#zhao and childe

[aangarchy]

Y'ALL

Now THIS is the first look they should have given us from the start. Not those bad photoshopped pictures with generic backgrounds. At least here we see the costumes come to their full potential!

[incorrect-ironwidow]

Zhuge Liang: how are you feeling?

Sima Yi: fine, except for this headache that comes and goes

Zetian: *enters*

Sima Yi: there it is again

[zishuge]

Hey... what were Old Ning and Beauty talking about in the inn just now? Why did his expression change? A Journey to Love (2023) | Ep. 7

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

WHAT is zhaos Problem 😭

everybody but him (and azula but thats diff) is frowing WHATS HIS BEEF WITH THIS 13 YEAR OLD??

[ginsoakedgirl80]

[spicyliumang]

[Yakuza oc/Parent AU]

Jiji is growing up :')💙

[pinkypastal]

Genshin impact characters as drinks from this one cafe I went to because oh my god-

[hideyseek]

✨ weekend wip exposure club ✨

rules: post 7 sentences/a snippet of an unfinished work

tagged by eru @forerussake mwahhhhhh thank u !!!!!!! it's just past the weekend but here's a little bit more from the frustration fic, which is a fun (for me) glimpse into zhao yunlan's dynamic with his dad in his early days as sid chief, pre-drama canon:

“--but there are other people’s lives on the line in this job, Yunlan,” his father is saying now, fierce and quiet, the way he gets sometimes. “You can’t be sloppy with the things that have been entrusted to you anymore. You’re an adult now, and you need to act like it.”  Zhao Yunlan’s ribs ache. He wants a smoke. He wants to fall asleep for the next twenty hours, and wake up to his mom’s home cooking. He opens his eyes again. His father sighs, short and sharp. “Yunlan, I know you find all this lecturing tiresome. I don’t want to do it either — there are other important things that my time is needed for. But the Special Investigation Department has a reputation to uphold, and I can’t bear to see that reputation tarnished because I convinced Lao Zhang that handing the reins over to my son wouldn’t be a bad decision.”  As if Zhao Yunlan wasn’t already trying to prove that it wasn’t, with every piece of himself that he could scrape together. He pushes off the wall. “Look, dad, I get the message. Do better next time, loud and clear."

tagging: @crehador @iamanonniemouse @zrllosyn @frogiwi @strangegeology @evolutionsbedingt @motionalocean if you'd like!!!

[ihavea-natural-curiosity]

okay but like zhao is such a creep and i feel like it's not talked about enough

like literally every interaction he had with zuko makes me so uncomfy

like there's something called "taking a step back", you should try it sometime bc that is a 16 YEAR OLD you don’t need to be that close to him, i PROMISE your point will still be made more than 5 inches away from him

he's so icky

[ishipgenfics]

Cuckoo-Vipers Continued: Part 2

Still based on Cuckoo-Vipers by @muffinlance! Go read it if you haven’t, its great. Also go read my first post about it if you want to know who Asagao is. 

“Daughter, please,” Dad said, standing in front of the wall of blue fire. “Get down from there.”

Asagao frowned. “Mom said I could.”

“She what--”

Dad turned towards Mommy, who shrugged. “If she wants to start making friends with the new Firelord, who am I to stop her?”

Dad sighed. “Daughter. Please. Do not go with Azula.”

Cousin Azula’s grip around her tightened, and her voice echoed throughout the hall of the Fire Lord. “This may be rude to say, Iroh, but I don’t particularly believe you have a choice.”

Dad took a step towards the throne. “Niece--”

Azula’s eyes narrowed, and Asagao thought she could see lightning prickling at her fingertips. “You. Don’t get to call me that.” 

“Niece, please.” Dad looked... scared. Asagao didn’t understand why. Cousin Azula was scary, sure, but only to people who deserved it, like Scary-Fire-Man and Rat-Weasel. She wouldn’t hurt Dad!

... but there was lightning at Azula’s fingertips.

Azula tugged at the fancy Fire Lord robes. “’Zula?” she whispered.

Cousin Azula looked down, eyes softening slightly. It wouldn’t have been noticeable to anyone else, but Asagao could /tell/. “Yes?”

“Don’t hurt Dad, please. He’s not like the rat-weasel and he’s a weaker dragon than you. The dragons by your side would miss him if he was gone.”

Asagao was becoming farely fluent in Azula-speak. 

Azula sighed deeply. “Very well, little dragon.”

Her gaze settled on Dad. “You. Go.” 

Asagao frowned.  She wanted to tell Dad about all the stuff she did, about how well she’d firebent, about how she’d met the Avatar! But there was time, she supposed.

Mommy turned to leave after him, but Azula held up a hand. “You, go get my brother. He’s probably off feeding the turtleducks, or something else inane. And the Avatar too, if he hasn’t already run off.” There was a flicker of genuine worry in this bright golden eyes, and Asagao patted her leg. 

Mommy nodded, and walked out of the room, heels clicking on the cold stone floor. 

Asagao gasped. “I get to meet the Avatar?” 

Azula smirked. “Why yes, you do, if the new dragon can find him. He’s not as impressive as you think he is though. Nothing but a little rabbit mouse who breathes fire and thinks himself a dragon.” 

“How did you meet him?” Asagao asked. 

