Lamb To The Slaughter

Aaah yes I love this idea!

ok listen. hear me out. A:TLA au where the Air Temple Avatar dies with the rest of his temple when the Fire Nation attacks. The next 2 Avatars don’t manage to make it to a Ripe Old Age, but possibly they both manage to keep their identity a secret for a few decades each, since everyone knows the Fire Nation would track you down and kill you if they thought they had found the Avatar.

So no one has seen the Avatar for around 100 years. Zuko gets sent on his impossible quest to find the Avatar, only to find out that he is the Avatar.

He has to pretend to be hunting for the Avatar, all while grappling with what this means for his identity, and his place within the Fire Nation, and, as always, his Honor. 

When there’s rumors that the Avatar really is back, the “chase” is on. Iroh wants him to learn water bending. Zuko hasn’t really come to terms with everything yet and really doesn’t want to find an actual teacher, so he tells Iroh fine, but they’re looking in the Southern Water Tribe first (thinking there’s no benders left there, and desperately stalling). He ends up finding a teacher who’s probably as reluctant to teach him as he is reluctant to learn from her. 

Zuko always reports that he’s “one step behind” the Avatar, to cover for the fact that he shows up wherever theres Avatar rumors/sightings, at about the same time. 

I’m not sure exactly how he would get around the whole “you look exactly like him” in this universe. Maybe the Avatar is the Blue Spirit. Maybe Zuko’s scar is in a less visible place? Maybe Katara + Avatar Powers manage to heal his scar, so no descriptions of the Avatar that make it back to Ozai and Pals matches what they Know Zuko looks like? maybe everyone he meets as “the Avatar” tells him he looks just like that Fire Nation Prince and he goes “nah, his scar is on the other side”.

How does he learn air bending? Maybe all the air temples didn’t get destroyed after all. maybe Aang wasn’t the Avatar in this AU, but he and a few others survived in hiding, until Zuko finds them - Bumi tells him where to find Aang, since they still write letters to each other (imagine “hello, zuko here!” in a whole new context).

He manages to hide all this from his father, and even from Azula. When he learns that he has to kill Ozai, his own father, its not easy. There’s a lot of turmoil, and he may or may not come to the same conclusion that Aang came to in the show. 

But also imagine the dramatique, reverse-No-Luke-I-Am-Your-Father moment, where he finally confronts Ozai, and Ozai goes “you? stand up to me? the dishonored, exiled ex-princeling? You’re pathetic. you couldn’t even find the Avatar” “Find him? I am the Avatar” and then Zuko fucks him up real good.

(Broke: Ares is a terrible, violent and evil God who enjoys death and destruction)

(Woke: He's basically Hoss Delgado from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy but with a few less braincells and is an absolute himbo who loves 5 things in life: His mom, food, dogs, Aphrodite and VIOLENTLY BEATING THE SHIT OF HIS ENEMIES)

A portrait with sketch lineart because I wanted to see how it would look.

For the Watch (?), Yk.

Okay I finally did Jon, and I have to do him in the biggest cliffhangers I have read (honestly, just because we have been waiting for the dammed book 12 years).

As always I change some parts of the design:

1: I tried to do his face in a way that resembles Ned Stark, but in a same way that if you have Jon and Rhaegar next to each other you can see the resemblance. (I'm not a very big fan of L+R=J, just because I don't like the idea of a chosen one and Jon being so special, and because I don't like jon, but I have to admit that it looks like that theory is correct so I have to suck it up and accept it as thruth)

2: his clothes resembles samoyedic clothes, that are the ones that I do imagine the free folk wears (one day I will draw one of them I swear) I did it so I can show how Jon is not a true crow and his time beyond the wall change him and how he is more like them than the night watch.

3: I change long claw because I'm lazy, sorry I have not an excuse.

Next one is Arya and I'm incredibly excited for her

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

Imagine you’re some little evil woman sitting in Hades’ throne room when Orpheus walks in to make a deal to get Eurydice back, and Hades is like “yeah ok, just don’t look back otherwise she has to stay here” then walks out of the room. Almost immediately after hearing the conditions, Orpheus breaks his own neck so that it is physically impossible for him to turn it, and then demands that you gouge out his eyes for good measure. Eurydice then gets really upset because she’s convinced this is a sign that Orpheus hates her and never wants to see her again, and Orpheus is completely convinced that this was a normal and logical thing to do.

You are literally the only person in the universe who recognizes this as an act of love. They both then insult you to your face for thinking this is anything other than very normal (Orpheus), or petty hatred (Eurydice).

You are Ianthe Tridentarius.