Fic Post - Imagine The Ocean - Book One (Master Post)

[damkianna]

Title: Imagine The Ocean - Book One
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: Somewhere between PG and PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Hints of Sokka/Suki if you're looking for them. Katara-focused overall. Includes some original characters.
Wordcount: The prologue and Chapters 1-6/13 amount to around 50,000 words. ETA: Prologue and Chapters 1-10/13 are up to about 90,000 words. The now-complete fic is around 117,000 words.
Content Notes/Warnings: Mild amounts of violence in a few places; nothing very graphic. Some spoilers, in a very general sense, but this story is quite AU. I doubt there's anything in it that will ruin the events of the show for anyone.
Summary: Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. Avatar!Katara AU.
Disclaimer: Places and people you recognize from canon are not mine.
Acknowledgements: More thanks than I can possibly express to my sister, idriya, who was my cheerleader, my beta, and the complementer who produced the gorgeous art that accompanies this story. And, of course, this fic exists in general thanks to the ladiesbigbang challenge, and everyone who helped make it happen.

Story Links
Read on DW: Prologue & Chapters 1-5 | Chapters 6-10 | Chapters 11-13
Read on AO3: Link

The story art is embedded in both locations.

Comments

[damkianna]

I basically clapped like a seal when I got this comment in my inbox; thank you so much!

I really enjoyed going wild with the lady-awesome - there are places in my outlines where it actually says, "Oh, why not, it's ladiesbigbang!" :D So I'm glad you enjoyed reading it, too! It definitely soothed small grumpy parts of my soul; A:TLA canon is certainly better than many shows, but. There's always room for more awesome women being awesome. \o/

I loved being able to add Suki's mother, and I hope to have her show up some more later, because she is excellent; even though the part she's in is relatively short, I thought about her a lot, and I'm glad her being there meant something.

And same goes for the SE Asia mentions - one of the reasons I chose to break the Earth Kingdom up into multiple kingdoms was because of the way it would open things up in that respect. You ... probably don't want to know how much time I've already spent working out the borders and history of the southeastern kingdoms, but suffice it to say: I am beyond glad that even the tiny bits and pieces that have made it into the fic are appreciated!

Thank you again for the lovely feedback; it pretty much made my weekend. :D