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happy Birthday Atom !!
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Hi ! prompt idea : What if Zuko was armed during the first episode and was stranded with the water tribe while the avatar left with Katara and Sokka, Iroh on his trail for white lotus reasons.
Oh we are going to have us some FUN with "stranded with the water tribe", say no more.
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Zuko was dripping, and steaming, and staring down two dozen women and their gaggle of small children, plus that old not-the-Avatar crone from earlier. They were all cowering away from him. Which was--
Good. It was good. If they were cowering, then they hadn’t noticed how steam was not flames. He wasn’t sure he could make flames, not after the arctic water he’d landed in, with that last sight of the Avatar glowing; not after surfacing under the ice pack, after swimming, after kicking slamming breaking through and his ship was gone and there was only ocean all around and
and he’d made it back to this pathetic little camp of the Southern Water Tribe, because that was the only place he knew for sure would have shelter, and he wasn’t going to die just because they were all staring at him, even if felt like he would.
Even if the old not-the-Avatar woman could probably take him, right now. But she didn’t know that.
Zuko pulled himself up, taller than her by at least a few inches, and blew steam from his nose.
“I am commandeering one of your huts,” he said. And added, because Uncle said even a prince should be gracious: “You may choose which one.”
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She choose her own.
...The only one without children that flames might scar, or younger women to catch a soldier’s interests.
Zuko sat by her fire and determinedly started struggling out of his wet clothes and she was still in here with him--
Zuko pulled one of her animal pelts over himself, and finished fighting off his clothes. When he stuck his head back out, cheeks still reddened from what was obviously the cold, she dropped a parka on his head.
“Dry clothes, Your Highness,” she said.
The parka was much bigger than he was. He fell asleep hoping that the camp’s men were on a long, long hunting trip.
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He woke up again. Kanna tucked her favorite ulu knife away, newly sharpened, and stopped contemplating the alternative.
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“I am commandeering a ship,” he said.
The crone led him across the village, all twenty paces of it, to a row of canoes.
“Take whichever one you want,” she said. “Will you need help getting it to the water?”
Zuko looked at the canoes. Looked at the ocean. Watched a leopard seal, easily the size of the largest canoe, dozing just past the ice his own ship had broken through the day before. It was frozen again, a great icy arrow pointing from the waves to the village, snow already starting to cover it over.
Beyond was blue sky and gray ocean and white ice, floating in blocks like stepping stones, like boulders, like cliffsides.
There wasn’t even a hint of gray steel, or smoke. Or any land, besides what they were standing on.
He looked down at the canoes again. Somehow, they seemed even smaller.
“I, uh,” Zuko cleared his throat. “I’ll require supplies. Before I go.”
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They... did not have supplies. Not extra ones. This didn’t stop them from trying to give him supplies, food and blankets and anything else he could think to ask for. But each blanket was a pelt hunted by someone’s grandfather, had been inked with images and stories by someone’s mother, was the favorite of someone’s husband or brother or uncle or cousin--
They couldn’t go to the nearest market to replace things, here.
And when they talked about food, about what they could spare, they kept sneaking glances to their children, who were sneaking glances at Zuko from the huts, sticking their heads just over the snowy ledges like their fur-trimmed hoods would hide them. Their mothers and aunts shooed them away, and they crept back, like barnacle-crabs. Zuko glared, and they disappeared.
“When are your men coming back?” he asked. “They’re hunting, aren’t they?”
Oh. So that was what they looked like, when they weren’t trying to hide their hate.
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Zuko wrapped himself up in the same blanket that night. It was printed inside with fine lines and images, telling a story he didn’t know. He wondered whose favorite it was.
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Kanna wondered how quickly he’d wake—if he’d wake—if she built the fire up with wet driftwood and tundra grass, if she had one of the younger girls boost up a child to plug the air hole, if she let the smoke draw its own blanket down over this fire child.
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It was hard to know when to wake up, because the sun never set. So everyone was up before him, and they all had spears and clubs and—and nets, and trap lines, and snow googles with their single slat to protect the eyes from snow blindness. Zuko had seen those once, at the Ember Island Museum of Ethnography, where they’d gone when it was too rainy for anything more exciting.
