it? (type is open to what ever you want. Cyberpunk, space opera, giant robots). Only stipulation is bending (or some equivalent) must be included and relavent.

4. The Avatar is far more than the keeper of balance, it is also the spirit of the earth. When Aang went to sleep for 100 years, it had consequences. The earth began to sleep as well, crops were less hardy, animals did not replinish as fast, water grew stagnant faster, even the mines seemed to produce less ore. By the time Aang wakes up the great civilizations have fallen, and he finds himself in a post apocalyptic wasteland of scattered tribes.

5. Can I second Avacoado-love's mirror verse request?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Mirror verse request answered (briefly) here http://attackfish.livejournal.com/65620.html?thread=633684#t633684

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

Oh. Sorry I didn't see the "he" in the orginal, and thought it was just Katara and Azula talking.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Aang in this verse is irresponsible, playful, and a creepy little sadist. *shudders*

Mirrorverse, Meetings

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

There’s probably something incredibly sacrilegious about turning the Avatar Spirit into an Eldritch Abomination.




Aang’s eyes opened. The ice around him cracked open wide and spat him out, and when he gazed into the eyes of the girl who had broken him out, he struggled to hide his glee. “Thank you so much!” he crowed, smiling at her winningly.

“You’re the Avatar!” she said in wonder. She glanced back at her brother. “Sokka, he’s the Avatar!”

Aang sprang out of her arms. She knew, sheknewsheknewsheknew, she was going to lock him up again like the monks-

He could still feel them burying him in the ice, his head heavy with the drugs they had fed him...

They couldn’t kill him, or a new Avatar would be born, and they would have to find him before he took over the world and bled it dry, like Avatar Roku.

He sank down in a fighting stance, but his legs trembled beneath him with weakness, and his arms kept trying to sink to his sides.

The blue eyed girl and her brother glanced at each other significantly. “Oh you poor thing!” she exclaimed, voice oozing sweetness “Let’s get you to the village.”

They had plans for him. They were trying to manipulate him. It was almost cute.

Re: Mirrorverse, Meetings

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

I really, really like this. I've seen a few different mirror verses (they're my crack). And I've rarely seen a evil-Aang I'm satisfied with. There tends to be a tendency to give the (human) side of him either a "I'm going to force the world to be good" or a god-complex. I've never felt those worked, because that sort authoritarian mindset is so anthem to every bit of personality Aang has that it becomes essentially an OC. I really like that you focused on the Avatar State. While it makes it a clear AU, it allows and evil Aang that's... Aang. Irresponsible, playful, and still evil.

(You know, there a good chance Aang was the one who wipes out the Nomads in this AU)

Re: Mirrorverse, Meetings

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Good chance? Certainty. I'm still trying to figure out how he did it, trapped in the ice like that. Maybe it took all of them to do it and they managed to trap them with their dying breaths?

Aang in this verse is going to conquer the word. Right after he finishes penguin sledding, and surfing on the elephant-koi, and riding hog-monkeys, and... And then he's going to conquer the world.

Re: Mirrorverse, Meetings

[beboots.livejournal.com]

"I'm still trying to figure out how he did it, trapped in the ice like that. Maybe it took all of them to do it and they managed to trap them with their dying breaths?" Or perhaps he managed to kill all but Gyatso (either because Aang isn't QUITE evil enough to kill his childhood mentor/father figure (or at least not quite evil enough that he kills without hesitation), or because Gyatso is just that badass, or a combination thereof), and it was Gyatso who did this, but not before being mortally wounded?

Re: Mirrorverse, Meetings

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

>Maybe it took all of them to do it and they managed to trap them with their dying breaths?

That, or perhaps some of them trapped him, but the others hid in the temples during the battle. Aang managed one last act of rage, collapsing the temples and everyone inside.

>Aang in this verse is going to conquer the word. Right after he finishes penguin sledding, and surfing on the elephant-koi, and riding hog-monkeys, and... And then he's going to conquer the world.

I'm imagining the penguin sledding is going to leave them bloody and bruised.

On a lighter note, ditch the sadism and it could become a hilarious crack fic.

"Yes, Ba Sing Se, such a beutiful system of control Kyoshi established and- OH MYSELF IS THAT A RABBIROO?"

or

"Soon I will destroy this Fire Nation village, and let the world tremble at my- THEY HAVE FIREWORKS!"

(the avatar spirit is not happy about it's latest host.)

Suki's a Firebender

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

“You three have some explaining to do.” The village headman glared down at the captives, arms folded across his chest. Aang gulped.

Behind him, a knot of girls with strange face paint, in strange red and gold armor eyed them impassively. Their leader stood to the headman’s side. “And if you don't answer all our questions, we're throwing you back in the water with the Unagi.”

“Fire Nation!” Sokka gasped. “You’re-”

Katara tried to stick her elbow in her brother’s mouth, but it didn’t quite work. It left a trail of saliva running down her arm. “Ew...”

“That’s it,” snapped the leader of the girls. “Throw them to the Unagi.”

The headman glanced up in exasperation. “Suki!”

