If you're still taking TOH requests, would you draw Darius, maybe bonding with either Hunter or Eber? He's one of my absolute favorite characters too!
I NEED MORE DARIUS!!!! I get the feeling we might've gotten more of his backstory had we not been robbed of season 3.... Like, why he and Amity's dad fell out of friendship, his relationship with the old golden guard. There's so much mystery left to explore!!!!! TAT!!
And with those kind of themes being played out on the kid main characters too, I could totally see an episode meant to happen where the show deals with an adult having to come to terms with old burned bridges.
Like how Willow and Amity became friends again. But imagine it between adults, y'know? That has held these feelings for so much longer. The drama. It is so... juicy!!!!
AND HIS "I TOTALLY DONT CARE" ATTITUDE BUT HE TOTALLY SO DOES CARE!!!
Adult characters that is like "lmao I hate everyone and these children annoy me" and then wind up being their designated best parent is... ... one of my fave tropes...
I am.. weak... for this character type.
I love him. TTATT!!! Dariiuusss!!!!
[ID: two owl house drawings based on memes. The first one shows Lilith in her season 2B design sketched over the big bang theory "love is in the air? Wrong! Gad leak" meme. She's staring at the viewer with one eyebrow raised and her glasses are opaque.
The second meme is a redraw of a king of the hill scene, split into two panels. The first panel shows Belos holding up a sack of coins with magic, saying "here's 300 snails to break up with hunter". The second panel shows willow in her s2B design pointing at him and saying "save that money for our wedding". End ID]
I did two things today, and that was really beef it while making a sandwich, and draw shitty owl house memes, and baby I'm all out of sandwiches to post (@toh-described)
Zuko: The food is too hot, I can't eat it.
Mai: You're also hot, but I still eat-
Azula: *slams down hands on the table*
Azula: ONE DINNER-
Ty Lee: Here we go again.
Azula: ONE NORMAL DINNER IS ALL I ASK FOR!
jetko + ao3 tags. tags from @ao3tagoftheday
[IDs: five screenshots of jet and zuko from avatar accompanied by ao3 tags as captions. in the first image, jet and zuko are depicted from the legs up as they fight, in ba sing se. it is nighttime. they are back to back, fighting with their hook swords and dao swords respectively. the tag reads “there’s lots of fluff, but there’s also DUELS.” the second image is a wide shot of pao’s tea shop. jet and zuko are standing at opposite ends. both have their swords drawn and are in fighting stances. customers stand around the edges of the room where the tables are, looking on. the tag reads “a bi disaster and a gay disaster walk into a bar, that’s it that’s the story.” the third image is of jet and zuko in the doorway of a ship’s kitchen, ready to steal food. they are in wary, semi-crouched positions and they both have their swords drawn. the tag reads “arson as foreplay, we all knew this was coming.” the fourth screenshot shows jet and zuko standing next to each other at the train station in ba sing se. jet has his hands on his hips while zuko’s are at his side. the tag reads “less ‘opposites attract’ and more ‘two people from different sides of the asshole spectrum.’” the fifth screenshot is of jet and zuko duelling in ba sing se at nighttime. jet is holding his swords ready to parry, while zuko is swinging his own swords to attack. the tag reads “but there’s no romance here, maybe two percent romance, two percent romance and ninety eight percent REVENGE.” end ID]
Zuko became an artist at a young age. Painting was encouraged by Ursa and Uncle Iroh, so he did it to keep himself occupied.
Eventually, it became more than a hobby. He was an artist down to his core, seeing things through a different lens than his family members.
Azula hated that there was another thing that Zuko was better at than her. However, Ozai didn’t like it, so she didn’t. It was that simple.
Under his sleeves, there were often ink writings and drawings.
His favorite things to draw, ironically, are dragons. Twisty shapes, fangs and wings.
Ozai, again, doesn’t approve and tries to keep Zuko occupied on something that he finds productive.
It doesn’t work.
After Zuko’s exile, most of his art is halted.
But sometimes, he starts rambling about ink and paper and dragons, and suddenly he feels a lot lighter.
Around a year and a half into his exile, he gets new brushes and waterproof ink from Uncle Iroh.
He vanished for about two hours, but when he was next seen there was ink on the walls like a fresh coat of paint.
‘“Mako, have you seen the Prince?” Firenze hummed from his spot on the deck.
“No, honestly. Maybe we left him at the last port?”
The captain laughed. “We can dream, Mako.”
Iroh raised his eyebrow. “He’s painting the hallway. If you’d like, you may join him.”
And so, Zuko gained two new painters. Over time, the entire crew painted the boat black and silver.’
Yeah, the crew painted with Zuko sometimes. It became ritual to paint over it when the salt began to wear away at it.
