Fuck It

A very short comic I made for @muffinlance​ ‘s “Zuko get’s offered a job with Ba Sing Se’s lower ring law enforcement following his fight with Jet in the tea shop AU” Original post about the idea can be found here.

It’s a shame that Zuko spent about half of Book 2 working in customer service and we never got a chance to see how on he’d deal with That Customer™ You know the one.

realized a little too late that I made a rookie mistake on the shot-reverse shot on page 3

Also the dialogue and expressions here are so perfect, especially Uncle’s quip about his nephew’s discretion. <3

Also also: *Uncle lets Zuko make that customer’s tea* *Zuko literally comes back with a cup of boiled water, sets it down so hard it sloshes* *that customer is super sad when Zuko quits, because no one else makes tea quite like him*

And then I remembered this post

And so then I thought...

"It's just as I was telling Hamato-sensei. Supervision of conflicting personalities requires empathy and control, whether they're four adult detectives or four teenage sons."

"Four teenage sons... Hamato-sensei... As in Hamato Yoshi? You mean Master Splinter? Captain Holt, are you saying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are real? You're saying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are real!" 😳

I used to think shabuir was SHA buir (literally translating to "at parent") but now I get that it's SHAB buir (motherfucker). The mandoa.org says it means jerk.

What if Din's name is short for dinui?

Like, what if part of the founding process was a renaming, and the mando who named him chose him a new one and

Dinui translates as gift, andi just think that's really hecking adorable.

“We are one when together, we are one when parted, we will share all, we will raise warriors.”

I was writing (as I do, y’know) and I was attempting to figure out some sort of cultural significance for the spouse of a clan leader or, for my current problem, a Mand’alor.

YOU’VE MADE MY DAY.

I am a lover of the clone trope that they use Mando’a sparingly in their day-to-day

Ner alor’ad - my Captain (a personal favorite✨)

-ika, on the other hand is a Mando’a suffix. Technically, it means small/little, but in an affectionate way. However, if you tack it onto cyare (beloved) you turn it into cyar’ika (sweetheart/darling) which I’m sure you’ve seen around. So it’s an endearment term, putting onto the end of Tup’s name made it literally “little Tup” but could also be read as “sweet Tup”

I know we used to tack -ika onto vod (brother singular) to translate it to little brother, but I think it was @thatfunkyopossum who pointed out the difference between -ika (affectionately little) and the Mando’a prefix kih- (also meaning small), and which to use in relevance to “little brother” considering the canon Mando’a grammar that gave us the term ori’vod (big brother).

until you add "do" at the end.

because then he becomes an average mando

and every mando,

even an average one,