#pidge & shiro: the avatar!

[keepofkandrakar]

yes they are zukka, however please consider…

klance.

have a good day.

[discordiansamba]

spitballing some more ATLA AU facts:

Keith's grandfather deserted from the Fire Nation early on in the 100 year war and married an Earth Kingdom woman, so Keith's dad grew up in the Earth Kingdom and has only ever been to the Fire Nation once. He met Keith's mother there.

Keith voice: On all levels except physical, I am a dragon.

Hunk tries to resolve things without resorting to violence as much as possible, but sometimes he knows he doesn't have any other option.

This makes for a very funny dynamic when it's just him and Keith traveling together.

Hunk WILL baby talk to every animal he can, Keith's komodo-lion and Kosmo included. Did I mention he takes in a baby sabertooth moose-lion? Because he absolutely does. Animals also love Hunk. They DO want his scratchies.

Lance and Hunk hit it off right away when they finally meet. Keith feels strangely jealous, only he doesn't know what jealousy is because he's never experienced it before. Shiro literally has to point it out to him.

Keith and Lance still get along like oil and water... or in this case, like fire and water. Lance is against the idea of traveling with a firebender at first, but he relents because Hunk vouches for him. Allura comes from a time before the 100 year war so she's fine with this actually.

Keith becomes Hunk's firebending master, which is... an interesting experience because all of Keith's actual training comes from a man who had no formal firebending training either. At first this causes a bit of a struggle, since Keith's bending is all instinct, but it's ultimately for the best since in many ways, Keith's firebending is the closest to true firebending there is.

Hunk struggles to learn airbending, even though Shiro is a much better teacher. Thankfully Shiro is also a very patient teacher, willing to carefully take his time to make sure Hunk gets the best teachings possible.

(Unfortunately, they also don't have that kind of time.)

Allura is Hunk's waterbending teacher, and he has the easiest time with this element. Lance isn't technically his teacher, but he does teach Hunk some cool tricks, and having a study buddy actually helps him out a lot.

Hunk does not like going into the Avatar State very much.

Hunk does manage to reunite with his family in Ba Sing Se... only to quickly realize there's something awfully fishy about this city. They should definitely leave, like ASAP, but Allura and Keith want to stay and investigate.

Hunk: okay, but if this goes south, remember- I was the guy who wanted to leave.

Allura & Keith: Noted.

[pidges-lost-robot]

Season 1 Lance explaining to Coran that Voltron is kinda like the Avatar of the Universe cause all the lions control the elements and they all come together in one being and Coran being like "so the avatar can control all the elements like helium and phosphorus" and Lance having to get into the whole four elements then the five elements when Coran is like "but there's 5 lions"

And Lance comparing the Galra to the fire nation and Coran being like "but I thought fire was Keith's element" and Lance being like "well I suppose that gives us a lot to think about"

The others finding out and being appalled while Hunk is like "Oh so I guess you're katara in this? I would've thought you were more the Sokka type" and Lance just responding "Shut up Bolin" and Hunk gasping in horror

[fioleespring]

i had this klance fic idea about an atla au where team voltron is alive during the avatarless 100 years and the waterbending purge

lance and allura live in one of the southern water tribe villages. one day the village is attacked by a fire nation ship where keith is one of the soldiers. lance and allura are captured. lance meets keith who is on guard duty and they start talking. one day keith isn't as careful with the water and lance manages to incapacitate him, free himself and allura and escape. he takes keith with them as a prisoner for information. then the three of them go on a quest to free the other captured waterbenders

some more details:

allura has white hair because she was blessed by the spirit of the ocean who saved her from drowning. her family was killed in one of the fire nation attacks. her waterbending style is powerful moves and controlling big amounts of water

lance is better at waterbending that requires precision. not as much power as allura but is better at control. one time he heats up water and keith starts thinking lance did some firebending and is the avatar which lance finds hilarious

keith's mom was from the fire nation but she opposed the rule and keith's dad was from the colonies. keith was orphaned though and the orphanage threw him into the army as soon as he was old enough. keith hates it there

later they meet pidge (nonbender, looking for her family), hunk (earthbender, offers them a place to stay when keith gets injured), shiro (nonbender, sailor who helps them get to the island prisons)

[secretly-a-pair-of-pliers]

Okay, so: Voltron in the atla universe

Lance is so Sokka coded, he's such a southern water tribe guy and probably a non-bender, which would exacerbate his inferiority complex. I'm thinking he travels to the earth kingdom to go to a special school in ba sing se, where he meets pidge and Hunk.

Pidge and Hunk are both from the earth kingdom. Pidge is a metal bender and, like her brother, is really good at mechanical engineering and inventing stuff. Hunk is an earthbender, although he is from a colony where he was not allowed to bend, so he's not a very strong bender.

Keith is so obviously Zuko coded, especially if we say that the Galra are the fire nation. Keith was raised as a noble, in the vicinty of the royal family. However, he joins the white lotus, and leaves for ba sing se on a mission for them. He's a pretty really good firebender, but he uses his anger which limits him.

Zarkon and Lotor - Ozai and Azula, need I say more.

If the fire nation are Galra, then the Alteans have to be the air nomads. Allura and Coran escaped their temple before it was destroyed. Allura is the avatar, although coran doesn't tell her for a while. He just tries to raise her with air nomad principles (hes a non-bender), which I imagine don't stick super well.

I'm not quite sure what to do for Shiro. My best idea is that he's also fire nation, and gets drafted in the front lines. His battalion is wiped out but he survives, and after going through war like that, joins the white lotus where he sort of mentors Keith.

Also the war has only been going on for like.. 20ish years

[generalallxsanjishipper]

Icon made by: me

Hi! Welcome.

This is Generalallxsanjishipper's blog

(A long ass nick, I know.)

*stares at the (not many) but 100% "Yes" votes that was in the poll* (How the hell am I supposed to introduce myself? I have no idea, but okay, whatever—)

Killian here! It's not my real name, but it's my art name. I can be called Isa or Bibi as well. My real name is Barbara.

I'm from Italy and I'm a 2001 girl, She/her pronouns, bisexual, introverted, Virgo (too much of a perfectionist sometimes. Ops)

I am a Writer, a Screenwriter and an Artist. I even went to an art school, but the only thing that I learned there is anxiety. Yey.

I love reading. Like tons of books, but for whatever reason I stopped entirely reading books written in Italian and now I'm constantly binge-reading english stuff.

As a Writer, I create tons of Own Characters, yes. I have honestly so many OCs that it's hard to keep track of them between Original Works and Fanfiction. I have to admit that I never wrote as much fanfiction as I'm doing during those last years, mostly for bad experience with criticism in my first fics. But apparently I got over it after randomly starting to write little One Shots of a few different fandoms. It excalated, now.

