Kindle the Wind (The Avatar! Zuko 'verse) commentfic meme

[attackfish]

That's it, folks, I can't take it.  In the hopes that maybe writing some of what I want to write will get me unblocked on the fic I'm trying to write, I'm giving in and running a commentfic meme for my Avatar!Zuko verse.  Comment with up to five requests, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic.  I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me.  weirdlet , fanficforensics, beboots, and floranna  get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because beboots  and floranna  are the best betas ever, and weirdlet and fanficforensics just because.


Also, the 'verse has a title now, Kindle the Wind!


Air, Water, Earth, Fire.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.

A hundred years passed and the new Avatar crashed into the ice sheet that borders our village. Although he is the Fire Nation prince, and it's his family and his nation that have brought this war to the world, I have hope that inside Zuko lies the spark of greatness. In the end, he has to save the world.

Front Cover Illustration

Timeline:

The Turtle-Crab and the Hawk
The first time Zuko struck a Fire Nation soldier in anger
Banner
Meeting Sokka and Katara
The joys of new bending
Zuko surprising himself by being spiritual and philosophical
Gran-Gran criticizing Uncle's parenting skills
Uncle Iroh finds out
Iroh has a talk with his nephew
Agni Kai against Zhao
Laying Aang to rest at the Southern Air Temple
Momo joins the Party
Sokka finds out the women on the ship aren't there to cook (and learns something, maybe)
Act of Providence
The Spinning Gates

Comments

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

1. The time Ty Lee revealed she was an airbender to Zuko.
2. Kori as Zuko's (first?) earthbending teacher, and their connection as unlikely patriots.
3. The time Zuko watched Master Pakku beat Uncle in a duel, fair and square.
4. The first time Zuko struck a Fire Nation solider in anger.
5. Korra as the waterbending sifu to Zuko's successor Nu Nomad Avatar.

Korra as the waterbending sifu to Zuko's successor

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Featuring miraculously not a cloudgrandbaby Jinora.

~*~

"Come on, kid, you got to flow your way through the stances." She grabbed Jinora's arms and pulled her through the move like a marionette.

"You sure you're not an earthbender?" Jinora asked shakily. The woman had arms like pylons. No one that old had any business being anything other than wizened and frail.

Her new sifu melted the ice between them and hurled it at Jinora. Yelping, she jumped out of the way, sliding on the ice. Korra tossed her head, grinning widely. "That answer your question."

"I can do that too," Jinora said seriously. "And I'm an earthbender."

Sifu Korra chuckled. "Kid, I've talked to your earthbending teacher. You are not an earthbender."

Jinora thought maybe this would be a good time to die. Maybe if she asked nicely Sifu Korra would teach her how to sink herself into the ice. "Can I try that water whip again?"

"Go right ahead," Sifu Korra smirked. "I'm not stopping you."

Jinora lifted up the water that was trying to freeze back into the floor of the training ground and flung it at at Korra hard, lashing her arm, but when she tried to pull the water back, it splashed at her feet.

Sifu Korra rubbed her arm. "You. Stances. Flow."

Jinora rolled her eyes. "You know, your movements aren't very flowing either."

"Yeah, well, that's because I'm boss," She folded her arms. "And maybe someday, if you ever get to be as boss as me, you can move like a creaky old woman too."

The first time Zuko struck a Fire Nation solider in anger

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

"You are not listening to me, Prince Zuko." The officer towered over him, looming like a wrathful spirit, and Zuko forced himself not to flinch down.

"I'm trying!" he yelled. He took his stance again, glaring at his teacher's stupid face. Something flashed in the man's eyes. "I'll do it again."

"What is the point?" the man sneered. "You're just going to fail again, and I will be left to explain to the Firelord why the second prince's son is a weakling and a failure."

He felt his legs step forward, and his hand thrust out at the man, the fire bursting forth into the air, and to Zuko, it felt cold, colder than the helpless rage that had fueled it.

