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

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

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"Katara." Her grandmother shook her head. "What did you do?"

"he just found out what he is," she pleaded, "He was going to turn himself in. You always said the world needs the Avatar, I couldn't let him be locked away!"

"Yes you could," Zuko growled. "It's none of your business."

"it is my business," she shot back. "It's the whole world's business."

"I'm not going to fight against my country!" he shouted, startling everyone. "So if that's why you keep doing this, you can just stop!"

One of the little monsters standing next to him tugged on his sleeve. "You're really ugly," he said forthrightly. "What happened to your face?"

Zuko looked down at him and growled. The little boy backed up.

"He doesn't seem like a very nice boy anyway," she told her granddaughter. "Even if he is the Avatar."

"Just let me go!" Zuko snarled. "My uncle is on that ship. He will find you and make you pay for this."

"Your uncle is with you?" the old woman began. "Is that wo raised you? He didn't do a very good job."

As Zuko yelled in reply, flames spewed out of his mouth. The whole village jumped back. One woman screamed.

"Not a very nice boy at all," Katara's grandmother said. "Let him go back to his men."

"Then I'm going with him," Katara told her. "Someone has to make sure he does what the Avatar's supposed to do and doesn't get himself locked away!"

"No way!" Zuko yelped. "You are not coming with me! I'm going home."

"Warriors," Sokka commanded. "Escort the enemy back to his vessel."

"Sokka's supposed to babysit them when the women take the big fishing boat out together, but he pretends it's warrior training to make himself feel better," Katara whispered to him. "Gran Gran, he must be a sign from the spirits. With the Avatar back, the world has hope again."

"No, Katara." She watched the boy who was slowly being lead away by a troop of little boys. "He will have to find his own path."

~*~

Katara shifted her pack on her shoulders and kept walking. "You can't stop me, Sokka."

Sokka took a deep breath. "Listen, Dad told me to protect you, and-"

"I told you, you're not going to stop me."

He spun around to show her the pack slung over his own shoulder. "Then I guess I have to come with you."

"Sokka!" When she threw her arms around him, she almost knocked them both into the snow. She glanced back at Zuko, still trying to thaw the ice encasing his little boat. "Come on. We have to get back to the ship before he does."

Edited 2012-05-03 19:53 (UTC)

AHAHAHA THE WARRIORS. They're the cutest ever. I love Sokka cooing at them. His own army of widdle minions, ready to poke the enemy at a moment's notice. And of course Zuko isn't going to firebend at little kids.

Wait, Katara wants to get back to the ship before Zuko does? Katara, what are you doing. What. Granted, she's making things happen, but Gran-Gran's horror is perfectly understandable.

That ship is in for a wild ride. I love where this is going.

I love the Warriors! They were so much fun! (I loved them in canon too). They give Zuko his daily dose of humiliation. In canon, he gets dumped butt up in the snow. In this, he gets ambushed by waist-high little boys. You decide which is worse.

Poor Gran Gran. There she is just trying to keep the village together until the men come home, and her granddaughter is suddenly showing off her heretofore unknown suicidal streak.

You'll see what Katara's up to in a moment.

HAHAHA! Love the warriors here! They're so cute. Kanna is clearly not impressed by Zuko's manners. She probably thinks that Iroh should've given him more spankings ;). I think canon humilliation was worse. At least here his crew didn't get to see him get captured by a bunch of little kids. And then Sokka opens his big mouth XD.

Sokka will spread the story far and wide, far and wide, I say. I'm so glad everybody likes the warriors. I was worried they would be too silly.

On a not at all humorous note, Kanna probably does think Zuko needed a few more spankings, but we all know how that boy was raised. Many abused kids are discipline problems, because the behaviors condusive to being a good citizan is not the same as the behavior needed to avoid an abuser's wrath. Poor baby. Poor obnoxious baby, but poor baby.

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