☆♡Kiki_Bell♡☆

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well hi uh... long time no post. have some kataras!

her adult design is the only one i have zeros complains about!

Figure skaters are surprisingly good references for waterbending.

Right now I'm focused on finishing all of my commissions first and foremost, I've been struggling with work and chronic pain so it's taken a lot longer than I wanted and become kind of urgent. But eventually I have a lot of pieces in my heart that I want to see finished, this big one I started in January 2025 (extremely cropped bc the original sketch looks pretty bad) not least of all, lol. It's been so long I'm gonna have to restart a third time.

I'd like to do more with my fairy AU too, but the more time passes the more I feel like I'll never get to that. Have vague plans for making the two-part jonadio/jonaeri comic of my dreams that are also quite far off. A FFXIV lamasphene wip that's gathering dust, some other various jonadio pieces, other personal and collaborative projects. Jonadio week on the horizon later this year. I'd also like to design more merch and open shop, but just don't have the time yet. I wish so bad that there were more hours in the day lol.

ATLA Spider Lily AU - comic remake.

Remake/redesign/rewrite of a mini-comic I did in 2024 between Ozai and Azula. This comic is set within my “spider-lily” au which is highly centred on the fire nation royal family, particularly Ozai and his respective relationships with his brother, father and children. There’s a lot to explain but it’s a good opportunity for me to write a gothic horror tragedy about being trans, queerness as a whole, intergenerational trauma, mental illness and all sorts of other dark themes.

Say no more

I’ve been obsessed with them going on a lil vacation 🚬 (loose haired zu vers under the cut)

Team Azula (Azula, Mai and Ty-Lee) Redraw from 2020

So way before I had tumblr around 2020 during the pandemic I used to be a fangal to ATLA during my anime phase as my senior year goes by in high school by having Instagrammy at the time plus I used to watch this show as a kid which is one of my childhood ^w^

I remember I used to draw Azula in traditional but then drew her in digital but for Mai I used to do by traditional and Ty Lee was scraped due to other projects I have done back then where it used my dead unposted art and wanna to recreate this. I remember where I used to draw them in class during free time after working on work sheets also I cannot wait for new Avatar series of Seven Haven’s and Legend of Aang to come out and hopefully to be able to see them on screen even though there’s spoilers to it that I’m trying to avoid -_-

- 💠🎨Mercy🎨💠

Happy NATLA day! 🎉

thank you so much!! It’s not everyone’s favourite hc but it’s one that’s very dear to me so I appreciate any positive feedback.

okay so family reactions!

Azulon, believe it or not, was actually pretty okay with it. He and Ozai, at least how I write them, never get along on anything but he’s also a very pragmatic man who’s running a war with the rest of the world. Everything revolves on the strength of the fire nation, especially the royal family, and how that’s conveyed to the rest of the world. Having two sons is better than one. Ozai being a strong, accomplished bender with an eye for machinery and wanting to be seen as a man is all the better for Azulon to utilise those talents. He certainly wasn’t the typical loving supportive parent but he certainly didn’t try to stop Ozai. Other than Ozai himself, Iroh knew first. Ozai didn’t tell anyone for about a year or so but started making efforts to dress and act differently and Iroh noticed first. Bear in mind that because of their age gap, Iroh would have been busy with his own family at the time but would have found time in the end to confront Ozai on it, talk to him and make sure he’s aware of what he’s doing, if this is what he really wants. I don’t think Iroh would have NOT been supportive, but I think he would have worried about what other men in the palace might think. He definitely would have played a part in Azulon’s acceptance too.

Zuko, Ursa and Azula all found out later via Iroh spending more time with Ozai now that he’s imprisoned. Zuko, trusting his uncle, would have been curious and tried to dig more into Ozai’s past to find out more about him for his own peace of mind. Sort of a “how did you turn out this way where you’d do what you did to me?” kind of deal, seeking some closure for his own trauma.

I think when Zuko found out, he would have been…sad. Zuko had to go through a difficult time and learn a lot to be able to accept himself and see himself as worthy, and I think he’d look at Ozai, who is so responsible for making Zuko feel so confused and terrible for so long, and be able to see how much of Ozai’s behaviour was his own self hatred and displacement of rage onto Zuko. It certainly doesn’t make it right, but it adds to the puzzle and helps Zuko understand himself better, rule better and parent better.

Ursa, for her part, had no idea during her marriage to Ozai either. She’s aware that she was able to have Zuko through some convoluted “fire is the source of all life” ritual (think similar to healing Korra in book 2 of tlok) but just was left by herself to assume Ozai hated her…which he did, but no one ever explained the situation to her. All Ursa knew was she had been married against her will to an extremely unstable, angry man who couldn’t even bear being in the same room as her, even though she’d done absolutely nothing wrong. Like Zuko, she would have had a lot of mixed feelings once she found out. I think a lot of people did, realising that this person dealt out incredible cruelty to everyone around them as a result of their own issues. It’s an incredibly complicated thing to grapple with.

Azula…I don’t even know. It would be such a huge blow to her in so many ways and would upend her shaky view of the world and her family even more than it already is. In my AU, Zuko is the son of Ozai and Ursa. Azula is…not. Just Ozai and someone else. A big part of her issues with Ursa, again in my AU, was ursa having this random kid foisted onto her that she’s expected to raise or else, and she did really try while being in a state of constant anxiety and just trying to survive, not knowing how to deal with this child who has been made her responsibility. Azula, on the other hand, has no knowledge of any of this and can only assume she’s done something wrong and that’s why Ursa doesn’t know how to deal with her.

I believe in Suki supremacy.