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Seeing the older sibling as a role-model, as competition, or even as a threat tends to make the second-born the most competitive child in the family, trying to avoid feeling eclipsed by the elder. This need to compete can be crushed, however, by an older sibling who excels even compared to peers. Jason Todd, the second-born Robin, feels daunted by Dick Grayson’s stellar example. When Jason’s murder goes unavenged, he has to wonder (after his resurrection, of course) if Bruce would have avenged Dick. Jason doesn’t give Tim Drake much thought. He gives Dick plenty.

Jason doesn't give Tim Drake much thought. He gives Dick plenty.

UraIchi Week 2024

Monday, July 1st, 2024 - Sunday, July 7th, 2024

AO3 Collection

Full Prompts List Submitted This Year

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Just the sheer chaos of blurry photos of the gaang being snapped across the globe. The cabbage merchant has uploaded the most of them and they’re all captioned with full caps, no grammar, boomer-style

Appa must be faster than cars, but what about planes? What the fuck are the gaang going to do against PLANES? The fear of an aerial assault might actually slow their journey down a lot

Also the thought of Aang emerging from the iceberg and not only finding century-old skeletons, but photos from the days/years following the massacre…. Photography was relatively new, so the images are blurred and uncoloured but still fairly clear. Do you think anyone photographed the aftermath? The generals celebrating the defeat. The pillagers ravaging the temples.

A less morbid thought: there would be hundreds if not thousands of forum boards speculating about the Avatar’s disappearance and Zuko would be on ALL of them. His username is well-known on the boards, though no one knows who this weirdly aggressive but well-traveled dude is

The White Lotus probably has a group chat/fb page disguised as a pai sho fan club where they trade information via coded discussions about the game. Bumi communicates almost entirely in gifs.

Information control is already a huge thing in atla, but in a modern au? Ba Sing Se would have insane media control and online filters. Any posts about the war are taken down and the culprit tracked. If there was a rebellion in Ba Sing Se, it would be from the tech savy population who can get around the censorship

Speaking of media: can you imagine the media attention on the royal family in the Fire Nation? The media would adore Iroh and Lu Ten and either ignore or occasionally criticize Ozai - until Lu Ten died, then the press tears Iroh to pieces and becomes Fire Lord Ozai’s unofficial fanclub overnight.

Azula is the media darling of the Fire Nation. Zuko is praised as often as he is criticized. In canon, the pressure already fucked with these kids, but can you imagine if they had tabloids and a 24-hour news cycle? Zuko’s banishment is warped and vague, and yet covered extensively. Photos of the banished prince sold to tabloids for a fortune in the weeks after his exile - until Ozai shuts that down, then he vanishes from the public’s eyes until Aang returns, then Zuko goes through periods of blind, worshipful praise by the press and intense negativity and hate, swinging wildly between the two extremes. The media will always be extremely polarised around him, until he eventually retires and hands the crown to Izumi. Only then will the press drop their hostility and talk about him as if he has always been the Fire Nation’s darling

Also he looks painfully awkward in every single photo the press take of him. His PR person has tried to coach him on body language with limited success

After Book 2, Azula gets a very similar treatment to Zuko. But while Zuko grew up criticised and hated and learnt to ignore it, Azula has always been adored. So when the press starts documenting her downward spiral, starts questioning her perfection, she loses it

Years later, when she’s an adult, she learns how to bait and play the press like a cat toying with a mouse, laughing at every negative article posted about her or Zuko. But for now, she’s fourteen and never been anything other than perfect and the pressure is killing her

Momo has his own insta. It’s wildly popular. Most of the canon characters are following it, including Zuko and Iroh - the former for any possible hints on the Avatar’s location, the latter because he thinks Momo is very cute

He has a twitter too. For some reason. It has 5x the amount of followers as Sokka’s twitter account and Sokka is SO bitter about it

Ty Lee is a very successful influencer

He can bend the four elements and he’s probably never SEEN a blender before. Although I can’t see Aang being too mystified, at least not for long. Sokka goes to wow Aang by showing him how a toaster works, but he just shrugs and goes back to playing candy crush (which he worked out how to download entirely by himself and is already on level 33)

I don't like (and at the same time I like it very much) how fandom makes Zuko into a Soft Widdle Ducky.

