[fic rec] Embers

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5398503/1/Embers

I...I. Sometimes I find a fic and it leaves me just...screaming WOW at the screen. An AU that irrevocably change your canon and makes the source bright and darker and deeper and sing.

This is one of those fic. I couldn't NOT post about this.

Avatar:the last Airbender fandom. Gen.

Ridiculously good world building (worldbending), a remarkable AU, fantastic OC's. It's weaknesses include being too subtle/obscure at points and amazing!zuko and alot of implied hurt-no-comfort (though I am amazed by how much h w/o c the author managed to pack in without bringing in rape, which is rare too often). But oh my god.

Oh. My. God.


Rough Basic Premise

1) Firebenders/Fire Nation often literally cannot commit treason/break their loyalty because doing so causes their connection to their fire/spirit/spiritworld to pretty much implode.

2) There was an old hole in Zuko's chi that (after being pleaded by Lu Ten & Co.) Yue decided to plug up with moon energy...And then Zuko starts waterbending. D=


There's philosophy and psychology and the Art of War and politics and zuko being BADASS and outsider!POV. There's alot of history and backstory and Karma and watching how an-eye-for-an-eye causes EPIC BLINDNESS. It...it makes Avatar as fully dark as the cartoon walked the fine edge of and yet the people are brilliant and bright and beautiful.

I spent so long yelling at my computer screen that my jaw kinda hurts right now from all the omgwtfwow.

It's ridiculously long and it's not over yet.

And I don't want it to end.

tldr; OMG GO CHECK THIS OUT