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thiscryptidischronicallyyours · 2 years

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For my very first ever time participating in an event, I decided to give a go for @yuten-week . This is the Spirit World prompt. There's art and a flash fic to go with it which may be the strangest thing I've ever written but just go with it, it's fine

Summary: Yue makes her sacrifice for the world. Instead of serving her role as the moon spirit, Yue wakes up on the Spirit World side of the oasis as a fish...and she isn't alone.

Let's get to it! (The rest of the fic and art are under the cut)

Adrift Together

It was cold.

She was born in the cold.

By all logic she shouldn’t remember that, but Yue did.

Yue remembered the chill nestled in the swaddle with her. How it seeped through the furs into her skin and settled somewhere deep into her bones. Frigid air compressing her tiny lungs until she could barely take a breath, let alone cry out.

It was dark too.

She couldn’t force her eyelids to open.

Yue shouldn’t have remembered that either, but she did.

More than the cold and dark, she remembered the brilliant light that followed. A glowing blue sunrise framed through her eyelids. A rushing flood of warmth washed over her. It banished the cold away. Yue was surrounded by warmth and light, the sensations of life itself coursed through her veins to warm her from the inside out. She breathed.

Choruses of breathy whispers cooed in her ears as her eyelashes fluttered, promising she’d never be alone. Even before a pair arms had lifted her from the furs to cradle her close, and her eyes opened.

The same sweet whispers rang in her ears again that night, a guiding light had called her as if she hadn’t already known what to do. Glances of ghostly fingers brushed her tears away. Even as she rose up and Sokka’s blurred face faded from her view, Yue again heard the promises all around her that she’d never be alone.

But the spirits lied.

Her eyes opened in darkness, murky and deep. The light was gone, the warmth too. If there were voices, they were drowned in Yue’s ears. She was alone. If her tears fell, they were lost to the ripples of water around her. The same water that weighed down her lungs–but they weren’t lungs at all–not anymore. Gills. Yue had gills, and cold didn’t seep through the gaps in her bedfurs any longer, instead it intruded between the layers of her scales.

Silver-white as her hair had once been, Yue’s scales almost glowed as she drifted. It was as if she was the only source of light in the murk–or so she thought.

Something flashed in the corner of her eye. The cool water rippled, disturbing the stillness that lingered around her. Though she couldn’t quite make out what it was through the murky depths, she found herself drawn to it.

Yue knew it was dark. Grey or black. She caught a fluttering hint of red, with glints of amber as it

sliced through the water. The thing turned. It rounded a clump of dark, bulbous kelp. With that movement, Yue’s presence was no longer a secret. Eyes, wide and wild, locked with hers. Yue froze. But the wild eyes softened and the dark fish flexed its scarlet fins against the water. The movement propelled it gently toward her. She stayed still, letting it–No, him. Letting him continue his approach, until they were together in the water.

His scales touched hers. A gentle caress, like lips that brushed on the back of a hand when a suitor came to call. His fins waved as if to say it was nice to meet her. She waved back, or as close as she could manage with her newfound fins.

“Yue,” she mouthed through a stream of bubbles.

He bobbed as if he understood, though Yue didn’t know how he could have. The other fish mouthed something back. She had no idea what he’d said. He nuzzled his head against hers and suddenly it didn’t seem so important. She nuzzled him back, warmth blossoming through her scales where they touched and suddenly Yue knew exactly who he was. At least in the ways that mattered.

While she was water and ice, he was fire and ash.

While he was darkness, she was the light.

They were two sides of the same tile. Complete opposites. But opposites that completed each other. Two parts of the same history. He and Yue shared an intertwined fate. Two young lives lost for their nations, lost forever, who woke up alone in the Spirit World.

Until they’d drifted together.

He splashed her with a flip of his tail fins, stirring her from the depth of her thoughts with a foamy spray. Yue bristled, but it wasn’t as if she could complain. Even if she could, he’d rocketed off through the murk before she had a chance. She caught glimpses of his eyes darting back behind him. Light from her scales reflected in his eyes. Something mirthful danced there. They urged her to follow him. To join the game.