The hand slammed into his wrist, and the man's fingers closed and tightened. He remembered what his father had said about this man when he had brought him to Zuko, how this was a master firebender, and a great veteran of the war, and Zuko should be grateful that the Firelord had pulled him away from the front lines to teach a talentless brat like him. But he wasn't grateful. he wasn't. The skin of the man's forearm was angry red, like a new sunburn, because his teacher might have been fast enough to dodge, but he wasn't fast enough to escape unscathed. Good, Zuko thought. he was glad.

His teacher Zuko's wrist in, changing its angle across his young student's body. He nudged at his legs to adjust his stance. And his hand tightened further around Zuko's wrist until it hurt. "Hold onto that anger, my prince. That is what you will need."

"Yes, Master Jeong Jeong," Zuko almost spat.

"Drill it again."

Zuko pulled his leg back and started again, and later, after he had burned away all of the fire, Zuko saw his teacher's face in his mind, and the fear that had flickered across it as he had called Zuko worthless, and he wondered at it, trying to figure out why he had looked so relieved when Zuko had almost burned him.

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

1) The first time Zuko knew he was the Avatar.
2) The Avatar always has a spirit animal, right?
3) I'm a sucker for waterbending!Zuko. Feed my addition! :D

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The first time Zuko knew he was the Avatar was answered in http://attackfish.dreamwidth.org/46122.html and you get two more requests.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

What a lovely thing to come home to!

1) Meeting Sokka and Katara
2) Zhao trying to turn this to his advantage
3) The Avatar wants nothing to do with the White Lotus

More later!

Meeting Sokka and Katara, Part 1/3

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

In the morning, he had almost convinced himself he had dreamed it.

Zuko had stared at the ceiling for hours, and at the Fire Nation insignia on the wall after he had made the air move in his still little room. He had stared at them unable to sleep, unable to twist away from the bitter realization that he was everything he had trained so long to fight, that his father was right, and he was no true son of the Fire Nation.

That there was no Avatar for him to find.

The last struck him like a bolt of lightning, in the middle of the night, after he had almost made it all the way to sleep. There was nothing to do now, no more clues to hunt down, no more faint traces to chase. The only acceptable, loyal thing for him to do now as to turn home and surrender himself, and hope that his father would take him at his word that he would never attack his own people and wouldn't lock him away.

But when he woke up, he convinced himself it was a dream, or midnight sun madness, or anything except real. How could it be?

The sun was already high in the sky, as Zuko walked out onto deck, the South Polar summer in full swing. "Lieutenant!"

Lieutenant Jee stopped polishing the trigger mechanism on the catapult and threw the rag down as he sauntered over. "Prince Zuko."

"How close are we to the Southern Water Tribe?" Zuko ground the words out, the need to capture the Avatar, to find him hiding out there among the icebergs was more desperate, and more panicked than usual, with the strange dream, it was a dream, it had to be a dream, still playing behind his eyes.

"We are less than a day out, sir." The lieutenant stood at attention as his eyes flicked dubiously over the ice choked water around them. "Sir, let me remind you, the Southern Raiders have been patrolling these waters for eighty years, and they haven't seen anything. They say that there haven't been any benders at all at the South Pole for eight years, much less the Avatar."

"I want to see it with my own eyes," Zuko growled, spinning on his heel to walk away. The winds picked up.

"This is a waste of time," Lieutenant Jee called after him.

Zuko whirled back around, the rising gale whistling in his ears. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Jee held his ground. "The Avatar is not going to be there, and you are dragging all of us into this frozen wasteland for nothing."

"You have somewhere better to be, Lieutenant?" Zuko seethed, his voice deadly calm, and nearly inaudible over the wind.

Jee opened his mouth to speak, but the ship bucked on the choppy water, tossing them into the guardrail. They glanced at each other and ran for the open hatch. As he ran, Zuko swore he could feel the wind rising higher and higher with each step.

