#Mai Headcanons

[king-bumis-armpit]

What do you think would be Mai's favorite animal?

Mai’s favorite animal is Zuko. Hope this helps!

Kidding, kidding. But this is such a creative question! I fear my thoughts are less creative but here’s what I got:

1. Hawks/falcons. I know there are messenger hawks all over the Fire Nation, but I’m thinking more along the lines of goshawks or peregrine falcons. Similar to her knives, these birds of prey launch themselves at their targets with deadly precision. Mai admires how graceful and elegant they are while still being powerful and cunning. Also, they look cool, which would definitely factor into her ranking. 

2. Sea urchins. They’re purple or black and spiky! What more can I say? The first time Mai saw one, she felt a kinship with them immediately. It’s canon that Mai used to go to Ember Island as a kid, and I like to think that she would slip away from her parents to search the tide pools. Sometimes Zuko would accompany her, and sometimes she’d go alone. Azula went once and every time after refused on the grounds that it was gross. But Mai and Zuko know she’s actually just scared.

Side note: I reference this head canon in my fic Put a Ring on It, specifically in part 2. For that story, I made up the concept of urchin crabs, which I pictured as crabs with urchins on top instead of shells. Jokes on me BECAUSE THOSE ACTUALLY EXIST! It’s actually a separate crab and urchin that are living symbiotically, but how cool is that!)

3. Dragons. Druk is Mai’s favorite individual animal on the whole earth. HE IS HER BABY! Zuko brings him home, terrified of what Mai’s going to say. But Druk– still an itty bitty lizard at this point– immediately hops up onto her arm like he’s been there his whole life. Mai can’t help it. Her heart is captured. The tiny dragon is looking at her like she knows the secrets of the universe. Mai is not an indulgent person, but Zuko quickly notices that she is more lenient with Druk and she never hesitates to shower him with praise and affection. Zuko would be lying if he said he wasn’t a little jealous. But he’s mostly glad that they get along. After meeting Druk, Mai adds dragons to her list of favorites.

[sailorluna15]

Azula Celebrity Singer AU!

Ft. Maizula

Azula Post Recovery completely steps away from politics and becomes a megastar singing icon instead!

She has wide range, and can go from sounding like Lana del Rey to Melanie Martinez to Chappel Roan!

She's popular for her 50s femme fatale/Rockabilly/Vintage Americana aesthetic and sad bad girl vibe

She's also popular for her lesbian/sapphic hit songs (think Casual, Good Luck, Babe!, Red Wine Supernova, HOT TO GO!, All The Things She Said, Boyfriend, bad idea, and Princess Nokia's part of Slumber Party)

Her live shows are masterpieces that feature amazing outfits, hair, makeup, props, storytelling, and her azure flames being expressed as an artform.

Her shows are notoriously hard to get tickets to and are always soldout.

HERE'S THE MAIZULA WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

Azula wears Mai's knives strapped around her thigh whenever she's performing one of her lesbian/sapphic anthems.

Mai loves seeing her perform but hates how the fans fangirl over her.

[headcanonsandcupcakes]

My headcanon is that Zuko freaked outbduring Mai's pregnancy and Izumi's birth due to his daddy issues.

What do you think??

Hey there! So sorry this took so long to answer!!! But yes, I 100% agree that Zuko DEFINITELY was anxious about it from the moment the Fire Sages kept pestering him and Mai to start trying for an heir (literally moments after they got married) to when they started trying (many years later), up until Mai gave birth. To say that he had dreams about burning his future child in an Agni Kai was an understatement :( I think though that the anxiety of it definitely decreased as she got closer to giving birth, mostly from the guidance of Iroh and Aang telling him he would be just fine. It also helped that Mai said that she wouldnt want anyone else to be the father of her child :) But let's not forget Mai, either. She definitely had her own anxieties about becoming a mother as well. She didnt want her future child to be shut out like her parents did to her, but she was also afraid that her cold exterior would be too much for a child. As we all headcanon though, Zuko and Mai ended up being great parents. Yes, they probably over extended it and Izumi probably got away with a lot, but they definitely broke the cycle of abuse that they came from with their own families. :)

[calliopieces]

Michi and Ukano headcanons

Yes, you've read that correctly lol. I guess this doubles as a sneak peek for the new fic I'm working on?