To read my stuff, you can find me in AO3, Efp and Wattpad under Killian44peeta's nickname. Even as an Artist, you can find me with that nickname on Instagram. I DO NOT have TikTok and I DO NOT intend to have it. If I change my mind, it's gonna rain for months lol.

I have many, many fandoms.

Listing them all is impossible, but my obsessions usually stuck the most when I have a "main crush" in said fandom. If not, they are fleeting at best... And usually the same main crush is the one that I ship with most people (Not always though).

Yep. I'm a multishipper, pro LGBTQ+ and I love polyamorous relationships.

When I hate a ship, I just hate it. No matter how hard you try to change my mind. Still, I'm of the "live and let live policy" because, damn, ship wars are boring and if you dislike something, YOU BLOODY IGNORE IT.

YOU DO NOT STUPIDLY FIGHT SOMEONE AND SAY TO THEM TO K*LL THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SHIP YOUR PAIRING. THOSE PEOPLE YOU SHIP DO NOT EXIST. THEY ARE JUST A WRITER'S FANTASY. NO NEED TO BE SO STUPIDLY CHILDISH. JUST CALM DOWN.

*takes a deep breath*

Thanks.

A few examples of my main crushes:

Animated ones first.

Sanji, Corazon, Reiju and Vivi (One Piece), Douxie (Tales of Arcadia), Zuko (Avatar), Mika (Owari No Seraph), Levi, Jean and Yelena (Shingeki no Kyojin), Akashi and Kise(Kuroko no basket), Gwen (Total Drama), Megara (Hercules), Dark Bloom (Winx Club), Hijikata (Gintama), Hyoga, Eden, every Virgo Saint ever except Shun (Saint Seiya+), Shiro and Pidge (Voltron), Lust and Roy(Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Not animated crushes (directly the person, not the role, because if not the list would be sooo much longer, ok)

Daniel Sharman, Danielle Campbell, Colin O'donoghue, Richard Armitage, Ian Somerhalder, Josh Hutcherson, Zoe Kravitz, Tom Ellis, Hayden Christensen, Bridgette Mendler

(am I forgetting someone? Probably. Sorry)

Welp. I dunno what else to say. Hope you have fun inside my blog? If you wanna be friends (chat here, on Discord, WhatsApp... ) and ask questions I'm okay with it? If you wanna talk with me about (my, yours) stories, I'm DEFINITELY okay with it.

:D I love to rant about fanfictions and original works. I love ranting about ocs and headcanon about characters. Yes.

(do not kill me if I don’t answer immediately, I have a life/I need time to draw/I need time to write)

Bye.

-Killian

[apple-juice16]

Fanfics I found enjoyable. Like a lot. My personal favs.

Masterkey override or the one time when everyone realised that Lance was smart ClaraCivry (Kat_of_Dresden)

No Archive Warnings Apply, Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt, Lance (Voltron)Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Matt Holt, Coran (Voltron), Smart Lance, Surprised Team, Insecure Lance (Voltron), Awesome Pidge, Types of intelligence, Realisations, People appreciatng Lance, Fluff

Basically, Lance asks Pidge to teach him some technical stuff, and it turns out that he is more intelligent than any of them thought (including Lance himself). A smart Lance fic, for all your smart Lance needs, featuring awesome teacher Pidge and startstruck team.

Words: 1,323 - Chapters: 1/1

Monopoly was a bad idea - AuroraDownTheRabbitHole

No Archive Warnings Apply, Keith/Lance (Voltron), Allura/Shiro (Voltron), Keith & Shiro (Voltron), Keith & Pidge | Katie Holt, Allura & Coran & Hunk & Keith & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt & Shiro, Keith & The Blade of Marmora, Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Coran (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Kolivan (Voltron), Ulaz (Voltron), Thace (Voltron), Antok (Voltron), Swearing, Team as Family, Board Games, Monopoly (Board Game) - Freeform, Chaos, Domestic Fluff, Dads of Marmora (Voltron)

The blade of marmora members really shouldn't have let the paladins play Monopoly,you know what they say you only play board games with the people you want to break bonds with ............. this was a big mistake.

Words: 660 - Chapters: 1/1

An Eye for an Eye - DpsMercy

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Martin Blackwood & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Sasha James & Tim Stoker, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist & Tim Stoker, Michael | The Distortion & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Helen | The Distortion & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Sasha James, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, Not Them (The Magnus Archives), Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives), Helen | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives), Other Character Tags to Be Added, Jon is from Night Vale, Crack Treated Seriously, Friendship, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Fix-It of Sorts, Jon becomes friends with most avatars, Spooky shenanigans, Jon is too chill to be scared, No beta we die like Gertrude's assistants, Typical Night Vale Weirdness, Typical Night Vale Violence, Canon-Typical Worms (The Magnus Archives), typical TMA horror

In which Jonathan Sims is not from the UK but instead, if you took his origins and turned them sideways twice then flipped them over, he technically would be from the US, the town of Night Vale specifically. Elias can’t do shit about it and gets a headache and slowly creeping madness instead. ***** On indefinite hiatus

Words: 15,555 - Chapters: 9/?

Welcome to...The Magnus Institute? - princeetheo

No Archive Warnings Apply, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Carlos/Cecil Palmer, Georgie Barker/Melanie King, Elias Bouchard/Peter Lukas, Martin Blackwood, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Sasha James, Elias Bouchard, Peter Lukas, Rosie Zampano, Georgie Barker, Melanie King, Jessica Law (Fictionalized), Jordan Kennedy, Ben Below (fictionalized), Basira Hussain, Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale), Cecil Palmer, Dana Cardinal, Steve Carlsberg, Janice (Welcome to Night Vale), Abby Palmer, Cecilos are Jon sims parents AAAA, Non-Human Cecil Palmer, Cecil Palmer is Described, Autistic Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale), Trans Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale), Awkward Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale), jon sims and dana cardinal are childhood besties, steve carlsberg is the best uncle, Cecil Palmer's Fashion Sense, Dork Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale), eye avatar cecil palmer, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, FUCK CANON !, we ball, no beta we die like danny stoker, Pining Martin Blackwood, The Mechanisms Were Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist's College | University Band, Autistic Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Trans Martin Blackwood

Carlos 'The Scientist' Sims and Cecil Palmer are Jonathan Sims parents, that's it. that's the fic.

Words: 2,325 - Chapters: 3/?

jonathan sims: part-time archivist, part-time wanted murderer, full-time bitch

ceruleancats

No Archive Warnings Apply, Jon & Several Cats, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Georgie Barker, Jude Perry, Michael "Mike" Crew, Basira Hussain, Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Elias Bouchard, Martin Blackwood, Humor, Comed, ya bit cracky, Based on a Tumblr Post, everyone thinks jon killed leitner and they revere him for it, Season 3, Season 3 AU, Canon Asexual Character, Asexual Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Cats

Jon didn't kill Jurgen Leitner, but no matter how many times he tries to tell people that, they just don't seem to believe him! It's not all bad, though: while he is a wanted murderer on the run from the cops, Leitner was apparently so universally despised that Institute employees and Avatars alike are tripping over themselves to help him out. Now, he just has to figure out how to clear his name (though that's easier said than done).