He practically threw himself down the stairs leading into the maze below decks. Half a dozen soldiers had made it there before them, crouching in the darkness. Grabbing the hatch, Zuko pulled it closed behind all of them as the ship made one last fearsome lurch.

The hall around them shook back and forth, rattling them like dice in a cup as huge, grinding boom ripped through the metal walls.

Then, just as suddenly as the wind had risen, everything went still.

Zuko stepped over Lieutenant Jee, who sat sprawled against the wall where the impact had tossed him. The hatch creaked open under his hand, and polar sunlight flooded in. There were no clouds, no storm, nothing bu clear sky and bitterly cold air.

On the other side of the ship, he could see his uncle and the helmsman stumbling out of the control tower, and the rest of the crew crawling out of the other hatch.

One of the crew members made his way up the steps behind the prince. "What was that?" he asked no one in particular.

"That was no storm," another man said, awestruck, face hidden behind his mask. "That was airbending."

One soldier, who had a black eye and a busted lip from the ship walls, held his hand out to the Lieutenant. "What did you say about the Avatar not being here?"

Other Prompts!

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

4) Giant Lion Turtle (or just what *does* happen to Ozai?)
5) Song (scars)

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

6) Yue (redirecting your energies)
7) Koizilla, or what really happened that night?

Ooh. And if we're allowed to replace prompts- Ursa's reaction instead of the Song one.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

1. Learning earth-bending.
2. meeting with Jet
3. The joys of new bending.

And I'll give the rest a bit later. ^^

The joys of new bending, Part 1/2

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The boy twisted his hands against his bindings. Leaning over in the rhino saddle, Zuko swatted him on the back of the head. "Don't do that. You won't get free."

He worked his wrists harder. "Then why do you care if I try?"

"Because you'll take all the skin off your wrists."

The boy just glared at his captor. Katara, trussed up behind Lieutenant Jee, wasn't glaring. Her eyes stayed on the saddle leather, lost in thought as her brother struggled. As they made it to the top of one last rise of snow, she looked up, and sucked in a breath at the sight of Zuko's mangled ship. In the back of his mind, almost unconsciously, Zuko tallied up the repair costs, and what he could cut from the budget, for just a little while to cover costs until the year was over and he could collect his allotment of funds, hoping that there would be enough to cover a year's worth of coal and food, before he realized with a wild sort of glee, that it didn't matter. He had captured the Avatar. It didn't matter that it wasn't in some heroic battle, he was going home. He never had to worry about stretching his ancient ship's tiny budget ever again.

The rhino stopped at the bottom of the gangplank. Zuko flicked the reigns and the beast started lumbering up the steep metal ramp. The Water Tribe boy tried to shimmy off the saddle and over the side of the ramp, but Zuko caught him by the back of his tunic. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Uhhhh..." He flashed a grin. "Nowhere?"

Grunting, Zuko turned back around.

At the top of the ramp, Zuko dismounted. The soldier whose mount he stole jumped down from behind one of his fellows and ran forward to take the reigns out of his prince's hands.

"Soldiers," Zuko snapped. "Take the prisoners below decks. I'll be down to speak with them soon."

"Renshu, Zhen," Lieutenant Jee said curtly. The soldiers he had named grabbed the Water Tribe prisoners and pulled them out of the saddle.

"Wait," the boy said, looking at Zuko. "You don't even know their names?"

Zuko shot him a poisonous look as the soldiers marched the two of them away. He turned to the chief mechanic, who was staring over the rail. "How long will it take to repair the ship?"

The man grimaced. "Days, a week even, and that's just to get it able to take us to the next port for the real repairs."

Zuko closed his eyes. He didn't catch the glimmer of a scheme in Katara's eye as the soldier hurried her down the stairs, into the hold.

