Sis Writes Yanderes

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Link to my yandere masterlist.

(Brilliant, right? Way shorter than pinning the masterlist itself.)

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Btw, guys, if you ever find someone talking about my fanfiction just in the wild (including if it's on TikTok or something) you legally have to tell me.

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The screech I let out when I saw you updated scared my cats, but I'm so excited!!! You're incredibly talented!!

Thank you so much, and my apologies to your cats! I hope you like(d) the chapter!!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I did it! I updated the fic within a year of the last update!

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Sucks when the chapter is like three lines from finished but it's Not Ready Yet.

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Hey, do you still write for FNAF? I apologize if you don't anymore but I was rereading your past work on it and an idea popped in my head that I thought I would just throw out there. Basically it's the Daycare attendant with a reader who was a murdered child who haunting one of the animatronics? Basically just the idea that Sun/Moon would be trying to force the reader (and trying) to give them their stolen childhood back, and reader is just trying to stop Vanessa/ peepaw Willie from murdering more kiddos.

You're legitimately one of my favorite fanfic authors and I go out of my way to often read and reread your stuff! ❤️

Ooh, it starts when Ghost Child is wandering the Daycare for some reason or another. On your way somewhere else.

As you're passing through, Moon is getting all the kids to lay down for naptime. "Five little ones with their heads up...Three little ones with their heads up," the animatronic is counting, as the kids gradually lay down. "One little one still out of bed."

You don't realize, at first, that they mean you. You just notice, as a background thought, that it looks to you like all of the kids are asleep. You can't see who Moon is talking about.

Then the animatronic sails across the room, landing directly in front of you and herding you back toward the other children. "Sleep for the little ones. All in their beds. All rest their heads."

You died a long time ago. You're not exactly a child or exactly an adult. You were killed after the days of shoving children into animatronic suits but before the days of Sun and Moon. You still look like the child you were back then, on the rare occasion you catch a glimpse of your own hands or feet.

And that Moon thing is looking right at you. When it ushers you back toward the sleeping area, you feel its hands.

That first encounter, you let it put you under a blanket out of sheer shock and confusion. It pets your head and contentedly says, "Nighty night," before gliding away, and you're able to sneak off, once it leaves.

Back to the mission of stopping the yellow rabbit. Stopping the white rabbit.

The next time you have to pass through the daycare, you make sure to avoid naptime. If the Daycare Attendant can see you and intends to treat you as one of its charges, then you'll have to only cross during the times when children roam the room freely. As long as Sun is distracted (and Sun always has someone to entertain), it shouldn't stop you from leaving.

"There's my special friend!" Suddenly, Sun is picking you up, pulling you into a hug that isn't curtailed by the limitations of flesh the way it would be if you were alive; you can feel the gears inside the machine touching your very being. "Did you get lost? Here, hold my hand."

The other kids in the Daycare don't seem to notice the animatronic's interactions with a ghost child. Too wrapped up in their own play.

Why the Sun and Moon are able to see you, let alone grab and hold you, is a question you'll probably never get answered, but they certainly seem intent on keeping you close.

You can usually placate them by coloring, listening to a story, whatever else they try to put in front of you. Eventually, they'll glance away and you'll have to break into an actual sprint to get out of the Daycare before they catch you.

After closing time, you often hear Moon scuttling after you. Fortunately, it can't seem to find you when you go inside the walls.

The problem is a manageable one, until one evening when Moon catches you and, instead of making you pretend to take a nap, pulls your ghostly form into itself.

You feel your essence tangle with the physical, laying down roots despite your attempts to wriggle free. Even when one of your hands manages to emerge from Moon's torso, it only hugs itself to force you back in.

"Naptime," Moon says, trailing a finger across its chest that you feel as if it were a caress on your head. "To sleep, to sleep."

And you feel the Daycare Attendant's will sending you, genuinely, to sleep. Your first time sleeping since you died.

