in-progress meme

[beboots]

 In a continuing effort to procrastinate on my homework (my thesis draft is staring as balefully as a pile of papers can at me from the corner of my desk), and, encouraged by the AWESOMENESS of everyone who seems to read this journal and their participation in that let-me-tell-you-a-history-story meme I held a few days ago... (People can still post prompts, by the way! It is by no means closed! You may even post a second prompt if you wish!) I've decided to participate in another meme that's been making the rounds of my f-list... 

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.

I'm not sure if very many people know, but I do write quite a bit of random bits and pieces of fanfic. My problem is that they're generally just snippets of scenes and dialogue at best... although I have a LOT of sometimes incredibly long outlines. So my WIP folder is actually quite large. My problem is that they always seem to STAY as WIPs, and never, well, progress to completion. In any case, I will post bits (or even more than bits!) for those curious. 

On a completely separate note, I'm also planning on making a picture post to go with all of the responses to the history meme, possibly tomorrow or maybe later today. You shall get a historical image to go along with the story, so that you can put names to faces! :) 

Anyway, here is the list of documents in my bulky "My fanfic" folder... Some of the titles you may recognize from pieces I have posted before, but others, not so much... I also tend to have rather descriptive titles (some with fandoms, some mysteriously without!), so hopefully some will strike your fancy! Feel free to request up to three at a time. :)

A Night Fury in the King's Service - Temeraire HTTYD cross
A Traitor Redeemed - Avatar(2009)
Against Thy Own Kind
An Extension of Trust
Avatar(2009) - Time travel
Aziraphale & the Werewolf - Crossover GO & HP
Azula's Revenge - timetravel
Blue Spirit Joins the Gaang, more or less
Carlisle & House 
Chid on the Dragon Throne
Childhood Friends - Toph in the Fire Nation
Chinese Formation - Temeraire
Crowley the Familiar
Dr. Horrible, turning on the League
Draco Timetravel actual fic
Dragon!Zuko fic idea
Fangs and Flamethrowers
Far Removed - hetalia idea
Fire Lord Iroh AU
For the Greater Good - Good Omens
Forgotten
Genderswitch Temeraire idea
Good Omens - HP crossover Idea
Good Omens X House crossover idea
Guillaume Laurent - Temeraire idea
Hallucination - a temeraire fic
Hikago - ghost busters
In a Land Without Technology
Invader Dib
Language barrier - hetalia idea
Laurence's privateers - Temeraire AU
Left for Dead - temeraire fic idea
Lieutenant Laurence - Temeraire idea
Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel
Nunavut Ascendancy - hetalia fanfic
Phenix!Zuko
Possession - Hikago
Professor Fell crossover idea
Reincarnation - Temeraire idea
Sasori Sensei of Suna
Star Command Zim idea
Strange, Norrell and Potter
Tea Cart Zuko & Iroh
The Betrothed - Mulan
The Tides of War - Temeraire
Tumnus in Spare Oom - Narnia HP crossover

Um... yeah. I get distracted easily...? Some of these fic bits have been sitting there untouched for several years... 

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[danatheleseus.livejournal.com]

Child on the Dragon Throne? That sounds interesting.

Child on the Dragon Throne

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, this one! :D I think I posted a few bits and pieces like a LONG time ago, so I'll post a few bits of outline and some actual fragments from later on.

Summary: Iroh does not take kindly to Ozai humiliating, maiming and banishing a nephew he cares for. Now, with Ozai dead and Iroh himself banished for committing an act of regicide, the newly crowned Fire Lord Zuko does not know who he can trust.

---- (Here's a bit I had planned with regards to what would happen with Azula) ---

Azula is kind of torn by all of this. On the one hand, she was under the impression that SHE was going to become Fire Lord upon her father’s death, because of all of the implications with Zuzu’s general uselessness and then the day-long period after the Agni Kai in which he was to be (permanently) banished. But even if her brother were to conveniently die, she wouldn’t REALLY be in power – she’s twelve. She’d just be another puppet monarch, like Zuzu. And she wants to rule the Fire Nation with an Iron Fist and achieve the ultimate glory for herself.