~*~

[floranna.livejournal.com]

4. Zuko's confrontation with Amon.
5. Zuko and Korra meet.
6. How does Mai react?
7. Ba Sing Se!

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

Yay! Trying to think of a title.

1. Zuko tells Uncle
2. Agni Kai against Zhao
3. Does Roku tell Zuko about the comet?
4. What happens when one accidentally airbends while playing the tsungi horn
5. Avatar Zuko emprisoned at Pohuai Stronghold
6. Gran-Gran criticizing Uncle's parenting skills
7. How does Zuko's crew react when they find out their commander is the nation's number one enemy, pretty much?

Gran-Gran criticizing Uncle's parenting skills, Part 1/2

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

There were children waiting for them on the ice, children with bone clubs and fish knives, four little boys. Zuko blinked, and then stared at Sokka and Katara. "What do they think they're doing?"

Sokka opened the steamer's cabin's door and hopped up and down waving at the children on shore. "Who are my brave little warriors?" he cooed.

The boys grinned, waving back. When Zuko stopped the steamer, they ran over, waving their weapons as Sokka jumped down.

The bravest boy poked the side of the steamer with his club. "What is this thing?"

"Did we do right?" another asked, wrapping his arms around Sokka's leg.

"Are the other boys going to be in trouble?"

"Are we going to be in trouble?"

"Nobody's in trouble," he assured them. "Except Katara, who thought it was a good idea to bring the Fire Nation to the village-" One of the clubs collided with Sokka's knee. "Oww!"

Katara stepped out of the steamer more cautiously, dragging Zuko behind her, and the boys abandoned Sokka to pick up their weapons and advance on Zuko. The Fire Prince's good eye went wide. "What the-" As he stared at the approaching boys, Katara froze the steamer to the shore. "Hey, don't do that!"

"Okay men." Sokka ordered. "Help me guard the Fire Nation enemy. One on either side, you two in front, I'll take the rear!"

"No way!" Zuko howled, backing up. "I brought you home, I'm going back to my ship." All four boys waved knives under his nose.

The boys surrounded him as Sokka came up behind. "Alright, march!" he crowed, poking Zuko in the back with one of the boys' clubs. "You're our prisoner now."

"I can't believe this," Zuko muttered, humiliated. The boys Sokka had told to take the front stayed in at their of Zuko for only a few steps before they dashed off towards the cluster of tents and crude ice buildings close to shore. Rubbing her forehead, Katara ran off after them, leaving him alone with Sokka's evil children.

By the time they made it through the village's low wall, the entire tribe had gathered in the center of their tents. Katara grabbed Zuko's arm and pulled him forward. "There's someone I want you to meet. Gran Gran, this is- wait, what is your name?"

"Zuko." His eyes circled the tiny village.

"He's the Avatar!" she told her speechless grandmother. "I saw him airbending, and firebending, he made that windstorm!"

"Katara," she said at last, casting Zuko a horrified, suspicious look. "How did he get here?"

"He has a ship, but don't worry, he wrecked it." She beamed at the old woman. "They can't use it to attack us."

The old woman's face grew even more alarmed. "They?"

"The ship's crew."

Zuko seized on the opening. "And if you don't let me go, they will come here looking for me."

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

1. Zuko learning waterbending
2. Meeting Toph
3. Azula having to be nice to her Avatar brother.
4. How did Zuko's heel-face turn happen here?

I'll think about no 5 later.

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

5. Katara steals a waterbending scroll from pirates. Zuko is not amused by this.

[wolfs-lament.livejournal.com]

Yay! Couple of questions (if I'm allowed):

Out of curiosity, Zuko doesn't seem to be learning the elements in order. Is it reversed, or is he learning them out of order through a lack of available teachers? Also, do people outside of the crew, Ozai, etc. know they have a Fire Nation Avatar?