Words: 17,189 - Chapters: 10/10

The White Wolf - JaskiersWolf

No Archive Warnings Apply, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Triss Merigold, Nenneke (The Witcher), Shapeshifting, Shapeshifter Jaskier | Dandelion, Wolf Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Non-Human Jaskier | Dandelion, Feral Jaskier | Dandelion, Established Relationship, Protective Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Protective Jaskier | Dandelion, Pack Cuddles, Sleepy Cuddles, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Mild Blood

Following an unfortunate encounter with a mage, Geralt gets cursed into a wolf. Jaskier and Geralt must travel the Continent in search of someone that can help them. - Can be read as a stand alone

Words: 6,018 - Chapters: 3/3

Five times Jaskier hid nothing from Geralt and one time the Witcher finally noticed the obvious

cucumber_of_doom

No Archive Warnings Apply, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier | Dandelion, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier can talk to animals, Geralt is so dense he might collapse into a black hole at any moment, can be read as pre relationship, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia Cares About Jaskier | Dandelion, curses gone right, 5+1 Things

Jaskier has a special talent he never tried to hide from Geralt: He can understand and talk to animals. He never tried to hide this from Geralt, but our witcher is a bit dense.

Words: 6,747 - Chapters: 1/1

The Viscount - pukner

No Archive Warnings Apply, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier | Dandelion, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Original Characters, Eskel (The Witcher), Essi Daven, Valdo Marx, 5+1 Things, POV Multiple, Human Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion Being a Feral Bastard, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia is So DoneIdentity Shenanigans, Trans Jaskier | Dandelion, Genderfluid Jaskier | Dandelion, we're spicing things up yk, canon-typical weird euphemisms, POV Outsider, update it has feelings now, and yennskierand geraskierand geraskifer, why is it getting long

"I can't imagine just telling people I'm from Lettenhove, though," the man says, a smile caught in his voice, "How do you do it?" "Can I tell you a secret?" asks Jaskier, tone taking on a conspiratory tilt. Then, in a whisper that is no quieter than his earlier speech, "I think it's funny." "Funny!" says the man, laughing. Funny, thinks Geralt, bemused. Lettenhove isn't actually a real place. But Jaskier is certainly the Viscount of it. (Or, five times Jaskier tells someone he's the Viscount of Lettenhove, and one time he tells the truth.)

Words: 14,584 - Chapters: 4/5

[danceylancey]

The team starts to develop powers. Hunk starts to grow a connection with rocks, learning to move things with heavy stomps and claps. He uses moves he removers from Avatar: The Last Airbender to various levels of success and finds he needs to use his emotions to manage his abilities. Keith and Pidge discover theirs next, Pidge surprisingly having a strong ability to do ect with light and creating solid structures out of it as well as weapons and tools. Keith has the ability to basically teleport as long as he can see where he needs to go, Pidge explains it like a video game character who needs to chose a place to land before jumping. Shiro is next, most likely taking such a long time due to his hesitance to use his Galra Arm. When he does he finds that he can manipulate the metal inside it and any type of metal that he had mad physical contact with as long as it is no heavier than twice his own weight. And lastly, Lance… who never gets anything. They look at his leavers of quintessence and see his have also raised greatly, yet there seems to be no sign of any power developing. Lance is clearly upset by this but keeps it to himself as best he can so as not to come off as whiney, but all of them know he’s insecure about it. They see him staring at their powers in use and all feel him pull away slowly every time a mission is only done well because of their powers. Lance says nothing to anyone about it… except Coran. It was only a few months into their adventure as Team Voltron that Lance came to the older man with tears in his eyes and pleading with him for help. He explained to him how he was seeing things, faces and creatures and he couldn’t shut them out. He could hear sobbing and screaming all night long and every time they went to a new planet he saw hundreds more people than everyone else. Coran figures it out quickly, Lance has so much quintessence that he has passed over the border of living and gone. He’s seeing the dead yes, but also the dying and the sick. He can see illnesses and depression and even better things like new life and overwhelming joy. Coran promises him to jot say a word after Lance tells him he wants to keep it secret. Not because he doesn’t want to be seen as a monster, but because knowing what happens after death for some people is breaking him apart and he wants to spare them. He can see torture and abuse happening, sharing dreams with people he’s never known or met. Lance had his own power and it’s a curse that he would much rather keep to himself, use where he can like when he uses it to figure out others intentions and hope to any god left that his team will believe him when he says there’s danger. It’s hard to be believed when they think he’s just being a fool.

[whumplovers-collaborate]

Fandom List 2 — Whumpy Works created for the Multimedia Summer Exchange in the Whumplovers Collaborate server

This list features Whumpy art and writing for the following fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist, Genshin Impact, My Hero Academia, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Call of Duty, Banana Fish, Doki Doki Literature Club!, [Módào Zǔshī, The Untamed], Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Gravity Falls, Tiger & Bunny, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Tokyo Ghoul, SCP Foundation, Sonic The Hedgehog, Black Butler, Undertale Gears of War, Night Head Genesis

Original Work List — Fandom List 1 — Fandom List 3

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist — All Media Types

Writing

Rat Race by nxllxfy @null-whump

It was when his vision started fading that Ed distantly realized that he might die.

No one was there, no one was coming, and no one would find him when he did die. He would be left down in this god-forsaken sewer, a fucking sewer, of all places, and Al would never know what happened to him. And for fuck’s sake, even he didn’t know what had happened to him, because he couldn’t fucking remember.

The Blade for the Undiplomatic by User_needs_a_Username

Fullmetal is missing and no one is quite sure where he is. Ed's been stabbed and is bleeding out.

Coming Home (Home is Wherever You are Not) by User_needs_a_Username

Edward and Alphonse get a letter from their father... And emotions stir... He’s coming to see them.

Watch Your Back by Anonymous 

Riza doesn't watch Roy's back for a moment...

Fandom: Genshin Impact

Art

One Mistake by BeneathAScorpionSky @beneathascorpionsky

Even as a puppet, you're not invincible by Dye_Iguess @whumpedydump

Scaramouche art. Il Dottore experiments.

Tragedy in the Wind by emcSCARED @emcscared-whumps

(ARTWORK) Kaeya is very, very sad and is (most likely) having a (-n ambiguously) awful time. I don't know much about Genshin, but I've seen the art and I pin his vibe as someone who doesn't outwardly process emotion very much, so, let's stress him :)

Fandom: My Hero Academia

Writing

noise creates illusions [silence brings truth] bynitroglycerin_and_paraffin (candleshopmenace) 

Shinsou Hitoshi is trapped.

driven to my knees by Rookblonkorules

A mission gone wrong sees Bakugou on the wrong side of quirk traffickers.

choking on my own blood by Rookblonkorules

Midoriya is injured severely during a villain attack. Aizawa stays with him until help arrives.

