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]

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

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Ahh, thank you for telling me. ^^ Has been awhile when I have fallen into an idiom I don't get at all.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a very common one.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Do you know the idiom? I just explained it to floranna on this thread.

Anyway, Zuko and Mai are hoping that Mai will soon be the Firelord's mother, and that until then that no one will want to challenge the man who took out the previous Firelord, and the woman who took on Azula.

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[fanficforensics.livejournal.com]

I know it, but since I'm ESL, a more literal meaning was the first thing that popped into my head.

It's kind of hilarious to imagine them scurrying about trying to make a baby nownownow. Iroh probably sends all kind of fertility teas by hawk post.

*bedtime*

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I need art of that sock puppet now!

It's not the teas that get Zuko, it's the advice. *Zukoshudder*

G'night

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

Mai's parents are probably over the moon that their daughter is now the main power in the Fire Nation. She's still quite young so no doubt she'll need a "guiding hand" from dear mom and dad, y/n?

Re: Agni Kai against Zhao, Part 4/4

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

They'll try... and then Mai will pin them to the wall with her kinves, XD.

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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I need art of this now! Even if her official title is princess regent in this fic, I really want to see her being all badass "I am the ruler, damn it!"

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.