Can I get a continuation for The ones who walk away?
Continued from: [Link], [Link], and [Link], and The Ones who Walk Away: [Link].
1. Katara and Sokka make their way north, faster and less eventfully than they would have with a twelve year old Avatar. They do not go to the Air Temples or to Kyoshi Island. They don't go to Omashu, or to Gaipan but instead sail along the east coast of the Earth Kingdom continent, until they reach Chameleon Bay in the Eastern Sea, where, as it transpires, the Southern Water Tribe fleet has been holed up. They spend some time with their father, telling them what happened back home with the Fire Prince, and the airbender baby, and about Katara's worsening accidents, and when Bato returns injured from a mission, he agrees to escort Sokka and Katara to the Northern Water Tribe, and to get them settled. Having sailed so far north, he also takes them ice dodging in the northern waters before they tackle meeting their people's sister tribe.
2. This means that Katara goes to the north as a woman grown in the eyes of her tribe, and the Chief's daughter. Of course, she goes as all of that when she goes with Aang, but her father never was chief when she was growing up, certainly not of a united Southern Water Tribe, so she never got used to thinking of herself that way. But Bato, Hakoda's best friend, is able to think through those implications, and press the point. So when the northerners (mostly Pakku) make it clear that girl waterbenders are trained to heal and nothing else, Bato starts talking about an insult to southern customs, and to his chief, and manages to get an agreement that one of the lesser masters will teach Katara as long as she also learns to heal. Katara is hardly going to turn down healing lessons. Her tribe could use a healer or twelve anyway.
2.5 Comander Zhao, without Zuko to humiliate or an Avatar to capture, remains at his dead end post, his dreams of moon spirit fish sticks unfulfilled.
3. Without Katara and Aang to fill the reservoir, Jet must wait for the summer rains to fill it, and to flood the village he once called home. It's a scene of carnage, with Fire Nation soldiers, Fire Nation colonists, and Earth Kingdom villagers killed indiscriminately by the rush of water. Children are killed. Parents are killed leaving children orphaned. It's a horror. And in the aftermath, the surviving Fire Nation soldiers hunt down Jet's forest enclave and set fire to it, causing more horror, and more dead children. Jet goes out in a blaze of glory, and when the Fire Nation rebuids Gaipan, as they already did once before after having destroyed it themselves, when they continue to control the village and the valley, it's no longer Jet's problem.
4. Back in the Fire Nation, Ozai plots what use he will make of Sozin's Comet that summer. It's Ba Sing Se. He plans to use it to break Ba Sing Se, to do what his brother could not. And because Azula has never been to war, never conquered Ba Sing Se herself, when he announces that he plans to leave her in charge of the Fire Nation in his absense, it doesn't feel like a punishment. It feels like a test. One she intends to pass. With her brother gone, she will rule the Fire Nation for real one day.
5. All this is to say that the world keeps turning without Iroh, Zuko, and Aang. And Aang is still in that awkward stage between toddler and child, Iroh's garden is still in that awkward stage between a shambles and well set up, and Zuko is still in that awkward stage between caught and knowing about it when Ozai conquers Ba Sing Se, and brings the Earth Kingdom to its knees.
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What would you say your farm goals are rn? And do you still have eventual dog breeding goals?
Rn, getting the downsized herd settled and figuring out splitting the daily workload with my mom and such. We have no breeding plans this season, will probably look into a fainter cross buck next season for hardiness but I doubt I'll keep back many kids. There's a couple we are raising up rn from last season that i might sell to a friend who wants to start her own hobby herd this year.
My long term goals are still hearty and hardy animals who don't need too much medical intervention too often and who can kid easily, have good mothering skills, etc. Next generation I want better parasite resistance. But right now we are just figuring out how daily upkeep husbandry and maintenance is going to work going forward!
For dogs I don't have immediate plans bc all my dogs are spayed. I still co-own Mari, Dandelion, Pixie and Bao, so if any of them are bred I will have some input there. And if Mari is bred I will hopefully be able to spend some time with and help out with puppy raising!!! But, for now, no immediate plans myself :) getting things settled around the house and yard and in my own life/with my health before I think about dipping my toes back into dog breeding as a concept.
I am PROBABLY getting a goldador service prospect next year or the year after, out of a Lab I really like who is a working SD and a sweet golden who his handler thinks is a good match. And if that dog turns out nicely and passes health checks I might breed it. But that's so far in the future it doesn't make sense to make any actual plans around!
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Hello! I was reading back through the Neither Queen Nor Pawn AU posts and wondered if you would be willing to show us Zuko's rescue... Or whatever else the Gaang were going to find in Ozai's apartment.
We're past Zuko's rescue, so this is what happens next. Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and Neither Queen nor Pawn: [Link].
1. The next morning, the world crashes back in. Sokka, or maybe Suki, must have called Iroh, and he and Aang are there for breakfast. All of them, Mai, Tom-Tom, Zuko, Toph, Ty Lee, Iroh, Katara, Aang, Sokka, and Suki are all clustered around the kitchen table, scrunched in on the couch, or sprawling on cushions on the floor in the tiny appartment Sokka, Katara, Suki, Toph and Ty Lee share. At some point, Ty Lee must have taken a proper shower and put on her pajamas. They're pink. She has on actual bunny slippers. Katara has a blue fuzzy bathrobe on over sweatpants and a faded teashirt. The rest of them slept in their clothes. Everything looks so bizarrely normal, when everything is about to change forever.
2. They've got, well, a whole pile of problems, so many, it's hard to even think about how to untangle them, much less solve them. Iroh's apartment is no longer safe. None of them can go back there, not with Ozai on the hunt. Mai, Zuko, Iroh, Ty Lee, and Aang can't do anything under their own names without Ozai finding them, and that means all of their GEDs and college courses are right down the drain. Fortunately it's winter break, and it's not like any of them registered for classes yet, but still. Mai wants to scream. And then there's the fact that Mai kidnapped Tom Tom. It doesn't matter how terrible her parents are,they are his parents and they signed him up for Ozai's school, and legally speaking, Mai kidnapped her brother.
3. Iroh thinks the best defense is a good offence, and a good cover story. Ozai is a cult leader. His school is a cover for a Cult in which he says the children all have magic powers. They escaped,and then he tracked them down and kidnapped his own son at gunpoint. When Mai and their friends went to rescue him, They found Mai's brother and rescued him too. Having all grown up in a cult, it didn't occur to them to go to the police, but aftwrwards, They went to Iroh, who they trust, and he talked them into going to the police. Ozai also kidnapped Aang before faking the gass explosion at the monastery where he had been living with his grandfather. The story has the added benefit of being almost true. The only thing they're lying about is their powers not bei g real. They can get Ozai put in jail and maybe get into witness protection.
4. Mai is so taken with how tidy the whole solution is, she forgets to worry if prison could even hold Ozai, and even Azula, with their powers.
5. Throughout Iroh's proposal, Suki has been cradling an oversized mug of hot chocolate, taking occasional sips. When Iroh finishes talking, she sets the mug down on the counter with a harsh clink. "No," she says, just as harshly. They can't go to the police. They can't turn Ozai in. If they did, the federal government would quickly figure out that Ozai's powers were real, that their powers were real, and that sounds like a great way to wind up dead, or disappeared into a research facility like the one Suki grew up in. And she is not going back.
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