#dcst avatar au

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No one's gonna know it's another Dr. Stone AU

AU where Senku is a scientist with avatar and Tsukasa (i am sorry) and some other characters are native Na'vi.

The timeline is somewhere between fisrt movie and earlier time.

Idk about events but I just wanted to draw Na'vi people because they look very cool.

First contact seems a bit odd.

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Dr Stone Crossovers

I've been gathering up a lot of fic ideas over the years. Dr Stone especially so, with more than half a dozen of them being crossover plot bunnies, to fandoms going from JJK to ATLA. That I may not write, no matter how much I want to.

Something also happening recently is that I'm eleven followers away from qualifying to be a twitch affiliate, where I do fic writing streams.

So here's my offer: if I ever become an affiliate, I'll do a marathon of dcst crossover fics. Doing outlines, writing chapters for each idea, top-to-bottom full walkthrough of my thought process and world-building. Crossovers are my passion, and I've been perfecting the art online for half a decade now.

My twitch is IbisWritesWhatever. I hope we get there :)

Below the cut is a list of the eight dcst crossover fic ideas i have, if you want to see what I have in store. I've put excerpts of a lot of these on tumblr already, and talked about them in general, so you might recognize a bunch.

ATLA AU: Where Senku is the Avatar, the Medusa was a weapon used by the Fire Nation, and Ryuusui is the Fire Prince in charge of hunting him down.

Naruto Both-Canons-Coexist: Senku reborn in the Naruto-verse Canon Era, where the Naruto-verse is Earth centuries after the Initial Petrification Event.

AssClass Tie-in: Junior High!Senku gets sent in to Kunigigaoka Academy's 3-E, to attempt to kill Koro-sensei. Yuzuriha comes with him, lives to regret it.

JJK Both-Canons-Coexist AU: Nanami Ryuusui and Nanami Kento are cousins, Medusa is an SSS-level curse, and Kohaku has the Six Eyes 3700 years in the future.

FMA Roleswap: Sai and Ryuusui in place of Ed and Al. (Byakuya is Maes Hughes; Senku is older than Alicia, tho)

FMA Cross-Dimension: Senku and Edward Elric meet.

Bungou to Alchemist Tie-In: Byakuya incarnates in the Library as an Author

Saiki k Both-Canons-Coexist: Saiki escapes the stone before Senku and does nothing with that head start.

[science-leek]

Earthbender Senku x Waterbender Gen 🚀🃏

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Ok so you said that asks about your writing is open, so are you going to finalize your Avatar au? Like are you going to make a full fic about it? I like the concept and was wondering about it the other day, it's okay if you don't continue it though, i know you already have soo many writing projects under your belt

Also another question, in your MLB au wil alll the Generals eventually cross paths? I know Senku and Chrome already met, but I'm curious whether they are going to meet Gen, Ukyo, or even Ryusui

The ATLA au is actually one of my favorite aus and the only reason it’s not a published fic on my ao3 yet is because I get distracted by other things tbh. I like to pretend that I have a schedule in mind for my projects but it’s really just “when I feel up to it” for most things.

And you’re right, I do have an awful lot on my plate right now as it is. Currently I’d say my focus is on When the Lions Were Late/my no stone wars au, which is actually my most popular ongoing fic on ao3. I want to finish chapter 10 of that fic before I start adding to anything else, but college and mental health have really been a drag on my writing productivity.

I’d love to develop what I have so far into an actual fic, but it might be a looooong time before I get around to it. In the meantime feel free to ask me for headcanons/stuff in the au and I’ll gladly post some smaller things here on the tumblr!

As for the MLB au (which also will take a while to get updated), yes the rest of the generals will be included later on. Some won’t show up until later seasons though.

I actually managed to incorporate almost all the named Dr. stone characters into the overarching plot of the MLB au, which I’m rather proud of. It’s all been planned out through five seasons of ten episodes (chapters) each, and though it’ll take a long time to finish I’m really looking forward to seeing people react to it.

