#MoonSlayer

[attackfish]

To be perfectly honest, Ozai/Zhao isn't a crack ship, and in fact given Zhao's track record, it's one of the more plausible explanations for his career trajectory.

[canyon-of-chaos]

laifa doodles + one realistic fox art

[plateaus-canyon]

aw heck yeah B)

[atla-polls]

Best Zhao ship?

Thank you for submitting your question, i look forward to seeing the results!

[horse-fanfics]

Got some art prompts~~~!

Modern au: Azula and Yue visiting a haunted house. Idk why, since it's nowhere close to spooky season, but this has been weirdly on my mind recently lmao

Alternatively, Spy/secret agent au... no real thoughts on this, except I think they'd make a hilarious but weirdly effective duo in these circumstances (or some really interesting adversaries)

Or, more accurately to how the pair of them would probably end up and more plausible to the canon world, old baba yaga-adjacent women living in a cottage deep in the woods, widely regarded by all the surrounding villages as sorceresses whose hut is to be marked and avoided (Azula's fault. Yue is generally well-liked, when she comes to the market by herself).

Anyway, I can't wait to see whatever art you post next, on the list or no! Always love seeing it on my dash 👍🏻

These were all such great ideas! How well I managed to portray them... That's up to you, LOL. The spy one makes me laugh way too hard, it was the first thing to come to mind, and after that, I couldn't for the life of me think of anything else!

Extra little joke and some yapping under the cut

Typically, I would've swapped the costumes. But, I really wanted to see Yue dressed up as Howl... of course, you end up not able to see her the whole time! Also, I wanted to do an extra little sketch at the end of the "Zhao" here saying "You don't know Zhao the Moonslayer? Have you been living under a rock? He's only the greatest character since the Jok-" or something ridiculous like that, but then I got lazy.

Also, unrelated to doodles and such, I've got too many WIP fics for these two going... There are at least 5. My latest idea is hands down my favorite, it's so ridiculous. I imagine that if I can figure out an ending for it, I'll be able to start uploading it within less than two weeks!

Anyways, I hope you like these ridiculous sketches!

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

zhao, holding some powerless fish in a bag: i am the moonslayer!!!!!!!!!!! i am zhao the conqueror!!!!!!!!!!!!

momo, first in line to kick his ass: you can conquer these hands !! 🤠👊🏼

[juniperhillpatient]

okay so I’m not overly mad about this more just… confused & amused? but why is jee randomly such a purposefully hateable character & enemy to zuko while zhao - the fucking wannabe MOONSLAYER crazy bitch zhao - is now just… the most forgettable side character of all time ever? like whatever. I like zhao as a villain but also this adaptation is just for fun. it’s not like I no longer have og zhao. so I don’t really CARE… it just seems like such a random & bizarre change that I can’t really understand the purpose of?

zuko already has a canon annoyance always undermining & insulting him & in the context of the competition to capture the avatar it makes sense.

jee’s random persistent disrespect of his prince even during a war meeting while turning zhao into Just Some Guy just seems like a bizarre change that I don’t really get lol

[yaldev]

Moonslayer

“The Grand Chieftess told me about the moons,” said Bruzek.

“Share,” said High Commander Apian. Ascended Generals, Admirals and Sky Authorities were shaping the fate of a continent with a laggy video call.

“We never found them because they never leave the continent. Those moons orbit the landmass and form the basis of their calendar.”

The Highest Ascendant was in the call as well, but silent. His eyes were closed so his ears could drink in every detail.

Admiral Kiol scratched his nose. “They have a calendar?”

“The First Tree does.” Bruzek nodded. “Wouldn’t be surprised if they imported it from elsewhere.”

Apian scribbled notes. “You suggest we underestimated the savages.”

“Positive.”

“Are you worried?”

Bruzek spoke with conviction. “No. We underestimated Wojpier, but we won. And Wojpier was a greater foe than Yaostay could ever be.”

Admiral Kiol blinked to hide his rolling eyes. “Anything else about the moons?”

“Not that she said, but I have guesses. Some of these moons are full of precious material, and the First Tree knows this, but they’re still choosing not to mine them.”