Oh. They were going hunting.
“Give me that,” Zuko said, and took a spear.
The women looked at him. One of them adjusted her googles.
“I can hunt,” he scowled.
He did not, in fact, know how to hunt.
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“Give me that,” the Fire Prince said, and Kanna almost, almost gave him her ulu. Humans, like most animals, had an artery in their legs that would bleed them quick enough.
She kept skinning the rabbit-mink one of the women had snared.
“I can help,” he said, with less grace than most of their toddlers. Likely with the skinning skills of a toddler, too. She wasn’t going to let their unwanted visitor ruin a perfectly good pelt.
“Chop the meat,” she said, and gave him a different knife. “It’s dinner.”
“...This is really sharp,” he said a moment later, looking at the knife with some surprise.
“Is it,” said Kanna.
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Things the Fire Prince was convinced he could do: hunt (until he realized he couldn’t tell the tracks of a rabbit-mink from a leopard-rabbit apart); spear fish (at least he could dry himself); pack snow for an igloo (frustrated princes ran hot); ice fish (the prince was a problem that kept coming close to solving itself).
Things the Fire Prince could actually do: mince meat, increasingly finely; gather berries and herbs, once he stopped trying to crush them; dig roots, under toddler supervision; mend nets, after the intermediary step of learning to braid hair loopies.
“Can’t I take him ice fishing again?” asked one of the women, as she watched Prince Zuko put as much apparent concentration into braiding her daughter’s hair as his people had into exterminating hers.
“Wait,” said another woman, sitting up straight. “Wait wait wait. I just had an idea.”
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Three words: Infinite. Hot. Water.
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Summer was coming to an end. The sun actually set, now, and the night was getting longer, and colder. The salmon-otter nets were mended and ready. The smoking racks were still full of cod-lemmings. The children were all a little older, the women all a little more used to doing both halves of their tribes’ chores; a little more used to not watching the horizon, waiting for help to come.
The Fire Prince was staring at the canoes again.
“Are you actually going to try leaving in one of those?” Kanna asked.
“...No.”
“Come on, then; someone needs to watch the kids while the women are hunting.”
She didn’t leave him alone with them, of course. But she could have.
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Elsewhere, the war continued.
The moon turned red, for a moment none could sleep through; they did not learn why.
The comet came and went, leaving their castaway prince laying on the beach, his breath fogging up into the night sky above him, as the energy crashed from his system as quickly as it had come. Above, lights began to dance in the sky; Zuko pulled his hood up, so none of those spirits—children, dead too soon—got any ideas about kicking his head off to be their ball.
The war had ended. The world didn’t feel any different; no one in the south would know until spring came again.
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Suffice it to say, Sokka and Katara were not prepared for this particular homecoming.
#Sokka: please stop calling my Gran-Gran by her first name. please.#Kanna: you’re right Sokka he can call me Gran-Gran#Sokka: THAT IS WORSE THAT IS SO MUCH WORSE#Meanwhile Hakoda: you adopted WHO#Kanna didn’t ADOPT anyone thank-you-much she was very practically holding that boy for the fleet to use for ransom#why Hakoda#what would you have done if you had a Fire Prince#avatar the last airbender#atla#Zuko#Kanna#ficlet#(infinite hot water lady is ABSOLUTELY Toklo’s aunt)#(he looks to the prince looks to her and spontaneously invents the High Five)
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@candle-scm you did this to me
#adopting the boys for a bit#no but liKe-#they?#tHEM#me realizing I never had a proper atla phase when I first watched it but now that it’s making waves again got me hook line and sinker#ALSO I didn’t know Zukka was a thiNG until my good friend over here introduced it to me and I haven’t looked back#nah because boiling rock hits different nOw#ATLA#avatar the last air bender fanart#avatar the last airbender#atla fanart#zukka#zukka fanart#Zuko#sokka#my art
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Ever since I saw there are ATLA chibi shorts, my brain has never been the same
#iroh#zuko#atla#prince zuko#book 1 zuko#book 2 zuko#my art#I'm usually not a fan of chibi style#but this one is EXCELLENT stylization I immediately had to adopt it into my style vocabulary#atla chibi shorts#tbh now I need all of em as stickers
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Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.
