Title: Heart Break
Characters: Ozai/Ursa, Iroh
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400+
Summary: But love is a voice on the wind/and the wages of sin/and a tanglewood tree. -- "Tanglewood Tree"
Heart Break
***
"I do not want to see you again."
Of every blow Ursa had given him in this fight, that was the one that struck home. The one that cut the legs from under him and sent Ozai sinking to the ground. Blood dripped from his knuckles, from his cheek. His burned shoulders ached. He knew he didn't look much better than Ursa did - one eye swelling shut, and she kept spitting blood. She'd be black and blue in the morning.
But she was still standing, a
Title: Rebellion
Characters: Ozai, Kajizu (OC)
Word Count: 1200+
Rating: G
Summary: It is the Firelord's duty to deal with rebellion. The Seneschal reminds Ozai he doesn't have to do it personally.
"Guoyin rebels," Ozai mused. The city had only been conquered a handful of years before, and it had never settled easily under Fire Nation rule. No Earth Kingdom city did, no matter the propaganda. With the death of Azulon and the ascension of a new Firelord, rebellion had ignited in all of the newly-conquered provinces. His military forces stamped them out, but every new week seemed to bring another flurry of reports of spreading rebellion.
Title: Goldeneye
Characters: Liu/Ichiro, Yui, Kouji (OCs)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2600+
Summary: Ichiro's boyfriend isn't who he implies he is. That's all right, Ichiro isn't either.
Author's Notes: Ichiro, Kouji, and Yui belong to dark_puck and are used with her permission and encouragement.
"Interesting eyes you've got," the noodle-seller drawled. There was something in the set of the man's shoulders that told Ichiro the man had seen firebenders too close.
This was the Lower Ring of Ba Sing Se. Most people here had seen firebenders too close, even if too close was a week's march away. Refugees came to the Impenetrable City, and Ba Sin
Title: Siren Song
Characters: Jee, Nima (OC), Captain Sadao (OC), Zhia (OC), assorted nameless Fire Nation extras
Word Count: 3600+ words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Some fifteen years before the series, Nima follows Jee to sea on a voyage and finds she is the only one not enthralled by the singing coming from the sea.
Four years ago, Jee heard a woman singing in the middle of the wild woods. A sea chantey, of all the strange things. His partner had figured it for a spirit, and Jee still wasn't entirely convinced the man had been wrong.
That was back when he'd been Army; right before he'd stopped being Army, in fact. He and his partner curve
AtLA: A Little Help From My... by Chaos2112, literature
Literature
AtLA: A Little Help From My...
Title: A Little Help From My Friends
Characters: Mai, Naruzi (the warden of Boiling Rock), Zuko, Azula, Captain Mizao (OC)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 900+ words
Summary: After the Comet passes, Mai returns to the Capital and Zuko. But he's not the only loose end she needs to tie up.
Three days after the Comet departed, Uncle Naruzi gave Mai the key to the guest bedroom. She did not say a word to him, and he did not apologize to her. He had been following orders, after all, even if Azula had likely not intended such a comfortable house-arrest for her "traitorous" friend.
But Uncle Naruzi wouldn't leave his favorite (and only) niece in the Bo
Title: Assimilation
Characters: Mai, Sokka, Mai's parents, Uncle Naruzi, Azula, Ty Lee, Master Piandao, Fat, Zuko, Katara
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Dark themes in regards to cultural erasure.
Word Count: 2700+
Summary: Mai's father argues to the Firelord that the Water Tribesmen can be educated and made into proper sorts of people. So Azulon sees he gets a boy to prove this on.
When Mai was five, a new brother came to the house. He was dark-skinned like someone from the eastern islands. He had blue eyes, too, when all the rest of her family had pale gold eyes. Strangest of all, he was older than her.
She didn't think having a baby worked
Title: Strategy
Characters: Iroh, Ozai, Li, Lo
Word Count: 500+
Rating: G
Summary: Iroh plays pai sho with his little brother to teach him patience and strategy.
