#Avatar Scar AU

[atherix]

Aci i am looking 👀 at the avatar au u say about 👀

👀 Imagine... for some reason, the world is in disarray. The four nations are divided, not by like war but by like geography and just general isolationism (including the north and south tribes of the water nation from each other). Scar is just your run of the mill water tribe kid, never showed any signs of having any other element. And he grew up with bestie Cub, the two of them having been raised by the village elders after Something™ happened to each of their parents. And they've grown up into fine waterbenders, but have never had any reason to even want to leave, knowing nothing about the outside world.

Grian, an airbender, decides to go searching for the avatar for... reasons... watcher reasons... and crashlands in the south pole, where he's found and rescued by Scar and Cub. He doesn't realize Scar is the avatar for like half a day, thinking he's just some waterbender, but something happens that makes him realize and he confronts Scar about how he's not "doing his job" and reuniting the nations and all that stuff, to which he just gets confused staring and has that Oh Shit moment of realizing Scar doesn't know. How a man can go 20+ years without knowing he's the avatar, well, Grian certainly doesn't know, but whatever the watchers are planning Grian's purpose is won't be successful if Scar can't use the other elements. He manages to convince Scar to go traveling the world with him, telling him stories about the world outside the water tribe. Unfortunately Grian wasn't counting on Cub tagging along...

Mumbo as a nonbending citizen of the fire nation, him relying on technology and inventing all these really cool things... but still being overlooked bc he's a nonbender in a family of benders... wanting to prove something to the world (and himself), so when Grian, Scar and Cub stumble into his little town and get to know him, and they offer him (against Grian's protests) to come see the world with them... well, who is he to say no to that? It's not like his rich bending family would even notice he's gone... right? He'll just take his tools and his blueprints and go on the greatest adventure of his life and maybe accidentally get dragged into whatever Grian's planning...

Cleo as a master firebender, participating in underground firebending rings as the undefeated champion... secretly like the cousin of the crown prince(ss) or something, so fucking bored of palace life... just wanting a little more out of life than what she has... stumbling across the others and quickly figuring out Scar is the avatar... coyly blackmailing them into letting them join... "Oh, no, yeah, that's fine. I mean, sure, if I stay in town I might slip up and tell someone very official that the avatar has been found, but yeah- go ahead, it'll be fine. I'll just be here, alright? Talking in these... very official circles, drinking some very good drinks- well, who knows what might slip, but it's okay, everything is fine- oh, what's that? You want me to come with you? Well, I don't know... hmm, alright then." :)

BDubs as an earth bender who loves to garden... living in a communal home with Ren, Etho and Martyn (earthbender, nonbender, nonbender),... Scar accidentally destroying his garden beyond like any chance of recovery, and BDubs dragging his roomies/boyfriend(s) into basically following Scar & Co. to try and "make them pay" for destroying his garden and ending up saving them... becoming friends with them.... (getting a certain firebender's attention ofc bc I'm me...)

Just 👀 Picture it. It's just a giant messy roadtrip story where nothing bad happens at all, all sunshine and roses yep, definitely no airbending cult extremists manipulating and pulling Grian's strings at all, absolutely no need for terrible realizations and feelings of betrayal and redemption and Grian having to make a choice between the family he'd always known and the family and the men he'd come to love no siree

[demaparbat-hp]

Izumi of Jang Hui died young. She was sixteen and unwed. A kind child, protective and lonely—thus unfit for this world.

Izumi of Jang Hui was murdered. The Painted Lady was born out of hatred and grief. Her skin is painted red with the patterns of her scars. Her home is the river where the Dark Water Spirit dwells—he who found her, drowned and beautiful.

Build shrines by the river and pray for her good will. Harm her land or people and pray for mercy.

[michaelnotwheeler]

I DREW SOME GAYLIENS (ft trans will)

Credit to @meowza315

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[kukya]

Blind Zuko AU! TW: Graphic depiction of a scar I've recently read a nice fanfic on this topic (I believe it is this one, but I've read a couple more so I'm not sure...) and felt urge to draw my boy with a bigger scar. And had some fun :^) I drew this lil palm to imagine how the burn would spread and ended up liking it a lot, so there it is

ID in the ALT of the last picture

[waterfrontcomplex]

me when half my face was scarred because of an incident relating to fire/explosives

swapped scars here! vv

[thegoldenavenger]

a quick sketch of my fatebend!azula. she gets one of those fractal lightning scars as opposed to zuko's burn scar because I say so.

[valariecomet]

Day five of Zutara months prompt was Katara keeps her scars so for today I made this piece. This is for my where in the world is the painted lady au and is the first piece of artwork I have made for it. (Also if your wondering where Zukos scar is he hasn't got it yet in this au.)

[stripedsocksjpeg]

i have an idea...

[kandicon]

Actually I really wanna write a role reversal gerrymichael au and let me be so, so transparent when I say it is literally just bc I wanna fantasize about the tall, gangly blond man beating monsters to death

Everyone else has the same roles. Mary Keay is still Mary Keay in all her abusive and obsessive glory; Gertrude is still the Archivist.

Vaguely spiral aligned Michael who Does Not Like It. Pretends his connection is a hell of a lot looser than it is.

The only benefit (that Michael thinks of the Spiral) is how he can move around the Institute with relatively little interference and watch, after all, it is hard to behold something that is both nothing and everything and never was all at the same time.

Gerry ran away from home really young and actually succeeded. Spent a few years fucking around and learning what kind of benches are best to sleep on before applying to the Magnus Institute because that's what his dad did. He lied to hell and back on the application, but was hired quickly because of how thoroughly touched by the entities he was (thanks Mary) and Gertrude was running low on assistants. Gerry also felt completely justified in faking stuff and that he was perfectly qualified bc he grew up in a bookshop and how much different could it be (very different, as it turns out).

