#aang and tenzin have a moment 🥺

[nerdycanible1]

I feel like when Tenzin was younger, he couldn't control his temper and it made him even more mad. Katara couldn't get through to him all before Aang said he'd give it a try.

He sat Tenzin down, listen to all his anger before he admitted that he's angry because Air Nomads are calm and surreal. "How could I be an Air Nomad when I can't even keep my temper under control?!"

Aang gave him a soft smile before telling him a story about his youth. "Well, if a certain Waterbender didn't explode, I'd still probably be in that iceberg. And if I was still in that iceberg than I wouldn't be here now, with a certain explosive Airbender."

Tenzin blushed before he hugged his father, feeling somewhat happy about his story. 🥺

Just thoughts I had :P

[risingsoleil]

Choices, Chances, Changes: 2, 11, and 12, please! :3

Hello gorgeous! 🤩😘 thank u for the ask!

2. What scene did you first put down?

There were four scenes I always knew were going to be included, and they remained unchanged once it got published:

Lin returning to canon and breaking down when Tenzin asks her about the other world

AU Lin showing Tenzin the family photos

Lin asking Tenzin about her alternate self and learning how the kids were the ones who helped her overcome some core traumas

Lin writing letters to the alternate kids and Aang delivering it to them 🥺 and she doesn’t know if they got it or not

Damn why are they all emotional ones too 😭

11. What do you like best about this fic?

Hard to answer this one haha bc what I love most is Linzin finding out/interacting with a world that answers all the what-ifs if they had stayed together. On top of that, this alternate world gives them everything they wanted ( I made AU world like that 😂) and it teaches them how beautiful life can turn out when you live life for yourself.

There’s so much that happens that I personally enjoyed like Tenzin mentally beating the shit out of himself lol and Lin flaming Pema every time she saw her 🤣 that became one of my fav parts bc we know that canon Lin wouldn’t have gone off on the snake Pema. But AU Lin? Oh, she knows Tenzin is rock hard for her, even if Pema is standing next to him. Spoiler: I’m already working on the next Pema vs Lin piece as one of the oneshots 🤪

The kids loving Lin despite her abrasive behaviors also gave me the feels. Lin learns that she does have the potential to be an amazing mother and her alternate kids are proof of that. The moment Lin watched them all die in front of her was beautifully, painfully heart wrenching for me. But bc of it, she learns that her fear of opening up and loving them was more harmful. That climax for her journey and the aftermath with the girls was prob my fav arc in general.

12. What do you like least about this fic?

I wish AU Lin had been a bit harder on Tenzin in canon, and made it more of a challenge for him to work for her. But I think she was softer in this situation bc he’s literally the only person she truly knows in this world—she’s alone without her family. Even if this version of Tenzin is a mf dumbass, Lin still finds comfort in him. Also fair enough, she has no idea what canon version of herself went through although she can imagine it.

I also wish I did a bit more with Kya, Bumi, and Katara. I know they weren’t the main “stars” of the fic, but I think they could have done more or I wish I had better ideas on how to execute their interactions in the story.

Finally, this is in general with my AU but I really need to give more love to Jin lol I neglect him so much as the author, but he’s def loved and cared for by Linzin ❤️ so I’ll be fleshing him out more esp bc he’s actually really close to Lin (even tho I hardly showed it 😭)

[ohmygodtheywereparabatai]

A [gay ass] Thought

Ever have three simultaneous epiphanies about the new rarepair you’ve latched onto? Fun, right?!!

(Please disregard if Zhao/Aang “Zhaang” isn’t in your circles of interest, this isn’t really intended for an audience… ya Ray trying to blow off steam by writing.. rough day 😮‍💨)

ephifancy 1. The moment Korra’s airbending kicks in

Why this one? Well, Tenzin establishes her weak point as a lack of spiritual understanding ~ making airbending her weakest element. So it’s curious that it should come sweeping in as a blow of brute force all the same, knocking Amon off his feet and freeing Mako from his grip.

The slow-mo toss of her arm is something, but the way she shouts “No!” as if she’s about to lose someone very important to her…? Maybe a similar moment was what defined Aang’s airbending in a form stripped of all grace and subtlety ~

Probably not out of worry for anyone in the Gaang, since they’re more than capable of fending off the enemy… but a hapless, blundering idiot dragged out of the Fog of Lost Souls? Aang’s job is to worry. That shared instant of don’t take him from me could be what finally bridges Korra’s airbending with that of the last airbender. (yes, him. played the pronoun card 😏)

epfefenee 2. Aang’s kids… are kinda messed up

RIP. Sacrificing (let’s say.. slightly altering) the tale of a hardworking father trying his best to balance the world along with his family for Aangst ✨

First you have Tenzin, whose memory of spending quality time with his siblings is sorely inaccurate, specifically called “foggy” (hint hint wink wink winkity hint hinty wiNK WINK—) by Kya.

Now, Tenzin may be getting on in years, but before that instance he’s never shown less than a timely, well-oiled aptitude… which can only mean this stemmed from someplace offscreen, and the answer is even rounded to his early childhood. In Aang’s (deserved, yet harmful, as the show tells us) devotion to teaching his only inclined son the ways of a lost culture… could he have thought ‘oh, two birds with one stone’ and taken Tenzin with him on premature journeys into the less idyllic spirit world? Prisons and vicious cycles of punishment, AKA Zhao’s casa - leaving him the high-strung, overbearing, questionably retentive man seen in Book One. Foggy memory indeed… and poor guy :( Aang bby the bad decision-making is rubbing off on you

*Tenzin also does exceptionally well in the Fog of Lost Souls compared to the others. A sign of some classic Mithridatism behind the scenes?

- Then you have Bumi, the man of Wild Stories with questionable credibility… but how unlikely are these stories, really, seeing the sort of happenings and creatures that inhabit the spirit world?

Could Aang have lugged two children along while he was seeing Zhao, giving Bumi that teensy spiritual push to receiving airbending later on? From his arch nemesis the shark-squid to his traumatizing brush with cannibals, not to mention the impossible escapes with silly means ~ they come off as the result of an overactive imagination, real plight bearing visible scars, or a disturbing mix of both.

- Kya… Good news! I’ll leave her alone. I guess she got away - the gays win! Likewise to Aang’s passion for raising an airbending child after a hundred-year upset, Katara would delight in teaching a spunky water girl after growing up alone in her tribe. Not as much time with Daddy; safer with Mommy! (Unless I come back to this tyke later… :3)

efishinthesea 3. Korra’s personality

This one is purely my baby… but Aang resonating so closely with Zhao that his reincarnation adopts most, if not all, of his traits and character?

🥺

Oh, how could I even begin to elaborate without melting into an incoherent puddle of rainbows?

You get it, don’t you guys? Spirit-y logic that I can’t physically synthesize when the keys are blurring with my happy tears? Two men connecting in the afterlife, navigating tough roadblocks, finding each other over and over again as their emptiness is fulfilled in ways they could have never imagined? When they finally pass on, finding rest as simple as each other’s company?

Leaving fingerprints on souls, borrowing and receiving energy in a friendship or love like the most wholesome alchemy… eventually building up to an imprint that revives itself in ~ as - Aang’s next life? Like Zhao finally gets his second chance.