Comment fic meme: Breaking up

[noracharles]

Any fandom, any character, any sort of relationship.

Write about a character breaking up with a person they have any sort of relationship with, or a character breaking up with an institution, an organization, an ideal...

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Prompt: fandom or just Prompt if it's for any fandom. Feel free to specify characters and relationship types too, if you have any preferences.

Answer any prompts which interest you, and also feel free to comment directly to this entry with an off the cuff ficlet or fragment, or a link to where you've posted it. Reposting previously written fic which fits the theme is fine.

Absolutely no care or effort or beta-reading or editing is expected or required! I'm just hoping someone will entertain me. People I don't know are very welcome indeed ♥

Master list

The Aeneid - Dido breaking up with Aeneas: Vergil fanfic because that's how I roll by calvinahobbes in both Danish and English

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Mai breaking up with Zuko: Avatar: TLA, during The Boiling Rock by jalendavi_lady in English

Red Dwarf - Rimmer breaking up with the Space Corps: Red Dwarf: Rimmer leaves the Space Corps by evilawyer in English

White Collar - Neal breaking up with Peter: Four years and counting [White Collar] by snakeling in English

Comments

Re: Avatar: TLA, during The Boiling Rock

[noracharles]

Yeah, Mai, kick their asses! :-D

I wish I had seen Avatar: The Last Airbender so I could better understand the context of your fic, but I get enough to feel gripped by the story you're telling.

What an astounding, world-rocking experience this has been for Mai. She's very brave to be able to not only risk her life to save her ex who dumped her like that, but also to take a hard look at her own culture and find it wanting.

Poor Mai. I hope she can find a new equilibrium she can live with. Hearing her parents be more concerned of their honor than about her must have burned, no pun intended :-(

I like her strength and determination, and her having a cell mate she can talk to, it gives me hope. Does your story have a happier ending for those who know canon?

Re: Avatar: TLA, during The Boiling Rock

[jalendavi_lady]

It does.

He wins the throne before the end of that summer (it's already past the summer solstice when this ficlet occurs), and she's freed fast enough that she and her friend both attend the coronation. Her last speaking scene is just before the coronation, and it's very clear that they are still a couple.

And yeah, her parents are pretty much like that in canon. She's emotionally flat in presentation most of the time because she was trained from early childhood not to risk her father's political standing by acting out in any way, ever.

Re: Avatar: TLA, during The Boiling Rock

[noracharles]

Thank you for letting me know, it makes me happy for Mai!

Ugh, parents like that are scary. Good angst fodder, though :-)