Ozai and Ursa
Requested by jokermask18 with additional prompt of Parents where Ursa is the evil one.

My laptop is dead. Woe is me. It's been cutting out for a while but it officially died last week and has not been resurrected since. Damn. This like Sunlight was written from my iPod. Be impressed.


Abhorrence
As the granddaughter of the traitor Roku she was ridiculed, mocked, cut by the ladies of the Fire Nation. It made her eventual rise all the more triumphant.

Birth
Ozai had hovered at Ursa's side as she went into labor the first time, and ignored her summons the second time but he still favored his second child, maybe because he hadn't witnessed her birth.

Child
She had danced barefoot in the shadows of the Fire Palace for years before her family had gained the prestige necessary to rejoin "polite" society.

Disgrace
Ursa's inability to perform the duties of a lady (nevermind that she is only twelve) reflected poorly on her family.

Eldest
Ursa carefully does not express her preference for the firstborn to Fire Nation throne as the disgraced granddaughter of a traitor could never be allowed marry the heir.

Firstborn
Ozai loathed the first child of every family he was acquainted with. Watching him interact with his firstborn she wonders why she thought that his child would be any different.

Guest
When he invites her to stay with him on Ember Island, she takes him to see her favorite players and he sits through the play in exchange for a kiss.

Height
He towers over her but neither of them noticed until Zuko is four and she steps in to stop an unjustified punishment.

I love you
Ozai says those words everytime he sees her the first year of their marriage and she watches the faces of those who treated her cruelly as they realize that she isn't growing round and heavy (the gossips said the only reason he married her was because she was pregnant).

Ja
She learns to speak to heavy guttural language of the Water Tribes in anticipation of the peace talks Iroh would have started. When the world shifts she never tells anyone.

Kafkaesque
She wonders when her life became a convoluted novel as she is escorted down the hall by anonymous silent guards.

Locomotion
She isn't a firebender but her movements contain grace and the second sons children don't necessarily need a pure line of firebenders.

Manipulation
When Ozai takes to watching her with a puzzled angry look she knows she's won.

North
After Ursa murders Azulon she flees north headed for one of the colonies and anonymity.

Overlord
A bargin? You sell your soul for your son, gift your husband with a throne gained through murder and leave your children at the mercy of your husband. Probably not the best deal you could have made.

Parents
Ursa will do anything for her son, an assassination, frame up and a bit of treason being the least of what she's done. Still it's her standing triumphant on the steps on Fire Palace, Zukos hand in hers waiting to greet Iroh and Ozai on the run.

Quorum
"How do we know we can trust you?" Asks the man carefully hidden by the flames separating her from them. "You don't."

Restful
The days after Zuko is born are the best of her life.

Sadism
Ozai inherited his fathers and grandfathers streak of madness. Ursa worked to combat it's influence in every way possible only to see it compounded in her daughter.

Traitor
They call her that in the marketplace of the colony she's secreted herself away in for the remainder of the war.

Universal
"I hate you." She says in the archaic language of the Fire Sages, intonation positive, smile painted on to her face. He kisses her and asks what's shes saying?

Vitiate
It's not unsual for the powers in the palace to be locked in a struggle for so long that one folds simply because they have been so disoriented.

Witch
A fortune teller told her she would be queen and that it would bring her no joy. A sage told him he would be king only to fall.

Xiphoid process
Ursa had placed her hands just so and pushed. After Ozai had held her as she wept.

Yantra
Mediation calms her, so she completes it through tea ceremonies and the folding of kimono and the languid graceful movements of a court lady, things she forces herself to repeat more often after Ozai begins to court her.

Zeus

He rages when he doesn't get his way destroying everything or one stupid enough to stand in his way.