because I'm better at brainstorming than writing anyway

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nabbed from jaina

If you make up titles for stories I didn't write, I will respond with details of those non-written stories.


fandoms covered so far:

Fullmetal Alchemist - Freedom Kittens
Princess Tutu - Reconstruction (spoilers!)
Harry Potter - Lazy Days (spoilers!)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Nightblindness (spoilers!), Girl With The Weight Of The World On Her Shoulders, Five Buildings Zuko Didn't Burn Down (spoilers!)
Naruto - In a Forest Without Trees

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Title: Five Buildings Zuko Didn't Burn Down

1 - The island house in summer, age 4, when he had his first fire dream and woke up with his bed in flames. He didn't stop the fire, he didn't call for help-- he hid, terrified, and when his father walked through the burning wreckage to pluck his son's shaken body out of a kitchen cabinet, Zuko knew he would always be safe in his father's arms. The estate burned, the royal family left, and the prince didn't step foot on that beach again in this lifetime.

2 - the Fire Temple's capital library, geological and geographical studies wing, when he was 7. Zuko as a child unintentionally did more damage to the rebel movement than his sister could ever hope to, no matter how many cities she's silently captured. Because Zuko's mistake, which only truly amounted to a few charred rooms and mild smoke-sickness for the librarians (hardly a destroyed building), gave Lord Azulon the idea to censor the cartographers and the navigators, the intellectuals and the traders and the sea captains. Across the world, maps of the Fire Nation disappeared.

3 - the hideout in the forests of the Northern Earth Kingdom, occupied territory, age 16, when a squad of children tried to rob his retinue and make a hostage of his first lieutenant. He tracked them through the night, he rescued his officer, he burned their thatch tree houses to ash on the wind, and he buried three men the next morning, the poisoned arrows from their chests snapping between his fingers.

4 - the Palace of Ba Sing Se, age 16, when he deliberately started a conflagration in the catacombs that became too hot and too pervasive to stop, devouring from beneath the second-oldest palace in the world. Zuko's face was whole and now that he could see clearly again, all he he wanted to see was Azula and fire. ((who knew healing him would make him crazy? Katara sure didn't!))

5 - the Western Air Temple, age 17, when his great-grandfather's spirit, age 12, had his first fire dream and nearly suffocated in the fumes. Zuko walked down the hallways and into the boys room, hands passing over walls and floor, furniture and door frames. Every fire Zuko passed quivered and sank, hiccuping itself into nothing as he absorbed the energy and sang the flames to sleep. When the flames settled the waterbender pulled the blackness from the Avatar's lungs, and they could all breathe easily for one more night without disaster.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice! I love the ambigous AU-ness of these - it took me a couple readings of #1 to realize it was totally AU, and that no, Ozai was never really a father to his son.

I really like 3, with the image of those arrows snapping in his fingers, and 4 is chilling - the idea that he'd be worse healed than he is scarred (which is probably really true.)

Five made me giggle - that I could actually see happening, and I love the image of Zuko walking through the fire sucking up the flames.