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DCST ATLA!AU: Typings

Senku: Avatar (raised as no bender and has to learn everything from scratch with no guidance)

Kohaku: Earthbender

Chrome: No bender

Ruri: Waterbender

Gen: Airbender

Ryuusui: Firebender (possibly a Zuko type situation except initially he's meant to be chasing after Sai and just changes direction to go after the Avatar???)

Ukyo: Cabbage Man

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DCST ATLA!AU: Growing Years of The Avatar

"Byakuya." His friend whispered, the grip on Byakuya's wrist tighter than he had expected her to have the strength for, wracked by illness as she was, "Please, my son. Senku. You need to take care of him."

"Isn't there anyone else?" He asked. They were on good terms, but he hadn't even known that she had a son until she had stumbled into town, three months ahead of schedule.

She shook her head.

"Well, what do I tell him? About what happened to you? He's barely four."

"The truth. He's a smart kid for his age." She huffed a laugh, wasting breath she could not afford to.

Byakuya walked out several hours later, feeling hollowed out.

Senku - the son - was sitting in front of the boxy TV, but his gaze was fixed on the ground, looking just as empty. Byakuya wrapped an arm around him, and Senku squeezed his hand, sniffling softly.

---

"Byakuya!!" Senku called out, rushing over to him, "Look what I can do!"

Byakuya looked up from the paper he was grading, "Yeah?"

Senku took a few moments to catch his breath from his run, before straightening up and clapping his hands together. Wind billowed out, making his papers rustle.

"Wow!" Byakuya grinned, "That sure is something."

Was he an airbender? That would at least explain why his mother was always moving about. Which only proved that she had chosen wrong when picking a guardian. Byakuya had never even met a bender.

"I'll try to get someone to teach you how to do more." He promised, because what else was he supposed to do?

Senku's eyes got even wider, "I can do more?"

----

"Byakuya, look at this." Senku waved him over to the table one breakfast. On the counter was a glass of water. When Senku waved his hand, the water in the glass splashed, completely untouched.

...Huh.

"You're getting better at airbending." He said, because he'd never met an airbender before. Maybe this was normal for kids.

-----

Byakuya was offered a chance to board an airship that would travel across the entire continent in one large jump, as they needed a scientist onboard.

There was a stop at an Air Temple scheduled.

Senku insisted that he was more interested in science anyway, and that Byakuya didn't have to bother himself with looking for a teacher.

But it would only be a few weeks. Taiju's grandmother was willing to keep an eye on his son while he was gone. It wouldn't take long.

Or that was what he thought.

Byakuya ran through their town, passing familiar face after familiar face. All frozen into stone.

Senku was sitting outside the school, where Byakuya picked him up every day. He was also made entirely out of stone.

Why...

Why did this happen?

A hand settled onto his shoulder, and Lillian's voice was steady in the face of turmoil, "We should go, Byakuya. Whatever weapon the Fire Nation used to do this... it might have a second wave."

Byakuya couldn't piece himself together. Not after this.

Shamil and Lillian had to be the ones to drag him back onto the Soyuz, and the crew on it were the people who forced himself to stay alive, even as green light washed down hundreds of meters below them, trapping the Fire Nation's enemies in a prison of stone.

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Dr Stone ATLA!AU: Petrification Angle

It's not dcst without petrification. So of course we've got to apply that here.

The time period before Senku (the Avatar) is frozen into rock, will be a bit modern??? Something more like the 1970s, technology and entertainment wise.

The Medusa devices start appearing in the world, but without immediately setting off an extinction event. So instead people started using the objects to attack others themselves, like Treasure Island did.

They all think that the petrification kills. Which is why the Fire Nation uses it in large-scale against their enemies.

But they were wrong.

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DCST ATLA!AU: The Fire Prince's Hunt

It was early morning of Day 1123 since the Crown Prince's disappearance, and Nanami Ryuusui was already chatting up a storm.

