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Now that I'm getting into the groove of writing, I'm sure y'all have questions.

Or maybe not, but I'm pretending you do anyway.

So.

Pick an OC of mine, and ask me anything you'd like about their "canon" backstory.

Why specify "canon"? Because I like AUs. A lot. So it's easier to specify.

ETA: Please don't ask me things like "what is their backstory?" or "I'd like to know more about them". Please go with three specific or semi-specific questions. I may open this up to more later.

OC List

Air Nomads	Earth Kingdom	Dai Li	Fire Nation	Fire Palace	Water Tribe
Ketu	Fa Lu	Xin Wan	Daimyo Torao	Kajizu	Chulyin
Tashi	Zhilan	Liu	Lady Ran	the Chamberlain	Maser Sirmik
Nima	Ling	Qin	Akane	Jinzai	Nilak
Indira*	Rui	Xiang	Umi	Emi	Tikaani
Khan Vachir*	Daiyu	Jae	Torako	Mizao	Ikkap
Kitsi^	Karakurt	Sang Min	Daimyo Osamu	Kouka	Tukkar
Kanna^	Dosun	Kyung	Lady Kimiko	Yuriko	Kuma
Arigh the Black#	Queen Linhua*	Duyi	Lady Mariko	Nori	Ataneq*
	Dae-Hyun*	Tai	Daimyo Akio	Princess Zolena	Yuu^
	King Kamol*	Niran	Madame Chiasa	Kishu	Kilak^
	Xiyu^	Bae	Chiko	Geming	Mikka^
	Da Yi^	Hyun Su	Katsu	Li Kazan	Jinjing^
	Jian^	Myung Dae	Kawa	Hitozi^	Shan^
	Lin^	In-Su	Yaozu	Ursa^	Anuun^
	Takao^	Thanh	Yingtai	Kohaku^
	Avatar Kashvi#	Chet	Daiki	Harumi^
	Kailì#		Mazaru
			Seiji
			Akemi
			Hideki
			Kazali
			Arazi*
			Kiyozi*
			Avatar Yuzuna*
			Kazou^
			Takumi the Fiddler#

* means a future character, # a past character, and ^ a next-generation character.

Feel free to ask me who some of these folks are. ^^_^^

ETA2: If you want to do a non-AtLA OC, go ahead! I'm just not making a list for y'all.

MEME IS CLOSED.

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I particularly like fics with Hitozi, Zuko's son. I'd like to know more about him!

Any specific questions?

Hmm... well, we really only see him when he's very young and when he's a bit older... what happens in between? How does he grow into his princely duties? Why did Zuko allow Ozai to meet his grandson in the first place, let alone allow them to spar together? Also, any little tidbits about him that you'd like to share. :)

Zuko didn't really have a choice in allowing Ozai to meet Hitozi. (http://beckyh2112.livejournal.com/324693.html?thread=1911893#t1911893)

Ooh... I hadn't found that ficlet before! :) Thanks for linking.

How did Torao meet Zhao?

Torao is seven when Li Xia is hired as his firebending tutor. His mother hopes the Li can coax more power from him, his father hopes she can teach him the skill necessary to learn how to use white fire.

His parents have taught him to firebend ever since he was born, and he refuses to learn from a stranger.

Li Xia takes one look at the stubborn mouth on the daimyo's second son, and the next day she brings back a younger cousin.

"Li Zhao hasn't any firebending talent worth mentioning," she announces loudly, "so a daimyo's son had better be able to keep up with him."

Ha ha ha ha. <3 Oh, Li Xia, I adore you. <3333 To the Li Bar with you! :D

Not sure who some of the people on the table are? Ask here, and I'll do my best to answer.

Ursa^

Ursa^ is best explained with fic (http://beckyh2112.livejournal.com/317191.html). More fic. (http://beckyh2112.livejournal.com/406972.html?thread=4448188#t4448188)

Kazan, Akemi or Kuma... *flails! Flails more!* ... I pick Kuma! How did Kuma's relationship with Bato begin?

Edited 2011-01-15 23:47 (UTC)

Hakoda has a new wife who he dotes on. He doesn't notice the way Kya's eyes go hard and cold when Bato is around, but Bato certainly does. The marriage is still young, and he knows Hakoda loves her, so he collects his things and makes preparations to visit one of the other villages.

"I want to hunt something you can't find around here," he says when Hakoda asks. "Walruscuda or ice-bison, maybe."

"I'll come with you," Hakoda says immediately, eyes alight at the prospect of such a hunt.

Bato chuckles softly and pushes his friend in the direction of the house he shares with his mother and wife. "Get Kya someone to remember you by first."

***

"I need a guide," he says the second night he is in the men's lodge of the village. He doesn't know these people well. Bato's father and Sangilak had not liked Tukkar, and while the pirate was hung long ago, his second still lived and his boy was...

Kuma is dangerous. "To where?"

"Where the bison are."

Kuma grins, and the finger-bones in his hair click together as he grabs his gear.

Fingerbones, Kuma! You are barbaric and that is sexy. >_>

I enjoy that Bato's aware of other's feelings, unfounded or not. I like how he steps down and doesn't seem to be crushed, unlike so many fics that involve Hakoda, Bato, and Kya. His best friend's wife is jealous, he'll go off and do stuff.

Just one is hard because now I have a lot. -.-;

Does Hitozi find out what really happened when Zuko was away when he grows older?

