anghraine: noatak/amon from legend of korra standing atop a waterspout overlooking buildings with equalist flags (noatak [waterspout])
The Amon backstory fic has finally almost gotten to B1:

He didn’t know if it would work. Like Hiroshi, he’d have to experiment. He almost laughed at the idea of Hiroshi’s face if he heard his efforts compared to bending. But it was a necessary evil in this case.

Amon returned to his fights with the triads, this time with rather different intentions.

He needed live subjects.

(This is also the f!Tarrlok fic, but moved from "f!Tarrlok and young Noatak from Noatak's POV" to straight-up Amon backstory last chapter. And I think this is where all of my bloodbender feelings are going. Obviously, it has ... limited appeal, but some people are still reading, and it's fun, so :D)

anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
harriyanna on Tumblr said:

it is completely valid to read your own fanfictions/stories. the main reason you probably wrote it in the first place is because you couldn’t find anything like it. it’s not weird.

I added (in the tags):

;jkfadfj;kkdaf I've been reading my LOK fic and it's like ... 1) lmao it's true, there was exactly one person on Earth who was going to write that, and 2) I'm still pretty happy with it and enjoyed reading it (for a LOK value of "enjoyed"). /shrug

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Nov. 30th, 2019 06:40 pm
anghraine: tarrlok from legend of korra smirking (tarrlok (smug))
I finally got to the point of one more tomorrow that has been ... a significant part of my motivation for writing it at all.

Once again, he gathered the remnants of the meal and his own equipment. Once again, he turned to go.

But this time, she spoke.

“Taking control of the city and terrorizing the Avatar?”

Amon halted, somewhere between annoyed and puzzled. His business could hardly be a mystery to her.

Then Taraka said,

“Dad must be so proud.
anghraine: tarrlok from legend of korra with his three ponytails (tarrlok (hair))
I'm five pages into the next chapter, wherein Noatak and Tarrlok/Taraka settle firmly into Problematic Fave territory:

To further improve matters, the announcer’s voice then gave way to Taraka’s.

“We’ve all heard this madman’s extremist rhetoric,” she said. “He’s coming for each one of us. There’s no more time to waste. We have to stop Amon and put an end to this nonsense.” After a suitably dramatic pause, she went on, “And that’s just what I’m going to do.”

Taraka, Amon suspected, was thoroughly enjoying herself.

argh

Nov. 10th, 2019 11:31 am
anghraine: a pile of medieval manuscripts (manuscripts)
I was working on the next chapter of Edge of Darkness, and just thinking ... this would flow so much better if I'd posted the new chapters as a separate fic in the same series rather than continuing the same fic with a time jump, but I've already posted them at AO3 and *grumble grumble*

This is what I get for being hasty! /Treebeard voice

ETA: I changed it around anyway! I hope it doesn't break AO3 protocols, lol.
anghraine: noatak/amon from legend of korra accidentally waterbending (noatak (waterbending))
That's about 18 more than I expected, so... :)

fic: one more tomorrow (2/?)
verse: the edge of darkness (Amon backstory + f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Hiroshi Sato, OCs—background characters
stuff that happens: Amon keeps an eye on Taraka as he escalates his efforts to bring equality.
previous sections: one

When the Avatar’s son voted present for her confirmation as chair, Amon prickled despite himself. Did Tenzin think he could do a better job? Pah. At least Taraka had made something of herself. Something terrible, to be sure, but she had more competence than the rest of the council combined. 

She was thirty-six that year, Amon thirty-nine. No longer young, either of them; twenty-three years had passed since their last interchange. Twenty-three years, ten more than their entire childhood together, and it still haunted him at odd moments. Maybe it always would. They’d suffered from bending, and the bonds of suffering were not easily broken.

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anghraine: tarrlok from legend of korra smirking (tarrlok (smug))
I was pretty sure I'd get the usual crickets on Edge of Darkness when I posted the new chapter at AO3, but I got a comment right away and some kudos! *\0/*
anghraine: noatak/amon from legend of korra accidentally waterbending (noatak (waterbending))
title: one more tomorrow (1/?)
verse: the edge of darkness (Amon backstory + f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak
stuff that happens: Noatak becomes Amon.
previous sections: one, two, three, four, five, six (of the edge of darkness)

What would he be, without his bending? What would any of them be? He could hardly imagine a life without water at his call. But for a moment, he let himself recall his childhood, before everything went wrong. Before bending. He’d been a good son, a good brother—in fact, he might not not have made any worse a man as a non-bender than he was as a waterbender.

