attackfish

Disclaimer: Oh how I wish I had created or owned such a thing as Avatar: the Last Airbender.

Summary: When Iroh comes to Ba Sing Se to meet with a White Lotus contact, he gets a lot more than he bargained for in the form of a boy who looks startlingly familiar.

Author's Note: This story takes place in my Prince Jet Rebel Leader Zuko AU before Zuko has his scar. More for this AU can be found on my Tumblr at this tag: [Link].

Inosculation and The Sweetest Fruit, the Strongest Wood are set in the same universe.

Warnings: Oblique references to rape and other war crimes.

( No Matter how Gently Meant the Wound )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would have the money to donate to charity myself.

Summary: Zuko needs to find the Avatar and regain his cat.

Author's Note: Written for avrelia on Tumblr as a reward for donating twenty-five dollars to RAICES, a charity that aids immigrants and refugees coming to the US and is fighting Trump's crimes against humanity. She wanted Miyu's continuing adventures in the Fire Nation. Miyu's adventures begin here: [Link]. and are continued in Part One of this story, linked below:

Warnings: Harm to animals.

Part One

( While the Cat's Away, the Mouse-Pigeons Will Play, Part Two: A Cat Amongst the Mouse-Pigeons )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would have the money to donate to charity myself.

Summary: Zuko finds and captures the Avatar. Now he has to decide what to do with him. Can he really turn a child over to his father? How can he not?

Author's Note: Written for Runrundoyourstuff on Tumblr as a reward for donating eighteen dollars to HIAS, a charity that aids immigrants and refugees coming to the US and is fighting Trump's crimes against humanity. She wanted a fic form of a post I made about what would have happened if Aang had been a toddler when he was frozen.

( The Ones who Walk Away )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would have the money to donate to charity myself.

Summary: Zuko needs to find the Avatar and regain his cat.

Author's Note: Written for carnistcervine on Tumblr as a reward for donating twenty-five dollars to RAICES, a charity that aids immigrants and refugees coming to the US and is fighting Trump's crimes against humanity. They wanted Aang adopting a kitten. Since I already had an AU about Zuko adopting a cat... [Link]

Warnings: None, this is a light-hearted happy fic for once.

Part Two

( While the Cat's Away, the Mouse-Pigeons Will Play, Part One: A Game of Cat and Mouse-Pigeon )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would have the money to donate to charity myself.

Summary: After the Agni Kai, his father sends him away to be a soldier, to fight and die with the soldiers he spoke out to save.

Author's Note: Written for Jaggedcliffs on Tumblr as a reward for donating thirty-six dollars to HIAS, a charity that aids immigrants and refugees coming to the US and are fighting Trump's crimes against humanity. They wanted Zuko wump. This takes place in my Half Feral Firebender universe.  More information can be found at the "#Half Feral Firebender verse" tag on my Tumblr: [Link]

Warnings: Attempted murder, war crimes, references to torture

Takes place in the same universe as "On the Outside"

( Brave Soldier Boy )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would have the money to donate to charity myself.

Summary: When Aang, Sokka, and Toph find Hama's victims, they find Zuko among them.

Author's Note: Written for Jaggedcliffs on Tumblr as a reward for donating thirty dollars to RAICES, a charity that aids immigrants and refugees coming to the US and is fighting Trump's crimes against humanity. They wanted Zuko wump. More information for this AU can be found at the "#Hama kidnaps Zuko AU" tag on my Tumblr: [Link].

Warnings: Murder, attempted murder, torture, starvation

( On the Mercy of Enemies )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, it would never earn a TV Y-7 rating.

Summary: Zuko is now Firelord.  That means confronting his father again after three long years.

Author's Note: Written for ultrasanaposts on Tumblr.  More information for this AU can be found on my Tumblr at the tag: "#Half Feral Firebender verse": [Link].

Warnings: dark themes

Set in the same universe as Brave Soldier Boy.

( In the Outside )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, parents would sue me for their children's nightmares.

Summary: Former Earth Kingdom rebel Zuko has a difficult time adjusting to being a Fire Nation prince.

Author's Note: Written for an anonymous asker on Tumblr for my ten thousand words celebration after reaching ten thousand posts. More information for this AU can be found on my Tumblr at the tag: "#Prince Jet Rebel Leader Zuko": [Link].

Warnings: dark themes

Set in the same universe as Inosculation.

( The Sweetest Fruit, the Strongest Wood )

Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would have the money to donate to charity myself.

Summary: Toph may be the Avatar who took down Firelord Ozai, but she still has one element left to master.