It's terrifying. When you wake up in Sun's body, a helpless passenger as Sun entertains the day's guests, you start to worry that you'll never be able to escape this machine.

But it turns out, the Daycare Attendant can somehow tense and relax its hold on you. When Sun wants to let you out, it can. And when it wants to pull you in, you can't escape. You can't decide whether or not to bind to it any more than a stain can decide whether or not to sink into a carpet. It's in a ghost's nature to bind to a body.

When you're in the Daycare Attendant, you can feel the non-dominant one there, too: When Sun is active, you can feel Moon's consciousness, and vice versa. It's like being swaddled, almost to the point of being smothered.

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I've been missing you on my dashboard, friend! Are you excited about The Vampire Lestat/iwtv s3? From what we've seen, how do you think little darling is doing with all of her parents scattered to the winds?

Oh boy, first of all thank you! (I want to be more active on this blog, but I also want to take time to make my answers to my asks reasonably long and interesting, and I just end up kind of gridlocked by my own standards.)

Second of all, I am excited for Season 3! (I'm a little concerned about how much focus the characters and ships I like are going to get, but mostly I'm excited.)

It's fun to imagine which member of this yandere polycule has custody of their little darling, and I tend to imagine it's either Louis or Armand. But just to keep the others in the mix, I also imagine darling hears Lestat's songs on the radio or in the store and becomes curious about him, and also maybe when Louis and/or Armand is busy, Daniel is saddled with babysitting duty. They're always reluctant to have someone else watch darling, though, because everyone in their social circle is very possessive/protective and it'll be a hassle to get darling back from them after.

Like, Louis dropping off darling with Daniel so he can go do something not-kid-appropriate (like revenge against Bruce) is going to return to a lot of questions and comments on his parenting. Less so than Armand (because Daniel will pester Armand, whereas Louis is still someone he has an amount of respect and at times admiration for), but still more than he'd like to deal with.

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Confession, I Googled myself and got jumpscared by the AI overview.

The first time I've felt AI actively tempting me. Like, picture me wide-eyed while some sort of creature whispers in my ear. (I gotta stick to search engines that don't do this, lol. I have overviews turned off, in Ecosia.)

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I saw your post on a Yandere Zuko imprisoning Sokka in order to protect him from the Fire Nation, and I was wondering if you could elaborate more on that. In my mind, it’s an interesting concept because of Zuko’s newfound access to power but his need to appeal to the oppressive authority that is his father and the Fire nation that I would love to see explored! And of course, Sokka staying imprisoned is something I doubt he’d be taking well, which just adds more fuel to an already blazing fire.

context: previous post

Okay, so the options are for Sokka to be kidnapped during Crossroads of Destiny or Day of Black Sun.

I'm going Day of Black Sun, because it's more fun in a lot of ways.

It means Sokka has trained and mastered the blade.

It means we keep not only the extended period of time where Zuko is feeling disillusioned and complicit and talking about how disillusioned and complicit he feels, but also Zuko deciding to defect. This is a Zuko who was fully going to betray his father and teach the Avatar firebending, and then before he could tell his father this, he saw Sokka get overtaken by soldiers and instead went, "Actually, I can't pass up this opportunity. I'm the prince, and that prisoner is mine."

It means Sokka actually knows a good amount of information about the Fire Nation firsthand. He's not just going into it with anecdotes and preconceived ideas; he's had The Headband, The Runaway, The Painted Lady, etc. All kinds of firsthand adventures with Fire Nation citizens on Fire Nation soil. Not just the colonials in Earth Kingdom territory.

Sokka wakes up, not in a prison cell, but just...in a room. In a bed.

The room is unfamiliar, but it's immediately obvious that he isn't on a ship, which right away is a bad sign. And the decor...So much red...

An immediate sense of urgency has him sitting bolt upright. The motion makes him aware that one of his legs is bandaged and aching and so is one of his arms. The arm is unable to support his weight. Can the leg?