1. Zuko fails at polite requests. Fortunately, Katara cares more about finding a waterbending master.

2. Sokka figures out Zuko is a master of dual swords.

3. The Winter Solstice: how does Zuko deal with spirit monsters?

4. Assuming Zhao is given orders to escort the Avatar home: how does he handle it?

5. Azula's reaction when she finds out her brother is the Avatar.

*Q&A*

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Zuko skipped over learning airbending for a while because they didn't know there were any surviving airbenders. There's more to it, but I'm hoping somebody will ask.

As to who knows, this will be answered soon in prompt responses.

[c3childs.livejournal.com]

1 Avatar Zuko and the Cave of Two Lovers
2 A meeting with the Grand Secritariat and he is not impressed
3 In which Hakoda is protective
4 Ty Lee & Zuko to Mai: "This isn't what it looks like."
5 Avatar!Zuko Alone

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

1. Zuko surprising himself by being spiritual and philosophical

2. How do Kyoshi island react to the new Avatar

3. Zuko learning something from the kyoshi warriors

4. somebody pointing out to Ozai why Zuko may not want to return home to his father

5. Momo joins the party

Zuko surprising himself by being spiritual and philosophical

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The iceberg reminded Zuko of a volcano, soon after an eruption, like the capitol caldera in frosted miniature. The steamer bobbed in the water next to it like a warship in harbor, making him feel like a giant as they scrambled out of it and up the iceberg face. At the top, Katara pointed down into the ice crater, and Zuko leaned down to look, but all he could see was a hairy mound. For a moment, he wondered if that was the real reason the Water Tribe siblings had brought him here, to be eaten by this thing. Then he saw the arrow on the beast's forehead. He had seen paintings of this thing, in the scrolls he had read so obsessively during his quest. A sky bison, frozen and dead. Zuko leaned further to get a better look. One smooth soled boot slid on the ice, and he slid down into the pit.

Right into the frozen body of a child.

Zuko didn't scream. The sound that came out of him was more of a strangled croak. Carefully, he turned the inflexible form over, and his hand brushed the boy's face. Zuko shuddered. He looked like he could have been frozen moments before, but Zuko could see the hundred years pass. He jerked his hand away. "Aang," he breathed.

Katara sat down on top of the ice wall. "Who?"

Putting the hand that had just touched the child Avatar to the side of his own head, Zuko started to shake. "The Air Avatar before me."

"I can kind of see the resemblance," Sokka said. Katara smacked the back of his head.

"How do you know?" she whispered.

"I just know." The words were almost too weak to emerge. Zuko wanted to curl up in the snow and hide.

Katara pushed off the ice wall and slid into the belly of the iceberg. "You really don't want to be the Avatar, do you?" She reached out and put a hand on his arm.

He shoved her away from him. "Don't touch me!"

"Hey!" Sokka yelled, grabbing for the boomerang Zuko's soldiers had taken away. "Don't push my sister."

Zuko bared his teeth at both of them. "Then she shouldn't touch me."

Determinedly, Katara stretched her hand out again and grabbed his shoulder. "You said... You said you were hunting the Avatar. What were you supposed to do with him when you found him?"

Zuko swept her hand away. "I was supposed to take him back to the Fire Nation," he muttered, hunching over, one hand on Aang's lifeless chest. "Where he would be locked away, so he could never interfere with the Fire Nation conquest."

There was so much more to it than that, the chains that would pin the Avatar in place so he couldn't bend, the drugs that would leave him barely conscious and helpless, the way he would be kept alive as long as possible so he couldn't be reincarnated. It wasn't something he had ever liked to think about. He shivered in his Fire Nation armor and his own Fire Nation skin.

"We aren't going to let that happen to you," she told him. "My brother and I will keep you safe.

"How do you think you're going to do that?" Zuko sneered. "Why don't you just run back home to your parents? If neither one of you is the Avatar, I have no reason to keep you around."

"Don't be stupid." Katara glared at him. "What are you going to do, go back to the ship and turn yourself in?"

