#modern?

. ᰔᩚ 𝓲 𝚍𝚘𝓷'𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝓷𝓪 𝓫𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝚖𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 . . . ❢

Marian, raising a glass: To my new sister-in-law, I say this:

[LN ‘Deep in the Woods’ AU]

“Alan Walker ft. K-391, Emily Hollow - Lily”

Lily was a little girl Afraid of the big, wide world She grew up within her castle walls.

Now and then she tried to run, And then on the night with the setting sun, She went in the woods away, So afraid, all alone.

They warned her, ‘don't go there, There's creatures who are hiding in the dark.’ Then something came creeping, It told her, ‘don't you worry, just’

‘Follow everywhere I go, Top over the mountains or valley low, Give you everything you've been dreaming of, Just let me in, ooh.’

‘Everything you want in gold, I'll be the magic story you've been told, And you'll be safe under my control, Just let me in, ooh. Just let me in, ooh.’

She knew she was hypnotized, And walking on cold thin ice, Then it broke, and she awoke again.

Then she ran, faster then Start screaming, "Is there someone out there?" ‘Please help me, Come get me’ Behind her, she can hear it say

‘Follow everywhere I go, Top over the mountains or valley low, Give you everything you've been dreaming of, Just let me in, ooh.

Everything you want in gold, I'll be the magic story you've been told, And you'll be safe under my control, Just let me in, ooh. Just let me in, ooh.’

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Everything you want in gold, I'll be the magic story you've been told, And you'll be safe under my control, Just let me in, ooh.

‘Follow everywhere I go, Top over the mountains or valley low, Give you everything you've been dreaming of, Just let me in, ooh.’

Then she ran faster then, Start screaming, "Is there someone out there?" ‘Please help me’ ‘Just let me in, ooh.’

Heavily inspired by Alan Walker's "Lily", this AU follows a grimdark tale of Six, an unusual yellow raincoat wearing child who wants to roam free and explore despite her mother, The Lady's, protests of staying inside The Maw Kingdom's protective walls.

She befriends a mysterious giant who 'makes wishes come true'. Little did she know that her adventure unravels itself as a nightmare as time goes on. As she finds out the dark truth and runs from the Man in the Hat, she meets Mono, a young lumberjack. [They are young teens in this AU]

Together, the two must work together, and traverse the monster-riddled wilderness to make it back to The Maw Kingdom in one piece.

If you would like to take and expand on this AU, you’re free to take it. If anyone wants more ideas, I have a couple more that’s not in the description. My reasoning is the fact that I still have so many owned arts to finish, and I just needed to get this one out of my head before continuing on finishing all of my commissions. I really wish I could get to keep it and expand on it more, though.

that being said, hope you all enjoy this small doodle piece :]

Masterlist <3

An: GOOD DAY FRIENDS. So uhh this is like a modern au, where they still like, live in the western air temple, but they have PHONES! I read somewhere on wattpad about the idea that they had phones and it was way more modernistic, and I really liked it. But mine is a bit different, because the only modern thing here is the phones.

Anyways, this was fun, I liked doing texts :)

( I tried adding Image id’s and I hope I did that right, I didn’t do it as alt text cuz there weren’t enough characters allowed so I hope this will suffice :)

Summary:

Yn left during the night to think about things, what she didn’t expect was to have someone help her work through her emotions.

Warnings: Crying, bad thoughts, sad boy hours.

The moon rode high above the air temple. You didn’t know where you were going, but your feet were leading you somewhere. Your arms were folded, as you strayed further and further away from your group. This night was suffocating, it felt as if no matter what you did, this horrible feeling wouldn’t go away. It made you feel lonely. You had relatively no one to talk to. Sure your friends were great, but is it really worth it to bother them? You had decided long ago to keep to yourself, you were over reacting anyways.

You found yourself at the ledge of the far side of the temple, and took a seat. The ground cold and dusty, but you’d be surprised how easily one gets used to such a lifestyle.

Everything came crashing down. Tears flowed painfully fast, as your mind wandered. You felt yourself crumble, from the inside out. It felt like you were on the edge - edge of what? You weren’t exactly sure. Your hands rose to your face as you wiped your tears with your sleeves.

