Shortfic is anything that fits in one post. This was the shortfic of never getting finished.
I kind of have this problem with Iroh (and my betas and I have talked about it at length over my as of yet unposted trans* Zuko mpreg) where he is just too awesome. If I have Iroh alive with Zuko held captive, Iroh will rescue him in five minutes flat. he must be done away with. And then I feel like a rat. This, along with the rat was one of the things you mentioned when you read the drabble, and I couldn't say a thing. *sob* I hate keeping secrets.
I wanted to show that while things were getting a little better, and the Water Tribe really was feeding him and healing him, and keeping him mostly physically comfortable, Zuko was so powerless and so sunk into despair that he just felt worse. (Honestly, I'm 23, and if I found out my parents didn't want me back, I would bawl like a baby. Zuko is one tough little cookie.)
That hair was the straw that broke the camel's back. I was worried about that. I didn't want it to look like he felt worse about the hair than about Iroh and his crew.
I have a feeling Arnook feels like he has to try (and at the very least, they want to break him down to the point that he's a more compliant captive) and he's still a kid, one who has nowhere to go back to. Of course we're also talking about the raging ball of social cluelessness that is Zuko too... I'm not sure he can assimilate anywhere.
Zuko's all "Go away, I have misery to dwell on and a black pit of despair to sink into!" and Yue's all "I'm bored out of my scull here..." I have a feeling that if they do fall for each other, when Yue gets engaged to Hahn, the two of them will pull a lot of longing looks and tragic sighs over each other. And you bet Hahn's a bully.
I'm a mean person who doesn't give you an ending that happy.
Pakku: *tries to be approachable and comforting* The Universe: THIS CANNOT BE!
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Date: 2011-11-17 04:44 pm (UTC)I kind of have this problem with Iroh (and my betas and I have talked about it at length over my as of yet unposted trans* Zuko mpreg) where he is just too awesome. If I have Iroh alive with Zuko held captive, Iroh will rescue him in five minutes flat. he must be done away with. And then I feel like a rat. This, along with the rat was one of the things you mentioned when you read the drabble, and I couldn't say a thing. *sob* I hate keeping secrets.
I wanted to show that while things were getting a little better, and the Water Tribe really was feeding him and healing him, and keeping him mostly physically comfortable, Zuko was so powerless and so sunk into despair that he just felt worse. (Honestly, I'm 23, and if I found out my parents didn't want me back, I would bawl like a baby. Zuko is one tough little cookie.)
That hair was the straw that broke the camel's back. I was worried about that. I didn't want it to look like he felt worse about the hair than about Iroh and his crew.
I have a feeling Arnook feels like he has to try (and at the very least, they want to break him down to the point that he's a more compliant captive) and he's still a kid, one who has nowhere to go back to. Of course we're also talking about the raging ball of social cluelessness that is Zuko too... I'm not sure he can assimilate anywhere.
Zuko's all "Go away, I have misery to dwell on and a black pit of despair to sink into!" and Yue's all "I'm bored out of my scull here..." I have a feeling that if they do fall for each other, when Yue gets engaged to Hahn, the two of them will pull a lot of longing looks and tragic sighs over each other. And you bet Hahn's a bully.
I'm a mean person who doesn't give you an ending that happy.
Pakku: *tries to be approachable and comforting*
The Universe: THIS CANNOT BE!