'Casing You'
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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, June not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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Azula :( (ch.5)
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“I’m ending the war because it’s the right thing to do—”The waterbender snorted. This was Zuko’s diplomatic scowl.
“—But we didn’t lose. You beat one man. Won one battle against an untested new fleet. You didn’t beat the Fire Nation. We can talk about terms for prisoner of war exchanges, and withdrawal of troops from contested areas, and even what exactly our final borders will be, but we’re not going to talk about who won. Because you didn’t.”
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And yeah, killing people was terrible, and no one should force kids like them to do things like that—but what did Aang think they’d been doing, up in the airship fleet? Why did he get to stay all clean but they had to—And Ozai. Why did he get to live, when all those low-level soldiers, the guys just steering the ships or working in the engine rooms, the ones whose heartbeats had been so scared and their shouts had sounded so young, why’d they have to die? Was it only royalty that got special no-kill attention from the Avatar? She loved Twinkletoes, he was like the flighty loveable annoying awful amazing brother she’d never wanted but suddenly had, but—but he could be such an airbender, and knowing someone’s name, being able to put a face and a history to them, didn’t make them more worthy of living. A lot less worthy, in Ozai’s case.
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Uncle was one too. A Fire Nation General. And the way they were talking and laughing, these guys were probably war buddies of his. And Toph realized something she’d always known but didn’t like to think about, that Uncle had killed people. Her people. Probably a lot more than anyone else here. The Dragon of the West had been good at his job, and those guys laughing with him… they all remembered that, because it really hadn’t been that long since the siege of Ba Sing Se. There was respect in their voices, in the way they deferred the conversation to any story he started, in the way their bodies slanted more towards him than to anyone else in the circle. They liked him.
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The Avatar could take away bending.Maybe somehow that wasn’t as horrifying to waterbenders or earthbenders or airbenders, because the Avatar’s group looked a little uneasy (the non-bender still looked smug, of course he did, he couldn’t understand), but the Fire Nation side of the table had stopped breathing.
And then they were breathing very carefully, the kind of breaths that stoked inner flames.
Inner flames. Not the earth under their feet or the water of their seas, not the air around them. Inner flames. Agni’s gift was their heart, their life, it couldn’t be snuffed without killing the bender.
How could the airbender sit there talking of peace when he’d ripped Agni’s hand from one of His chosen? The Avatar was the World Spirit, but Agni was the Sun God. The sun shone on his people and kindled flames in the strongest. Death was death, but to have their souls ripped out and their bodies kept living, beyond the sight of their god—
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Azula… as much as she threatened, he’d couldn’t picture her killing for fun, only for a purpose. It wasn’t a morality issue. He wouldn’t kid himself that it was, especially when those were four of their people she’d murdered. But her perfectionism abhorred waste; wasted energy, wasted actions, wasted lives that could have been grovelling in their rightful place at her feet instead of cluttering up her floor. Ba Sing Se had been the most bloodless victory of the war, even if the lack of casualties had probably made it easier for the Earth Kingdom and Uncle’s group to take back in the end. …Which was an observation he was never going to share with her.She must have felt really cornered by Uncle, or had something important he’d gotten in the way of her doing. Otherwise she’d have just gone around the guards, danced them in circles to prove not just that she was superior but that she was so far beyond them as to be untouchable. Uncle didn’t get that. He’d… never really tried to get Azula.
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Ch.17 <3 ! :(
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[Toph's Robes] were suitably green, so she was color-coded for the convenience of all the sighted people. Just once, she wanted to go in a clothing shop, mix everything up, and come out in colors so uncoordinated that people would have to pay attention to the person under the clothes. Maybe she could take Sparky with her. -
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“I’m going to kick your ass,” Jason threatens. “Creeper.”
This kind of threat usually works. Jason’s gotten very good at it over the years. At the very least, it makes the target reconsider their choices.
The Replacement does not look like he’s reconsidering anything. In fact, he looks a little pitying. “Right now, you have the constitution of a wet tissue. I don’t even think you could stand up without passing out.”
He says this so evenly and plainly that Jason is automatically furious. Just to prove Replacement’s scrawny little ass wrong, he is going to stand up, beat his ass into the ground, and then kill everyone in Crime Alley who has ever wronged him. The list is long. It’ll probably last the whole night.
The fact that he only gets up to his knees before everything goes black is, like. A minor setback.
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Jason Todd is about to find out why hundred and four degree fevers are, generally, considered detrimental to one's well-being. Tim Drake is about to commit crimes against Top Ramen and humanity. Bruce Wayne is about to fret. What else do you expect?
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When an earthquake destroys the planet the Lanteans are helping to harvest, Colonel Sheppard and Major Lorne find themselves in a fight for survival. Trapped and alone, cut off from aid and with a couple of tiny mouths to feed, John and Evan must find a way to craft hope from devastation.
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Code Cryptid by SummerKnight717
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
16 May 2024
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In which Dick Grayson and Tim Drake tag team to make both Bruce and some very unfortunate kidnappers regret all their life decisions. Jason Todd is definitely not the only theatre kid in the family...
Dick really doesn't like putting on the Batsuit, thank you very much. So when he has to, he is at least owed some fun in it...
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In retrospect, it was a perfectly normal day, the day that Kate's entire world shifted on its axis.