"You don't be stupid, Katara!" Her brother hung one-handed to the top of the ice wall and tried to snatch hold of her wrist. "He told us to go, and we're going. I just want to get back to the village, and-"

"The world needs the Avatar." she said, cutting Sokka off. "I can't let you just-"

"Get on the steamer," Zuko snapped.

Katara's eyes narrowed. "What?"

"Get on the steamer!" he yelled. "I'm taking you to your village."

Katara didn't move. "What are you going to do with Avatar Aang?"

Zuko thought about how he was finally going home, even if it was just to be locked away. "I'm taking him to the Southern Air Temple."

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

1) Korra decided to teach her student one of the most important life lesson, the magic of drinking.
2) Toph wants a life changing field trip with the Avatar, and darn it, she's going to get one.
3) Zuko and the ocean spirit.
4) Azula finally clues in that Ty Lee is an airbender.
5) The final battle. Father and son meet under a blood red sky.

[anon616.livejournal.com]

1) Fire - Zuko and lighting, success or failure
2) Air - The second time Ty Lee revealed she was an Airbender to Zuko, after the first didn't take. (Silly Ty Lee, Zuko does not get subtle hints.)
3) Water - The blue spirit. Whoever said there was only one?
4) Earth - If Toph ever got scared, she would find it scary how good the Fire prince is with Earth.
5) Spirit - The first time Zuko went into the Avatar State.

[ergo-awesome.livejournal.com]

1. Zuko speaking with Aang's spirit (a la Aang and Roku in the canon)
2. The caverns beneath Ba Sing Se
3. The Day of the Black Sun
4. Fire Island
5. The Ember Island Players

Feel free to interpret these as loosely as you like!

Laying Aang to rest at the Southern Air Temple, Part 1/7

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

"But Sir, we already have the Avatar." Lieutenant Jee had his eyes half closed with a bored sort of despair. "Why bother going to the Southern Air Temple again?"

"Are you questioning me, Lieutenant?" Zuko growled, standing up on the balls of his feet to shove his face into his subordinate's.

"No Sir," he said quickly, but his derision bled into is words.

Zuko's lip fleered up over his teeth, and he turned to stalk off.

Lieutenant Jee sighed. "Private Renshu, go tell the helmsman to set a course for the Southern Air Temple."

Renshu saluted. Before he obeyed, he winked at Jee. "You know, I really think that Water Tribe kid's right. Bet you the prince doesn't know our names."

Zuko stopped in his tracks, his good ear turning in the direction of Renshu's barely audible words. "I know the names of each and every person on this ship." He rounded on them. "And I know exactly what crimes each of you committed to get yourselves assigned to this ship, Lieutenant, Private Renshu. Do you want me to tell you what you did?"

Tiny puffs of air lashed his ankles, small and unnoticed. Zuko walked away, the sense of feeling trapped almost overwhelming him. He could travel anywhere in the world except home to the Fire Nation, and it didn't matter, because his ship and his crew, and whatever he was were all cages he was carrying around with him, and he couldn't get away from any of it.

Someday soon, someone was going to notice the airbending, or the waterbending or earthbending, would show up, and even if it didn't, he was already supposed to have the Avatar, and if he didn't start sailing back the Fire Nation soon... The water clock was ticking above his head, and the sword was about to fall. He didn't stop walking until he stood at the stern of the ship, watching Zhao's port fade away into the distance. Every few months, someone from Zuko's ship left, their sentence over, to go back home, back to the real world, and Zuko was stuck there, waiting for them to send him some new screw up to suffer with him until they got to leave too.

Far away, on the other side of the ship, Zuko's ears caught Renshu's rough whisper. "I'm telling you, he's an evil spirit sent to torment us."

"Shut up," Lieutenant Jee ordered coldly.

Zuko's fists clenched. If only they knew.

~*~

Katara watched as the anchor disappeared into the water. The mouth of the river cut a deep harbor. "Are we going to take the steamer?"

