#meero asks

[qiimeera]

Okey I have so many thoughts. First of all, thank you so much for sharing your ideas and do not dare to apologize for it. I am thoroughly honored that you liked my AU so much you are willing to send three asks.

I am taking all your suggestions and spinning them around my brain like a carousel.

I like Grace being the son of an airbender, as it allows me to have more freedom with the timeline (I don’t want it to be too close to the beginning of the war) and more fun with the angst! Now imagine, Grace’s parents are found by the Fire Nation. He ran, leaving his parents behind. He was just a kid, but he only felt like a coward.

Now, what happens after that (meeting Eva, getting into a coma, losing his memories) is still a big mess for me and I’m slowly trying to figure it out. Love your idea of him meeting Aang (and Ellie!) in the spirit world tho. Kinda how PMH Grace is certain that life doesn’t need life to exist, ATLA Grace doesn’t think bending can just not have a scientific explanation. It can’t be all spirituality, can it? Funnily enough, he is wrong. Bending is just magic, it doesn’t have a scientific explanation (we can’t all have Midichlorians cof cof Star Wars).

Eva as a White Lotus member is driving me crazy. Aside from gaining and sharing knowledge, they focus on training and taking care of the Avatar, having done so even before Korra (at least according to the wiki). Now, in the context of the war, finding the Avatar seems like the Hail Mary in PHM. However, I do see her as someone who doesn’t let hope blind her. Finding the Avatar would be great, but now she needs to focus on the survival of the Air Nomads and the other nation'‘s refugees. It works especially well because she’s a historian in PHM, so I imagine that she has an interest in the Avatar and their history. Maybe she finds out the only hope to stop the Fire Nation is an eclipse, but the next eclipse is a 100 years in the future. Tragic, but she’s a patient woman, she will make sure the world survives until then (and that dumbass of an airbender as well).

Now, Grace being one of the last of his kind is very tragic to me and I am so glad you see the vision too. Especially because not only do I see him as very gay for Simon, but asexual as well. So my dude has no heterosexual bone in his body to be able to procreate so that his people’s genes and bending make into the future (as an ace person I just think that is deeply terrifying). So like in canon, he has the future of humanity (or a part of it) in his shoulders, but maybe he can be the only one to solve it. Not by suddenly becoming straight, but by studying and learning. In TLOK, airbenders appear once the Spirit Portal is left open. So maybe he finds this out and realizes there’s hope for his people, but he needs the Avatar to do that.

Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH @autumn-sweet-fae FOR YOUR ASKS, YOUR IDEAS GIVE ME LIFE!

[qiimeera]

Saw your avatar au and immediately thought of this idea

what if ellie is a spirit that simon meets during the worst torture and isolation he was put through. She’s great company (ignoring how terrifying and almost incomprehendible she is sometimes) and slowly teaches him how to blood bend, using himself as a test dummy. Once he’s skilled enough, he uses blood bending to escape, not knowing how brutal it would be. He refuses to blood bend after that and hates that ellie has attached herself to him

After meeting grace and with the help of ellie, he starts experimenting with his blood bending after remembering how he bended his own blood to heal his wounds when escaping the fire nation. He goes on to discover a way to use blood bending to enhance the healing abilities of water bending

Okey no but like you kinda saw through my Simon plans, or some part of them. (Also I kinda end up yapping here I am so sorry)

I love your idea of spirit Ellie. Especially because I see Simon’s Tribe (the equivalent of EDEN in this AU) not being particularly fond of spirits, to the point of denying their existence. So Ellie being a spirit would clash with Simon’s knowledge (or lack thereof) on spirits and I find it really funny that this eldritch looking spirit (who is kind of the embodiment that everything Simon was taught was wrong) is just a deep annoyance to him that follows him around.

However, I do see Simon as a natural bloodbender, as someone who already knows how to do so before he gets captured by the Fire Nation. BUT part of my plan with him is that he eventually learns healing.

He hates his bending. He hates that whenever he focuses on the water around him, he can “feel” the other person’s water flow through them. But most importantly, he hates using it to hurt people. Bloodbending is known as a “dark art”, something that hurts the bender’s mental state, so I see Simon being really fucked up. But, with the help of Grace (and maybe Ellie), he learns water-healing.

There’s this conflict in ATLA with firebending where Zuko (and other firebenders) struggle to see his bending as nothing but a way to hurt. Fire is dangerous. But he learns that fire is alive, that it is life, that it can be good. Other inspirations come from Qifrey, from Witch Hat Atelier. He has deep trauma with water and sees it as dangerous; too little water and too much water can kill you. Still, he learns to use it and it’s the magic he’s most proficient at.

I see Simon as someone who hates water, hates blood, hates his bending. However, due to his upbringing, his bending (and thus, his ability to hurt) is where he sees his value. So losing an arm and having to relearn to bend is going to be a struggle, and maybe he can learn to make peace with his bloodbending in the process.

SO I REALLY LIKE YOUR IDEAS. Spirit Ellie is a 10/10, definitely stealing that, and using bloodbending to heal people just makes sense. Like, of course you want some help to keep the blood inside the body. And I love the ways to make his escape as traumatic as possible. Yes to that. I AM DEFINITELY KEEPING ALL YOUR IDEAS IN A COMFY BOX IN MY BRAIN, AND I HOPE YOU ARE OKEY WITH ME TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THEM cuz boy this has activated by ideas juice.

Thank you so much for your ask and sorry for yapping.

[qiimeera]

You’re doing an au it’s fine to bend the rules of atla’s world building as long as it’s done with respect. And maybe grace is a flunked airbender or who knows! Sky’s the limit

aw thank you! its a good reminder…

cuz like I know on principle, especially because I know I’m going to have to bend the rules quite a bit when it comes to adapting grace/simon/rocky’s stories in this AU. But I love PHM and Iron Lung and ATLA is my favorite show of all time so a part of me wants it to work perfectly and work inside ATLA’s rules, but I also don’t want to lose important parts of PHM/Iron Lung. But it’s impossible really. I need to remember that I’m doing this for fun and I shouldn’t care that every minute detail is accurate and within canon (because it’s not going to be)

so THANK YOU AGAIN!