Zuko still has his whole honor complex, but it’s slightly detached from his actual personality due to the relationship that he had with his crew.
So when the Avatar shows up, he’s shocked instead of insistent to catch him. The sooner that he catches the Avatar, the sooner that he’d get locked away from the world.
So he may or may not have deliberately played cat and mouse with the Avatar.
When Zhao takes the crew, they all visit the prince one-on-one. Some with tears, others with somber hearts. They have a group hug and then they have to leave.
The first time Zuko saw the Northern Water Tribe, he felt a flurry of emotions.
First, awe at the beauty that the people had carved from the ice.
Then, anger that the fire nation was going to knock it down.
He craves the feeling of ink on his hands again.
And once they’re declared enemies of the state, he hopes that he’ll feel that again.
Au where the Gaang were looking for a firebending teacher, just found Zuko on the side of the road and picked him up by the scruff of his neck and was like "you". No one figures out he's the Prince of the Fire Nation until Sozins Comet.
Aang comes back, having defeated firelord Ozai, and then finds out that his wet rat of a firebending teacher is actually royalty and is being crowned Firelord tomorrow. He is so confused.
Iroh knew that zuko was the blue spirit because one day when they were in the Earth Kingdom he saw the blue spirit wanted poster and thought “what kind of person would break into a fire nation prison to free the avatar wearing a theater mask of all…. I turn my back for one minute”
@spinaroos-47
“Whatcha got there?” Luz tapped the table in front of Hunter to get his attention. “One of Eda’s?”
He lifted the book to show her the title without answering. Why Won’t My Palisman Eat? And Other Problems You May Encounter with Your Lifelong Partner.
“Is Flapjack okay?!”
“Yes. Why wouldn’t they be?”
“Because you’re… reading a book about how palisman get sick?”
“Sure. Did you know that they heal like regular animals if they get hurt? Even though they’re made of wood? But that would mean they’re generating palistrom wood by eating regular food! So hypothetically speaking, you could generate an infinite amount of palistrom wood by cutting off pieces of a palisman and then feeding it so it could heal!” he reached up to the palisman nestled in his hair and scratched its head. “Not that I would. Anymore.”
“Found a game hack,” Luz joked, “Infinite palistrom wood glitch. Why are you reading the book if there’s nothing wrong with Flapjack?”
“The books at the emperor’s coven weren’t really about how to take care of a palisman. There were a couple, but, well, you know. Not much need to take care of them when your plan is to…” Hunter shook his head. “Anyway, there are a ton of weird things palisman can do.” He held up a different book, this one called The Legend of the Palistrom. “Not sure how accurate this is, it’s a mythic folklore kind of story about the first palisman, but there’s bound to be some truth in it, right? Because legends are usually based on fact. It was a nice story, though.”
Luz sat down at the table as he flipped the cover of a book back and forth.
“Supposedly, palisman can hold memories from the perspective of their witch, but no one’s said how to activate and view it yet, not in any of the books I’ve read. Is it like a memory in the mindscape where you can enter it? Or is it more like an echo mouse eating a book and being able to project it as something to watch? And—okay, get this, this is weird, a palisman can not only recognize descendants of its owner, BUT will also recognize palisman carved by its owner’s family as a kind of blood relative! But it DOESN’T recognize a palisman carved from its own tree as a sibling. That being SAID, there’s an old legend that if you carve your palisman from the same tree as the tree of your betrothed, you’ll be partnered for life. The explanation behind it is that your palisman is your lifelong partner, so if you carve yours from the same wood… but that doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it? I mean, if they don’t recognize each other as siblings regularly, why would partners matter? Unless it’s a combination of the family recognition AND being carved from the same tree? I don’t know, it’s probably just a romance legend that doesn’t have any fact built into it. Just sentiment, you know?”
“Probably,” Luz agreed, “It sounds sweet, though.”
“If you’re into that kind of thing. You know, all of the books mention that palisman all speak the same language, but I’ve DEFINITELY heard different sounds coming from them, and Gus and Willow’s don’t really make sounds at all—wait, hey, how do Gus and Willow know what they’re saying?!” He stood up abruptly, pushing his chair back and holding his hand out for Flapjack to turn into a staff.
“Where are you going?”
“To ask them. Duh.”
And in a flash of gold, he was gone.
post-war camping trip, the gaang leaves zuko alone for an hour and he forms a menagerie
zoom for detail!
**Much time later**
Hunter, to Luz, lying facedown on the bed, regretting everything: And then I called him dad, oh Titan-
Darius, downstairs in the kitchen with Raine and Eber, holding back a tiny smile: And then he called me dad-
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