#avatar lian

[lyndexv]

Lian is back (?)

So uh...Looks like Lian could come back (finally), after 16 years of absence, in an official game.

(@pocketramblr)

[bellatrixobsessed1]

Nice to see someone writing about Lian ! Did you know her from the videogames ?

I have played the games but I think that I reached a stuck point before getting to her part. It was actually your post and wiki that introduced me to and helped me to write her character!

[kokoromisworld]

Wait a damn minute-

[overlordneon]

Another valentine's day commission

Some flustered Liantara for @lyndexv

[electricsoul-rpg]

Tian Xiwei (田曦薇) - Han Chinese

as Lian Man'er in Romance on the Farm (田耕纪)

[biconickyoshi]

Omgggg so I just saw some fan art by the user @/_hualianism on Twitter of Hua Cheng from Heaven Official's Blessing (aka Tian Guan Ci Fu/TGCF) as a Zuko-type counterpart in an AtLA AU, complete with a scar over his E-Ming eye and everything!! And of course everyone in the comments is saying Xie Lian would be an airbending Avatar!! Sadly I don't think this artist is on tumblr, but if y'all have Twitter I would definitely recommend go checking out their account!

I literally already have a very detailed brainstorming document of a Zukaang TGCF AU typed up in Google Docs lmao, so I was super giddy when I saw the artist's post. I've thought about sharing all of my brainstorming here - I probably will at some point. Especially if I start drawing fan art of it lol.

This artist seems to have imagined an AU of the TGCF characters in the AtLA universe, which is different from my AU where the AtLA characters are in the TGCF universe. So for example, Zuko is a supreme ghost king and Aang is the Crown Prince of Xianle (turned fallen god), and Katara and Toph serve as Feng Xin and Mu Qing roles respectively.

[rnufharose]

“There are two possibilities. One, I was here to see you. Two, I was bored… guess which?”

[ying-an-sanren]

I went to watch Avatar 2...

[sidecharactersdomatter]

Thoughts I had during TGCF S1 Ep 2

-Previously on TGCF… (Classic ATLA reference, and my whole experience summarized in this fandom is, “It really is for the fans who grew up watching and loving The Last Airbender”)

-More Butterflies!

-Aiaigasa!

-So much blood…

-“As if he’s walked a million miles…” (that subtle foreshadowing)

-Honey, He looks a little too good looking to be the Ghost groom

-The Rain stopped

-He’s removing the veil

-That was also foreshadowing wasn’t it (I’ve heard spoilers, and the final 8th book just came out sry)

-Ugh it’s an ugly mob, and it’s headed by the same bald jerk

-You’ll find out near the end of the season XL(I’ve already watched all of S1) 

-Ooh it ties in with Ep 1

-That temple looks abandoned, and the animation camera for walking inside

-The brides are all dead

-There’s that song again

-Another different walking perspective

-Woah black smoke

-There’s the ugly mob

-The fact that he though XL was a woman…

-The blinking I can’t XD

-Hi Nan Feng and Fu Yao :D

-Hehe Xie Lian’s aggressive kindness

-Thank You Nan Feng

-I wish the Ghost Groom was the bald mercenary

-Hey Xiao Ying

-When the mob scooched away from Bride!Lian I freaking lost it XDXDXDXD

-And Xie Lian’s face XD

-Also I called it she fixed his dress and makeup Yes!

-And Nan Feng and Fu Yao inch away instead of defending him!  

W H E E Z E! XD

-The fact they both agreed to not explain anything XD!

-That’s just disrespectful

-Great more bride zombies

-That’s gonna end up bad

-It really is disrespectful

-Thank you whoever just threw the rock

-More camera shaking

-And of course you’re leaving her with the deceased brides SMH all of you

-Is he Naruto running right now?

-I really don’t believe that whole “Nothing ventured nothing gained” phrase in this age

-How do you like that?  Instant trauma

-It really is for an older audience

-Now NF and FY got concerned

-And hurting the injured is a real low for the mob

-Pengtou you asshole

-Thank you Xie Lian or should I say, Xie Xie Xie Lian, (Yeah I’m gonna go see myself out now)  Bad Pun count: 1

-That’s nice Nan Feng

-They have enraged the ghost groom

-Xiao Ying is a real friend

-That explains the Nan Yang temple

-I love you Nan Feng

-KO!  Flawless victory!

-So the Ghost groom is a ghost bride

-No veils

-And I thought Pengtou was the ghost groom

-Zombie brides!

-Aw great it’s a cliffhanger

-Ooooh a new ending!

[muqingapologist]

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

this is such a hard question because i’ve gone through so many phases of obsessing over pieces of media in my life, and sometimes it’s really hard for me to parse which characters are lasting favorites and which are just part of that phase. but i’ll try! keep in mind, lots of sentimentality ahead…

and this is in no particular order.

