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On the television, the camera pans across Gotham’s skyline, and Jason’s mind goes blank.
The clocktower, Babs’ new base of operations, is a smoking ruin.
Scrambling up, mashing the mute button on the remote, he rushes to the desk in the corner, wrenching open his laptop, fingers shaking as he activates the nuclear option.
Putting the headphone to his ear, relief floods his chest when he hears Barbara’s voice for the first time in three years, then sours when he can process well enough to hear what she’s actually saying.
It’s not Barbara that’s dead.
It’s Robin.
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Dick is staring at him over the top of a beer bottle, brows furrowed, mouth set in a firm line.
“Jason,” he says, all serious, in a way that has Jason’s hackles raising, “don’t take this the wrong way, but…”
Jason sighs, internally. The pause means Dick’s making him play along. Which means it’s not actually anything serious, but he should prepare himself for a truly unbelievable amount of horseshit.
“Take what the wrong way, Dick?”
“Jason, are you a Friday the Thirteenth reference?”
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Mai, in a fit of panic, voluntarily joined Prince Zuko in his exile, before Iroh could consider making the same offer himself. Three years later, she regrets this decision.
“So…” he said, suddenly, stretching for casual and not quite reaching it, “what’s your guys deal? No offence but I wouldn’t have guessed you guys were Fire Nation based on your, you know.” He gestured all-encompassingly, but was kind enough not to point out specifics.
Mai shrugged. “His dad told him to go find the Avatar.”
Sokka blinked. “Okay? Why you two specifically, though? I mean your whole army is-”
“His dad told him to go find the Avatar three years ago.”
Sokka said nothing, but his expression was loud enough. After a long, complicated moment, he shook his head in something like amazement.
“And he found him? I mean, we got there first, but still.”
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It has been said that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons, but generally it is not meant to be the fathers doing the visiting.
In which Ozai's self-control is even less evident than usual at a critical moment, and the consequences are felt for years afterwards.
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Between Lions and Men by Thingsareswinging for TalesOfOnyxBats
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Dec 2022
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Ten years after the war, an assassin puts an arrow between Sokka's ribs.
Azula reacts appropriately, for a given value of appropriate.
(AKA 'hey remember how the fire nation solves disputes using codified duels to the death? the fire nation does not have what we'd call a modern judicial system. I'm not even sure they have laws')
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P.I. Jancy True takes an afternoon to try and give her protégés some more structured training than their tumultuous first case had allowed for. This proves difficult.
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Sokka is a very giving boyfriend. Azula is possibly the only person in the world who could have a problem with this.
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Set My Own Pace By Stealing The Show by Thingsareswinging for Drenched
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 Feb 2021
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After a long day at work, Sokka arrives home, watches an indifferent wuxia film, then goes to bed.
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A Silent Play (in the shadow of power) by Thingsareswinging for Drenched
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 Jan 2021
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He's the spiritual figurehead of a revolution. She's the face of the occupying regime. He thinks it's fun to have a nemesis, she thinks that kind of thing is unprofessional.
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In a world where things went only slightly differently, can the Order of the White Lotus save the world from the machinations of the Fire Lord?
No. They're screwed, actually.
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Zuko wants to reconnect with Mai. Mai wants to teach Zuko a lesson about consequences. Sokka just wants everyone to concentrate on winning this stupid war already.
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Orion Lavellan, Herald Of Andraste (tm) took a wrong turn down the mountain. This proves to be a problem for literally everybody.
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After the war, Sokka finds his talents requisitioned by the King of Omashu, who charges him with stopping a murderer.
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to turn your back on what you're given by Thingsareswinging for Loopy
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
23 Jun 2016
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In Which The Heavens Dictate That Two Unlikely People Should Get To Know Each Other Better,
or,
The inevitable Soul Mark AU. All Loopy's fault.
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Azula wants something. She has never been particularly good at self-denial.
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To Make A Difference To The Days by Thingsareswinging
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Apr 2016
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In which, rather than desert, a war-weary Piandao finds a different way to excuse himself from the front lines.
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In which the Day of Black Sun goes just as badly, but someone different is left behind.
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In the weeks following the induction of humanity into the greater galactic community, it was quickly discovered that the universal translators rendered the name of humanity’s home planet as something universally offensive, unprintably obscene, and, in the case of every species other than the hanar and a few more flexible elcor, extremely medically inadvisable. After weeks of increasingly heated negotiation with humanity’s diplomatic corps, it was eventually agreed that, among council races, humanity’s home planet would be referred to by the culturally-insensitive but otherwise much more dignified ‘New Earth’.
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Chief Hakoda finds himself in the unenviable position of having to marry off one of his children. No War AU.
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“It's just-” you splutter, you're not backing out, you just want to explain- “it's not like it's my field?” Which might not even be true any more, much as they'll never get you to confess it. Spirit Nonsense has definitely technically happened to you, at least once. “All I did was look for a bathroom,” you mutter, apologetically. She just gives you that look, and you cave. You caved hours ago. You caved as soon as you got the letter.
You wish Aang was here. But he's not, and it's all down to you. Things have never gone well when it's all been down to you.