History FanFic / TheDragonKingsTemple

** HealItWithFire: Zuko tries to save Heather Dyne's arm. He succeeds. And overdoes it. He later uses it to heal his injured arm in Chapter 5. Apparently it hurts.

* MamaBear: Sam's knee-jerk reaction when she learns Zuko had killed people before his abduction can be summed in "going through the Stargate when bringing the kid home and tearing some parents a new arsehole".

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Daniel heavily insists on this when they discover Toph and Zuko's status as [[ChildSoldier child soldiers]], pointing that their world could consider them as legally adult and fit for military service, while Teal'c sees their age as no big deal because Jaffa start their training young. It doesn't abate the slightest Jack's anger about two ''kids'' flung into war.

* SneezeOfDoom: Zuko scorches the floor and lights Jack's shoelaces on fire with a sneeze after Jack uses pepper on him to snap him out of a meditation trance.
** It's mentioned that Aang can have these, as Zuko brings up a time when Aang sneezed on a campfire, sending burning shrapnel everywhere.
* SpiritWorld: Par for the course for Avatar.

** Jack and Sam both make notes to ask for Flamethrowers due not only to the Yukiuso, but also because this sort of thing ''keeps happening.''

* SerialEscalation: The cliffhangers and wham lines at the end of each chapter.
* ShaveAndAHaircut: Toph and Zuko knock it onthe walls to communicate.

** It's also implied that the Stargate ''may'' not be the best for your mind as well, as part of it is a system that copies languages and downloads the local ones into your brain. This, coupled with the Goa'uld genetic memory, has had a few less-than-healthy side effects. Humans, being similar to Ancients, and obviously Ancients themselves, were okay with this process.
** The individuals of each bending nation, even the non-benders, seem to have an increased resilience to their element, particularly for Fire and Earth. For example, Zuko remembers Aang and Katara experimenting with ice guantlets, and while it was a failure, they were still able to resist the cold better than Zuko could have, though apparently even non-benders of the Fire Nation are capable of withstanding cold better than an Earth human could, hence why Katara's freezing of the soldiers on the ship she attacked looking for her mother's killer wasn't something Zuko was worried about.

* ShaveAndAHaircut: Toph and Zuko use this communicate through the walls.

* SingleBiomePlanet: [[ShoutOut Hoth]].

--->"Sparky, the Fire Nation thinks blowing stuff up solves everything!"
--->"You mean it doesn't?"

* TranslatorMicrobes: The Stargates have a function that can basically beam a language into the head of someone who goes through them. But [[HumanAliens while humans and Ancients are close enough that there's not an issue]], the Gou'ald's brains are different enough that it might be a significant factor behind why they're so psychotic. Played Straight in that the Stargates themselves act as translators by implanting the basics of the local language, or a "language pack" into the minds of Gate travelers after tapping into the language centres. Averted in that they cannot translate if the "Home Gate" has not been used enough recently to figure out the language or does not have the information, it cannot translate.

* MoralEventHorizon: The Tanri's reason for destroying Sanura's clan and family with an epidemic? ''They were making a movie.''

* Determinator: Several, but par for the course, Jack O'Neill powers through the crippling despair that the yukiuso has used to stop every other human and Jaffa thus far. Also par for the course is Zuko, who just won't stop until he's ''comatose.''

* TheAce: Zuko was a somewhat subtle version in the show, generally being competent-to-highly-skilled in everything [[NoSocialSkills not involving interacting with other people.]] It's just downplayed i nthe original show, because he tends to take on threats on their own terms, like facing more powerful benders in open combat rather than utilizing his stealth and weapon skills to take them out. Here, when put beside trained soldiers and special forces, Zuko's vast array of skills gets much more spotlight, to the point that he is considered a bigger threat than Toph, because he can do a lot more than simply break stuff. Also, the nature of the main threat within the storyline makes fire its natural enemy, meaning Zuko's the most effective fighter against it [[spoiler:until the Avatar shows up for a direct confrontation.]]

* StealthPun: Without the P, X and hyphen the planet code of P 4X-684, an ice covered wasteland, is telephone numerals for "HOTH". Colonel O'Neill happily points this out by referring to the facility there as "[[Franchise/StarWars the Rebel Outpost on Hoth]]".

* ShoutOut: Several. ''Franchise/StarWars, Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia, Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'', several by Creator/MercedesLackey...

* MustHaveCaffeine: A RunningGag about the SGC staff; especially Sam, Janet and Daniel. Toph tries coffee in order to understand what all the fuss is about. HilarityEnsues.

* RelativeError: Due to their close bond of trust, Teal'c assumes that Toph and Zuko are brother and sister and is quite surprised when Daniel expresses his doubt about a blood relation between the kids.

** Aang, in chapter 6 after hearing that Zuko and Toph have gone missing, gets ''serious''. Sokka admits he has only seen Aang like this three times: The Seige of the North, the Day of the Black Sun and when Appa was captured by the sandbenders.

* MundaneUtility: Toph's magnetic sense means she always know where the North is, so she can't get lost. Also, Zuko's firebending attunes him to the sun's progression through the sky, letting him tell the time - the children use it to sleep in shifts.
* MustBeInvited: Apparently a characteristic of ''janshin''. The yukiuso cannot cross a threshold that belongs to somebody. It is for this reason that it cannot penetrate the SGC Infirmary, Janet's space,[[spoiler:until it is accidentally invited in. This invitation can be withdrawn by sheer willpower and the yukiuso was immediately banished from the threshold.]]