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Wrote 300 words of mostly dialogue, for a fic I haven't touched it ages.
thinking about my fic in the shower:
trying to actually write my fic:
Southern Sun - Chapter 1: The First Year, Part One
Instead of being sent to look for the Avatar, Zuko is banished with a different task: he must govern the Southern Water Tribe, and may only return home when he has won the unquestioned loyalty of a southern waterbender.
But the last southern waterbender was killed three years ago.
Or so Ozai thinks.
(Zuko is banished to the Southern Water Tribe AU, Zuko & Sokka friendship and eventual Zutara, slowburn for both)
AO3: Prologue / Chapter 1
FF.N: Prologue / Chapter 1
Yes, over four years, after posting the prologue, here's chapter one lol.
Can I just say as an a young Indian girl/Zutara shipper, I ADORE your fics!!! Like thank you genuinely for both understanding the beauty of this Yin-Yang pairing AND ALSO respecting the tradition/culture system of arranged marriages. You are a rare star yet I see you 💫💫💫💖
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy the stories I've written. Arranged marriage is fascinating to me from a storytelling perspective because I think it can be used to emphasize that what really makes a marriage work, more than passion or romance, is commitment and a sense of duty. It also helps to frame the relationship not just in terms of what it means to the two people as individuals, but what it means to their families and broader society as well, which I also think makes for a better story.
In real life of course arranged marriages can turn out to be unhappy...but so can "love matches". I do think arranged marriages can in some ways be better. But ultimately, regardless of how a couple ends up getting together, it's up to them to choose to make it work, or not.
Hello, I just wanted to say I'm reading your Sin and Duty fic, and I really really love it! You're a great writer!
Also, if you don't mind my asking, why did you choose to make Bumi Zuko and Katara's son? I'm just curious and would like to hear why.
Thank you, and have a good day!
I'm glad you're enjoying the story!
The idea of Bumi and/or Kya being secretly Zuko's child(ren) is one that comes up now and again in the Zutara fandom, and one that I've never liked, because it's pretty much always written or talked about in a way that romanticizes Katara cheating on her husband. The inspiration for what would become Sin and Duty came to me after I, for some reason, read a one-shot based on the premise of Kya being secretly Zuko's daughter, in which Katara was the only person who ever knew and there were basically no consequences for any of the characters' relationships.
This frustrated me so much that I immediately sketched out an idea for my own AU in which there were Maximum Consequences for Zuko and Katara having an affair. The original plot sketch was much darker and had more of a downer ending than the story actually wound up with, mostly because it was written out of anger. But I decided to make Bumi the illegitimate child instead of Kya so that I could work in the angle of him secretly being a firebender as well, which would force the issue of the secret having to come out at some point, since Bumi himself couldn't be kept in the dark.
So basically, I chose to write a story about a character who is the product of adultery in order to make the point that adultery is bad.
when i finally post new fic it will be
chapter 2 of the azula/kuei au sometime in the next 6 months
an It Must Follow Update a year from now
a Fate Deferred chapter after my firstborn starts kindergarten
the next installment of the urzai brat pack au on election night 2024
the first chapter of a new WIP started w/o making progress on any of those
Azulon scolding Ozai for not using contraception while Ozai tries not to let on that it’s because his tradwife won’t let him is one of the funniest things I’ve ever written, imo.
your fanfic Southern Sun has such a unique plot it is pure gold. I can`t wait for the next update ... you are amazing :3
Thank you! Given that it was four years between the prologue and the first chapter I wouldn't expect that next installment too soon, but hopefully it will come around someday. I'm glad you've enjoyed the story so far.