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Ohhh this is so good ;-; Thanks! Hope you have a nice holiday season too!
The lights and snow are pretty but I think Korra and us agree that Asami outshines them all. A very happy Korrasami Secret Santa and korrasamiversary to @tokaywineandcheese! Hope you have a wonderful holidays and a happy new year!
#THAT BRICK WALL LOOKS LIKE IT TOOK 5000000 YEARS AJDKDKSKDKD#amazing amazing#love the tree in the back#also fireplace!!#asami's looking outside but it looks like korra is looking at her heh#also their sweaters look so cozy#very DETAILED there!!!#:D#korrasami#korrasami secret santa 2022#korrasami secret santa#gay-enchilada
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Helping Beak (Final Rose)
Korra was doing her usual check on Naga when she noticed something alarming.
“What’s this, girl?” Korra’s eyes narrowed. “Is this a... tick?” A closer look confirmed that it was indeed a tick. But when could Naga have gotten it? Korra checked Naga regularly, and she made sure to take great care of her.
Wait...
On their most recent mission, the one they’d gotten back from yesterday, Naga had fallen into a river after tackling a Grimm that had been about to sneak up on Asami. With her thick fur, it would have been easy to miss, and ticks had chemicals in their bite that ensured their victims didn’t feel anything.
Worry growing, Korra continued to check Naga. There were more ticks.
“Is something wrong?” Asami asked. She had been doing her homework, but it was hard not to notice Korra fretting.
“Naga has ticks,” Korra replied. “I think she got them when she fell into the river on our mission.”
“Oh.” Asami got up and came over to have a look. “What’s the best way to treat that?”
“You can pull them off if you’re careful, but depending on the species of tick, it can get nasty if you make a mistake.” Korra frowned. “Back home, we’d just get chocobo chicks to do it.”
“Chocobo chicks?”
“Yeah. They eat ticks. If you’ve got an animal with ticks, you just bring it over to some chocobo chicks, and they’ll get all the ticks. It works like a charm.”
“I don’t think there are any chocobo chicks at Beacon, though.” Asami pursed her lips. “I mean they do keep chocobos at the stables, but they’re all adults.”
Korra sighed. “Adult chocobos don’t really go after ticks unless they’re really desperate. They’re bigger, so they prefer other food.”
“Then again...” Asami hummed thoughtfully. “I might be able to get a chocobo chick. I remember looking at the schedule for the lab, and we’re supposed to have a visitor today...”
X X X
Korra looked at the little boy. With his pink hair and facial features, it wasn’t hard to see the similarities. Even without Asami telling her, she would have guessed that Taren was related to Professor Farron and Averia.
“Asami said you needed Fury’s help,” Taren said. On his head, the chocobo chick eyed Korra warily. Like most chocobo chicks, he was cautious around people he hadn’t met before.
“Yeah.” Korra waved the boy over to Naga. “This is Naga. She’s my friend.”
“A polar bear dog?” Taren grinned. “You almost never see them outside of Water Tribe territory or the far north and south.”
“Heh.” Korra patted Naga as she sat up and sniffed at Taren and Fury. The boy’s smile never wavered, but Fury puffed himself up as best he could. Given his tiny size, it was less than intimidating, and Naga gave a snort of amusement. “Don’t worry. She’s friendly, but she needs Fury’s help.” Korra pointed. “See that? We went on a mission, and some ticks have bitten her.”
“Oh.” Taren leaned in and nodded. “I see. Ticks are pretty nasty. But don’t worry, Fury will help.” He reached up and patted the chocobo. “You’ll help, right?”
Fury cheeped and hopped off Taren’s head. He landed on Naga’s back and waited for the polar bear dog to rumble her assent before he darted over to the nearest tick. Springing forward, he lashed out and pulled the tick off in one smooth motion before devouring it.
“Kweh...”
Taren laughed.
“What did he say?” Korra asked.
“He asked if he should save any for me.” Taren snickered. “You might think ticks are tasty, Fury, but I can’t eat them. You can have all of them.”
“Kweh!” Fury’s eyes gleamed, and his gaze darted over Naga’s body, easily picking out the ticks despite her fur. Soon, he was a blur of motion, pulling the ticks free and eating them.