Sokka struggled to pull himself up on his bound legs, but he just managed to roll onto his side. “Who are you? Where are the men who ambushed us?”

“There were no men.” Leaping forward, Suki land in the middle of the captives, fist trailing fire as the brought it down next to Sokka’s head. “We ambushed you. Now tell us, who are you and what are you doing here?”

Aang giggled anxiously. “Well, you see, there’s this, well...”

The headman’s eyes narrowed. “How do we know you're not Fire Nation spies? Kyoshi stayed free of the Firelord so far, and we intend to keep it that way!”

“Wait,” Katara cut in. “So you’re not ruled by the Firelord?”

“This island is named for Kyoshi? I know Kyoshi!” Aang tapped his upper lip with his finger. “I thought she was an earth Avatar, though... She’s one of my past lives! I’m the Av-”

Sokka slammed his body into Aang’s. “Shut up.”

Aang scowled at him and snapped his bonds and back-flipped over the crowd, bending the air around him to make himself go higher. “So anybody want to teach me firebending?”

Re: Suki's a Firebender

[beboots.livejournal.com]

The last line just KILLED me. XD Although Suki as Aang's firebending teacher would be sure to be an AWESOME experience... Heehee - Aang learning firebending while in full makeup and women's armor? It would be awesome.

Re: Suki's a Firebender

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

AND SUKI WON'T LET HIM NEAR HIS ADORING FANGIRLS!!!11 She is a cruel, cruel firebending master. And you just know she has a dragon. And Sokka and Aang wear girly clothes! Katara is convinced this is the most epic thing ever!

Koizilla Destroys the Fire Nation Continuation: Song

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

This is a sadistic little verse that likes to get it’s claws into me and whisper more things I could write in it. Now that you have fed it, it shall never let me go again! (Noooooooooo!)



Song pushed open the sliding door and stepped out onto the porch. “Can I join you?” she asked, sitting down beside him before he had a chance to answer. “I know what you’ve been through. We’ve all been through it. The Fire Nation has hurt you.”

Zuko’s muscles knotted up, and he had to force himself to stay seated and not bolt away. When she reached up and tried to touch his scar, it was almost a relief, just to move, to do something, to snatch her hand out of the air and hold it away.

“It’s okay,” she told him, slipping her hand out of his and clasping the fabric of her skirt. “They’ve hurt me, too.” She pulled the cloth up, over her knee to show him the thick lines of burn scars twining up her leg.

Zuko’s breath caught in his throat, and he couldn’t force anything past his lips. He lurched to his feet, so angry he could barely see. They were his people, and they were dead...

And they were all dead.

He and Uncle were all alone, and nothing was going to change that.

The young doctor reached out her hand to him, and smiled, unsure. “Just because something terrible happened to them doesn’t mean you have to forget they hurt you.”

Sparks crackled at his fingertips. Licks of flame flicked out of his mouth. He spun around to face her.

And they died.

He sank to the ground, choking on his sobs, and she stared at him, wide eyed and ready to scream.

Re: Koizilla Destroys the Fire Nation Continuation: Song

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

This is a sadistic little verse that likes to get it’s claws into me and whisper more things I could write in it. Now that you have fed it, it shall never let me go again! (Noooooooooo!)

Yesssss. Exactly, as, planned.

Poor Zuko. Poor, poor Zuko. For a second I was actually convinced we'd be seeing Fried Song.

Life Spirit: Zuko and Iroh

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I saved this one until last, because I had a feeling it was going to be one of the long ones. So I figured I’g get rid of the short ones first. No luck, they decided they wanted to be long too. Anyway, calling him the spirit of the earth hits me as kind of like the ocean spirit, or the sun spirit, an Earthbender spirit. So the Avatar is the spirit of life.



Ozai’s line was the line of the old Fire Lords. Every member of every Fire clan left knew that, but none of them cared anymore. Zuko picked his way over the rocks, the sea spray lashing his body and face. His eyes darted into the pools between the stones, his knife in hand. “Ha!” Falling to his knees on the slick stones, Zuko shoved his arm into one of the small pools and pried loose a clam-mussel to throw into his skin bag. Once, before the Avatar had disappeared and everything had easy, clam-mussels had covered the beach. Uncle told him that once, there had been other people to gather them, people who were paid with money. Zuko had never seen money.

It was so hard not to eat them, crouched among the sea-slicked stones instead of carrying them away to share with Uncle.

~*~

The sun had gone down behind the clouds by the time Zuko made it back to camp. Uncle had his pot on the fire already, full of cricket-moths frying with oily Huangyou seed pods.

They hadn’t eaten in two days. Zuko’s stomach cramped with hunger, and tonight, he was going to be full, actually full.

Uncle pulled the pot off the fire. People killed for good steel knives and metal pots.

Nobody cared anymore that Ozai’s line was the line of the old Fire Lords. What they cared about was that his clan held the old capital city and all the wreckage inside, with all the odds and ends, and good steel knives and metal pots. What people talked about was that he had two children. Ever since the Avatar had disappeared, one child born was a wonder, two was a miracle. What people talked about was that he had kicked one of his children out of his clan. People wondered out loud what kind of person would throw away a miracle, what was wrong with him.