"You know, Francois, I don't know why we didn't think of coming to the Southern Peninsula first." He pointed out, between mouthfuls of some Earth village pastry the butler had learned to make, "It's quiet, basically unpopulated, and the cold is enough to offset the heat from the machines he likes to obsess over, without a lot of snow or rain. This is basically paradise for Sai."

"Very astute, Prince Ryuusui." Francois agreed, taking a sip, "Do you have plans on how to begin the search?"

Ryuusui nodded, eyes tracking wisps of smoke that were coming from the far side of the landmass. It was from a natural wood fire. Civilization?

"We should ask the people if they have any out-of-towners stopping by periodically. No way my brother is capable of farming for himself." He decided, "And prepare some incentives for their trouble."

Francois bowed, "The cannons? Our food stores are getting low."

Ryuusui laughed in his distinctive, booming way, "Sticks and carrots, my friend. See what we can give out, and don't try to skimp out just because of low food stores."

If Francois took issue with his methods, they would voice no complaint, unless the situation was truly dire. Which it was not, yet.

----

A small clearing of trees, some meters away from a cave mouth leaking a liquid that left tracks of bare soil in the grassy bank.

In the middle of the clearing; a statue just like all the others. Except...

"I'm telling you Kohaku, it started hissing. And then these cracks started appearing around it!" A boy pointed at it.

"Chrome it was probably just how old it is. Look at that thing." The girl scoffed, leaning on the side of a tree, daggers at the ready.

"So bad!! It's glowing!!!"

"Chrome, I swear if you touch it-"

Too late, a single finger prodded the statue's face, and a weathered chip of rock fell off to reveal pale, crack-ridden skin, and a brilliant red eye.

Then a pillar of light opened up.

The weather conditions were optimal for sailing, and it was a bright sunny day. Until the whole world fell to darkness, in comparison to the pillar of light, some ten kilometers from their current position.

Ryuusui jolted up, already yelling, "Francois, did you see that?!"

"Yes, Prince." They agreed, "My hypotheses? Either an immensely powerful lightning bender, a rare beast, or... the Avatar."

Ryuusui grinned, even as the light died down. No matter, he already had it's position memorized, "I don't care what it is, I want it! Change course immediately!"

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Dr. Stone ATLA AU Pt 2: Secrets of Ba Sing Se

Again, spoilers for an in-the-works fanfic but I really like sharing my ideas so here it is, under the cut if you’d rather not be spoiled. This story takes place in Book 2, whereas the first took place in Book 1.

15 year old Senku Ishigami and his adoptive father Byakuya live a fairly normal life in the Middle Ring of Ba Sing Se. Byakuya is a professor at Ba Sing Se University, while Senku spends his days studying in preparation for the University’s entrance exam (one must be 16 at the youngest to attend the University) and building various inventions with his best friends Taiju and Yuzuriha. 

Things are going well for Senku, until his father starts acting more and more paranoid, giving instructions to Senku to keep a locked box safe for him. Suddenly he unexpectedly goes missing for a full day and comes back with holes in his memory. Senku realizes that Byakuya had secretly been investigating the strange disappearances of various Lower Ring women that law enforcement hadn’t bothered to look into (the Joo Dees). 

Senku, Taiju, and Yuzuriha do some digging and eventually discover the Dai Li’s corruption, including threats from the Dai Li to Byakuya saying if he doesn’t stop investigating, then something might happen to Senku. Additionally, a guilty Lian Wei (Lillian) meets with them and says that one of the reasons Byakuya got so involved with the disappearances was because one of the missing women was a childhood friend of hers whom she had inexplicably run into in the Upper Ring, going by a different name and not even recognizing her, saying it must be a coincidence. 

Realizing that the Dai Li could come after them, Senku and his friends are at a loss for what to do, until a strange bald kid with orange clothes shows up at the University asking around for information.

Specifically, Aang and company meet a student on the University grounds, who directs them to the library and says “If there’s a book about it, Senku will know how to find it.” Still chaperoned by Joo Dee, Team Avatar meets Senku, who checks out some books about the city's history for them. Senku then plots how to talk to Team Avatar in secret.