“Wow.” Korra blinked. She’d seen chocobo chicks do this before, but none of them had shown this sort of speed and ferocity. “He’s good at this, but will he be able to eat them all?”
“Probably.” Taren shrugged. “Aunt Vanille said that since he’s a black-and-red chocobo, Fury will end up huge, so he eats more than most chocobo chicks.”
Ten minutes later, the chocobo chick was done. He gave Naga one last check before nodding in satisfaction and then hopping into Taren’s arms. His belly was looking a little swollen, and he sighed contentedly before burping.
“I think you might have eaten too much.” Taren patted Fury’s back. “Don’t worry. I can carry you until you feel like walking again.”
“Kweh...”
“He said he got them all,” Taren explained. “He even double-checked just to be sure.”
“Thanks, kid.” Korra beamed. “And thanks, Fury. Let me know if you ever need anything.”
“It’s okay.” Taren smiled back. “Fury got a snack, and I got to meet a polar bear dog.”
X X X
Author’s Notes
Funnily enough, Fury will end up being one of the few animals in the series who can actually look down at Naga. Naga is larger and heavier overall than Fury, but Fury stands at more than eleven feet in height, making him taller. Still, polar bear dogs are amongst the largest terrestrial carnivores on Remnant, and there are some truly gigantic ones out there like the Mistral jungle tiger and the huge lions that lurk on the plains of Mi’Ihen.
Of course, the largest terrestrial predator is the gigantic aardvark found in Vacuo’s deserts that is so huge it can be seen from orbit. The largest specimens are the size of large hills or small mountains and subsist primarily on the giant insects that nest in Vacuo’s desolate wilds. In fact, those aardvarks are the chief reason that Vacuo rarely has to deal with Grimm. Given their tremendous size and combat power (you need artillery to even get their attention), the aardvarks consider Grimm a welcome addition to their diet. Indeed, there have even been records of groups of aardvarks working together to hunt down groups of Grimm Goliaths. Yeah, don’t mess with these aardvarks.
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quick question how canon is your wuko stuff?
Quick you say? Quick? Heh. I don’t really do quick.
Well, if we’re going to get technical…none of my work is strictly canonical because Wuko is not actually a canon thing. I mean, people can go on about subtext and how well the characters suit each other and such but the reality is that Bryke clearly accepts and indeed even includes openly same-sex couples in canon (see: TLOK comics) but have chosen not to make Wuko canon. I don’t know what to tell you, you’d have to take it up with them. (Yes, I’m salty.)
But I am assuming you mean canon outside of the whole Wuko is actually a headcanon thing, so moving on!
For starters, none of my fic is comic-compliant - which, by the way, I’ve tagged on AO3. That’s because I wrote the first one over 3 years ago and obviously there were no comics to be compliant with. Since I have not, for the most part, enjoyed the TLOK comics at all I will not be going back into my previously written fic to edit it into being comic-compliant. None of my fic takes the TLOK comics into consideration at all.
I also wrote some of my fic - most notably, Please Excuse My Penmanship - before Bryke’s commentary about Prince Wu was released on Book 4′s DVD. Specifically, the parts where they threw out vague references to him being in either boarding school or at Republic City University when the Red Lotus killed Queen Hou-Ting as well as the fact that he requested Mako to be his bodyguard after seeing his picture in the paper. In all of my fics the assumption is that Wu was raised as the Crown Prince and lived a very sheltered life in the Palace until the day that Hou-Ting was assassinated and he was spirited away to Republic City by the Dai Li; also in my fic Lin Beifong assigned Mako to Wu for reasons of her own. So if you are looking for fic that adheres to those two bits of commentary by Bryke then you’ll be disappointed in mine.
If you are looking for fic that takes place during the show and is canon-compliant (short of Wu being in RC at school before Book 3 and demanding Mako specifically as his bodyguard) then my collection The Prince and the Bodyguard will probably appeal.
If you are looking for fic that takes place immediately after the finish of Book 4 then Please Excuse My Penmanship will probably appeal. (The notes about the comics and the Book 4 commentary still apply, obviously.) There are some Beifongs involved, most notably Huan Beifong, whom I headcanon as autistic.