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Writing

Actions have Consequences by ASmallVoice

While on a supply mission for Allura, Keith is kidnapped by the Galra.

the fire that was by Rookblonkorules 

Hunk and Shiro rescue Keith, who has been a prisoner of the Galra for some time.

No Dawn. No Day. I Am Always In The Twilight. by Gem_Of_The_Land @whumpy-gems

A mission failure leading to the capture of three Paladins. They don't know where they are, why they are there, or what is going to happen. All Lance, Keith and Pidge know is that they must stay together. In order to survive the brutality they are going to face. Hoping each new day wont bring any other troubles.

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Art

fallen pheonix by Chordata7 

a gift for a small voice for the summer whump exchange.

Alone by MidnightCity @circuitdelasarthe

Hurt Zuko by Silver_Treats (SuperSilverSpy), SuperSilverSpy

Zuko got stabbed on his own ship…

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Writing

Saving Ferdinand by WriterOfWorlds

Ferdinand gets kidnapped by Those Who Slither In The Dark and is presumed dead. Hubert is determined to save Ferdinand.

An exchange fic. For my Bad Things Happen Bingo: You Can Scream All You Want

Just Another Theory in Motion by The_Walking_Pie 

When Hubert takes longer than usual to return from a scouting mission, Ferdinand can't help but worry. But when Hubert finally does return, something seems...off.

Bait on a Hook by The_Walking_Pie 

During a normal fishing trip, Byleth gets kidnapped by Those Who Slither in the Dark.

Fandom: Call of Duty

Writing

Crawling rot by Livingblurr @livingblurr

But he fucking loathed it right now. Sweet baby Jesus, he hated himself even more. The coffee in his ‘best mom ever mug’ was stale and cold, poured hours ago just to be forgotten about as Graves had indulged in yet another file Shepherd had sent over.

Or

Graves doesn’t get enough sleep because of far too much paperwork and his mind does a funky thing and lets him hallucinate. His medic is there to catch him.

Feral claws (don’t cut chains) by Livingblurr @livingblurr

Metal bars caged him in the small space, like a damn animal in a Zoo enclosure, ready for viewing at a moment's notice. Only thing missing was stupid plexiglass and a brat hammering against it with their sticky grippers.

Or

Graves gets captured and (somewhat) tortured.

Fandom: Banana Fish

Art

Hurt Ash Fanart bySilver_Treats (SuperSilverSpy), SuperSilverSpy

That one time when Ash was restrained and beaten…

Sacrifice For A Friend by Sishal @sishal01

Eiji just wants to help his friend. No matter the cost to himself.

Fandom: Doki Doki Literature Club!

Art

Niemand by rikkacha 

"Hey, hey, wake up!"

the red means i love you by Steefwaterbutter

Yuri sure does love y/n, huh?

Fandom: Módào Zǔshī, The Untamed

Writing

I Only Sink Deeper by Steefwaterbutter

A grieving sect leader, a night hunt gone terribly wrong, and a smile that must not fade.

Or: Lan Xichen falls ill and his family reminds him how much they love him.

Art

Return Me To His Arms by ProjectXIII @project-xiii

A snapshot in which a tortured soul finally freed finds itself pulled back to mortal fetters at the loving but wounded voice of his loved one, a voice gentle enough to stall the screaming in his ears but powerful enough to bring him back to earth.

Fandom: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom

Writing

What the Courageous Fear by Sparky_Lurkdragon @sparkylurkdragon

Link recalls that time King Rhoam made him give a speech.

Art

Caught in the In-Between by Sishal @sishal01

Link is caught in the war between light and darkness.

Fandom: Gravity Falls

Writing

I've got you, brother by ilike_color @graham-cracker-guillotine

Stan gets lost trying to find Ford's cabin. Ford helps him warm up.

Fandom: Tiger & Bunny

Writing

A Shortcut to Danger by The_Walking_Pie

On the way to the movies, Kotetsu and Barnaby end up embroiled in a robbery. They dispatch the robber quickly, but one of them ends up with an injury that's more than it appears to be.

Fandom: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Writing

House of Memories by Rookblonkorules 

Narancia finds himself in an unfortunate situation with no one to come for him.

Fandom: Tokyo Ghoul

Art

It Doesn't Get Better by emcSCARED @emcscared-whumps

(ARTWORK) Kaneki suffers some more (ambiguous) torture (presumably with a Special WeaponTM of some sort) because he isn't miserable enough yet :) He looks good in chains.

Fandom: SCP Foundation

Art

Transportation by Gadgetrocks

My piece for the Whumplovers Collaborate summer exchange!! Looks like SCP-049 is being transported somewhere after an… incident. Is it the bloodloss or the lavender circulating the air making them woozy? Who can tell, really >;)

Fandom: Sonic The Hedgehog

Art

Sparky Lurkdragon's Treat by Anonymous 

Fandom: Black Butler

Art

Bad Day For Sebastian by Silver_Treats (SuperSilverSpy)

Sebastian got stabbed…

Fandom: Undertale

Art

Hurt Flowey by Silver_Treats (SuperSilverSpy) 

Flowey’s not having a good time

Fandom: Gears of War

Art

MidnightCity's Treat by Anonymous

Fandom: Night Head Genesis

Art

Night Head Genesis Art by Anonymous

[angelpuns]

Lance deserved so much more in the end. The end in general felt like it was a little rushed. There was also the season in the first episode of season 6 where Lance had died that no one talks about not even fandom

The clone shiro thing was weird, but if you look at how his hair changes throughout the series it's like the phases of the moon. And the relationship with Curtis (I had to look it up because I forgot his name) was definitely something I wanted to see more but it was on the back burner and then suddenly they got married? Like I get it the show is more focused on the war but if Allura could have to relationships and they both got screen time (wishing the second one never happened) why couldn't the LGBT+ one get more screen time?

ABSOLUTELY! I can understand wanting to retire from the hard life and be a farmer, I totally get it, but for Lance it feels like such a cop out! Like - for one he doesn;t ever really get to move on from Allura - like we don't really see him getting any sort of actual closure??? Also they did Allura so so so dirty! There was no reason she had to sacrafice herself!

