atla crack au where zuko and azula burn the palace down as kids (like 12 and 10, respectively, pre-banishment but post-grandpacide), run away to avoid consequences, and somehow end up "discreetly" living in the abandoned fire nation ship in the south pole ("discreetly" is a word which here means "all the adults know they're there bc they have massive arguments every other day, and when hakoda's nearby he "drops" things that might be useful")
ozai ends up blaming the palace fire on iroh and banishes him. he must capture the children to regain his honor (translator's note: this is adult speak for "get their asses back here so i can ground them for the rest of their lives")
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This might have already been asked but
Will Billy and Stu ever talk about what happened during THAT night (the killing spree) and how Billy almost killed Stu ?
Like I feel like Stu doesn’t hold any grudge against Billy for it but from what I remember Billy felt really guilty about it
Will he ever adress that ? Or pretend it never happened ?
If I’m wrong about Billy’s guilt then ignore me please 💀
Yeah so this sort of happened in the first few chapters of WoM! I'll discuss in more detail under the cut, just in case anyone wants to avoid spoilers
So basically this happens in the sex scene in Stu's room when Billy comes back.
Here it is from Stu's perspective in chapter 2 (or chapter 1 if you're me)
And here it is from Billy's perspective in chapter 3 (or chapter 2 if you're me)
When Billy says "I didn't mean to" that's a massive admission of guilt from him, it's basically an apology and that's why Stu reacts to it the way he does. Like realistically Billy should be able to actually apologize, actually say "hey I did this thing to you and I feel shitty about it", especially because that guilt is a big part of the reason Billy ran away, but he's not able to be vulnerable in that way.
Honestly there's a lot I think Billy feels guilty about with regards to Stu, but he subjugates it by rationalizing everything so he can blame things on Stu instead. It's why he lashes out when he has moments of realizing how attached he is to him, it's another kind of subjugation. So this moment of Billy admitting he didn't intend to hurt Stu like that is actually pretty big for him. He's admitting a mistake which isn't really a thing he does, ever.
There's another chapter later on where this will come up again, like this guilt is part of the reason knives won't come into play in the bedroom for a little while (sad, I know, but I promise they will come back). Even still, when it comes up again it's probably not going to be Billy saying "i feel bad about this thing, I'm sorry" because that's not the way he communicates. Its going to be stunted and indirect, but he will be doing his best.
And yeah you're right, Stu holds no grudge against him for this.
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Expanding on this extreme violent zones headcanon of mine. Warning for torture mentions, body horror and crimes against humanity.
So everybody is violent and deadly and in the zones where it’s every killjoy for themself, allies are hard to come by and friends, people you actually trust, are even harder. So if you have a crew, it’s ride or die. You’d do anything for your team and having one is proof that despite all your violence and the monstrous things you’ve done, you’re still human, you’re still capable of love and receiving it. Having a crew is Hope incarnate.
And the fabulous four are one of the tightness knit crews there is. They’re deadly and unparalleled in the sands but then in the safety of the diner, when they’re all out of danger for the night, they’re so domestic, gentle with each other, even. They’re a family.
But the thing is, while the desert may be a sin-stained wasteland, most killjoys still have some morals intact, still feet regret and grief and fear of the horrible things they have to do to survive. But in Battery City, there are no morals, no limits. They do things that make even the most messed up things the Fab Four have done look like child’s play. Dracs are expendable mindless zombies because they’re the spoils of human experimentation. Some can’t walk, they stumble through the desert on cheap prosthetic limbs, but they’re sent out anyway. The citizens have things in their heads that keep them in line. If someone acts out something inside them cuts out and they’ll drop dead where they stand. Androids are forced to do the dirty work whether they’re sentient or not. Some can think and dream but when it comes down to it they’re not in control of their own body, their limbs servants to programming no matter how advanced the circuits in their heads may be. Some have been stuck doing the same thing for years when they just want to live, but they have no control over their body and they must scream.
And Fun Ghoul, despite all his skills, was one day overpowered, captured and tortured within an inch of his life. There was a storehouse that was bugged and when they caught him on the surveillance feed they sent Korse to take care of him. He wasn’t taken back to Bat City, they did it right in that abandoned building they caught him in and when they were done with him they dragged him out into the blistering sunlight and left him there to bleed out, a meal for some passing scavenger.
The others were able to find him in time but in order to save his life, Jet Star had to do the very thing they swore they’d never do to a friend- tear him apart. And then put him back together again. When Fun Ghoul eventually woke up, he didn’t recognize himself. He was left with a stitched up, full ear to ear Glasgow smile that’s sure to leave a nasty scar, one blinded eye, a cybernetic leg from the left knee down, stitches all over from excessive lacerations and other little cybernetic parts to keep things inside him together.. and he had someone else’s lung and right arm.
Over time he made the best of his condition, owned his resemblance to something like Frankenstein’s monster, embraced it, even. But for a while he was in a stranger’s skin.
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