#collab with katerinaaqu

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❤️ Baby Mine

"...If they knew sweet little you They'd end up loving you too All those same people who scold you What they'd give just for the right to hold you..."

A little bit more of the Avatar AU. I've tarted a series following this short comic of Dilla and Caleb meeting baby Miles/Spider:

It did not take long for Dilla and Caleb to adopt Miles, they had fallen in love with the tiny baby immediately ❤️ They decided to keep the name Miles, to honor the choice of his late birth mother Paz Socorro.

Since the baby was too small for a breathing mask, Caleb and Dilla would at first take turns staying with him at the human facilities. Later Elyon, the head of the facility, arranges for a shack to be placed in the Omatikaya village so Dilla and Caleb can finally take their son home, and care for him there. As Miles grows up, the shack also serves as a resting space where he can take off his breathing mask, eat and sleep more comfortably e.t.c.

When Dilla gives birth to Kai the baby brothers create a bond right away, always snuggling together and crying when separated. Unfortunately at the start they must be separated often since Kai, like all Na'vi and avatars, cannot breathe in human spaces for an unlimited time, and he himself is too little for a mask. It breaks their parents hearts to keep them apart during this first times, but they still make sure they spend as much time as they can together. 

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Caleb...

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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Dilla and Caleb meet baby Miles, and adopt him not long after 💙 An alternative to this:

My heart broke and melted for Spider/Mile's hardships and neglect, therefore me and @katerinaaqu keep including him in our Avatar AU, and I'll be damned if I won't draw this sweet lad the loving family he deserves🥰

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More Mythology AU✨ Caleb sleeps as Goddess Dilla (shifting between her bird and human form) shelters him from the rain. ❤️

As he stirs awake his eyes widen in wonder, captivated by the ethereal being before him. Without thinking his hand reaches out to touch her, desperate to know if she’s real.

In that tender, fleeting moment, Dilla's heart races. This mortal, with his simple gesture, awakens a feeling deep within her, something she has never known in her long, lonely existence.

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This meme. Couldn't resist 😂❤️

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⚠️Self-harm mention trigger warning for one of our characters in particular, Diego.

The characters in our story bear all kinds of scars,

Their scars tell their personal stories of survival, of struggle, of fighting, of growing and learning, and some even hold all kinds of memories.

@katerinaaqu thank you for the mention girl ❤️❤️

scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

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Defenitly not done with Dilla and Caleb adopting Miles/Spider in our Avatar AU! 💙💙

I have tons of drawings for the sweet family and more once I'm finished with my studies, this is one of the sketches ^^

And yes, soon baby Miles will have a brother too 💙

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Z-Dog/Zdinarsik is my favorite of the Recom squad because the moment I first saw her design and clips, my brain screamed "RDA DILLA!!!" 😆

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More Mythology AU sketches ✨

Mother Earth Cornelia, with her children Jaoral and Akule. The pose is inspired by the statue of Leto with Artemis and Apollo, because the connection is just perfect ❤️

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Stray cat breaks into Lynx’s enclosure at zoo

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Caleb for the Mythology AU ✨✨ About to challenge both mortals and Gods with his crazy plans and adventures.

Based on my conversations with @katerinaaqu we took a lot of Inspiration from classical Greek figures such as Diomedes but especially Odysseus.

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"Zola'u nìprrte' ma Miles. Welcome to our family." After watching Way Of Water and reading “High Ground”, It broke my heart how neglected, left behind and pushed aside Miles/Spider was by Neytiri, Jake and basically everyone else besides the Sully children, despite him being so loyal to them and having such a gentle kind heart. 

To make myself feel better I just had to include him in our Avatar AU, in which Dilla and Caleb definitely adopt him wholeheartedly, and Miles finally has a mother, father and brother to belong to 💙

Latest chapter our Avatar AU written by Katerinaaqu HERE

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Mythology AU ✨

Jaoral and Akule, the Moon and Sun siblings 🌙☀️ Children of Ballard the God and guardian of the Underworld and Cornelia the Goddess of nature and Earth.

Don't have my Wacom for the next week so I'm relying on traditional sketching for now 🫣

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Oh dear, the thought of Diego being in any way a reflection of self is absolutely terrifying! Caleb resonates on trauma and stress, but Diego is a stark reminder of just how crucial mental health is, and how you can be a victim of yoursef and your poor choices

i am a firm believer that ocs are a reflection of the self in the way that every character you create has to hold some piece of you to really feel alive. sometimes this is why all your ocs have certain traits, sometimes this is why you can track your various issues and traumas all the way from middleschool to now based on what your ocs are like. this is a feature not a bug

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 Diego and Dilla adore each other to bits, and they don't argue ever. In Caleb's dreams of course. In reality they are usually at each others throats😆

Diego's dislike and jealousy of Dilla is not really connected to how he feels about her as a person, but rather it all boils down to her relationship and romance with Caleb, which stings Diego's complicated feelings that he never admitted to Caleb, or even to himself. Dilla can perceive such feelings and has compassion, but even her compassion is not enough when Diego throws his unhinged nasty attitude and insults at her, and she often bites back. Dilla also fails to communicate with Diego, pressing on certain wounds without meaning to at times.

Collab story with @katerinaaqu, check her written work on my pinned post ❤️✨❤️

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CalebXDilla Mafia AU ❤️

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