The Gaang is approached by Jet and when they find an empty warehouse and conclude that Appa is no longer in the city, Longshot and Smellerbee show up. After realizing that the Dai Li must have done something to Jet, who should appear but Senku, Taiju, and Yuzuriha, with Senku declaring that the Dai Li is ten billion percent up to no good. The groups introduce themselves and Senku reveals his own evidence against the Dai Li.

Senku explains how a number of the Joo Dees match descriptions of missing women from the poorest parts of the Lower Ring, often refugees with no family to miss them, only perhaps some friends and acquaintances who were concerned enough to report to the police. However, rather than police reports the information Team Senku has was personally collected by Byakuya due to the incompetence and willful negligence of the Lower Ring police, with Byakuya suspecting an actual cover-up linked to the Dai-Li. 

Byakuya himself has recently disappeared, only leaving behind a note that said he was taking a short vacation for a few weeks and that if Senku needed anything he could talk to the neighbors. Smellerbee and Longshot wonder if Jet and Byakuya were taken to the same place. 

Katara uses her healing on Jet and he recalls being taken to a lake. Senku then pulls up a book about the pirate queen Tagaka, who was imprisoned under Lake Laogai by Avatar Kyoshi. Reasoning that the Dai Li must have a base there, Senku says that if they collect enough evidence they could expose the Dai Li to the whole city, making it impossible for them to brainwash everyone at once. Additionally, they could find out if anyone in the government wasn’t involved with the Dai Li, as well as connections to the black market to find Appa - Senku is ten billion percent sure that the secret police would keep tabs on the black market. Everyone takes note of the unsaid portion of Senku’s plan - he’s worried about his dad, even if Jet came out otherwise unharmed. 

After confirming the base’s existence with Toph’s seismic sense, Yuzuriha whips up a set of fake Dai Li uniforms (which won’t really help on close inspection since they’re all short teenagers save for Taiju and Sokka, but they might at least confuse the real Dai Li for a moment), and Senku shows off some of the makeshift weapons he made, including smoke bombs and a crossbow, using knowledge from his earnest study of the engineering and science books in the library. Sokka gets very excited over the inventions, and Yuzuriha comments that it’s not everyday Senku meets someone with such an interest in his science work. 

While they get ready Senku says he knew Aang was an air nomad from the start, but that there is very little about the nomads in the library from after the life of Avatar Kyoshi, and absolutely no mention of the genocide that happened one hundred years prior. Team Avatar starts to feel uneasy about the ban on talking about the war, and Senku concurs - they in turn are surprised to hear about the drill attack. 

The combined team infiltrates Lake Laogai, and split into two teams - Team Senku + Sokka and Aang look for the records room to collect incriminating paperwork and potentially any information on the black market for Appa, while Team Jet + Katara and Toph look for the holding cells where Byakuya and other prisoners might be. They plan to meet up back outside as soon as possible. 

To Aang’s surprise, the records reveal that Appa came to Ba Sing Se two weeks prior and was captured and put in a large holding cell. Meanwhile Jet’s team successfully finds Byakuya, who is pretty disoriented until Katara uses her healing on him. They also find a whole bunch of Joo Dees, which is very creepy, but when they try to convince them to come with the group, one Joo Dee sounds the alarm. 

The commotion brings nearly the entire Dai Li forces out, and Aang and Senku’s team join the fray. A fight breaks out and both Jet and Byakuya (plus the Joo Dees) fall under Long Feng’s brainwashing spell. Toph and Taiju are able to safely incapacitate the Joo Dees and Byakuya by carefully trapping them in stone, but Jet is far too quick and nimble. Taiju ends up taking a hit for Jet, causing Senku and Yuzuriha to freak out, and the group retreats using Senku’s smoke bombs as cover. Appa also shows up, having been freed by Zuko. 

