A/N: This may come as a surprise, given the fact that I pretty much worship Lana Del Rey as a musical deity, but this was one of the most challenging prompts yet. The song worked really well for Tyzula, but I've been putting it off for almost a year because I wasn't sure what to do with it. I'm not sure if it turned out well, and it's not a comedy oneshot, so I hope it's at least entertaining or interesting.


(Theme Eighty-Eight) "Fucked My Way Up to the Top" - Lana Del Rey

(As Prompted By) yellowroses100

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I'm a dragon; you're a whore

Don't even know what you're good for

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Azula is sliding off half of her clothes in the dim candlelight that flickers between blue and orange. She has had a very successful session of manipulating a lying to the only person willing to vouch for her unconditionally. She has to manipulate and lie to the only person who still thinks Azula deserves to be groveled to.

It's her show. It's her life. Because the tease is a rush for Azula and she barely thinks about the girl watching, the girl she isn't sure if she loves or hates.

She feels no remorse as she gazes at her reflection in the sparkling diamonds that make up the necklace that Ty Lee is examining in her hand. Using people is what she does and everything she does she does best.

Ty Lee smells like sweet perfume when she leaps up and kisses her princess and Azula hates how it has changed from the cinnamon scent she used to have. Azula does not enjoy admitting the change, nor the change in power dynamic that she can feel pulsating through her despite her being the one pushing her supposed girlfriend onto the bed. It doesn't feel like reality and so Azula digs her nails into her own skin, and then into the girl in front of her.

"More more more," Ty Lee breathes.

Azula needs her. That's the worst change other than adulthood or betrayal; it's the fact that Azula needs Ty Lee more than Ty Lee needs her and that sort of thing is enough to make someone lose their mind. Azula doesn't like being domesticated, she doesn't like being the princess Ty Lee saves when really she is the dragon in the story.

The diamonds on Ty Lee's ribs are sharp and Azula brushes them aside as she descends on her prey who could so easily be her predator, but believes that Azula can be good. It's laughable. It's laughable and Ty Lee is laughing very softly.

Once upon a time it would have sounded nice.

But at some point, somebody saves the princess and slays the dragon.

Until then, however, Azula convinces herself that she is just fucking and lying her way to get back on her pedestal after such a hard fall.