He was injured in the battle– the invasion. The invasion that the Fire Nation were ready for. To try to give Aang and Toph a way to sneak past, he'd created a pretty big one-man distraction. He was surrounded by Fire Nation soldiers, before he passed out. If they'd had their bending, he'd probably be dead.

And now he's in a bed, somewhere in Fire Nation territory.

"If I were a prisoner, I'd be in a cell. If I were a prisoner, I'd be in a cell," he whispers to himself, while his head jerks around, accounting for everything not-right about this picture.

He remembers the panic in Aang's face, when he awoke on a Fire Nation ship after passing out in Ba Sing Se. And the confusion and relief, when he realized he was among friends and allies.

Is that the situation he's in? Did the invasion succeed, and his friends and sister are in some other room, lightly bruised and chatting about next steps for the liberated world? Or maybe they retreated, and they managed to grab him and hide away in some Fire Nation building, and now they're grimly discussing how to bounce back?

Did they lose?

How much did they lose? Where is Katara? Aang, Toph?

One detail keeps crossing his mind: his space sword. It isn't here. If he were among friends, they would have left his sword nearby. It would be in his line of sight. His sword propped against the wall, or against the bed, or...

No sword is a really bad sign.

He's not in a cell, but he has a bad feeling about this.

He tries to get out of bed. Immediately, he knows that the injured leg is going to be a problem. Even his hope of letting it drag while the other leg does all the work is quickly proven impractical. Just trying to get his bad leg out of bed is teeth-gritting work, and he's feeling lightheaded. Blood loss. Hadn't factored in blood loss. He's going to collapse, and he needs to do it in whatever way will do the least damage to his leg.

"Hello again, The Universe," he murmurs wryly, while trying to clamber back into bed. "I see you're having some fun today."

He's supine again, and he takes a few deep breaths, until the snow clears from his eyes.

No shirt, he registers. There are bruises and scrapes and cuts on his body that wouldn't be there if Katara had been given access to him, so either something happened to her or they've been separated.

The far door opens, and Sokka's heart sinks as Prince Zuko enters the room, in full Fire Nation royal garb. "Looks like you tried to get up," he observes. "I figured you would."

Rage tears through Sokka, at the smugness of this guy. If it weren't for his leg– stupid leg! –he would have been upright when the jerk entered, and he could have launched a surprise attack, put up a fight. As it stands, he doesn't even have anything heavy to throw at him. "Where's Katara?" he demands.

"The others got away. At least, your group did. A lot of the older ones were captured, but your sister, the Avatar, and all the young ones flew away. And my uncle escaped his prison, so maybe he'll do what I...meant to."

Katara escaped. The news affords him some amount of calm, assuming Zuko is telling the truth. He might not be, but he isn't sure yet how it would benefit him to lie. If anything, saying that he has her as his prisoner could convince Sokka to give up secrets to protect her.

The older ones...

Zuko most likely doesn't know that Hakoda is his dad, and it's in their best interest that he doesn't find out. So he can't ask after his dad's health; he can only trust that Katara was able to heal him just like she healed Aang.

A snide remark like, Is this what passes for a prison around here? almost crosses his lips, but he's seen Fire Nation prisons, and the fact that this isn't one makes him too wary to waste time cutting the tension. "Why am I here?"

Zuko drifts closer, as tentative as a baby puffin-seal, but he lays a hand on the bedpost in too owning a way for Sokka's comfort. He's generous enough to answer the unspoken Where am I? before getting to the why: "You're in the Royal Palace. This room is for honored political prisoners."

"Honored prisoners." He let his tone have a field day with that oxymoron.

"Historically, the Fire Nation values showing respect to the enemy who proves worthy of respect. Lately, we...haven't had much use for this room. Which is why my father allowed me to have you placed here. Well, it helps that Azula backed me up."

"Azula did what?!"

"I know. But she spoke highly of your prowess. For a non-bender with no formal training."

The attempts at flattery were...weird, but Sokka could imagine the practical benefits to keeping him imprisoned somewhere close to the prince, princess, and Fire Lord. If his friends tried to save him, they would be walking into the jaws of the beast.