In an abandoned warehouse, the team (plus Byakuya) recovers, with Senku and Byakuya treating Taiju’s wounds since they don’t trust that the Dai Li won’t be waiting for them at the hospital (Taiju is really sturdy anyway and isn’t too worse for wear). Sokka reviews the paperwork they stole and Aang wants to go directly to the Earth King with the information. Senku however disagrees strongly with that plan. 

Senku basically says that the Earth King is too heavily guarded by the Dai Li and might not be able to help them, and that’s if he’s not directly involved with the Dai Li’s corruption themselves. The team then agrees that it might not be the wisest plan. That’s when Senku proposes his own plan - kidnap the Earth King. This seems like even worse of a plan, but Senku points out that even if the King is on the Dai Li’s side, the Dai Li can’t stir up too much of a fuss about his disappearance without ruining their “perfect city” image, and they need the king to prove their legitimacy. By threatening the king, they can bargain for Long Feng to send assistance to the war effort.

Also in the paperwork pile is Guru Pathik’s message to Aang, and the letter to Toph. Aang decides that’ll be his next course of action once they figure out this Ba Sing Se thing. 

One very stressful stealth mission later and King Kuei is successfully kidnapped. However, the young king quickly turns out to be completely unaware of the Dai Li’s actions, until they present the incriminating paperwork with Long Feng’s signature all over. Additionally, the gang shows Kuei how horrible the poverty in the Lower Ring is, as well as the long list of missing women stolen away to be Joo Dees. 

Kuei is initially very annoyed at being kidnapped, but quickly comes to understand that the situation is rather serious. However, when they attempt to return to the palace, they find that the Dai Li have installed a lookalike pretending to be Kuei in his place, calling the real Kuei an imposter and putting a warrant out for his (and the collective Gaang’s) arrest for attempted murder. Since few people actually know what Kuei looks like, it would be rather hard to prove Team Avatar’s case.

What will the Gaang do next? Tis a mystery (that I have not written yet)

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For the dr.stone x atla crossover I feel that even if Hyoga is or was a soldier in the fire army he wouldn’t have liked the idea of a nations worth of centuries of knowledge pasted down through generations being wiped of the face of the earth.

I just had a thought Hyoga could be a soldier in the fire army but he could also be a master instructor at his own dojo he inherited from his master kinda like master Piandao. He’s still a fire bender though.

Also I think I would be a cute and funny plot twist if he has a daughter who is still young but old enough to help fight and strong enough to thanks her dad training her. I think he’d be the same tough and cold character he is but he’s surprisingly tender, caring, gental, and kind to her in his own way that would just make the characters in the dr.stone universe jaws hit the floor lol.

Ah, you do have a point with Hyoga likely being disappointed that the knowledge of airbending was lost to genocide - all those ancient techniques would probably be really fascinating to him as a martial artist. Though I can also see him buying into the Fire Nation’s imperialist message of “we are the strongest nation, so we should rule over all the weaker nations.”

I like your idea that Hyoga is a fighting instructor, with his values he’d probably be something like Zuko in skillset - he puts a lot of effort into firebending, but also into spearfighting since he deeply respects the nonbender master who taught it to him. At the same time he has no time for people who either don’t take it seriously or are too weak to make a difference.

(More under the cut because this got long)

Him having a kid is an interesting plot twist and while it’s more twisty than I’d expect, I’m kind of intrigued by the potential it has. Though that also brings up the question of who the kid’s mom is, and when the kid was born (I estimate Hyoga’s age in DCST to be around 20-22). Homura maybe? Like...perhaps Hyoga and Homura were both fairly high class and had an arranged marriage, but while Homura fell in love with him as they grew up together Hyoga only respected her as a friend and fellow fighter.

And then if they had a daughter (maybe pressured by both their parents to produce an heir of some sort) it could make them both more complex characters. If the kid was really strong though I’d lean more towards an Ozai-Azula like dynamic with Hyoga impressing his values of “only the strong and skilled deserve to live,” onto her. Plus if we’re keeping relative canon ages then I’d estimate Homura to be 20, Hyoga to be 22, and their daughter to be 2 by the time Team Avatar shows up in the Fire Nation to do their thing.