Author's Note: Written for tumblr user daemonicblackcat as a reward for donating ten dollars to RAICES, a charity that aids immigrants and refugees coming to the US and are fighting Trump's crimes against humanity. They wanted a fic about either Toph or Zuko. You know how I keep saying I could have sworn I wrote a fic about Avatar Toph reluctant to study airbending? Well now I've written it. Other installments in this universe can be found at the tag, "#Earth Avatar Toph universe": [Link].

Warnings: None

( Bring the Sky Down to Earth )

Commentators: Michael Dante DiMartino, series co-creator and episode director, and Bryan Konietzko, series co-creator.

( Book II, Chapter 20, The Crossroads of Destiny )

Disclaimer: Yeah if I owned Avatar the Last Airbender, it wouldn't have a fandom.

Summary: In the Book of Esther, the King of Persia had another wife before her, killed for refusing him. Ozai did not kill Ursa, because she gave him what she wanted. After the war, she is the only person other than Mai, who knows what it’s like to be married to him, and the only one who also knows what it means to love his son.

Warnings: Past rape/current rape recovery and trauma, past suicide attempt discussed, forced pregnancy, stillbirth and grief related to it

Author's Note: Written for May Maiko Week 2019. Sequel to “The Gleaming Darkness”: [Link].

( Esther and Vashti )

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender. Please don't remind me of this fact. It makes me sad.

Summary: For six years, Ursa has worn the Blue Spirit mask as she has fought to bring justice to a Fire Nation ravaged by her former husband’s war machine. When the Order of the White Lotus receives word that her daughter is guarding the newly captured Avatar, she knows its her chance, to free the Avatar, and get her daughter back.

Author's Note: Written for Fire Nation Royal Family Week 2019. Part of the Blue Spirit Ursa universe: [Link].

Commentators: Michael Dante DiMartino, series co-creator, Bryan Konietzko, series co-creator, and Elsa Garagarza, background layout supervisor.

( Book II, Chapter 14, The City of Walls and Secrets )

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender. As we can see, this is a good thing.

Summary: Zuko found Mai in an Earth Kingdom village. He didn’t know what she was doing there until she stopped Zhao from killing him, with earthbending. And with her secrets stripped away, Mai has precious little time to decide whether to run.

Author's Note: Written for Fall Maiko Week 2018. Part of the Fire Avatar Mai universe: [Link].

Commentators: Michael Dante DiMartino, series co-creator, Joshua Hamilton, episode writer, and Giancarlo Volpe, episode director and storyboarder.

( Book II, Chapter 8, The Chase )

Commentators: Michael Dante DiMartino, series co-creator, Bryan Konietzko, series co-creator and Ethan Spaulding, Episode director and storyboarder.

( Book II, Chapter 6, The Blind Bandit )

Commentators: Michael Dante DiMartino, series co-creator, Bryan Konietzko, series co-creator, and Aaron Ehasz, series head writer.

( Book I, Chapter 19, The Siege of the North, Part One )

Commentators: Benjamin Wynn, sound designer, and Dee Bradley Baker, animal voices.

( Avatar: the Last Airbender DVD Commentary: Book I, Chapter 17, The Northern Air Temple )

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender. If I did, Katara and Mai would have had a lot more screentime together.

Summary: During the war, the only time Katara saw Mai was on the other side of a battlefield. But there’s no more war, and no more battlefield, and they’re both stumbling their way into a brand new world.

Author's Note: Written for Runrundoyourstuff, who won it in the Fandom Loves Puerto Rico charity auction. They wanted a story about Iroh and Zuko in this AU: [Link] in which Iroh is the Avatar.


( Find What You're Looking for (Standing Right Beside You) )

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender. If I did, there would be a a lot more Mai.

Summary: Princess Mai didn’t know which was more galling, the fact that she had fallen just short of becoming Earth Queen, or that she could be done away with so easily. Still, if she was to marry the Firelord, who was she to have a say?

Author's Note: Written for Fall Maiko Week 2017. Additional information about this universe can be found at my tumblr, where my screenname is Attackfish.

Reach this Moment

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender. If I did, there would be no dead mothers.

Summary: Ursa lets her secrets slip to Kya one by one, until the trickle becomes a flood.

Author's Note: Someday I will be able to fill a drabble request from avatarsymbolism.


