beckyh2112 | Random-Draw Meme

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I've tipped into a manic phase right now, which means I can't concentrate for beans on long stuff. But I can do LOTS of memes! :D

Pick one or two or three numbers from one to twenty. Give me a prompt. Get a beer because it might be a while before I answer. :D

You will note the lack of letters. This is because I don't feel like doing AUs in this one. Or at least not being limited in which AU I write. Maybe the next one.

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4, 16.

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

Long, dark hair seeping into shadows. Long, red robes clinging to a willowy frame. Long, fine limbs moving with firebender's grace.

Mother?, Iroh thinks for an instant, utterly at a loss.

Then the figure turns, and he sees it's the Second Prince. His little brother, by blood, though Iroh finds it easier to think of Jeong Jeong as his brother. They have shed blood together, while this ghost of his mother has never been more than someone who Zolena mentioned in letters.

The Second Prince looks at him with quizzical eyes, as if not quite placing his face.

We are strangers to each other, Iroh thinks, his heart growing heavy. We are brothers, and we have never met before at all. Our lives have passed each other by.

I like this. The pain of seeing a stranger than shares your blood so directly. *nuzzles the brothers*

"He doesn't have a conscience, you know." Jeong Jeong swirls his tea, missing the bitter taste of coffee but knowing the fine white tea is better for him.

The Water Tribesman scoffs. "He deserted the war, didn't he?"

"Because I did."

There is an uncertain pause. Hakoda must be thinking, putting the timing together the way no one has ever done so. "- Three months?"

"Three months," Jeong Jeong agrees. "That's how long it took for my letter to reach him. He didn't desert until after I explained to him what was wrong with the war."

Hakoda frowns. "But he is a good man-"

"He is a man who doesn't care," Jeong Jeong says harshly. "Who you are, where you come from, doesn't matter to him. He killed a hundred men, five of whom were his best and favorite students, for daring to try to take him back to the war. He had no mercy and no regrets."

*purr* Evil!Piandao pleases me because he seems so... canon. I can utterly see this as a lovely alternative interpenetration.

And oh my, what is Hakoda doing at JJ and Piandao's?

Looking for Sokka, of course. ^_^

*grin*

The first time Bato meets Hahn, Kanna has taken it into her head to visit a childhood friend from the North. Master Pakku is only too glad to go back and Katara with him, but Sokka drags his feet.

In the North, Bato finds a Water Tribe culture like he never knew could exist. It's nothing like the South or the Swamp, and the way people look at him makes his scar itch.

He's never been considered a barbarian by his own people before.

"You're alive?" Sokka blurts out one night at a dinner with the Chief. He promptly gets punched in the chest by a young man about his age.

"Hi, Hahn," Katara says with a soft smile, and Sokka looks at his sister like she's alien.

"Hey, Keitaro," the young man says, sitting down at Chief Arnook's left hand. His throat is burn-scarred, Bato notes, and his entire body language speaks of suppressed anger.

"Katara," Katara corrects, then introduces him and her grandmother. Hahn nods, and the dinner goes on without interruption. Hahn visibly works to get Kanna's name correct all during the meal, and Bato idly wonders what's wrong with the young man. He's seen soft-minded folk before in the Earth Kingdom, though Hahn is not one of those.

He never does get Bato's name right.

***

The second time Bato meets Hahn, Chief Arnook is being laid to rest beneath the waves. Hahn will be anointed chieftain after him.

The man has hair the color of moonlight, and Sokka makes a sound like he's been punched in the gut.

"Bato of the Southern Water Tribe," Hahn says quietly as he clasps Bato's hand. "Welcome to the North."

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Bonus: Iroh and Ozai

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Bonus: evil!Piandao

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Bato and Hahn - You are someone else/I am still right here