However...I can see some potential with the kid turning out physically weak, and that throwing Hyoga’s values into wack.

Let’s say the toddler was born healthy and strong and an assessment by some Fire Sages said that she’d become an extremely powerful bender - this pleases Hyoga, since he can’t imagine having fathered a weak child with him and Homura’s combined firebending ability. And indeed, by the time the kid is two she shows signs of firebending power well beyond her age group, with Hyoga planning to train her into an extraordinarily strong warrior.

Except with such a strong fire at such a young age, the little girl suddenly falls terribly ill, having raging fevers and struggling to breathe. Hyoga’s ideals would tell him that such an ill child will die, and that’s that, the weak and ill perish while the strong survive. But he finds himself insisting that the kid will survive, because she’s strong, she has to survive. She’ll recover and become the strongest firebender this side of the Nation, not die a weakling.

Some time later, the Gaang shows up to Hyoga’s town to resupply. Pre-Zuko joining but maybe somewhere between meeting Piandao and encountering Combustion Man? Aang decides to visit the local firebending dojo (rip Sokka’s nerves) because hey, he wants to see some firebending techniques from actual benders, and he can tooooootally handle staying low key this time, honest! He encounters Hyoga and gets a fair bit intimidated by him, though Hyoga seems to approve of “Kuzon’s” highly adaptive martial arts style.

At some point, a messenger comes and Hyoga slips away. Being nosy, Aang follows them and catches enough of the conversation to determine that there’s a sick kid living in that fancy mansion, and relays his concerns to the Gaang. Katara immediately wants to investigate further - Sokka is again very stressed but understands that he can’t stop his sister once she’s made a decision (plus this is post Painted Lady and Katara is even more determined not to let children suffer if she can do anything about it). But when she tries the front entrance, the guards won’t let her in, even when she says she’s a healer. In fact, they deny that there’s a sick child at all, while Aang insists he didn’t hear wrong.

So Aang and Katara, ever the problem solvers, break into the mansion (airbending is super useful!) and find the kid’s bedroom. Katara assesses the patient - she determines that even with her waterbending, the kid will likely suffer from complications her whole life due to the damage she’s already sustained. Hyoga suddenly appears, asking them how they got into his house (he’s actually very curious, since they seemed to enter silently and without alerting anyone). When Katara excuses herself and says she’s a healer from the colonies (Aang’s explanation for how Katara has “special healing techniques unlike any other”) and just wanted to help, Hyoga says that he doesn’t need a healer, and that the girl will recover soon. Katara starts to argue and Hyoga starts insinuating that he could easily beat her in combat, when Homura shows up, pleading with Katara to save her daughter.

Hyoga and Homura start arguing, with Homura saying this may be their last chance and Hyoga saying that a true daughter of his would be able to fight off the sickness alone. Homura eventually asks if he’d rather have a dead daughter than a weak one, which makes him go quiet (Aang and Katara are standing there awkwardly watching all of this). Hyoga then calmly says that since they seem to be at a standstill, the reasonable course of action is an Agni Kai (Aang goes pale at this, while Katara doesn’t actually know what that is).

In the courtyard the Gaang watches anxiously as Hyoga and Homura begin their duel, which results in quite a few impressive displays of firebending. Homura however seems to be holding back slightly, more on the run than attacking. At one point Homura gets thrown on her back and nearly burnt, but Katara calls out to her, saying she has to win for the kid. She gets back up and starts attacking Hyoga with renewed resolve, and even Hyoga is surprised.

Hyoga realizes that as loyal as Homura is to him, she really is doing her best to win, even coming at him with direct shots of flame now. And since this is still Hyoga, he respects that deeply - she’s doing things “properly,” even though she doesn’t want to. He even respects that Katara was so dedicated to her role as a healer that she broke into his house just on the mere mention that there was a sick child there.

