Katara: I’m Getting Worried About How Many Nightmares You’ve Been Having.

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Atla Gen Week 2022.

Day 5: Childhood/children.

This is a glimpse of our AU “Fire Sage Lu Ten”.

[ID: Mini comic with two vignettes in monochrome magenta.

In the first vignette, a pre-teen Lu Ten confidently and excitedly says “I’m a prince!, how hard can it be?” he holds Zuko and Azula who are little children in each arm, Zuko in the right arm and Azula in the left arm, they are holding hands on the front of Lu Ten. In the background on the left side it reads “Babysitter for the first time” with emphasis lines on the edge of the vignette.

In the second vignette, in a darkened stillness, Zuko and Azula are floating, both with glowing eyes, mouths open as they hold hands. Lu Ten screams frightened. End ID].

@atla-gen-week

you ever think about how long hair is technically zuko’s default

Alternative turn on all the Arranged Marriage AUs: Katara is the firelord. Since she defeated Azula, by all the laws, she's legitly the firelord.

Fire sages: *come to help unconscious Zuko*

Katara: Good, he won, he's now the firelord

Fire sages: no you won you're the firelord

Katara: what

And since she doesn't want to be firelord (yet, it's Katara, give her some time and she'll feel super confortable with power) she arranges a marriage with Zuko so he keeps the power as it should have happened.

Zuko: *regains consciousness * Uh

Katara: *wearing a royal topknot and red robes* So, some things might have happened...

Extra points if it happens so fast he's still unconscious

Zuko: you're the firelord

Katara: yup

Zuko: and you married us

Katara: it was necessary, yes.

Zuko: without asking me first?!

Katara: do you want a divorce?

Zuko: No! No, i just-

Katara: Good. Now be a good firelady and help me with the external policies

Welcome home

MORE OF MISS BAILEY NOCEDA !!!!

Zuko

he's very good at masking about 90% of the time

struggles with social cues sometimes?

he walks a very odd line between missing social cues because autism and being hyperaware of social cues because abuse victim

positive attention is a little foreign to him - people flirt with him all the time and he just barrels right on through

he scripts things out everything. practices random conversations with turtleducks. has entire scrolls of "what to say if..." laying around his room.

unrelated but his customer service voice is ever-present in Official Political Meetings

a fascinating special interest in tea

can and will infodump at the drop of a hat

lots of finger stims (they're small and easy to hide)

facial expressions mean nothing folks

super smooth fabrics bother him

he doesn't really like how fire feels - his own is pretty nice, and aang's is usually okay, but everyone else's is sketchy

hates hates hates the texture of his scar

listen zuko just infodumps a lot

Atla Gen Week 2021.

Day 4: Spirits?

@atlagenweek2021

favorite atla fics are the ones where the gaang finds out roku is zukos great grandfather and aang’s immediate reaction is to start hollering “GREAT GRANDSON!!!” at zuko like. aang’s 12 but is canonically the embodiment of embarrassing grandpa it’s perfect

I'm still thinking of yue x zuko, that whole arranged marriage fic that I will never write lives in my head rent free, imagine her going with him on the three year trip to finding the avatar and just being super curious about everything they see, them getting closer when being away from his family and the fire nation, iroh and yue playing pai sho and just chilling while zuko rages in the background, yue being super excited when arriving at the south pole and just being happy that it's cold again

ahhhhhhh i weep at the potential! simply weep.