ALSO YEHA THAT ONE EPISODE OH M GOD THEY MOVED ON WAY WAY WAY TOO QUICK FROM THAT

everyone watching: hey did Lance just die

The show: uh no? you silly little goose ignore him

OH ABSOLUTELY- I'm still upset that Adam died to begin with, and while it was upsetting that they tried to put a bandaid over it with Curtis, they should have given us MORE - they really tossed poor Curtis in there like ' here does this fix it' without really giving us any actual Lgbt rep. There should have been so much more focus on relationships in my opinion - I think they were trying to give us an Avatar-type show but they failed in the end because there just wasn't enough focus on all the character's relationships. Not to mention Hunk was given NOTHINGG, like he has development and a character arc, but not nearly as much as everyone else. Even Pidge has like- a whole thing with her brother and all that. Idk Hunk and Allura deserved way way better in my opinion

[discordiansamba]

Hunk's new traveling companion is a firebender.

It's cool though. Keith's a good guy. He's extremely awkward, but he guesses that's just what happens when you grow up by yourself in the middle of the desert with only animals for company. Although he's starting to get a sneaking suspicion that Kosmo (that's what he's named Keith's wolf) might be a spirit? Which is weird, but hey! Kosmo is a good boy and he wuvs his scratchies.

Besides, he's grateful for the help. He can't tell up from down in the desert, and his earthbending is kind of useless here. Turns out sand is WAY different from the rock and hard ground he's used to. If Keith had left him to his own devices, he might have just wandered straight into sand shark territory, which is apparently a thing out here!

(Deserts, Hunk decides, are terrifying.)

thinking about him again (firebender Keith from the atla AU)

Just. Keith living out in the middle of the Si Wong desert with only his komodo-lion and spirit wolf for companions. He trades with the sandbender tribes, and with the people living in the Oasis village. He may or may not have been in Wan Shi Tong's library. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about where he got a spirit wolf from either. It's fine.

Keith seeing a brilliant flash of light one day and following its energy and finding Hunk unconscious in the desert. Bringing him back to his home and helping him recover, listening to his story about how he and his family got attacked by Fire Nation soldiers and then somehow he ended up by himself in the desert? Separated from them? But they promised to meet each other in Ba Sing Se, so maybe if he goes there, he can kind them.

Keith agreeing to go with him. It's the first time he's left his desert since he and his dad settled here. It's a good place to hide when you're a firebender living in the Earth Kingdom. Keith being extremely sensitive to spirits, but having no idea he's traveling with the Avatar (but then again, Hunk doesn't know that either). Keith who elusively answers that he's mixed whenever someone asks about his parents. Don't worry about that either.

[pidges-lost-robot]

Been bothering @joshbii to tell me what they think each voltron character would be in a pathfinder game (to do an alternate version of the monsters and mana designs, a journeytaker campaign if you will (please don't I'm sorry)):

Pidge: Swashbuckler with a psychic dedication and she absolutely fully leans into it cause Lance isn't the only dramatic bitch here

Shiro: There was a couple possibilities between a Champion or potentially a Monk or a Magus with spellfist

Lance: Gunslinger w/Bard and he pretends all of this is nerd shit but he's optimised his character to hell cause he cannot just let this character be a joke

Keith: Witch with a familiar he brings along with him (a.k.a foreshadowing for Kosmo later cause shush) or potentially a ranger or potentially a Ruffian

Allura: Aerokineticist who is trying to gain all the elements eventually with the joke later being that the team realise with the order she's going in her character is becoming the Avatar and she doesn't get it xD (not Josh trying to get me to make up not derivative references, dude shush: )

Coran: Investigator/the GM of the game like last time with an Investigator character he likes to just annoy the team with for fun

Hunk: Magus with a warhammer and magic shield with a focus on fighting against the abuse of magic

[Please don't roast me for how I describe these, this is Josh's burden I'm new to pathfinder lore]

[With their knowledge I will probably draw these at some point too]

[shinyasahalo]

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[ao3feed-zukka]

No grave can hold my body down

Read now on Ao3 at https://ift.tt/46VZ2ej by Anonymous With both Lance and Sokka missing, Keith and Zuko are determined to do whatever it takes to bring them back. Unfortunately to do that, they need to stop fighting each other. Words: 2278, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Is that the way to fix a burning heat? Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender, Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Keith (Voltron), Zuko (Avatar), Shiro (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Coran (Voltron) Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron), Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), keith & zuko Additional Tags: Misunderstandings, Protective Keith (Voltron), Protective Zuko (Avatar), they are BOTH HOTHEADS!, they talk with their swords first, SORRY YALL, lance & sokka aren’t in this one, This is a prequel, Space Dad Shiro (Voltron), Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, again the dynamics aren’t like sexual what so ever, Author Is Sleep Deprived Read it on Ao3 at https://ift.tt/46VZ2ej

[eastofthemoon]

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11

Rating: PG

Series: Voltron Legendary Defender/Avatar the Last Airbender

Summary:   After the fight with Zarkon, Shiro accidentally gets tossed into  another  reality where humans have the ability to bend the elements. His  best  shot at returning home is with someone called the Avatar, while  he waits  he might as well take on the job of being the Firelord’s  bodyguard.

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Keith had to admit that, in a way, Slav was kind of amazing.  This wasn't due to intellect or dedication to his work - it was because Slav was one of the only people Keith could think of who had ever made Shiro lose his temper.  Shiro had always made it a point of pride to approach challenging situations calmly and maintain self-control, so Keith couldn't help but be impressed that Slav had driven Shiro to the point of shouting in a rage.  It was honestly incredible.

Keith had no clue how he was supposed to keep his own temper in check. He was just grateful Hunk was the one that had to pick him up since Slav refused to go into the Black Lion with Keith.

Slav didn’t like that Keith’s red armour didn’t match the Black Lion. Lance and Allura had been placed into the same boat with him and he had yet to hear any of them complain. Having the honor of Slav riding with them wasn’t exactly something anyone was desiring.

Once Slav arrived, and seemed to mostly approve of the lab set up, it didn’t take long for them to explain the situation.

“So, what do you think?” Pidge asked.

Slav’s third and fourth arms were crossed as he stroked his chin with his second arm.

“And you are able to confirm at least 89 percent that he is there?” he asked.

“Yes,” Keith stated firmly and pointed over his shoulder. “From what I sense from the Black Lion he is there 100 percent.”

“Hmmm,” Slav said as he rose from his and began to pace. “It will be tricky to pinpoint, but if we are precise with how much quintessence we use we might have a probability of 72 percent.”

“That chance of success should increase given we should be able to use Shiro’s connection to the Black Lion to track him,” Allura said.

Slav narrowed his eyes. “While that is very true, Princess, we still need to be very careful.” He waved the fingers on his second and third arms. “Crossing into another reality can be very difficult.”

Lance gave a shrug. “Well, we already did it once, so it shouldn’t be too hard.”

Slav’s arms became still. His eyes widened in alarm as he slowly turned his head to Lance. “What do you mean?”

“As Voltron,” Keith explained. “When we were trying to retrieve a comet we accidentally made a tear into another reality and-”

“YOU DID WHAT?!” Slav cried as he leaped out of his chair and seized Keith by his arms. “Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?! You could have shattered all of reality!”

