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IT’S FINALLY HERE!!
Chapter 23 of “The Real Subject”, nearly two years late in the making.
Thank you so much to everyone who’s been reading and following! There’s still much more to come!
Story Summary: The war is over, but neither the Fire Nation nor the royal family are at peace. Memories of the absent Ursa point to an unresolved mystery. Azula must deal with her mind, Ozai with his past, Zuko with a dangerous clan of usurpers. And demons are never easy to face, especially when they become tangible. (Continuation of AtLA, loosely based on the Search and Promise)
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You know, another reason why I think Azula brought Zuko home with her instead of stabbing him in the back is because of this:
Ursa encourages the two of them to get along with each other and play together whenever possible, like siblings should. Azula wanted her mother's approval. She wanted her mother's love. So by bringing Zuko back home with honor and getting him back in Ozai's good graces, she was doing right by her brother. And helping Zuko is something that Ursa would approve of, and even be proud of Azula for doing so. She wanted her mother's validation even when she was no longer there. So much so that she did something that she thought Ursa would approve of: bringing Zuko back home and keeping their family together.
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I've also been (very passively) working on the adult Azula design
Changed her hairstyle a bit more - no honor, no topknot - as well as her face to resemble her mother's
Gave her tanner skin, girlie is no longer a royal nor an aristocrat
As for now I'm approaching it as hidden in the Fire Nation colonies where it's Earth kingdom mixed with Fire Nation, I'll also try more greens and neutrals
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redrawing character designs based on different traditional cultural inspirations is a lot of fun! colouring this was a nightmare tho, but a good exercise. a lot of the time, the charm of the line art is lost when you add colour, im sure yall know what i mean. here's the original sketch cuz i liked it:
design lore drops under the cut!
As you can see, I went for a chinese hanfu-ish inspiration, tho I used a lot of historical c-drama references so those are obv more costume-y than historically-accurate. I tried to keep Ursa's original pointy shoulders
The characters I used for Ursa - 爾萨: Neither of these are super "name-ish" characters, but alas, we're tryna "spell" Ursa phonetically here. 爾 comes from the comics, where Ursa's letter to Ikem signs off with 爾妹. 妹 means "little sister", but it can be an old-fashioned way to refer to young women in general. 萨 I chose for the sound, but also because it's 萨 as in 菩萨 ("Bodhisattva"), which is an old-fashioned way to say someone is kind bc of 觀音菩薩 ("Bodhisattva of Compassion" in East Asian Buddhism)
The traditional make-up she has on are called 花钿 (hua dian, "flower adornment" at the forehead) and 靥钿 (ye dian, "dimple adornment"), respectively
On one of her pinkies, you can see a 护指 (hu zhi, "finger guard"), which is something I saw a lot in historical dramas growing up, worn by imperial women (usually older/higher ranking ones but idk if that's just fictionalization). It's meant to protect long nails, since long nails were a sign of wealth and status. The ones I've seen are a lot more intricate but I just left the drawing pretty simple.
There's a lot of nuance when it comes to how your hair can be as a Chinese imperial woman of status, like usually the greater the seniority, the more fancy stuff u put in your hair and the bigger it can be. And I think there's stuff about whether having it up or down signifies marriage status? Tbh I just did a mix of Ursa's original hair shape and some typical decorations from memory.
I drew from a picture of super popular Chinese actress Yang Mi, who I first saw in her 2011 show Palace. The screencap reference below isn't from that show tho. I searched through a lot of my fav Chinese actresses to find a model... maybe more character redraws from those other searches coming soon??
Can you spot a White Lotus symbol hiding in the design? 👀
If you read up till here, wow! Thank you, and I hope it was interesting.
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Hello ATLA fans! With the recent changes to Fandom Metatags, a new change is coming to the way the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise fandom on AO3 is structured! Don’t worry, the existing fandom tags will remain as they are - this change will not impact your ability to search for works in specific fandoms (i.e. Legend of Korra, The Chronicles of the Avatar novels, etc.).
What is changing is that we are creating a new metatag for the fandom!
What is a metatag, you ask? Great question - think of metatags (and subtags) like file folders on your computer or in your Google Drive. In this analogy, the metatag is the top-level folder and the subtags are sub-folders that live inside that top-level folder.
New ATLA metatag: Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms
All current and future ATLA-related fandoms will be sub-fandoms ("subtags") of the new Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms fandom metatag. Currently, this includes:
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
Avatar: Legend of Korra
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
Avatar Legends (Roleplaying Game)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Video Games 2006 2007)
Avatar: Realms Collide (Video Game)
There is no 2010 movie in Ba Sing Se The Last Airbender (2010)
As new ATLA franchise canon is released, those will be added as subfandoms as well. For more information on the hows and whys, keep reading below the cut!
Why are we making this change?
In short, to make it easier to filter and search for what you’re looking for!
Franchise-wide searching: Don’t care which part of canon is included in your search? No problem! Filter/search using the new metatag (Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms) and all the fandoms listed above will be included in the results.
Specific sub-fandom searching: Only interested in works tagged as Legend of Korra or one of the other sub-fandoms? We’ve got you covered, too! Simply filter/search using the subfandom, and you’ll only see results that have the sub-fandom tagged. And if you want to exclude works where some or all of the other sub-fandoms are tagged, you can still do that as well! Just add those fandoms under the exclude filter.
Crossovers: Don’t like crossovers with external fandoms? Or maybe you LOVE crossovers? Either way, this change is good news for you! By organizing all the ATLA subfandoms under the overarching metatag, works that are tagged with multiple ATLA fandoms will no longer be treated as a crossover work by the filtering/search system! This means that:
When you exclude crossovers from your search, works tagged with multiple ATLA-related fandoms will now show up in the results (since the system no longer considers them to be crossovers since they are now all part of the same fandom tree).
When you include crossovers in your search, works tagged with ATLA fandoms and non-ATLA fandoms will still appear as usual.
Other ATLA Wrangling Tips
Beware the blue people Avatar! While you’re always welcome to tag your works however you like, we recommend selecting your preferred ATLA fandom directly from the dropdown or using phrasing specific to ATLA. If you tag your work’s fandom just using the word "Avatar" or something similar, you run the risk of your work being listed under the James Cameron Avatar franchise instead of ATLA. Tags are wrangled based on what they've most been used for, and many "Avatar" tags have already been made synonyms of James Cameron Avatar fandom tags.
Speaking of the dropdown - mind the dropdown! Because AO3’s dropdown prioritizes results that list a word multiple times, the first result may not always be the result you’re looking for. For example, the fandom for the ATLA novels is Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various, which includes the word "Avatar" twice. We recommend double-checking what tag you select from the dropdown to make sure it's the fandom tag you intended!
Happy tagging! If you have questions or need help, please contact Support, who will be happy to offer any necessary guidance.
(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)