“Please, Azula,” said a new voice, coming from a person standing in the doorway to the throne room. He looked almost exactly like Cousin Azula. Her cheekbones were a little sharper, maybe,eyes a little less gold, but that was it. If she didn’t know better, she’d think they were twins. “Don’t subject her to your stories.”

Azula crossed her arms. “I am perfectly fine at telling stories, thank you very much.”

Zuko winced. “Azula... most of your stories go, I shot fire. Then he/she/they/an annoying rock died. The end.” 

“Is anything else really necessary?”

Zuko’s eyes went wide. “You- you have to have tension!” he said, gesturing wildly. “Character investment! Plot arcs! You can’t just--” 

“Cousin Zuko!” Asagao said, interrupting the oncoming theater rant. In the throne next to her, Azula let out a quiet sigh of relief. 

“Who are you-- oh,” Cousin Zuko said. “Iroh’s daughter.”

Asagao nodded furiously. “Mhm! I like turtleducks too!”

“Is that so?” Cousin Zuko said. He stepped forward, onto the dais, the blue flames parting around him. Azula did not move to block his path. 

Asagao beamed. “Yeah!” She glanced back and forth. Azula. Zuko. Azula. Zuko. “Woah, you look so similar. If you wore the same clothes I’d never be able to tell you apart!” 

“Really?” Zuko said. 

Asagao giggled. “Well, I guess the voices would give you away a little.”

Some sort of realization seemed to come over Zuko. “Lala--”

“Don’t call me that,” Azula hissed.

Zuko smirked. “Sorry, /Fire Lord/ Lala. Where is Iroh?”

“Oh you know. Here and there.”

“Azula. Please tell me you didn’t /steal/ our baby cousin.”

Azula sniffed. “She’d be better off with me anyway Dum Dum. And I am the Firelord. It’s not like Uncle Useless could do anything to stop me.”

Asagao piped up, eager to be part of the conversation. “She’s really smart. She’s taught me about rat-weasels and dragons and all kinds of stuff!”

Zuko’s brow furrowed. “Rat... weasels? Azula--”

But she never got to hear what Cousin Zuko might have said, because a guard rushed into the hall.

“Fire Lord Azula,” he said, panting. “The Avatar’s bending masters have landed in the courtyard.”

[journey-to-the-attic]

lorddd i had a fever on my birthday so here are some lil jtta and ddvd thoughts!!

ik can have the smallest of a fever and lucifer will not let that child go to school at ALL. he WILL infact do paper work in IK's room just to watch over her. (Zhao in the meanwhile is cooking for her ofc). But in jtta I'm sure it'll be similar but i had the little silly thought of solomon coming over and being like

"i leave a human being with u...and shes sick.." aka solomon vs lucifer custody battle (/j)

i'm sorry to hear that first part!! hope you're feeling better ^^

lucifer is telling mammon off for being too loud AND researching human-world medicine AND trying to make soup AND constantly adding/taking away blankets to regulate ik's temperature, all while solomon sits by the bed and just takes the absolute mick out of him

the lighter ik's illness is, the more he hams it up - "i can't believe you've betrayed me, no humanity, like this...... you of all demons, lucifer....", and lucifer (who is getting Stressed) is one more quip away from just yelling "SHUT THE FUCK UP" at him

meanwhile in the ddvd au, lucifer still starts out being Very serious and business-like about it, but the longer little ik spends sick, the more his ruthless efficiency just COMPLETELY deteriorates

zhao: i think you should have a lie down dear

lucifer, who has been awake for seventy hours straight and has begun haunting himself with the idea that the fever may never go down:

[zukosdualdao]

thinking a lot about zhao & ozai parallels and how zhao is ultimately just the precursor to ozai. ozai is, in many ways, the same character as zhao (#just add child abuse! and more political/bending power but yk.) i mean not literally the same character but with the exact same flaws and similar narrative purposes. we maybe understand a little more context about ozai, given the political complexity and intergenerational family trauma of the fire nation royal family. but at the end of the day, zhao and ozai are both fundamentally cruel, power-hungry, petty men who want to make already vulnerable people small so they can feel big, who make these apocalyptically bad plans (killing the moon/burning down the earth kingdom and taking over the rest of the world) so that they can have these legacies where they are remembered as Extremely Powerful and Significant, the rest of the world be damned. (doesn’t particularly work out for either of them, either. zhao dies in relative obscurity, with no one really remembering him. ozai will definitely be remembered by history, but not in a flattering light, and both his social/political and physical power have been stripped away.)

and this parallel is so significant to me, because it feels very relevant to the way the creators chose to obscure ozai’s face in the first two books, only to reveal it when zuko sees him for the first time since banishment and we see that ozai’s face…. is a completely unremarkable face. it’s just like any other face. and while ozai is powerful and evil and cruel, he, like zhao, is also just some fucking guy.

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

The new show seems to be making quite a few decisions I'm not a fan of, however I will say that no matter how bad or different it gets, at least it (so far) looks like The Last Airbender.

[genshinmp3]

As Light Rain Falls Without Reason from Footprints of the Traveler Vol. 3 Peijia You, Dimeng Yuan, Xin Zhao, Lunan, HOYO-MiX

[spicyliumang]

[Rgg oc kids/Parent AU]

Zhamily portrait with Jia, Cara, Xinyi and Junior!!!💙 @trixibebe

[trashfactorysstuff]

Just thinking on Zhao as a kid. Lil hc but I think he would have a sister.