#adopting atlas

[turbonicflaws]

happy Birthday Atom !!

[novaneondream]

@candle-scm you did this to me

[late-draft]

Ever since I saw there are ATLA chibi shorts, my brain has never been the same

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[muffinlance]

Drag queen Zuko.

Pre-canon Iroh drags his sullen and traumatized nephew off the ship to see a show because he needs to relax and think about something other than obsessing over a legend who hasn't been seen in 100 years.

This show happens to be a drag show and tell me Zuko wouldn't be hooked, I mean he gets to be extra and dress up in elaborate costumes, plus feats of athletic prowess. (Zuko trying to get someone to teach him how to do a death drop)

Cue Zuko getting adopted by the other queens with the power of being a grumpy emo pre-teen. Learns self love and acceptance & maybe he doesn't need to hunt down legends to have a family after all?

Zuko goes by the Blue Spirit & is absolutely still doing vigilante stuff but no one can catch him. Iroh is ridiculously proud.

I don't have this one in me but it is JOYFUL so let's slap this up for everyone to enjoy

[lazyveran]

bitching with the boys

[glasscitadel]

Atlas

(And a close-up cause I like da fish)

[majachee]

Avatar sketches omg its been a while since ive consistently drawn a human omg...

[i-love-turtle-ducklings]

Momo & Lee from the Tea Shop

Silly little AU of mine about Zuko & Momo during the Ba Sing Se arc.

Like he does in Canon, Momo wanders around the city in search of Appa. At some point he runs into Zuko and — oh, isn't that this scary fire guy who chased us around the world and somehow always managed to find us?

Momo's first instinct is to run away but… if Fire Guy can find them so easily, he can surely also find Appa. The chances of Fire Guy finding Appa are much higher than with Aang and his friends, so Momo decides to stick around.

Zuko, on the other hand, has reluctantly assumed the identity of tea servant Lee and certainly didn't expect the Avatar's lemur to suddenly appear and follow him at every turn. But hey — that's a good thing, it means, the Avatar is in town and maybe he can blackmail him with that stupid monkey.

There's only one problem: To blackmail the Avatar, he must find and contact him first. So Zuko waits and uses the nights to blue spirit around and look for the Avatar and the days he spends at the tea shop. The stupid lemur won't let himself be locked in a cage but that's fine, after all, he follows Zuko around nonstop.

And as time passes, Zuko wonders how the Avatar can stand it — can't that stupid monkey leave him alone for a damn second?? It's particularly annoying when the lemur climbs over his shoulders while he's serving tea or lies on his face, chirping, when he wants to sleep. Zuko starts to doubt if the Avatar will give up his freedom for the lemur. Maybe he doesn't like that monkey at all and just hasn't found a way to stop it from following him?

Meanwhile, Aang is a little worried about Momo, but he's used to his little friend wandering around on his own. And sometimes Momo comes by in the deep of the night (when Zuko is sleeping) to get some treats, so he's probably fine. Accordingly, Aang does not start a search for the lemur and concentrates fully on finding Appa.

When Zuko finds wanted posters for Appa, but none for Momo, this increases his doubts, and he's fed up with the lemur. Can't it just leave?

What makes it even worse is that the whole tea shop, and Uncle in particular, find it indescribably endearing to see him with the lemur on his head and a sour face. Uncle even tried (unsuccessfully) to teach it Pai Sho. Sometimes Zuko is on the verge of roasting the lemur with a burst of fire, but… no, he can't just harm an innocent animal like that.

And before he knows it, he has gotten used to the little pest and perhaps started to like it a tiny, tiny bit? It's still a nuisance, but maybe — just maybe — it's nice to have a little furry ball snuggle up to him in the night or offer him a handful of berries for breakfast.

Then Zuko frees Appa and Momo leaves with the sky bison. Zuko gets sick and really misses falling asleep with Momo's ears tickling his nose. Sometimes he dreams that Momo visits him and brings him some berries, but these are certainly just feverish hallucinations, right? Right?

