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5 prompts for an AU where Azula is a non-bender? (still a fire nation princess tho)

This is from may benders and nonbenders swap. Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

It all starts to fall apart for Azula when Mai and Ty Lee turn against her at the Boiling Rock. What can she do? They are the secret to her ability to be able to pretend to be a firebender. They know too much, and they are too necessary to her, so she has them dragged back to the palace and locked up, until they've reconsidered their folly. As she starts slipping, her father makes plans to burn the Earth Kingdom to ash on her suggestion. She almost holds it together, until he leaves without her.

Then Zuko shows up, and tells her he wants to fight an Agni Kai. She laughs at him. He's a nonbender. Well so is she, he retorts. Mai and Ty Lee are there behind her in the shadows. Will she pretend to bend while they bend for her? he asks. Will they bend for her? Before she knows it, Mai and Ty Lee have turned on her again.

There is a terrible twisted irony to Azula's life. She spent so long learning how to pretend to fight that she never learned how to really fight, and without Mai and Ty Lee, she is helpless when confronted by her brother's swords. It's the work of a moment for the waterbender who came with Zuko to chain her up. There is nothing she can do but scream her rage.

It doesn't surprise her at all that the only thing her brother can think to do with her is lock her away, where no one can see what an embarrassment she really is.

So when Zuko lets Azula out of prison to help him find their mother, she finds her secret out, Mai and Ty Lee completely outside of her control, and Zuko an actual firebender. It feels like a sick joke the universe is playing just on her.

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5hc for an Ocean Spirit Katara AU? (Like in the same sense that yue was blessed by the moon spirit?) I can’t remember if you have one for that or not, but it’s a favorite premise of mine

I don't. The closest I have is a Katara-Yue role swap, where Katara becomea the moon. So you get a whole new AU.

1. Katara is born silent, eyes closed, not crying. Her chest barely rises and falls. This happens. Some babes are born only to die. There is nothing to be done. It has happened as long as children have been born. Nothing to be done? hisses Kanna as her son and his wife weep, caught between the exhaustion of birth, and the grief of losing a child they will never get to know? Nothing to be done? She takes the baby from her son's wife and carries her to the frigid ocean. She dips her in the water and begs. There is no oasis here, no koi, but surely the Ocean Spirit is in the ocean. Ocean, give her granddaughter the strength to live.

2. Katara's eyes open, and her mouth opens to wail. Her dark brown hair turns a bright watery blue. Kanna wraps her granddaughter up tight, and holds ber close to keep her warm, and carries her back to her parents.

3. Little Katara grows up, bright, strong, and a waterbender, the only waterbender at the south pole. She is in all ways a normal little girl, and a loving sister and daughter, but to the people of her village, she is a miracle child, saved by the spirits themselves, and marked by them too. Sokka, in the face of this, struggles fo be seen, to be noticed, not by his parents, but by everyone else. It galls, to be known as Katara's brother, when Katara is just his annoying little sister with weird water powers and weird blue hair. Sorry Sokka, your sister is an anime protagonist, and you got to learn to live with it.

4. Then their mother dies, ans their father leaves and they find the Avatar, and leave on adventure, and it's all big and new, and Katara has to cover her hair to keep it from being noticed, and they're chased by Zhao and Zuko, and they make all the way north, and Katara has to fight to learn waterbending, but finally, finally they make it, and she gets to learn.

5. And then Zhao attacks the Northern Water Tribe fortress, and marches to the Spirit Oasis to kill the moon, and he... kills the wrong fish. The ocean draws back as if there is about to be a tsunami, but the water just keeps drawing back, exposing the deep dark parts of the sea that have never seen the sun, and Katara, blessed by the ocean itself, knows what she has to do.

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Can you do more of the Lu Ten back from the dead AU?

That describes more than one AU of mine, so I have chosen the one where Zuko is brainwashed by the Dai Li, and while under Lake Laogai, finds his cousin. Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

Aang wakes up, with, what must be said, is perfect, and perfectly awful, timing. Lu Ten is just about to make his escape, when the Avatar opens his eyes and starts having a freak out about being on a Fire Nation ship, and about how he failed to save Ba Sing Se from being conquered by Azula (Azula? His little cousin, Azula? That Azula? Conquered Ba Sing Se?) So of course Lu Ten does what all good little Fire Princes do, and tries to follow him, because that's the Avatar! He should capture him and take him home to the Fire Nation, and come out of his captivity covered in glory! His father and grandfather will be so proud.

