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help_haiti (and her request is full of lovely angst) I need to get myself in a darker writing groove. To further this goal, I’m watching Criminal Minds, and I’m asking you guys to send me your darkest, most angst producing prompts for Avatar: The Last Airbender. Comment with up to five, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic. I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
weirdlet and floranna get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because I spawned a wild AU in weirdlet ’s head, that she has been writing delightfully twisted installments for, and because I delayed writing floranna’s promised fic to work on my novel.
Please no rape or sexually explicit requests. I’m a big believer that there needs to be more gen darkfic in fandom.
Ganked fromavocado_love .
Meme Closed and Finished
Despite the fact that I asked for no requests involving rape or sexually explicit requests, my brain decided to take me there all on its own in two instances. I've done my best to warn as accurately as I can in both in a way that the warnings themselves are non-triggery. I'd also like to put up a blanket warning for violence.
Fics:
forflorannahelp_haiti :
Azula's lightning strike on Zuko has some far more serious consequences
Zuko hurt his leg on the run and it won’t heal: Part One l Part Two l Part Three l Part Four l Part Five l Part Six l Part Seven
*Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue* Bonus: AU of “Sun Child”, Zura’s pregnant with Zhao’s child continued from Zhao: Wedded and bedded (AU of Sun Child), both of which are AUs ofweirdlet 's Sun Child AU
for[Bad username or site: animikii @ livejournal.com] :
Suki’s just as calmly insane as Azula is. She just hides it better
forweirdlet :
Zhao: Wedded and bedded (AU of Sun Child) continued in Bonus: AU of “Sun Child”, Zura’s pregnant with Zhao’s child, (*Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue*) both of which are AUs ofweirdlet 's Sun Child AU
Koh's eggs
Eric Bogle’s “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
I sometimes imagine Jet's hiding a set of stripes under his shirt- how'd he come to experience such a flogging?
forblue_lacquer :
Zhao helps his chances of being promoted by getting rid of his competition
What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Zhao destroying part of Wan Shi Tong’s library
The Omashu Earth Kingdom resistance succeeds in killing Mai’s family (but not her)
foravocado_love :
Why exactly the turtle-ducks fear Azula so much
Lao Bei Fong will do anything to keep his daughter safe, even from herself
Zuko: Directly after the Agni Kai
Bonus: some fluffy Toph/Zuko, all grown up (not dark)
forclockwerkchaos :
At the North Pole something goes wrong with La, and the Fire Nation sinks beneath the sea
foryma2 :
The story of Lu Ten’s death
Zuko finds his mother (or more accurately, Ursa finds him)
Aang isn’t rescued by the Blue Spirit and is imprisoned for a long time Part One l Part Two
forbeboots :
S2, Iroh dies, leaving Zuko without his influence continued in Zuko breaks down in front of the Gaang and further continued in The Gaang in Ba Sing Se
Jet decides NOT to gather proof that Mushi and Lee are firebenders before he acts
help_haiti (and her request is full of lovely angst) I need to get myself in a darker writing groove. To further this goal, I’m watching Criminal Minds, and I’m asking you guys to send me your darkest, most angst producing prompts for Avatar: The Last Airbender. Comment with up to five, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic. I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me. weirdlet and floranna get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because I spawned a wild AU in weirdlet ’s head, that she has been writing delightfully twisted installments for, and because I delayed writing floranna’s promised fic to work on my novel.Please no rape or sexually explicit requests. I’m a big believer that there needs to be more gen darkfic in fandom.
Ganked from
avocado_love .Meme Closed and Finished
Despite the fact that I asked for no requests involving rape or sexually explicit requests, my brain decided to take me there all on its own in two instances. I've done my best to warn as accurately as I can in both in a way that the warnings themselves are non-triggery. I'd also like to put up a blanket warning for violence.