Yue pumped her fins. She took off as quickly as she could to catch him before he could vanish in the murk. As she swam after him Yue swore, even through the rippling echoes of the water around her, she could make out the chorus of whispering spirits. The ones who gave her life and knew her fate long before she did. As they’d done before, they made promises.

Ones that for the first time Yue truly believed.

#yutenweek #princess yue #prince lu ten #strongly implied Lu Ten #avatar the last airbender #spirit world #digital doodles #atla art #flash fic #yuten #Yes it's fish romance okay #let them be happy #...even though this didn't end up being funny at all the urge to name it was so strong #And there was only one pond

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yuten-week · 2 years

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Welcome to YuTen Week, an event dedicated to the rare pair of Lu Ten and Yue. This event will run from April 24th-30th.

How do I participate? All you have to do is tag your post with #yutenweek or tag the blog directly! As long as it is properly tagged, it will be reblogged.

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Can there be other pairings? Yes, so long as YuTen is the main pairing. Feel free to include any other pairings you want!

Late submissions will be accepted through the end of May. If you don’t see your post(s) being reblogged, feel free to poke us or submit your post directly to the blog just in case we missed it. If it wasn’t reblogged because it wasn’t properly tagged/rated, we will let you know and will reblog it once the tagging/rating is fixed.

There will be no prompt voting/polling for this event. Prompts will be released February 1st, 2022 to allow plenty of time for creators to make content. We’re looking forward to seeing all of the wonderful fics and art!

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badlucksav · 2 years

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Under the Cold Sun

Due to some unforeseen circumstances (aka me being a procrastinator as usual and my muses being flighty bitches) I did not get through prompt 1 of YuTen week so instead I'm just gonna write this little drabble I might expand on later. Placing it below the cut

Her stomach felt like a weighted ball of lead as she watched the plume of black smoke come ever closer across the blue expanse of the sea. Outwardly, Yue knew that she looked every inch the diplomatic princess her parents had raised her to be, but inwardly, she was the scared little girl who hid under her furs during storms.

Her soon-to-be husband was almost here.

Yue had always known that her marriage would have to benefit her tribe in some way, but she had always expected to marry someone from her tribe—the heir of an old bloodline, a strong warrior, something. She did not expect this.

Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe was not marrying the son of a respected elder, nor was she marrying the bravest man in her village. She would not raise her children in the ice palace where she grew up under the moon's watchful eye.

No, for the first time in over a century, a Water Tribe princess was marrying out of her own country. Princess Yue was marrying Prince Lu Ten of the Fire Nation.

In three days.

There was no choice in the matter, at least no choice with any decent outcome. The Northern Water Tribe was going broke. A hundred years of limited trade with the Earth Kingdom had made the tribe's coffers suffer. And this was her father's solution. It made sense, she supposed.

But no amount of rationale eased her anxiety. All she could do was wait and watch as the Fire Navy cruiser grew steadily bigger on the horizon. At least, until a servant fetched her to go down to the main canal to greet the Fire Nation procession.

Seeing the ship enter the city was nearly frightening. The dark steel of the hull cut a stark contrast against the bluish-white of the ice ad snow. The rumble of its engines could be felt underfoot, and Yue could scarcely breathe.

With a great hiss, it came to a stop, the smokestacks spitting out final clouds of black soot. And then, they descended: a dozen men and women dressed in black, red, and gold, their expressions stoic, their hair combed back neatly. Yet Yue knew who her betrothed was, even before he stepped away from the crowd and approached where she stood with her parents.

His eyes were like honey; his hair was sable combed back into a topknot with a gleaming gold flame. He wore a black cloak trimmed in fur over gleaming armor. He looked like a Fire Nation soldier, except his eyes were kind.

He greeted her parents first, offering first his forearm to shake before he bowed low, formally, in the way of his people. Then he turned towards her and bowed again before the corner of his lips turned up into a charming smile.

"Princess Yue, I am Prince Lu Ten," he greeted her, and his voice was low, smooth. "It is an honor to meet you."

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