So of course when Aang ends up stuck on some driftwood and washed ashore by the kindly Moon Spirit, Lu Ten ends up washed up, half drowned, on the beach with him. And he's still half drowned and wondering if he really saw the Moon Spirit, or just hallucinated that bit, when the Avatar's friends show up. After the hugs and reassurances, the question quickly becomes what to do with Lu Ten. The problem of course is several fold. 1) he is a danger, because he just tried to pull a Zuko and kidnap Aang. 2) He was pretty useless about it. Zuko could have done better in his sleep. This shows that Lu Ten is still kind if not fully with it, and kind of needs to be taken care of. 3) And Lu Ten's dad is in prison for helping them-

Wait what? His dad is in prison for helping the Avatar and a bunch of teenage enemies of the Fire Nation? His cousin Azula, who last he checked was eight, conquered Ba Sing Se? His cousin Zuko, who is ten, which is, he supposes, not much younger than the twelve year old Avatar, but still ("I'm pretty sure I'm thirteen now, actually, I mean dates are weird with the whole being frozen for a hundred years thing, but...") is not only trying to kidnap the Avatar on the regular, but is apparently doing pretty well at it ("uh, we wouldn't go that far... Also Zuko's sixteen, and Azula's like, fourteen, we think? It's not like she told us.") Oh okay, Zuko is sixteen. He was captive for six years? Six years? Oh. Oh okay. Okay. Wait, who had his dad imprisoned? What do you mean Firelord Ozai? How did Uncle Ozai become firelord if his dad is still alive?

What the Avatar and his companions tell him is confused and disjointed, but what what explaination he does get paints a bleak picture, especially when they tell him that both his father and his cousin said that Ozai, and/or Azula would probably kill him if they found out he was alive. Lu Ten has no idea what to do, and finds himself trailing along after a bunch of teenagers ("Toph's twelve") by default. And when one of those teenagers ends up being dragged off to school, and then getting in trouble at said school, and having to have a parent teacher conference, Lu Ten is the only adult in reach. He works out in his head how much older he would be than his supposed son. If the Avatar is thirteen, and Zuko is sixteen, and Zuko was born when LunTen was ten, he would have been a father at thirteen himself.

Fortunately for everyone involved, six (it's six, right? Wow.) years of captivity have aged Lu Ten beyond what is expected, and he looks far beyond his twenty-six years, old enough to pass as Aang's father. He does his best with stolen clothes and his reflection in a pool of water in the cave they've been hiding in. The Dai Li kept his head shaved, and it's only had a little time to grow out into a spiky fuzz all over his head. He looks like a disgrace, his topknot shorn, the delinquent father of a delinquent son. But it's the best he can do. He isn't exactly surprised when the principal threatens his "son" with being sent to the coal mines. He also doesn't believe a word of it.

After Aang holds his little dance party, amd they all have to run out of town, he finds himself on the road with a pack of children, and is baffled by how many "adventures they find themselves in, impersonating spirits (a Fire Nation town shouldn't be in this kind of squallor!), getting taught by Piandao (who Lu Ten stays well away from, since Piandao could recognize him), dodging assassins, and running into secret waterbending blood witches. That last one was horrifying in so many different ways. She wanted... She tried to kill him. She tried to force the others to kill him. She... Was, at least on some level, a captive like him.

And at the end of it all, when they meet up with the ragtag "army" heading to storm the Fire Nation capital, he hears about the eclipse. And he decides that while the rest of them are trying to take on Ozai, he's going to spring his father. So, he slips away during the fighting and heads for the capital prison tower. Hopefully that's where his father is being kept. And Lu Ten might not have Zuko's ability to break into and out of almost anything, but it hardly matters, because he has barely made it inside when his father, having broken himself out, runs into him, and they leave together.

All this means is that when Zuko (who never did tell anybody about his cousin being alive, which is going to make his tearful reunion with his uncle and cousin a little less awful) shows up to the Western Air Temple, the Gaang is short one Fire Prince. And now they have a new one. Yay! And once he starts to become friends with them, they've got a whole bunch of questions about just what exactly is going on with his family. And yeah, the answers he gives are, well, they are... Wow, Zuko, no wonder you're so messed up!

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@sightofthesun53 asked:

More stuff for the au where Zuko accidentally kills Ozai on the day of the black sun?🥹 I'm especially curious about his shaky relationship with the gaang.

Continued from [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

Okay, so I talked this a little bit in previous posts, but what's going on is that Zuko killed his father and then took the throne without ever joining up with the Gaang. So he never had the chance to form individual positive relationships with them, they never became friends, they never built trust, and the gaang never came to see Zuko as one of their own.

Cast your mind back to the Book Two finale. This is where Zuko's relationship with the gaang ended. Katara still smarts from what she views as a profound betrayel, when Zuko sided with his sister, after sharing a moment of understanding and commiseration over the losses of theit mothers. She views him as untrustworthy, and a danger to the people she cares about, and consequentally, to the fragile peace Zuko himself helped bring about. And Zuko does not exactly have a ready way to build trust with her. Or, as Zuko would think of it, get her not to hate him.

Sokka and Zuko likewise have a lot of baggage, not least of which is the fact that Sokka killed Zuko's sister, something both Zuko and Sokka feel differently about moment by moment. And of course, Zuko also killed his father, and if you think he doesn't have large and complicated emotions about this that he struggles to process or understand, well he does.

Aang wants to think the best of Zuko, and to trust him, and he's working on it, but that trust is still fragile, built as it is on a foundation of Aang's deliberate and self-chosen optimism. And Toph never really had to deal with Zuko at his worst, and she likes his uncle, so she's more or less willing to play nice. And Suki only knows him as the guy who burned down her village and released her from prison, so she's willing to see where this goes.

