Infiniteriver - Five Hours Up And Seven Down

time to play my favorite game:

google sleuthing to see if something is actually canon or just a Collective Fandom Consensus™

Just a quick Zuko fan art!

not the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished parallels between Zuko and Katara

katara s1: urges Haru to save Old Man Mine Snitcher, Haru gets taken away by the fire nation army

zuko s2: gives lee the knife thing as a gift, lee gets conscripted by the earth kingdom army

both have a meal with the victim’s family beforehand. both consequences fully affect someone else. both are told about said consequences by the mom of the victim

help i think ive accidentally become a falcon and the winter soldier fan acct on tiktok

and im out here writing in NOTHING even close to chronological

makes revisions for continuity a bitch and a half, but nothing beats the freedom of slapping down that scene youre super excited for an arc and a half ahead

actually forces me to outline properly, too

Me: This scene is so boring and hard to write.

My brain: Just skip it? Scenes can be written in non-chronological order.

Me:

how to build your own bloodbending protégé

a simple three-step guide by hama of the southern water tribe

1. start 'em young

s3 katara is a baddie and already a master in her own right. she knows enough to get by WITHOUT having you as a teacher, which is why she was super cool w just Not Bloodbending and then throwing you in jail

s1 katara, on the other hand, took 2 months to learn to wiggle some water and was willing to risk it all stealing a waterbending study guide from literal pirates. homegirl is desperate to learn and is a lot less likely to pass you up when she's been entirely self-taught up to this point and has no other options

2. decelerate the curriculum

don't go from soup-bending to blood in like two days. yes, the full moon is only once a month. still, it is ENTIRELY possible to hold out on making muppets out of men for another four weeks. establishing a good, trustworthy rapport is more important. your student has gotta believe in you as a teacher 100% for you to go all in

3. for the love of La, DON't start with people

self-explanatory. even yakone, one of the baddest bloodbenders out there, started his crazy talented spawn on the local wildlife. people eat animals and it's a delicacy, people eating people is cannibalism and also illegal. bloodbending animals is similarly more digestible

okay yall stand back while i prepare a formal essay on why Prince Zuko and Samwell Tarly are the same character

it's not gonna be good i just wanna draw every parallel i can

holy shit i’m not dead and neither is the fic