#zutara#atla#zuko#avatar the last airbender#katara#atla fanart#atla art#prince zuko#zutara au#kintsugi au#kintsugi#fire lord zuko#katara x zuko#zuko x katara#katara fanart#katara art#katara of the southern water tribe#zutara fanart#zutara art#Lore update!#Despite adopting Kintsugi as their official practice to promote cultural superiority; Kintsugi is not inherently Fire Nation#The other nations practice Kintsugi as well. Though ever since the War started it's much more uncommon to see outside of the Fire Nation#The Earth Kingdom seal their scars in bronze. The high nobles consider it to be unbecoming so it's much more common in the middle classes.#Kintsugi is much more well received in the SWT than it is up North. The NWT believe it to be barbaric. A foreign practice adopted by the...#...less civilised South. You can imagine the outrage and scorn Katara received when arriving North with a quite noticeable silver scar.#It is the seal of a Southern Warrior. She got hers during the same raid that took Kya. Hakoda himself has quite a few...#While Sokka tried to give himself a Kintsugi scar (it did NOT go well)#The Air Nomads didn't practice Kintsugi! Theirs was a naturalist approach. Your body is yours to cherish and protect just as it naturally is#These ideas were shared with me by some amazing people! If you have any headcanon or idea regarding this (or any) of my AUs let me know!#It makes me so happy to inspire you! Even if it's just a little. I'd love to hear all your thoughts and rambles!!!
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bitching with the boys
#a 14 yr old and the 46 men that have adopted her. for insurrection purposes#the dai li#azula#atla#veran scribbles
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Atlas
(And a close-up cause I like da fish)
#If you wanted an adopt that looks like this UR IN LUCK the ears and clawed hip fins will be a perma-feature#I ended up getting too attached to the color palette oop#also yeah I'm super predictable and he's probably a prince no surprise there#I think I'll give him a leggies form#digital art#artists on tumblr#mermaid#merman#fish#my ocs#atlas#merfolk
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Avatar sketches omg its been a while since ive consistently drawn a human omg...
#i love splashing obnoxious pink blush on my sketches for no other reason besides. shounen anime ig.#if anime girls can blush for no reason so can my artwork#majart#sketch#messy sketch#sokka#aang#avatar aang#avatar the last airbender#atla#atla sokka#atla aang#atla fanart#fanart#art#digital art#eye contact#KINDA...???#ive adopted every single avatar kiddo btw its really hard to choose a fav in this shOW AAAA—
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Momo & Lee from the Tea Shop
Silly little AU of mine about Zuko & Momo during the Ba Sing Se arc.
Like he does in Canon, Momo wanders around the city in search of Appa. At some point he runs into Zuko and — oh, isn't that this scary fire guy who chased us around the world and somehow always managed to find us?
Momo's first instinct is to run away but… if Fire Guy can find them so easily, he can surely also find Appa. The chances of Fire Guy finding Appa are much higher than with Aang and his friends, so Momo decides to stick around.
Zuko, on the other hand, has reluctantly assumed the identity of tea servant Lee and certainly didn't expect the Avatar's lemur to suddenly appear and follow him at every turn. But hey — that's a good thing, it means, the Avatar is in town and maybe he can blackmail him with that stupid monkey.
There's only one problem: To blackmail the Avatar, he must find and contact him first. So Zuko waits and uses the nights to blue spirit around and look for the Avatar and the days he spends at the tea shop. The stupid lemur won't let himself be locked in a cage but that's fine, after all, he follows Zuko around nonstop.
And as time passes, Zuko wonders how the Avatar can stand it — can't that stupid monkey leave him alone for a damn second?? It's particularly annoying when the lemur climbs over his shoulders while he's serving tea or lies on his face, chirping, when he wants to sleep. Zuko starts to doubt if the Avatar will give up his freedom for the lemur. Maybe he doesn't like that monkey at all and just hasn't found a way to stop it from following him?
Meanwhile, Aang is a little worried about Momo, but he's used to his little friend wandering around on his own. And sometimes Momo comes by in the deep of the night (when Zuko is sleeping) to get some treats, so he's probably fine. Accordingly, Aang does not start a search for the lemur and concentrates fully on finding Appa.