Basically, they are not friends. They aren't enemies, but they don't really like or trust Zuko, and there is nothing he can do about that, other than keep doing the right thing as Firelord. And half the time he has no idea what the right thing is. And with his uncle gone, because he has to be, and with only Mai and Ty Lee there that he can rely on, well, it's lonely at the top.

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Can I ask for a continuation of the Sokka and Katara raised in the fire nation au?

Continued from: [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. There is a woman involved with the search, from two villages over. She always comes out for these searches. She's an old innkeeper, a sweet woman. Kanna recognizes her. And it's really really weird that she recognizes her, because she recognizes her as a Southern Water Tribe woman, who was kidnapped by the Fire Navy. What is she doing here and free? Kanna sidles up to her and, voice too soft for anyone else to hear, says "Hello Hama, how did you come to be here?" Hama looks at her, and then looks again, and she smiles a smile of surprise and delight, and says to her that she could ask her the same thing. And they talk. Hama tells Kanna about escaping prison. Kanna hells Hama about her daughter in law's death and her son's capture.

2. Then she mentions that it's her grandson who is missing. Hama is shocked. She grows quiet and troubled. And something just feels really off. And Kanna used to know Hama well enough to know when something was really off. And she doesn't want to think...

3. That night, after Katara is settled into bed, Kanna slips out and follows Hama back to her village. Hama heads to her inn and goes inside, and Kanna waits. And waits. And just when she thinks that this was all very stupid, and she's being paranoid about somebody who used to be a close friend, Hama emerges from the inn, and heads out into thr night. Kanna follows. Hama winds her way through the woods to the mouth of a tunnel, and Kanna waits, for what feels like hours for her to surface again. Once she does, Kanna leaves her hiding place and goes down the tunnel in Hama's stead. It's pitch dark, so Kanna takes a flint and lights a candle from her pocket. As she walks down the tunnel, the hair on the back of her neck stands on end. She hears garbled noises. They slowly resolve, Into voices, and the clanking of chains.

4. When she reaches the cave at the end of the tunnel, She almost can't piece together what she sees, can't pull it into something that makes sense, gaunt shrunken forms hanging from the wall, her grandson strung up like a fairground puppet. It's real, and yet it's what's right in front of her. She tears one of the iron pins, so common to elderly Fire Nation peasant women, from her hair. She hasn't picked a lock since she was a teenage girl in the Northern Water Tribe, and the iron pin is too big for it anyway, but it doesn't matter, because all she has to do is shove The pins into manacle the locks, and push, to shove the locks open. First is Sokka, and her grandson falls into her arms.

5. She frees the others as quick as she can, but she soon realizes she has a problem. None of the others, who've been hanging there for months, are strong enough to walk more than a few steps. She's forced to leave them with Sokka. They run up the tunnel To the sound of the other prisoners begging them to come back, and as soon as they reach Hama's village, they pound on the door to the small garrison, and tell them what they've seen, and what Hama did. Several guards go with Kanna, so that she can lead them to the tunnel, so that they can verify her story. They carry Hama's other victims to freedom. Then they go to arrest Hama. Suddenly it's all over. They summon a judge, who rides through two days later, and Hama is sentenced to death. Every village for miles around has lost someone, and only a handful were still alive to be rescued. They all turn out to witness the execution. And sickeningly, Kanna finds herself the hero who sniffed out the Water Tribe witch.

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@candleslitsnow asked for an AU in which Jet and his freedom fighters ran into Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee, disguised as Kyoshi warriors, rather than Zuko and Iroh.

Sometimes I get a prompt that makes me go, "Ah yes, you share the same kind of malicious sense of humor that I have."

1. So the thing about Avatar the Last Airbender is that I can't say that x-character is y-character's foil. I can, but I have to clarify that they are also z, a, b, c, and d's foil, because Avatar: the Last Airbender is an absolute master class in parallel character arcs and thematic cohesiveness. So you can in fact pull out any of those parallel character arcs and compare them to each other, and all of the characters can function as foils to each other, and you can compare and contrast them and it is great writing. But of course some characters are more obviously narrative foils. Jet serves as a foil primarily to Katara and Sokka when he is first introduced, and then in Book Two, he serves as a foil to Zuko. But there is a character that is a whole lot alike in some fundemental ways that he never meets. And Zuko's reaction to him in canon is colored by this fact. Because that character is Azula.

2. But actually the show does go out of its way to draw a strong narrative parallel between Jet and Azula, wherein Jet's approach to Zuko, and attempt to get to go to join him functions as a microcosm of Azula's attempt to do the same thing in the first and last episodes of Book Two, and later when Zuko ultimately comes to reject each of them, they react in very similar ways. There is a solid literary essay to be written on this by somebody who isn't me. All of this is a lot of words to say that Jet and Azula share similar tactics, and are manipulative in very similar ways. And people like that are good at recognizing each other for what they are, and seeing each other as threats.

