#Learning to Fly

[fanboyzuko]

"You said your preferred weapon is dual-broadswords, right? I’d love to spar.” A chance to properly spar with a real Yuyan Archer? As if Zuko was going to pass up that chance! [ID: A digital illustration of Zuko and a Yuyan Archer in the middle of a spar. On the left is the Yuyan Archer jumping up while shooting his bow. Zuko is running toward him and deflecting the arrow with his broad swords. They're both grinning and having fun. /end ID]

Learning to Fly: Ripples Make Waves Chapter Three

Zuko, making friends and finding allies during a brief visit to Pohuai Stronghold? More likely than you think.

Commission by the dearest @dl4draws

Want to follow Zuko's journey from the start of his banishment as he uncovers lost legacies and becomes an Avatar Yangchen fanboy? Read Learning to Fly from the beginning ;3

[musicandoldmovies]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Learning to fly

[grandboute]

Learning to fly - s'envoyer en l'air

Surfing spirit !

[riseoftheochita]

As I promised, the third subroute of Chapter 7 is now out guys!!! Feel free to play and let me know what you think!

[myimaginaryradio]

Learning To Fly - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

[rosetyler42]

XD Here's an image I've had for a while: Between Ericka's love of high places and having Dad's vampire powers, Lucy'd definitely have little qualms about climbing onto very high surfaces when learning to turn into a bat, much to the fear of her dad and the rest of the pack. An ironic cummupence for the guy who threw Dennis off: Having to deal with a stubborn, nearly-fearless kid he has to STOP from throwing herself from high places. (and unfortunately a very real thing where parents underestimate girls and overestimate boys)

Kind of ended up a parallel with the scene with Dennis and the boxes in HT too.

@martin44444 @lovelylivelyv @black-ak9 @hotelt-resurrection @serial-serializednovelreader @wingingfromthezing @heartsong1994 @deathfangirl9 @kittyball23 @ebevkisk @genderqueer-bithing @moraromorita @monstetransylvaniasstuff

[then-ponder]

While working in combinatorics I noticed that we don’t have a word(seamingly) for a object where order doesn’t matter. I suggest “ordn’t”

[fanboyzuko]

Zuko's banishment journey so far: A Recap of LTF

A comprehensive summary of each part leading up to the latest, Ripples Make Waves, as requested by Anon. For an added bonus, a visual timeline of where each part falls! Huh, wonder what's happening at the end of autumn year 3...

Year 1

Zuko is banished and healing from the Agni Kai on his ancient warship, the Sazanami. First stop is the Western Air Temple, where he discovers a hidden room dedicated to his ancestor, Princess Akari, and a mysterious egg kept warm in a magical fire. The room is obviously made by Avatar Yangchen, who he was taught had betrayed Princess Akari which led to her death. But the dedication to Akari in Yangchen's home doesn't line up with that... Zuko takes the egg and keeps it a secret, but the seeds are planted to start doubting what he knows about history and the world.

On the way to find the Eastern Air Temple, Zuko starts connecting with his crew, first step is starting medical lessons with the ships medic, Koji. In their first port stop before the EAT, Zuko blows up on the port's commanding officer in defense of his ship's acting captain, Major Hifumi. This solidifies the crew's support of Zuko but oops making enemies in the FN Navy.

At the Eastern Air Temple, Zuko meets Guru Pathik. From him, he learns that Yangchen and Akari were childhood friends, brought together by Akari's spirit dreams. He also learns that Akari died protecting Yangchen, along side Yangchen's earthbending master, Huizhong. This knowledge makes him uncomfortable and he does his best to ignore it, instead focusing on Akari's spirit dreams. He bulldozes his way through his chakra with Pathik in hopes of connecting with the spirits and learning more about his mysterious egg. He can't complete them because his sound chakra is too obstructed by lies. Guru Pathik advises Zuko to discover the truths of the world on his own to eventually unblock his sound chakra.

Zuko decides he's not going to learn any more from the Air Temples and doesn't gun it for the next one. He wanders for a bit, not sure what to do next when he meets Zhao, who gives him a "lead" on the Avatar. The lead, of course, is false, but in the process Zuko is faced with the uncomfortable reality that people of occupied and neutral towns will be distrusting and scared of him if he presents himself as himself. This primes him to be willing to adopt an Earth Kingdom adjacent disguise when Zhao returns to give him another lead for Wan Shi Tong's library.

(He also bonds more with his crew and becomes besties with two of the youngest crew members, Ju Long and Bun Ma. They're from the colonies and open Zuko's eyes to more of the injustices he's been ignorant of.)

In his search for information about the Spirit Library, Zuko creates the identity of Huizhong (aka Hui), a colony-born, aspiring scholar named after Avatar Yangchen's earthbending master who is interested in researching Avatar Yangchen due to his namesake. As Hui, Zuko meets Professor Zei who is more than happy to share his research of Wan Shi Tong's library. Zei also shares his controversial research of ancient civilizations centered around original benders that could bend two elements. One of his theorized animals happens to be a fire/air dragon...

Armed with all he needs to know to search for the Spirit Library, Zuko and Iroh head into Gaoling to hopefully make contact with a sandbender tribe Zei recommended. Zuko meets Toph and they become fast sparring buddies. Toph helps Zuko meet the sandbenders, who were doing business with her father and weren't leaving the Beifong estate. Due to time constraints (and Zuko self-centered recklessness) Zuko strikes a deal by himself with the sandbenders for them to help him search for the library and leaves Iroh behind in Gaoling.