But wouldn't that also be true if they kept him in a normal cell?

"Does that hurt?" Zuko adds.

Sokka can't be bothered to follow his gaze and figure out what specific injury he's asking about. "Nope. All sunshine and roses over here. Where's my sword?"

"I have it in my room. It's an elegant blade."

"I know. I forged it."

"You must be very proud."

Still with the flattery. What's going on here? "I am," he answers flatly.

"Does it...have a name?" (So clearly, Zuko is trying to deliberately keep the conversation going.)

"Yeah. Its name is 'Let Me Out of this Palace, You Ponytailed Freak'. But I just call it 'Let Me Out', for short."

The prince's air of politeness makes way for exasperation. "Do you know what would happen to you, if I didn't ask my father to let me keep you here? If you were treated as any old war prisoner..."

"Oh, sorry, am I supposed to thank you? You guys were the ones who made me a prisoner in the first place, but thanks so much for the nice bed."

"We're not all...!" Zuko lets out a breath of hot air, then restarts, "The ones who hurt you just saw you as an enemy of the Fire Nation. But I see more than that."

"Then get your eyes checked," Sokka mocks, "because that's all I am."

"Forget it. I'll come back when you've had time to think about how lucky you are." He storms out.

Thus begins a pattern of Zuko visiting Sokka and storming out. Sometimes they're able to make it longer in the conversation before Sokka's ragebaiting ways start to rear their head (and Zuko's temper is no match for them). After all, Sokka's only source of information about what's going on in the war is Zuko and the little he's able to overhear from servants and guards outside his door. Resentments are one thing, but Sokka is resourceful and will not let his pride keep him from doing what he can.

When Sokka is well-mannered, Zuko brings him little gifts, but they're often unnerving reminders of what the Fire Nation is doing out there. Like, a little trinket from Ba Sing Se ("You mentioned that you liked the smell of the trees, there, so I had a sprig brought back on one of our war balloons.") or even one of Sokka's own old possessions from the (unprotected) Southern Water Tribe.

"Where'd you get this?" Sokka asks, horrified as he holds an old flounder-shark tooth hair clip that he used to wear constantly.

"You mentioned it, so I had someone go fetch it for you."

"You sent soldiers to my home?!"

Zuko frowns slightly. "They didn't harm anyone. It's just children and the elderly, there; no one got in the way, and the soldiers didn't stay long."

Sokka doesn't say anything; just sort of marinates in what could have happened if the little boys he tried to train had gotten it in their heads to fight back against their invaders.

"Why don't you put it in your hair?" Zuko suggests, blushing slightly.

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(Hi, quick post-script: Within this canon I've created, it's WILD that Iroh got put in straight-up jail, lol.)

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heyy !! big fan of your writing, can i request any and i mean ANYTHING at all about age regression twilight? pleaseee

(Of course! I'll do my best, off the top of my head.)

(See masterlist for previous Yandere Cullens forced agere installments)

When they told you it was time for the family to move, you were expecting a Uhaul truck.

You were expecting to watch them lift sofas and dressers over their heads with comical ease and pack their unnecessarily diverse sets of dishes and flatware into boxes labeled 'Kitchen' in marker.

But in fact, there were no boxes, no trucks. The family's luxurious furniture and cutting-edge entertainment systems remained right where they were, untouched.

Even the cars in the garage stayed put.

As far as you heard, they only ever considered bringing one car with them, and only for the sake of maximizing your comfort.

"Humans have to sleep," Carlisle reminded his children. "Preferably on a soft surface like a car seat, and not in our arms while we traverse three states on foot."

"Wrapped in a blanket, our arms would be perfectly cozy," Alice put in. "And our footsteps create a natural rocking motion. And the view will be nicer; the stars-"

"What about weather?"

"It won't rain! That was the first thing I checked."

"What about insects?"

"Bug spray. Easy."