3. All this means that I can't imagine Jet would approach Azula. He's going to make his manipulative little approach to Mai and/or Ty Lee, before he knows about Azula. He would probably like Ty Lee better, because of how wide eyed and innocent she seems, but really it depends on who he meets first. But Mai and Ty Lee both have a lot of experience with Azula, and they would have no problem recognizing Jet's brand of manipulation, and uh, leadership. And they also would have no trouble figuring out that Azula has him completely outclassed, so they would bring him home for her to eat alive.

4. As I mentioned, Jet is going to cotton onto the fact that Azula is a threat real fast, and the last time he looked at a group of people and picked out one of them as a threat, he tried to separate that one from the group and have him killed. That was Sokka, and it did not work out well for him. It would probably be pretty funny to watch him try and fail to do that with Azula. She might even let him try for a while before closing the trap in around him. But either way she's going to find him very entertaining, and she is going to have him arrested and hauled off to the Fire Nation to cool his heels in a cell at the Boiling Rock, along with Suki. If Longshot and Smellerbee were with him during this whole thing, they're going to the separate prison that the Kyoshi Warriors went to. If not, they're going to have no idea where he disappeared to. Either way, he's going alone.

5. He's going to meet Suki, they're going to hate each other, flash forward a few months, and Zuko and Sokka are going to show up. Zuko will of course have never met Jet before, but Sokka has, and he is not going to be happy to see this particular jerkface again Escaping from the Boiling Rock is going to be fun.

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Let's hear your headcanons/ideas for the universe where Baby!Zuko was whisked away through time and popped into Aang's saddle mere moments before they crashed into the Arctic waters and all the consequences that would bring. For starters, I can see the conversation about nature & nurture that happened around TomTom between Sokka and Kataara to happen much earlier because of that.

Contined from the first scenario here: [Link].

I have to wonder how easy it is to tell a Fire Nation royal baby from any other baby. Is he dressed differently? Zuko is roughly two at this point, which means he's old enough for his eyes to have settled into their golden color, but unless you're looking for it, that's kind of hard to tell apart from brown. And he's pale skinned and black haired, but both of those are traits found in abundance in the Earth Kingdom.

So what's left are clothes. Tom-Tom was wearing a white tunic edged in pink, and pinkish grayish loose pants. While Zuko's would undoubtedly be the finest quality, I'm not sure that they would be any different. And the colors and shapes that Tom-Tom is wearing at that age are all ones we have seen in Earth Kingdom dress, for example the shade of pink he's wearing on his tunic is very similar to the one that Song wears.

What I'm saying is, would any of them know, looking at him, just who this random baby who showed up, is?

In the initial post, I had him dressed all in Fire Nation red, and that would of course give them an indication of where he's from, but they still would have no idea that he is a royal baby, or specifically that he is Zuko, the missing prince.

And like, once they've established that Aang is in fact from a hundred years ago, the reasonable assumption is that the baby is from a hundred years ago too.

So they have this random baby from before the war, and sure, Sokka is team evil Fire Nation baby, but not only are Aang and Katara team it's a baby, you jerk, but so is Kanna.

This whole situation lasts for a couple of weeks, until this actual asshole named Commander Zhao shows up, because that's just How the universe is, and this is why we can't have nice things. He is thrilled to find the Avatar, and easily capture him with a little bit of extortion, but he also manages to recognize this strange baby's fancy baby clothes. How the heck did they end up with Prince Zuko's baby clothes, on a baby who looks suspiciously like he could be Prince Zuko, but is weirdly still a baby, Zhao has no idea, but he'll be eaten by a fish if this isn't the best day he's ever had. He's taking these two back to Firelord Ozai. He's getting that promotion.

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can I have more avatar ursa au?

Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. There wasn't a day that went by that Ursa didn't miss her children, that she didn't long to have them with her, that she didn't feel their absense, and Ozai's control over them like a knife blow. So why is it so hard to have them with her? If she thought the time on the water, as she sailed back to the North Pole, would be a time of healing and reconnecting, both her children soon disabuse her of this notion. At first it's just Azula, full of fury and fear, and full of accusations that her mother stole her away from the only parent who really loved her (and doesn't that make Ursa, who loves her daughter so much, want to scream) and in doing so, stole the throne away from her. But now it's Zuko too, pushing and pushing, and pushing, like he's trying to get her to snap.

2. Of course that's exactly what Zuko is doing, and if Ursa had any space to breathe and think, she would figure it out pretry quick. He's spent so long dancing to his father's tune, trying sho hard to be his father's perfect son, so that he doesn't disappoint him, like he always, always does, that all he can think to do is try to push his mother until ahe pushes back, just so she will punish him, and he will get it out of the way and know what the worst is. and the more he pushes and she doesn't punish, the more anxious he gets, until he's wound so tight the thinks he will be the one to snap.