Fics:
for
florannahelp_haiti :Azula's lightning strike on Zuko has some far more serious consequences
Zuko hurt his leg on the run and it won’t heal: Part One l Part Two l Part Three l Part Four l Part Five l Part Six l Part Seven
*Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue* Bonus: AU of “Sun Child”, Zura’s pregnant with Zhao’s child continued from Zhao: Wedded and bedded (AU of Sun Child), both of which are AUs of
weirdlet 's Sun Child AUfor[Bad username or site: animikii @ livejournal.com] :
Suki’s just as calmly insane as Azula is. She just hides it better
for
weirdlet :Zhao: Wedded and bedded (AU of Sun Child) continued in Bonus: AU of “Sun Child”, Zura’s pregnant with Zhao’s child, (*Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue*) both of which are AUs of
weirdlet 's Sun Child AUKoh's eggs
Eric Bogle’s “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
I sometimes imagine Jet's hiding a set of stripes under his shirt- how'd he come to experience such a flogging?
for
blue_lacquer :Zhao helps his chances of being promoted by getting rid of his competition
What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Zhao destroying part of Wan Shi Tong’s library
The Omashu Earth Kingdom resistance succeeds in killing Mai’s family (but not her)
for
avocado_love :Why exactly the turtle-ducks fear Azula so much
Lao Bei Fong will do anything to keep his daughter safe, even from herself
Zuko: Directly after the Agni Kai
Bonus: some fluffy Toph/Zuko, all grown up (not dark)
for
clockwerkchaos :At the North Pole something goes wrong with La, and the Fire Nation sinks beneath the sea
for
yma2 :The story of Lu Ten’s death
Zuko finds his mother (or more accurately, Ursa finds him)
Aang isn’t rescued by the Blue Spirit and is imprisoned for a long time Part One l Part Two
for
beboots :S2, Iroh dies, leaving Zuko without his influence continued in Zuko breaks down in front of the Gaang and further continued in The Gaang in Ba Sing Se
Jet decides NOT to gather proof that Mushi and Lee are firebenders before he acts
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Suki’s just as calmly insane as Azula is. She just hides it better
Date: 2010-02-01 02:42 am (UTC)It was Ty Lee who noticed it first. Of course it was Ty Lee. She knew the signs. Her new leader always pressed just a little too hard when she sparred, always had to win just a little too much, always waited just a little too long to let go when her warriors tapped out.
Everything had to be just a little too perfect. Everybody had to be just a little too obedient. And now she was talking about taking the Kyoshi warriors south to Sokka to help him command the Southern Water Tribe.
Maybe it was time to run away to join the circus again.
She’d run farther this time.
Re: Zhao helps his chances of being promoted by getting rid of his competition
Date: 2010-02-01 02:54 am (UTC)He got the idea of poisoning someone with the white jade plant from Iroh, didn't he? ;)
Re: What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Date: 2010-02-01 02:59 am (UTC)Re: Zhao helps his chances of being promoted by getting rid of his competition
Date: 2010-02-01 03:05 am (UTC)Iroh would absolutely love to know that Zhao took his botany babbling as career advice.
Re: What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Date: 2010-02-01 03:07 am (UTC)The arresting officers return him safe and sound and completely traumatized to his dad.
Lao Bei Fong will do anything to keep his daughter safe, even from herself
Date: 2010-02-01 03:36 am (UTC)He laid the chest on the table and opened it to display the gold inside.
She didn’t get it. It wasn’t her fault she wanted freedom; anyone would if they didn’t know... He kept telling her how fragile she was. It didn’t matter how good she was. If fire hit her, she’d burn. She’d die. He wasn’t going to lose her because a bunch of kids thought they could save the world. They couldn’t. She didn’t understand. If he could just make her understand-
His baby girl just didn’t know how dangerous the world really was; how could she when he had kept her from it?
“The Avatar has kidnapped my daughter.” It was a polite fiction. He could see the disbelief on their faces, just behind the greed. He was paying them. They wouldn’t hurt her if he was the one paying them. “I want you to do whatever it takes to bring her home.”
Toph was going to hate him.
It didn’t matter. At least she’d be alive.