I tried making up a background story for Mai's family (by pinpointing the source of their generational wealth). Because you don't really get to enter the Princess and Prince's inner circle and grow up with them if your family isn't powerful, yeah?

Michi:

According to the ATLA cookbook, nurturing the Fire Nation chili plants is a revered practice. I imagine that her family owns huge chili plantations. (Aunt Mura expanded the business by adding flowers to the mix)

I like to think that Mai being good at weapon-wielding came from her side of the family. It's a recurring theme in fanfics that her uncle (the Boiling Rock Warden, Michi's brother) was the one who first supported her interest in knives.

So aside from being the leading supplier of an important crop in Fire Nation culture, they're also a famous clan of nonbenders/weapons experts. (This is something I mentioned in passing in my Maiko childhood sparring partners fic)

Ukano:

Before he got into politics, his family was already pretty prominent. Their most famous ancestor is a key figure in history who strengthened the nation's maritime trade network.

But when the Hundred Year War raged on, their clan shifted their focus on manufacturing warships.

[flameohotfamily]

one of my absolutely favorite headcanons is that mai is really into drawing. i don't know why, i just see her like that. and that drawing is her creative side, and when she needs to reflect or relax she likes to draw lines and ornaments

[babydaddyleorio]

Hello! How are you? I saw a few older works of yours that you wrote about jjk women and it is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I was wondering if I can get a jealous mai one shot with a f-reader??🌸 If I requested it in a wrong way, I dont mind doing it again correctly. I just love her character and tbh it had such character development if she only lived in the end 😫

Thank you and you requested just fine! 😁

Mai couldn’t control the bitter feeling that suddenly rose from the depths of her throat.

Her fingers absently toyed with the lining of the fuzzy rug as she sat on the floor, shrill laughter filling her ears as she squinted her eyes. Currently, she was sitting in a circle with the rest of the girls Miwa had invited to her sleepover. Everyone seemed to be having a blast, chit-chatting about the tedious exams and poking fun at the male students that they finally had a break from. Mai, however, couldn’t bring herself to participate in the festivities because of the agitation tugging at her nerves.

“Hey, Mai?” You gently tapped her thigh in an attempt to catch her attention. “You okay?”

You noticed Mai spacing out for quite some time now, and your concern only doubled as she barely hummed in response. 

“I’m going to the bathroom.” Mai stated harshly, causing everyone to fall into silence at her sudden clipped tone. She shot up from her spot and jogged out of the room, her feet padding into loud footsteps against the hardwood floor. 

You furrowed your eyebrows in confusion. 

“What’s got into her?” Momo questioned while rolling the sucker in her hand around her mouth. 

“She’s at her limit,” Maki answered with a shrug, boredly flipping through the fashion magazine Nobara had shoved in front of her. 

“What do you mean by that?” You asked while shifting your gaze in confusion, but Maki simply shook her head. 

“You should go ask her yourself.”

You didn’t understand why Maki couldn’t just say what she had been insinuating, but you weren’t going to pry since it would only be a waste of time. You rose from your criss-crossed position and walked into the hallway, eyes scouring for the bathroom.

“Mai?” You called with caution once you finally found it, lifting your knuckles to knock on the wood. Though, as you touched the door, you noticed it wasn’t closed all the way and your knock caused it to abruptly fly open. You paused once you saw Mai gripping the edge of the sink, head thrown down and breath slightly erratic. There was a thick pause that fell between you two, and after a few seconds, you finally made an attempt to clear your throat.

“Mai?”

“I can’t even think straight when I’m around you.”

Mai glanced at you with her hair falling into her face and a faint smirk tugging at her lips. She shook her head, pushing a hand to her forehead as her body shook with jagged laughter. “You really know how to get me going, y/n.”