3. And this is how they sail into the harbor at the North Pole, Ursa and her children, and all of the anger, fear, and resentment traveling with them. Kanna, Kya, and Kya's children aren't waiting for them. How could they? They had no way of knowing when she would be back. But a messanger sends for them as soon as Ursa steps off the boat, each of her children's hands clasped in her own. Zuko spends the entire journey to the palace and the suite of guest rooms Ursa has called her own (and Kya's, and Kanna's, and Sokka and Katara's) practically babbling with nerves. Is she really the Avatar? Has she really been learning to waterbend? But Father will want her dead, he will have her killed, he will want to know why Zuko didn't try to kill her, he will... But Azula is silent the whole way. She doesn't even snap back at ther brother or tell him to shut up. And Ursa knows her daughter well enough to know that's not good, to know she's planning something.

4. But none of them ever get to know what Azula is planning, because when Kya sees Ursa, she runs up to her, throws her arms around her, and kisses her, with joy, relief, and love. And Azula explodes. How dare they? They are disgusting, unnatural, this is because her mother is the Avatar and a demon in human form, and this is why she could never love their father, and he was right all along, she is sick, and evil, and... And this is how Kya, and Kanna, and Sokka and Katara all meet Ursa's children.

5. And Ursa needs to tell her it's not true, and she doesn't get to speak to people that way, And somehow she needs to make her understand that no, the reason she couldn't ever love Ozai was because he was the one who was evil. It was because of the way he treated her, right from the start, and worse, the way he treated Zuko and Azula. And she knows, she has to believe, that someday Ozai's words will dry up, that Azula will run out of them and have to start using her own. But right now, she is so, so tired.

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I love your AUs!

Do you have an AU for 'Ty Lee is the airbender in the iceberg and Aang is Azula's adorable henchperson'? And if not would you like one?

Continued from: [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. They go to the Southern Air Temple. Li doesn't really want to go. After having been forced to leave the Eastern Air Temple, she didn't really like the Southern Air Temple that much. But it's a lot closer than the Eastern Air Temple, and Katara can't be right about the whole hundred year thing, and she has to go back and face the music sometime doesn't she? So they go. And they find an empty husk. There aren't even any bodies. The dead have been dead so long that they have rotted away to skeletons. It's almost worse that she wasn't close to anybody here, and she can't pick out the differences between what people were wearing and who they might be, it's just a mass of anonymous dead, and she can't make herself care in the face of the fact that this means that Katara is right, and that means her sisters are dead.

2. The world creaks and tilts around her, before crumbling away completely. Things go white. The wind lashes her face. And the next thing she knows, Katara is holding her, and shouting over the wind that she and Sokka will be her family now.

3. Ty Lee doesn't want Katara and Sokka to be her family. She wants her sisters. She wants to curl into a ball and cry. She wants to go to sleep and wake up at the Eastern Air Temple, and for all of this to have been a dream. But she can't have that. She can't. The whiteness spills away, and all that's left is tiredness. Katara leads her back to Floofy, and they fly away.

4. They go to Kyoshi Island. They need food and water, and a place to sleep that isn't an empty temple full of skeletons. They go to Kyoshi Island, and Sokka insults a bunch of girl warriors, then trains with them, and falls in love with one of them, and then the ponytail guy shows up again, and Li is getting the feeling this might be a recurring pattern with him. He starts setting fire to the village on the island, and she's only able to chase him off when she accidentally lands on the Unagi, the sea serpent who haunts the waters around the island. They leave, with supplies and money from the village, and keep heading north.

5. And here is the point at which I talk about how we've gotten a little bit ahead of ourselves, at least with regards to Mai and Ty Aang, because where Li and her friends go next is Omashu, which has not yet been conquered, and Mai is not yet there, and Ty Aang has not yet left to join any nomads. But anyway, Omashu is clear on the other side of the Earth Kingdom from the Eastern Air Temple, and it's not like she ever got to travel when she was at the Southern Air Temple. So back when she was a kid, she never met a boy in Omashu named Bumi.

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I love when Sokka gets to be a smart guy. How's he doing in 100-years-past-verse?

Universe tag: #The whole Gaang wakes up a hundred years in the past verse

Sokka, Suki, and Sangmu have all just used the power of flight and large animals to bully their way into a conversation with General Weng from the Council of Five. Now comes the hard part. Sokka, with his gift of the gab has to convince General Weng, and then the other generals, that they want to actually help. And he has to sell the time travel story, and also there is the fact that in his timeline, Ba Sing Se took almost another century to fall. He did consider lying about that fact, but his experience, the lies always come out, and then it's a whole mess.

Weng tries to test Sokka on military future history, and Sokka has to confess that he has no idea, since he didn't exactly have lessons on the subject, growing up in the southern water tribe, and after the war was over the nitty gritty of military history was not his first priority of things to learn about, and boy he sure wishes that Iroh had come back to the past with them right now.

Wait, General Weng says. Wasn't Iroh the guy you said almost conquered Ba Sing Se?

Sokka's all like, yeah, but don't worry. He got cool.

Sangmu is watching this all in horror, but Suki, is like, this is fine.

Ultimately, Weng decides that Sokka is probably telling the truth, because if he were lying about this kind of thing, he would probably have like actually come up with a better cover story, or at least had a nice smooth clean timeline to give him. Which means that Weng is going to have to explain this to the rest of the Council of Five.