When Zuko finds wanted posters for Appa, but none for Momo, this increases his doubts, and he's fed up with the lemur. Can't it just leave?
What makes it even worse is that the whole tea shop, and Uncle in particular, find it indescribably endearing to see him with the lemur on his head and a sour face. Uncle even tried (unsuccessfully) to teach it Pai Sho. Sometimes Zuko is on the verge of roasting the lemur with a burst of fire, but… no, he can't just harm an innocent animal like that.
And before he knows it, he has gotten used to the little pest and perhaps started to like it a tiny, tiny bit? It's still a nuisance, but maybe — just maybe — it's nice to have a little furry ball snuggle up to him in the night or offer him a handful of berries for breakfast.
Then Zuko frees Appa and Momo leaves with the sky bison. Zuko gets sick and really misses falling asleep with Momo's ears tickling his nose. Sometimes he dreams that Momo visits him and brings him some berries, but these are certainly just feverish hallucinations, right? Right?
Momo doesn't know how he came to like Fire Guy so much, but he's not so interested in why. What is certain is that Fire Guy won't be getting rid of him any time soon.
#atla#avatar the last airbender#au#zuko#prince zuko#momo#uncle iroh#iroh#lee from the tea shop#ba sing se#momo adopts zuko#momo adopts zuko au
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A sozin holding an infant azulon that I will eventually color
#atla#sozin#fire lord sozin#Azulon#fire lord azulon#avatar the last airbender#sulove’s works#I think I did a good job drawing this but alas I cannot draw babies for the life of me#I wonder if sozin ever felt love for the child he cultivated out of blood#I wonder if he ever felt guilty knowing that this baby will be forced to continue the same war he began#something something sin of the father#I do like to think that Azulon is adopted; out of convenience for whoever his biological mother was#me thinks he was stolen from one of the air temples during the comet (while still being firebender)#IVE MENTIONED THIS B4#anyways these two make me wanna theow up goodbye
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It’s not raining anymore and I love spending time with you
#Astro boy#fanart#Astro boy 1980#atlas#uran#I love them a lot#jojojoart#astro boy fanart#adopting atlas
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Drag queen Zuko.
Pre-canon Iroh drags his sullen and traumatized nephew off the ship to see a show because he needs to relax and think about something other than obsessing over a legend who hasn't been seen in 100 years.
This show happens to be a drag show and tell me Zuko wouldn't be hooked, I mean he gets to be extra and dress up in elaborate costumes, plus feats of athletic prowess. (Zuko trying to get someone to teach him how to do a death drop)
Cue Zuko getting adopted by the other queens with the power of being a grumpy emo pre-teen. Learns self love and acceptance & maybe he doesn't need to hunt down legends to have a family after all?
Zuko goes by the Blue Spirit & is absolutely still doing vigilante stuff but no one can catch him. Iroh is ridiculously proud.
I don't have this one in me but it is JOYFUL so let's slap this up for everyone to enjoy
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Urzai adopts the gaang au
Ozai, mumbling: Where is that idiot?
Katara: Zuko's upstairs.
Aang: I think Sokka went shopping.
Toph: Aang is right here.
Aang: Hey-
Ozai: I meant the spider-fly that I was chasing but thanks for the information, I guess.
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Ozai, for months: *Debates whether or not he should leave Zuko*
Zuko: Maybe we should split up-
Ozai: ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! How dare you suggest such a thing! *proceeds to go on a 20 minute rant about the importance of staying together*
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[After the Gaang destroy another cabbage cart]
Cabbage Merchant: You again! You and your brats took everything from me!
Ozai: I don't even know who you are.
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Lu Ten, out of curiosity: How did all six of you even convince Uncle to team up with you?
Aang: I accidentally blackmailed him after escaping jail.
Sokka and Katara: We showed up at his house in the middle of the night drugged.
Toph: I stalked him so his long-lost wife would quit nagging me.
Zuko and Azula: We're his only biological children and there's no refund button.