Like, yeah, he's awkward and traumatized. But he is very much a warrior prince at the same time. Look at his confrontation with Ozai: "you're going to listen, or I'm going to cut you in two with my swords".

During the series, Zuko almost never struggles with immediate action and decisions - but he's really terrible at measured, considered action and decisions.

I want to see that side of Zuko in fic. Like, a former war minister gets out of line? "Right. Let's take this outside. Do you want fire or steel." Sure, by the end of the series he's much more mature, grounded and peaceful, but so many fics I read, he just kind of folds when people get aggressive with him, when his more canonically true self would likely just go "yup, that's a threat, first you're going to get your ass beat and then I'm throwing you in jail, I don't really care how influential you are." And I want to see him deal with that.

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I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT DANI

I wasn’t sure what direction to go in with her though, I did consider ] the other supers meeting her first (because yeah her travelling the world makes her more likely to come across them) and having Things happen from there, what Things I have yet to consider (she’d probably be down with joining them for a while before taking off again, can’t hold that girl down in one place for long)

I imagine Dani isn’t as strong as Danny, since she was initially an unstable clone, even though Danny did stabilise her I reckon she still wouldn’t quite be in perfect condition, I also imagine her powers developing differently

Danny gets his powers out of necessity, he HAS to be strong to handle the threats constantly being thrown at him, Danielle is travelling the world, probably rarely fighting other ghosts, the abilities she’s more likely to strengthen would be her speed and stamina (because she does so much long distance travelling) and maybe even her intangibility and invisibility seeing as she’d probably do a lot of sneaking around in her travels to steal food and explore places she’s probably not supposed to be in

so though Danny is far more powerful, Danielle could probably fly faster than him and stay intangible/invisible for a lot longer than he could, at the cost of her not being quite as strong and not developing all the really strong powers that he has (she’d get the ice ones though but it’d take a while) so where she couldn’t beat him in combat she could potentially outlast him

imagine though, a super team finds this girl with a bunch of different powers and being AMAZED and then they find out she’s a clone, and they assume she was cloned from a bunch of different supers

1 - It makes complete sense! Heroes are always in competition with other heroes, they have their own turfs, and they aren't interacting much, except for special occasions, while villains are the ones who hang out with heroes the most!

2 - Izuku's mom is worried that her son wants to become a villain while his father advises him to pick his future job "for the right reasons". But isn't fanboyism the best reason?

3 - Katsuki is REALLY worried now that Izuku has stopped wanting to become a hero and wants to become a villain. He just knows that he will be Deku's favorite target. So Katsuki decides to encourage Deku in becoming a hero.

4 - Everyone else in Aldera used to think Izuku was just a little crazy until someone started to anonymously post mean pictures and posts about a classmate. Izuku didn't like that at all. The next day, the posts were deleted and another classmate had moved in another country.

1 - It's an AU where people get their quirks in their late teens (between 16 and 18) instead of when they are five.

2 - UA and the other schools are now college, with a three-year-program. Izuku was among the best candidates but his quirk never showed up. This means that he didn't get bullied for ten years like in canon but it also means he was pretty well-liked only for him to become a loser when his quirk failed to show up and he is more cautious when it comes to making friends.

3 - Bakugou is far less worse than in canon but he did screw up when it comes to Izuku. However, their friendship is more easily mended and he does pull his head out of his ass for good.

4 - Keigo wasn't found by the HPSC when he was a child but did become a hero. He also happens to have a criminal record but that's a detail.

(just DONT think about the timeline for this one ok. there is no timeline. This does not happen in any canon event, but Dabi has not yet been able to reveal himself dramatically, so)

1- It was Dabi's own fault for leading the attack that ended with Eri jabbed with some Trigger, boosting her quirk to the point that it didn't just rewind him physically to a 12 year old Touya, but erased all his memories too. He's lucky he didn't get fully rewound before Eraserhead stopped Eri and fled with her, not realizing what even happened to Dabi.