Momo doesn't know how he came to like Fire Guy so much, but he's not so interested in why. What is certain is that Fire Guy won't be getting rid of him any time soon.

[stardust948]

Urzai adopts the gaang au

Ozai, mumbling: Where is that idiot?

Katara: Zuko's upstairs.

Aang: I think Sokka went shopping.

Toph: Aang is right here.

Aang: Hey-

Ozai: I meant the spider-fly that I was chasing but thanks for the information, I guess.

~

Ozai, for months: *Debates whether or not he should leave Zuko*

Zuko: Maybe we should split up-

Ozai: ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! How dare you suggest such a thing! *proceeds to go on a 20 minute rant about the importance of staying together*

~

[After the Gaang destroy another cabbage cart]

Cabbage Merchant: You again! You and your brats took everything from me!

Ozai: I don't even know who you are.

~

Lu Ten, out of curiosity: How did all six of you even convince Uncle to team up with you?

Aang: I accidentally blackmailed him after escaping jail.

Sokka and Katara: We showed up at his house in the middle of the night drugged.

Toph: I stalked him so his long-lost wife would quit nagging me.

Zuko and Azula: We're his only biological children and there's no refund button.

~

Ozai: *says something sarcastic*

Sokka: *responds in sarcasm*

Ozai and Sokka: 👀

Katara: Oh no.

~

Ursa: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.

Toph, after Azula read it out loud: Mine just says "Toph no."

Ursa: I want you to apply it to every possible situation.

~

Sokka and Azula: [develops a plan]

Ursa: ...That sounds like a war crime.

Toph: It’s never a war crime the first time.

Ozai: We'll change the laws later. Continue.

~

Ursa: You are our emotional support children.

Zuko: Running across rooftops at top speed and breaking and entering is the first and only option.

Sokka: My favorite weapon is a curved piece of steel that can knock my head off if I don't catch it in time.

Azula: Who needs therapy when you have blue fire, lightning bending, and a bone to pick with the Firelord?

Katara: Nothing you can do will stop me from starting riots and committing ecoterrorism.

Toph: I run con schemes for fun.

Aang: I love announcing to enemies I'm the one they're looking for.

Ozai, sighing: …and you are also the reason we need emotional support children in the first place.

[turbonicflaws]

It’s not raining anymore and I love spending time with you

[emperor-smol]

I tried my hands at the boys from salvage by muffinlance in this lovely palette (+ red)

i recommend the podfic with sound effects it's an Experience

[necrotic-nephilim]

ok ok but jayroytim😏

this feels especially funny if brudick happens in the background and oliver hates the fact he's now in-laws with bruce

so i have to regretfully admit i'm not really a fan of JayRoy, or at least i'm not a fan of the popular version of JayRoy. i think JayRoy could work and would be a lot of fun! but i have *zero* interest in New-52!JayRoy (or New-52!Roy in general) or rlly any version of Jason and Roy on the Outlaws together. both bc i'm a pre-Flashpoint stan at heart. usually i can stand newer content for ship fodder but for these two oh man it grinds my gears how badly Roy got fucked over-

BUT BUT. that doesn't mean i think the ship has *no* merit. because Jason and Roy *do* have some fodder in pre-Flashpoint. they meet briefly when Jason is Robin, and then again when Jason is Red Hood during that Outsiders arc where Black Lightning is in prison. so! there's definitely material to work with. especially playing into the more fucked up nature of Roy knowing Jason when he was Robin. i think it's cute if Jason had a childhood crush on Roy. and maybe Roy even thought Jason was kind of cute, a spunky kid with a lot of energy and passion. then with Jason as Red Hood, Roy openly doesn't trust him and doesn't like that they're working with him. Jason is just a run-of-the-mill villain with a nasty kill count. and sure, Roy's got a record of tangling with people more on the villain side of things, but even going near the Red Hood feels like a step too far.

