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oscar :) hehim / white lez / 21
Inactive/Just My Primary, Follow Me At @petertqrk💙
Redone poster for my A:tLA Roleswap AU
happy bday bro!! hope youre enjoying your day/night!
IM!!!!! |>~>.$2]*{€~>~! OMG U RLY DIDNT HAVE 2 DO THIS... THANK U SMMM I LOVE THIS i love He🥺🥺😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️I’m at a loss for words ty❗️❗️😭
aang & zuko should be the largest tag. quite frankly. in a universe where fandoms dont prioritize romantic shipping it would be. give me 500 years to rewatch the show and let me get my art on and also learn how to draw bald people for real and its OVER.
Also, I made something…
Figured that since Ozai looked so young in his portrait, that must mean it was made shortly after his coronation, or thereabouts, so applying that logic here, ZuZu stills looks young and handsome. The dragons, I know, that event was meant to be kept secret, but counter argument, this painting doesn’t necessarily say, “Hey, Dragons are still alive—here’s a map!” It’s just a bit of artsy-fartsy majestic embellishment. Also, I feel like Zuko might want to rebrand the Fire Nation, just a little, you know, after the 100 year war. So instead of just pure fire iconography, he brings things back to their roots, aka, the dragon. More dragon iconography!!! In this portrait, Zuko isn’t the one firebending, it’s the dragons, the first Firebenders. And in the meantime, he’s holding out a White Lotus. Now, I tried to use my Google Fu to find out if there was ever any symbol in Japan or Korea or China that meant “peace,” but my search results came up empty, so I figured that perhaps the lotus could become their version of, say, the olive branch. A discreet and tasteful way to include such a major part of the final battle while having a double meaning. Also, take note of the fact that he’s holding it with BOTH hands. In Japan, when one offers a gift, you always do so with both hands. And while I know it may look a little strange, Zuko towering over his friends—bro—this was always going to be Zuko’s Firelord portrait. He was always going to be the main focus. He just wanted to also include his friends and commemorate the day the war finally ended/his coronation. Anyway, that’s all for now… hope that wasn’t too much… and if anyone has any ideas for how to make it even better, pls let me know.
[ID: Full body portrait of Fire Lord Zuko in the style of the Fire Nation royal portraits. Zuko is holding a white lotus in both hands. Two dragons, one blue and one red, tendril their tails around him and breathe fire above each of his shoulders. In the foreground are 5 small figures of Katara, Sokka, Aang, Suki, and Toph, each holding white lotuses of their own, as well as the icons of Water, Air, Fire, and Earth.]
In Chinese, the word "lotus" 荷 is a homophone with "harmony" 和. Both are pronounced hé.
The same character for lotus 荷 but pronounced with a down tone hè also means both the noun form for "burden" or "responsibility," as well as the verb "to carry a heavy responsibility." Very fitting for a Fire Lord shouldering the duty of restoring harmony.
Symbolically, lotuses typically represent resilience. Lotuses have roots in murky water but grow into something beautiful. There's actually an idiom about lotuses used to describe moral integrity: 出淤泥而不染 chū yú ní ér bù rǎn “to emerge from the mud untainted."
The perfect flower for Zuko.
Another thing I forgot to mention!
荷 hé "lotus" is also a homophone with 合 hé "together." The lotus also symbolizes a future of working together with other nations rather than conquering them.
A quintuple meaning! Chinese is such a delightful language.
Such a wonderful portrait! Great explanation, as well.
Avatar- The great wave off the Northern Water Tribe Commission, Parody of Hokusai's great wave off Kanagawa
erm acthually dancing is an important part of fire nation culture
lol i completely forgot to post this before
i DID have a rant ready explaining its history but that was like two paragraphs longer than what i needed so ummm
pretty boy zuko??
i should probably start drawing expressions more, i KNOW how to do them i just cant find a drawing where im thinking about making one of the chars expressive til it’s too late
screenshot redraw! it's tricky for me to draw expressive faces in this slightly more semi-realistic style—especially for a scene that i really, really love and want to do justice to—so this was a bit of an exercise!
to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war
roku: my best friend assaulted me as a senior citizen :(
kyoshi: sometimes some murder is OK
kuruk: just punch people that disagree with you
aang: okay i’m starting to think that none of you took this avatar thing seriously
You're not wrong
Aang when he is told he’s the Avatar at age 12: *has a melt down because he understands the seriousness of this function and the consequences his new responsibilities will have on his personal life*
other Avatars at age 16: I’m the avatar? Cool! Hey look it comes with a glowing eyes feature!
aang: fuck this noise, i’ll get advice from the last air nomad avatar
yangchen: i gave up that hippie bullshit first chance i got, i love murder
I will never not laugh at the bit where Aang is like "finally, an Air Nomad, you get me, right?" and Yangchen just says "sorry bud, I also vote murder".
