Fanfic / Dominion (Aurelia le)

For the Fire Nation royal siblings, love has always warred with hate. But neither the outward accomplishment of peace nor Azula's defeat have brought the respite Zuko expected. Will his sister's plans answer this, or only destroy them both?

Dominion is a Avatar: The Last Airbender fic by Aurelia le. It follows the characters' lives—mainly the Fire Nation royal family's—in the aftermath of the war, delving deeper into their personalities and flaws.Warning: very dark elements.

Not to be confused with Dominion, a Worm fanfic.

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Dominion provides examples of:

• Alpha Bitch: The braided earthbender at the Avatar temple.
• Armor-Piercing Question
  • Azula gives one to Poppy Beifong regarding her regrets with Toph.
    Why are you telling me when you could be telling her?
  • Mai poses a particularly upsetting one to Katara.
    How did he know to look for you?
• Attempted Rape: Azula on the ship, by a sailor.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Zuko and Azula. Consent is one of the most highly debated points in the fic, as Azula was suffering a mental breakdown during the act.
• Back from the Dead: Zuko is revived by Aang after being clinically dead.
• Bavarian Fire Drill: Discussed.
  In her experience, it was usually enough to simply act purposeful, and no one would question your purpose. A lesson her brother could take to heart.

• Broken Pedestal: Azula loses her admiration for Iroh when she believes he killed the last dragon.
• Brutal Honesty: Sokka isn't the most tactful person.
• The Casanova: Iroh in his youth.
• Child by Rape: Possibly Azula and Azula's baby

• Chained to a Bed: June does this to Zuko. Played with, since she did not actually use a seduction ploy on him and only intended to make it appear as if he fell for one.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Katara has an unrequited crush on Zuko.

• Dark Secret: Most of the story sees Zuko struggling with one.
• Domestic Abuse: Rai was a victim of this.

• Exiled to the Couch: Zuko in Chapter 9.
• Fell Asleep Crying: Ursa and Azula cause each other to do this at several points.
• Femme Fatale: Deconstructed. Azula instinctively uses her sexuality as a weapon because Ozai "trained" her to through sexual abuse.
• Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: One of the sources of tension between Ursa and Azula.

• Happily Married: After the time skip, Katara and Aang, Suki and Sokka, Mai and Zuko temporarily
• Heroic Bastard: As it turns out, Iroh's son, Lu Ten is one.
• Heroic BSoD: Several characters have one at various points.
• High-Class Call Girl: Lo and Li in their younger years.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: Azula for almost the entire story.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: Zuko and Azula. Although there is a strong case to be made that it was straight-up rape.
  It looked more like a bomb had gone off in here than two people fucking.
• It's All About Me: Zuko's thought process is painfully self-absorbed.
• Kangaroo Court: The Earth Kingdom's "trial" of Azula

• Law of Inverse Fertility: A source of bitterness for Mai, who struggled for years to conceive her son, while Azula became pregnant immediately.
• Manly Tears: Zuko. Ozai, in the spinoff.
• Marital Rape License: Ozai and Ursa.
• Meaningful Echo: Ozai uses the phrase "You're going to have to be more specific" on several occasions, which is something Azula said to Zuko in the series, signifying the degree to which he has shaped her.
• Mind Rape: Turns out Hei Bai can do this.

• Mummy issues: Azula has always thought her mother didn’t want her, or thought she was a monster to the point she is honestly surprised when she shows care towards her. The real Ursa mind you. Her mother’s hallucinations always showed care to her which she thought was her mind mocking her.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Zuko's reaction to sleeping with Azula after he learns the full implications of why she acted that way.
• Parent–Child Incest: Ozai and Azula, to Zuko's dismay.
• The Peeping Tom: Katara, albeit not habitually.
• Precision F-Strike: Not for the series itself, but for Ursa.
  Will you just eat the damned food?

• The Power of Love: How Azula escapes Hei Bai's darkness.
• Rape as Backstory: Ursa and Azula at Ozai's hands.
• Rape as Drama: see Brother–Sister Incest
• Really Gets Around: Toph, as implied by Katara.
  ...Toph who, Spirits bless her, turned out to be as loose as she was uncouth.
• The Scapegoat: Azula to Zuko, Ursa, and Iroh. Deconstructed.
  Azula: Even if you believed it, I know who you'd blame.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: Zuko, as Sokka points out.
• Selective Obliviousness: Iroh seems to have something of a blind spot in his judgment when it comes to Azula.
• Shout-Out: The author makes several to A Song of Ice and Fire.
• Sick and Wrong: Aang's response to Katara explaining what Ozai did to Azula.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Suki and Sokka, according to Toph
• The Spymaster: Mai is this for Zuko.

• Training from Hell: Ozai forces Azula to starve herself to teach her how to bend lightning. And then there was that other "training."
• Ungrateful Bastard: How Azula views Zuko after she brought him home and vouched for him, only for him to turn traitor AND throw her under the bus by telling Ozai she lied to him.
• "Wanted!" Poster: How Ursa finds out that the Earth Kingdom has sentenced Azula to death.
• War Is Hell: The Gaang's view of the 100-year-war. Too bad, a second war might be coming

• Working Out Their Emotions: Practicing her firebending is one of Azula's main coping mechanisms.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Ursa is heavily implied to be a non-Japanese version.

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