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“I wish we could do ours again for the first time,” xiao-Shu continued, peering at the back of his hand and the careful spot of crimson, its edges perfectly crisp like a freshly stamped seal. “I'd paint you all over in gold.”
People destined to be bonded leave colours on each other’s skin. Jingyan knows what bonds mean, and then learns that what he knew may not always be the whole picture.
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Guo Changcheng just wanted somewhere to study in peace.
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Pingzhang meets everyone, except one.
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“How do you feel?” He can hear the other get to his feet.
“Refreshed,” he says, surprising himself. “I haven’t slept that well in a while. My mind is…” Clear, he wants to say. Clean. Scrubbed. Disinfected. He doesn’t say any of that.
Steve smiles. He remembers Steve.
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The three of them soon come to rule over Tuesday, and they are there when Mike Ross walks in to ask about the hiring notice on the wall. [college coffee shop crossover AU]
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Zuko scoffed. “As always, I am the author of my own unhappiness.”
Sokka hummed. “Years ago, when it was just us travelling together, we came across this fortune teller. I didn’t believe any of that mumbo-jumbo. But then she said that my life would be full of struggle and anguish, most of it self-inflicted.”
It suited Zuko’s life extraordinarily well, he felt. “Sometimes, I feel like I’m the only person in the Fire Nation who has a vision of what it takes for this country to get better.”
Sokka turned to face him, but Zuko looked resolutely forwards. “That can’t be true.”
Zuko turns twenty-five. In spite of his best efforts, the Fire Nation seems to lurch from crisis to crisis. The firebenders have lost their flame, and the situation with the former colonies is only worsening. All the while, he's ill, lonely, and consumed by work.
And on the other side of the country, Sokka has just moved in with one Master Piandao.
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Five years ago, Sokka left Zuko without a word of warning. Now Aang and Katara's wedding is bringing them back together, and Zuko has to set aside his anger to get some answers about Sokka, their relationship, and the man he himself yearns to become.
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(With Wonder and Care) Reach for Far-flung Dreams by Erisenyo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Sep 2022
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Sokka has seen more documentaries than Zuko probably cares to count about NASA’s various missions. He once made Katara watch a compilation of his favorite rocket launches and he can name, in order, all 365 manned space flights ever to leave Earth. He has the Curiosity rover tattooed on the back of his shoulder and the solar system wrapped around his bicep and he’s wanted to be an astronaut since he was old enough to realize what that was, has wanted to visit the Kennedy Space Center and see a rocket launch since he learned it existed.
Little does he know that today is the day it’s finally going to happen.
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To Open Every Door to Night, To Meet Each Rising Sun by Erisenyo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
19 Nov 2022
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[In rare moments of whimsy and indulgence—usually accompanied by cake—Azula would sometimes think of herself as one part of a triangle. Half of a paired dao. The northern point of a compass, even, always guiding straight and true.
But she thinks, as she contemplates the single cowering candleflame and the stifling darkness, that perhaps she’s been a lone flame all along.
No matter, though. Zuzu claims to have changed. Maybe Azula will change, too. Maybe she will forge herself into a spear, instead, striking straight and true. Or an arrow in the night. A knife in the dark.
Her eyes flick up to where Zuko just disappeared from her sight, and she snaps, sharp, precise, and feels lightning-tinged fire arc off her fingertips.
Or in the back.]
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Six years after the war, Azula has finally reached her age of majority and is about to be crowned Zuko’s heir. If only Sokka could shake the feeling that she’s plotting something…
If only Azula could keep Water Tribe from bumbling into her plots.
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What if Sokka and Zuko were able to know each other as more than enemies? What if they became confidants and friends through letters without ever realizing who was on the other side? How would that spark of a connection change the course of their lives?
A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.
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