So she waits. And plots. And decides to bump her brother off when she’s old enough to seize power.

One day, though, she is walking through the palace, accompanied by her school “friends”, Ty Lee and Mai. They are walking alongside an open courtyard, where Zuko sits serenely, pretending to be reading some letter/petition from his adoring fans the public. He looks up, smiles, and lifts a hand to wave (and Azula thinks don’t you dare use your public face on US, Dum-dum as Mai blushes at Azula’s side), and suddenly his eyes widen in shock as a fletched feather arrow blooms from his shoulder.

Mai and Ty Lee, true to their training, leap into action. The arrow came from directly above their heads: a hidden archer on the roof. Ty Lee leaps up the wall and disables the would-be assassin as Mai scans the rooftops and courtyard for any other archers, before running to Zuko’s side. Azula is frozen for a moment, then joins Ty Lee on the roof for lack of any other thing to do. It is Azula, in fact, who spots the secondary archer, and takes him out with a well-aimed lightning bolt. A necessary sacrifice. If they came here intending to kill the Fire Lord, they should feel strongly enough about such actions to die for them if need be. (AZULA FEELS NO GUILT.)

Before he was taken away from the turtleduck pond on a stretcher, Zuko did take a moment to sincerely thank Azula and her friends, and that they were, well, awesome and skilled warriors and all that a Fire Lord could ask for. He says something like: “You are the perfect warriors of the Fire Nation.” And Azula could tell that he was totally sincere... and it WEIRDS HER OUT. She’s never gotten sincere praise from any of her family members before. Her brother had never really had much of a kind word for her before this (he could always see through her lies), her mother had thought she was a monster and had avoided speaking with her unless it was to chastise, and Ozai always had “constructive” criticism – never enough, she was never perfect. Never.

And yet – Zuzu had said she was. Well, she knew she was already. She didn’t need anyone to say it. Not really.

Well, maybe.

Re: Child on the Dragon Throne

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Azula is no longer under the influence of Ozai, anymore. She is still a perfectionist, still wickedly deadly, and yet… she starts to see that maybe there is SOMETHING in her brother’s words.
She’s not going to turn good overnight or anything. The most immediate effect that this assassination attempt has on Azula is the fact that it strikes her that if SHE were to become Fire Lord, people would probably send assassins after HER too. Especially if she looked like a weak child monarch, like Zuzu. And it occurred to her that she wouldn’t have to worry about such things if she wasn’t the Fire Lord. So essentially, she decides to rule from the shadows, as the perfect princess and sister to the Fire Lord. That way, Zuko would take any flak or criticism for her actions (and be the target of what would otherwise be HER assassination attempts!), while she still had all of the power. Perfect. Her brother was a pushover, anyway, and probably wouldn’t notice, at least not for YEARS, not unless someone told him.

Zuko is treated by the court physician, and he formally thanks the three “Dangerous Ladies” with a feast of some sort a week later, his arm still in an elegant sling.

Another result of this assassination attempt? It makes Mai – and by extension, Ty Lee – extremely protective of Zuko. They become informal bodyguards, of a sort. Azula tags along (as much as Azula can tag along with ANYBODY), mainly because on some level, she likes the praise she gets when she saves her idiot brother’s life once again. The three girls view Zuko in a vaguely condescending but benevolent light – he can’t protect himself, so they have to do it for him. Mai does try to teach Zuko how to use knives properly (Zuko always keeps that Earth Kingdom blade his uncle gave him on his person at all times, even though it clashes with everything else. He needs the reminder, even if it’s tucked away, unseen, up the voluminous sleeves of his formal robes).

---Also, there's this random line that I really liked but I have no idea what to do with. Someone - possibly Aang? - commented on how impractical the Fire Lord's formal robes are ---

“My robes may impede my movement, but there is a practical reason that I wear them. People look at me, in them, and see the Fire Lord. Without them, I’m just a skinny teenager with a big scar.”

Re: Child on the Dragon Throne

[danatheleseus.livejournal.com]

I remember this AU now! You did post a rough outline and some snippets. I like this part, it explains what happened with Azula. Thank you