So I’ve been wanting to do my own twist on the Kathy Interview for YEARS, and I finally did it. Also did you guys know that Kevin turned down the choice to wear suspenders and I am upset.
I know a lot of AUs of AftG/TFC have been done in the Avatar universe, but has anyone done an Avatar: the Last Airbender AU?
Kevin, the Avatar has been missing for 100 years, before he is unwittingly discovered inside an iceberg by estranged waterbender twins Aaron and Andrew and their nonbending cousin Nicky who live in the Southern Water Tribe. (Aaron and Andrew do not give me waterbender vibes, but changing the nations didn’t work that well, since either their trips would end up way shorter or the Air Nomads would be the world invaders. Which, no. Oh well, Aaron wants to heal people.) They find out he is the Avatar and reluctantly agree to accompany him to the Northern Water Tribe to learn waterbending. Along the way, they find out the exiled fire nation Prince Nathaniel is hunting the Avatar, in order to regain his honor. He is traveling alongside former General David Wymack, a taciturn man who nonetheless tries to guide and help his ward.
Along the way, they meet some interesting people and new friends including Roland, the leader of the Freedom Fighters, Dan, a young earthbender who Kevin helped break out of prison, and Erik, who leads the Kyoshi Warriors, and also encounter new enemies, including Commander Tetsuji of the Fire Nation. Once they get to the Northern Water Tribe, they meet the waterbending master Chuck. Initially, he wants to make Aaron go into warrior training instead of healing, as he wishes, due to the fact that male waterbenders are drafted to fight. But after a beatdown from Aaron, the Healing master Abby, and the fighting master Betsy (women fight here, they have an option but men have to) he agrees to let Aaron train as a healer. Andrew learns how to fight alongside Avatar Kevin. The Fire Nation invades, Kevin is briefly captured by Prince Nathaniel who Andrew defeats in a few seconds flat, and Commander Tetsuji tries to kill the Moon and is dragged into the Spirit World. Goodbye and good riddance to him.
So, next stop is the Earth Kingdom, where they look for an earthbending master. Eventually they find Katelyn, a young earthbending prodigy who was blinded in an accident as a child, and is therefore overly sheltered by her parents and sneaks out to fight in the Earth Rumbles. She travels with them to teach Kevin earthbending, and despite her disagreements with Kevin and Andrew (Aaron is immediately rather taken with her), she becomes a part of their group. They find out they have a new pursuer, the Crown Prince Riko of the Fire Nation and his two close nonbending friends, Jeremy, a cheerful chi blocker, and Jean, an apathetic swordsman (Knives will be Neil’s thing). Meanwhile, Nathaniel and Wymack end up pursued by Riko as traitors, and are forced to go incognito in the Earth Kingdom, taking on the names Kyle (idk, in honor of Kayleigh, okay?) and Neil Josten.
Their paths cross in Ba Sing Se when they meet the conniving leader of the Dai Li, Proust. They tangle with the Dai Li and the incognito Prince Riko who is disguised as Erik, who recently rekindled a romance with Nicky on their way across the Serpent’s Pass and was captured shortly after. After Nathaniel and Andrew are captured and thrown into the catacombs together, they talk, during which time Nathaniel expresses remorse for the suffering and personal trauma the Fire Nation inflicted on Andrew. He in turn, reveals that he is only after Kevin due to fear of what his father, Firelord Nathan, would inflict upon both him and Kevin’s group if he doesn’t obey, saying that while he is attemoting to capture Kevin to prove himself worth keeping alive, he is also trying to keep Kevin and the team out of his father’s hands. Andrew tells him to “stop being a martyr”. However, after they are freed and encounter Riko and Wymack in the catacombs, Nathaniel appears to change his mind and joins Riko in fighting Andrew, Kevin, and Aaron. Wymack surrenders himself in order to let the others escape. Riko mangles Kevin’s left hand and almost kills him but Aaron manages to heal him and Andrew promises to protect him.
The Monsters regroup incognito in the Fire Nation to wait for the Day of Black Sun invasion. The invasion day arrives and everything seems to be going as planned until Kevin, Aaron, Nicky, and Katelyn encounter Riko in the throne room instead of Nathan. Nathaniel confronts his father and escapes to join the Monsters and most of their allies end up captured, though their old Freedom Fighting friends Matt and Allison and the earthbender Dan escape with them. They arrive at the Western Air Temple to recuperate and attempt to think of a new Firebending teacher for Kevin. Nathaniel, who now goes full time as Neil Josten, arrives and offers to help. He is immediately scorned by Kevin and mocked by Aaron and Andrew. However, when the assassin Gorilla (sent by Riko) arrives to kill the Monsters, Neil saves them and they reluctantly accept him. He warms up to the group members one by one, helping Nicky break Erik out of the Boiling Rock and helping Aaron hunt down and kill his brother’s former tormentor Drake. While at the Boiling Rock, Jean makes a split second decision to save Neil, who he used to be close friends with, and Jeremy jumps in to help, resulting in their capture. After their “field trips”, Neil tentatively earns Andrew’s intrigue and Aaron’s reluctant acceptance.