Sarnai and Ghashiun, the sandbender chief's children, are tasked with taking Zuko around on a sand sailer. Sarnai discovers Zuko firebending his egg and promises to keep his bending a secret. In exchange, they tell Zuko a secret about the Si Wong: they aren't just Earth. Once, they were earth and air, and they learned how to bend from giant flying jerboa who bent both elements. But the jerboa have been extinct for so long that they and sandbenders of air are more myth than history.

Ghashiun also learns Zuko is a firebender after he uses his fire to save them from a sand shark. He only agrees to keep it a secret if Zuko and Sarnai accompany him and some of his friends on a raid on a FN caravan. Zuko reluctantly agrees. During the raid, things almost go VERY south, but Zuko, in an act of desperation to help and not expose himself as a firebender, somehow bends the heat out of a firebender's attack.

With the help of Sarnai, he develops a new firebending technique that harnesses the heat of the world around him to bend. It allows him to use a sand sailer by himself, which is fortunate because a Knowledge Seeker appears and he has to leave by himself to follow it.

Finally at Wan Shi Tong's library, Zuko befriends the Knowledge Seekers. He researches the Avatar and comes to the conclusion they're stuck in the spirit world or something. He also researches airbenders and comes to the realization that the Air Army is a lie and the FN was in the wrong. However he's still very conflicted and has deluded himself into thinking that Sozin was tricked somehow, and that the royal family isn't aware of the truth.

While reeling from this discovery, not so giant flying jerboa appear! Wan Shi Tong has been giving them refuge all this time and they enjoy Zuko's heatbending, perhaps why they chose to show themselves to him. Zuko starts doing more research into Yangchen in hopes of learning more about his egg, and eventually is given Yangchen's memoirs by one of the knowledge seekers.

Zuko learns all about Yangchen's life and her friends. In the process, he also learns that his egg is a remnant of a fire/air society, a fire/air dragon called a lóng, and has been waiting to hatch for millennia! Wan Shi Tong cryptically tells Zuko that the lóng will only hatch when freedom has returned to the world...

World view shaken and a new quest on his shoulders, Zuko leaves the spirit library with the jerboa in tow. He leaves them for Sarnai to find and returns to Gaoling. After a quick visit to catch up with Toph, Zuko returns to Iroh and gets a serious lecture. Also learns that Sarnai and Ghashiun lied to their dad that Zuko was an airbender to explain him taking a sand sailer.

Iroh is surprised by Zuko's admiration for Yangchen and hopes this means Zuko has uncovered the truth of the war by himself... but in his probing, he freaks Zuko out. Thinking he'll be branded as a traitor to the FN, Zuko lies that all his research outside of Yangchen was done in the FN wing of the library. So he might admire Yangchen, but the airbenders changed since her time and became the army that threatened the FN in Sozin's time. Iroh backs off... willing to wait for when Zuko is ready to digest the truth.

Zuko wants to go off the spirit gateways and test his theory that the Avatar is lost in the spirit world. Iroh is adamantly against that lol. So Zuko is stuck wandering around for any sort of lead on spirits or the Avatar. To assist his search and identity as Hui, the crew banded together to get him an Earth Kingdom style sailing boat, which Zuko names the Air Lantern after Akari and Yangchen's fire/air bending form.

(Also, Zuko has started writing letters to the girls back in the FN after sending them presents he got while in the desert.)

The anniversary of Zuko's banishment comes around and he has a little bit of a freak out about it. Zhen, the head engineer of the ship, helps him talk through his emotions and in the process learns the truth about the Agni Kai, something that has been a well kept secret from the public despite Zuko thinking otherwise. Zhen has no qualms about spreading this secret now that she knows... Fuck Ozai.

Continue to Year 2&3 in next post :3

[momoksha]

learning to fly..🕊(x)

[musicandoldmovies]

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning to fly

(compilation album The Best of Everything 1976-2016)

[grandboute]

Learning to fly - S'envoyer en l'air

Surfing spirit - C'est reparti ...

[riseoftheochita]

Status update!

Hey everybody! Quick update! I have been working on the second subroute of Chapter 7 this summer and the progress is good but it is definitely not final yet. In a nutshell you shall be going back to New York, reliving your childhood memories, catching up with long gone friends and if you play your cards right, even train alongside a famous, -then- British officer. And much much more!

Now, since I haven’t updated the story at all since December, I am planning on releasing the first subroute, “Learning to Fly” in a couple of days, once I make sure that there are no bugs and test it a little bit. This will raise the total word count to 68k words.Soooo, stay tuned! Update incomingggg!!!

[punkedsolar]

New Petra, Learning to Fly - Another Hatch.

So the whole New Petra comic is a bit of an experiment for me. The truth is that I don't usually have the patience to go through a whole comic and work on it. I've got a normal job, I run chickens and grow vegetables, I have a kid, a relationship, and I have other family members that need time and/or care.

One of the things that was slowing me down was, well, perfection. If you've seen my orchids, you'll realise I like everything to be extremely damn perfect. I once got in trouble for posting an orchid to a painting area - because 'it's a photo'. That's what I aim for. But that doesn't work with comics.

The reason Learning to Fly is painted is because the moment I start doing trad pen and ink I do exactly the same thing - I obsess over perfection. I've started dozens of comics and never finished any because I get about 3 months in and the load from my life + the comic is not sustainable.

So New Petra is going to be sketchy and somewhat shitty.

It's on Webtoon as well, I'd appreciate follows to keep me honest, but you folks do what you're gonna do! https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/new-petra/learning-to-fly-yet-another-hatch/viewer?title_no=994944&episode_no=6

[trinkastudios]

Ghost of a Bird 10x14 Liftoff 12x12

mixed media on beeswax treated paper