Your eyes widened in surprise. “What are you talking about?”

Mai shifted her eyes to look at you, a dark cast now fallen across them. 

“I couldn’t stand it.” She finally fixed herself to mutter. “Seeing you in the arms of Miwa, her grasping your hand every chance she got and leaning so close to your face.”

“What?” You sputtered the question in disbelief because you weren’t sure where all this was coming from.

“I’ve tried so hard to deny it, so hard to reject my feelings,” Mai spoke before straightening herself to look at you from her side. “but I can’t do it anymore.”

You slowly knitted your eyebrows together.

“What are you saying, Mai?”

Cupid had gotten her alright, the arrow making Mai not even realize what she was about to say next.

“When I think of love,” Mai clenched her hands on the sink, feeling her heart start to shake in her chest. She was growing frustrated as she willed herself to turn towards you. “I can only think of you.”

“Mai—”

Mai had never felt this anxious before. In any other setting, Mai’s flirtatious nature always saved her, smooth words rolling off her tongue and boldly being handsy to prove her point. But right now? Mai was a mess.

“Gosh, I’m such an idiot.” She quickly raised her arm to cover her eyes but you stepped closer and hesitantly hugged her body

“Whatever it is that you’re trying to say,” You squeezed Mai’s waist gently. “I feel the exact same way about you.”

The girls of the sleepover stood with their ears pressed against the wall of the hallway, having listened to the entire conversation. They were all cheesing, silently high-fiving each other and dancing in their spots.

It was about damn time.

[ezrazzle]

After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

[carrion-corvus]

2019 vs 2024

the old one hurts my eyes

[starry-bi-sky]

I am loudly pushing the batdad agenda i am loudly pushing the— DPxDC Prompt

“Woah. You look like shit."

Granted, that’s probably not the first thing Danny should be saying to the guy that just bit the curb, but in his defense; he’s not running on 100% right now either.

The man -- tall, towering, and broader than Danny is tall -- whips around on his heel, black frayed cape flaring out impressively. Danny would've whistled in appreciation, but he takes the time instead to wipe the back of his hand across his mouth, smearing the blood running from his nose across his cheek.

"Sorry." He blinks widely, not even flinching as the man with the horns zeroes in on him. "That was rude of me. I have a really bad brain-to-mouth filter; Sam says its what always gets me into trouble."

And she's not wrong either, per say. His smart mouth is what landed him in this situation -- with blood blossom extract running through his veins and cannibalizing the ectoplasm in his bloodstream. Thanks Vlad.

The man grunts at him; a short, curt "hm" that shouldn't make Danny smile, but he does because he's somewhat delirious and probably concussed. The man keeps some kind of distance, sinking towards the shadows of Gotham's alleyway like he dares to melt right into it.

If it's supposed to scare Danny, it doesn't work. Danny's never been afraid of the dark; he's always been able to hide himself in it. He blinks slowly at the mass of shadows.

"You look hurt." The shadows says, blurring together around the edges. Danny squints, and licks his lips to get the blood dripping down his chin off. Ugh, he hates the taste of blood.

"I am." He says, "My godfather poisoned me. M'dying." The agony of the blood blossom eating him from the inside out looped back around to numbing a while ago, so all he feels is half-awake and dazed.

"Hey," Danny stumbles forward towards the man, a bloodied hand reaching out to him. "You-- you're a hero, right? You're not attacking me; which is more than I can say for most costumed people I've met." Maybe it's a poor bar to judge someone at, but he's already established that Danny's not in his right mind.

The man makes no change in expression, but Danny realizes blearily that it's hard to tell with the shadows on his face. He stays still long enough for Danny to latch onto the cape -- stretchy, but almost soft under his fingers.

He looks up blearily into the whites of the man's eyes. "Can you help me? I don't-- I don't wanna die." Again. He doesn't wanna die again. He blinks slow and lizard-like. "I mean- I'll probably get to see mom and dad again, but I told them I'd at least try and make it to adulthood."

