“No fear. No pain. No mercy.” 843 whispered the words as soon as her eyes opened. It was still early. Two hours before sunrise. She rose. Her body moved like clockwork. She rinsed her face in the small basin by her bunk. Donned her uniform. Made her bed. Went to the dining room. Two young … Continue reading
An illustration by Jessiphia, showing chapter 8 of Switched Powers in which Zuko laments that he couldn’t completely heal the burn on Katara’s face. Continue reading
“So, wait, why are we going to the Fire Nation again?” Mako asked, a large backpack slung over his shoulders. Granted, most of the stuff in it was his brother’s — maps, mover posters, and some weird lotion of Varrick’s creation that Bolin insisted would keep skin from burning no matter how sunny it got. … Continue reading
A wonderful illustration by Jessiphia, showing the moment in chapter 5 of Switched Powers when Zuko reveals his waterbending skills to his uncle. Continue reading
Three years later… Kuvira was defeated. Everyone knew it had been coming. The Earth Kingdom was too vast, too varied, too enormous for even the great uniter to pull it together. But Eli didn’t really care about the Earth Kingdom’s fate. His only disappointment lay in the fact that Kuvira had not had the chance … Continue reading
“Bloodbending is largely a matter of keeping the body under your influence moving.” Zuko had not been joking about starting their lessons right away. Korra was out of bed now, sitting in chair identical to Zuko’s, the two of them facing each other in the center of the room. Other than that, though, nothing had … Continue reading
Korra stirred in the middle of the night. She was pretty sure she’d heard arguing. No one argued in her dreams. Either she didn’t remember them at all or she dreamed of someone trying to kill her. Her brain didn’t have much middle ground. “Oh, and that’s going marvelously well, isn’t it?” The voice was … Continue reading
Setting: The Southern Water Tribe, AG 172 Zuko reached out towards the roaring fire. He felt no warmth from it; only the sensation that the heat improved the circulation in his hands. Which, at his age, wasn’t a bad thing. It was Chief Tonraq and his wife Senna who had opened their home to him … Continue reading
Funny, Zuko assumed after having his bending switched around twice now, the third time the sensation wouldn’t be nearly so strange. It was still pretty unsettling. But this time around, it was also comforting. The strange presence of the lightning he had been clawing at the back of his brain suddenly left him, and it … Continue reading
There was a knock at the door while Zuko was eating. He’d been taking all his meals in a private room, and he’d made it perfectly clear that he wanted no one else in said room except whichever servant happened to be assisting him. So the knock, short of being some kind of dire Fire … Continue reading