Re: Azula's lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences
Date: 2010-02-01 04:03 am (UTC)Re: Why exactly the turtle-ducks fear Azula so much
Date: 2010-02-01 04:07 am (UTC)Re: Lao Bei Fong will do anything to keep his daughter safe, even from herself
Date: 2010-02-01 04:18 am (UTC)Re: Azula's lightning strike on Zuko has something far more serious consequences
Date: 2010-02-01 04:28 am (UTC)Zuko'll show 'em, Zuko'll show them all! *hugs him*
Re: Lao Bei Fong will do anything to keep his daughter safe, even from herself
Date: 2010-02-01 04:48 am (UTC)And if I had a twelve-year-old, blind or not who wanted to run off and join people who got armies attacking them all the time, I'd lock her in her room until she came to her senses.
Me too! I have no idea where it came from, but it's a great phrase.
Re: What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Date: 2010-02-01 04:55 am (UTC)Re: What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Date: 2010-02-01 05:06 am (UTC)Makes you want to put Chit Seng right back in the Boiling Rock, doesn't it.
Re: What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Date: 2010-02-01 05:07 am (UTC)Re: What Chit Sang did to end up in the Boiling Rock
Date: 2010-02-01 05:09 am (UTC)Zuko: Directly after the Agni Kai
Date: 2010-02-01 05:55 am (UTC)Ozai visited. Iroh wished he hadn’t.
That man’s son tossed and turned on the bed, and somewhere through the haze of pain and herbs to make him sleep, Iroh hoped he felt the sheet being pulled up around him, something, anything. Zuko shivered. “Mom?”
“No, Prince Zuko.” Iroh bathed his forehead with cool water, careful not to drip any on the bandage.
“Your mother’s gone,” Ozai snapped.
Whimpering, Zuko turned towards his father’s voice and curled in on himself. Iroh wanted to set his brother on fire. “Do you have to be here?”
“I came to inform my son of his sentence.” His face didn’t move when he spoke.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Careful, General Iroh.” Brushing what little hair his nephew had left out of his eyes, Iroh glared at his brother, but the glare wore itself away, until the expression left was just tired. “He is banished, until he can find and capture the Avatar.”
Iroh sighed and swallowed the fire that wanted to come out with that sigh. “I need to go pack.”
“What are you talking about?” Ozai narrowed his eyes.
“I am going with him.”
“Are you.”
“Someone should!” Zuko whimpered a little and thrashed, and Iroh did his best to soothe his nephew. “We’ll take my ship.”
“You are not permitted to deprive the Fire Nation navy of the services of that ship!” Ozai raged, advancing on his brother and the bed.
“Then how do you expect him to search for the Avatar?” he demanded, leaping to his feet.
“I’m not unreasonable,” his brother sneered. “I’ve already provided a ship and crew.”
“C-cold,” Zuko shuddered, burying ineffectively into the blankets. Iroh bowed his head.
Ozai smiled and Iroh could see his brother’s thoughts on his face and decided he was a fool. “Yes. You may accompany Zuko. He could use someone to teach him acquiescence.”
“I’m honored.” Iroh waited until his brother turned his back to answer with his own joyless smile.
By the time his nephew could tell the difference, they were already on the ship.
Re: Why exactly the turtle-ducks fear Azula so much
Date: 2010-02-01 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 07:26 am (UTC)You're free to request something else though, four other things, actually.
Zuko hurt his leg on the run and it won’t heal 1/?
Date: 2010-02-04 05:06 pm (UTC)“Well look at this, enemies and traitors all working together,” Azula sneered. Zuko gritted his teeth. “I’m done. I know when I’m beaten. You got me. A princess surrenders with honor.”
When the fire hit him in the leg, he stared at his sister in abject disbelief. He wasn’t dead. He wasn’t dead.
Then the pain hit and he almost blacked out. The smell of burned flesh made his stomach roil, and the way he had been dwelling in his memories lately, it shouldn’t have surprised him that the smell pitched him right back into them.
He heard screaming, and it took him a while to realize it was him.
