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: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

So many people's lives would have gotten so much easier if Zuko had managed to dump Ozai and accept his place in the world as nephewson to Iroh in season 1.

Bringing out the big guns, that's one way to call it. And yeah, during a couple of moments in that episode, I thought Zhao was going to lick Zuko's head like he was a big bald lollipop. That is no way to treat your prince, Zhao.

I'm sure Zhao will love hunting down his lollipop the Avatar. That's going to feel so creepy. He was bad enough when his target was Aang, but if it's Zuko, it'll be so much more personal.

Candyhunting!Zuko. Yes, please.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, in that world, but for us spectators... Yeah, Zuko had a difficult life, and he seemed to enjoy spreading the misery. Especially to Iroh. *smacks Zuko, and then hugs him*

Yeah, Zhao, a word of advice, it's always a little weird when an adult picks a teenager as his main rival, but you don't have to go around upping the creep factor the way you do. Part of Zhao's problem, along with agreeing with most of fandom that Zuko is sexyfine is that he just does not see Zuko as prince, methinks, and (please please please) I get the feeling Zuko gets this a lot from military beurocrats. This is why I wish there were more fics in which Zhao somehow survived to see Firelord Zuko, because the "Oh shi-" look on his face would be epic.

My headcanon says that Zhao has this fantasy that eventually, and probably soon, Zuko's exile will become perminant, he'll lose his father's economic support, Iroh will keel over, and Zhao will be able to just pick Zuko up and take him home. Icky Zhao.

Zhao huntin our princy: Zuko is his great white (sexy) whale.

ZHAO: Come back! Forget what I said before, your daddy loves you and wants me to bring you home!
ZUKO: Somehow I don't believe you, I think you want all the glory of capturing me for yourself!
ZHAO: Well...
ZUKO: But when Azula shows up, I will believe her, because I am not always a bright boy.
ZHAO: ...I hate you.

Oh yes, candyhunting Zuko... When Iroh finds out what the water sibs were doing, the conversation goes something like this:

IROH: See, that is what people your age are supposed to be doing. Go steal candy with your friends!
ZUKO: Um, No.
IROH: Do you just hate fun?
ZUKO: Fun? Fun will not help me capture the Avatar learn all four elements and make Daddy love me!
IROH: You are a very warped child.

(Yes, I do love silly scripts.)

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if Zhao's disrespectful behavior towards the prince was somehow exceptionable, it probably would have gotten more of a reaction. Everybody in the FN military knows Zuko's not supposed to get home, ever. Makes me wibble to think that he probably realized perfectly well what they all said behind his back.

This is why I wish there were more fics in which Zhao somehow survived to see Firelord Zuko, because the "Oh shi-" look on his face would be epic.

Are there any fics like that? Except for Rufftoon's Water Tribe. I would love to see this, dang it. I really wonder if Zuko would resist the urge to forget that he's a good benevolent Fire Lord and just make Zhao lick boots until his tongue falls off.

ZUKO: Fun? Fun will not help me capture the Avatar learn all four elements and make Daddy love me!

I love how as soon as he's relieved of one impossible task, he finds a new one so he doesn't have to stop acting like an obsessed obsessive. Poor Iroh. When Zuko is grown and Fire Lord, he'll have to wash so many dishes at the Jasmine Dragon to make up for all of this.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that our baby's obnoxious bluster is a shell over his deep deep uncertainty and insecurity. *pets him*

That's the only one I know of too and Zhao's lack of memory kinda ruins my joy.

Zuko has addiction displacement. (And Zuko doesn't become Firelord in this. Everybody has to do some fancy political maneuverings to find an heir who isn't either evil, crazy, unavailably the Avatar, or a war criminal.)

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the amnesia bit was unfortunate in some ways. Zhao's meetings with Zuko would have had a certain extra something if he'd known that he used to make a hobby out of mouth-breathing on the Fire Lord's bald head.

Ah, yes. Will Iroh need to be Fire Lord after all?

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Someone nneds to write this fic now. Also needed is Zuko's "but I want to kill him, but I'm not supposed to do that anymore, but I want to kill him, but I'm not supposed to do that anymore" debate.

Nope, war criminal. Earth Kingdom's still a little sore about Ba Sing Se.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, no Fire Lord Iroh. So I suppose Lo will be Fire Lord on even days, and Li on uneven days?

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Hah, more like both twins make the descisions they want to and claim it's the other sister's day when the real work shows up.

Mai heads a regency, while she and Zuko frantically try to create a Firelord out of whole cloth.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[floranna.livejournal.com]

...

I am missing a reference here, am I?

Out of cloth... 0_o

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

To create from whole cloth is an idiom. It means to create from scratch, as if from fabric that has not alredy been cut to fit a pattern. In this case, Mai and Zuko need to get with the baby making.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

create a Firelord out of whole cloth

The Fire Lord in this verse is a sockpuppet on Mai's hand. She moves it while Zuko hides behind her and does its squeaky voice.

In all seriousness, how does Mai have the right to head a regency? Is her family that closely related to the royals?

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

I have this lovely mental image I need to get down at some point, of Mai on the throne in a variant of the Fire Lord regalia, with patterns in her makeup that are supposed to mean that she sits on the throne by right of personal conquest; probably hauling out some elements from the Sun Warriors.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

So Iroh becomes the Firelord in this verse?

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the Earth Kingdom would totally flip its shit. No. There's a reason canon Iroh wanted Zuko to take the throne.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to mention, whenever I think about Zhao and dashing Zuko's delusions of having personal space, I think of this comic:

http://go-devil-dante.deviantart.com/art/Zhao-is-too-close-73717555

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

LOL! 5 seconds later, Zuko is going to start yelling and firebending at Zhao.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Zhao is about to die a quick but painful death.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

He'll take five showers that evening and polish off his head with a brush until all the Zhao cooties are dead. And then Jee will help him forget about the whole nasty business.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

He will try and try, but Zhao's cooties will never be defeated.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

You mean they live on after he gets killed by Koizilla? Ewww.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

They are zombie cooties, COOTIES OF THE UNDEAD!!!1

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I want you to know I blame you for these:

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

Blame accepted! Mmmm, yummy blame.

Can I nab one? ;)

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

sure! I made them for you.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love them both, but the first one really brings out the lollipop-ness of Zuko's head. Wonder what he tastes like. Of whatever shaving oil he uses for the hair, probably...