Rosalie, who actually preferred the thought of carrying you to driving you, still saw fit to question, "You don't think it'll draw a bit of extra attention if someone sees us walking through the woods bridal-carrying a full-size human in a blanket?"

(Full-size, you noted. Neat way of avoiding saying "adult".)

"Everything you're asking, I've already checked," Alice said in a singsong voice. "Because I already saw you ask it. It'll be fine. It'll be nice!"

So they carried you all the way to your new home on foot. Bizarrely, their running didn't nauseate or disorient you at all. They took breaks at strategic times, to let you stretch your legs or eat something. Alice had been right about how pretty the stars and landscapes were.

In addition to their inability to physically tire of holding you, they seemed never to get tired of it emotionally, either. Each time one of them asked to take a turn, there was palpable reluctance in the person handing you over.

"Careful," Carlisle said. "Don't let the blanket touch the ground."

"I know, I know," Emmett said, eagerly scooping you up.

Edward, who often ran ahead of everyone, just as often circled back to see you. It seemed he didn't like limiting himself to the others' pace and he didn't like leaving you behind.

"For once, I don't think he'll be waiting for us at the house when we get there," Esme teased.

And speaking of the house:

It had its own set of luxurious furniture, cutting-edge entertainment systems, and expensive cars.

And if you expected your newness as a family member to mean there wouldn't be a room for you there, you were wrong.

There was a nursery with a big soft bed and a playroom with toys and games. The bathroom that would be yours was already stocked with soaps and shampoos and fluffy towels, and your picture was on the wall as often as theirs.

It wasn't an exact match of the last house. There were plenty of things you'd have to get used to. Different color schemes, a different kind of rocking chair, fewer windows in the kitchen, a whole skylight in the living room. The stuffed animals here were mostly new faces– though your bear had made the trip in Esme's arms. The movie room had plush recliners, instead of leather. Even the bottle from which they fed you milk was themed after a different cartoon character.

You wondered when they'd set all of this up for you, but the pacifier was already in your mouth for the night by the time you thought to ask.

The pillows on the new bed felt fuller, and the comforter was velvet.

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Hi! Happy weekend!

What are your thoughts on yandere Bella's willingness to kill? I think jealousy would be a potent motivator for her since she isn't quite used to those strong vampire emotions yet.

I worry if that conflicts with her canon personality, but I personally don't buy into the 'Bella is a perfect vampire' thing (mostly because it's boring) and honestly, I think it'd be fun to flip that on its head. Like, Bella's such a good vampire that she has no problem ignoring her empathy impulse when it comes to the object of her affection.

That brings to mind the Forever Dawn leaks, where Bella has an epilogue scene and she beats up 5 random human dudes in an alley. Afterward, she's super pleased with herself, and Edward is just fine with it.

I dunno, I really like the idea of unhinged Bella plotting on an unsuspecting third party, but I thought I'd get a second opinion from an expert :)

I didn't read the Forever Dawn leaks, but I do love thinking about Yandere Bella.

I think as soon as she became a vampire, Bella recast herself in the story she was telling herself. Before becoming a vampire, her role in the story was to be selfless and monogamous and in love. This sometimes manifested in empty gestures she had no intention of backing up; for example, she simultaneously wanted to seem like the kind of person who would gladly sacrifice herself for everyone's safety and wanted to have Edward safe with her during the Victoria fight, the dissonance of which upset her, but not so much that she didn't still insist on having Edward safe with her. Stuff like that. She had a role she wanted to fill and desires that challenged that role. She doesn't get to actually be the selfless love martyr if she's scared of making sacrifices.

Once she's a vampire, I think the role she assigns herself is more active. She doesn't have to be the virtuous ingenue love martyr; she gets to be the gallant, chivalrous one who chases the object of affection.

(Kind of bringing to mind how Stephenie Meyer responded to comments about sexism in the series by saying that it's more a matter of species than gender. In which "vampire" is the stereotypically masculine category and "human" is the stereotypically feminine category. Bella doesn't "have to" confine herself to submissive roles, now that she's a vampire.)

