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thicker than water

Getting a tad worried for my friend Jonathan...

Yo, the Korra Book 1 Poster is complete. Little alterations in the end can always have a great effect on the final image.

“Sorry.”

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Bloodbending bro hug requested by anon.

It’s STUPID COMICS TIME AGAIN

I call this, ‘The Legend of Mako,’ part one of WHO KNOWS HOW MANY but I have enough ideas for two or three more of these comic sets. Yes, instead of scanning those mako comics I mentioned forever ago straight from my sketchbook I went out of my way to rewrite and redraw them into two-row chunks. I don’t know if that makes it any more or less funny.

Also:

*translation: SEE IF I CARRY YOUR PASTY BUTT ACROSS THIS CITY AGAIN

rotoscope of that one epic aishwarya rai hairflip . i think p’li would also fit nicely <:3c

I can't help but love you

Even though I try not to

I can't help but want you

I know that I'd die without you

Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär / Dann würdest du dich in mir sehn / Dann fiel's dir nicht so schwer / Was ich nicht sage, zu verstehn / Bis du dich umdrehst / Weil du dich zu gut in mir erkennst

Something on your mind?

My issue with Korra isn’t that the characters were uninteresting tbh - it’s that they were the exact opposite of that. There was so much room for exploration. Avatar was such a good show (with flaws) because developed it’s characters fantastically (up until Aang’s S3 arc, which could have been handled a lot better imo) - they took the troupes it would’ve been easy to resort to - naggy mom friend, happy go lucky kid, badass girl, edgy guy - and showed the complexities behind them. Aang hides the loss of literally his entire life behind his cheerfulness, and it’s shown how he snaps, gets angry and runs away. Toph’s entire persona is carefully crafted to defy the helpless role she’s been cast in her whole life - she’s not just badass, but badass purposefully. Zuko has a desperation born of years of abuse behind his angst. Katara has survivor’s guilt and trauma, forced parentification, and rage behind her hot temper and mothering, and is allowed to explore those. Sokka is goofy, but he’s intelligent, cunning, and it’s shown how his goofy façade hides his insecurities over his own skills and masculinity.

Korra never gave it’s characters room to breathe. We never got the chance to see who they were past the love triangles, too-fast plots that were dropped after one season, and robots for some reason. Mako was introduced as the edgy love interest, and despite how interesting his backstory is and all the potential behind it (especially with his parallels to Katara - he has so many!!), that’s who he stayed. Bolin, same as the goofy comic relief. Asami, she just… has no real personality. She’s… strong willed. Sometimes she’s angry, I guess. There’s never anything even to hold onto with her - her feelings over her mother’s death are never really explored, nor are her relationships with really anyone sans her romantic bonds with Korra and Mako. Her scenes with her father in S4 showed hints to some potential, but it wasn’t enough to make me invested in a character I had spent three seasons up till now looking at as a blank slate - the Token Badass Nonbender, and that’s that. Jinora’s one of the more interesting characters on the show, but there was a lot more room to explore her insecurities surrounding if she can live up to her grandfather’s legacy, her spirit abilities, and Kai and their relationship especially.

Really, it’s just… Mako’s parents were killed in front of him when he was eight, and then he was forced to basically raise Bolin without a home. Bolin had no stability in his life for most of it, and his only real trusted figure was his two years older brother. Korra is an avatar who was never given a chance to develop any identity outside of that, seeing the world, one carved from the ashes of imperialism and genocide, for the first time. Asami has a father who manipulates her and works with terrorists, but unlike Ozai with Zuko and Azula, genuinely loves her. Even within just these four there are such interesting ways you could go. But Korra was really the only one allowed to develop at all, and even then, for some reason she has to be brutally tortured to… ‘humble’ her? Like, I did like that arc, but there’s also some… things going on there.

Maybe there could have been an episode like the Southern Raiders but for Mako, where he and idk Asami? anyone really, hunt down the firebender who killed his parents, and he’s forced to confront the source of his trauma that started it all. Maybe we could have a storyline about the Triple Threats, Mako and Bolin’s time with them, how bad their circumstances were and some of the things they were forced to do. Maybe something like The Beach but for Asami, letting her crack and break about her complex feelings towards her father. We could have seen more of Mako being an older brother to Kai, Kai’s development from selfish and flightly to kinder and more grounded with Jinora. Maybe we could have been shown more of Kai’s backstory - his parents? Idk.

Korra, of course, would still need to be the focus. Maybe something like Nightmares and Daydreams but darker, like, towards the end of every season to explore how the pressure and trauma from being the avatar is negatively affecting her. Idk.

Just… let the characters develop. Breathe. Be people and not just caricatures or placeholders, yk? This goes for Jinora, Ikki and Meelo, Kai, the Krew, the adults, everyone - Korra had four seasons. Maybe not time for everyone, but at least for more than they gave. At least time for the main four.

Ich bitte nie. Ich tu`s auch nicht für dich.

Also lässt du mich im Stich...

Now I made the South Water Tribe family tree too! Not much headcanons for this, except that I guess it's implied that Kanna did love Pakku in some form even though she ran away in order to fight for her rights and voice, because she took the betrothal necklace with her and later passed it on. I suppose she would have thrown it away if she hated or didn't care for Pakku. Only 60 years later when he changed and improved as a person did they reunite.

I sketched out the Fire Nation royal family, it's curious to follow who resembles whom physically and which traits got passed

Version 2!

Hush, child.

I could be a good mother

Ozai’s angels!

