#fiakom

[arctik-fox]

insp. Forgetting is a kind of mercy, by nerdylizj

[nerdylizj]

fiakom update tomorrow!!

[nerdylizj]

i am à MESS

zuko, katara, and baby akio from @nerdylizj's fic "forgetting is a kind of mercy"

this is my favourite thing i have ever made omg, I had so much fun making it and only wanted to kms twice (as opposed to 30 times)

everyone please check out the fic if you haven't read it yet!! it's truly amazing and hands down one of my favourite zutara fics ever!!

[mydukandiary-blog1]

Detox-Tag: DIE Turbo-Fastenkur, um sich schnell wieder wohlzufühlen!

https://mydukandiary.com/?p=31526&utm_source=SocialAutoPoster&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Tumblr Schnell wieder wohlfühlen im eigenen Körper! Source by fiakom

[nerdylizj]

Also I forgot to ask, are you planning on writing another zk fics when you finish this work? I will gladly eat anything you write, haha, also ok if not, you already made a wonderful gift for us <3

i am! I have a wip already ~80% written that i might post idk yet. it's about dreams and alternate timelines and fate. it's mostly lighthearted (especially compared to fiakom!) but also includes themes of grief, identity, and friendship. yada yada

i'm working on a multi-chap asoiaf au :) it's driving me insane

but most dear to me is what @cyanorhis and I are working on. mentally, i have been here <3 it'll be posted next methinks i can't waaaait

[nerdylizj]

1k kudos on fiakom???

[nerdylizj]

18 for the ask game????? #curious about fiakom

18. if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

sorry about not answering this sooner! i keep all of the deleted scenes! 90% of them are from later chapters so it took a while to decide on what to share. here's part of a deleted scene from the first version of chapter 12 (before I figured out the tone I wanted for that chap!)

fic ask game :)

After a silent dinner, the only sounds reverberating through the echoing courtyard are the sounds of Momo chittering and Akio’s quiet mumblings and the crackling of the fire. Sokka makes a promise to begin hunting the following day. Zuko dresses a wiggling, overtired baby into sleep clothes and manages to avoid a massive temper tantrum by rocking him to sleep – narrowly. 

“So, Zuko,” Sokka comments once silence descends upon them. “Which one of you can we blame the temper on?”

Katara glowers at her brother, visibly exhausted. “Sokka –”

“I used to blame Katara,” Zuko answers honestly. “But he probably gets it from me.”

Now that he remembers his banishment and his treatment of Iroh and his behavior toward them – well. Maybe Katara can’t claim the worse temper between them. Besides, this late at night, riling Sokka up is just as bad as riling up the actual child.

Sokka’s jaw drops before he chuckles. “That… makes sense. You’re an angry guy.”

Katara’s nose scrunches. “No, he’s not.”

Her brother snorts. “Are you kidding?” He points at Zuko. “Zuko, angry firebender who chased us across the world –”

“He’s not angry anymore,” she snaps. Katara looks around the campfire at everyone before she settles back on her brother. “Did you think we’d turn back into the people we were five years ago?”

Sokka gives her a baffled look. Katara’s eyes flicker to and from where Toph and Aang sit before she can Sokka share some sort of exchange that Zuko can’t comprehend. Her brother’s face contorts with his own anger. 

“Don’t tell me –”

“I’m still kinda angry,” Zuko admits, eager to disrupt their bickering. It’s been a long fucking day. “Just – less angry than I was before.”

Toph cackles. “For now.” 

Zuko narrows his eyes. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Sokka and Katara’s heads whip toward Toph, matching looks of annoyance on their faces. 

“Toph,” Sokka says with a warning tone.

Toph remains unbothered. The earthbender leans back on her palms. “You’ll find out soon enough, Zuko.” 

Uselessly, he scowls at the earthbender. Her nonchalance usually amuses him but not at this moment. It wouldn’t do good to rise to her bait with his son in his arms and the weight of the day’s failure weighing on all of them, so Zuko bites his tongue. 

Silence descends on them again, the firelight dancing over their tired faces. Aang’s eyes flicker between the Water Tribe siblings, his face reddening. Katara pointedly gazes into the fire, avoiding Aang’s gaze, and Sokka isn’t hiding his anger as he stares at the airbender. Toph is the only one who looks relaxed. Even Haru, who was lying by the fire with his eyes closed, opens his eyes to look around carefully. 

“Zuko,” Katara finally says, her voice wobbling as she breaks the tense silence. 