DING!

You jumped at the sudden noise, your hands making their way to the source. You pulled out your strawberry phone and checked the notifications.

(Image I.D: Photo of a lockscreen, with the time reading 00:08, the date being Wednesday 7 May. The background has multiple hearts within each other in different shades of beige. There is a notification form Messages that’s dated to have been sent just now. It’s from a contact called ‘Prince pouty’. The message simply says ‘You okay?’ End Image I.D)

You smiled after seeing the notification, for the big bad guy he used to be, he really is a big softy. You unlocked your phone before opening the messages app, and replying to his text.

(Image I.D: Photo showcasing a conversation between ‘prince pouty’ and Yn. Texts: Zuko: You okay?, Yn: Yeah why :), Zuko: Idk u just kinda- left, Yn: Ok genius why are u up then with an eye roll emoji, Zuko: That’s a really good point dianne, Yn: I’m just thinking. Zuko: Hm. Hold on I’m coming, Yn: Zuko- SLEEP, Zuko: I'M NOT GONNA SLEEP IF YOUR SAD, Yn: WHO SAID IM SAD, Zuko: Me., Yn: sends image of an emoji with big eyes looking to the side, with the text saying “I am looking away” End Image I.D)

You slipped your phone back into your pocket, letting legs sway in the air. It felt like such a long fall, yet you were extremely calm. No emotions at all. All the crying had passed, so now it was just sadness.

Not too long after, you felt a presence next to you. A really quiet presence. Zuko. You gazed at him, noting how he averted his eyes quickly. He carefully reached his hand out to hold yours, giving you time to pull away. You nodded to affirm it’s ok, and his hand fell onto yours, hands fitting together like a puzzle.

You two sat in a comfortable silence before Zuko spoke up.

“D-do you wanna talk about it?”

You tilted your head down, pondering his question. You eventually looked back to him, and opened your mouth to speak, but nothing came out. You burst into tears, breaking down yet again. The tears came running back and you were sobbing uncontrollably.

“I-I’m sorry I didn’t mean to-”

You squeezed his hand to try to affirm it wasn’t his fault, although you weren’t sure if he got the message.

The firebender carefully scooted closer, wrapping his arms around your shoulders, pulling you closer to him. You brought your knees up to your chest, and rested your head on his shoulder. Your hands hid your face as you cried, trying your best to stay quiet.

After you had worked through some of the emotions, the only sound that could be heard was the occasional sniffle.

“Zuko,” you started.

He gave you a small, encouraging smile, but you still couldn’t continue the sentence.

“Yn, you don’t have to tell me what's bothering you, but I promise I only want to help.”

Those words seemed to help, as your voice slowly returned to talking capacity.

“I-I feel like I set all these expectations on myself in order to maintain friendships with the gang, but I can’t handle it anymore. A-any and every second of the day, I inch closer to a breakdown. I-I guess today was my breaking point.” you let out a strained laugh towards the end of that sentence.

Zuko coked his head to the side, you could tell he didn’t exactly understand what you meant, but feared asking.

“It’s like, if I’m not helpful enough to Katara and Suki, or if I’m not entertaining enough to Sokka and Toph, or if I’m not supportive enough with you or Aang, you’ll all abandon me,”

“Yn, that’s not true. None of us would ever abandon you. And you mean more to me then you’ll know,”

“Maybe, but what if you're wrong? What if that’s just your own opinion?”

“Listen, I know it may seem hard to see. But you’re an amazing person, and anyone who can’t see that is just dumb, well excluding Toph who can’t see - period.” That last part was said in almost a whisper, but you heard it.

You began laughing. Quietly, but it was still there. Slowly, the laugh morphed back into crying. Zuko held you tighter, stroking his hand through your hair (A/N: if this doesn’t work for you, you can just imagine him rubbing his soothing circles on your shoulder).

“I’m so sorry,”

“Yn, there is nothing to be sorry for,”

“For burdening you with my problems,” you sniffled, digging your face into his torso.

