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

Toph is the one who finds Aang

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I could not for the life of me figure out a way to get Toph to the south pole to find Aang’s iceberg. You almost got Toph the waterbender.

On a side note, I know absolutely nothing about homecoming courts, but three out of five requests isn’t half bad!



I could not for the life of me figure out a way to get Toph to the south pole to find Aang’s iceberg. You almost got Toph the waterbender.

On a side note, I know absolutely nothing about homecoming courts, but getting three out of five requests answered isn’t half bad!

The tunnels branched out in all directions under the Bei Fong estate. The earth moved with the girl as she wound her way through the passageways, steps certain in the absolute darkness. Dirt stuck to her bare feet, reluctant to leave her. She squished her toes in the solid rock, and the rock bent under them.

The tournament season was over. Even her covert fun was over for the year. All she had left were her tunnels and the earth itself. She punched the wall and tossed the boulder that flew out from hand to hand. This called for new tunnels, going further beyond the borders of her parents’ estate, out beyond Gaoling. This called for doing something her mother and father would never ever get to know about, even if she lived to be a hundred, and they lived until she was that old too.

She shoved the wall with both hands until the stone gave way. Dust puffed out from the crumbling stone and buried itself in her nightgown. She let it coat every bit of her, like a second skin, her real skin.

The earth yielded to her. It didn’t think she was helpless, and it always told her the truth.

She pounded the wall, just to feel the rock give way, and for a moment, she felt a strange sort of grief. If she ever needed to hit something solid, and know it wasn’t going to give way, to just feel the blow all the way up her arm, she had to hold her target in place.

And that didn’t seem fair.

She slammed her hands into the wall again and the rock split open, the embryonic tunnel slowly growing outwards. Hands met new wall in the soothing rhythm of her earthbending. The stone pushed back with her hands. Until she met something in the middle of the new wall that wouldn’t give. The rock around it fell away, and it dropped to the ground.

It was stone.

Toph poked it with her foot in bewilderment. Why hadn’t it given way? Stone always yielded to her. This stone wasn’t doing what it was supposed to!

The stone she couldn’t bend lay against the tunnel’s living rock and Toph knelt down next to it. It was so weird, lying there it felt almost like a small, heavy person.

But people were strange, blurry things when they weren’t made out of stone, shapes that she could only see because they touched the earth and affected it. But this person was earth. She traced her fingers over his nose and mouth, into the curve of his ear, down his arms, and over his fingernails. His clothing didn’t swing, but stayed stiff, frozen in folds and ripples. In frustration, she struck it with the heel of her hand and bent as hard as she knew how, furious at it for not acting like stone should.

It cracked. Toph ground her teeth. Great, she’d found some sort of weird mystery, and she’d broken it. Just-

Suddenly, inexplicably, a bit of it vanished. Left in its place was something lighter, something warmer. Something moving.

The tiny bit of it that had vanished was the hand. Only a thin layer of dust remained over the living hand, attached to the stone wrist.

Toph poked it’s palm. The fingers snapped closed just after she snatched her finger away. She heaved out a hard breath and pounded the heels of her hands up along the statue’s arms and chest, and into his legs and feet. The stone fell away. Slowly, and with each strike, a little more of the statue came to life, until she came to his face and he opened his eyes.

He blinked in drowsy, slow voice. "I need to ask you something.”

“Yeah?”

“Please... come closer.”

He was so small, like her, slight, and safe. She could fight him off. She could fight off anything. Toph leaned in. “Okay, ask.”

He grinned, and pulled himself up from the ground, voice suddenly fast and excited. “Will you ride the badger-moles with me?”

Toph stumbled back, into the tunnel wall. “Are you for real?”

Re: Toph is the one who finds Aang

[panaili.livejournal.com]

omg IN EVERY WAY YES

And after she got over the whole "okay, random boy in the middle of the ground" nonsense, he'd be like, "So, uh, back to my question -- wanna ride badger-moles?" And Toph would be all, "Sweet" and use her magic badger-mole language abilities to summon them up.

And they would have WACKY CRAZY FUN. I'm trying to imagine a plot line in which the whole "Aang is the Avatar and is Important and Needs to Save the World" bit comes up quickly, and I really can't. Like, he'd mention it in passing, and Toph would be all like, "Whatever, weirdo. Let's go throw rocks at people."

Eventually Aang would airbend too much at Zuko would find out. Like, four months down the road. Y'know, maybe.

Re: Toph is the one who finds Aang

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The universe would totally make sure that Zuko found out about Aang earlier and so mess up all Toph and Aang's WACKY CRAZY FUN, though. Dang.

Actually, I kinda think Toph would be a bit possessive of the badger moles. She'd take a lot of coaxing. They would spark off each other, and it would be GLORIOUS!