“Sounds like religious significance,” said one of the Sky Authorities. Their branch was new, and recruited from the Navy. Bruzek hadn’t learned their names yet.

“Occult significance,” he said, “so even if there were no tactical benefit, there is a civic duty to remove them.”

“You think there’s a tactical benefit?”

Bruzek got two syllables into an answer before Apian interrupted him. “General Bruzek prioritizes the cultural angle. Cults were a center of hostile activity in Asteria, and still are. Cleanse a culture, cleanse its morality.”

The Highest Ascendant cleared his throat, his eyes still shut. All attention went to his corner of the screen. He breathed out. Bruzek’s fingers twitched. Parc Pelbee’s incarnation in the world was about to condemn the General’s madness, or praise his genius. The Emperor cleared his throat again, but it sounded strange.

The arm of his aide was briefly visible, reaching across his keyboard to mute his snoring.

Apian tried to restrain his laughter by moving on to concluding remarks. Bruzek tried to listen, but the interruption echoed in his skull. That wasn’t like Apian. He must have been spending time with Cosal.

When the call was over, Bruzek knocked three times on his desk. Brigadier Demlow opened the door to the office and saw his commanding officer massaging his forehead. “How’d it go?” “Cosal might be my boss again. Apian’s grooming him to be the Grand General.”

Demlow winced.

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Yaldev is a sci-fantasy worldbuilding project by Ulysses Maurer, with art by Beeple. By looking at narratives, stylized loredumps, bad poetry and little details, we'll witness the story of a planet filled with magical power, the nation which tried to conquer it, this empire’s dramatic collapse and the new world which emerged in its wake. Along the way we'll meet the characters who live here, and we'll explore questions about nationalism, rationalism, the natural world and the quest to master it. For all stories in chronological order, check out the pinned posts at r/Yaldev!

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I'm assuming that Kya was a casualty of an attempt on Hakoda's life by Fire Nation assassins in an attempt to decapitate the Southern Water Tribe's military command and turn the tide (har har) of the war.

Iroh... I can see Iroh's arc going one of two ways in this. Either he's hailed as a war hero in the Earth Kingdom for helping to break the six hundred day siege of Ba Sing Sei, or he wages a six hundred day siege against the north pole that ultimately fails but still stands as the most successful offensive that has been made against the North to date. Either way, Lu Ten still dies.

They try to hide Katara's status as a water bender (no duh) whiel traveling through the Earth Kingdom. Bumi sees through it no problem.

Zhao's arc remains largely unchanged, with only the perspective and justification shifting. He's a zealot. His side of the war is on the back foot, and they need something drastic to give them an advantage, no matter the cost. And so he still winds up hatching a variant of his Moonslayer plot from canon.

Alternatively, Zhao winds up as something akin to that Earth Kingdom guy... ah, General Fong, trying to use force to bring out the avatar state. His canon arc then gets merged with Hama's; a waterbender soldier who got captured and held as a POW by the Fire Nation before eventually escaping, and the experience turned her into a fanatic. I can't really see her killing the sun, but I can see her trying to track down and kill the two last surviving dragons.

Is Zuko still hunting Aang here, do you think? Do Fire Nation spies see the avatar traveling with the daughter of the Southern Chieftain and make the wrong assumption that he's gone over to the enemy side? Do they think that he's been taken captive and Zuko goes/gets sent on a suicide rescue mission? Is his actual target the Water Tribe siblings, and he's as gobsmacked as everyone else when the weird bald kid tagging along with Katara starts airbending?

ok yes it’s fun to think about atla roleswap AUs where the fire nation is good and the water tribes are bad, but ultimately they wouldn’t really work because if sokka had been on the bad side then the bad guys would have won full stop

[churro-lord]

Yippie!!! Lofam 5 act 2 just dropped! I was lucky enough to be able to do the track art for Moonslayer, it was super fun to work on ^u^

Tysm for letting me contribute :D!!