There was a time when he would know what his wife was trying to say with his name alone, what the tremor in her voice indicates. But those parts of them are shedding away like layers of skin, leaving them flayed and vulnerable. He wants to guess what she means, but he isn’t sure he can handle another failure after today.

“Katara.”

She stands abruptly, squeezing her hands tightly, and gives him a serious look. “Did you tell Azula about us?”

Zuko gives her a bewildered look. “What?”

“Maybe you should talk in private,” Toph suddenly sits up and frowns, all of her earlier mirth gone. “Share your secrets.”

“What secrets?” Sokka asks, eyes narrowing at Aang.

Zuko ignores them, focusing on Katara pacing in front of the fire now. She must be losing it after today. Azula already knows about them. She orchestrated all of it. Why would Katara –

“Our time in Ba Sing Se,” she clarifies, barely looking up and he understands more but not enough. “Did you –”

“Tell her we were –”

“Did you?” Katara suddenly stops pacing and meets his gaze. She looks beyond troubled – nearly manic in the firelight. It would frighten him on her behalf if he wasn’t so dumbfounded by her question. 

“Not that I remember,” he answers slowly and meaningfully. Her eyes rove over his face for a moment – looking for the truth no doubt – before she nods, continuing to pace and returning to her thoughts. And for some fucking reason unbeknownst to him, Zuko confesses, “I confronted my father today.”

She freezes again, her eyes widening and lips parting. “You did?”

“I think,” Sokka says weakly, looking between them both. “I would like to know more about what happened in Ba Sing Se.”

“I did,” Zuko replies to Katara, ignoring Sokka again.

[nerdylizj]

Well, about fiakom, how did you decide upon Akio’s name for our little steam baby? Like usally in other fics people either use the name of a relative of Zuko or Katara, and i believe I’ve seen Khallic (im pretty sure I spelled it wrong) more than twice. So I wanted to know what was your inspiration, specially because it really fits in!

oh interesting question! i knew that i wanted the name to have the letter K in it like zuko and katara (similar to how the FN royal family all share the letter "Z").. so i googled something dumb like "boy names with the letter K in it" 😭 Akio was the 3rd or 4th name i saw. it means "bright" and "clear" which really solidified the choice for me narratively speaking. now if only i could choose another steam baby name that easily... 😭😭

[nerdylizj]

you have mentioned zk arrange marriage fic twice already… its ghost calls from graveyard methinks lmao. can you tell us more about it, please?

...fiacom is also kinda arrange marriage au tho 💀💀

not you keeping count!! basically it was a 5 years post-war political marriage thing where Katara, for political reasons and not for any other reason – thank you very much – volunteers to marry the fire lord. much to his horror bc refusing would have terrible consequences. very much a “why is the woman I love in my house” type of horror. katara doesn’t understand the big deal. friends can get married it’s sooo normal. much idiocy would ensue

fiakom does have a type of arranged marriage lmaooo you’re right! ig I didn’t stray far in terms of that

[nerdylizj]

Do you take fic requests?

yes and no! happy to receive requests but unless miss brain falls in love with it, it's really difficult for me to commit rn

i'm swamped with wips due to my own lunacy. i have fiakom, the thread that binds us (the ambassador katara & fire lord zuko au), two top secret ones, and an asoiaf au. all of this to say, i am crazy enough to start another wip but human enough for it to take a while to finish

[nerdylizj]

Thank you for writing fiakom. I read it twice this weekend.

twice?! omg ♥️ thanks for reading it ♥️

[nerdylizj]

For fun (while I wait for the next update for FIAKOM), which one of your PJO fics should I read first? 😃

omg!! idk... it really depends on what you are looking for! i've written a pretty broad range of tropes/moods i think. i love percabeth and i miss them... they are THEEE couple bc they are soulmates in every universe <3

lmk if you want fic recs for some of my faves!!

i'll list my pjo fics under the cut w some info!

transatlanticism aka transat is a post-HoO fic that's about.... the costs of surviving the war / idiots in love / intimacy vs isolation etc.. i actually am so so bad at describing things. mind the tags and its explicit rating

deep burn blue is a college au with unrequited (or is it?) love and friendship shenanigans and bitch percy. i love him and his moodiness your honor... i am biased but i think it's funny and light-hearted and silly

on the train ride home is a single mom annabeth au. it's the softest/sweetest romance story out of all my dumb fics 😭😭 i wrote it for a beloved and will.... one day.... write an epilogue

lover, be good to me is a collection of tumblr prompts/drabbles from years ago. i have more to add actually i should do that..

the architect is a miserable time. 100% angst. please mind the tags bc i don't wanna be held liable for any resultant suffering

we could call it even is a tis the damn season one-shot