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

Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal

[(Anonymous)]

Can you elaborate how he will fire bend and learn to compensate missing a leg, (western air temple, firebending masters, agnikai with azula and Katara helps him kick azula's ass!!) In the spirit of the last bunch. I loved it i want more more more (happy birthday :-) )

Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I’m still figuring out things like how Zuko feels about fighting his people since he threw in with the Gaang during CoD, so...




“Does it fit?”

Zuko pushed himself up to his feet and walked. The ankle bent when he put weight on it, and popped back when he lifted it again. The mechanist’s clever system of hinges and springs almost felt normal. If he could feel it past his stump, it might have. “Yeah.”

Teo beamed. “You going to try it out?”

Zuko nodded, and followed him up the improvised wooden ramp laid over the staircase up to the deck. The ship rolled beneath his feet, but the wooden foot moved with it, like his real foot did. Excitement rushed around his body. He wondered if he could run.

The sun glittered off the field of icebergs, and Zuko exhaled a thin jet of fire. He pulled his gloved hands inside his sleeves for just a second, before he punched the air. He lunged, and punched wit his other hand, and pivoted as he kicked, the wooden foot trailing fire. He could feel his bending run through the leg, like it did through his boots, and gloves, and he kicked again, out into the empty air over the frozen sea.

He turned to Teo and took a few more clumsy steps. “I can walk! I can-”

It was such a stupid thing to say.

But Teo smiled, even if it passed through a grimace before becoming a smile. “Great, I’ll tell Dad it works,” he said before rolling away.

Zuko turned back to the ocean and swept his wooden foot out in an arc of flame. They sailed closer and closer to the North Pole which each moment, and Zuko tried not to think about what it was going to be like when they got there, or what it was going to be like when they left. Sometimes it was easier just to forget that everybody else was getting ready to invade his home. It was so much easier just to stay out there on the ship’s deck and send streaks of fire into the air with his new wooden foot.

He had to show his uncle.

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[(Anonymous)]

thank you thank you thank you. (I love it) Of course I want more. So how does it work when he runs or walks on uneven ground or when he climbs (do the toes bend?)or walk on sand. Or how bout when he lands a jump. (I cant shut the analytical side off can I). I cant wait to see Azula's face - she will swallow her teeth!! You are the best most thoughtful author. H

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The toes don't bend, and since his knee's still intact, and the ankle has a full range of motion, the foot would land a jump rather normally. Also, because he wears his boot over the foot, it deals with sand just as badly as normal as feet in boots do.

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[(Anonymous)]

I re-read it and very cool psychology aspect of things. Also how does it attach, what if it comes off in the Agni Kai. If I were Azula I would do everything I could to burn it or remove it somehow. How will he guard against that. Maybe he will invent some bending moves (AKA Iroh) that can be equally or more devastating when kneeling/seated or expand on his "breakdancing" moves. I have a friend who shoots archery and fences from a wheelchair - he is absolutely devastating. I love to see him kick somebody's ass who made the mistake of misjudging him - makes my day every time. Ive learned most from him as an archer , he is left handed and can show me things as I am left handed too. H

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

There's a big part of me that wants someone to set it on fire and then for Zuko to throw it at them. Which would be difficult, because it attaches with a leather cup and a system of laces that keep it from coming off quickly.

Does this friend of yours have any videos online? I'd love to see that.

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[(Anonymous)]

not that I know of. I shot archery with him this weekend. He is always one of the ones who wins. Ive also shot archery with someone who was born with one arm. (I'm a terrible shot partially because of perceptual problems but I love it because of the action of loading and pulling my bow is calming to me. I can enjoy it without hitting a darn thing. but I am getting better. I actually hit a couple things this time.) He had an adapted leather cuff to hold the bow thgat he had to be laced into. He pulled the bowstring with his hand and is an amazing shot, much, much better than me- (his perceptions are obviously intact). There is another guy that gets in armor and kicks butt (literally) with a crutch (missing a leg) and is very successful at winning most of his bouts. So I will look up some of the links I know and let you know if I find anything you would like to see. SCA (who I reinact with) has pretty extensive services for those with a disability at most of our functions. They also have interpreters for people who are deaf. (I am trying to learn more sign language too - for my patients). Great bunch of people to hang out with. Talk to you later. H

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see that, and I never knew that about the SCA. SCA and I (or any reenactment groups, really) have never gotten along because I'm violently allergic to smoke and it triggers massive seizures in minute quantities. But I make jewelry for reenactments, and my brother used to be in it.

