Avatar: Civil Strife

by KingBumisHeir

Two Earth Kings fight for land, the barbaric Oma Kingdom is winning the war, Yeman, attempts to fill his father's shoes and end the war. He hires a clan with a reputation of being deadly. Shuicheng's only hope is to continue to abuse the Avatar for power because while there's a war outside the walls he's also facing a war inside the walls of Ba Sing Se.

1. Preface

PREFACE

NOTE: Pay attention to the trigger warnings, this is why the PREFACE was created. I was given permission to do this story. Some explicit scenes from the fanon series will be excluded from the Avatar Wiki version to abide by the rules. Trigger warnings will be placed on specific chapters as well to remind you the reader.

This fanon will be rated as YA +16.

This is a prequel in King Bumi's Heir AU of Avatar the Last Airbender, completely AU with a few rules from canon, all original characters, plotlines, etc. Avatar Civil Strife is not exactly a prequel to Avatar The Legacy of Rong Yan but they're in the same universe 1,200 years apart. Avani is the Earth Kingdom Avatar who lives during 1941 BG - 1823 BG, she's born into a kingdom that has brainwashed the youth into believing they must serve the 33rd Earth King of the Haijun Kingdom, Shuicheng Haijun. Everyone in this time period must follow the strict laws or face disappearing at night by the Yanzhao, the secret police of the Haijun Kingdom. They're everywhere, they know when you're awake and they know when you're asleep.

While the Oma Kingdom is conquered by the Kuiwu Clan from the province of Xu, Yeman the prince becomes the 57th Earth King of the Oma Kingdom and inherits his father's legacy and must uphold the merciless rule or the Court of Clans will usurp him from rule. They're winning the war and employ barbarian clans alongside their men to conquer Haijun provinces while committing crimes against humanity.

Historically, Song Dynasty was pro-LGBT but my story isn't historically accurate on everything, the current Dynasty has banned homosexuality. The inclusion of the LGBTQ isn't for shock-value but more for the representation that ATLORY lacked because it wasn't important to the story. Haijun Kingdom being anti-gay ties into the story of one of the supporting characters who lives in a society where he can executed for his lifestyle.

Trigger warning: Minor characters that appear in snippets of the story's background can be punished for their lifestyle choices. They'll be discriminated against and called names however none of the names that will be used, will NOT be real-world slurs.

This character's story ties into the Avatar's story and the story of the current dynasty. Please do not complain about it if it's too triggering it's not for the weak-hearted.

The Oma Kingdom commits crimes against humanity, they're barbarians and hate Haijun civilians so they'll torture, rape, maim, and murder civilians.

Trigger warning: There will be non-consent rape but it will be held to a minimum and limited to only adults. Gore will be included sometimes, although children are excluded from all forms of the crimes committed by enemy army except murder. Their murders however will be very vague and non-descriptive.

There will be romance involved, unlike my first story which held it to a minimum because it wasn't important to the story. This tale will contain romance a bit more than the first story, and there may be romance scenes that lead to sex.

Warning: I might write a smut scene between one of the supporting characters and a minor character. I'll let you guess which character wins the lottery.

Racism is also a part of this world much like in the Legacy of Rong Yan, although the characters will use canon racial slurs and fanon racial slurs. Example of canon: ash masker, dirt person; Example of fanon: snowback, snow savage, arrowhead, and windbag.

All nations will have their own culture that will sort of accurate with a real world culture an example of this is Haijun Kingdom being Song Dynasty, Oma Kingdom being Mongolians, Gaxun Tribe sandbenders being Yoruban, Air Nomads being Tibetan, etc. They will have different religions, pantheons, etc., my loyal readers are aware of this and while they're used to my AU they too will learn new things. :)

Avani's story starts in the Upper Ring as she's born into a noble family, things are heavily focused on nobility playing war while the common rabble takes action against the enemy kingdom. Avatar Civil Strife answers questions left unanswered by The Legacy of Rong Yan. Who started the war? Why did it happen in the first place? Why is the war continuing after those dynasties are gone?

And new questions like, How did the Haijun Kingdom end up the way it is in Civil Strife?

Inspirations for the Haijun Kingdom is Song Dynasty China but I wanted them to be ruled by a communist monarch. Sort of how Ba Sing Se was during ATLA except the Earth King isn't a spineless coward. The communist part comes from 1984 by George Orwell, translated into Song Dynasty and the Avatar universe.

The Oma Kingdom is conquered by barbarians inspired by the ancient Mongols while some are more civilized than others, the more civilized ones take control of the Kingdom while the uncivilized ones are used as pawns to fuel the civil war. The clans are powerful enough to reunite the entire Earth Kingdom under barbarian rule.

Hansuke is a secondary character with a minor mentor role for Avani although he's a ghost, the character's role is more like a tertiary character because he doesn't always physically appear but he's around. This however might change.

Originally, I had planned on doing a prequel of Rong Yan with his past life Ku Tei as the main protagonist and expand further on his story. But on the storyboard for rewriting ATLORY it was scrapped because it'd get repetitive and something the readers would not be willing to read again and instead Avani was created.