Jinko--Twenty Prompts
Twenty Prompts for Jinko. Enjoy =3
Jin
A whole lot of Zuko!
Trouble
Later, when she returned to her own pathetic apartment one day, long since her date with Lee, only to find Dai Li agents surrounding her, she gave up without any resistance. She knew that Lee was trouble.
Argue
When he pulled away and told her that it was complicated, and ran off, abandoning her at the fountain, she stood, shell-shocked. She had wandered off and found herself home. What she regretted was not pulling him back and argue with him.
Friendship
“How did you and daddy fall in love, mommy?” Jin sent Zuko a wary look before covering it with a look of ease. “Did he ride out on a huge dragon, and burn down all the bad guys, and give you flowers, and recite pretty poems, and-” Zuko snorted. “-and beat away all the other guys, and carry you off into the sunset?”
“Why are you asking this, Mei Yin?” Jin asked, trying very obviously to stall while motioning for her husband to help her out. Zuko turned the other way pointedly and pretended to be enraptured in his paperwork.
“Well,” Mei Yin started bashfully, “Lady Mai’s son is very cute and I was-”
Zuko sprang up. “Love starts with friendship, Mei Yin. Many, many, many years of friendship.” Mei Yin nodded, praised her father for his ‘brilliance’ and skipped off.
Jin snorted, “And how long have you known me before you married me?”
Zuko grinned, “About a month or two.”
Father
She had grown up without a father figure in her life. She was constantly mocked by the other children, “Bastard,” they would all whisper. Their parents would turn from her, their noses turned in the air. She had only a mother, a worn old prostitute who had been quite the looker in her days.
But now, she was going to be a mother. She looked at the noble Prince that had picked her up from the slums of Ba Sing Se and into his Palace, --yes, he was going to be a wonderful father.
Adultery
The Fire Nation Court was a nest full of vipers, and Jin had thought she was going to be able to survive in there. That was when she was a naïve little twit. She was Fire Lady, but that held very little sway in that court if you weren’t of noble descent. The only reason she was even tolerated was because they all knew about Fire Lord Zuko’s most evident devotion to her. But now, they’ve gone and spread the most venomous lies. Adultery.
The great oak doors leading to their bedroom slammed open to reveal her husband. She looked up at him silently from her spot on the floor, waiting for accusations and death. “I don’t believe them. You aren’t going to die.” She burst out in tears. “Don’t cry, Jin.”
Trace
He didn’t admit it to anyone, not even to Jin, but ever since she had moved into the Palace, he had been frequented with nightmares. Every night. He would scream, attendants would flock to his room and stampede away just as quickly. As soon as he felt that the coast was clear, he would sneak out as well and speed down the hall to slip silently into Jin’s room. Just to be sure she didn’t disappear without a trace like his mother. When he sees her there, sleeping peacefully, he laughs and forces himself to go to bed.
Soft
“You’ve gone soft, Zuzu.” His sister drawled, triumphantly pacing before him. He tried to free himself, but Azula’s Dai Li agents were too powerful.
“Let me go, Azula.”
“That Jin woman has made you weak.” Azula paused, and corrected herself, “Well, weaker than you were before…if that was even possible.” She glowered, “Therefore, I deem you unfit to rule. Don’t worry, brother, dead-I mean, dear, I’ll take good care of her for you.”
Rival
“Who was that?”
“That was your gardener, Zuko. Now go get me a drink.”
“Who was that?”
“That was the servant that you sent to get me the drink.”
“Who was he? How does he know you?!”
“He’s my hairdresser, Zuko.”
“Oh yeah, sorry…Who was that?! Why was he looking at you like-”
“Zuko…that’s your uncle.”
“…”
Note
Iroh hummed a cheerful tune to himself as he bustled around his nephew’s desk. Zuko had gone on a little peace trip to Ba Sing Se and had left him in charge. “It would be easier, if he would just organize his desk.” Iroh grumbled as he sifted through large piles of paperwork. Most of the documents were just filled with complaints from the old windbags from the court, “No need to pay attention to them.” Iroh stopped. There was a small slip of paper on the now cleared desk.
Uncle,
I’ve gone to find Jin. We’re eloping if she’ll have me.
Zuko
Story
“Mama, tell me a story.” Three-year-old Kua Mei asked as she clambered into her mother’s lap. “Tell me the story about the little Earth Kingdom girl and the exiled Prince.