1. wei wuxian (the untamed)

ok so this kind of goes along with a previous post i made discussing my feelings of the mdzs book vs. the untamed. when i first watched the untamed at the recommendation of a friend, it was so unlike anything i’d ever seen before. and wei wuxian was so unlike any protagonist i’d ever encountered before. his determination to do what’s right no matter what others do, but also not being above experiencing doubt and uncertainty about his decisions, really touched me. also of course his carefree attitude toward life is something i repeatedly try and fail to achieve myself. it might also have to do with xiao zhan’s acting choices, but he really touched me as a character. it’s hard for me to say if the wwx of the book did the same organically because i read it over a long period of time after watching the show, so im just going to count the untamed version.

2. shizuku tsukishima (whisper of the heart)

this one is probably pretty niche but allow me to give my most heartfelt recommendation of whisper of the heart, my favorite ghibli movie and one of my favorite films of all time. shizuku is the protagonist of the film. she’s a young girl, probably about 14, and so far, her life has been defined by satisfying her imagination by always reading fiction, immersing herself in stories. inspired by the love interest of the film seiji, she decides she wants to try to be a writer. the film is kind of like a slice of life over a few months of this time, and we see shizuku struggle with perfectionism and wanting to follow her dreams and inability to take criticism, etc. i rarely cry over movies but i cried at this one because i had just never felt so seen by a character. everyone please watch whisper of the heart!🙏

3. prince zuko (avatar: the last airbender)

i think 50% of the reason he’s on here is sentimentality since avatar was a show i watched so much throughout my childhood and of course again more recently with its resurgence in popularity, but also what can i say? his character arc is unmatched. i won’t rehash the details. i will say uncle iroh would probably be here instead if we knew any more about his past because he’s off-screen journey is just so fascinating to me.

4. percy jackson (percy jackson & the 12 olympians)

PURE sentimentality but ya know….also im only considering this character how he exists in the original series. he kind of lost me in heroes of olympus. but yeah percy jackson was the first character that really impacted me back when i was 9, and i think i still carry that impact to this day. i also think the original series still holds up reading it as an adult.

5. kim wexler (better call saul)

kim nation!!! reveal yourselves!! i watched better call saul a little over a year ago and damn, it’s so rare to find such interesting, well-developed, flawed within reason female characters in a tv drama like this. her intelligence and her tendency to get carried away with jimmy don’t contradict each other but work together. her emotional journey….UGH!! kim x post-prison jimmy, who else hopes?

6. xie lian (tgcf/heaven official’s blessing)

so this one is new and i’m not completely sure the deep impression will last yet, but i’ll explain. when i first read tgcf about two years ago, i kind of skimmed because it was so long, and the feelings i had toward xie lian were…not super favorable. i was kind of bored by him and….i saw him as a lesser wei wuxian. AND I WAS WRONG!!! because i reread tgcf finally a couple of months ago, no skimming, really thinking about what i was reading and now i love him. his journey from optimistic prince who had never before suffered to carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders to nearly collapsing under that weight but despite all odds, pulling through and once again finding that optimism, or at least hope. it touched me so much this time around!!! also i don’t know why i thought he was boring first time around. this guy is funny as hell! anyway, lots of lessons to apply to my own life and whatnot.

7. ninth doctor (doctor who)

guys….hear me out. notice im not saying “the doctor” because i think most of doctor who is just nonsense. but that one season with the ninth doctor (and okay i like the tenth doctor’s seasons well enough, or i did really love them. less so these days…). so much potential. so when i say he’s one of my favorite characters ever, i accept that it’s mostly the version of the doctor that lives in my head and isn’t subject to the bad writing decisions made later in the show. it’s a lot of sentimentality, but i am really fascinated by this traumatized alien guy who just lost his entire people, finding himself devolving into more violent, unforgiving tendencies, but meeting rose, jack, whoever else along the way is able to remind him of not who he was but who he could be. of course doctor who is forever ongoing though so character development can only go too far lol.

8. nozue (old-fashioned cupcake)

this is also brand new so not sure if lasting because i only just read and watched ofc, but man. this guy’s journey from being defeatist about getting older and turning 40, being afraid of trying anything new, to allowing himself to experience new things, one of those things being falling in love! his whole concept of using regret as fuel for happiness, transmitting that idea to togawa who transmits it back to nozue later!! ahhh!! so like my love for this character might actually just be love for the entire story but i can’t not mention it every five seconds rn so….

9. isabel archer (portrait of a lady)

so this is the protagonist of henry james’s portrait of a lady, which i finally finished reading last month. and gosh! well the book itself was amazing, but i was especially touched by isabel’s character, mainly because she just felt so realistic. her motivations, her goals, her shift, her sorrows, they all feel earned, creating an incredibly vivid character that i think most people can find something in there to relate to, especially other women who have always been told they are clever and imaginative and yet find themselves struggling internally to live up to those expectations.

10. natasha rostova (war and peace)

it’s been years since i read war and peace in my university freshman seminar, so it’s hard for me to speak on the details of why exactly this character is here. but also it’s no surprise because this is a character that continues to be the star of russian literature. what i can say, she’s another bright, carefree character (clearly symbolizing aspects of russian culture but even beyond that) who it’s impossible not to feel deeply connected to. she goes through some pretty life-altering stuff in war and peace (everyone listen to the musical called natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812 for those details!!) and as the reader, you just really feel for her. idk man she still stands out in my mind, but also this is also much thanks to the musical i just mentioned above.

i kind of came up with these on the spot so like…who knows how accurate this is, but i like to talk about the things i like so sue me. thank you for the question though!!

