History WMG / HowIBecameYours

[[NamesTheSame I couldn't resist.]]

Someone poisoned their drinks/food that altered their minds and memories. Katara’s memory about gotten pregnant with Zuko and having a miscarriage is fake. The “Ursa” we see isn’t real and was just a hallucination.

Jackie Diaz is fully aware of what she is doing, and having fun with it. However, she is a bit more clever than most trolls: While the argument could be risen that she is not a troll because she friends-locked the comic on her My Space page, and a troll would want as many people to see their horrible creation as possible...that is the point. [[ThePlan It's all to cause more people to be interested in reading her creation]], go looking for it on the internet, and ultimately find a PhotoBucket account with the pictures that she ''knew'' one of her fans would be ''bound'' to keep.

* It ''is'' cannon that the Ember Island Players are Zutara shippers. Though one would think they'd be a little more careful about ticking off the Fire Lady that way...

* Also, about her entry on the main page under SmallNameBigEgo, two words: [[MyImmortal Tara Gillesbie.]] Troll fic authors create SmallNameBigEgo personas to attract more attention to their works. Most authors don't respond to criticism with "If you hate my story go shoot yourself". The more outrageous the reaction to criticism, the more people that will be attracted to her story. If you read between the lines, it seems more like a subtle confession that yes, she does trace her drawings, and yes, she IS looking for more people to read her comic (like the author's note in LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami saying they don't know what a "troll" is but they might do a "goblin").

[[WMG: This entire fic is another performance by the Ember Island Players.]]
Some members of the group wanted to explore the lives of the Avatar and his friends after the series finale, and they were all Zutara shippers anyways, so bam. This thing.

Needless to say, if the characters ever got to see this, much vomiting would ensue.

At a Fire Nation party where Zuko was to announce his engagement to Katara, Ozai got mad and wanted to make Zuko miserable. He escaped prison, cut off his beard to conceal his identity, and slipped a brain-warping poison into the wine glasses of Zuko, Katara, Sokka, Aang, Toph, Mai, Iroh, Ursa and Azula (who was redeemed but still her pompous, fire-loving self). This poison scrambled everyone's memory, and Ozai's mooks scattered the different people everywhere where the story begins. They also planted Kuzon's grave to go with Katara's fake memory of pregnancy.

[[WMG: ''How I Became Yours'' was done by StephenieMeyer.]]

[[WMG: There won't be a ''TheLegendOfKorra'' version.]]

[[WMG: How I Became Yours is a troll fic.]]

** Also, about her entry on the main page under SmallNameBigEgo, two words: [[MyImmortal Tara Gillesbie.]] Troll fic authors create SmallNameBigEgo personas to attract more attention to their works. Most authors don't respond to criticism with "If you hate my story go shoot yourself". The more outrageous the reaction to criticism, the more people that will be attracted to her story. If you read between the lines, it seems more like a subtle confession that yes, she does trace her drawings, and yes, she IS looking for more people to read her comic (like the author's note in LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami saying they don't know what a "troll" is but they might do a "goblin").

[[WMG: How I Became Yours is not necessarily a troll fic, but it is a stealth parody.]]

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[[WMG: Lobozula is the HIBY-verse's equivalent of Rosemary Kennedy]]

A lame romance is the kind of story that she'd write, complete with broken and backwards values, numerous instances of research fail, the works. The elemental bending also served as the inspiration for the Benjamin character, with his vampire power essentially being the freaking Avatar.

[[WMG: Sho is a real person who somehow invaded HIBY verse to wipe them out]]

Jackie Diaz is fully aware of what she is doing, and having fun with it. However, she is a bit more clever than most trolls: While the argument could be risen that she is not a troll because she friends-locked the comic on her My Space page, and a troll would want as many people to see their horrible creation as possible...that is the point. It is all a clever [[XanatosRoulette Xanatos Roulette]] to cause more people to be interested in reading her creation, go looking for it on the internet, and ultimately find a PhotoBucket account with the pictures that she ''knew'' one of her fans would be ''bound'' to keep.
** Also, about her entry on the main page under SmallNameBigEgo, two words: [[MyImmortal Tara Gillesbie.]] Troll fic authors create SmallNameBigEgo personas to attract more attention to their works. Most authors don't respond to criticism with "If you hate my story go shoot yourself". The more outrageous the reaction to criticism, the more people that will be attracted to her story. And if you actually read between the lines, it seems more like a subtle confession that yes, she does trace her drawings, and yes, she IS looking for more people to read her comic (like the author's note in LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami saying they don't know what a "troll" is but they might do a "goblin").

HIBY is actually intended to be a stealth parody of poorly-done Zutara fics, and [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime movies]] in general. We're just taking it too seriously. When she realized her own fanbase also took it too seriously, she either decided to just run with it for their sake, or eventually became the mask.

* This is now my personal headcanon.
** And she's not just some random girl either. The reason for her looking so similar to Azula is because she was meant to be a "decoy:" any would-be assassins would kill the fake queen instead of the real one. The decoy just hated Mai and tried to blackmail her; Mai believed the decoy to be the real Azula, and the rest is history.

Wouldn't that make perfect sense?
** Headcanon, done. For further insult, it's done by the literal Ember Island Players, hence why it's so bad. Zuko already stated they ruined his mother's favorite play, and they did so poorly, despite ''The Boy in the Iceberg'' being Propaganda, with the series itself, so it just tends to figure.

This particular animator secretly shipped Zutara from Day One (or at least, since the "I'll save your from the pirates" moment which might as well count as Day One in Zutarian history) and was distraught over being forced to animate scenes for Maiko and Kataang. "Sozin's Comet" was the last straw and so they (for all we know, "Jackie" could actually be a guy) wrote their ''own'' scenario for how they had wanted the series to end--in fact, it may have been their original suggestion to Mike and Bryan, but got laughed off. Eventually, they decided to tweak a few details so it would be a post-finale story and posted it as a web comic. The artist is not lying when they say the drawings they "traced" are theirs; they really did draw them when they were an animator for the show and simply re-traced them for the comic. They can't reveal this because, of course, no one would believe them. They use photographed backgrounds to avoid giving away their true identity, lest anyone come close to figuring out the truth.

They got sick of fans complaining about the finale and decided to pull off a StylisticSuck to make fun of the militant shippers.
** That ''would'' explain the daytime bloodbending in [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra]]...

** This is ''so'' my headcanon now.

As for the {{Bleach}} tracings, "Jackie" is close friends with a Bleach animator, who was also a disgruntled Zutara shipper, and agreed to help them out by sending their own drawings for "Jackie" to trace.