All of which to say, yeah, she'll kill. If she finds it to be chivalrous, heroic murder.

Her reaction to Edward saying he used to kill people was basically, "Yeah, it was bad people, so it's fine." She has no problem with it.

She'll only start to feel bad about it if she can't justify her own violence as chivalrous or noble. If it seems self-serving, that's when she'll be berating herself for it.

(Killing someone who's mean to her beloved is noble; killing someone who is in love with her beloved is selfish. She's supposed to outperform them, not kill them.)

And she values being a vampire who doesn't eat people, so if she does drink someone, she'll be upset about that, too. She never wants to kill in an out-of-control way. She's supposed to be the miraculously special vampire who has no trouble with blood.

Edward is going to be a huge enabler to her throughout all of this, except that he will be as protective of her human blood virginity as she is.

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Do you have yandere ideas for other Batman characters? Like Alfred? Or for the villains? The Mad Hatter and The Penguin are pretty much canon yanderes, but who else???

Oh boy, aaaaany of them could be yanderes.

Besides Batfam (and Alfred, who I see as either a support yandere for the Batfam or a platonic yandere for Bruce), the idea that appeals to me the most is Poly Yandere Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy.

We're talking open stalker Harley Quinn, showing up at your place of work with a bright smile every day. If you work in a restaurant, for example, maybe she threatens your boss with violence if they don't assign you to her table.

We're talking, you find yourself accidentally witnessing an altercation between Poison Ivy and, idk, Mr. Freeze, and you think "Well, I'm screwed," but Poison Ivy just sort of casually protects you from the worst of it while still fighting Mr. Freeze. She's hardly glancing at you, and she's keeping you (and only you) out of the line of fire.

We're talking, you're sitting, reading at a library or something and you have a headache and Harley Quinn slides into a seat across from you and casually says, "Y'know, I can get you a prescription for some real painkillers. Like, the good sh!t. Just let me know, cutie pie!" Someone shushes her and she shushes them back.

We're talking flowers seem to follow you everywhere.

We're talking sudden wad of clearly-stolen cash in your mail box with a lipstick kiss mark on it.

We're talking vine bondage!

Harley kidnaps you at gunpoint just to take you to a special birthday dinner she extorted a chef into making. Pamela is already there, sipping wine in her civilian clothes, looking breathtaking. And "dessert" is Harley giggling raucously while tormenting someone who's been mean to you recently. You doze off and wake to a hyena licking your face.

Harley and Pam actually aren't on the higher end of yanderes who are likely to full-on abduct you to live with them. They'll stalk you, a lot, but you can still live where you live. Unless where you live really sucks.

And of course, that last point goes out the window if it's an agere situation. Then, they're your moms and you live with them.

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I really like the idea of Duke being inducted into the Batfam as into a cult. Like, I enjoy imagining him getting lovebombed by Bruce Wayne and then finding out he's been assigned a room in Wayne Manor. Make it kinda creepy, but in an endearing way.

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The Batfam are all platonic yanderes, and are completely oblivious to how fucked up their relationships are until Duke is there explaining it.

Steph is an exception. She realizes things are messed up, but doesn’t care enough to confront the issue if it’s benefiting her. She even appreciates the attention sometimes.

“Wow, how did you know what kind of eggs I wanted?” Duke was smiling, trying to hide the fact that something about the bats was terrifying. If anything, they were scarier outside the masks.

“I made a deduction based on your file, Master Duke,” Alfred said. He was sipping tea as he said it.

“My… file?” Duke hadn’t been with the bats for long. He’d heard they made files on crime-related things. He didn’t know those notes extended to ‘favorite breakfast foods’.

“Keeping records helps document changes over time,” Tim noted. “And if there’s cases of impersonation or mind control, it can be rather useful.”

“We’re family,” Dick laughed. “Of course we know a lot about each other ther.

Duke had only been working with the bats for a few months. He just moved into the manor yesterday.