“Whoa, whoa!” Hunk said as he pried Slav off of Keith. “What are you talking about?”

“Every time you cut through reality you run the risk of severing quantum strings and creating instability that threatens to unravel localised space-time!”

“He means it would be bad,” Pidge stated as she adjusted her glasses. “But it was one tear, and you’ve created pocket dimensions.”

“My pocket dimensions are localised in eddies of gravitational curvature!  No tearing of reality is necessary if you’re CAREFUL!”

“But that is the Black Lion’s ability,” Coran replied. “It’s how Shiro got into this other reality in the first place.”

“From what I’ve been able to analyse, the Black Lion is a different case,” Slav ranted as he waved his hands. “It seems to be able to access this ‘astral plane’ through direct fifth-dimensional movement vectors, allowing it to travel without rending holes in the universe.  The combined power of Voltron, on the other hand, seems almost designed FOR tearing apart universes!”

“So, what are you saying?” Hunk asked. “We can’t go as Voltron?”

“NO!” Slav said as he held up a finger. “Only the Black Lion may go to retrieve Shiro and that’s it! That is the only way I will agree to assist you.”

Keith sighed, but shook his head. “Alright, fine.”.

Slav seemed satisfied with this.

“It will make getting back a bit trickier,” Coran commented. “If you went with all of Voltron you could find your way back by tracing its energy trail, but with just the Black Lion it will be harder to track if you take too long.”

“But if the other lions are left behind we can use our connection to them as our guiding point so we’re not so rushed for time,” Allura offered.

“Then that’s what we’ll do,” Keith said as he crossed his arms. “I’ll go fetch Shiro and bring him home.”

Lance raised an eyebrow as he placed his hands on his hips. “Excuse me? What’s this ‘I’? nonsense?”

Keith resisted rolling his eyes. “It has to be me. I’m the only one who can fly the Black Lion and I’ll use my connection to the Red Lion to get us back home.”

“Yeah, sure, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t just go in the Black Lion with you,” Lance retorted.

“He’s right,” Pidge replied. “Did you forget we all got here because we all got into the Blue Lion?”

Keith couldn’t deny that. “Yeah, but we don’t know what this other reality is like. There’s less of a risk if it’s just me-”

“And what if something happens to you and Shiro ends up stuck?” Hunk argued. “There’s safety in numbers.”

“He’s right,” Pidge replied. “If the rest of us go with you then in the worst case scenario we can use our own connections to our lions to get Shiro home.”

“Agreed,” Allura said with a smirk. “You’re not winning this argument, Keith. The rest of us paladins are coming too.”

Keith looked amongst his friends. He could keep arguing and even pull his rank as leader, but they did make solid points. He didn’t like putting them in needless danger, but they all agreed they had to do everything they could to get Shiro home.

He would never hesitate to take the same risk if the roles were reversed.

“Alright, we’ll go, but it’ll be a tight squeeze,” he replied.

“Can’t be any worse than when we were all travelling in the Blue Lion,” Pidge said and glanced at Lance. “Just as long as SOMEONE doesn’t decide to ‘hear something’ again.”

Lance snickered. “No promises.”

Allura frowned. “What are you referring to?”

Lance’s snickering halted as Pidge grinned. “Oh, you don’t know? You see Lance decided to-”

“She doesn’t need to hear that,” Lance said as he slapped a hand over Pidge’s mouth. “And it’s nothing, nothing, Allura.”

Allura still looked baffled as Hunk began to pace. “Um, but we still have the problem of how we get there? I mean, the Black Lion isn’t strong enough by herself, right?” Hunk said. “We only go into that other reality because we were all combined.”

Lance sighed. “Couldn’t we just…I don’t know, take the energy when we’re Voltron and store it in a giant battery or something?”

“That’s…” Pidge started, but then paused as she slowly grabbed her chin, “not a bad idea.”

Lance blinked. “Really?”

“Yeah,” Hunk agreed as he crossed his arms. “It’ll probably take us a couple of days, but we could build a battery, form Voltron and fill it with just enough of its quintessence to give the Black Lion the boost she needs.”

“We’ll need help with the design though,” Pidge said as she glanced over. “Willing to help with this?”

“Yes, this plan would be acceptable,” Slav confirmed.

“Then it’s settled,”  Keith declared. “You three work on the battery while the rest of us will get supplies ready.”

Lance raised an eyebrow. “Do we need that much? This Aang said he and his friends were taking care of Shiro, right?”

“We still don’t know how truthful he was being,” Coran stated, “and as my Uncle Yevern would said ‘You don’t want to be caught short on acid when facing a one-eye Dunga.”

“Exactly,” Keith replied even though he didn’t quite understand the saying. “Shiro’s counting on us so we can’t afford any mistakes.”

The others nodded as Keith’s body tensed.

 We’re coming for you, Shiro. Hang in there!

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Katara sighed as they walked down the palace hall. “Sokka, will you stop pouting?”

Sokka glared as he kept his arms crossed. “I’m not pouting, I’m grumpy and can you blame me?” He pointed over his shoulder. “I liked that shop and Toph and Shiro got us banned.”

“We’re not banned,” Aang added hastily. “It was just heavily implied for us to not come back for a while.”

Shiro rubbed his neck. “Does it help to say ‘sorry’-”

“No, Shiro, no it does not,” Sokka snapped as he whirled around and pointed. “I expected that kind of behaviour from Toph, but not you!”

“Hey, guys,” Suki cried as she rushed to greet them. “Glad you guys are back-” She trailed off as she noticed her boyfriend’s face. “What happened? Didn’t you have fun?”

“We did,” Sokka said as he pointed, “until Shiro and Toph got us, me included, banned from that weapon store I liked.”

Suki blinked as she glanced at the others. “How?”

Aang gave a nervous laugh. “Toph kind of metal bended one of his new and very expensive swords.”

Toph shrugged. “Hey, if a man claims he has the ‘strongest steel in all the Fire Nation’ and gets cranky because someone metal bends it, it’s his own fault.”

“Ookay,” Suki said. “Couldn’t you just bend it back to the way it was?”

“Tried to,” Toph said with a scoff. “But the owner was all huffy that it wasn’t straight enough.”

“That’s when I stepped in and tried to use my cybernetic arm to help,” Shiro said sheepishly as he raised his arm. “And…kind of accidentally snapped it in two.”

Shiro did feel bad about it. It didn’t happen often, but it could be hard at times to predict how much strength his arm had. He had tried to get better ever since he accidentally broke one of Coran’s favourite tools.

Granted, at least Coran didn’t cry about it like the poor shopkeeper did. At least, not while Shiro was watching.

“Still say it wasn’t a strong sword in the first place if you could do that easily,” Toph commented.

Sokka groaned. “I had a discount there.”

Suki gave a soft laugh. “Well, it’s good you guys are back.” She clicked her tongue. “We’ve had some developments.”

