WESTEROS AU XVIII: BENDING / ATLA WPR

THE FIRELORD'S SON AND THE REBEL MAIDEN

This is the basic Jaimienne character saga, but set in the Avatar-verse (Series 1, Aang/Last Airbender). Team Highgarden are freedom fighters, the Lannisters are the Fire Nation royals, Brienne is still a badass, and some characters have pretty painful secrets as well. OCs like Akashi are also featured.
Oh, and halfway, there is a freaky Friday flip/bodyswap for Jeimi and Brienna. He's dethroned royalty seeking to be reinstated, she's an outcast soldier of fortune. They switch bodies. Do the maths. Then they swap back.
The gold hand is now a prop for special occasions, and Jeimi (later, for a while, Brienna-in-Jeimi) wears usually a more casual titanium hand full of various gadgets (like Tycho Brahe had got his casual brass/bronze nose and his posh gold and silver nose). Then, they switch back to their original bodies. The only difference from canon is that, after an Agni Kai, Jeimi became left-handed far earlier than his Westerosi counterpart, hence his nom de guerre Lefty/Hidari. (I just thought Jaime Lannister + Fire Nation = Mucius Scaevola, the way it sounds).


Characters so far

Freedom Fighters:

• Brienna Tath: Freedom fighter and unorthodox Kyoshi warrior (no make-up, slightly lighter armour). Born and raised on Kyoshi unto the local governor and a female warlord, Brienna was orphaned at an early age. Fights with a katana. The female lead or heroine.
• Ren Lee Byarakion: Pretty boy and estate owner, commander of freedom fighters. A charming aesthete who composes, plays the erhu, and writes haiku... Fights with a rapier. Also lectured by Kyoshi warriors.
• Lu Ran Tyrel: Pretty boy and estate owner's grandson, lieutenant of freedom fighters, Ren Lee's intellectual equal and younger brother in arms (and brother-in-law)... or even more than that. Fights with a rapier as well.
• Lily Mairi Tyrel: Lu Ran's sister and Ren Lee's wife, still a young girl, healer for the freedom fighters. She later heads for the capital of the Fire Nation to marry heir to the throne Zhophri.
• Kata: A camp follower, waterbending healer, and middle-aged Water Tribe refugee. Her son is fighting the Fire Nation on foreign shores, and her husband was executed (by firing squad). Is looking for her captured daughters: teenaged, feminine waterbender Sanska; and child tomboy Aya, who owns a short sword.

Church of Raava:

• Meli: a fundamentalist priestess who is a chi blocker and a bloodbender. She is always dressed in the colours of Raava and wears heavy make-up with this spirit's patterns, giving her the sobriquet White Lady. She also carries a form of rosary. On his older brother's request, she kills Ren Lee by giving him a heart attack through bloodbending. Later on, she retreats to the Shrine of Raava with her allies.
• Stanits Byarakion: Ren Lee's older brother and the Sword of Raava, chosen by the Church as a messianic figure. He believes that freedom fighters will not save the Kingdom from Fire Nation occupation because Raava will. A firm believer in the White Lady, and also his lover, he has Meli kill Ren Lee, but then regrets having taken his brother's life. Attempts to take the Imperial Capital, but fails and retreats to his own religious stronghold for recovery.
• Davo: A pirate captain who saved Stanits and Ren Lee during the siege of the fortress where their family was garrisoned when both were children, now he's second-in-command to the Church of Raava as its Lieutenant Sword. He does not trust Meli completely, but his pleas fall on deaf ears.

Fire Nation Royals / Rannishita dynasty:

• Fire Lord Taiwin: the current ruler of the Fire Nation, a great strategist on and off the battlefield, and a brilliant statesman. Was at first Chancellor and Regent for the former dynasty, the ill-fated Takarayens, before they died out during the past war, then took power at the end of their reign.
• Princess Consort Johanna: his late wife, who died of a fever not long after giving birth to Tirion. Her husband still fondly remembers her.
• Crown Princess Seisei: their daughter, next in line, a widow and a lady of wealth and taste, though she is declining into decadence. A lightning-bender. She was married to the Earth Kingdom general Robek Byarakion, the eldest of the three Byarakion brothers, but the three sons she has (Zhophri, Sela, and Tomoki) are actually her children born of twincest with Jeimi, to whom she was very close. She also burned Jeimi's right hand in an Agni Kai, leaving it scarred for life before it's severed.
• Fallen Prince / Colonel Jeimi (formerly Crown Prince), AKA Hidari ("Lefty"): Seisei's fraternal twin and lover, once a general in their father's ranks. Lost an Agni Kai, was demoted to colonel, disowned, and sent to the war front... then taken prisoner by freedom fighters on the battlefield. Set free on parole and guarded by Brienna. His right hand, shrivelled and horribly scarred, will be lost forever when trying to defend Brienna... A fallen anti-hero on the verge of awakening as a true hero.
• Second Prince / Foremost Advisor Tirion: the youngest of Taiwin's children and Seisei's advisor. A stunted and odd-eyed, yet incredibly learned young person who knows how to survive at court. Very closer to Jeimi than to the rest of his family.
• Next Crown Prince Zhophri: a teenaged firebender and sociopath who makes Elagabalus look like a pansy, to be honest. Will marry Lily Tyrel, but will the wedding come to a good end?
• Sela and Tomoki: Zhophri's younger siblings. Sela is now married to the latest scion of the State of Yi and lives there. Tomoki will take on his poisoned older brother's role as next in line.