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Ozai: *says something sarcastic*
Sokka: *responds in sarcasm*
Ozai and Sokka: 👀
Katara: Oh no.
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Ursa: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.
Toph, after Azula read it out loud: Mine just says "Toph no."
Ursa: I want you to apply it to every possible situation.
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Sokka and Azula: [develops a plan]
Ursa: ...That sounds like a war crime.
Toph: It’s never a war crime the first time.
Ozai: We'll change the laws later. Continue.
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Ursa: You are our emotional support children.
Zuko: Running across rooftops at top speed and breaking and entering is the first and only option.
Sokka: My favorite weapon is a curved piece of steel that can knock my head off if I don't catch it in time.
Azula: Who needs therapy when you have blue fire, lightning bending, and a bone to pick with the Firelord?
Katara: Nothing you can do will stop me from starting riots and committing ecoterrorism.
Toph: I run con schemes for fun.
Aang: I love announcing to enemies I'm the one they're looking for.
Ozai, sighing: …and you are also the reason we need emotional support children in the first place.
#spoiling my fic through memes again#atla#atla au#urzai adopts the gaang au#rivers in the desert#urzai#gaang#royal fire family#ozai#ursa#lu ten#zuko#azula#toph#aang#sokka#katara#incorrect quotes#atla incorrect quotes
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I tried my hands at the boys from salvage by muffinlance in this lovely palette (+ red)
i recommend the podfic with sound effects it's an Experience
#salvage by muffinlance#god i dont know how to tag anymore#atla fanart#zuko gets adopted aus#avatar the last airbender#muffinlance#color palette
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crawling up the walls over zuko kyosho makeup concept uGH
Bit of a sneak peek!!!
In this AU, Zuko is sort of an unofficial warrior. He wears face paint, but the style is mixed with that of a river spirit from home. He has a headband engraved with the character for fire. He fights, sometimes with the fans, sometimes with the niuweidao. Armor? Sure, but does it come in black and red?
There's definitely some Kyoshi influence in his life, but he's still Zuko. And that's something I love about him.
#dema answers#atla#zuko#kyoshi warrior ursa au#Kyoshi Warrior Zuko#zuko art#zuko fanart#This is a part of Zuko's concept art for this AU#Hopefully I'll be sharing the full thing soon#I've got lots of plans for him and Azula in this AU#I'll be open to asks about it tho!#So I'll share what I've got :)#Ursa adopted the Kyoshi style entirely and tried to erase her past#Azula rejected this new identity and instead tried to hold on to the life she knew. The Princess tries to go back home.#Zuko learned to make both lives his own. He is proud to be who he is. As much the Fire Prince as he is the Son of Kyoshi.#And I'd love to explore those dynamics
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ok ok but jayroytim😏
this feels especially funny if brudick happens in the background and oliver hates the fact he's now in-laws with bruce
so i have to regretfully admit i'm not really a fan of JayRoy, or at least i'm not a fan of the popular version of JayRoy. i think JayRoy could work and would be a lot of fun! but i have *zero* interest in New-52!JayRoy (or New-52!Roy in general) or rlly any version of Jason and Roy on the Outlaws together. both bc i'm a pre-Flashpoint stan at heart. usually i can stand newer content for ship fodder but for these two oh man it grinds my gears how badly Roy got fucked over-
BUT BUT. that doesn't mean i think the ship has *no* merit. because Jason and Roy *do* have some fodder in pre-Flashpoint. they meet briefly when Jason is Robin, and then again when Jason is Red Hood during that Outsiders arc where Black Lightning is in prison. so! there's definitely material to work with. especially playing into the more fucked up nature of Roy knowing Jason when he was Robin. i think it's cute if Jason had a childhood crush on Roy. and maybe Roy even thought Jason was kind of cute, a spunky kid with a lot of energy and passion. then with Jason as Red Hood, Roy openly doesn't trust him and doesn't like that they're working with him. Jason is just a run-of-the-mill villain with a nasty kill count. and sure, Roy's got a record of tangling with people more on the villain side of things, but even going near the Red Hood feels like a step too far.