If you are looking for fic that takes place during Wu’s two years of putting together the abdication he discusses during the final episode of Book 4, then Dear Diary or: How I Had a Second Coronation and a Dalliance with a Detective might appeal. It does include some OCs and takes place in Ba Sing Se; there are also many other canon show characters involved. Is it canon? Well, as much as you can get when you are writing about something that happens 2 years after the show ends and that isn’t based on the comics and/or Bryke’s commentary.
The rest of my work? There’s stories that focus directly on the Beifongs (where Wuko exists but is in no way the focus of the fic) and stories that focus on Wu and Mako, but are they canon? That completely depends on what your definition of canon is.
Is your definition of canon as something only taking place during the source material’s timeline? Then the rest of my work isn’t for you.
Is your definition of canon taking into consideration only what the showrunners have said and/or done? Then you’ll be moderately disappointed with my work. I do keep it firmly lodged in the world that Bryke created, but I do take some liberties (including ignoring all of the heavy-hitting only a straight person could write this homophobic world dealing with Korra’s coming out in the comics - my world isn’t homophobic, because as a pansexual damn near in her 50′s I’ve got zero desire to write that).
In my mind, there are three different categories when it comes to Fanfiction:
CANON
Filler fanfic: The kind of fanfic that focuses on scenes that were implied but that we weren’t shown in the source material and sticks to pure canon as closely as possible
HEADCANON
Broadening fanfic: The kind of fanfic that runs parallel to canon but delves deeper into the source material and broadens and expands on it through giving agency to minor characters, creating OCs and/or is set in either pre- or post-canon time periods
Fix It fanfic: The kind of fanfic that stays in the canon world but is there to “fix” the source material by taking a major thing that happened in the source material and either ignoring it or changing it; a major character death, for example, or a major plot point (like writing that Su Beifong was the one to attack Republic City and deploy the Colossus rather than Kuvira, for example) or, yes, creating a romantic relationship between characters that is not canon
CANON?
What Is The Source Material Anyhow fanfic: Korra and Asami are here on Earth and Korra works in a coffeeshop where Rich Girl Asami the Korean Pop Star flirts with her and they wear cute sneakers and lacy bras and have mobile phones and bending what’s bending?
Crossover fanfic: Korra and Asami meet the kids from Scooby Doo and have adventures in the Mystery Van where Korra bends at the Bad Guys and Velma tries to get into Asami’s pants, much to Daphne and Korra’s utter jealous rage
Smut fanfic: Fuck characterizations, fuck the source material, this is porn, all we’re here for is fucking, preferably as nasty as possible
In all but The Prince and the Bodyguard my fic is solidly in the Headcanon category, and straddles the Broadening/Fix it border. Fix It because Wuko is not actually canon, after all. Broadening, however, because I really do stick to the world and canon events, even though most of it takes place in the future.
I can tell you that I am a 49 year old woman who was in a same-sex marriage with kids (and who was widowed three years ago) and therefore has not only a whole shit-ton of life experience but also has previous fanfic writing experience under her belt. I can also tell you that I have done exhaustive research on certain aspects of Imperial China, for example, so that I can write Wu’s background as a Crown Prince of the Earth Kingdom in a way that I think is not only canon but goes far, far deeper than Bryke were ever able to do on 23 minutes a week on Nickelodeon. Some people appreciate this sort of epic novel approach I have to my fanfic; some people just want to see Wu and Mako holding hands and having a sweet little kiss in the turtleduck boats and could not give a shit about all of my research and efforts to enrich the source material. Which is fine, by the way! It’s just not what I am writing.
I have two kinds of readers: the kind that read the first couple of fics I linked to above who enjoy them and leave nice feedback and go on their merry way without bothering with the rest and my RIDE OR DIE readers who inhale all of my work over a couple of days barely coming up to eat or do anything else and who send me these amazing heartfelt (and sometimes delightfully incoherent) letters about it and who loyally follow my work after that. There doesn’t seem to be much middle ground! I appreciate both kind (although I confess to really loving my RIDE OR DIE readers).
So really, it’s up to you, as the reader, as to what you want to read.