There's a clatter down the street, and Danny's ghost sense chills up his spine and leaves a bitter, ashy taste in his mouth. He immediately knows who it belongs to even before the deceptively gentle; "Daniel?" echoes down the way.

"Daniel? Quit your games, badger, Gotham is dangerous for children."

Danny's mouth pulls back, and blood spills against his tongue. "Please." He rasps, and grabs onto the shadow's cape with both hands. "Please. He's going to kill me. Please--"

"Daniel? Is that you?"

His lips part, dragging in air to plead with the darkness again. He doesn't need to, the whites of his eyes narrow, and the cape whirls around him before Danny can blink. Soon swaddled in shadows, the Night lifts him up, and steals him away.

[0booboozefool0]

This might be the most self indulgent thing I’ve ever drawn

[escapism-from-the-real-world]

No, but like Aang probably thought all those people he threw off cliffs or through buildings or delt fatal blows to were fine because he fought Zuko for so long.

Like, man got blown up. Man has had multiple people try to kill him and survived. Man got thrown through buildings and survived. He is that “why won’t you die??” Antagonist (and later fellow protagonist).

Aang has been unknowingly sending people to their deaths because he thought everyone in the fire nation was either an unkillable, little cockroach like Zuko or so overwhelmingly skilled and talented like Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee and would 100% survive that kind of damage.

[king-bumis-armpit]

Hey... If Mai were a bender, do you think she would be great at lightning bending? Would like to hear your thoughts 🖤

Yessss!! I’ve thought about this before. Thank you so much for the ask <3 

I think that Mai would be a great lightning-bender. To quote the Avatar wiki page for lightning generation: “The technique is extremely precise and deadly and is referred to by some as the ‘cold blooded fire’.” Cold blooded fire?! Precise and deadly?! I’m sorry, if that’s not Mai-coded then I don’t know what is.

Let’s break it down in perhaps an obnoxious amount of detail:

Precision. Mai canonically is a knife-thrower with the ability to pin a target’s clothing without drawing blood. She even strikes moving targets. I would argue that Azula, Mai, Ty Lee are a team built on precision. That’s why Azula chose them after all. Ty Lee hits very specific pressure points, Mai hits very specific targets, and Azula executes the most precise and complex firebending moves. It naturally follows that if Mai were a firebender, she would also employ precision based attacks rather than shooting fire willy-nilly like Zhao, for example.

Distance. One notable difference between Mai and Ty Lee’s preferred fighting styles is range. For chi blocking, you have to be engaging in hand to hand combat, or you have to find a way to get close enough to make contact with your target. Mai demonstrates proficiency in close quarters combat, but knife throwing is more effective from a distance. Similarly, the wiki also points out that lightning-bending is shown with varying degrees of build up. Ideally, the lightning wielder has enough time to go through the movements and can strike at their opponent from a safe distance. Since this is Mai’s canonical inclination, I can only assume firebender Mai is the same. 

Emotional regulation. When Zuko attempts lightning-bending, he fails at his attempt because his emotions get in the way. Again, according to the Wiki, “If one attempts to conjure lightning without the required emotional discipline, it can instead result in a huge explosion of fire.” Mai is the epitome of one who can keep their emotions in check. She– perhaps more than anyone– has the focus required to split the positive and negative energies to create the bolt.

Truthfully, I don’t think fire is Mai’s primary element. In the episode “The Firebending Masters,” we learn that fire is actually life energy. I don’t think that young firebender Mai would be able to understand this or feel it intuitively the way a firebending Ty Lee might. For this reason, I think she would struggle at first, and be considered weak. I think she would still choose to learn knife-throwing, and this choice would lead her down the path of discovering lightning bending. One day, while she’s practicing, she tries to hone in on her firebending chi while throwing her knives, to see if she can figure out some sort of combination attack. She’s really just playing around, but she manages to split the positive and negative energy. When she lets go of her knife, a bolt of lightning arcs through the air and strikes her target in the exact same spot. That was the first time Mai truly felt her chi. 

