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It is time to balance my meme karma, since I've been abusing both suzukiblu and banditjoeykuba's awesomeness lately.
So I will be writing anything Avatar, Transformers: Deadzone, or Transformers: Animated in the comments. Including any AU I've babbled at you about. Or any AU you can think of. Or anything involving my OCs. (I will only write other people's OCs with their ( Read more... )
So I will be writing anything Avatar, Transformers: Deadzone, or Transformers: Animated in the comments. Including any AU I've babbled at you about. Or any AU you can think of. Or anything involving my OCs. (I will only write other people's OCs with their ( Read more... )
Evil Water Tribe-verse: Ozai & Lu Ten in the immediate aftermath of a battle
Evil Water Tribe-verse: The Fire Nation royal family at one of the(presumably rare) times when everyone is actually present (eating dinner, maybe?)
Canon: Long Feng & Hyo trying to put things back together in Ba Sing Se after the war
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This was so, so good and so exactly what I wanted, displaying Ozai in all his fucked-up, broken glory and the strangeness and depths of his relationship with Lu Ten (which was very sweet, in a disturbing way). Thank you so much for writing this.
Sorry about my icon, though. It's actually the only Avatar one I have.
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I am so glad you enjoyed it! It was a bit wrenching to write, finding the right balance between Ozai as extremely effective killing machine and very, very broken man. Also, Lu Ten pretty much has to be made up out of whole-cloth. Poor men.
Is no problem. I like me some Azula. *scritches 'zuli*
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Someone obviously did take care of his hair, and knowing her son, it wasn't Lu Ten. Which left Ozai's rogue Air Nomad, and she didn't find that surprising. The rogues all styled and treated their hair with great care, even more than the care they showed to the henna patterns on their hands.
Hairbrushing was soothing, and Azula had decided that as a thirteen-year-old princess, she was much too old for her aunt to brush her hair. Her hair should only be done by maids or her own hands. Or her mother's hands, Zolena thought but did not say when Azula informed her of this ( ... )
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I'm curious as to how Zuko got his scar in this universe, though it seems like something you'll explore later so I won't ask. But another thing I'm curious about is this line: Between that and Azula, losing his mother and gaining his scar, Zuko always struck Zolena as so ( ... )
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Zolena is in on Ozai being a firebender, for various important reasons we'll get into when it comes time to cover how Iroh became the Firelord. Zuko's scar will also be covered later on in the story-arc I've got planned. (I just need to actually advance said story-arc, but that won't be for a bit yet. Still debating doing one last "pre-series" fic with the rogue Air Nomads and the Fire Nation royals before starting on "Taken at the Flood".)
It hasn't come up yet because we haven't dealt with her much, but LaS!Azula isn't hugely different from normalverse!Azula. She and Zuko still have a somewhat painful rivalry going on.
You're welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
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Both of those stories sound like very interesting ones, and I'm totally for you doing one last "pre-series" fic featuring the rogue Air Nomads and the Fire Nation royals, if only because I love how they interact.
Well, that makes sense. Hell, in a war-torn 'verse like Lightning at Sea, her violent tendencies are probably even more encouraged (and not even just solely by Ozai, or by Ozai at all, really, seeing as he doesn't seem to know his children very well in this verse).
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Also, doing another "pre-series" fic means I get to introduce Jee and Nima! And Jae Hwa and Tashi! *is very excitable about getting to introduce characters, okay?* But first, I have a chapter to finish for another fic, and I am babbling.
I figure it also sharpened her paranoid tendencies. (Ozai... has issues. Many, many issues. I'm not sure I'll ever get to go into them all, because while LaS has more of the adults than the 'toon, it's still about the kids.)
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I see she's quite the motherly type herself. I've always seen that in my mind's eye, though my headcanon of Iroh's wife didn't have her as wise as Zolena is and didn't like Ozai one bit. I remember you mentioning this name in one of your comments and I kept wondering who it was. I really like the motherly and simple method of brushing Ozai's hair and just being so... so maternal. *Loves seeing how other characters are seen by different people.*
Poor LaS!Ozai, he strikes me as such a wounded animal with a good measure of autism thrown in. And oddly, he's less of a danger to his children in here than he is in regular canon.
Very, very simple but sweet piece, it's heart breaking.
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My Zolena likes Ozai in normal'verse, but a lot of that is she watched him grow up. After all, she and Iroh were married not too many years after Ozai was born, and her own son is only five years younger than Ozai.
LaS!Ozai... Mmmm. He's broken in some very fundamental ways.
"I was raised apart, publicly touted as a sickly child so my father would have an excuse for why people rarely saw me. Everyone believed it, because they also said I did not firebend ( ... )
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Though I do see Ozai befriending a Lu Ten that's closer to his age than one MUCH younger than he is. That's the case with my shared headcanon. An older Ozai was too resentful of a younger next-to-be-crown prince to ever befriend him.
Zuko, though, ADORED Lu Ten.
*Wibble. Gets LaS!Ozai chicken soup.* It's confirmed, Azulon's a bastard no matter what you do with him.
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Yeah, my Ozai and Lu Ten are BFFs. Well, as much as they can be, which is quite a lot more than Ozai is with hardly any other of the characters I've thrown him with. (Though there is Geming, who cannot smack Ozai when Ozai is being stupid unlike Lu Ten, but whom Ozai will listen to more than he will to Lu Ten. But this is only interesting when I actually write something with Geming in it.)
Yeah, Azulon is a bastard. *cuddles LaS!Ozai because human contact makes him much more functional and happy*
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