Zuko's head jerked back. "You're not going anywhere."

"You know, I bet there isn't anybody else on this entire island," she snapped. "You can't try to tell me it isn't safe."

No, it wasn't about safety, Zuko admitted to himself. There was nothing at all appealing about the idea of sailing upriver and then hiking for hours with his uncle and the Water Tribe kids, and he was going to find some way to leave them behind. "You're staying here with Uncle and your brother."

She snorted. "We're coming to keep an eye on you. You're not getting out of it."

"Zuko!," his uncle's head popped out of the steamer's cabin door. Zuko stared at him, absolutely furious, but Iroh went on, oblivious, "Come help me find a place to put my basket."

"You can put it back on the ship!" Zuko thundered.

"Nonsense. The four of us are going to need something to eat on the way up." He winked at Katara. "Sokka especially has a good appetite for a growing boy."

"Hey!" yelped Sokka, out of sight inside the steamer.

Zuko, who hadn't had to buy new clothing for nearly a year, frowned harder. "You're not coming."

But Iroh pretended not to hear. "And why is it so cold in here, Nephew? You should thank me for heating it up for you."

"No, don't!" Zuko sprinted over and vaulted into the steamer, Katara following on his heels. "You'll melt the ice." He swept through the cabin door and ripped off the tarp covering Aang's frozen body and his bed of ice.

[vynessia361.livejournal.com]

1. Zuko finally gets that letter from Ozai.
2. The crew notices that the Water Tribe prisoners don't seem to be trying very hard to escape.
3. Zuko learns airbending. Somehow.
4. Does "The Storm" still happen, and if so, how?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

How Zuko begins to learn airbending is answered in the drabble: The Spinning Gates (http://attackfish.dreamwidth.org/95749.html). I intend to write more stories about Zuko and Ty Lee's family and how he learns to airbend.

[somariel]

If you're still taking requests for this, I have one:

Zuko learns of Roku's history with Sozin and his own non-Avatar-y connection to Roku.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am still taking requests!

Two things though, first, I'm filling the requests pretty much in timeline order (so book 1, then 2, then three, and so on) so it'll probably be a while before I get to this one. Also, you get five requests. I'm kind of lacking requests for books two and three, and pre-canon, so if you wouldn't mind helping out with that...

[meganinhiding.livejournal.com]

Let's see....

Zuko interacting with the Korra cast; particularly Korra, Lin or Tarrlok and their POVs on him.

Zuko contrasts and compares Tarrlok and Noatok with himself and Azula.

After the war Zuko, among many other things, works on discrediting a hundred years of propaganda and bringing out the truth about the war. Easier said than done.

Something with past avatars. Talking about the New Nomads with Aang, Yangchen and perhaps other Air Avatars or maybe the first time Baoshi talks to her successor without fear.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Is this still running?

1. The Northern Air Temple-- do they visit it in this verse?
2. What will Ozai try to get Zuko back?
3. The Northern Water Tribe. Do they go? What happens? What about Tui and La?
4. What about Toph?
5. Ba Sing Se? Do they go?

[(Anonymous)]

If it's still open, I have a few that I'm curious about.

1. Anything with Jet's response to a Fire Nation royal being the Avatar

2. Anything specific from Equalist era

3. (First time?) Zuko goes into the Avatar State w/responses from anyone there

(In case you hadn't guessed yet, I love reactions and this kind of AU produces some of the best)

-Sirithromeniel (sorry, forgot my password...also, I suck at tablet typing)

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It is still open, but it's on the back burner behind some fics I owe. I can tell you that one of the next stories I'm writing is Zuko's first experience with the Avatar state. Unfortunately, you don't get reactions, because no one, including Zuko, realizes what happened until years later. The equalist era will be very very different from canon, because Zuko will be an older, much more responsible avatar than Korra, and will actually have the wherewithal to deal with two massively abused brothers. Jet... is going to be fun.