Author's Notes: Ozai is about sixteen-seventeen here. Iroh is about thirty-seven.
Steam curls from the tea cup, and Iroh lifts it to his mouth to inhale the scent. Jasmine tea, brewed just how he likes it. There is not even the faintest trace of smoke and ashes in its smell, not even a drop of blood.
It's good to be back in civilized lands where the war does not intrude.
A pai sho board sits between him and his little brother. They are halfway through the game, and Iroh knows
Title: Party Guests
Characters: Mai, Ty Lee, Li (OC), Zhukazu (OC), Azula
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2900+ words
Summary: The young man who attaches himself to Ty Lee at Azula's thirteenth birthday party is wrong, and Mai means to protect her friend from him.
"Mai!"
Mai raised her eyes from idle contemplation of the carpet to see Ty Lee waving her over. Her friend stood with a handsome young man, and they were both smiling at her. She frowned. There was a hunger in the young man's smile she didn't like. It wasn't quite the sort of a man who didn't realize she and Ty Lee did not come as a pair.
Unsettling.
She slipped through the crowd
Title: Flint
Characters: Jet, Lu Ten, Ozai, Zuko, Ursa, Azula, assorted unnamed Firefolk extras
Rating: G
Word Count: 2200+ words
Summary: Captain Mongke of the Rough Rhinos brings Prince Lu Ten an Earth boy. Lu Ten decides to keep him.
Hail, Crown Prince Iroh, Dragon of the West, Scourge of the Earth Kingdom, Conqueror of Guoyin, Dragon-Slayer, Son of Fire and Flame,
Tell me when you get to be Firelord I can just call you Firelord in these letters, Dad. I know you'll be lying, but tell it to me anyway.
Also, tell me I can't strangle my Chief of Staff for insisting I maintain all formality. The fact that there are very good reasons to
Title: Heart Break
Characters: Ozai/Ursa, Iroh
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400+
Summary: But love is a voice on the wind/and the wages of sin/and a tanglewood tree. -- "Tanglewood Tree"
Heart Break
***
"I do not want to see you again."
Of every blow Ursa had given him in this fight, that was the one that struck home. The one that cut the legs from under him and sent Ozai sinking to the ground. Blood dripped from his knuckles, from his cheek. His burned shoulders ached. He knew he didn't look much better than Ursa did - one eye swelling shut, and she kept spitting blood. She'd be black and blue in the morning.
But she was still standing, a
Title: Rebellion
Characters: Ozai, Kajizu (OC)
Word Count: 1200+
Rating: G
Summary: It is the Firelord's duty to deal with rebellion. The Seneschal reminds Ozai he doesn't have to do it personally.
"Guoyin rebels," Ozai mused. The city had only been conquered a handful of years before, and it had never settled easily under Fire Nation rule. No Earth Kingdom city did, no matter the propaganda. With the death of Azulon and the ascension of a new Firelord, rebellion had ignited in all of the newly-conquered provinces. His military forces stamped them out, but every new week seemed to bring another flurry of reports of spreading rebellion.
Title: Goldeneye
Characters: Liu/Ichiro, Yui, Kouji (OCs)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2600+
Summary: Ichiro's boyfriend isn't who he implies he is. That's all right, Ichiro isn't either.
Author's Notes: Ichiro, Kouji, and Yui belong to dark_puck and are used with her permission and encouragement.
"Interesting eyes you've got," the noodle-seller drawled. There was something in the set of the man's shoulders that told Ichiro the man had seen firebenders too close.
This was the Lower Ring of Ba Sing Se. Most people here had seen firebenders too close, even if too close was a week's march away. Refugees came to the Impenetrable City, and Ba Sin
Title: Siren Song
Characters: Jee, Nima (OC), Captain Sadao (OC), Zhia (OC), assorted nameless Fire Nation extras
Word Count: 3600+ words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Some fifteen years before the series, Nima follows Jee to sea on a voyage and finds she is the only one not enthralled by the singing coming from the sea.
