The Return of the Prodigal Son - Eric Rimmington // The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) - Hannah Gamble // East, West - Salman Rushdie // Newsies Script - Harvey Fierstein // Watch What Happens - Newsies // Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong // Steve Blanchard and Kara Lindsay as Pulitzer and Katherine in Newsies // Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power - James McGrath Morris // Under the Burden of Misery - Teodor Axentowicz // Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet - Li-Young Lee // A Portrait of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou speaking to Bill Moyers
So sorry I took so long to answer, I was really busy with school work but here’s some background on this AU:
-After the volcanic explosion that killed Roku, Firelord Sozin sent out assassins in order to kill of the rest of his bloodline
-Ta Min took her young daughter, Rina and ran away to the small town of Hira’a where she ran into the Forgetful Valley and get into contact with the mythical Mother of Faces
-Instead Ta Min happens across the a different spirit who promises her and her children protection from Sozin, and Ta Min agrees almost immediately
-Ta Min settles down in Hira’a and the weeks pass peacefully, until she and Rina starts to go hungry and nothing she eats will sate the hunger
-Eventually Ta Min goes to visit the spirit again in which the spirit tells her that the price of protection is part of her (and her descendant’s) humanity, which in this case meant committing the sin of eating another person’s flesh
-That night very reluctantly Ta Min kills one of her neighbors to prepare for her and her daughter
-Rina grows up eating human flesh regularly, and later on marries Jinzuk, who at the time wasn’t aware of the families cannibalistic tendencies
-When Ursa and her older sister Asahi (new oc alert) are born, Rina and Ta Min pray that neither are cannibals, but unfortunately for them the curse still held strong
-Ursa and Asahi have a strained relationship with their grandmother as Ta Min starts to detach from reality and kills people excessively and returns home at odd hours of the night
-When Ursa is 19 Azulon tracks the family down and propositions the family (Asahi who is 23 is engaged to someone else)
-Ursa agrees, much to Ikem’s and Asahi’s protests and goes to live in the castle
A/N: The castle is a whole other can of worms. I'm too tired to articulate right now, but thanks for the ask! I had a lot of fun with this AU and this was the shove I needed to finally write it down, sorry again that it was late.