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Weirdlet ([personal profile] weirdlet) wrote2009-12-03 11:24 pm
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Open Meme

I'm in a creative mood. So- this here is an open Avatar: the Last Airbender meme. Post up to three- I'll promise one.

Since this is wide-open, please give me a specific to work off of- a line, a quote, a nebulous verb, something. Just a pairing does not count.

(And just as a note- the Dragon Hatching AU meme is still open, if anyone's interested!)

Edit- Meme is closed.
I will fill out at least one of everyone's prompts, and more if circumstance permits. Thank you all for your patience, your comments, and the fun you've given me^^

Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-06 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They drink outside Zura’s cabin, after she checks to make sure her daughter is sleeping. Mao looks over her shoulder, and doesn’t quite know what to think. She’s about the size of his little brother, and he knows that in a few years he might have been expected to produce one or two of his own. It doesn’t make it any easier to imagine Zura with a baby, even with everything that’s happened, even with it right in front of him, dozing in a tiny hammock.

That mad protective streak that flares up when she touches the blanket, though- that fits. He thinks he can start to reassemble the picture of his exiled first-love-come-home from there.

They talk in low voices, in fits and spurts, avoiding the raw spots as best they can- it doesn’t keep them from stumbling on them headlong.

“You know people will talk about us if we’re all over each other when we get home.” He’s level-voiced as ever, as if he’s talking about potaturnips for dinner.

“Let them.” The reply is short and harsh, and Zura buries anything further in her teacup.

“Is that any good for Lan Min?”

She looks up at him, her good eye blank, her bad eye glaring.

“It’s gotta be better than the truth,” she finally allows, looking at the floor. The silence fills the air between them for a while, a heavy bubble growing slowly larger until Mao pokes it, more hesitantly than he’s ever thrown his needles or his knives.

“…what is the truth?”

A laugh bubbles up in her, something half-hysterical and more than a little like a sob. “I don’t know,” she says, running her fingers through her ragged, tufted hair. “Even now- I just couldn’t tell you, because I don’t know. It could be either. It could be anyone, if they were stupid enough.” Or unlucky enough to get caught in Azulon’s little games.

Mao bows his head, mouth in a straight line and eyes hidden. Zura doesn’t know if it’s from her pain or his.

She looks at the moon out the porthole, and shakes her head, setting down her teacup.

“It doesn’t matter. I traded a kingdom’s-“ Uncle’s- “freedom for her- if I have to bring down the walls of Ba Sing Se again by hand, I’ll do it. If anyone asks, I’ll say she’s the true-born Son of the Sun and anyone who says otherwise is blaspheming.”

It really doesn’t matter. The Avatar is defeated. She’s on a ship bound for home. The moon is still here. She is still here, or here again, even after a night when the world went from red to black and only the death of a princess could have restored her.

Anything is possible.

If she has to, she’ll make it happen.

Re: Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, now you have done all my prompts. Very well, too.

I have a weird way of liking/hating Mai, I hate how they treated her and Zuko's romance in canon but I love reading them in fandom. This makes me giddy, jealous!Mao is one of my favourites. And the moon...

Re: Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I like Mai, and I like her and Zuko- I love Avatar, but like just about every show I've ever been a fan of, there's some things that are better-handled in fandom where you've got room to spread out from the backbone they give you.

^^ Thank you. If you have any more notions for this one, by all means, send'em along.

Re: Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
You mean, new prompts?

I am still a Zytarian, but I like Maiko also and that's mainly because of the fandom writers I have read. There was a time when I didn't like it. Never hated it, though.

Re: Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
*nod* I'm enjoying this AU- no push if there's nothing else, just if there is, I would like the opportunity.

Re: Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You kidding? I have more than you could probably expect!

Lan Min creating havoc and mischief at western Air Temple.

Lan Min hates water tribe food.

Lan Min and Toph and/or Duke bond.

Ursa meets Lan Min.

How Jet treats Zura and Lan Min in the ferry or in the Ba Sing Se.

Lan Min Hates Water-Tribe Food

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
“Come ooon… it’s just a little blubber, you’ll like it!”

The kid sticks her tongue out, declining the bland, salty chunks that Sokka’s trying to spoon into her. He can’t believe that they’ve staged a repeat of the Omashu incident, and after the biggest baddest assault on the Fire Nation attempted in living memory. Not only that, but Katara, in all her unfailing motherliness, is not in the mood right now- and so it’s falling to him to keep the little Fire Nation baby out of trouble.

He doesn’t want to broach the subject with her- he’s honestly afraid of the answer he’ll get (something along the lines of 'stop wasting our supplies on the enemy!' is his first bet, and one he doesn't want to win). But, no time for that now, here comes the war-balloon…

“Do you want me to chew it for you? I warn you, there’ll be nothing leeeeeft…” he teases. The little girl’s glower as she sits with crossed arms upon his knee says plainly that he can have it, and there’s something kinda familiar about that pout…

Re: Lan Min Hates Water-Tribe Food

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
I noticed this just now. I have a feeling that there is a furious, dangerous and worried as hell mom coming to them.

I can't stop giggling.

Re: Lan Min Hates Water-Tribe Food

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hee hee. There's plans afoot...

I've also got a half-baked notion brewing for Lan Min's birth, whenever I get around to it.

Re: Lan Min Hates Water-Tribe Food

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
And that's also one of the prompts I haven't yet dared to give. Squee!

Re: Lan Min Hates Water-Tribe Food

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
^^ by all means, I need a catalyst.

Re: Lan Min Hates Water-Tribe Food

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my God, when Zura catches up to them, there will be fresh Avatar and Sokka steaks on the barbecue. LMAO! I want to see that, actually.

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Some of these I've got in my head, but they need to percolate a little more. Got any more, perhaps earlier on?

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Muahhahhahaa.

Zhao and Zura's...interactions. At any time you want, but Zhao being Zhao and Zura exploding are very much wanted. ^^

The happening's at Lee's village, how did those go?

Where was Lan Min when Zura's ship exploded?

And what happened to her in Avatar State.

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Heehee. I was just thinking about Zhao and Zura today.

“Is this because of how we met? Look, the sea was rough, the food was off, and I was five months pregnant. I paid the cleaning bill. What more do you want?”

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I was wondering, um, and it's okay of you say no, but um, I know this meme is closed, but I was wondering if other people could add prompts to this AU, or if that was Floranna's prerogative.

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I would say it would be polite to ask her; I'm the one writing but she chucked me the idea. *I* don't mind if you put suggestions up in the "This-AU-Needs-A-Name" index post at the top of my journal. It's not a meme proper, just a gathering of the ficbits.

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Weirdlet has given us permission to post prompts for this AU if we have your permission. Can I please?

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
I already answered to her but I'll stilla nswer to you: It's completely okay!

[identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Floranna? Is it okay with you if Attackfish puts up some suggestions for this AU?

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Egad, timing.

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Completely. I would love that!

[identity profile] weirdlet.livejournal.com 2009-12-14 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome-sauce^^

Re: Questions About Lan Min's Father- Zura Reacts 2/2

[identity profile] floranna.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and the time after banishment but before giving birth, Zura panics.