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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    “Aiko,” Jing Mei cuts her off, disapproving. Watanabe’s mouth snaps shut with an audible click of teeth at the sound of her name. “I was speaking to Zuko, not to you.”

    Zuko stares at her with wide eyes. He doesn’t like to see his First Mate reprimanded. “She is permitted to speak for me,” he finds himself saying. “She hasn’t done anything wrong.”

    “Oh?” Jing Mei looks intrigued.

    Watanabe crosses her arms, discomfort flickering across her face like a shadow cast by candlelight. “He lies. I was being impolite, as you say.”

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    25 Apr 2025

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    Zuko dines in a restaurant and interferes with a difficult customer.

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    19 Apr 2025

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    After a few agonizingly slow seconds of exhausted, confused pondering, Zuko decided there was only one logical conclusion.
    “You’re right," he told the assassins, "I’m here to help you kill the Fire Lord.”
    Like a genius.

    Caldera City is holding a festival to celebrate finally having enough funds to hold a festival! Although Zuko originally deemed himself too busy to go, Sokka managed to cajol him into attending his own party, in a knock-off Blue Spirit disguise for security purposes. Zuko sneaks back into the palace right in time to catch a group of assassins sneaking out. They failed to find the Fire Lord and assume he's reinforcements.

    Zuko needs to find who ordered a strike on him before they do something stupid, like order a second one. Obviously, the most reasonable thing to do is join the assassins and hope they don’t figure out who he actually is. Obviously. There’s literally no other option.

    Feat. Zuko's only two coping mechanisms (mortal peril and improv theater), the world's most incompetent hit team, and another knock-off Blue Spirit who's determined to prove this "Li" isn't who he says he is.

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    19 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    It's not that Five is "obsessed with the apocalypse". He's not a junkie chasing an adrenaline high of danger. It's just that the public's shared hallucinogenic memory of a timeline that shouldn't exist is weird, and so are the cross-dimensional artifacts, and so are the fully formed human beings that keep falling into Five's lap. Figuratively.

    "Okay, man, just think about it," Diego interjects, loudly, pointing at Five with the mouth of his bottle. "Remaking the world's gotta be a messy process. It's not that surprising that there's just some weird cracks, a few spots that Dad didn't get super well. It's not a big deal."

    "Just some weird cracks, he says," Five says dryly. "'Some weird cracks', like the man squatting in my apartment. The man I found unconscious in an alleyway with no memories. Weird cracks like those?"

    Said man grins and waves a hand cheerfully, his inhuman orange eyes glowing eerily in the bright morning light. When nobody waves back, he reaches his hand to awkwardly paw at the feathery hair at the nape of his neck. His smile goes from cheery to awkward, and he whines, "You act like it's my fault, or something!"

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    29 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 37

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    A companion piece to Red Raven

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    11 Sep 2024