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

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.

Re: The first time Zuko struck a Fire Nation solider in anger

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Hmm... does JJ know who Zuko really is?

Re: The first time Zuko struck a Fire Nation solider in anger

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

No, but he knows that if he can't get Zuko up at least to his sister's level, Ozai will make his life something other than worth living.