#im highly amused bc ive gotten a few comments asking/hoping akari and yangchen are in love

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I love making picrews of my Team Avatar Yangchen or as I’ve been calling them: Team Lesbians + One (Good) Man as featured in Learning to Fly Part 6: Sands of Time

NGL at first I didn’t have intentions of drawing parallels to the Gaang. Akari was the only one fleshed out and was pivotal to the development of the whole LTF au. Huizhong was "earthbending master that died for Yangchen” and there was just a nameless waterbending master. But then I had a laugh bc here we are, Air Avatar w/ a Fire Nation Royal BFF and that’s what Aang and Zuko become... and then I was like whelp we gotta keep playing with that it’s too good to pass up. So Huizhong, Siniq, and Tarkik were born lol. 

Since they’re getting introduced though Yangchen’s memoirs, which were written as a way to cope with her grief of losing Akari and Huizhong, Siniq and Tarkik didn’t get much time to shine despite the past chapter having focus on Yangchen’s waterbending journey. I’m not sure if/when I’ll be able to work in fun tidbits about these chaos twins, but they realized from a very young age that they didn’t vibe with Water Tribe gender roles. And being identical twins well... They convinced everyone they were BOTH waterbenders and switched places in all their classes so Siniq could learn combat and Tarkik could learn healing. When they eventually couldn’t keep up the act anymore, they were so established with what they were good at the chief was like whelp guess that’s just how it’s gonna go. My warrior daughter and healer son, no fighting it now. Love these two <33

Huizhong, my love, gets her spotlight in the upcoming chapter of Sands of Time, so I’ll just profess my love for this beautiful bitch <3