Illusion
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Political, financial, and emotional woes have plagued Asami relentlessly. With Korra recovering, and their city and Future Industries in shambles, Asami is too stressed. She needs a physical sort of outlet and Mako is all too willing to become just that.
Or: How their less-than-healthy "friends with benefits" arrangement begins, in the wake of Korra's absence.
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Two years into an unhealthy friends-with-benefits situation, with little love able to be shared, Mako feels the distance growing between himself and Asami.
He’s never been able to understand his own heart, with love and loss and grief forming a too-tangled web inside of it. But maybe he could grow to understand hers.
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Illusion by Flareon
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 May 2024
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After Harmonic Convergence, the Avatar cycle began anew, and Korra's connection to the past Avatars was lost.
She can't accept that. Even if it takes a lifetime or longer, Korra must find a way to reconnect. Asami and Mako are here for it.
But ‘reconnection’ is an interesting concept to explore for girlfriends spending too much time with their mutual ex-boyfriend.
Eventual Makorrasami. Complete!
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- Part 3 of Illusion
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Something about Korra's personality has changed over these past few years; she's been through too much, and Korra needs to be treated with temperance and patience now more than ever. Asami is used to being in charge, though, and it's a challenge letting Korra set the pace for intimacy. Two weeks of just kissing has been the most exquisite kind of torture.
Or: Top!Asami tries to let Korra take the lead, with mixed results.
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- Part 4 of Illusion
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I wasn’t just struggling, Asami, I was drowning. There were times when I didn’t think I could keep going, when I felt like the world would be better off with a different Avatar. One who wasn’t broken and wouldn’t let so many people down.
But then another letter from you would arrive and I’d feel like I could breathe again. You didn’t know it, but you saved me. Over and over again. Your words reminded me that there was something worth holding onto, something beautiful waiting for me if I could find the strength to come back. And somehow I found the strength. Even if it took me three years to do so, you waited for me, and I found it.
One month into their relationship, Korra writes another letter to Asami.
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- Part 5 of Illusion
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Two failed attempts at a relationship. Two years of sleeping together without any relationship to define it. Two days of being in a relationship with the same person at the same time, as Asami hesitantly lets her girlfriend date Mako, too.
Asami’s feelings toward Mako have always been strained and complicated. As they deliver bouquets to the urns and graves of each others’ parents, helping each other process this grief they share in common, she considers the complexity of Mako’s heart. It’s always been too big, to its own detriment.
Relatable.
(Companion piece to “Illusion”, chapter 16.)
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For the past two months, the three of them have been navigating this arrangement carefully, with Mako and Asami learning how to share the woman they both love. It’s not without its complications, given their sordid history, but it’s a leap of faith Asami doesn’t regret.
Asami and Mako aren’t together in the same way. They’ve found comfort in each other’s bodies on occasion, leaning on each other in moments of sorrow and loneliness. There’s a camaraderie between them, an unspoken understanding that has weathered the storms, but romance has remained firmly off the table, for good reason.
And yet here they are, tangled beneath the same blanket and sharing the quiet intimacy of a bed, as though there are no lines between them at all.
(Companion piece to “Illusion”, chapter 18.)
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Korra practices lightningbending, but it's Asami who makes her see sparks.
Or: Asami likes watching Korra do all sorts of things with her body. And she likes doing things to that body.
That's it, that's the fic.
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- Part 8 of Illusion
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Re: Birth by Flareon
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Jul 2024
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Korra readily accepts that life as the Avatar means difficult sacrifices must be made for the betterment of the world. She doesn't intend to be constrained by conventional luxuries such as lovers or children; these are weak spots that have been used against the Avatar countless times throughout her past lives. And she knows all too well what happens to the world when she's physically out of commission.
Over the years, she finds not one love, but two. And maybe she wants kids after all.
Or: a series of vignettes as Korra's perspective shifts and evolves with time.
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- Part 9 of Illusion
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“So,” Korra says, leaning back against the wall of their shared bedroom at the Sato mansion. Her grin is fixed on him again, her blue eyes lit up with amusement and something more. “I heard you might be interested in taking the strap.”
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- Part 10 of Illusion
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Asami has spent fourteen years since her father’s arrest rebranding the Sato name. She has poured herself into restoring Future Industries, carving out her own legacy while rejecting all of the hatred her father had let fester.
Rebuilding such a company is easier than naming a baby, in some ways.
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- Part 11 of Illusion
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Rime and Reason by Flareon
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2024
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Even as Korra strives to master various bending arts in her adult life, she has never wished to bloodbend.
When Korra must race against time in order to save herself and her unborn baby, bleeding out onto the snow, she realizes she would sacrifice anything to save her loved ones. Even her morals.
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- Part 12 of Illusion