Shiro frowned. “What kind of developments?”

Suki sighed as she rubbed the back of her neck. “I think it’s best if Zuko explains.”

The group exchanged anxious looks as they followed Suki. They found Zuko and Iroh in the meeting room.

Iroh finished setting up tea cups and greeted the group with a smile. “Welcome back. Did you get a nice tour, Shiro?”

“I did,” Shiro said as Iroh began to pour tea, “but we can discuss that later.” He glanced over to Zuko. “Suki said something happened?

“Yes,” Zuko said as Katara took a seat next to him. “We were given a message.”

“Ookay,” Aang said as he scratched his cheek, “I don’t see how that-”

“From Ozai,” Zuko finished.

The group went silent. Katara's eyes narrowed as she touched his shoulder. “Is it actually from Ozai? Maybe someone-”

“No, it’s him,” Iroh said as he handed her a cup. “A guard gave me the message and I went to confirm it myself.”

“It’s been three years,” Sokka retorted as he took a seat. “What could he possibly want to say to you?”

“Not to me,” Zuko said and looked up. “He requested to speak to Shiro.”

Shiro's eyes widened. “Me?”

“He claims to have information.”

“That still doesn’t explain why he wants to talk with me,” Shiro said as he sat down and took a cup of tea. “I’ve never met him.”

Zuko sipped his tea. “If I had to guess, he heard the rumours about you and wants to attempt to convince you to turn against me so he can gett back on the throne.”

Sokka stroked his chin in thought and gave a slow nod. “Yeah, that would track.”

Shiro raised an eyebrow. “You honestly think he would waste his time on that?”

“He’s been stuck in a jail cell for three years,” Aang said as he crossed his arms. “He’s probably willing to give anything at least a try at this point.”

Shiro frowned, but gave a slow nod. Aang was probably right.

“So, I guess the real question is do you think Ozai is telling the truth and actually knows anything?” Suki asked as she leaned against the wall.

“Considering how long he’s been cut off from the outside world, I want to say no,” Zuko said and sighed. “But it’s not impossible.”

“So, I should probably go and talk to him,” Shiro said.

Zuko frowned. “I don’t think that’s a good idea. You’ve never met him and he has a way of getting into people’s heads.”

“I agree,” Katara replied as she touched Zuko’s shoulder, “especially since he’s probably lying.”

“Except we don’t know for certain, do we?” Shiro said as he crossed his arms. “We can’t afford to not take any possible leads.”

“I have to agree with Shiro,” Sokka said as he stroked his chin. “As much as we hate it, we can’t ignore his claims either even if they do end up being false.”

“Then why not have Toph go with him.” Aang sighed as he glanced at Toph. “You would be able to detect if Ozai was lying, right?”

Toph sucked air between her teeth. “Probably? I mean, he can be tricky but he’s not as hard as Azula. I should be able to handle it.”

“At the very least you’ll be solid back up if Ozai tries to pull anything funny,” Zuko replied.

Shiro frowned. “Do I really need back up though. Aang took away his bending, right? What could he do behind a prison cell?”

“Truthfully, not much,” Zuko admitted, “but I don’t like taking any chances.”

“Even a defanged spidersnake can still hold a deadly bite,” Iroh admitted.

“That’s fair, but whatever Ozai wants to tell me he might not be willing if I have company,” Shiro replied.

“I can just stay hidden,” Toph said with a smirk. “I don’t have to be standing next to him to tell, just close enough to feel the vibrations. I could probably just hide in an empty jail cell next to him.”

“That could work,” Shiro said.

Truthfully, Shiro would have felt better going on his own. If this Ozai was as dangerous as the others feared he would rather not put any of them in danger. However, he needed Toph’s ability to determine if he was telling the truth or not.

“I guess we should get going then,” he replied.

“Not before tea,” Iroh said as he gestured. “There is nothing better to strengthen the mind before battle than a cup of tea.”

Shiro gave a slight chuckle and he sat. “Alright, but I’m not heading into battle.”

Iroh frowned. “Not of the body, but of the heart. Be wary, Shiro. My brother is not to be taken lightly.”

Shiro gave a thoughtful nod as he slowly took a sip.

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Shiro and Toph didn’t talk much as they approached the prison cells.

“Are there any other prisoners kept here?” Shiro asked.

“Ozai is the only one as far as I know,” Toph replied. “Sparky once explained to me it’s only for members of the royal family. Granted, I think everyone feels safer Ozai’s in a place where he can better keep tabs on him and he can’t gain ‘friends’ with other prisoners.”

“Makes sense,” Shiro replied and then frowned. “Wait, was I near Ozai when I was put in a cell?”

“Naw,” Toph said with a hand wave. “The prison here has levels to it and you were in an upper one. Ozai’s cell is in the deepest one.”

Two guards were stationed outside the entrance. Shiro couldn’t resist a smile as he spotted a familiar face between them.

“Hey, Ling,” he said with a wave. “It’s been awhile.”

Ling gave a smirk and poked her fellow guard in the rib.

“See, Azai, I told you he’d remember me.”

The other guard sighed as he rubbed his side. “Yeah, yeah, you win the bet. I’ll treat you later.”

Ling chuckled, but it quickly turned back into a frown as she turned back to Shiro. “Should I assume you’re here to see Ozai?”

“I am,” Shiro said, “but how do you know about it?”

Ling sighed. “Because I’m the one that had to deliver the message to Prince Iroh.”

“I see,” Shiro said and then gestured to Toph. “Um..I don’t know if you two have formally met.”

“Not personally, but Master Toph’s abilities are famous within the palace,” Azai replied. “Especially with the gardeners considering that damage you cause-OW!” Azai rubbed his arm and Ling glared. “What? It’s true.”

Toph smirked. “Relax, I’m not offended. I’m just glad my reputation precedes me.”

Shiro gave a small smile as he patted Toph’s shoulder. “Toph is going to accompany me.”

Ling grasped her chin. “I’m not against the idea, but I’m fairly certain Ozai was implying to speak with you alone.”

“And as far as he knows, he will,” Toph replied as she crossed her arms. “I’m planning to stay out of his sight. You just need to direct me to the closest cell where he won’t see me and I’ll handle the rest.”

Azai rubbed his neck. “He is the only prisoner down there currently, so that shouldn’t be too hard to do.”

Ling went quiet as she thought, but gave a nod. “Yeah, alright,” she said as she turned to open the door. “Azai, you stay here and I’ll take them down.”

“Don’t have to tell me twice,” he said as he stepped aside.

Ling gave a smirk as he patted his arm and then led the way inside. No one spoke as they went down the stairs. Once they reached the bottom, Ling gestured towards a nearby empty cell.

Toph responded with a nod as she quietly stepped inside it and leaned against the wall.

Ling then continued to the next cell which was not empty. A man sat in the centre of the cell with his back to them.

