#of all of the thigs ive ever come up with this is the most random

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SO another AU I came up with was the ‘Mako and Bolin Zaofu AU’ which was really weird and never fully thought through so it is DEAD but you know people might find it interesting.

So pre-book 1 Suyin is in Republic City for some conference about city design or something with Baatar Sr and like whoop she bumps into 10 year old Bolin who tries to rob her and gives her a sob story about his brother being really sick. She gives him twenty and tells him to scram. Later she bumps into him again (what a coincidence) and like he’s upset because his brother is sick and she thinks it might not be a lie. She pays for Mako to see a doctor. Later she starts feeling sorry for them so she decides to bring them to Zaofu. Baatar is like ‘you can’t save every child’ but Suyin is like ‘I’m doing a good thing shut up’. Bolin is like super happy to but Mako is more cautious about this random lady wanting to help them but she wins him round and gives him 200 hundred yuans to buy tickets back to Republic CIty if he hates it.

So they live in Zaofu where they have school and shit and grow up happy and well. They live in like a children’s home with Kuvira (I wrote this before the comics) but meet with the Beifong family fairly regularly. Mako and Bolin become fairly close with them and get into all sorts of shenanigans with the twins and Opal. Bolin loves Zaofu wholeheartedly. Mako feels a little more at odds with Zaofu and feels useless/alienated in this metalbending City

Bolin struggles with school and eventually metalbends, but badly. His career is in the theatre. Bolin becomes close with Opal but he’s like oblivious to her obvious feelings. There’s a prom and Bolin almost goes with someone else and Opal is upset but tries not to show it and Mako tells Bolin he is a dumb boy. Bolin realises his mistake and goes with Opal and they start to date and they have a very steady relationship.

Mako excels at school unlike Bolin, and learns lightning bending. He has a short relationship with a girl in school which ends when he’s accused of being insensitive. He doesn’t become a police officer because Zaofu has a low crime rate and it is a boring job so he becomes some sort of like, logistics officer in the security forces, i.e. he helps move people around. He meets a soldier named Seung who is totally into him and Mako is like ‘what? but okay i guess’ and they start to date and have a terrible on again off again relationship. Mako takes the relationship seriously but struggles to open up; Seung opens up a lot but when Mako doesn’t, Seung doesn’t take the relationship that seriously and acts flippant/eyes wander etc, they break up but then usually make up some months later. Rinse and repeat like four times.

Bolin develops a fairly obvious hatred for Seung that he is shocked that people know about. He really wishes Mako would do better, and Bolin has had a pretty steady relationship for a couple of years now so he’s the ‘wise’ one and just doesn’t get this relationship at all if it makes Mako unhappy. Basically Mako still has relationship problems but it’s Bi now so it’s better.

Meanwhile sometimes they go ‘wow heard of those equalists in Republic City? Glad we’re not there’ or ‘heard the southern watering just got invaded!’. Korra and Asami meet at the party in book 1 and become friends without any jealously (like Korra broke into the probending arena and was immediately kicked out). But the plot of TLOK happens generally the same without Mako and Bolin. But the major events of book 1 and 2 happen. Opal then develops airbending and the air nation and Korra and Asami come round to meet them. Bolin tries to pair Mako with one of them during a dinner he has with them and Opal as well as he isn’t dating Seung at this point. Mako is like ‘wait which one’ and Bolin is like ‘I don’t know’ and this is the stupidest plot point but I wanted to make fun of the love triangle. Opal states bluntly at the end of the ‘date’ that they’re clearly into eachother than and that boys are dumb.

Anyway book 3 happens in some form. Bolin learns lavabending and they help save the airbenders at the end.

Meanwhile Kuvira always got along well with Mako and Bolin but Bolin finds her hard to get along with as an adult and Mako realises she’s kind of racist towards him. But then she decides to leave Zaofu with the troops and stabilise Ba Sing Se. Bolin is enamoured and decides to join but Mako is like ‘but she’s a dick towards firebenders.’ And Bolin is like ‘you must be mistaken Kuvira is great!’ And Mako is like ‘please listen to me’ and Bolin ignores him. They have a massive falling out over it and Bolin leaves. Seung also leaves with Kuvira so that relationship is also dead.

But anyway time skip three years Seung is on the frontlines and learns of the re-education camps and learns that fire and water benders are being sent to them. He manages to meet Bolin and is like “mako was right!” Bolin doesn’t believe Seung af first but comes around when he realises Seung is being serious and has nothing to gain from lying to him (Seung also hated Bolin and thought he was a meddling prick). They try and escape Kuvira captures them and they go to a re-education camp.

Meanwhile Mako has been chilling in Zaofu as normal. Zaofu is eventually invaded. The Beifongs don’t kneel to the Empire and Mako intends to do so as well but Baatar is like ‘hey no I trust you look after the city whilst we’re gone!” But obvs this goes tits up when Mako is taken prisoner for being a firebender by Kuvira’s regime. He’s like ‘where’s Bolin?’ And Kuvira lies and says he’s fighting for he good cause and believes in the Empire wholeheartedly. Mako sort of believes her?

Meanwhile Bolin’s breaks out of prison I guess and tries to get to Zaofu but by this point it’s overrun so he goes to Republic City and gets involved with defeating the colossus.

Meanwhile Mako is in a camp and bumps into Seung again, because of course he does. Mako is pretty much done at this point but they try and plan a break out.

But hooray, the colossus is defeated (idk how if Mako isn’t there to blow it up I never thought through how the tlok plot would really happen without Bolin and Mako tbh) and they’re re-united. Mako is peeved he wasn’t listened to but he does forgive Bolin.

Anyway Mako is sick of Zaofu st this point so Bolin suggest they try and trace their family in Ba Sing Se. They go to Ba Sing Se, and Seung asks if he and Mako can keep in touch, and they agree. The two brothers venture off to reconnect with their past.

And that’s the AU! If you asked me what the actual point of this fanfic is, I wouldn’t know.