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[hayleynwong]

ZK Fanwork Appreciation Week Day 4: Angst Wednesday

In case Tumblr can’t play the video (or you want a higher than 480p quality version), here’s the Vimeo Link  

Based on Chapter 6 of i’m still here By @owedbetter (owedbetter on AO3) Rated T - Teen and Up Audiences

Is this angst? I am not really an angst person myself (Fluff all day, babey) but I knew I had to do owedbetter’s heart healing scene from i’m still here because it made me cry when I read it *sad lol* I just… it made me so saaad. The setup here is that Azula’s lightning that Zuko took for Katara actually did serious damage to Zuko’s heart beyond the power of the single healing session in the actual finale. So, Zuko is basically dying, everyone has returned from their various battles and are saying goodbye. But in i’m still here, Katara’s bloodbending from The Southern Raiders is actually discussed between Zuko and Katara prior, and that reminds Katara to try everything she’s got to save Zuko.  What I really loved about owedbetter’s story is just how powerfully she writes Katara, especially in this scene. Katara is just so cool. I love that she has the power to both end people and also save their freakin’ lives! And you know I gots to have my full moon imagery AGAIN. Apologies, I can’t stop; it’s like the best framing object to work with. I really think I went a bit overboard on the melodrama and effects too, but I just wanted to try to go as full throttle with neat imagery as I could with the time that I had. Katara deserves some spirit magic glowy shit too, dammit! Haha Hope owedbetter specifically likes it.

Line read by Dante Basco (Thank you for the additional line read, @rufiozuko) 

Music: Requim II - Princess Mononoke (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Requim - Princess Mononoke (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) The Legend of Ashitaka Theme - Princess Mononoke (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) This is all done with no intention of making money off these animatics; it’s purely fanart. >.>

DO NOT REPOST. And if Zutarians are going to screencap some frames, I think it is imperative to also acknowledge owedbetter too, because it’s based on their concepts and story. I simply translated it into visuals.

More art rambling and note to owedbetter below the line

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[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT text) Just Suki!

[ash-and-starlight-deact]

what if during their life changing field trip toph and zuko picked up a new chill hobby

[ash-and-starlight-deact]

to everybody who said they’d make a bong: you’re right and I love you

[zed-echo-ro]

[roach-works]

even funnier: the heirloom bong handcrafted by the firelord and the best earthbender in the world actually just fucking sucks because they were idiot teenagers at the time and didn’t know anything about smoking, plus one of them was a firebender who had ridiculously well-developed breath control as well as magic fire powers, while the other was a wildly obnoxious ninety pound girl who could get high off oregano crumbs.

like, the most valuable bong in the world is nearly unusable. it’s awful. you have to practically turn yourself inside out on the inhale to draw any smoke up and there’s nowhere to hold it that doesn’t burn your hands. even worse is that it’s in the shape of Aang, the last Airbender, master of all four elements, holding a smaller bong.

[professorsparklepants]

#you have to suck on his bald head #katara hates this thing #aang and sokka think it’s the funniest item in the WORLD

[hikaaa-bi]

the funniest thing about sokka being a skeptic and the common sense in atla is that.. this is a fantasy world. that still somehow has like,, science and regular nature stuff that isn't connected to magic.

to the people of atla, sokka is the crazy one. because there are people running around controlling the earth and making water float around in the air, there are literal gods who can control all forces of nature, and this guy insists that rain happens due to some weird force called “science”??

[reddoo-k]

Big ATLA piece!!

I've been watching the series while doing schoolwork lately and it felt comforting, so I wanted to make a scene where the gaang was just having a good time jsjs

I took the opportunity and did a forest study from a photo for the background, and I am so proud of it UvU

also heres a 1 minute timelapse for anyone interested hehehe

[m-r-moth]

water girl, is that you?

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

beach vacation episode is OUT getting stuck in a pit episode is IN

[sketchbonked]

someone draw this as gyatso and aang im begging you pleaseeee

[raspbrrytea]

Artist mutual, at your service

[green-fifteen]

WAIT!! I first saw this picture a couple years ago because somebody drew aaang and gyatso from this exact reference!

the artist is Trish Negaara (@trishnagaara on ig)

when i tell you, the first time i saw this i about died laughing. thank you for bringing this image back into my life <3 i'm so happy to be able to laugh at two lovely versions now XD

[charlesoberonn]

Avatar AU where Aang wakes up after 200 years in the iceberg, and 100 years after the Fire Nation completely fucks up the world.

The land is burned to a crisp. The moon is dark. The weather is out of wack. Angry spirits roam the wild, seeking vengeance against humanity for what they've done.

And yet despite everything, people still survive in the wasteland and ruins.

It's too late to save the world, but it's not too late to fix it.

(also instead of steampunk tech elements, it's atompunk elements)

[ocean-of-junk]

AVATAR: FALLOUT

[charlesoberonn]

I like Avatar: New Omashu

[charlesoberonn]

There is no apocalypse in Ba Sing Se

[charlesoberonn]

That's quite an ask.

[charlesoberonn]

Bumi is 212, Toph is 112, and along with another talented Earthbender who's 12 they rule New Omashu. They teach Aang together even though they have very different teaching styles.

For waterbending teacher I'm thinking maybe a pirate queen of sorts.