( Meltwater )
 

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender. If I did there would have been a lot more boring politics

Summary: More than a hundred years before, when the Avatar disappeared, life began to ebb out of the world, plunging the world into chaos. With his return, hope and vitality returned, and with them, a mad rush for power by clan chieftains, eager to make kingdoms out of the ashes of the old order. In the old Fire Nation, two chieftains remain, Mai in the west, and Zuko in the east. Each awaits the day that the other will seek to claim all of the Fire Islands for themselves.

Author's Note: Written for Maiko Week 2016. Takes place in the Life Spirit AU. You can find a masterlist of commentfics and some meta about the 'verse here: [link] and some additional meta here: [link].


( Where the Morning Light Shines )

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender, for which we are all very grateful, I'm sure.

Summary: It was just before the winter solstice when Earth Kingdom soldiers captured the prince of the Fire Nation and his uncle, the Dragon of the West. It was the dead of winter when they were brought to Ba Sing Se.

Author's Note: Written for floranna for the hurricane Sandy auction. Thank you to aromantic-eight for beta reading. Any remaining errors are all mine.

( Until the Walls Break Like Waves: Part One )

Part Two

Written for the tumblr meme prompt, Mai, Steampunk.

Queen of Gears and Sorrow

Ty Lee cocked her head and looked at her sideways. Mai wondered if that made it easier or harder for Ty Lee to orient herself when looking at something, given that she was currently hanging upside down from a very ugly, very heavily reinforced iron chandelier. “What’s wrong?”

Even more disconcerting than hanging from assorted bits of architecture was Ty Lee’s gift for always knowing what Mai was feeling. In fact, Mai was tempted to go so far as to say it was the most disconcerting thing of all about Ty Lee, though it had remarkably stiff competition. Anyway, it meant there was no real point in denying it. “Some academy kid told me to tell my designer she’s amazed how realistic I am. Again.”

“That’s probably just because of where they saw you leaving from.” With a swing and a leap, Ty Lee descended to the floor, her feet alighting on the tile with flawless grace. “Don’t worry about it.”

That’s what Mai had told herself last time. They had probably seen her leaving her ancestral home, for a given value of ancestral, since families that had won their land in the conquest two generations back, and had only gained a title one generation ago, didn’t have ancestral anything no matter how grand. They had seen her leaving her ancestral home and now the home of the greatest clockwork inventor in the world. Yes, that was probably it, except: “I was leaving the tea shop.”

“Oh,” Ty Lee hummed, sympathetically. “Well if it helps, I’m pretty sure you’re real.” She wrapped her arms around Mai. “You feel real.” She squeezed. “Yep, I can feel your ribs.”

Mai squirmed. “You can feel my ribs crack.”

“Don’t be silly Mai,” Ty Lee chirped. “I’m not hugging you nearly hard enough to crack any bone in your body, including your ribs.”

Mai was pretty sure Ty Lee could tell her exactly how many pounds of pressure per square inch she was exerting, too. The six identical copies of Ty Lee in storage downstairs probably could too, and Mai had a sudden horrible vision of all of them hugging her.

Letting go, Ty Lee stepped back. “They’re idiots. You look perfectly human to me.”

“Thanks, Ty Lee.” She almost managed to keep the sarcasm out of her voice. Maybe next time she would succeed.

Ty Lee smiled as if she hadn’t noticed. “Like I said, don’t worry about it. Now, can you wind me up? I’m kind of at the end of my rope.”

Mai nodded as Ty Lee came forward and lifted up her braid. Deftly, Mai unbuttoned the little flap on Ty Lee’s jacket and pressed the key into the warm, living skin between her shoulder blades and turned. A shudder ran through Ty Lee’s body, her limbs curling tight into her body as if she really were made of the gears and springs she so skillfully manipulated. Her head bowed, and her braid flicked Mai’s arm, and when Mai was done, Ty Lee waited for her to button up her jacket flap before planting a quick peck on Mai’s cheek and darting away down toward her favorite workshop. Ty Lee was the greatest clockwork inventor in the world, and if she needed to pretend she was one of her own inventions sometimes, who was Mai to argue?

So during an *ahem* discussion of Azula and her abusiveness, I realized I have never sat down and written a comprehensive version of my particular theory of Azula's breakdown. I've talked about it in comment threads a lot, but I have never dedicated a post to it. So in response to a user on Tumblr who blogs under the name fireroyals, I wrote it up. I figured I should probably post it here The discussion this post is in reply to can be found at my tumblr [link].

( The Three Pillars Theory of Azula, or Ozai is Horrible, Azula is Scary (but also Scared), and I Will Hurt Anybody Who Claims Mai and Ty Lee Betrayed Azula )