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

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this. Bao isn't too sure he likes this new way of doing things at all!


Two notes: I don't actually think technology is progressing that quickly. It's a complaint fandom makes a lot, but in AtLA, the Fire Nation had steam ships, tanks, hydraulics, insulation and refrigeration systems, machinery factories, a lot of the hallmarks of the early industrial age, and beyond. We didn't have tanks here until we had cars, for example. I think what happened after the war is that the Fire Nation started sharing, and all of a sudden, there was a democratization of technology. Sometime after that, they made the jump to using electric and having radios, bringing them from the early Victorians to the Interbellum period in 70 years, roughly what it took in the real world. Second, if technology goes at the same pace as it has in our world, Korra could easily live to see the space age, at least the 1960s orbiting the earth/going to the moon variety. Avatar Jinora in this verse definitely has a cell phone.

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

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually possible. Avatars do live a long time after all. Kyoshi lived to be over 200 and if you count the time frozen in an iceberg, Aang was 166 years old when he passed away. It could be a good few centuries before the next Water Avatar is born. Enough time for space travel to be common ;).

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I agree. See what I said about Korra getting to see space travel? (Can't you just see sixty year old Korra demanding to go to the moon?)