After that day, she would hone her skill in secret. Assuming the Hundred Year War is still happening, Mai wouldn’t dare tell Azula. Despite her aloof exterior, Mai does not want to kill anyone, and she fears what the princess would want her to do. I think she would use lightning only in her greatest hour of need. Perhaps at the Boiling Rock she and Azula fire lightning simultaneously, causing an explosion. Everyone is astonished, still thinking Mai was a weak bender… 

And that’s all I got. That was probably a way more detailed headcanon than you were looking for. I lowkey wanna write an AU like this now, but we’ll see where the inspiration strikes (hehe). 

Thank you again for the ask! I hope you have a lovely day :)

[perdamian]

hey guys… we all know that it’s okay for mithrun to have a caretaker for the rest of his life, right? that even after he heals and potentially regains his desires he will probably still need support?? that the goal of healing is not to become a “normal person”, but to build skills to navigate the world in a way that accommodates your disability??? that relying on the people around you is not a failure, but proof of your desire to live????

[torrancefavgirl]

DATING PERCY JACKSON HEADCANONS NSFW EDITION 🩵

Warnings: smut obviously, language

He's a switch but more dom/top leaning cause he just wants to take care of you

Please scratch his chest and back he'll go insane

Also loves getting his hair pulled

Instant way to turn him on: kiss his neck

You can tell when he's turned on cause he can't keep a poker face to save his life

Bedroom eyes 24/7 without trying his eyes are just captivating

Constantly thinking about you under him or above him cause he's obsessed with you

Will go feral if you say his name everytime

Please moan its such an ego boost for him

Gets off on your pleasure

He'll praise the shit out of you👏

Praise him or tell him he looks good on top of you and he'll cum

Putting you on the kitchen counter to make out all the time

Yep, you've fucked in the kitchen multiple times before

Will make out with you even if his/your parents are in the room next to you

Loves seeing you undress even if it's not gonna go anywhere

An absolute God, whether it's his skill or how he looks when fucking you, it's insane

Walks out the shower with just a towel/boxers on to make you lose your mind

Wears his sweatpants LOW on his hips like you can see his v line and a little hair peeking out

Service top always

His scars make him look ×10 hotter which you didn't think was possible

[konigsblog]

sleeping beside könig is comforting and warm for könig, but a total struggle for poor, little you. 💤

könig tosses and turns the entire night despite being fast asleep. he's a heavy sleeper; even when you push on his broad shoulders in an attempt to roll him off of you, it's all fruitless. he's probably dreaming about marrying you, mumbling your sweet name through deep, guttural snores.

he drools as well... he rolls onto you, heavily sleeping while hunched over you and curled up around your smaller form, with the sheer size of könig's massive, muscular body crushing you. you're awoken in the early hours of the morning, unable to squirm, let alone move beneath the huge, heavy male.

despite being fast asleep, his grip is firm and tightens around your waist when you attempt to wriggle free from his grasp. he feels an immense and intense amount of guilt and shame for the indents and marks left on your waist due to könig leaning down onto you. he curls against your chest, as if he's a little cat, attempting to make himself as small as possible, which usually isn't very small considering the way he towers over you.

[shares-a-vest]

Update: 29/04/24 Now turned into a 1.9k fic here

Eddie begins making a Hellfire t-shirt and declares it is for Steve.

The Corroded Coffin boys oscillate between teasing and confused horror. Dustin is annoyed that it is Eddie who has managed to convince Steve to finally join a campaign, while Lucas is elated and beyond excited.

Mike and Will of course, do everything in their power to stop such a nightmare, including some ill-conceived scheming that is thwarted at every turn by Lucas.

But they needn't worry.

Because Eddie is just simply making Steve a Hellfire t-shirt to sleep in. It's a size too big. He paid extra for the softest cotton and it has short sleeves and a loose scoop neck so it doesn't scratch Steve's scar.

All so Steve can get a cozy night's sleep.