And in the very bottom of his heart, despite all the talk of strength and weakness and who deserves to live, he has a hard time realizing that he doesn’t want his daughter to die, even if it means she’ll be weak and reliant on others her whole life. This might be a little OOC for canon Hyoga, but hey, it’s an au and maybe if canon Hyoga did have something small and weak to protect, he’d be less of an ass to Senku and company.

So at a key moment in the battle, Hyoga pauses for a split second instead of dodging a blast from Homura and allows himself to be grazed on the chin, reminiscent of his revival scars in canon. It’s not a bad burn, and those watching closely realize that he let her win. Hyoga turns to leave, only saying that Katara will be compensated for her healing services and that they truly did things “properly.”

Katara heals the girl, saying that the fever is gone but her lungs are damaged and she’ll have breathing problems from now on. She’s paid a small sack of gold by a servant that she initially refuses, but takes in the end since it’d probably be good to have extra Fire Nation currency on hand. The Gaang leaves the mansion feeling...a little conflicted about the experience, honestly.

Meanwhile as Homura sits by the girl’s bedside Hyoga appears in the doorway, having treated his burn from the duel. An awkwardly long silence passes before Hyoga says he’s been thinking about the skills that "Kuzon” and “Sapphire” displayed, and that he’s considering buying a home in the colonies so he can learn about those types of skills (since Aang claimed they were from the colonies). He turns to leave, but not before offhandedly saying that the seaside air in the colonies he’s looked at might be good for their daughter’s lungs.

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LMAOO yea no problem. idea droughts victimize us all at one point </3 to be a bit of help though, might i interest you in some of my thoughts for the atla au?

re-scrolling back, i saw that your ryusui and hyoga stories are pretty much solid already, and so your third most recent post was for our boy ukyo!! usually, i'm not really one for canon/oc romance either, but oh my god the idea you presented is way too good of a plot point to pass up.

i imagine that a good character type to fit the bill is maybe a girl who's the human personification of ">:D" if that makes sense??? someone energetic, talkative, and steadfast in contrast, but not completely opposite him.

picture this: he's hopping between small earth kingdom villages, laying low (as fire nation defects supposedly do), and one day while out buying food in the latest town he moved into, he picks up... music a few streets across? turns out there's some girl about his age playing happy tunes on a little instrument and laughing with the neighboring kids.

and it amazes him, it really does. ukyo has seen firsthand before just how bad the war is—the blood, the torn apart families, the discrimination and class separation; why else would he have risked his butt to get out of the military? and yet this girl is here, grinning and chatting up a stranger about how much kids love this specific melody. naturally, he initially thinks she might just be naive, but after getting to know each other, he learns that that's far from the case. she's like this in spite of being impoverished and away from her brothers who were forced to fight; to her, living with a smile is a final war cry to the fire nation that they will not destroy whatever's left of the only home she has.

and so over time he realizes just how much she reminds him of the value of all the little things in life. whenever she snorts at a vendor's lame joke, or when she bounces on the toes of her feet when a turtleduck flock passes, or when she shakes him by the shoulders because "you can ACTUALLY hear that?? that's so cool!!", his heart flutters and he feels so normal, even for just a moment. despite the war and all he's gone through, he feels that he's finally found some string of hope—of happiness.

but he knows he can't stay. he knows better than to put somebody else in danger for selfish reasons. that's why before it can pain him any more, he decides to leave for the next village.

and then the avatar and his gaang arrive to restock on supplies.

can't really think of other details right now lol so that's kinda it! hope that helped spark something for your creativity :)

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Oh you’re Plant Pot Anon! So sorry for the hiatus, I love these ideas! Atla is one of my favorite pieces of media for all the themes about war and colonialism that manage to come across in such a fun, child-friendly (enough) show, and this hits the spot excellently!

It’s been months but I still haven’t given up on the atla au, though right now my Fem!Sora au has my attention. I might post my other notes about it if people are interested though! Like I have a whole Thing for how the Gaang meets the dcst Childhood Friends Trio that I haven’t released to the public yet.

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Airbender Kohaku and Firebender Ryusui to complete the collection 💨🔥

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Earthbender Senku x Waterbender Gen

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