mini chain commentfic meme!

[lavanya_six]

Ganked from attackfish , who took it from rabidchild67 and coffeethyme4me, who themselves took it from hoosierbitch .


The first five people to comment on this post get to request that I write a drabble/ficlet of any character/pairing of their choosing in either the Avatar: the Last Airbender or My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandoms, except for anything involving Princess Yue. However, if you request in one of my established AUs, pease keep to the parings in that universe. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (sketch and drawble memes can be substituted for writing memes, though!)

If you want to play the meme but NOT repost and play on your own LJ, you can absolutely still make a request, but please make a note to that effect in your comment so that I can prioritize/encourage the folks playing along at home. And you know, request fics on their memes XD.


Closed at ranchoth, although I still owe clockworkchaos a slot from last time, so feel free to prompt me, CWC.

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Katara/Toph - There is earth at the bottom of the sea.

Katara/Toph; Old World Blues [1/1]

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Toph didn't feed coal into Silap Inua's boilers anymore, they had Professor Zei's manservant for that, but she still preferred to stick to the engine room. Coal was the closest earth you could find on an airship, especially one crossing an ocean. So when Sokka came to fetch her, there was only one place to check.

"You gotta see this!" he gushed from the doorway.

"That's gonna be kinda difficult, Boss."

"...oh!" Sokka snapped his fingers. "Blind."

"Toph!" She heard a clamor of footsteps. Again, Katara cried out, "Toph! You need to see this! It's amazing!"

Haughtily, Sokka said, "She's blind, sis. Could you be any less considerate, asking a question like that?"

"So we'll be her eyes. How often do you get to see a lost city, blind or not?"

A lost city actually sounded pretty cool, and Katara's soft arm felt nice to hold on deck. Tossing a "See ya" to the professor's manservant, Long Feng, she headed up to the deck with the siblings. Sokka found a clue and drifted back to the captain's wheel.

The air was thin and cold. Katara guided her off the hand-railing to the prow, and she was man enough to admit that she huddled so close to the waterbender for reasons other than her being stacked. If they hit turbulence and Toph fell over the edge, there was nothing stopping her from splattering somewhere far below.

Just thinking about it made her nauseous. Sokka had bought some gliders from apostate airbenders in case they needed to abandon ship mid-flight, but she'd sooner trust in the Abominable Rockman or in firebenders that weren't bugfuck crazy tribals.

Toph clenched the thin railing, felt it vibrate in sympathy with the boilers and whirling screw.

"So what am I 'seeing'?"

Katara pressed against her. "There's earth at the bottom of the sea. It was South Chung-Ling in the Old World. You can see it, just beneath the ocean's skin."

"So?" There was tons of earth under the sea, put there almost a century ago by the Avatar. People said there had been a whole country out here in the western sea. The Fire Nation, they used to call it, back before Aang the Warbender had played skipped stones using the archipelago. "If anyone can see it, then it's probably all picked over already. There won't be anything for us to sell."

"I'm not talking about lost technology. It's just pretty, all those shades of blue and green."

"Want to know what else is pretty? The stuff I found between my toes. That was pretty... pretty slimy."

Katara patted her on the shoulder. "I think that's enough sharing for today."

Despite that proclamation, Toph didn't let go of the waterbender's arm, Katara didn't take it back, and so they stood there for a while, huddled against the rail.

Re: Katara/Toph; Old World Blues [1/1]

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Love! Specifically, I love Sokka turning right around and scolding Katara for asking such an insensitive question, and Toph being utterly unimpressed with Avatarworld Atlantis.

Also, Haha, Long Feng shoveling coal!

Re: Katara/Toph; Old World Blues [1/1]

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Re: Katara/Toph; Old World Blues [1/1]

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

Totally awesome, but I feel the title is slightly false advertising, as this did not, in fact, feature a character having their brain (and other organs) stolen and going on a quest to get them back.

Re: Katara/Toph; Old World Blues [1/1]

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

The title and worldbuilding was taken from an outline I wrote after getting drunk on New Vegas DLC. Basically, the idea was that Aang never runs away and eventually unleash His Wrath upon the Fire Nation. In the process, a lot of technology and knowledge is lost. A century later, people brave the ruins of the Fire Nation, exploring uncharted waters and cannibalistic firebender tribes, to locate tech to sell.

Professor Zei came to Sokka because of his newly invented airship. Zei had a map to a lost city of technology, a research lab located deep inside the desert on what was now an uncharted island.