The sad truth about it is that there is so little Wuko fanfic out there that I think your choices are pretty limited. It’s a show that ended over three years ago that was aired on Nickelodeon, written for adults but aimed at kids. I loved TLOK - obviously, I’ve written close to a million words about it - but in many ways it was kind of a mess. A well beloved mess! But mess, nonetheless. With very little exception most of the fanfic out there is based on Korrasami, and most of that doesn’t really give any real thought to how canon it is or isn’t. It is what it is.
However, this much I can tell you about my fanfic: I love Wu and Mako as a couple. I loved them together in the show and I continue to love them. I am currently writing 12 years into the future from the end of the show, so they are not exactly the same people they were when the show ended. (God, I would hope not. Most of us do mature and change.) They have a life, they have kids, they’ve gone through a lot. They are still together. In my fanfic they will always be together, end stop. Is it canon? Well, obviously Wu and Mako living in Republic City and having three (soon to be four) children together is not canon. That is not in the show. But then again, neither is Wuko itself. So take that as you will!
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If you're still taking prompts, how about a fic where Korra is a quadriplegic former athlete who attends college with her service dog? Naga is normally very well behaved on campus, until one day she goes off leash and tackles the most beautiful girl Korra's ever seen. Doggo assisted meet cute for Korra and Asami, heh.
Similar ideas to this have definitely been done before, but here’s my take on it. (AO3 Link)
Korra’s father kneeled down in front of her, so that he could look her in the eye. He placed his hand over his daughters and smiled softly.
“If you need anything just call. You’ve got this, Little Bear.”
Korra rolled her eyes at her father. “Thanks, but you’re kind of being embarrassing.”
Tonraq’s thick laughter filled Korra’s ears as he stood at his full height. “You better pay attention, don’t ogle too many girls. I heard this place is full of the smartest and prettiest.”
“Oh really?” Korra chuckled. “Maybe I’ll be ogling the guys.”
“It doesn’t matter who you’re looking at… just pay attention and get that diploma.”
“Don’t act like you didn’t start this!”
Tonraq waved off Korra as he got back into the van.
“Have fun and good luck,” he said through the rolled down window.
“I’ll try to.”
Korra watched as her father drove away. She took in a deep breath and held it for a moment before letting it out. She looked down and smiled softly.
“You ready, Naga?” she asked her service dog.
Naga looked up at her with her big brown eyes and Korra’s smile grew. She moved her shaky hand to the joystick on her power chair and begin her first real day of being a college student.
It took time, but Korra gradually got used to the looks she got from the other students. At least in her classes people had been accepting, but she still got those leering looks at times from people not used to seeing a student with such a visible disability.
She hadn’t always been like this. She hadn’t always been paralyzed from her neck down with very limited movement in her arms and above her neck. She used to be the most active person out there. She was someone who was never able to sit still, always doing something. She had been coordinated and athletic, to the point that she had earned a scholarship her junior year in high school for hockey. She had been at the top of her game when the accident had happened. When she had taken a blind check that resulted in her back injury.
After that, Korra had gone through some very dark and hard times. She struggled to wake up and get on with her day. She struggled to stay in contact with her friends. She struggled to even interact with her parents. Even now she struggled, but she was definitely in a better space.
Korra was smart, smarter than the average student and luckily the college that had first given her the scholarship, didn’t retract it. They gave her academic scholarships instead, allowing her to pursue her love of psychology and human behavior.
The fact that she hadn’t lost her scholarship, was the first big step of her getting through her hardest of times. The next was the help of the service dog that her parents had gotten her. Naga wasn’t just a service dog, she was her companion, her best friend. She was there when she needed someone to talk to without being judged. She was just there and that’s what she needed. The next big step was her realizing that her life wasn’t over. Sports had been her life, but that didn’t mean that she couldn’t find a new passion and a reason to live. What became her new passion was the ability to help people. She joined therapy groups and realized that she was empathetic, good at reading people, a good listening, and could process things objectively. It was clear to her and her parents that she’d found her new path. The path of helping people who were going through similar struggles as her. A path that allowed her to show that there was a light at the end of the tunnel, even if it didn’t seem so.
So that’s what brought Korra to majoring in psychology. That’s what brought her to going through the hallways of the newly remodeled building, Naga right by her side.
