Dreams and Swords

Title: Ember, Ash, and Kindling
Pairings: Mai/Zuko, Ozai/Ursa
Characters: Ensemble
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After Azulon ordered her son's death, Ursa convinced Ozai his father would not stop with Zuko and they could not stop him. The royal couple fled into exile with their children. Six years later, their tenuous peace shatters with the arrival of two forces in Ba Sing Se: Avatar Aang and Prince-General Iroh.

Archive of Our Own

Title: You 'Ard Enough?
Characters: June/Chit Sang, Earth Kingdom dudes
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1000+
Summary: June goes back to her favorite bar after a job, and there's a guy sitting at her table.

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The Prisoners by blue_lacquer was her avatarbigbang 2010 story. It's this wonderful Mai-centric fic about what happened to her between "The Boiling Rock, Part Two" and the series finale.

I love the relationship between her and Ty Lee in this story, and the relationship between her and her uncle. I love how we see Mai as being very much a Fire Nation girl - she saved Zuko because she loved him, but she doesn't believe in the Avatar and she's just as imperialistic as any other random Fire Nation person.

The transfer from the Boiling Rock to the Capital Prison is a major turning-point in the story. Ty Lee and Mai meet some familiar faces and life gets very much more dangerous for them.

blue_lacquer does an amazing journey from Mai, showing us her despair at the life of a prisoner, her conviction that she'd do what she had done again, and her figuring out that maybe the Fire Nation was wrong and maybe she can do what she wants with her life.

She also does a really wonderful job with Huu's characterization. I was very impressed by that. I love her characterization of the Warden of Boiling Rock, as well as Ty Lee and her family. There's a chapter while Mai and Ty Lee are at the Capital Prison where we have most of Ty Lee's sisters coming secretly to visit her. It's a stunning contrast to the way the only person in Mai's family reaching out for her is her uncle.

There are fourteen chapters, and the chapters are of a handy size for reading. Not long enough to require you to set aside a specific time-frame to read, not short enough to be annoying.

Title: An Ounce of Blood
Characters: Mai, the Warden
Rating: G
Word Count: 800+
Summary: Mai is eight and she is supposed to go to the Fire Nation Academy for Girls in a week. Only her parents haven't come to fetch her from Uncle Naruzi's house.
Author's Note: This is my second story written for purimgifts 2011.

( An Ounce of Blood )

I'm writing an AU where Yue lives and she goes with the Gaang as far as Ba Sing Se, but I am having the problem of not really having a clear grip on her personality. This makes it tricky to write her actually having scenes with the Gaang and Jet and other such folks.

(Note: the scenes with Jet aren't in the fic I'm writing but I'm trying to write them as a personality exercise and so not working.)

So! Thoughts on Yue, please.

Clarification: Thoughts on Yue's personality, please.

Give me a pairing and a title reminiscent of the sillier Harlequin titles (I recommend checking Harlequin Presents, Romance, Historical Undone, and Silhouette Special Edition for ideas. Especially Presents), and I will drabble you something very silly.

Fandoms: AtLA, Transformers, PotC, Sailor Moon, Jackie Chan Adventures

MEME IS CLOSED. Unless you want to nip in with a Jackie Chan Adventures request.

After reading this fic, you may be compelled to ask, "Bex, do you know anything about Valentine's Day, or were you raised under a rock?"

Title: Heart Break
Characters: Ozai/Ursa, Iroh
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400+
Summary: But love is a voice on the wind/and the wages of sin/and a tanglewood tree. -- "Tanglewood Tree". Ursa visits Ozai in his cell.

( Heart Break )

Written for 5trueloves.

Title: Dealbreaker
Characters: Song/Ozai, Hakoda, Song's mother, assorted Earthfolk
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7000+
Summary: When the leaves were turning orange, a Fire man hauled a Water Tribesman into Song's clinic.

( Dealbreaker )