Re: Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[(Anonymous)]

OOO I got another angle on the AT. Teo becomes a prosthetist & w/c mechanic to the veterans of the war and Zuko is his parter (and guinea pig). He & Teo need to bond (and get drunk together). How about stumbling around on a ship Zuko falls off & discovers you cant swim well with a wooden prostetic, Teo reels him in & they get drunk comparing notes come up with some really nutty AT ideas- I know too funny not dark enough for your tastes. HMM. hopw about ZUKO needs to help Teo come up with some ideas for braces for himself because he is having skin integrity problems from sitting too much. He needs to work but he cant sit in the same position for more than 3 hours. otherwise he has to spend lots of time out of his chair for pressure relief. H ;-D

Zuko Hurt His Leg on the Run and it Won’t Heal: No Drinking, but There's Teo and Zuko Bonding pt 1

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The gangway groaned on its gears. Zuko sat on the futon in the middle of the storeroom the others had cleaned out for him and his uncle and listened to the engines die. The others were leaving the ship, even his uncle, but Zuko couldn’t. He had missed... He had missed being on a ship anyway.

His crutch lay across his knees, just waiting for him to use it again, to get up and hobble up to the deck and off the ship.

It was cold that far north, even in the summer, and the storage rooms were far away from the engines. Zuko curled around himself, gazing at the closed door.

~*~

The wheels rumbled over the iron floor, and bounced over the rows of rivets, holding the iron plates together. The sound echoed off the walls, cutting through the talking and laughing in the hall, moving closer to the storeroom door. Zuko flopped down on the futon and yanked the blanket up over his head, pretending to be asleep.

The door screeched open, setting Zuko’s teeth on edge. Before his stupid, traitorous mind caught up with everything else, the idea that he should have whoever forgot to oil the hinges flogged flashed across it. Then he remembered he wasn’t on his own ship anymore. He never thought he would miss it.

“Zuko,” his uncle called into the room. Zuko ignored him and stayed curled up on the futon. “Look who I found.”

Zuko kept his breathing slow and even, as he really was asleep. Or meditating. He couldn’t let the candles in the room flicker, or Uncle would know.

“I’ll just go,” the boy who had followed his uncle in said awkwardly. “You know, come back when he’s awake.”

“No.” Uncle lowered himself down onto the futon next to his nephew and put a hand on his shoulder. Zuko stiffened. “Stay.”

“No, really-” the boy insisted.

“Zuko,” Uncle said gently. “No one could sleep through that door opening.”

“Go away.” He couldn’t- He didn’t know how his uncle could stand staying with these people who were gathering together ti invade their home, to be friendly with them, and pretend it didn’t- Zuko had betrayed his country in every way that mattered. He was a traitor. He should be hunted down and killed for it.

“Uh,” The boy with the goggles let out miserably.

“Prince Zuko,” Uncle pulled the blanket down, off his nephew’s head. “Be polite.”

Zuko just felt trapped. Everything was closing in on him. Sitting up on the futon, he wrapped the blanket around his legs and glanced up sullenly at the boy who had followed his uncle in. Zuko’s good eye widened as he sank further back into the shadows. He recognized him, and it made him feel sick.

Uncle patted his nephew’s shoulder reassuringly. “I will leave you two alone.”

Zuko gritted his teeth and watched him go. “Hey.”

The boy with the goggles rolled closer to the futon. “I remember you,” he told him, at a loss. “You were wearing green and brown then, too.”

Zuko Hurt His Leg on the Run and it Won’t Heal: No Drinking, but There's Teo and Zuko Bonding pt 2

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Zuko remembered the boy who had been so curious about the visitors to his home, especially Zuko, who by virtue of being only barely older than he was just so interesting. He remembered the boy’s strange father begging them to pretend to be Earth Kingdom so his people wouldn’t find out about his collaboration. He remembered staring at the temple murals and reliefs, desperate for any clue on his hopeless search. He remembered watching the temple’s new inhabitants fly through the air, and feeling a ridiculous, intoxicating rush of hope, and he remembered it dying when he saw three of the flying girls playing rock tag after they landed. But Zuko couldn’t remember the boy’s name. “Oh.”

“It’s, um, nice to see you again.” The kid kept trying to smile. It wasn’t quite working.

“Yeah.”

He glanced at the crutch resting against Zuko’s good leg. “Your uncle told me about what happened to your leg.”

Zuko wrapped his hand around the handle of the crutch. “What about it?”

The kid leaned his elbow on the arm of his wheelchair. “My dad could help, I think, I mean, he’s really good with things like that.”

Zuko hated the crutch. “I don’t need any help.”

“Oh.” The kid looked down. “Okay then.”

The kid was the same age Zuko had been when he had gone to the Northern Air Temple, Zuko realized with a jolt. “What’s your name?”

“Teo.” He laced his fingers behind his head. “You’re uncle’s worried about you.”

“He doesn’t have to be,” Zuko said sulkily. “I’m fine.” Fine as he was going to get.

“Come up on deck with me.” Teo’s lips pinched together. “It’ll make your uncle feel better.”

Zuko closed his eyes and nodded.