adding Tim to the mix is really fun. bc honestly it gives Roy some kind of a fetish for guys who have been Robin and i find that to be delightful. like, even if Roy just sees Jason as the Red Hood, he can't *quite* let go of the image of Jason as Robin. like it just won't get out of Roy's system ever since Jason came back. i think, if i were to write these three together, i'd have Roy and Tim get together first of all people, just because Roy is trying really hard to stop thinking about Jason as Robin, especially now that Jason is older and a little meaner. he's full of guilt about it, and he can't talk to Dick because he's still not sure where Dick's feelings fall about the whole Jason thing so. he goes to Tim instead, thinking if he fucks a different Robin, maybe he'll get it out of his system. Tim's pretty and he's just old enough that it's not *too* morally questionable for Roy to seek him out. it takes a while for Roy to work up the nerves because he and Tim aren't particularly close, so how do you even approach that conversation to make it look organic. it's awkward and Tim can definitely tell something is up but hey, who's going to say no to Roy Harper offering sex? one of Dick's best friends? especially if we put this right after Kon and Bart's death where Tim is just. sort of lonely and seeking companionship. in some ways,, Roy would remind him of Kon, just a little. that sort of cocky attitude and snarky smile.
i would add Jason in by having JayTim happen alongside RoyTim. it's not like Roy and Tim are serious enough to be exclusive and Tim knows Roy is sleeping around, so Tim ends up in a weird hatefucking situation with Jason, which definitely was not supposed to happen. Jason just has a damning way of getting under Tim's skin and won't stop bothering Tim until he gets some kind of attention from Tim. and somehow Jason is interesting enough for Tim to cave. and he doesn't even think about the two relationships he's balancing until he happens to sleep with Jason after being with Roy the night before and there are still marks all over him and Jason does *not* like sharing. so when he interrogates Tim and gets nothing, he does the reasonable thing of stalking Tim to figure out who it is. and it just happens to be the guy Jason had a crush on as a kid.
i think Roy finding out he tried so hard to avoid Jason that he accidentally ended up with the same fuck buddy as Jason would be the funniest thing in the world. like it's not something he can run from anymore and he has to accept that. he tries to awkwardly ask what Tim even sees in the guy bc well, Jason's a killer and not known for being mentally stable. but he's also the guy who exonerated Black Lightning with no real motive besides just helping out. he's complicated and Roy doesn't know how to react. Tim just sort of shrugs bc how do you even explain Jason Todd and well, one thing leads to another and Tim ends up in the middle of the most emotionally charged threesome he's ever been in. love the idea of Jason and Roy using Tim as a toy while they work out their feelings for each other. to me that's the peak dynamic. Jason and Roy are pissed about liking each other and somehow, Tim got roped into things. their relationship is not healthy or normal whatsoever, but somehow, they end up balancing each other out nicely.
background BruDick is also hilarious tho. bc there is no one who hates Bruce more than Oliver and he'd be so annoyed that not only did Roy get tangled up with the Bats, but now everything is so weird their families are pretty tangled together and Oliver has to deal with Bruce a lot more than he wants to. and he's glaring daggers about it the whole time.
#necrotic answerings#jayroytim#jayroy#jaytim#roytim#brudick#i know melody-atlas has some great jayroytim stuff!!#and like to be clear i like the idea of jayroy.#i just don't like outlaws or red hood/arsenal. or any canon where roy is in a ten mile radius of jason except that outsiders arc#for me jayroy is fun bc of the fucked up angle of roy knowing jason as robin#but since most jayroy content is catered to new-52 characterizations i have a neutral leaning negative opinion on it#but that is *not* your fault anon this is a fun ship i totally get it!#i just don't think i'll ever write or read jayroy#so if anyone else wants to use this idea. feel free it's up for adoption idc#this shit has a “free” sign and is sitting on the side of my road for you to come pick up#the idea is super fun and i'm mildly tempted by it but yeah just not for me#but sometimes that's the fun! brainstorming for ships you don't ship bc you get to think outside the box#like shipping is just silly fun vibes and this was fun to think about how i would do this ship#bc it's a fun lil challenge#there are plenty of things i don't ship but i *could* enjoy if written write and that's where jayroy falls for me#usually not for me but the perfect fic could absolutely convert me
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