Demon'Verse, Round Two

[beckyh2112]

Now that I've got a better idea of the history, I can take more free-ranging prompts. Plus I've got some surprises tucked away that I want a chance to spring on people.

Two requests, four to suzukiblu, dark_puck, spyridona, gigabomb, and floranna. I reserve the right to fill one and call it done. If I don't like a prompt, I'm just going to skip it entirely.

Have at.

MEME IS CLOSED.

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Zuko, trying to make friends

[beckyh2112]

It's not until Zuko is nine that he realizes Colonel Kazuro is the Firelord's eldest son. Only son. Uncle has had other children, but they never seem to live long. Little Tian is the only other one of Uncle's children Zuko knows of still alive, and she is sick and pale almost all the time. In the winter, she coughs and coughs.

It makes Azula snicker.

Kazuro is twice Zuko's age and never around. But the winter Zuko turns nine, Tian does not cough so much or so hard as she usually does.

Sometimes in the night that winter, Zuko wakes up to hear the rustle of leathery wings and lowered voice. Father, he thinks, and lets the talk wash over him, half-heard and barely-remembered scraps of conversation about the Ministry of Epidemics, favors called in, and how much Father loves Mother to do this for her

Re: Zuko, trying to make friends

[floranna]

Heartbreaking. I put a really big weught on friendship and the thought of not having friends is one which always breaks me a little, was it in fiction or rl. He and Azula were truly alone in Fire Nation.