The comet arrives and Kevin goes missing. The rest of the monsters find their old mentors including Betsy and Abby, and Neil discovers Wymack as well. They reconcile and he advises them about what to do next. As the comet approaches, Aaron, Katelyn, Nicky, and Erik travel to the airship base to hopefully meet up with Kevin as he confronts Firelord Nathan. Neil and Andrew travel to the Fire Nation to confront Riko. After an extended, tough battle, when all hope seems gone, Kevin manages to hit Nathan, momentarily incapacitating him enough to kill him. Riko challenges Neil to an Agni Kai which he accepts. He is winning until Riko aims lightning at Andrew instead and Neil dives in front of him. Andrew fights Riko and manages to chain him and smash his arm. As a result, he has a psychotic break and kills himself. Andrew heals Neil and yells at him for making himself a martyr. Neil says that he wouldn’t have done anything that might result in losing Andrew. He so explains that if he had turned on Riko in the catacombs, he would have been exposed, and his father would have stopped at nothing to break him, including torturing the Monsters. Andrew appears to accept the explanation.
And we know the rest: Kevin is crowned Firelord, and he, Jean and Jeremy, figure out where to go from there. Aaron travels home with Katelyn, Andrew stays to protect Kevin, and Neil stays with him, and Nicky and Erik leave to travel the world. Dan and Matt, and Allison and Renee get together and return home as well. And they live, not happily ever after, but something approaching it.
P.S. a few years later, Kevin goes on a search for his mother Kayleigh.
Andrew Minyard does not understand how Riko Moriyama landed Neil Wesninski.
How the snot-nosed, small dick, rich brat, second son of the Moriyama family who also just so happened to own the largest EXY gear and merchandiser company in the world “RAVEN” - had landed smart mouthed, quick witted, stupidly blue eyed Wesninski, was beyond him. Well, unless Wesninski was a gold digger, but Andrew doubted it.
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Or; how Andrew Minyard says he doesn’t get into messy situations, until he meets Neil and suddenly he is in the messiest, possible situation ever imagined - oh and also, he might be becoming a homewrecker.
Please check TW before reading.
There will also be a lovely art piece done by @sleepingnerd (@olivdoodles) as well soon! You’ll have to wait to see it :)
[image description: a hand clutching a pair of glasses by its lens. but it’s just. so wrong. like the glass of the glasses. a thumb is on the front on the lens and the rest of the fingers are on the inside. you should feel very uncomfortable. end]
why does no one talk about how ridiculous riko’s obsession with neil is?
like imagine finding out your childhood friend is playing for a rival school and the reaction you have isn’t like “oh my gosh!! i haven’t seen neil in 4ever, i hope i can catch up with him soon uwu”
instead your brain goes “im gonna kill neil’s teammate, and then kidnap and torture him over winter break!! that’ll make him transfer schools >:)”
aftg where everything is the same except neil and mary keep getting caught by the butcher’s men because neil writes kevin x reader fanfic and overshares in the author’s notes
*cue kevin reading this with varying levels of “what the FUCK” and “WHO THE FUCK” and fine neil pretty quickly
OH FUCK
WHAT IF KEVIN FOUND OUT AFTER NEIL JOINED THE FOXES.
KEVIN SEES THE CHANGE OF BEHAVIOUR IN THE KEVIN CHARACTER AFTER NEIL MWT HIM AND IS SUSPICIOUS
LATER NEIL FALLS ASLEEP ON HIS DESK AND KEVIN SEES THE COMPUTER!!
That night:
Kevin, gripping the raquet like its Neil’s neck: “YOU. You are even dumber than i thought”
Neil: “Andrew babe come help”
the chapter update that night:
“kevin’s strong hands gripped the raquet, in a yearning sort of way. like he wanted to be holding something else. for some reason, i wished i was the raquet.”
THAT WOULD MEAN KEVIN WAS READING THE FICS IM SOBBING
think about mr. kevin day’s personality for 2 seconds and try to tell me he doesnt read fanfiction about himself
@pomenixx i just had the worst funniest thought. when neil is at the nest riko forces him to write riko x reader fanfic so the real reason neil has so much trauma after leaving is becuase riko made him write kidnapped by the yakuza fics where riko is the hot yakuza boss. when neil negotiates for his freedom and for riko’s death he just sends the link to ichirou and was like “your brother’s being reckless. look what he made me write.”
Neil had a duffel for how many years? Like, bro, just get a back pack. Like I’ve been able to fit 3 outfits and all my hair stuff in a MINI backpack, and you don’t have the common sense to fit like 8 pairs of clothes and a binder in there. Like they make some huge backpacks. Not only would it make more sense for someone his age to be wearing a backpack, but it’s heavily implied that he’s had that duffel since he was like 8. And Imagine you see this 8 year old kid, the size of your pinky, walking around with a duffel twice his size. I’d think something fishy was going on.
Also the fact that Neil didn’t know what fashion trends were going on was stupid, you’d fit in more by going with trends than wearing old worn clothes.
In conclusion I’m doubting not only Mary Hartford’s parenting, but her ability to go on the run as well.
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