He might have made a better one.

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/sigh

Nov. 5th, 2019 08:53 am
anghraine: noatak/amon from legend of korra accidentally waterbending (noatak (waterbending))
I caved and started the next chapter of Edge of Darkness, a fic that only had a handful of readers when it was current. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway:

He habitually listened to the news in his spare time anyway, so it was no great trouble to turn the radio on. He caught the tail end of the announcers’ usual babble as he drank his tea.

“A breathtaking end to the championship,” said the first announcer. “Truly breathtaking.”

“Quite, quite,” said his counterpart. “Well, in other news, Republic City has a full council again. Taraka of the Northern Water Tribe has been appointed to Councilman Nuniq’s seat—”

Amon’s cup shattered.

anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
title: the edge of darkness (6/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (bloodbending backstory+f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Yakone
stuff that happens: Noatak and Taraka go on their solo hunting trip, then face the last test of their bloodbending.
previous sections: one, two, three, four, five

“Tonight, you two are going to prove to me that you have it in you to bloodbend another human—that you’re true bloodbenders.”

His voice had risen to a triumphant pitch. Noatak and Taraka were, briefly, frozen in astonishment. Then they spoke at the same time.

“How’d you get someone for us to practice on?”

“But we can’t bloodbend you, Dad!”

Yakone looked impatient, and addressed Taraka. “No. You will bloodbend each other.”


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anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
title: the edge of darkness (5/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (bloodbending backstory+f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Sura (Yakone's wife)
stuff that happens: Noatak and Taraka have a brief respite before their final test.
previous sections: one, two, three, four

“You’re certain you can manage, Taraka?”

“Yes,” she said. “And Noatak won’t let anything happen to me.”

Noatak opened his mouth, then shut it again. Her blind trust both irritated and soothed him; he felt burdened by it, but he also felt as if a tilting world had righted itself, his place once again clear to him. So what if Taraka should be capable of defending herself? He was her older brother. It was his duty to protect her. It would always be his duty.


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onward!

Nov. 3rd, 2019 12:49 pm
anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
title: the edge of darkness (4/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (bloodbending backstory+f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Yakone, OC—Zianka
stuff that happens: a girl from the village takes notice of Noatak.
previous sections: one, two, three

“I, um, well. I’m a waterbender too.”

Frowning, he said, "Okay? What does that—"

“But not like you. You’re really talented!”

“I know,” said Noatak. Trying be fair, he added, “My sister is, too.”

“Oh, I forgot about your sister,” the girl said.

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anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
title: the edge of darkness (3/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (bloodbending backstory+f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Yakone
stuff that happens: Noatak and Taraka's training manages to get even worse, and Noatak comes of age.
previous sections: one, two

Noatak opened his mouth, then shut it again. He only recovered himself when Yakone led them towards their prey, and Taraka let out a small moan. Noatak grabbed her arm, digging his fingers into it as tightly as he could.

“Don’t,” he hissed. Don’t let him hear you. Don’t let him see any weakness. Don’t give him any reason—

“Noatak.” It was all she said, his name a hopeless prayer in her mouth. Noatak looked away, into the cave their father was leading them towards.

“It’s—it’s just rats,” he said helplessly.

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anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
title: the edge of darkness (2/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (bloodbending backstory+f!Tarrlok)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Yakone, Yakone's wife (Sura)
stuff that happens: the bloodbending siblings hit adolescence, and Noatak realizes that Yakone has found a different way for Taraka to serve his revenge, if she doesn't make a satisfactory bloodbender.
previous sections: one

“There’s no point,” she said sullenly. “I can … hunt down anything he tells me to. As many as he wants. Any time of day, any time in the month. It doesn’t matter. Nothing’s ever good enough for him. So why should I care about getting better, anyway?”

Noatak glared at her. “Because it’s Dad. He can always get worse! He’s going to do something, I can tell.”

They didn’t have long to wait.

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anghraine: young noatak on the point of fleeing his father and growing into amon (noatak)
(Most of it. )

title: the edge of darkness (1/6)
verse: the edge of darkness (aka: the place where my bloodbender feelings and my f!Tarrlok feelings go to die live)
characters: Noatak, Tarrlok; Yakone, Yakone's wife
stuff that happens: Amon, preparing for the revolution, remembers Noatak—and Noatak's sister.

Behind his mask, his lips twitched into a small, painful smile. She was a monster, his baby sister, but at least she was a magnificent one.

Then he looked at his hands, his waterbender’s hands.

At least they both were.


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