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lying among the daisies

It's (still) May, which means it's (still) maiko month! There wasn't an event this year, but I still wanted to put out a little something. It's been a while since I've drawn these two!

Simeon reminds me of a doctor or dentist now — @lucivoid

Bonus:

By Candlelight

A belated Valentine's piece of my favourite ATLA girlfriends, Ty Lee and Suki!

[ID: digital art of Katara, Sokka and Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender), pictured as in the start of Book One. They are shown from the chest up, all hugging. Aang is in the front, leaning into Katara, his hand holding her shoulder. Katara, on the left, rests her cheek on Aang’s forehead and holds his arm. Sokka encloses Aang with one arm and rests his chin against the top of Aang’s head. They all have their eyes shut and their expressions are sad. The artist’s signature, @/drowning-in-cacophony, is written in the middle of the drawing. End ID].

Day Six: Grief // @aangweek​

“Sokka and I, we’re your family now.”

But Zuko doesn’t. He likes holding Mai’s hands, likes her holding him with them, and he certainly doesn’t care about the scars - he barely even notices them, and never more than a passing thought. She throws knives, of course she’s going to have the training marking her skin. 

And while Mai never explicitly tells him about what her mother’s said, she knows that Zuko’s not like the men her mother told her about. He doesn’t even think about the scars, let alone as a negative. She knows with the way he always holds her hand, clutching it close like she’s precious, or the way he asks with interest about how she throws knives and never asks her if she’s sure she can cope with the dangers of blades near skin. And the way he never asks her to tuck her hands away out of sight, or the way he kisses her hands too with only adoring looks.

But even with the damage to his senses, Zuko seems to cope with it, or at least he’s learnt to. Mai doesn’t need to ask him any questions about it - she understands the trauma behind it, the logic of what effect an injury like has. And even if she wanted to ask questions about it, she wouldn’t. It’s too much on his mind during his return. Too much the symbol of everything he’s trying not to be. It’s better that she treat him as she feels: that it makes nothing different. He’s still Zuko, and she still likes him.

But it’s after the war that they finally get to a place where thinking bad things about his father isn’t bad, and when Mai starts feeling it more. Zuko’s permanently effected by his father’s cruelty. Not only by a scar, but his sight and hearing will never be the same ever again.

They’ve never talked about it. They’ve never needed to. The important thing has always been about how she treats him, like it doesn’t matter to her.

give it oxygen word count: 7k / gen 

Or: Zuko, and his relationship with fire, family and expectations.

grief word count: 4k / gen 

Or: Sokka and Zuko, on the porch of the Fire Lord's beach house, bond over their dead mothers. 

graphite and tea word count: 4k / maiko / the artist au

Or: Mai likes drawing. Then she meets Zuko. 

home (overthrown) word count: 3k / maiko / canon compliant/missing scene

Or: Zuko chases after his redemption. Mai suffers with the fallout. 

summer blooms word count: 14k / maiko / modern au of maiko’s canonical journey

Or: Mai and Zuko are childhood best friends. Then he disappears for years without a trace, so what happens when chance brings them back together? 

follow up word count: 3k / maiko / canon compliant/missing scene

Or: After her and Zuko's night out in Ba Sing Se, Mai decides to give replication a chance.

stars word count: 2.7k / maiko/ canon compliant/missing scene/post canon