In-Progress Meme

[lavanya_six]

Stolen from Avocado Love:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.


FMB
Alike In Heart
FFO
Zuko 1/2
...and That Father Lost...
Sokkla_BigBang
Remaining Avatar 500 ideas
Rudolphtown
Bender Royale
Reconstructed in Grey
fem!Zukaang
Avatar Hama
Kintara
World of Broken Glass
Shake a Poor Sinner's Hand
Remember Jacob Grasped Easu's Heel
Ty Suki + Maikka fic
Matched Pair
Avatar Azulon
Natural Beneficiaries Fund
ND: Distaff World
Naru as Beryl
Aang's Posse
Fifth Nation
Recreational Potion Use
Man Among Men
XXty Sequels 2011
Honor in the Night
Suki/Aang Fic
The Damned of Kyoshi
Not as Hard as You
Cold-Bloodied Fire (Maiko 100)
Zucest
TLA 2
Misato/Shinji
Chariot of the Gods
Her Smoke Rises Up Forever

Comments

[schwarztkd.livejournal.com]

Well...most of the ones I wanted were already requested, so that rocks for me! XD

But I would like to see any one of these Sokkla_BigBang, Remaining Avatar 500 ideas, Bender Royale and (giant surprise here) Reconstructed in Grey.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

"Bender Royale" only exists in outline format, so I don't have anything to sample here. The other three however...

** Remaining Avatar 500 ideas

Piandao said, "The secret to sword-fighting is knowing when to press the A button."


** Sokkla_BigBang

Sokka smoothed out the blueprint, which showed a cross-section of a bizarre machine the like of which Azula had never seen. The machine's boiler was standard enough, but it had been nested inside a mishmash of wheels, valves, and cylinders that seemed hopelessly tangled to the princess's discerning eye.

"It's based on those new landships the War Ministry is field testing in the Great Divide," Sokka said, "but focused on engine power instead of speed. Its designed to haul these." He laid out a second blueprint.

"That looks like one of the old monorail they used to operate here." Azula glanced up at him. The Water Tribe boy couldn't help but grin at the new measure she seemed to be taking of him. "You designed a steam-powered monorail."

"Yes! Well, no. We're calling it a bi-rail."

"That's a terrible name."



** Reconstructed in Grey

(Here's an excerpt from the failed first draft. Originally I was going to write about Aang being recruited by Azula, but instead I'm going to do something a bit different that doesn't involve an appearance by Azula. This excerpt will still give you a general sense of where I'll be going with alt!Aang's personality in the real thing.)

At the start of his spring rounds, Aang arrives in Silla Village to find his ostrich-horse won't being sharing a stall with the local healer's.

"He stole Oss-Oss?"

Song nods, and the hurt shining in her eyes piques Aang's sense of honor. He has seen injustices aplenty since he took up his calling as a wandering healer, plying his ability to manipulate chi while couriering medicines between villages, but to steal a healer's ostrich-horse?

Unforgiveable!

Bad enough to abuse a host's hospitality, but that bastard Li hurt all the people Song and her mother might need to tend to in an emergency. It's enough to make Aang want to challenge the thief to a duel, but he says nothing of that to Song. Matters of honor are a Fire Nation practice and revealing his heritage would do him no favor in the borderlands. Better for all involved if he is merely an ethnically ambiguous healer.

So instead of railing against the dishonorable act committed against her home and hearth, Aang offers Song the Earth Kingdom's folk blander condolences before moving onto the business of her village. They discuss their patients long into the night over a pot of omija cha tea.

[schwarztkd.livejournal.com]

Avatar 500: So either Piandao is removed from reality...or he's an arcade master. Either way, awesome!

Sokkla: I love Sokka/Azula interactions. You can tell she's both impressed by his genius and exasperated by his...Sokkaness. I like how this could take place in so many stories. AU where the FN won, AU where Sokka was born FN. Post-canon where the war is over and everyone lives in peace...ok the 'War Ministry' kills that thought, but you get the idea.

Reconstructed: What I like most here is just how furious Aang is, but that he's unwilling to let it show and blow his cover. I'd like to see this Aang, who has fled the FN, meet up with Avatar Ty Lee and the WT siblings with her. Not to mention Azula, Mai & anyone else in that group. Oh! And he was probably friends with Zuko as kids, so how will he react if he learns Zuko is the one who stole?

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

The Sokkla story's setting is actually something Loopy suggested a while back in the shipping thread on the Avatar Spirit forum. Basically, the FN and WT ally during Sozin's Era and kick off the world war against the EK and AN. By the time the story starts with Sokka and Azula in Ba Sing Se, the war's been over for a generation. The Earth Kingdom is almost totally under the Water-Fire yoke, minus some mountain and desert hold-outs that don't pose any sort of existential threat.

[schwarztkd.livejournal.com]

...That...That is just too fantastic for words.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on it being my Big Bang fic this year.

[schwarztkd.livejournal.com]

Ok, I stand corrected. THAT is too awesome for words! XD

(Sorry, I get silly when it's this late.)

My Big Bang fic is going to be a crossover between Avatar (duh) and John Carpenter's "The Thing"

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Awesome!