His uncle’s arms were around him, and he could hear his breath in his ears, so close to a sob on every exhale.
He blinked hard against the firelight, and in front of the spots in his eyes and the tears filming across them, he could see the Water Tribe girl’s feet as she came closer. “Nononono, go away!”
“Nephew,” Uncle whispered urgently, hands bending away the fires still burning on his flesh and clothes. Zuko grabbed for his wrist and couldn’t make himself let go.
“Zuko, I can help!”
“No!” he shouted, thrashing. The movement sent a wave of agony up from the burn. Uncle hugged him tighter, one armed. Hesitantly, she moved closer, streaming the water out of her waterskin Sparks flew from his free hand, but he couldn’t aim, and he couldn’t gather them together into flame. “Leave!”
The feet stopped advancing. She backed up and stopped, backed up and stopped, and then turned, and left with the Avatar.
He panted. He thought he was going to black out.
He thought it would be a good thing if he did.
~*~
Sometimes he thought he was thirteen again. His uncle held water to his lips, and kept him warm. It was familiar.
But that wasn’t familiar.
Sometimes, he could feel his uncle scraping away putrid flesh and searing the wound, and he thought he must be dreaming, or lost in delirium again.
“Azula always lies.”
Uncle’s snore cut itself short as he was jerked out of his doze. “What was that?”
Zuko opened his eyes, glazed and fever-bright, and turned them on his uncle. “Azula always lies.”
“Almost always.” He held even more water to his nephew’s lips and swept Zuko’s hands out of the way when he tried to push it back.
~*~
The morning the fever broke, Zuko pushed himself up on his shoulder and leaned against the crumbling wall, tossing off the half-eaten blankets his uncle had found somewhere, but as soon as he tried to stand, his uncle was at his side, pushing him down again. “Rest, nephew. You have been very sick.”
“I’ve had enough resting!” he snapped back, bracing himself against the wall.
But as soon as he tried to get his leg beneath him, he found there wasn’t any leg there.
“Rest nephew, recover your strength.”
“Recover my strength?” he yelled, knocking bits of plaster loose from the wall. “What about my leg?”
Iroh shook his head.
~*~
“But I don’t feel any shame at all! I’m as proud as ever!”
“Prince Zuko, pride is not the object of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
Zuko looked away. “Well… my life has been nothing but humbling lately.”
Uncle glanced to the side and then back. “I have another idea. I will teach you a firebending move that even Azula doesn’t know,” he paused, eyes glittered wickedly, “because I made it up myself!”
~*~
Hours later, Zuko found himself practicing the movements and letting his energy flow.
~*~
Re: Zuko hurt his leg on the run and it won’t heal 1/?
Date: 2010-02-04 07:26 pm (UTC)I am being spoiled. So badly and I refuse to feel any bad feelings about it. ^^
Excuse me, I will go squee in peace.
Re: Zuko hurt his leg on the run and it won’t heal 1/?
Date: 2010-02-04 07:47 pm (UTC)Re: Zuko hurt his leg on the run and it won’t heal 1/?
Date: 2010-02-04 07:48 pm (UTC)Eric Bogle’s “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
Date: 2010-02-04 08:19 pm (UTC)Whenever he closed his eyes, he saw their faces and heard their cries, and felt the fire blasts and sword cuts of his own past bite into him again. He was lucky, and he knew it.
When their comrades could, they brought these men home, and lay them on hospital beds, and only sometimes visited. Ripped from the men whom they had fought with, trapped, and useless, and unable to leave, they turned their faces away from him when he came, but he didn’t mind.
Some went mad from it, and they needed him most. He did a general’s duty, but when he left, they were still crying and screaming.
His men were dying, and those who didn’t... He sent them home in pieces.
This war had to end soon. They couldn’t lose this war. They couldn’t.
When he heard the Avatar had returned, he could look his men in the face again.
Re: Eric Bogle’s “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
Date: 2010-02-04 08:24 pm (UTC)Nothing worse than a battle lost but a battle won- and either way, the pieces you have to clean up look really similar.