Solar Winds Character Concepts: Ryder Lynn.

That’s right, I love Ryder so much, he gets his own post.  I accidentally went and developed him more than all the other new kids combined.  Oh well.  When inspiration strikes, you just have to roll with it.  :P

Ryder Lynn, The Drafty Dodgeballer - A fun-loving Air Nomad drifter who seems to view life as a game.  Dresses in dark, stormy greys, and always carries a rubber ball.  Fighting style can be described as ‘dodgeball on crack.’  Uses airbending to bounce, spin, curve, boost, and blast his ball in all directions, beaning baddies with dizzying force while acrobatically avoiding their blows.  Never uses his bending directly against other people; only on himself or the ball.  To him, even fighting is a game with rules (and a score!).

Ryder wanders from town to town, playing with the locals and getting by however he can.  He is largely adrift and directionless until he meets and befriends Jake.

More info and plot details below the cut.

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Q:How many more chapters to the end ? :(

Anonymous

I wish I knew.  >_>  I know what needs to happen, but there’s no telling how long it’s going to take me to get there.  I do know this much— if I try to rush it, it doesn’t work.  Trying to put too much into one chapter just makes me feel unsatisfied with it until it’s less crammed-together.

I’m working on it, I promise.  But I can’t say how long it’s going to take.  :-/

fic: Solar Winds (75/?)

Media: Fic
Title: Solar Winds (Avatar: The Last Airbender Fusion, 75/?)
Rating: PG-13 for innuendo, swearing, violence.
Spoilers: None for either series that I am aware of.
Warnings:  Discussion of past violence and humiliation.
Word Count: ~9800
Summary: When a usurper sets eyes on the Fire Nation throne, Avatar Kurt and friends find themselves on the run with the deposed Prince Blaine in a country gone mad.  Can they escape Lady Sylvester’s wrath?  Or will her minions snuff them out for good?  Fusion fic!

Author’s Note:  Well, this certainly got away from me a bit!  This chapter wins for ‘most heavily revised in the whole damn story’ because I swear I wrote it like fifty times before I was satisfied with it.  There is plenty of juicy plot to be had here—and I’m not just talking about finally learning what Sebastian’s deal is.  ;)

Here’s hoping the next chapter doesn’t take me three months to write.  XD

CHAPTER 75 - Exile Vilify, Part 1.  Read it on: ff.net, AO3.

Just got a review on Solar Winds…

…scolding me for wasting words on characters the reader just met and does not care about yet.

Ummm… okay, but…

Isn’t that how it works?

We meet a character.  Words happen.  SUDDENLY, CARING.

Or am I missing something?

In all seriousness, I kind of understand where they were coming from.  The Dragon Hawk chapters were way longer than I thought they would be.  But at the same time, both of those chapters were basically extended punchlines.  Punchlines that I’d spent the past several-hundred-thousand words setting up.  I wasn’t going to not write them.  :P

for those who are wondering.

The reason for the latest delay in the ever-elongated Solar Winds saga is medical in nature.  I just lost insurance and I’m going through a great deal of drama related to that.  I have an incurable medical condition that requires medication to treat and… well, guess what I can no longer afford?  :P

I’m currently going through withdrawals from having to stop one of the medications I was on and it really, really sucks.  I hate fishing for compliments but if you have anything nice to say about me, now’s the time to say it because I could really, really use the encouragement.  @_@

Either way, I still intend to finish and I hope you can forgive the delay.

Q:Book 3 of SW isn't going to be written? Is it okay if I ask why?

darrencokefer

It’s taken me two years to get this far.  @_@  I do love writing this story, but I have to be honest: the amount of effort I put into it is ever-so-slightly insane for something that cannot legally make me any money. 

I am determined to finish Book 2 because I love my readers, and I remember the disappointment of finding a story you like and devouring it whole, only to find out that it is a dead fic that was updated two years ago.  But I also want to write my own original stories, and I can’t do that if I spend most of my time writing fanfiction.

I don’t mean to disappoint you, and I have sincerely tried to strike a balance between serving my readers and doing what’s best for myself, and that is the decision I reached.  So I will finish Book 2, and make it awesome, and then I will move on.

Solar Winds Masterpost: Tumblr Edition!

Title: Solar Winds (Glee/Avatar: The Last Airbender Fusion)
Rating: PG-13 for innuendo, swearing, violence.
Spoilers: None for either series that I am aware of.
Warnings: Delivered on a chapter-by-chapter basis.  General themes include xenophobia, racism, and mild homophobia.
Word Count: ~650,000 and counting, currently on its 74th chapter.

Summary:

Avatar Kurt has a lot on his plate.  He has to master the elements and save the world, all while making sure his friends don’t kill each other and/or rob the countryside blind.  It’s a tall order.

Enter Prince Blaine, heir to Fire Nation throne, a warm campfire in a country of angry welding torches.  Kurt needs to learn firebending, and Blaine is a willing teacher.  It doesn’t take them long to kindle a friendship, with hopes of fanning the flames into something more.

Little do they know, a firestorm is brewing that will consume an entire Nation, and they are first in its path…

Links: Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own.

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Q:Hi i was just wondering when we will see santana or brittany or anything brittana related in solar winds next.

Anonymous

Santana will be seen within the next couple of chapters and has a big part to play in the finale.  Unfortunately, Brittany will not be seen in Solar Winds again.  Brittana was intended to return in the next book, though.  Unfortunately, that book is not likely to ever be written.  :/

Solar Winds Chapter 74: The Aftermath

Media: Fic
Title: Solar Winds (Avatar: The Last Airbender Fusion, 74/?)
Rating: PG-13 for innuendo, swearing, violence.
Spoilers: None for either series that I am aware of.
Warnings:  None.
Word Count: ~11000
Summary: When a usurper sets eyes on the Fire Nation throne, Avatar Kurt and friends find themselves on the run with the deposed Prince Blaine in a country gone mad.  Can they escape Lady Sylvester’s wrath?  Or will her minions snuff them out for good?  Fusion fic!

Author’s Note:  Back at last!  I’ve been renewed and rejuvenated, and I’m hoping the rest of this story will go by quickly.  We’ve got a lot to cover—the plot from here on out is not long, but it is very thick.  In this chapter; Sebastian stages a coup and gets far more than he bargained for.  Will the mystery of the meerkat finally be solved?  Read on and find out!

CHAPTER 74 - The Aftermath: Read it on FFnet, AO3.