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And so I waited,        I waited for a hand to pull me from the darkness.

                                                      A hand that never arrived.

                                                                                           So riddle me this:                                                                                                     what was I really waiting for?

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Ila gets uncomfortable when she’s around Iroh—or when people talk about him. He’s everything she’s not. Same age group, both born as the first grandchildren of war heroes. And Iroh? He deserves every bit of praise. She won’t deny it—he’s amazing. Golden boy. All eyes on him. Her father’s buddy. The son he never had. It stings. Ila is jealous.

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Asami Sato: It Girl🫦❤️

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Why do you CARE so much?

                                                  …it’s making me care.

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                DON’T underestimate the lengths I’ll go to for the people I love.

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hiiiiii

I love ur avatar ocs they feel so natural to the world, do u have any advice/tips on designing an avatar character??

thanks :)

Thank you! but I gotta give credit where credit is due: most of the OCs I'm drawing belong to IRL family and friends---but I did design them!

Honestly for most of these designs I just stole bits and pieces from characters in the show, usually minor or background characters. If you spend some time looking at characters from the same nation, you'll start to see design elements repeated. For example, the Water Tribes often have fur trim on the shoulders, fur tufts that occur in threes, and triangle or wave patterned trim. I used all of these in my design for Chai Li and feel like he looks pretty natural in terms of Water Tribe design!

@atlaculture has some posts just showing lots of background characters that I used a lot. If you're looking to make an OC that looks natural to the show, I'd recommend taking a look at those and seeing what design elements you see repeated for a particular nation and using those in your design.

Water Tribe (Complete)

Fire Nation (Royal Family and Military)

Earth Kingdom (Season 1)

Earth Kingdom (Non-Ba Sing Se)

Earth Kingdom (Ba Sing Se)

atlaculture also has a great repository of posts showing the cultural inspiration behind various articles of clothing in the Avatar world if IRL inspo is more your jam! Highly recommend basically any of their posts for reference, but here's their post index if you're looking for something specific.

The only thing with IRL inspirations I would caution if you're trying to make it look like it came from the show though is you're going to have to do a loooooot of simplification and stick to the established color schemes. Using water tribe as an example again, in the show we don't really see brown in Water Tribe clothing except as shoes, belts, and armor, and gray almost never. Blue, purple, and white remain the primary colors. You can also see from this comparison (courtesy of atlaculture again) the simplification of the inspiration vs. the designs in the show (on Sokka's especially). The show designs keep large sections of one color on the main bodice and reserve trim mostly for the extremities vs. having intricate furs and trims throughout like on Sokka's.

That isn't to say you can't stay more faithful to the IRL inspiration if you want! I've seen plenty of artists do great takes on those too portraying a more realistic take on the characters and they always look fantastic, but they definitely give that more realistic and less cartoony-straight-from-the-show feel. Just depends on what you're going for I guess.

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⭐️💙⭐️Golden Dream⭐️💙⭐️

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Mei-Ling has undiagnosed autismn.

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Precious Mei-Ling done by my mistress, Miisu 🫦❤️✨

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⸝⸝⸝ 🀥 MANTASPOTRAYALS - Independent multi-muse roleplay blog featuring both canon and original muses from various verses. The current highest activity verses: The Legend Of Vox Machina / Critical Role, Avatar:The Last Airbender / The Legend Of Korra and Kpop Demon Hunters. Crossover friendly (even more - crossovers are highly encouraged), semi active with not regular sudden spikes of activity, semi selective. Only following and interacting with muns who are at least 18 years old. Mun is 24 years old.

Current highest activity muses: Keyleth of The Air Ashari, Vax'ildan Vessar, Jinu Saja, Rumi and Mako, also featuring testing muse... Haru from the Avatar The Last Airbender .ᐟ

Credits and thanks to @honorforged for making this promo for me 🫶

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//Sick again ôv ô Gotta love daycare :') I've got a weak immune system so I get easily sick. Pfft.

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older korrasami

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i cannot overstate how life-changing actually seeing all of this in an official canon comic was for me back when it dropped 🥹

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"hello avatar" - korra and pavi

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never underestimate the emotional bond between a girl and her favourite strong, gentle, kind-hearted heroine that harbours a deep sense of sadness and loneliness inside.

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LEGEND OF KORRA 3x11 — THE ULTIMATUM