Or wrong with the child.

Uncle handed him the waterskin, and it tasted slimy, like the water had been in there too long. Uncle sometimes talked about something called tea, that he had drunk when he was still a child, before it had gotten really bad. But he said it didn’t fill up his stomach, so Zuko didn’t see the point.

Zuko picked a moth-cricket out of the pot and popped it into his mouth, eating as quickly as he could so he could put the clam-mussels into the pot while they were still alive. “If we’re going to search the southern Air islands, we’re going to have to leave now.”

Iroh nodded, mouth full of moth-crickets and glanced at the outrigger canoe carved from one of the big, dead jungle trees from the Fire islands, its main hull packed with nets and sail. People killed for those too.

When Uncle had been young, he had travelled the world searching for the Avatar to capture him for the Fire Nation. Back when there had been a Fire Nation. Zuko needed to find the Avatar so there would be a Fire Nation again.

Re: Life Spirit: Zuko and Iroh

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I'm quite enjoying this alternate universe! So biological things are slowly dying?

(Iroh with NO TEA = most tragic thing about this fic. ;) )

I think that it makes sense for certain manufactured goods - stuff that requires, y'know, INDUSTRY and thus a surplus of labour - like metal would be in high demand in this world.

I really liked this pair of lines: "People wondered out loud what kind of person would throw away a miracle, what was wrong with him. /Or wrong with the child." It makes sense that actual SIBLINGS would be a bit of a miracle, if fertility has gone down so much...

I like this Zuko, too. I get the impression he's like "yeah, sure, uncle, mm-hmm, of course you used to boil leaves for something that tasted good but had no purpose." XD

Zuko's motivations in all of this are MUCH more noble! ;)

Re: Life Spirit: Zuko and Iroh

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Iroh with no tea... it's like the apocaly-, oh yeah, that's right...

Oh no, he's really just as desperate as ever, it's just this time his desperate self interest is more in line with everybody else's.

Re: Life Spirit: Zuko and Iroh

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

I like this dark world...
Question: did you have any inspiration for it? (I think i personally would have gone a bit more fimbulvinter on the Avatar world)

2:nd question: why is iron/steel items rare in Fire nation?

Life Spirit: Sokka and Katara

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

“I'm embarrassed to be related to you! Ever since Mom died I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!”

Hakoda of the Water Tribe had two children, two golden children. Two children to hunt when he was to old to, if he lived that long, two children his tribespeople called miracles, and gifts from the spirits. Sokka and Katara had been born so close together. People talked. Things were going to get better, weren’t they? Children were being born again, like they used to be.

Sokka and Katara were almost grown, and nothing was getting better.

“Uh... Katara?” The water lashed at the sides of their canoe. Sokka sank low and clung to the sides, but Katara didn’t seem to notice.

“I even wash all the clothes!” She shouted, the water growing wilder and wilder. “Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, NOT PLEASANT!”

“Katara, settle down!”

The wall of ice behind them split and fell into the water, sending waves crashing into their little canoe. The golden children were going to die together. Katara stopped yelling and stared, arms wrapped around her brother as a new iceberg rose in place of the one falling into the sea. It was glowing.

Even when the boy inside came out, he didn’t stop glowing with the kind of life the world hadn’t seen for a hundred years. Katara and Sokka just had to stand near him to know things were going to get better.

Life Spirit: Toph Bei Fong

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

They should have left her to die in a field. That’s what everybody whispered. It would be kinder than to let her grow up and be absolutely useless to their village. It was the kind of thing that made villages choose new leaders. It was the kind of thing that made villages kick out old leaders. No village could afford permanent dead weight, not anymore.

Gaoling used to be a city. Of course it did. All of the villages did. In the Earth Kingdom, people stayed rooted. They didn’t abandon their homes. Toph grew up without one. Every day, her parents tried to protect her from the sad, horrible fact that they had no one but each other because of her.

But Toph wasn’t dead weight. She could tell where every rabbit-pheasant, and every pigeon-mouse in every den was. She could catch any one of them and bring them home. She could keep her family fed every day. No one else had that.

And when she rode into Gaoling with her parents on the badger-moles, that everybody thought were gone from the world, no one called her dead weight. They called her a gift.

Re: Life Spirit: Toph Bei Fong

[beboots.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. I'm really enjoying this gritty alternate universe!

Re: Life Spirit: Toph Bei Fong

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I actually have know idea where the plot would come from after Aang came back, what with no one having the resources to take over the world. Course, Ozai and a bunch of other greedy clan leaders from all over the world could start trying...

Re: Life Spirit: Toph Bei Fong

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

I would like to add a repeat+squee for each entry on this 'verse.

Re: Life Spirit: Toph Bei Fong

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

*blush*

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, look what I found! Someone drew Fire Nation Suki! (not based on my fic, mind) http://shibamura-prime.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Nation-Suki-61178696?qj=1&q=favby%3Achaos2112%2F5615626&qo=473