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

[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.

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