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Would love more of the Megamind Atla AU! It’s absolutely hilarious!

Thank you!

Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. It takes a minimum of glaring and threatening before Sokkamind and Katara cave, and lead Suki, Mai, and Ty Lee to the broom closet where Katara stashed Zuko. The door opens, and Zuko blinks against the sudden light, sees the hulking shape of Katara's gorilla mech-suit, and does the only sensible thing. He yells and tries to rush her. He tackles her around the middle, and instead of knocking her down, he barely knocks her back. Possibly this was not the only sensible thing he could have done. Possibly it was not very sensible at all. Mai and Ty Lee grab him, and pull him off. He looks around at them, and at Suki, and Katara, and Sokkamind, and goes, oh, no, have they all been kidnapped by Sokkamind? Were is Azula? He heard her voice.

2. Information is exchanged. Sokkamind learns that Zuko is Azula's brother. Zuko learns that his sister is now a supervillain. This probably should be more surprising to him than it is. Once Mai and Ty Lee make it clear that using Zuko as a hostage will not do any good, because Azula doesn't actually, like her brother or care about him, Sokkamind is left at something of a loss. Suki tells him he's being ridiculous, and kidnapping can't be his plan for everything.

3. In the end, what they decide to do is go try to find more about Metro Man's weaknesses, since it stands to reason, that because Sokkamind used his DNA to empower Azula, they would share weaknesses. And like, they know Metro Man had weaknesses, because Sokkamind accidentally killed him with copper. Suki, Sokkamind, and Ty Lee go off to investigate, and leave Zuko, Mai, and Katara behind to distract Azula by video call.

4. When Zuko, Mai, and Katara go back to the monitors, Azula is waiting for them, extremely annoyed, about having been kept waiting, and where is Sokkamind? Zuko and Mai decide it's time to share some embarassing childhood stories with all of Metrocity watching this video call of theirs, and Katara starts critiquing Azula's villainous posture and lack of spikes. It genuinely hurts Katara to have to do this, because Azula's regal sprawl is actually dead perfect, but oh well. With the first embarrassing story, Azula tries to cut the feed, but Katara has finangled something so that she can't, and as she gets angrier and angrier, Katara tsk tsks at her lack of villainous panache. Azula's first impression on the people of Metrocity is certainly nowhere near what she planned, but none of us are as cool as we are in our heads, are we.

5. Meanwhile, Suki, Sokkamind, and Ty Lee Don't find anything about Metro Man's weaknesses at all. In fact, what they find is Metro Man, Aang, alive and well, and having faked his own death.

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here's one i don't think you have: Avatar Kiyi

Oh. Oh wow. So there are two entirely separate and important parts of this AU, one is that she's Ursa's daughter and Zuko and Azula's sister, but also, she's just so young. Like, when Zuko's banished, the oldest she can be is two, and the oldest she can be when and would wake in canon is five. She is not going to be able to do any avataring for a long long time.

And like, Zuko isn't going to have any way to find her, or any clues to her for a very long time, because remember he's still looking for a hundred and twelve year old Air Nomad. He is on the hunt for weird things, and a five year old girl growing up with her family, who can firebend in the Fire Nation, is not weird, because like keep in mind most Avatars don't bend three elements at four years old, because Korra is special. So little Kiyi can firebend, but they have no clue she can do anything else, so how on earth is Zuko supposed to find her?

Basically, for at least a long while, the biggest impact that this change is going to have on this AU is just that there isn't going to be an Avatar to wake up, and for Zuko to hunt, and for Sokka and Katara to take to the Northern Water Tribe, and fight Ozai. That's it. That is the biggest impact here. So what does that world look like?

Ozai uses Sozin's Comet to conquer Ba Sing Se and effectively win the war. Or so he thinks, because now it's all insurgency all the time baby. The entire Earth Kingdom is a large chunk to swallow, and Ozai may have bitten off a whole lot more than he can chew, at least more than he can chew quickly.

Meanwhile, Zuko grows up. He reaches his twenties even maybe his thirties. Will he figure out that his father is a shithead on his own? Without ever going home? Will he stop hunting for the Avatar, give up and try to figure out what to do with his life? Will he settle down like his uncle might prefer, or will he decide to do something like maybe hunting down pirates for ther bounties in his little ship?

Will Katara ever go north on her own? Probably. Will Sokka go with her? Will Sokka want to go off to find the Southern Water Tribe fleet? What is the Southern Water Tribe fleet even doing?

Has Toph run off into the woods screaming, never to return yet?

What is Azula doing? Without her brother to chase after, and with her father having won the war, what can she be doing? Is she involved with the low glory hard work of putting down rebellions in the country her father supposedly conquered? How does she feel like that?

And then how on Earth do they find out about Kiyi anyway, and what on earth is going to happen then?

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More monster hunter Mai au?