“Door,” she said softly, only loud enough for Naga to pick up.
Naga instantly moved to the handicap button and pushed a large paw against it. She waited for Korra to go through and then followed after her, eventually falling into stride beside her.
“Good, girl,” Korra praised. “We’re off to Kingsbury… time to slowly die in calc.”
Naga huffed in response, causing Korra to smile.
The campus was fairly large, but was definitely wheelchair accessible. The sidewalks were wide and without cracks. There weren’t large hills or places only accessible by stairs. That was one huge thing that helped Korra decide that the college was still the right place for her.
Naga and her made their way through the large courtyard, getting close and closer to Kingsbury. It usually took Korra five minutes to get from this class to the next, which was fine since she had thirty minutes in between. She often would wait outside the building, mainly people watching and enjoying the nice weather. Today was no different. Her goal was to find a nice shady spot to relax and allow her to think and have a moment.
That at least had been the goal until Naga had veered off the path and started dashing through the freshly trimmed grass.
“Naga!” Korra shouted.
She turned her chair, cutting someone off. “Sorry!” she shouted back at them as she tried to follow her dog. She was glad that her chair was made for all terrains, although it wasn’t very fast and she had no chance of catching up to the dog at full tilt.
“Naga!” she shouted again. “Come back.” Korra’s eyes widened and her mouth fell open as she watched her service dog leap into the air. The large dog’s paws landed on the back of a taller woman, causing her to stumble forward and for her to fall to her knees. “Naga!” Korra shouted, still quite a ways from her.
She watched in horror as Naga rounded the woman and started licking her face as if she’d known her her whole life. When Korra got closer, she was surprised to hear laughter and a warm voice coming from the woman.
“Hey there, cutie. Where’d you come from?”
“Is this your dog?”
Korra looked up to see a tall guy with his arms crossed over his chest.
“Uh, yeah. I’m so sorry… she’s not usually like this.” Korra swallowed the lump in her throat, not really sure what else to say.
At hearing an unfamiliar voice, the woman who had been mauled by Naga turned her head and smiled at Korra. Korra’s breath hitched as she took in the beautiful woman. When her father had said that the school had the prettiest girls, she hadn’t fully agreed until this very moment. This woman was breathtaking.
“It’s fine. She’s adorable and it’s nice seeing a dog around here.” The woman turned back to take Naga’s face into her hands and rubbed her adoringly. “It should be a crime to not let students have pets.”
Korra chuckled at this. “Well she seems to like you… I mean she did just sprint through the whole courtyard just to jump on your back. I swear she’s normally not like this.”
“Really it’s fine.” The girl stood up and turned fully to face Korra. “I’m Asami and this is Mako,” she introduced.
Korra nodded in greeting. “Korra,” she returned. “And your new friend’s name is Naga.”
“Well she’s adorable.”
Korra was about to agree, but stopped when Mako spoke up.
“We should get going, Asami.”
Asami looked at him and then back to Korra. “Go ahead, I’ll meet up in class.”
Mako gave Asami a curious look and then shrugged. “Okay. Try not to be late,” he said with a smirk before leaving towards Kingsbury.
“Ass,” Asami muttered softly.
Korra laughed softly, causing Asami to open her mouth to say something and then stop to collect herself.
“Sorry, he’s just annoying at times. I don’t usually go around calling my friends asses.”
Korra laughed again. “Good to know.”
“Okay, but seriously. He loves to tease everyone, but he can never take it. He’s super sensitive although he gives off that cool guy vibe.”
“He kind of seemed like a stick was up his ass… was that too crass?”
Asami laughed and Korra’s smile widened.
“No, that’s pretty accurate. So, you’re a student here?” Asami asked as she kneeled down to pet Naga. Naga instantly laid down and rolled over, allowing Asami to rub her tummy. “So cute,” she said under her breath.
“Yeah. First year, majoring in psych.”
“Oh cool. I’m a second year,” Asami said looking up at Korra. “Double majoring in mechanical engineering and computer science.”
“What? How are you doing that without going crazy?”
“Very carefully,” Asami laughed. “Honestly getting to pet Naga’s been a great help.”
“Well she is a service dog even if she doesn’t seem like it at the moment.”