“But, Kua Mei,” Jin sighed as she patched up her husband’s shirt, it had been ruined once again, “You’ve heard this story so many times!”
“But you never finish the story, mama.” Kua Mei pouted petulantly. “You always stop and tell me its bed time!” The little girl crossed her arms. “Is this story even real?”
“Yes, it is.” Jin said lowly, “Do you want to know the ending?” Kua Mei nodded eagerly. “The Earth Kingdom girl married someone else and had a three year old daughter named Kua Mei. Her Prince never returned for her. Her Prince never returned.”
Belief
She had been sitting in the same tea shop for many months, and one morning, the door slammed open and a crowd was heard. Jin looked up from her jasmine tea. “Lee.” The familiar boy smiled nervously, and Jin motioned for him to sit down. “I knew you’d come.”
“How?”
“I believed in you.”
Ribbon
“I have to go.”
“Will I see you again?” Green eyes glittered in the dark and the girl tried to wipe away her tears. They knew that their love was forbidden. She was a poor nobody and he was a prince. An engaged prince.
“No.” She finally said.
“Very well.” He sighed, reached into his pocket, and grabbed her wrist. She watched with curiosity as he tied a blood red ribbon around it. “Don’t forget me.”
Child
“Don’t patronize me! And don’t treat me like a child! You don’t understand what I’m going through! No one does!” The door slammed angrily and a muffled scream of anger and frustration was heard from the other side. Fire Lady Jin crossed her arms and glowered at her husband.
“She gets it from you.” Zuko had the decency to look sheepish.
Pond
When she was first brought to the Fire Nation Palace, she had found a wonderful tranquil pond to sit by and waited for Lee-no, Zuko, to finish with his meetings before he could spend time with her. “My mother and I spent a lot of time here. Do you like it?”
She had heard of the strange disappearance of his mother before and also heard of the gentle lady’s devotion to her son. She stared at the pond and then back at him. “Yes, I do.” She also couldn’t help but feel like she’s defiled it with her unworthy presence.
Fire
Fire burned Earth. It was pretty simple, and after so many decades of oppression from said Nation against her own Kingdom, she could never understand why she wasn’t disgusted by the sight of him firebending at dawn.
Scroll
Her mother stared, horrified at the scroll in her hands. “Bad news?” Jin asked affably, pouring her old mother some tea.
“The Fire Lord requests your presence.” The tea pot shattered at her feet.
Fear
Pure unadulterated fear crossed her face as she was appraised by the Fire Lord’s insane sister. “So you’re his new plaything?” The princess hummed appraisingly as she circled Jin. “You’re pretty enough, I suppose. But don’t worry, he’ll tire of you soon.” Zuko appeared just in time to rescue her from his sister, but the seeds of doubt were implanted in her mind. Was she just a plaything to him? Would he just abandon her when he’s finished with her?
Worship
He was a Earth Kingdom nobleman’s son and he had chanced upon her while he had gone traipsing off around in the Lower Rings one day. He struck up a conversation with her and was immediately enchanted. He worshipped her, he worshipped the air that she breathed, the earth that she walked on, he worshipped anything that vaguely reminded him of her. She didn’t return her feelings however. She fled the Lower Rings of Ba Sing Se and the next time he saw her, he was paying homage to the newly crowned Fire Lord and his bride, Jin.
Preferred
“She’s not educated.” He immediately hired the best tutors money could buy to teach her. “She’s not a Fire Nation citizen.” He gave her citizenship. “She’s poor!” He gave her land. “They barely know each other! Put them in close proximity and he’ll snap out of it!” She was with him more often than not ever since she had moved to the Fire Nation Palace. “She’s ugly.”
“She’s not!” He roared in her defence against the protesting nobles-all of whom were hoping he would marry their daughters-“And I will marry her!”
Years passed, and their love didn’t fade. When she died, he didn’t remarry. “I prefer her and want no one but her.”
Love
“I love you.” The announcement was unexpected, unnecessary, embarrassing, sudden, but not unwanted. Jin sighed as she spied her daughter hug the young man. Zuko glowered.
“Oh, lighten up, Zuzu,” Jin admonished, “Can’t you tell Mei Yin’s in love?” The Fire Lord stalked off, grumbling about ‘talks’, ‘castration’, and ‘executions’.