[peridot-tears]

FangHua is the Lian Hua Lou fandom's Kataang.

DiHua is the Lian Hua Lou fandom's Zutara.

I'm right.

[yiling-patriarch-kinnie]

I know I'll never find anyone who's into both ATLA and TGCF at the same time, but I'm fully convinced that if Hualian met Iroh and pretended to be humans, after they leave he'll just go: "Man, they're shit at disguises"

[hualianff]

Na’vi AU

Na’vi Xianle quartet grow up sleeping in a cuddle pile.

The order typically goes HC > XL > MQ > FX.

Whenever FX, MQ, and HC arrive first, they’re all like 🧍🏻🧍🏻🧍🏻and just leave a space for XL in the middle.

If HC is the last one to arrive, he typically yeets himself into the pile - makes the bed go swinging and jostles everyone silly. It becomes a sacred ritual, much to MQ and FX’s annoyance; not even HC’s sudden growth spurt that has him shooting past the others in height deters the youngest from flinging himself into the bed. 

(HC preparing to pounce…

MQ: “ok ENOUGH”

HC pauses his movements: “wait, the universe seems to be telling me something”

FX: “oh?”

XL: 🥰🥰 “I’m ready when u are, San Lang”

HC, taking a few steps back on the branch: “it’s time for a running head start” 🫡

XL, with the most fake serious face ever: “guys, we must accept it if it’s eywa’s will”

MQ: “THAT’S BULLSHI-“ 

MQ proceeds to get wrecked by HC landing on him.

FX tries to coach MQ into fighting back: “JUST COME OUT ON TOP-“

MQ, trying to crawl out from under HC’s weight: “FUCK YOU, YOU’RE TAKING MY PLACE NEXT TIME!”

Pan out to other cuddle groups looking over in confusion from their peaceful beds.)

FX sleeps on his front, face buried in his arm. MQ sleeps on his side, curled into a little ball. XL sleeps on his back and just 🥰🥰 with whoever he’s clinging to. HC prefers to bury his face in XL’s hair or the crook of his neck. 

HC was actually the last to be invited to the cuddle pile. In the beginning, if he was ever next to FX, he’d do his little bunny feet kicks against the other’s abdomen until FX moved over with a groan, thus, allowing HC to nuzzle against XL. (a grade A brat, as FX would say.)

Nestled in the middle like the spoiled prince he is, XL smiles in his sleep. When he’s the last to wake up, the others will take a moment to stare at the way XL’s lips curve up as he snuggles against whoever is closest in search of warmth. 

If FX sleeps on the outside, he instinctively wraps his tail around the others. (No matter how much they complain about it after waking up, MQ and HC secretly like it.) MQ sleeps with his tail holding the wrist of whoever is at his back, which is usually FX.

XL sleeps with his hair neatly tied down, a low ponytail or braid. MQ takes great care of his hair, always braiding it before bed. 

HC and FX usually leave their hair down, except for some reason, FX’s stays perfectly intact while HC’s always ends up a tangled mess. 

***

For as long as he can remember, HC has had trouble falling asleep. He definitely runs on below the recommended amount of hours of sleep for a maturing na’vi, but he doesn’t feel sleepy enough when it’s time for bed.

The trio learns this very soon because they’ve actually never seen HC fall asleep before their very eyes. One of them might wake up in the middle of the night and see HC staring up at the dark sky with a blank face. 

FX will usually just ask “hey, are you okay?” And HC will say yes, that he also happened to coincidentally wake up in the middle of the night. MQ will tell HC to sleep, always using the excuse that the next day’s duties will be tough and HC needs to have energy to handle them properly.

And then XL will place a hand on HC’s forehead, making sure he’s feeling alright. That hand will pet HC’s cheek, then slide to stroke his ear, and finally rest on the back of HC’s head. 

HC: “you don’t need to worry about me, go back to sleep, gege”

XL, stifling a yawn: “hmm, let’s talk for a bit. sleep will come to us soon.” 

HC, huddling closer to XL: “...okay” ;)

***

w/ @no-one-says-hi

[no-one-says-hi]

[Olo’eyktan Xie Lian officially mates Hua Cheng, Eywa’s chosen one.]

[overlordneon]

[AO3] Idealism Sits in Prison by pocketramblr

Summary:

Lian feels the weight of the war like she sometimes feels the phantom weight of stones cutting into her back. Like she felt the weight of expectations she couldn't reach because no one really looked at her. But then, in an unlikely place, she finds someone who does look at her, with the brightest of blue eyes and far more kindness than she's ever know. Than she's ever accepted.

Fanfic Cover Art commissioned by @lyndexv Commission Info // Twitter // Patreon

[electricsoul-rpg]

fc: Wang Herun (王鹤润)

ethnicity: Han Chinese