Hitozi is sixteen and laughing with his friends over what holidays they were conceived around. His sisters don't seem to be tied to any particular holiday. In fact, Ursa-

Father wasn't even home when Ursa had to have been conceived. He hadn't been home for months.

His friends wonder why he's fallen quiet, and he lets them talk him into something stupid before he slides deeper into brooding.

;_; ::cuddles Hitozi::

What sends Tikaani and Nilak to Aang?

How does Niran react when he learns Tian is pregnant?

"I thought we were using protection." Niran paced around the central room of their apartment, gesturing sharply with one hand and keeping his other fist clenched to keep from earthbending anything. "I mean, that's the whole point of sheathes. At least when you're sleeping with a virgin who hasn't slept with anybody else. No babies."

Tian hummed and continued to fill pastry shells with chopped nuts and fruits. "They fail sometimes, you know."

"That's why you have that tea!"

She filled another pastry shell and pressed the flour-petals together. "Niran, you like children. Why is this upsetting?"

He froze, eyes flicking to her then shifting to stare into a corner. "... It might not live. What if- What if you lose the child, Tian? And if it does live, it'll be mixed. You know what people say about mixed children."

She said nothing for several minutes as she finished the last of her pastry shells. Then she raised her eyes to study him.

His eyes were haunted.

Oh, Niran, she thought sadly. How many women have you taken away from the pain of miscarriages and rapes? How many girls with hazel eyes that are more gold than brown have you taken away from the pain of being mixed heritage in Ba Sing Se?

"It's ours," she said softly, folding her hands over her belly. "It's ours, Niran. That's enough."

"You need to tell Chief Hakoda," Tikaani says firmly.

Nilak shakes her head, eyes wide and frightened. Tikaani isn't sure if her cousin is scared of speaking to the chief or admitting she's an airbender. Especially since the chief's daughter is courting the Avatar.

"You need to," Tikaani repeats. "And if you don't, I will."

How does Thanh deal with teaching history that... never really happened at all? If he doesn't teach modern history, how does he react to such a change? Obviously he sides with the Dai Li rather than academic freedom, but it must be rough on one level?

How and when does Lady Kimiko decide that she will try to become Ozai's mistress?

Edited 2011-01-16 20:32 (UTC)

Kimiko is nineteen and preparing for her wedding when she is presented to Firelord Azulon. Her parents ask permission to give her in marriage to daimyo-heir Osamu, and he makes the appropriate noises of offering his blessings.

She knows it would never have come this far if the Firelord disapproved, that this is just show and pomp.

There is a young man standing near the Firelord's throne, next to the low-class bitch who has taken the seneschal's position. Other positions, too, if the rumors are to be believed, and Mama has said the rumors about Azulon's appetites for women are almost always to be believed. That is why she has been so rarely presented at court.

The young man has a cast to his face like the Firelord, and the eyes that meet hers are pure gold. A shock runs through her body, and she thinks longingly of the days when she wasn't betrothed. Before she and Osamu came to their little agreement - two children between them, then they'd tend to their own affairs as they saw fit.

She can't afford to dally with this bastard, no matter what favor he has with the Firelord to be so acknowledged. A pity.

***

"Prince Ozai," her husband says, two years later when they bring their first child to present to the Firelord. The little boy occupies Kimiko's arms and attention, and she barely controls herself when she glances at the man Osamu greets as a prince.

It is the young man from the court, and the shock runs through her again, stronger, twinging in her womb and cunt. He is handsome, and all the rumors said he was still unmarried. She might curse the bad luck to land a mere daimyo when there was a royal prince, except not even the royal house had the sheer wealth the daimyos of Buyou no Long Shima did.

"Lord Osamu. Lady Kimiko." His voice caresses her name, and Kimiko decides she will have to try harder for a second child.

The wealth and comfort of being Osamu's wife would be nicely enhanced by the prestige and gifts of sating the needs of one of Azulon's spawn. Especially if she could keep him from straying - Azulon and Iroh were renowned for their womanizing but neither had strayed from the wives they loved.

If she could make Ozai love her in the way Osamu never would...

Her mouth curved in a smile. "Prince Ozai."

Oh, Kimiko, you seem very materialistic and hedonistic. But not so clever. But that's all right, you are an interesting figure, anyway.

I love the concept of 'lust in first sight' for Kimiko's behalf. Meanwhile Ozai goes, 'Women. D=' and misses Kazan very much?

There were no classes for modern history outside of Ba Sing Se when Thanh arrived on the University staff. It was a chancy subject, too fraught with drawing the attention of the Dai Li and besides, most of their students didn't need to know it.

But they wanted to, Thanh noticed during his first semester. They wanted to, and if they couldn't be taught it, they'd go looking for answers some other way.

That would be troublesome.

His smile isn't kind when he tells the Dean what courses he's going to teach next semester.

Does Ursa have that airbender spirit?

Is Harumi treated any differently as the last child and baby of the family?

Yes. (http://beckyh2112.livejournal.com/349446.html?thread=2551046#t2551046)

"They'll be fine," Zuko says absently, and Mai is impressed. He'd have been out the door and down the hall by now if Hitozi had done the same thing when he was the twins' age.

Ty Lee grins. "Like Mother always said. When the first child swallows a shu, you take her to a doctor. When the third child swallows a shu, you take it out of their allowance."

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How did Kuma's relationship with Bato begin?

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Does Hitozi find out what really happened when Zuko was away when he grows older?

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