Inspired by this artwork by kimmytsunami: [Link]. Continued from: [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. The right thing to do, Mai knows, is to report to Long Feng, endure his scorn and whatever punishment he sees fit to heap upon her, and wash her hand of the monsters at the Jasmine Dragon. But she doesn't. At first, she tells herself she'll tell Long Feng soon, when she isn't so tired, or rattled, but then that line becomes more and more obviously a lie, and soon it becomes too long ago for her to fess up without serious punishment. She decides instead to survail the tea shop to make sure no one gets hurt, and to pinpoint a weakness on the part of its owners.

2. She finds... a surprising amount of kids and families frequent the shop, potential human sheilds for the dragons. One old woman and her two teenage grandchildren are there almost every day, along with a little blind girl with her cane and a blindfold over her eyes. One afternoon, the old woman's granddaughter gives the blind girl a present, and when she unwraps it, it's a green denim jacket, with flowers enbroidered on it, leaving the words "I'm not blind, I just can't see anything less awsome than me" in negative space. It's like a beatiful, happy village who don't know they're living on the slopes of a volcano. It breaks Mai's heart.

3. But worse, she has miscalculated terribly, Because since she has started surveilling the tea shop, she has not been reporting kills. Long Feng is suspicious, and rather than dress her down or ask her why she's no longer killing monsters, he sends the next best of his monster killers after, to spy on her, and Jet has been a rival and thorn in her side for years. And Jet is only too happy to spy on her and report back even the smallest of infractions.

4. But spying on a spy quickly becomes too boring for Jet, and unbeknownst to Mai, He starts steaking out the restaurant too, and he quickly figures out Iroh and Zuko's little secret. Perfect, he thinks, he'll steal Mai's kill, and win her top spot. He slips into the back of the restaraunt. And instead of the quiet careful kill he expects, he finds himself shoved out of the kitchen and knocked to the floor by the small dragon's shoulder. The small dragon shifts from teanage boy to gawky teenage dragon as he runs/slithers out after Jet into the dining area. Oh, thinks Mai, this is when the volcano erupts.

5. And it does, just not the way Mai was thinking. The blind girl's hair starts moving, and lifts off her head, and Mai's brain takes a moment to realize what she's seeing, a wig over a writhing tangle of snakes. She starts taking off her blindfold, but the grandmother stops her. A gorgon. The grandmother and her grandchildren come up to circle Jet, their bodies dissolving into water and reforming. Water demons. She looks around the teashop, and all of the previously human faces are something else now. Every one of them is a monster. It takes her no time at all to make her decision. Jet is an idiot. He was clearly spying on her and trying to get one up on her. And he will be killed without her help. She swings down from the roof nextdoor and runs into the teashop.

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For the 5-headcanons prompt, what about more from the Yue and Azula role-swap AU?

Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. Aang, Sokka, and Katara are no idiots. They can tell Bumi is stalling for time. For what, though, they have no idea. And if Aang trusts his old friend implicitly, Sokka and Katara are not ready to give him the same latitude. And who can blame them after what he just pulled? But anyway, it means that both of them show up to the nicd lunch in the second nicest garden Bumi insisted they attend, in not the very best moods they could possibly be in. There are two teenagers there already, dressed in fine flowy silk robes. Sokka and Katara walk inside warily, only for the two to greet them warmly and introduce themselves as Prince Zuko and Princess Yuzu.

2. Ah, so are they Bumi's children? Grandchildren maybe? Great grandchildren? Are you both incredibly muscular under those fancy robes and about to beat us up? (Sokka! Hey, it's a valid question, you saw King Bumi!) No, the two assure them, they aren't going to beat anybody up, and they aren't related to King Bumi. But, Prince Zuko hastens to add, he could definitely beat them up if he wanted to. This makes his sister burst into giggles, and when Prince Zuko asks her what she thinks is so funny, she tells him that one of the kids is the Avatar, and Zuko hasn't ever been in a fight with anyone, so there is no way he would win. Zuko mutters something under his breath about not fighting the Avatar anyway because he's twelve years old and who would fight a twelve year old? Yeah, says Princess Yuzu, because Zuko would lose, and that would be really embarrassing.

3. So Katara asks, how did they get to be prince and princess of Omashu if they aren't related to King Bumi, and Princess Yuzu tells her, oh no we're not the prince and princess of Omashu. Our father is the Firelord.

4. Well that sends Aang off his cushion and over to the garden gate in a flash. As Sokka holds up his razor sharp boomerang warily, the two launch into the whole sad story of how their father disowned them, and their uncle took them in and smuggled them to Omashu, and he's on his way back to the citybto speak with Aang, and that's why King Bumi is stalling for time, and they don't have to worry about Zuko and Yuzu, because they want to ally with the Avatar, not fight them.

5. And the two really get the feeling that they have failed at the whole good first impressions thing, when Aang asks why he would want to help them? He's supposed to fight the Fire Nation, not help put the rightful heirs on the throne. The war goes back long before the current firelord anyway. But Yuzu, who has been for the last year or so, harboring an ambition to be an ambassador when she grows up, looks at him with her beautiful eyes earnest and solumn and says, well yes, but wouldn't it be so much easier if he has an ally ready to take the Fire Nation throne and lead the country into a peaceful future?

