Avatar: The Last Airbender Darkfic Comment Meme

[attackfish]

So I just finished writing something so impossibly sweet that I swear all my teeth just rotted in my head from it.  And since I have to write floranna's fic for 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 AU

for[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 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?

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

Comments

The story of Lu Ten’s death

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Stones fell from the sky.

Stones flew from the ground.

Stones barreled into the Fire Nation troops, knocking them aside like Pai Sho tiles from an overturned board.

Lu Ten’s komodo-rhino surged forward to the new hole in the wall, picking its way through the debris. “No!” he shouted, but no one heard him over the thunder booms of the battle. He rounded in front of the charging soldiers, hand up. “Father, General Iroh, doesn’t want you to charge yet! The hole’s too small still. It’s a bottleneck.”

“Stupid boy!” One of the officers swept hard at him with a spear and Lu Ten leaned back far in the saddle to let it pass over him. “Get to the back of the army!”

But Lu Ten didn’t budge. When they pushed their way past them, he followed, still yelling his father’s wishes, but the soldiers were charge-happy. The city, they knew, was theirs.

As they jockeyed and jostled with each other for a place in line, two of the strange, robed benders from inside the city slid down the face of the walls and landed crouching on the ground. When the soldiers were in just the right place, they opened the ground up wide and slammed it closed over them. The tail end of the fissure trailed its way under Lu Ten’s feet, and he stared down at it trying to comprehend...

He saw the shadow on the ground around him just before the stone hit and he rolled... But the broken pieces ripped through his body completely.

Re: The story of Lu Ten’s death

[yma2.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I like the way you've caught the chaos and the confusion of war! And thank you for the recs. I shall think on some more suggestions...

Actually... here is one now...

2: Zuko finds his mother. (Darkfic, so with a dark twist some how, I'll leave it to your imagination what)

3: Avatar Aang is not rescued by the Blue Spirit and is captured by the Fire Nation and inprisoned for a long time. What happens to him exactly? What goes through his head? Ect...

4: Appa's time with the Evil!(tm) Circus.

5: Aang's son/daughter is a Waterbender, not an Airbender, meaning that Aang may be the last ever airbender. (take this in whatever direction you please. It's an interesting concept though. After all, who'll teach the next Avatar Airbending, if no Airbenders exist any more?)

Re: The story of Lu Ten’s death

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I definitely have some ideas for 2 and 3!

There are always my fics, (even if I'm new to the fandom, so there aren't that many of them) most of them are pretty dark. Yeah, I go in for shameless self promotion.