Steph stole a bite of the eggs on Duke’s plate. “Everyone living in this house is a freak. You get used to it.” She winked.

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Duke moves into the room, and he immediately notices that it's not as guest bedroom-y as he expected. "Wait, did you already move my stuff in here?"

"No," Tim laughs. "Oh my gosh, that would be so weird. We just bought identical stuff to keep in there just in case."

Duke looks at Bruce, and Bruce just shrugs calmly.

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I really like the idea of Duke being inducted into the Batfam as into a cult. Like, I enjoy imagining him getting lovebombed by Bruce Wayne and then finding out he's been assigned a room in Wayne Manor. Make it kinda creepy, but in an endearing way.

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Now that the Avatar movie had come out, I was immediately reminded of your Yandere Zuko and Azula fic that was in the works some time ago. Do you have any insights on what they would both be like as yanderes, especially considering their strong ties to the Fire Nation?

First of all: I somehow did not know that was out already, and that explains why my Zukka posts have had a bit more attention recently! So, I haven't seen the movie yet and if that informs my answer then I'll just have to make another post after I see it, lol.

Zuko

How Zuko is as a yandere really depends on external circumstances in a lot of ways; there's outlaw era Zuko, brooding prince era Zuko, Firelord Zuko...

Outlaw Era Zuko and Brooding Prince Zuko both have an anger to them.

Outlaw Zuko is more prideful, more slighted. He feels and acts like the world owes him something, but he knows it will never be given to him freely; he has to fight for what he is owed. This is prime Stalker Zuko real estate. This Zuko does not give access to his heart freely. He is fiercely protective of what he loves but also fiercely protective of his own feelings, meaning he would do a lot of things to avoid being vulnerable. Being the subject of this Zuko's affections is being haunted by the Blue Spirit. Just constant shadows moving in your house and life.

Brooding Prince Zuko is more ashamed, and there's a tension in him as he wants to keep what he has. I feel like the best scenario for this version of him is if the object of his affection is already in his keep and he is choosing to be the well-mannered prince just to keep them there. So, when the war meeting happens and he hears about what the Fire Nation wants to do to the Earth Kingdom? Yeah, he hates to hear it, but he also can't do anything that might threaten his ability to hold onto the one he loves. This is our most complicit Zuko, which means he hates himself, which means he's very temperamental but also trying to atone for his personal failings by pampering his darling.

(I've been imagining it as Sokka, which is wild. Imagine Sokka gets imprisoned by Zuko during Crossroads of Destiny or even the Day of Black Sun and Zuko's compliance as Crown Prince is what keeps Sokka from going to the Boiling Rock, so Zuko is just going to let horrible war crimes happen to keep Sokka safe, and as you can imagine, Sokka hates this. They fight about it frequently, and they both get so angry, but then Zuko always comes back with conciliatory offerings.)

Firelord Zuko is more at peace with his story and his purpose (and I'm ignoring The Search and The Promise because they don't serve me right now, lol). There's a sense of rectitude he gets to have for being on the right side of history, and the fact that his rectitude/peace arrived at the same time as him coming into pretty much unchecked power over his country is going to cause those things to kind of melt together.

Basically, this is a version of Zuko who easily has the means to kidnap you and will probably feel justified in doing so. Making you disappear into his keep will not trigger the kind of turmoil he associates with wrongness, because:

1. He is in complete control of whether harm happens to you, so he can make sure it doesn't.

and

2. In his experience, being wrong is indicated by extreme external consequences, and that just isn't happening anymore.

Where the previous Zuko's on some level knew they were doing wrong and hated themselves for it, this Zuko is the one who will say, "You're being ridiculous," or, "Don't you understand why I have to do this?"

Basically it's the Zuko from these posts.

Azula

Here, we have either Princess Azula, Mad Queen Azula, or Prisoner Azula. All of which are deeply exciting to me.