“Lord Ozai, you have a visitor,” she said.

There was a chuckle. “Oh, do I?”

He rose and turned around smiling. “And who do I owe the pleasure?”

Shiro narrowed his eyes.

Having only heard about Ozai, Shiro didn't know what to expect. On Zuko’s orders all portraits of the man had been removed from the palace. However, he wasn’t surprised by what he saw either.

He was wearing prison clothes similar to what Shiro had been given when he had first arrived. Ozai was tall, with long black hair and a beard. Shiro could see traces of some of Zuko’s features in the man, but not in the eyes.

He had the same cruel eyes he had seen in Zarkon and Sendak.

No compassion, no empathy and all calculating. Definitely the eyes a formal tyrant would have.

Shiro crossed his arms. “I’m Shiro,” he replied curtly. “You sent a request to see me?”

Ozai smirk tightened. “So I did,” he said and then sharply turned his head to Ling. “Leave us.”

Ling looked prepared to argue, but Shiro reassured with a nod as he patted her shoulder.

“It’s okay,” he said.

Ling sighed as she bowed.

“Let me know if you need assistance,” she said and then turned to leave.

Ozai didn’t speak until the two of them heard Ling walk up the stairs.

“So, you must be Shiro,” he said as he approached the bars. “You’re quite famous within the palace these days.”

“Am I?” Shiro said with a raised eyebrow.

“Oh yes,” Ozai purred as he tucked his hands behind his back. “Bujing’s defeat and sudden retirement spread like wildfire. The ‘living dragon’ is what some of the guards are calling you.” His eyes landed on Shiro’s cybernetic arm. “I find myself curious how you were able to acquire such a powerful arm. The Fire Nation’s technology is quite advanced but even-”

“Is there a point to this?” Shiro cut in. “I doubt you called me here just to ogle my arm.”

Ozai smiled. “Forgive me, I seem to have picked up some of my idiot brother’s habits while being cooped up in here. I fear I was about to offer you tea.” He gripped the bar cells. “I wish to make you an offer.”

“Oh, really?” Shiro replied. “And what would that be?”

Ozai released his grip on the bars and began to pace in his cell. “My son is weak. He doesn’t have the strength it takes to rule.” He turned to Shiro. “Help me break out of here and restore my rightful place on the throne. If we succeed, I guarantee you honor and glory beyond just being a bodyguard for a failed heir to the throne.”

Looks like Sokka and Zuko’s hunches were right, Shiro thought. “What about the assassins? You claim you knew about them.”

Ozai shrugged. “Why do they matter beyond proving the pretender to the throne is unworthy of it? I just said that to convince him and my brother to let you down here.”

“So, you don’t know anything then,” Shiro said simply, “which means you’re just wasting my time.”

Ozai glared. “Should I take this to mean you’re refusing my offer?”

Shiro turned to walk away. “We’re done here.”

Ozai gripped Shiro’s human arm through the bars. “No, you must assist me!”

Shiro glared down at him. Ozai didn’t seem intimidated by it. Either he was very stupid or very desperate.

“I don’t have to do anything-”

“The brat doesn’t have the conviction to do what needs to be done! He isn’t strong like you and I!”

Shiro paused and blinked. “What the hell are you talking about?”

“My son is a weakling, following my brother’s foolish philosophy. He refuses to believe killing is necessary.” Ozai smirked. “Unlike you.”

Shiro became still. “I don’t know-”

“I heard how your angi kai went, the ruthlessness that brought you victory,” Ozai continued. “Had it not been for that weakling’s presence you would have removed Bujing permanently as a threat.”

Shiro’s hands tightened. “You don’t know a thing about me.”

“I know the signs of a killer,” Ozai said with a smirk, “and an experienced one. How else could a non-bender take down a top general so easily.”

Images flashed through Shiro’s brain. Faces. Screaming. Blood. What had he done? Focus on the enemy. No time for distractions!

“The worthless pacifist lacks the resolve that we have,” Ozai continued. “At my side, you could be my greatest weapon-”

Shiro lunged and sent his arm through the bars. He seized Ozai’s neck and yanked him forward to slam against the bars.

Ozai gasped for air. He frantically tried to break free, but Shiro kept his hold.

“You shut up,” Shiro snapped as he brought his face closer. “You don’t know a damn thing about me!” His grip tightened on Ozai’s neck. “From everything I've heard about you, everything I’ve seen, I should do everyone a favor and just end your life right now.”

Ozai coughed as he attempted to lift his head to stare at Shiro’s glare.

“Go..ahead,” he spat. “Do what my son is too weak to do.”

Shiro glared, every human muscle tensing, his fingers tightening, but after a moment he shoved Ozai to the ground, standing still as a statue.

“The only reason you’re still alive is because of Zuko,” Shiro snapped. “There’s a lot of people who would love to see you gone. If I were you, I would be careful with my words because I imagine even Zuko’s patience can only hold out for so long.”

Ozai coughed, trying to gather the breath to say something. Whatever it was, Shiro blocked it out as he focused on walking down the hall. Once he was out of Ozai’s sight, he braced against the wall and covered his face with his hands.

I’m not a killer, I’m not a killer, he repeated in his head.

“Shiro?”

He jumped, sharp breaths coming rapidly, his heart in his throat-only slightly calming when he saw it was Toph.

I forgot she was still here, he thought as he hastily gave a smile.

“Sorry, I needed a minute.”

Toph frowned. “I think you need more than that. I could feel your heart racing, still can.”

Shiro swallowed. “I’m fine, Ozai just brought back some unpleasant memories. That’s all.”

Toph touched his arm. “Do you want me to get-”

Shiro pulled away. “No, I’m fine, really,” he insisted and went to the doors. “I just need to be alone. I’m going to the garden a bit, alright?”

Toph was still frowning. She didn’t look convinced.

Shiro opened the door and went up the stairs. “I’m fine, really.”

He didn’t bother to turn his head, but he could hear her say.

“You’re lying.”

[hellebore-adore]

stuff i'll write for, yk?

i wont write smut. deal with it. however i will write basically everything else. please ask me to channel my adhd into crack shit (or writing in general yk)

harry potter - draco malfoy, hermione granger, remus lupin, severus snape, cedric diggory, luna lovegood

divergent - tris, four/tobias eaton, christina

the hunger games - finnick odair, gale hawthorn, cinna, peeta mellark, johanna mason

stranger things - steve harrington, robin buckley, eddie munson, joyce byers

avatar - zuko, sokka, azula, mai, suki

wednesday - wednesday addams, enid sinclair, xavier thorpe, tyler galpin, bianca barclay, ajax petropolis

voltron - keith, pidge, allura, shiro, hunk, lance (also im only on early season 2, please no spoilers)

metal lords - hunter sylvester, emily spector, kevin schlieb

felt cute might update later idk