The Mouse's Roar

have I mentioned how much I love 31_days ?

Title: The Moth and The Flame
Day/Theme: August 18- feathered by moonlight
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Zuko/Katara

Everything about her glows. 

In the sunlight, her skin radiates golden bronze, like the statue of an ancient goddess, like he imagines Agni’s wife must have looked like. When she is happy, a dusky blush illuminates her face, and somehow the pinkish tint ends up reflecting onto his cheeks as well. 

But, it’s only in the moonlight that she really shines.  

There is something unearthly that flickers in her eyes when she stands under the moon, as if she’s channeling the spirits themselves. The water she is bending glitters around her like liquid diamonds, and on the nights when the moon is full and heavy, he feels as if she could overturn the oceans themselves until they billowed over the continents and drowned the land beneath them.  

His heart is tight as he watches her, the power in her movements suffocatingly beautiful. He marvels at her ability to both freeze him in his tracks and melt his bones under his skin at the same time. He remembers the story of the moth who would destroy himself out of love for the flame, annihilate himself to be one with her. He wonders if the flame could love the sea with such a passion, and extinguish himself to be with her.
 

Zuko takes a running leap into the ocean (to Katara) to find out exactly that.

So whenever i read a good fic on FFN, i automatically go back to the author's page and see what their fave stories are in order to find more good reading... it usually works out pretty well. But in the case of Zutara fics, i guess since the fandom is still fairly new, i run into a lot of dead-ends... all these authors seem to have in their favorite stories listing are Draco/Hermione fics.. which is like searching for hot guys and ending up in a gay bar to me... like yay!fics!... but fics i have no idea how to go about enjoying...even if they are hot and well written... i mean really? Draco/Hermione? He called her the Wizarding equivalent of the N-word.. but yeah to each his own i guess...

in any case it leads me to a disappointing lack of Zutara ficcage.. the AU's are pretty fun (the Blue Rose!) but i want some nice canon!based stuff (like Stormbenders) why does fandommekeep her lj f-locked?? so barring any new fics i'm stuck imagining scenarios.. (and no crystalteari still haven't written that Mai-->Zuko-->Katara piece) but I was plaing around with an Aladdin re-write...with Zuko as the sheltered prince and Katara as the street-rat (or mouse ^^) 
but now that i think about it, doesn't that sound a lot like cinderella? whoa..revelation: Aladdin = Cinderella in reverse... crazy stuff man... genie = fairy godmother.. Jafar = evil stepmother?? abu and carpet as gus-gus and jack.. and IAGO = LUCIFER!!! 

ok that is awesome-ness right there.. i will end here on that note so as not to taint the genius