#vampire zuko

[demaparbat-hp]

Hi hi hiiiiii!!! ok so your costume design for everyone in the atla universe is utterly exquisite!!!!! and I wanted to know if you have like a reference sheet for each Au's clothing set or if it's sort of memory/what makes sense for the scene/AU? and also if you wanted an excuse to talk about the details of how/why each character dresses the way they do in your AUs! I've seen your posts on the adventures from the couch crew (and our dear boy Zuko) but it's clearly something you put a lot of care and effort into and!!! it still all manages to be incredibly good character design!!! plus, looking at everyone's fits in your Center Mass post made me want to look closer so I did in fact spend Some Time zooming in on the details n checking it all out and wishing I could see the whole thing.

sorry this is really long but the choices you make for these characters are always so well considered and I love to read what you have to say about them!!!!

Hello hello hello! Sorry it took me so many months to reply, but I got sidetracked by other projects and eventually forgot I hadn't, indeed, answered your ask. Shame on Dema, shame.

Anyway, here's a sheet for our boy. Some AUs are missing, and I'd love to do sheets for Katara and the Gaang, but one thing at a time ❤️

[averager4t]

The last artwork I did for this event! Finally they are not trying to kill each other!

Artwork for the fantastic fic "You Cannot Take My Heart Alive" by @jubilantmedusa !!

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This project was an absolute joy to work on, and has made me meet some incredible people. I wish I could have done more but what we have made already is already incredible to me. Never thought I would get to do something like this.

[rraebearr]

I started drafting a new AU where Zuko is a vampire...

"We're going to the beach this Friday. Ember Island. Sokka rented one of those cabana things with the umbrella and the chairs. Toph's coming too—she's my friend, you'd like her, she's—well, she's Toph. She's a lot. In the best way." The beach. Ember Island. Full sun. Bright, white, merciless sun reflecting off sand and water. The sand—itchy, granular, the kind that gets into everything, into the spaces between fingers and toes and the creases of clothing, impossible to shake. The screaming—the particular high-pitched, relentless shrieking of human children playing in water, a frequency designed to shred every nerve ending in a body that's already running on borrowed energy. The sensory assault of it—every nerve ending I possess screaming at once, the ancient cellular warning that daylight is poison, that exposure is torture, that every minute spent under the sun is borrowed from the finite reservoir of energy I'll need to replenish later. An entire day. Exposed. No shadows to hide in, no buildings to duck between, no jacket thick enough to block the light when the sun is directly overhead and the umbrella is a joke against the angle of the rays. My skin is already prickling at the thought of it—a deep, cellular warning that intensifies the longer I let the image play out. The sun will feel like needles. Like fire. I picture myself on a towel in the full glare of noon, my skin prickling and burning beneath the thin veneer of day-walking resilience, surrounded by people I don't know, trying to pass for human while every molecule of my body screams for darkness. It sounds like a nightmare. Like actual, sustained, deliberate torture. The kind of thing Azula would laugh about for a century. "I'd love to," is what I hear myself say. "What time?"

[ponderingprinces]

The Plot for the day is...

Zuko Plot 072: Blood Suckers

Desiring powerful heirs, Ozai forwent a human wife and with the help of the fire sages, chained a demonic spirit to himself. Ursa was enraged at his audacity, but she had patience. She would gift him two heirs, and then his power would fall. Ozai was never good at listening to vague warnings.

The kids are vampiric and feed off their father's blood and chi instead of milk like a human baby. Ozai is disgusted and denies his son, but Ursa insists it is the only way to make his heirs strong. He still refuses but when Zuko grows weak, he doesn't take the chance with Azula.

Her side of the deal complete, Ursa leaves. Ozai quickly realizes he will not survive if he continues to feed both children off his life energy, and quickly casts out Zuko since he was already weaker. Azula may be an abomination but she was a powerful one!

Zuko manages to survive feeding off peasants and passersby. But they are weak and he's so hungry… He tries multiple times to go back to his father and Ozai eventually chases him out with fire.

Luckily, Iroh had come home on a short leave from war and he is much stronger than father! When Iroh scoops up the abandoned, freshly scarred Zuko, the kid latches onto him to feed. Iroh was NOT expecting that. Thinking his nephew is cursed, Iroh smuggles him out of the fire nation and takes him to Omashu hoping king Bumi might have an idea.

There Iroh discovered the depth of what Ozai had done. They also learn that Zuko wont feed from non firebenders. Bumi offered and everything. "Seems the boy has a taste for fire"

Iroh forced to bring Zuko with him to the war on ba sing se, but it was a horrible idea. It's a buffet of strong fire benders and Zuko has NOT been being fed properly. He wipes out half the unit and forces them to retreat.

Behind Iroh's back his officers kidnap the kid and ship him off to the war front near the colonies to hopefully die, telling Iroh he ran away.

Years later Zuko is a horror story to keep your kids in at night. But don't worry! It only eats firebenders. Earth kingdom citizens hope he's real and will end the war by eating the rest of the fire nation.

Zuko just wants to survive.

Let me know if you write it~!

[jubilantmedusa]

There was no blood.

Sokka’s brain wanted there to be. That was what was supposed to happen when you stabbed someone, blood was supposed to spill. When he’d stabbed Zuko all the snow around them had been painted red.

Bato didn’t bleed. Couldn’t. All his blood had been sucked out a long time ago. Sokka had driven a steak into his heart. Decaying sinew collapsed around his wound, creating a hole twice the size it should have been. Half of Bato’s chest was sunken in. Sokka could see organs, enough of them to know that his wooden steak had stuck true, straight to the heart. But there was no blood. None at all.

You Cannot Keep My Heart Alive - Chapter 7 is Here!

And I am mean to Sokka.

“Sokka…”

The name barely escaped Zuko’s lips, voice so low and garbled that even Zuko couldn’t quite hear it.

“Sok-kah.” For just a blink Zhao’s face looming in front of him, the gray lips twisted into a sinister snarl. “That sounds like a Water Tribe name.”

Fire flickered in the distance, a burst of orange against black sky. Zuko’s eyes drifted to it, away from Zhao’s. Immediately Zhao’s three fingered hand reached for his chin, the claws of them digging into his skin as Zhao forced Zuko to face him, to meet his eyes.

…I am also mean to Zuko.

Read Chapter 7 | or start from the Beginning

Amazing Art by @averager4t & collaged by me. Check out all their art for this series here.

[stardust948]

Zutara Gothic romance AU: car trouble and a massive rain storm in the dead of night lead to Katara taking refuge in an old art deco building, once owned by an influential family. But the building is not entirely unoccupied.

It's been far too long since Zuko's had visitors. Unfortunately, his attempts of hospitably come on a little too strong. But things work out in the end.

[umossu]

If You Could Love a Creature

Fanart for @julessongs fic

It's so poetic and visual!!!! Otherworldly!!! Magical!!! Monstrous !! ←comment i should have left on the fic itself but I was possessed by The Urge To Draw right when I finished reading (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠)

I made wolf Sokka a little bigger in size than normal because I had the princess mononoke wolf in mind oops

Also some warmup sketches I did before I spent the entire night drawing THAT

[phoebester]

Happy Halloween Avatar fans!

Artwork by Depsycho in deviantart

Ironically posted 12.25.07 lol

Let’s get this party started 🦇 🧛‍♂️