A close second on that note is of course the trial of Kyoshi in which she manifests in the courtroom just to say "Actually, I did murder him and I'd do it again. But consider: the bitch had it coming".
#tbh I think there's something to be said for the fact that Aang was 12 when he ran away from home#and how there's more than a bit of evidence that the adult airbenders had a less strict pacifistic approach#Aang was purposefully sheltered by Gyatsu to protect his childhood and so he has the ethics of a child#and when he awoke there were no other air nomads around to sit him down and have The Violence Talk#about how yes we're pacifists and murder is bad but there are exceptions#like Gyatsu was a kindly man of the highest order but uh#he didn't just lay down and die on a pile of skulls he just found#man went out taking like 20 fire nation soldiers with him#Aang: ''I could never kill! Gyatsu taught me to abhor all forms of violence“”#Gyatsu: deals out death to attacking soldiers like he's got a side hustle as a claymore mine
And the fact that he figures out a more technically complex and socially stable way to remove Ozai without making him a martyr just shows that he has a lot more skill at the problem at hand than most the previous ones.
To me, that whole scene was very much the previous avatars saying “when all you have is a hammer” and Aang going “okay, but what can I do with this Swiss Army knife?” and they don’t give very useful advice about it.
Personally I also don't think the prior Avatars were all that helpful, but they weren't all saying murder was okay. Aang's there asking for help with Avatar skills because he'd had so minimal training, maybe there's something in the toolbox he doesn't know how to use yet, but they're all trying to make him comfortable with using the hammer he already has and knows how to use. What they were saying was what they thought he needed to hear, based on what they regretted most from how they'd acted as Avatars, and what they thought was most needed here.
Roku regretted not killing Sozin specifically because it gave him the opportunity to come back and kill him, then the Air Nomads. His lack of decisive action led to a lot of tragedy, and so his advice was to make sure whatever he did, make sure it was permanent, or Ozai would come back.
Kyoshi regretted not moving sooner on the threat of Shin the Conqueror and waiting until he was at the very edge of Kyoshi Peninsula before actually doing anything. She allowed a lot of destruction on the continent because she didn't move fast enough. Her advice is to move swiftly instead of allowing Ozai more time to act.
Kuruk basically did nothing as Avatar by his own admission and basically just said that Aang had to do something, and not to back off of his responsibilities because it was hard.
Yangchen is complicated because, well, she isn't talking about one of her own regrets. She's the one trying to give the 'Violence is sometimes necessary' talk to Aang, because she's the best person to tell him his duties as Avatar have to outweigh his duties as an Airbender. Arguably she is the one telling him to murder Ozai, but personally I read that as more 'you need to do what's right for the world, and I am giving you permission to break our cultural rules to do that. Because I am the only person you can ask for absolution.'
They were all trying to offer him spiritual guidance and support, but Aang wasn't looking for emotional support here, he was looking for solutions. Because he had already decided he wouldn't kill Ozai. No advice or absolution was really going to change that he already knew he wouldn't do it.
[ID: A digital illustration of Fire Lord Zuko holding a golden egg, his cheek against it. The atmosphere is dark, the egg lit up gold, along with Zuko's eyes and scar. End ID]
found a wip from a year ago ill definitely never be touching again
Your art is so beautiful! I'm begging you for more ty lee art 🧎
Here’s Ty Lee in a dress I wore once when I was 8 lol
Also thank you so much! 💓
Katara of the Southern Water Tribe
some messy little older aang doodles i keep forgetting to post
beach day on ember island
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aang wins
fuck cuteness and fluff, give me hurt and angst
How would you forget the soil you grew up on?
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Katara's turn to get the messy sketchpage treatment!
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