They first meet each other when Michael is prowling through artefact storage like it was a shopping mall, and pocketing everything he saw that didn't immediately mesmerize him. He was nervous and jumpy as all hell, even though this was not the first time he's done something similar and he's fairly certain Gertrude doesn't care, so when Gerry first spotted him from behind, he was immediately suspicious even before he saw Michael try to shove a lamp into his jacket pocket. This led to an altercation that eventually led to the lamp being accidentally turned on, Michael smashing it to pieces with a hammer Gerry had not realized Michael had, and Gerry suddenly being a lot more consciously aware of the supernatural than he was.

Gerry's mother was still obsessive over Lighteners, and she didn't make an effort to hide what she did, but she didn't actively try to educate Gerry on anything to do with the Fears. So he is fairly knowledgeable on the supernatural, but he doesn't know anything concrete about the Fears themselves and their categorization. The role of a stand by sacrifice instead of an errand boy and heir.

Michael still trusts Gertrude, but this time he knows he shouldn't and hates himself for it. Gerry wants to trust Gertrude, and she does hide him from anything Fears related and behaves around him like she did Michael in cannon, but he just feels something off about her and doesn't like it. She's just a bit too much like his mother for him to let his guard down.

Michael gets referred to by "it/its" pronouns once by Gerry as a teasing joke before Gerry fully knows what he is and is absolutely terrified by how happy the pronouns make his feel. (He thinks, maybe, that the Michael of his childhood liked something similar, too, but everything too far back is all twisted and he doesn't know what has been touched by the Spiral and what hasn't, so he doesn't trust any of it). He/it Michael ftw

At one point Michael just started putting black lipstick on himself because some of Gerry's always stuck to him when they kissed anyways n this gave them plausible deniability. Michael will never admit to the little spiral thrill it gives him when people do a double take upon seeing his face, the black lipstick contrasting literally everything else about his style.

Gabriel attempted to track Michael down exactly once, a few years before he joined the institute. He had heard about Michael's unsavory... Hobby... (<- reckless destruction of artefacts and throwing himself at all monsters and avatars he sees with a murderous rage regardless of their affiliation) but spiral avatars capable of holding a conversation are so few and far between and the Great Twisting was almost prepared, so he thought a meeting would be worth it. He showed up at a cafe Michael frequented one day expecting lovely, but tense, conversation, only to promptly lit on fire (mostly) in the back alley behind the cafe after he introduced himself. Gabriel survived, but some of his clay body still hardens unexpectedly or shows signs of firing from time to time.

Occasionally Michael's eyes will change colors and shapes, so he likes to put contacts in (he used to just use tinted glasses, but after one time of Gerry getting lost in his eyes in the far too literal, not at all romantic, sense, he decided to invest in smth a bit harder to take off and forget about). Unfortunately, this sometimes means other, very much not his original eyes will pop up around his body and in his hair as protest when he puts them in. It's not very fun to have to chase off eyes at 6am, but he does it regardless and complains the whole time about how he shouldn't have to deal with eyes when he very clearly isn't of The Eye.

Gerry: Oh hey you were running pretty late. I was starting to get worried.

Michael, not about to admit he spent an extra thirty minutes to get ready yelling and brandishing a lighter at a door that was following him around like a lost puppy: Ummmmmm I forgot my wallet. :((

[atherix]

Mumscarvexian in avatar scar au?

Hello yes 👀 You, I like you. Take it a step up, since Scar and Cub are already adults by the time Grian finds them- they're both wearing engagement necklaces that they made for each other. Imagine that cheesy moment, where one partner drops down to one knee and pulls out a ring and the other starts laughing and also pulls out a ring? That was them, but with the necklaces. Glory be, they gay.

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[fancyhandsbakery]

I’m just imagining a ATLA no-war-AU.

Aang, who went to the south pole to receive training and Katara, Sokka, and eventually Toph decided to tag along, goes to the fire nation to find a fire bending teacher and meets the world’s most bitchiest royals and immediately deciding their perfect. I’m just imagining Fire Lord Iroh being like “here are my niece and nephew. They can teach you fire bending. Please get them out of the palace. They need to meet normal people. They’re giving major baby with a knife vibes. They’re scaring away all potential suitors.”

[feral-jackdaw]

Imagine this:

AU where Katara successfully heals Zuko's scar with the spirit water.

Zuko joins Team Avatar early and he takes part in the invasion on the Day of the Black Sun. He still goes to face his father, but this time, when his father sees him for the first time in three years, Zuko is free from his mark. He doesn't even have to say anything for his father to know that he no longer has any control over him.

[ur-frndly-neighborhood-memer1]

Avatar AU where Ursa is living her best life with Ikem and their daughter Kiyi whereas Ozai is banished and burned by Azulon for speaking out of turn (he mocked Iroh again, but this time, Azulon witnessed it)

He is on exile since he was 13, and has the exact same scar of Zuko. But I assumed 30+ years in exile would humble him, so I softened his features (I actually just gave him Zuko's eye lol) Oh, and I guess he is slightly younger?

Anyway, feel free to use it as an adult Zuko design since I used Zuko's eye, eyebrow and scar to edit it

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Aaaannd here's the original shot that I used

(Damn, hate him all you want but can't deny that dilf has some look, no wonder both his kids are fricking gorgeous)

[hyacinths-in-a-storm]

I’ve been consuming a lot of secret admirer AUs, so enjoy this doodle I made

[minecraftbookshelf]

Sneak peek of the beginning of the oneshot I’m writing for the Legend of Jimmy AtLA au. (Not screen reader friendly, I’m sorry. I’ll add a transcript when I get the opportunity)