The former Fire Nation royals / Takarayen dynasty

• Fire Lord Aerizu: Taiwin's predecessor, to whom he was originally best friend, advisor, and de facto ruler: at first a lovable eccentric, until torture warped his mind and changed him completely, leading to tensions with his right-hand man, Taiwin Rannishita, and, ultimately, to war and a coup d'état. Cornered and with his palace under Rannishita storm (betrayed by his own right-hand man), the insane ruler, now even more deranged, attempted to blow up the Fire Nation Capital Area, but was stopped by the blade of Jeimi Rannishita plunged across his throat.
• Princess Consort Ryúra: an intelligent proper lady, physically and emotionally abused by her husband, she died in childbirth while the last outpost of the Takarayen régime was under siege; her two surviving children's fate is still unknown.
• Crown Prince Ryóga: a sensitive, gentlemanly, aloof, and exceedingly learned young man detached from his parents due to their abusive relationship; he was raised by the Rannishita clan and betrothed to Seisei, until, quite unexpectedly, he eloped with Lyanna, a Southern Water Tribe villager, and went to live with her on his private estate/island/spa of Shiawase. This caused an outcry from the Rannishitas, the Takarayens, and Lya's fiancé alike, which led to a declaration of war. He fell at the Battle of the Waterfall Lagoon, breaking the hearts of both Seisei and Lya, and casting a great shadow over the lives of all those who crossed his path.

Others:

• Akashi Fujio: the Kyoshi warrior officer who trained and raised Brienna, after her mother's death left her orphaned as a child. Akashi was rather strict, but nevertheless tolerant. She was at first reluctant to let a male mainlander like Ren Lee learn their ways, but was convinced by Brienna.
• Sanska and Aya: Kata's daughters, spirited away to the Imperial Capital, then to unknown locations. It is Brienna's task to find them: teenaged, feminine waterbender Sanska; and child tomboy Aya, who owns a short sword.
• Piite Bei Li, AKA Littlefinger: An upstart courtier, double-crosser, and professional chessmaster. Spirited Sanska away to the Great Divide. Had some kind of relationship with her mother.
• Lisa Bei Li: Kata's sister, Sanska's aunt, and now Lady Littlefinger. A toxic caregiver whose marriage will last rather long...
• Kaiban: A skilful surgeon expelled from university for conducting illegal experiments. Now he works at an outpost/fortress as the local regimental surgeon. A member of the Order of the White Lotus, a skilled firebender/lightning-bender, and a freethinker. He saves Jeimi's life by tending to his hand stump, and then becomes court physician to the Fire Nation royals.
• General Rözu Böton: The commandant of the Fire Nation-occupied fortress where Kaiban is stationed and Jeimi and Brienna are imprisoned for a while. Is a "gentleman of wealth and taste" with an eerie, Count Dracula-style feel. Has a bastard son, Razei, and a second wife, Wouda. And a pet bear called Mor'du...
• Mor'du: the above mentioned plantigrade. All black and brown and covered with hair!
• Oh Lena Tyrel: The Tyrel clan's matriarch, a female landowner who transfers from her estate to the Fire Nation court to keep her eyes on her granddaughter... or something more? Like... a member of the OWL? (She IS.)
• Podemaru "Pokkun" Pein: a young soldier in the Fire Nation Army (second lieutenant in his teens) who becomes Brienna's next companion, after she and Jeimi part ways.
• Varris: a courtier at the Fire Nation palace and a eunuch of foreign (actually Air Nomad) descent. Frenemy to Littlefinger, and a member of the Order of the White Lotus.
• Foggy Swamp Waterbenders: Exactly what it says on the label.
• Genji: a young weaponsmith, illegitimate son of a local whore, born and raised in the Fire Nation community of Shu Jing, where he learned the trade and still lives. Has taken in a tomboyish left-handed orphan who turns out to be Aya, now his partenaire in business and revenge.
• Lyanna: Kata's sister-in-law, who developed an affection for Ryóga Takarayen and started the war in the first place. A spirited, perky Southern Water Tribe maiden, described as being headstrong, impulsive, impatient... it's hinted that her niece Aya takes after her completely.

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