Four years ago, Jee heard a woman singing in the middle of the wild woods. A sea chantey, of all the strange things. His partner had figured it for a spirit, and Jee still wasn't entirely convinced the man had been wrong.
That was back when he'd been Army; right before he'd stopped being Army, in fact. He and his partner curve
AtLA: A Little Help From My... by Chaos2112, literature
Literature
AtLA: A Little Help From My...
Title: A Little Help From My Friends
Characters: Mai, Naruzi (the warden of Boiling Rock), Zuko, Azula, Captain Mizao (OC)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 900+ words
Summary: After the Comet passes, Mai returns to the Capital and Zuko. But he's not the only loose end she needs to tie up.
Three days after the Comet departed, Uncle Naruzi gave Mai the key to the guest bedroom. She did not say a word to him, and he did not apologize to her. He had been following orders, after all, even if Azula had likely not intended such a comfortable house-arrest for her "traitorous" friend.
But Uncle Naruzi wouldn't leave his favorite (and only) niece in the Bo
Title: Assimilation
Characters: Mai, Sokka, Mai's parents, Uncle Naruzi, Azula, Ty Lee, Master Piandao, Fat, Zuko, Katara
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Dark themes in regards to cultural erasure.
Word Count: 2700+
Summary: Mai's father argues to the Firelord that the Water Tribesmen can be educated and made into proper sorts of people. So Azulon sees he gets a boy to prove this on.
When Mai was five, a new brother came to the house. He was dark-skinned like someone from the eastern islands. He had blue eyes, too, when all the rest of her family had pale gold eyes. Strangest of all, he was older than her.
She didn't think having a baby worked
Title: Strategy
Characters: Iroh, Ozai, Li, Lo
Word Count: 500+
Rating: G
Summary: Iroh plays pai sho with his little brother to teach him patience and strategy.
Author's Notes: Ozai is about sixteen-seventeen here. Iroh is about thirty-seven.
Steam curls from the tea cup, and Iroh lifts it to his mouth to inhale the scent. Jasmine tea, brewed just how he likes it. There is not even the faintest trace of smoke and ashes in its smell, not even a drop of blood.
It's good to be back in civilized lands where the war does not intrude.
A pai sho board sits between him and his little brother. They are halfway through the game, and Iroh knows
Title: Party Guests
Characters: Mai, Ty Lee, Li (OC), Zhukazu (OC), Azula
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2900+ words
Summary: The young man who attaches himself to Ty Lee at Azula's thirteenth birthday party is wrong, and Mai means to protect her friend from him.
"Mai!"
Mai raised her eyes from idle contemplation of the carpet to see Ty Lee waving her over. Her friend stood with a handsome young man, and they were both smiling at her. She frowned. There was a hunger in the young man's smile she didn't like. It wasn't quite the sort of a man who didn't realize she and Ty Lee did not come as a pair.
Unsettling.
She slipped through the crowd
Title: Flint
Characters: Jet, Lu Ten, Ozai, Zuko, Ursa, Azula, assorted unnamed Firefolk extras
Rating: G
Word Count: 2200+ words
Summary: Captain Mongke of the Rough Rhinos brings Prince Lu Ten an Earth boy. Lu Ten decides to keep him.
Hail, Crown Prince Iroh, Dragon of the West, Scourge of the Earth Kingdom, Conqueror of Guoyin, Dragon-Slayer, Son of Fire and Flame,
Tell me when you get to be Firelord I can just call you Firelord in these letters, Dad. I know you'll be lying, but tell it to me anyway.
Also, tell me I can't strangle my Chief of Staff for insisting I maintain all formality. The fact that there are very good reasons to
Been keeping busy with depression, games, and writing. I've also been doing a major clean-out of my dA inbox. Seriously, guys, I'm down to less than seven thousand messages! :D (For reference, I had over ten thousand before I started this.)
Poking around my gallery makes me want to finish reinstalling my 3D stuff and do more work on that. Even if my models are two generations behind the current set.
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