“You’re not burdening me, in fact, I’m happy you’re comfortable enough to share this with me,”

And in that second, you saw Zuko. Not as your friend Zuko, but as, Zuko.

His face began getting closer, and closer to meet in the middle with your lips. Just as you were about to touch,

“Yn?”

You hummed to show you were listening.

“I don’t want to do this when you're so emotionally vulnerable.”

You nodded, understanding where he was coming from.

“It’s not like I don’t wanna kiss you! I- Uh- Um- I do, but right now isn't the bes-”

You cut him off with a finger on his lip,

“Then, I guess we have tomorrow to look forward to.” you smiled.

He nodded, smiling, and stood up, reaching his hand out to help you up. You took it gratefully, giving him a playful nudge once you stood up.

And to your tent he walked you, hand in hand.

The next morning:

You had slept in that morning, going to bed late definitely taking a toll on you.

Not Zuko though.

Zuko had been up early, wondrous excitement in his eyes. He was less angsty than usual, still angsty, but enough of a change that it was noticeable to everyone else.

At breakfast, everyone (excluding Toph and Zuko) was exchanging weird looks at each other, referring to Zuko. He was actually smiling. That’s extremely rare. And also, where is Yn? She’s never late to breakfast.

“Uh, where’s Yn?” Katara asked.

“I think she’s still asleep.” Aang replied.

Nods of agreement were passed around,

“But she never sleeps in?” Sokka added.

“Maybe she was tired?” Suki tried.

“Or she’s just on her phone,” Toph scoffed.

Zuko was relatively quiet, and Toph took note of this.

“Do you happen to know anything, Sparky?”

“Nah, not really,”

“Liar.” She replied, way too fast.

Suddenly everyone was staring at Zuko, who looked mortified.

“Relax y'all, we just stayed up chatting,” you said, stretching as you neared the group.

You sat down next to Zuko, offering him a smile, before getting handed your bowl and beginning to eat.

Still, Sokka gave really weird glances between the both of you.

“Something here smells fishy...” Sokka observed.

Zuko raised a brow, trying to play it off cool.

“Fine, the wedding’s tomorrow,” you said calmly.

“AHA! Wait what?”

“She’s joking, idiot!” Toph snorted.

Sokka grumbled before resuming his meal. However, Toph didn’t let how fast Zuko’s heart rate accelerated at the mention of the wedding slide.

Breakfast was over, and the gang dispersed. Zuko decided to give the avatar a short break whilst he dealt with some- business. He swallowed built up fears of this moment, walking over to your tent. He knocked carefully on a nearby stone.

“Who is it?”

“Zuko.”

“Alright well come in!”

He slowly entered the tent and sat by you.

“I believe you are in debt, sir.” you started, “I would like to receive my payment now,”

“Hm, very well.” he played along.

The pair turned to each other, Zuko turning red just thinking about it. You carefully took his hands in yours, and gave him a ‘are you sure you still want this?’ look, he nodded.

In a matter of seconds, your lips crashed into his.

The kiss went on for a few seconds, both of you pulling away and resting your foreheads on one another’s. Then you turned around, and sat between his legs, facing the small mirror you had sloppily hung up. His chin rested on your head, and his arms were around your waist.

“Yn?”

“Mhm?”

“Do you want to like, be my,” you could tell Zuko was scared to finish the sentence, so you did.

“If you're asking me to be your girlfriend, then yeah, I’d like that.”

You saw Zuko smile from the mirror, blushing slightly as he gazed at you. Once he saw the mirror, particularly your eyes watching him, he became even redder.

You began giggling uncontrollably.

“Okay, well, boyfriend, we should probably get back to the gang now,”

“Okay, I love you,”

“I love you too,”

Zuko left the tent, but not before he got a shorter goodbye kiss from you. You stayed behind to clean the messy tent.

“I KNEW IT, I’M TELLING EVERYONE!” Sokka screamed, pointing accusedly towards Zuko.

So much for privacy.

An: that was a long one! So uh this still needs to be proof read idk if i’ll ever do that tho, but I had fun writing it for now. ALSO????? THANK YOU TO ANYONE WHO FOLLOWED!!! <333

(UPDATE: I proof read it :D)