I don't know if it's an unpopular take but I cannot stand Toph's characterization in the ATLA comics. They stripped Toph of all her personality traits expect for sassy earthbender. She's downright rude in some instances. I won't even begin to talk about her erasure - one of the fandom's preferred characters and yet she is barely more than a side character (even in her designated comic she has to share it with Aang)

Where is the Toph that cried because she missed her mother and felt remorse for abandoning her during the war? Where is the Toph that comforted Zuko during the Ember Island Play intermission? Where is the Toph that canonically loves and protects her friends, thinks of them as a family and wants to carry out their friendship into another life?

Yes, Toph is confident, arrogant at times and sassy. But she never was rude to her loved ones; never disregarded differenf cultures nor did she ever lack spirituality. It's also hysterical that during The Rift - after Toph passes out from saving multiple people from being crushed by metal - not one of her friends remembers or seems to care about her. NOT ONE!

Most characters were done dirty in these comics. Katara and Zuko might be the biggest victims of being substantially OOC but I rarely see people talk about how they completely disregarded Toph's character arc or her personality.

One day I'll write a whole dissertation of Toph's portrayal in the comics (and how her relationship with Aang was handled)

You can have a badass female character without stripping her from her humility and vulnerability.

Mai, Ty Lee, Zuko and Azula

Worked a tiny bit more on Zuko

pencil sketches w/ photoshop colorization

there are a lot of bad takes in the atla fandom (like, atla fandom may as well be a bad take generator) but something that has really been pissing me off lately is the assumption that you can categorize the fire nation royal family into good guys and bad guys. first of all, obviously, they're all bad guys. they are imperialists. but the idea that "sozin ozai azula bad" and "iroh lu ten ursa zuko azulon(?!) good" is actually insane.

lu ten died attempting to conquer the earth kingdom. lu ten was there because his father, iroh, was leading the siege. ursa laughed when iroh joked about burning ba sing se to the ground. zuko laughed too, mirroring his dear mother who taught him about the wonders of imperialism. and the fact that some people think that azulon was a good guy because he favored iroh is crazy. he favored iroh because iroh was the better imperialist, was more charming and tactically savvy as he bent the world to his will. people who think that azulon didn't like ozai because ozai was cruel literally have it backwards. ozai was cruel because azulon didn't like him. sozin shaped azulon, and azulon shaped iroh and ozai. azulon reigned for most of the war, and he was responsible for decimating the southern water tribe and colonizing the earth kingdom.

iroh only realizes the error of his ways well into middle age, after spending a majority of his life colonizing the world. he only stops to reconsider once he experiences the adverse effects of war for himself through the loss of his son. likewise, zuko can only gain empathy for the victims of the war by being one himself, as a refugee in the earth kingdom, and bonding with people who have been hurt by the fire nation. azula doesn't get that chance. ozai doesn't get that chance. azulon, lu ten, and ursa are dead, so they will never get that chance. but it's not like there is some ontological moral divide separating azula from zuko. zuko was a sensitive child whereas azula was better at embodying fire nation values of power and cunning. zuko was punished for his outbursts whereas azula knew how to keep her mouth shut. therefore, zuko experienced circumstances that led him to disavow fire nation imperialism.

but that doesn't mean that azula is ontologically evil. azula was the iroh of her generation to zuko's ozai, and iroh (eventually) disavowed conquest as well. there is no inherent divide between good and bad, monster and human. ursa was a warm and loving mother to zuko, just as iroh was a warm and loving father to lu ten, but they both laughed at others' suffering. their values were shaped by their circumstances and experiences. their ideologies do not make them less human, or less capable of change, just as their interpersonal behaviors do not negate their abhorrent ideologies.

Oh boy - this hits in the feels

I adore that radical ginger boy with my life

He's such a tragic character I want to protect him from his own fate but at the same time I want him to go even further and do what he has to...

Such a wonderful character, too bad Isayama kinda didn't care about him (then again compared to what kind of death Isayama gave to my girl Hange and what he did to all other characters in 139 I want Isayama to forget about Floch's existence and never ever publish anything about him)

Thinking again about the last 2 or so days of flochs life. He watches Erens plan come to fruition, takes leadership to try and guide his nation through the Rumbling and take it out the other side. He fights tooth and nail against the titans Zeke made, fighting until he physically can't walk, and then when he gets betrayed by thr people he thought would be most loyal to Eren's cause he doesn't panic, he mobilises, he takes action and begins to secure ports and harbours, then when he's durther betrayed by Jean, someone he looks up to, he personally moves to save Eren's plan and Paradis, to save his people. He couldn't walk only a day ago but here he is moving at breakneck pace to get to the port, hell figuring out what port they were going to, and then, still likely injured, he staves off Mikasa Ackermann, the Commander of the Scouts, TWO titan shifters in close combat, to come a hair away from destroying their ship, and even then, metred underwater, bleeding heavily, saltwater stinging his wounds, he grapples the ship and follows it for hours in the ocean, bleeding. He stays ahold of the boat all the way across the sea until they dock, then in that state he's able to walk and take aim to shoot the fuel tank of their plane almost ruining their plan before finally being killed.

I'm not Erwin's biggest fan, but he was the catalyst for that transformation, and Eren was just the accelerant. Floch had no special powers, no healing, no enhanced durabilty, no Ackermann powers. He was simply a man in a world that was built to destroy him and yet he persevered, he excelled, he is probably the closet Attack on Titan gets to an archetypical 'hero' even if he's not framed as one in the show. He never gave up, and he fought for what he thought was going to let his people live long lives.

Little comic about two aot characters I really like

this is incredible

art by lisou_____ on instagram

i got nostalgic

Der Schleier fällt, verlass die Schatten

Mach die Nacht zum Morgen. Lass mich befreit sein und geborgen

painted in 2014. I have always loved death and sisi...

This is a picture drawn by my friend. Twitter osamatographe

It's really beautiful. olegg DerTod / pia Sisi. These two have a mature and sexy atmosphere. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