And yes, that is a very good point. Aang agrees to wait for their uncle.

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Can I get a continuation for The ones who walk away?

Continued from: [Link], [Link], and [Link], and The Ones who Walk Away: [Link].

1. Katara and Sokka make their way north, faster and less eventfully than they would have with a twelve year old Avatar. They do not go to the Air Temples or to Kyoshi Island. They don't go to Omashu, or to Gaipan but instead sail along the east coast of the Earth Kingdom continent, until they reach Chameleon Bay in the Eastern Sea, where, as it transpires, the Southern Water Tribe fleet has been holed up. They spend some time with their father, telling them what happened back home with the Fire Prince, and the airbender baby, and about Katara's worsening accidents, and when Bato returns injured from a mission, he agrees to escort Sokka and Katara to the Northern Water Tribe, and to get them settled. Having sailed so far north, he also takes them ice dodging in the northern waters before they tackle meeting their people's sister tribe.

2. This means that Katara goes to the north as a woman grown in the eyes of her tribe, and the Chief's daughter. Of course, she goes as all of that when she goes with Aang, but her father never was chief when she was growing up, certainly not of a united Southern Water Tribe, so she never got used to thinking of herself that way. But Bato, Hakoda's best friend, is able to think through those implications, and press the point. So when the northerners (mostly Pakku) make it clear that girl waterbenders are trained to heal and nothing else, Bato starts talking about an insult to southern customs, and to his chief, and manages to get an agreement that one of the lesser masters will teach Katara as long as she also learns to heal. Katara is hardly going to turn down healing lessons. Her tribe could use a healer or twelve anyway.

2.5 Comander Zhao, without Zuko to humiliate or an Avatar to capture, remains at his dead end post, his dreams of moon spirit fish sticks unfulfilled.

3. Without Katara and Aang to fill the reservoir, Jet must wait for the summer rains to fill it, and to flood the village he once called home. It's a scene of carnage, with Fire Nation soldiers, Fire Nation colonists, and Earth Kingdom villagers killed indiscriminately by the rush of water. Children are killed. Parents are killed leaving children orphaned. It's a horror. And in the aftermath, the surviving Fire Nation soldiers hunt down Jet's forest enclave and set fire to it, causing more horror, and more dead children. Jet goes out in a blaze of glory, and when the Fire Nation rebuids Gaipan, as they already did once before after having destroyed it themselves, when they continue to control the village and the valley, it's no longer Jet's problem.

4. Back in the Fire Nation, Ozai plots what use he will make of Sozin's Comet that summer. It's Ba Sing Se. He plans to use it to break Ba Sing Se, to do what his brother could not. And because Azula has never been to war, never conquered Ba Sing Se herself, when he announces that he plans to leave her in charge of the Fire Nation in his absense, it doesn't feel like a punishment. It feels like a test. One she intends to pass. With her brother gone, she will rule the Fire Nation for real one day.

5. All this is to say that the world keeps turning without Iroh, Zuko, and Aang. And Aang is still in that awkward stage between toddler and child, Iroh's garden is still in that awkward stage between a shambles and well set up, and Zuko is still in that awkward stage between caught and knowing about it when Ozai conquers Ba Sing Se, and brings the Earth Kingdom to its knees.

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More for the Azula Drowns AU please.

Ah yes, the AU where the tides do command this ship. Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. Half starved, and having not slept the night before, Zuko stumbles across clumps of very familiar hair. Wet clumps of sky bison hair. Following the Avatar's trail is second nature to Zuko by now, a habit, almost an involuntary reflex. And as exhausted as he is, he doesn't realize how close he's gotten until he stumbles into their camp. Where the waterbender is having a screaming fight with a small Earth Kingdom child.

2. This fight promptly stops long enough for them to drive him away, and for them all to pack up and leave. Zuko of course follows, doing his best not to fall asleep on the back of his ostrich-horse, lose his seat, and fall off. This time he manages not to stumble head first into their camp. He lies in wait until they are asleep. It's only by superhuman will that he doesn't fall asleep himself. He slips into the camp, picks up Aang's bedroll, carefully lays him across the ostrich-horse saddle, ties him down, and rides away.

3. Aang is tired enough that he doesn't wake up right away, but he does wake up pretty quickly from the jostling of the ride. He pretends to be asleep long enough for Zuko to stop and pass out under a saddle blanket, then wriggles free of the ropes and walks off. Zuko is lucky. He was going to take the ostrich-horse, but it gave him a nasty look, and he decided he didn't want to be bitten by that beak. Instead he uses airbending running to get back to his friends fast. He gets there less than an hour after he left.

4. As soon as he leaves, the ostrich-horse starts squawking, waking Zuko up, because nobody is getting any sleep tonight.

5. Meanwhile, Sokka, Katara, and Toph have woken up to find Aang gone. While trying to plan how to go after him, Katara and Toph have a massive fight, and Toph stomps off to go make her way in the world on her own.