The dog was legitimately smirking and looked like she was in doggie heaven at the moment with her tongue lolling from her mouth and her tail wagging.
“Um, if you wanted to exchange numbers,” Korra hesitated and cleared her throat. “You could, um, text or call me and I could bring Naga to spend time with you.”
“Only Naga? Or will you hang out too?”
“We’re kind of a package deal.”
Asami smiled at that. “Then sure.” She stood up and pulled her phone out of her back pocket, handing it to Korra to add her contact info. When she got it back, she sent a quick text to Korra. “There, now you have my number.”
“Uh, cool.”
Asami smiled and then her eyes widened. “I need to get going. I’ll call or text you, okay?”
“Yeah. It was nice meeting you.”
“You as well,” Asami said happily. She patted Naga’s head once more. “Bye, Korra!” she shouted with a wave as she crossed the courtyard.
Korra wished that she could wave back, but instead just smiled. Once Asami was out of view, she looked down at Naga. “She was nice. Wasn’t she, girl?”
Naga let out soft bark, as if in agreement.
“We better get to class. Best not to be late.”
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what's your problem with the comics so far? im pretty much loving everything im seeing so i was just wondering what your perspective was on it making you not like what we've got so far
You mean besides the fact that it really looks like Asami forgot her dad died not even three weeks prior and that literally zero aspects of the plot have anything to do with her outside of her relationship with Korra? Heh.
Nah, I was too harsh yesterday. I had a bit of a knee-jerk reaction...but mostly because the glimpses we got from the previews confirmed my very well documented concerns for what this comic would end up being. At least, part of it. The fact that coming out is something that Korra and Asami even need to navigate at all, regardless of social feedback, is just...weird? Like it doesn’t make sense for the reality of ATLA/LOK. Reiterating why that here would be rather redundant, so click the link for more details. Or go look through @lokgifsandmusings‘s recent posts where she gets into greater detail.
We’ve already gotten half the comic spoiled, and it reads like an Afterschool Special. You know, the 90s Very Special Episodes on Home Improvement where...Tim Allen’s tv son...got addicted to cocaine? That’s obviously a really fucking weird example, but the point is that I’m worried all the “what do people think of queerness in this universe” parts of the story are gonna be hamfisted. And I really just...don’t think that was the best way to go about communicating that being queer or questioning is an okay thing to young kids. Obviously none of it is offensive or problematic or really negative at all, but it just feels...uninspired. And unimaginative.
Mike could have done anything with Korrasami, specifically because of how they developed and what they both, thematically, represent as individuals as well as a couple. But he chose to do the one thing, the singular thing that is basically a template. So it’s like, what? Why? Why would you do that? You could bake anything in the world and you chose the cookie cutter? WHY.
And we know Kya is gonna have a long conversation about what it means to be queer in that reality, which is...super weird the longer you think about that. Wouldn’t Korra and Asami know what it means to be queer in that world? They live in it. it’s not like they’re tourists. I dunno, it could be about not living with regrets or “letting your bi flag fly” but...why? Why does Kya even need to explain this? They should know! And if it needs explaining to the readers, do it through dialog between Korra and Asami!
So much of this book hinges on that one conversation, and I just---there were other ways to do this! And they wouldn’t have been difficult! I can think of like four better, and far more engaging, imo, narratives you can tell with the same art (that we’ve seen) and minimal re-lettering of speech bubbles.
Anyway, aside from that, though, it actually looks fine. You know, nothing groundbreaking or amazing, but it looks pretty entertaining. It had me chuckling, so that’s always a good start. I feel like that whole “WE’RE COMING OUT” thing just won’t land for me, for a variety of reasons, but the rest will be enjoyable. Assuming Korra isn’t dialed back to her Book 1 characterization for the entire thing (???), I can push the rather baffling retcons (why would you buy land YOU CAN’T USE) out of my head and enjoy the read.
Probably.
#korrasami#turf wars#turf wars spoilers#I think?#also it was super fucking weird to see jokes I made in rrau pop up in the comics in less...funny forms#I have other 'issues' but I don't really feel like getting into those before a proper review of the book#wouldn't be fair#also I'm super tired#Anonymous#asks
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