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

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.

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

[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.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

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

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Me and my all siblings? By c-section.

But those are my issues.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

They also couldn't get me to stop crying at the hospital until they put me in warm water. Then I gave this ridiculous little sigh. And my dad had to be taken away, because he turned white as a sheet, and the docs thought they were going to have to hospitalize him, meanwhile my brother was causing havoc over at the house of the nice Mormon family across the street, and...

At least it was a very quick birth.

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Well, my mum is the only child and everyone was a bit thinking that my dad is a sworn bachelor (even if he has always wanted kids) and as I am the oldest, my birth was a bit explosive in our family. ^^ Considering that I am an accident, it always fills me with joy to know that I was so wanted and wished when I was actually born.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I was a surprise. Both my parents had kids from their previous marriages, and I was number four, and I was born 10 years after my closest sibling to me in age. After they found out mom was pregnant with me, dad got a vasectomy. Still deeply loved, though.

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's more dealing with the fact that in my worst depression, the thought that I wasn't wanted crushed me. They had known each other only few months until I was, what, seeded? Of course they have never shown any thoughts that I wasn't wanted, that's just in my mind...

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

[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.

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

[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.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

It was also to make sure the kid was alive, so if the child was stillborn, the mother couldn't slip in someone else's living child. First time this wasn't done in England was with James II's son, and thus everybody thought he wasn't really James and his wife's boy.

I actually would be. I know at least in the Middle East, there were major cultural prohibitions against any male other than family seeing a woman in a state of undress no matter what she was doing (assisting doctors were sometimes blinded after helping with the births of royal women, part of the reason for midwifery in the Middle East) and in the Far East, multiple wives made it so that the birth of any one child was unimportant. Each of many could become the heir at his father's say so.

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

[beboots.livejournal.com]

"I know at least in the Middle East, there were major cultural prohibitions against any male other than family seeing a woman in a state of undress no matter what she was doing" I was always under the impression that it was FEMALE courtiers witnessing the births of children in England, not male and female, for that reason.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Nope, it was both. Women weren't credible witnesses, and seeing as this was such a huge part of the national interest...

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

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, that makes sense!

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

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I was also just about to make a joke about hysteria and wandering uteri, but that's much later. >_>

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

If this squicks you, just remember, the same people usually witnessed the consummating of the marriage... At least Zura didn't have to endure that one.

It wanders all over my body. Today, it's in my toes.

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

[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.

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

[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.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Magical sperm bank!

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thought I should clarify that I meant "lady love" in the most sarcastic way possible, except for the physical. Voldemort? Not big on the lovin.

And it didn't entirely fail! I mean, this helps Voldy not at all, but his daughter makes a good go at being the next Dark Lady. Poor Zuko. He'll never get a job now.

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Voldy, loving? *snufflemumblesnortgag*

MOre like, she is one of the most loyal females? Of course she would be given atleast some of the information needed to bring him back.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I agree, especially with the gag part.

Also, Zuko's going to have some kind of adventure with a snake. And that nasty parseltongue's going to give him away. Not a nice thing to find out, being voldy spawn. And Jet's going to think he should die, because of this, and Zuko's a hard core theater geek in this, and Azula's favorite spell is Incendio, used as a curse, (and then she discovers fiendfyre), and...

No, this is not the universe I need to explore.

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

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If you won't, I will.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The threats! The threats! I will not yield!

No, seriously, I have two large scale HP universes I need to finish, plus Xenolith and Ice Flows Through before I even consider diving into that delightful crack.