2- Touya realizes he has no idea where he is, no memory past going to bed last night mad at his dad as usual, and that he is completely surronded by villains and strangers. He makes the somewhat reasonable conclusion that he was kidnapped, and some villain in all black might have just made off with Fuyumi, a far easier target than him. (Todorokis are great at almost connecting dots.)

3- So he sets a large fire around the villains- but does not immolate himself, because he knows he needs to be able to run, not train to make the flames hotter- and flees as well. he finds a hero and demands to be taken home, since someone kidnapped him, Touya Todoroki, and possibly his sister.

4- The hero is confused and doubtful until Touya shows his quirk, after which the hero is confused and wondering if Endeavor had a secret lovechild years after that Shoto kid was born. But hey, might as well take the kid somewhere safer and pass it on, right?

5- Touya is very confused that Fuyumi is the first one to get there after being told. And that she wasn't kidnapped. And that she is way too old, like mom's age, but clearly looks like herself- what happened? He refuses to believe anyone saying she didn't get hit by an aging quirk from her kidnappers until Enji himself comes in to verify. (And only because his father is actually looking at him, seeing him, and saying everything Touya wants to hear.)

An interesting prompt...

1- in this au, Enji is a politician who realized the sheer power heroics had in society and in government. (All Might is still his rival, but that's because Enji knows he isn't filing anywhere close to all paperwork he's supposed to) In order to get an in, he arranged a marriage with the Himura family, who run an agency on par with Idaten. He marries Cryo, aka Rei, only a sidekick at the time but a recent UA graduate in the main family.

2- Rei and Enji adjust to the marriage. Enji likes the idea of children, but not immediately. Rei, who'd been expecting more of a quirk marriage, waits a year longer before trying to get pregnant to establish her career more. After the twins Touya and Fuyumi are born, Enji and Rei work through the fact that they don't actually have to have a "normal" marriage where a certain amount of sex or children are "supposed" to happen. Besides, they've got two kids now, and should focus on them, and their careers.

3- Rei opens up that she wants to do more fieldwork in heroics, where her family had always expected her to be more of an agency prop and pretty face. Enji suggests starting her own agency if her family one doesn't allow her to work as she wants. In return for him supporting her career goals, she does act more publicly- but in the more political stage, not product placement.

4- Fuyumi and Touya both grow up wanting to be heroes, because that is clearly the cooler (ba-dum-tish) job of their two parents. Rei is easily able to train Fuyumi, even when it turns out she's got a weakness to cold- warming support tech is easy to get. Touya is another matter, and both she and Enji feel he shouldn't pursue the field.

5- Natsuo is born, without a quirk. (Enji realizes most of his party and platforms would not be ideal for Natsuo and other quirkless people - but he's come too far with them. He can't abandon them if he wants to reach his other goals, they'd be impossible on the quickly shrinking quirkless platform. And besides, he has enough money to ensure Natsuo has a good life, around whatever legislation there is.) Then baby Shoto, who also wants to be a hero. Touya chafes at being told not to do something his younger siblings can, even if Enji tries hard to bring him into politics and give him more attention than his siblings. Touya decides to plan his father's downfall by learning, and then running on all the opposite positions, taking everything from him. Natsuo sees this, somewhat, as supporting him.

+1- the strain with the children causes Rei and Enji to quietly separate, though publicly they still step in to support each other when needed. Rei takes Fuyumi and Shoto, Enji takes Touya, and in theory also Natsuo, but he moves between to visit his siblings more than any other of the kids.

+2- Fuyumi and Rei train Shoto at a safe and reasonable pace, but they're much better at ice and really have to guess with his fire. For this reason, he rarely uses it, because he just doesn't know how to safely, beyond just keeping his body in balance or lighting little candles.

+3- Fuyumi and Natsuo completely believe Touya's running and planning things to support Natsuo. Only Shoto is pretty sure that's not his motivation and it's to get back at Enji, but he keeps quiet about that.

+4- Rei is very supportive of her children, but more quietly. If she isn't able to get time off during the SF (she's a top tenner ok), she texts her kids pictures of her watching when she can, smiling for them, for them to see later. She hires tutors to ensure Natsuo goes to a great university and medical school. She sends Touya little trinkets that remind her of him. (She doesn't know he burns several of those. Natsuo never tells.)