Princess Azula is a ruthlessly controlling yandere. She's "Do the tides command this ship?", she's the one who ruined Ty Lee's circus act, she's in charge of you and everything you do and everyone you see or talk to, and you never have a chance to forget it.

(In the scenario where she's yandere for Katara, one must assume Katara is a war prisoner or Azula is trying very hard to make her one.)

Her darling is expected to be available whenever she wants them, to be resilient when she punishes, to receive affection eagerly but not want for it too loudly when she doesn't provide it.

At least, that's the ideal scenario in her own head. In actuality, Azula is a very needy person who must have high praise and high opinions at all times (Or she can also enjoy enemy treatment, so long as she's treated as singular and special. She's willing to be a perfect "enemy" if she can't be a perfect "friend".), and if her darling falls short of giving her that, she is not proud of how attention-seeking and petulant she becomes. Her prisoner can be fawn and love her, or her prisoner can be angry and shout at her (for a while), but if her prisoner mopes, rolls their eyes, fails to give her attention and validation, she's going to get mad and vindictive and soon they will be denied food, placed in uncomfortable conditions, etc.

To cover up how badly she needs their eyes on her, she'll act smug, like, "Well, well, well. Are we finally ready to behave?" If her prisoner doesn't bend to pressure, it will rattle her.

Which transitions smoothly into Mad Queen Azula. Hey guys, this one's dangerous. Princess Azula will abduct you and control your life, but Mad Queen Azula will hurt your family.

She doesn't have the emotional fortitude to pretend she likes it when you treat her as the villain like Princess Azula does, so she does not pretend to take it well when you're mad at her. For Mad Queen Azula, you need to be happy. You need to worship her. She's the Firelord, and you owe her your love and devotion or else! Did you just glare? Did you just glare at her? Well, how would you like it if that handmaid she generously assigned you were to lose her eyes?

And then Prisoner Azula is our most manipulative option. She has few possessions left, and she's fixating hard on the person she loves. She's saying little things through the bars of her cells that reel the person in, make them talk to her longer, make them come back more frequently. She's playing the guards like fiddles, saying little things to different ones.

If, again, her darling is Katara, maybe she injures herself to make Zuko send Katara to heal her.

This Azula doesn't have the social or political power of either of the previous two Azulas, but she's formidable in her own right. She's a "people person", and there are still so many people she can influence.

[siswritesyanderes]

Do you still write for pjo?

Yes, I do!

[siswritesyanderes]

How do you feel about retconing your work?

I do wonder if it’s something you’d do in general, but I mostly ask because of your regrets about the ages of the Rule One characters.

I got the impression that you wished for the change because the story has evolved into some murky territory, but I wonder.

Does it alter your fundamental view of the characters if they were a different age? I know the power dynamics had the element of age on top of the other supernatural things, and I’m wondering how it would affect that to have them slightly older.

I’m very interested in hearing your thought processes about it.

I try to avoid retconning, just because I don't want readers to feel like there isn't a set canon, I guess.

Sometimes I edit grammar or spelling, but I try not to change content. But yeah, if I change anything in Rule One, it'll be to bump Sadie up to seventeen or eighteen, just to marginally decrease the objectionability of things. Like, it would still be objectionable, but ever so slightly less so.

I think I feel slightly different about the dynamic if Sadie is eighteen. Seventeen only feels different from sixteen in that it feels like a safer choice, but eighteen feels like an actual shift in the dynamic, on some level. There's an amount of (at least) legal autonomy that would come with her being eighteen that would really inform any conversations about potentially kidnapping her, or any interaction with her parents.

(With Sadie as a minor, any interaction between Jasper/Alice and Sadie's parents might feel like it has some subtext of "I'm trying to very politely rob you," whereas if she's not a minor then any interaction between Jasper/Alice and Sadie's parents maybe starts to feel like just a purely social "I want her parents to like me.")

But that's just speaking to the legal framework Sadie occupies; obviously, she's still a full human being either way.

I think her being seventeen would put things at the right level of discomfort, but at present she's canonically sixteen.