Firebending teacher is the hardest because the Fire Nation is all but extinct after both the spirits and the other nations have hunted them down for a century. Maybe in addition to Aang being the last Airbender, there's also one last Firebender left.

[charlesoberonn]

Interesting idea.

A prideful old man with a scar runs a tea shop alone. Still standing despite the apocalypse. His tea is excellent but he'll tell you that it's not nearly as good as what his uncle used to make.

[esoteric-merit]

for the waterbender pirate, I think maybe she came from a line of hillbillies who used to keep hidden in the swamps, and the way they survived the fire nation and what came after was making faster and faster hot rods hovercraft. So rather than galleons loaded down with cannons, the pirate crew whip around on hovercrafts and jet skis.

Part of her teaching Aang waterbending includes taking most of the water out of booze to make moonshine.

[charlesoberonn]

Maybe in the future because of the spirit infestation the swamp has expanded massive, swallowing up a good portion of the Earth continent that isn't burned.

Only the Foggy Swamp tribe can navigate it well, making them great guides and merchants, but also pirates and bandits.

The swamp is actually relatively close to Omashu in canon so it fits with the "New Omashu" idea.

[charlesoberonn]

Ice poachers (maybe working for the pirate lady)

[charlesoberonn]

To elaborate further: The angry ocean spirit and the waterbenders who relearned their bending art from her could be behind the Firebender genocide.

[charlesoberonn]

Okay but hear me out: Global warming melts nearly all the icebergs except Aang's iceberg, which is kept frozen by the Avatar State.

The ice poachers were excited when they found him, thinking they hit the jackpot. Only to see there's a bison and a boy inside.

[charlesoberonn]

I was imagining a burning wasteland rather than a flooded one, but I really like this idea. It makes sense too. The world violently reacting to the Fire Nation's actions by going hard on the opposing element.

[hex-fauna]

Hey OP would it be chill if I use these ideas to write a fic about this concept?

Also what would Aangs main goal be? Since Sozin's comet doesnt much mean anything anymore

[charlesoberonn]

I think he'd just want to help where he can, with an overarching goal of perhaps making peace between humanity and the spirits and restoring balance to the world (making the waters recede maybe?)

Speaking of Sozin's Comet. I had the idea that during the comet's return, the angry ocean spirit pulls it out of the sky (it is made of ice after all) and crashes it into the ocean, causing massive tsunamis and leading to the flooding of the world.

[charlesoberonn]

Oh and feel free to write a fic as long as you link back to this post.

I think it would be cool if this AU could become a collaborative project. Perhaps to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show which is coming up in a few months?

[charlesoberonn]

I'm afraid so.

A little over half a year left.

[hadesisqueer]

Good lord the new Avatar series premise. I know Korra was 100% framed and that the Earth Avatar will most likely find out the truth and restore her reputation but damn. As a Korra lover it's gonna be tough to watch. Korra went to the Kuruk school of Avatars who took their jobs extremely seriously but whose legacies were warped or forgotten and they're blamed for the current situation. Why is it always a Water Avatar--

[filialdisciple]

avatar: the last airbender premiered 20 years ago!!

[kindaorangey]

new purpose

(don't tag as ship)

[syciaralynx]

Zuko: I have captured the Avatar! Aang: You don't have to say it every time we hug. Zuko: Yes I do.

[kindaorangey]

SHUT UP THATS SO CUTE

[seasideoranges]

twitter // ko-fi

okay, maybe mom didn't say that last part..

[comradekatara]

ppl who are like “there’s no way sokka’s art skills would improve, he’s ontologically bad at art” ummmm. dude. you realize that this is the mary sue of hobbies, right? this guy could out-westley westley. he would develop an immunity to iocane powder in less than a week because he’s just that prodigious. he became a kyoshi warrior who could best their leader in a matter of hours, and this was the first time he had ever trained in his life with an actual teacher and opponent. he mastered the sword in one day, if we’re to take piandao’s word for it (and considering his name is literally sword, he is clearly an expert). sokka looked at the rough schematics for hot air balloons after the eminent inventor in the world had spent who knows how long not able to get his idea to actually work like “uhhh…. this may sound obvious, but have you tried a lid???” he has borderline supernatural aim with a boomerang. he was dropped into a haiku battle knowing nothing about the form, and not only beat the leader of ba sing se’s premier haiku club, but also chose, completely unnecessarily, to make each verse rhyme. if he actually sat down and practiced drawing, maybe with some instruction from a trained artist, or easier beginner’s materials than ink and a brush (you’ve all seen my art, and I still cannot paint with ink and a brush), I think sokka would easily be able to produce a work on par with (if not superior to) the mona lisa by the following morning.

[petricorah]

meeting on the fire nation stairs [ids in alt]

[comradekatara]

omg it’s the chief of the southern water tribe, the best waterbender in the world, i think her name is uhhhhhhh…… cataracts?????

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

the whole "the white lotus would be the gaang if aang unfroze early" thing is dumb and makes no sense for multiple reasons (bumi's like 50 years older than everybody else, iroh & piandao & jeong jeong were busy being baby imperialists) but the worst part is that it means everyone's sleeping on the actual most logical early emergence au: hama cracking open the cold boy