Commissions | Ko-fi

[nightmarecasterart]

Attack 19 part 2 of the VLD Mass attack. Like before I'll be listing the Characters and their owners below:

Moonslayer owned by Fennedragon341 Trethream owned by -Crow- Haszik owned by FoxInRL Anchor owned by da3monic  Jackal owned by @autistic-council-spectre Odelle owned by Zozoboby Alra owned by @flarexdraws Ezra owned by Arin_

[attackfish]

5hc for an Ocean Spirit Katara AU? (Like in the same sense that yue was blessed by the moon spirit?) I can’t remember if you have one for that or not, but it’s a favorite premise of mine

I don't. The closest I have is a Katara-Yue role swap, where Katara becomea the moon. So you get a whole new AU.

1. Katara is born silent, eyes closed, not crying. Her chest barely rises and falls. This happens. Some babes are born only to die. There is nothing to be done. It has happened as long as children have been born. Nothing to be done? hisses Kanna as her son and his wife weep, caught between the exhaustion of birth, and the grief of losing a child they will never get to know? Nothing to be done? She takes the baby from her son's wife and carries her to the frigid ocean. She dips her in the water and begs. There is no oasis here, no koi, but surely the Ocean Spirit is in the ocean. Ocean, give her granddaughter the strength to live.

2. Katara's eyes open, and her mouth opens to wail. Her dark brown hair turns a bright watery blue. Kanna wraps her granddaughter up tight, and holds ber close to keep her warm, and carries her back to her parents.

3. Little Katara grows up, bright, strong, and a waterbender, the only waterbender at the south pole. She is in all ways a normal little girl, and a loving sister and daughter, but to the people of her village, she is a miracle child, saved by the spirits themselves, and marked by them too. Sokka, in the face of this, struggles fo be seen, to be noticed, not by his parents, but by everyone else. It galls, to be known as Katara's brother, when Katara is just his annoying little sister with weird water powers and weird blue hair. Sorry Sokka, your sister is an anime protagonist, and you got to learn to live with it.

4. Then their mother dies, ans their father leaves and they find the Avatar, and leave on adventure, and it's all big and new, and Katara has to cover her hair to keep it from being noticed, and they're chased by Zhao and Zuko, and they make all the way north, and Katara has to fight to learn waterbending, but finally, finally they make it, and she gets to learn.

5. And then Zhao attacks the Northern Water Tribe fortress, and marches to the Spirit Oasis to kill the moon, and he... kills the wrong fish. The ocean draws back as if there is about to be a tsunami, but the water just keeps drawing back, exposing the deep dark parts of the sea that have never seen the sun, and Katara, blessed by the ocean itself, knows what she has to do.

[canyon-of-chaos]

Listened to Showdown! from the Undertale Yellow OST and made a laifa art based on it

[plateaus-canyon]

Laifa doin a,, whatever shes doin

(Bright color + eyestrain warning. Very saturated colors ahead)

[just-jae]

I like some aspects of it, like. I think its worth watching, especially if you’re open to a slightly different take on certain characters.

It has glaring flaws, like dialogue and technical visuals (lighting, costumes etc) but, Even though I was already privy to the Avatar story, I found the execution still creative and heartful, and genuinely interested in where things were going. The actors were well chosen (I think the only characters who feel off/akward are GranGran and Suki… so far at least) and the deviations from the original character portrayal add more than they subtract (Aang is the one character who feels like there’s less, bc he’s meant to be more “mature” and grim and ends up coming off as preachy, but that’s balanced by how they manage to get you to care about who Zuko’s crew is, deepening the relationship between Zuko and i mean Iroh, and making Lieutenant/Admiral/conqueror/MoonSlayer Xiao genuinely fun to watch. Like. I didn’t give 2 shits about animated Xiao, forgot he was even a character, but this Xiao made my eyebrows pop up like “this bitch—“.)

Like, Zuko, feels his age, Azula feels her age. Katara’s character has more of a coming of age feel vibe (learning to lock horns and be ferocious, believe in her abilities etc) while Sokka’s is like a toxic masculinity story, instead of him learning to not be sexist, he’s learning to apprieciate and value other aspects of himself instead of suppressing and neglecting them to be what everyone else sees as valuable.

I like it. Its flawed, but worth watching for sure. Like dont watch it looking for a better or equal version of the original it has different themes and different focuses. Its an inherently different story, but unlike the Shamalan movie, its a great story, with great actors.

fuck it I'm interested

[onlyhurtforaminute]

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