adding Tim to the mix is really fun. bc honestly it gives Roy some kind of a fetish for guys who have been Robin and i find that to be delightful. like, even if Roy just sees Jason as the Red Hood, he can't *quite* let go of the image of Jason as Robin. like it just won't get out of Roy's system ever since Jason came back. i think, if i were to write these three together, i'd have Roy and Tim get together first of all people, just because Roy is trying really hard to stop thinking about Jason as Robin, especially now that Jason is older and a little meaner. he's full of guilt about it, and he can't talk to Dick because he's still not sure where Dick's feelings fall about the whole Jason thing so. he goes to Tim instead, thinking if he fucks a different Robin, maybe he'll get it out of his system. Tim's pretty and he's just old enough that it's not *too* morally questionable for Roy to seek him out. it takes a while for Roy to work up the nerves because he and Tim aren't particularly close, so how do you even approach that conversation to make it look organic. it's awkward and Tim can definitely tell something is up but hey, who's going to say no to Roy Harper offering sex? one of Dick's best friends? especially if we put this right after Kon and Bart's death where Tim is just. sort of lonely and seeking companionship. in some ways,, Roy would remind him of Kon, just a little. that sort of cocky attitude and snarky smile.

i would add Jason in by having JayTim happen alongside RoyTim. it's not like Roy and Tim are serious enough to be exclusive and Tim knows Roy is sleeping around, so Tim ends up in a weird hatefucking situation with Jason, which definitely was not supposed to happen. Jason just has a damning way of getting under Tim's skin and won't stop bothering Tim until he gets some kind of attention from Tim. and somehow Jason is interesting enough for Tim to cave. and he doesn't even think about the two relationships he's balancing until he happens to sleep with Jason after being with Roy the night before and there are still marks all over him and Jason does *not* like sharing. so when he interrogates Tim and gets nothing, he does the reasonable thing of stalking Tim to figure out who it is. and it just happens to be the guy Jason had a crush on as a kid.

i think Roy finding out he tried so hard to avoid Jason that he accidentally ended up with the same fuck buddy as Jason would be the funniest thing in the world. like it's not something he can run from anymore and he has to accept that. he tries to awkwardly ask what Tim even sees in the guy bc well, Jason's a killer and not known for being mentally stable. but he's also the guy who exonerated Black Lightning with no real motive besides just helping out. he's complicated and Roy doesn't know how to react. Tim just sort of shrugs bc how do you even explain Jason Todd and well, one thing leads to another and Tim ends up in the middle of the most emotionally charged threesome he's ever been in. love the idea of Jason and Roy using Tim as a toy while they work out their feelings for each other. to me that's the peak dynamic. Jason and Roy are pissed about liking each other and somehow, Tim got roped into things. their relationship is not healthy or normal whatsoever, but somehow, they end up balancing each other out nicely.

background BruDick is also hilarious tho. bc there is no one who hates Bruce more than Oliver and he'd be so annoyed that not only did Roy get tangled up with the Bats, but now everything is so weird their families are pretty tangled together and Oliver has to deal with Bruce a lot more than he wants to. and he's glaring daggers about it the whole time.

[waterfire1848]

Give me a fic where Hakoda goes to Ba Sing Se with Sokka and Aang (when Aang goes to get Sokka because he has a vision that Katara is in trouble) and Hakoda sees Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee and is just like “Where are their parents? What kind of parents let their children wonder Ba Sing Se all alone?!” (Yes, he knows he did that too but he’s here now).

[demaparbat-hp]

crawling up the walls over zuko kyosho makeup concept uGH

Bit of a sneak peek!!!

In this AU, Zuko is sort of an unofficial warrior. He wears face paint, but the style is mixed with that of a river spirit from home. He has a headband engraved with the character for fire. He fights, sometimes with the fans, sometimes with the niuweidao. Armor? Sure, but does it come in black and red?

There's definitely some Kyoshi influence in his life, but he's still Zuko. And that's something I love about him.

[muffinlance]

I s w e a r I remember you having a fic about Zuko's hair being super long and him joining the gang early?? But I can't find it on your AO3-

Was that someone else (and if so do you know who?) Or is there just somewhere else it would be?

You want the Herbalist!Zuko Au, which is in my prompts collection:

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