Drew this in my physical bootleg copy of ROK my best friend gave me for my birthday (It was the only one she could find but I’m stilly happy with it). Was honestly really hesitant to post this since I was just heavily referencing off of another artist’s fanart, but with some encouragement from my friends, I finally mustered up the courage to post it, so…. Here’s my Kyoshi!

Yangchen: Mitski, Sheena Ringo, Marina and the Diamonds

Kuruk: Maneskin, Rammenstein

Kyoshi: Malice Mizer

Holy shit- IM FINALLY DONEEEEEEEE with the digital redraw/coloring of my msi if sketch but with Avatar and possibly self harm.

If you’re new here and haven’t seen the sketch. Yeah, I know I got the order wrong but that’s bc I drew yangchen first in the sketch with no thought before deciding I should redraw the og ref but with Avatar lol

The bruises on the fingers are supposed to correlate with the Avatars but I kinda drew them randomly so interpret them however you like

Lalta is a visual, The main gameplay is relatively the same as any other visual novels. You read the story, until two or more choices pop up and you have to choose to progress a certain route for each choice you pick. Affecting the story in small or major ways.

But what I want to do with this gameplay is not only make the story change as you pick different choices but also make the Avatar (the character you’re playing as) also change as different choices/routes are being chosen.

Throughout the games, the Avatar will have time to conceive plans on how to deal with this new conflict in any way they like (usually based on their ideals,values and morals). And each choice you pick will usually trigger a series of events that will affect their mental state/state of mind and thus also affect their mental state/state of mind and thus also affect the way they perceive the things around them and how they deal with it (especially the main conflict).

This is reflected by the basis for every game having different routes categorized into “Chaos routes, Order routes or Balance Routes.”

The different routes in each set of routes affects the Avatar’s mental state and thus their perception. So if you want to make the Avatar do 180 against their initial beliefs and make them go through a series of horrific events and become a war criminal or terrorist. You can do that! But if you want to maintain their initial beliefs and approach the conflict in a way that is morally acceptable. You can also do that!

Chaos Routes, Order Routes and Balance Routes.

Chaos and Order routes are self explanatory. Chaos routes use methods/values that cross into the realm of chaos to approach the main conflict (Though said chaotic methods could be different depending on the choices being made. Like some could be anarchy and some straight up terrorism).

Order routes are the same as Chaos but with orderly procedures instead.

Order and Chaos routes would have a lot more bad endings than good, because the Avatar is meant to be the Embodiment of Balance, so ofc making up a plan using only either order or chaos would result in more unfortunate outcomes than a successful one, though nothing is stopping you from choosing order and chaos routes over balance routes, and chaos and order routes do have morally good successful endings like balance routes but they wouldn’t be as ethical as the morally acceptable endings of the balance routes.

(Also note: Endings are determined by if you succeed or not and not by if what you’re doing is right or wrong. So you can cause a full fledged economic collapse, and the game would still call that a ‘good’ ending because you succeeded with your plan and defeated the political conflict even if it’s not in a morally acceptable way. So yeah, in the chaos and order routes, you’re gonna be faced with a lot more endings where you fail spectacularly.)

It’s an AU centering around the four Avatars Aang talked to for advice (Yangchen, Kuruk, Kyoshi and Roku). And the political conflicts they dealt during their adulthood as the Avatar. I plan to turn this au into a Visual Novel anthology with four games, each game covering an Avatar and the respective conflict they had to deal with.

The main gist of this AU, Is that It’s basically more historically/period accurate, therefore more brutal and fucked up. Because of this, I intended this au for mature audiences (18+, preferably). Because of the more controversial subject matters such as rape, grooming, human trafficking, underage prostitution… etc Which I will handle with my most utmost care, especially with ones dealing sexual violence and abuse against children, which I will mot make an attempt to make any sexualized depictions of. If I make anything tasteless, that is entirely my fault and I will appreciate any criticism of my handling of subject matters.

Another thing to note is that the games are NSFW, and therefore will contain sexually explicit scenes (H scenes for you VN nerds), but these scenes are between adult characters (The Avatar themselves and their lovers, or anybody else that’s an adult they’re fucking lol).

Another thing of this AU is that the Avatar is actually quite morally ambiguous now, so no more of that stuff of Avatars being flawed but ultimately good people, unfortunately. Because Raava and Vaatu are now the spirits of Order and Chaos and merged with Wan, to become the Avatar/Force of Balance for the world. Which means that anyone can be reincarnated as an Avatar, and not just those flawed but ultimately good people. Which also means there is nothing stopping the Avatar to commit literal crimes against humanity bc of their twisted sense of reality in this AU.

But this is a Visual Novel after all, which means there is also nothing stopping you from choosing routes that still maintain the Avatar’s core beliefs and actually approach the conflict with their utmost care, but yet again, there’s also nothing stopping you from going 180 or extremist on your values and beliefs and causing the fall of a nation due to a twisted sense of reality from all the stuff you went through, as long as it gets the job done, it gets categorized as a good ending! Even if you did heinous crimes in the end. (Note: I’ll explain more of how the choices, routes and endings work in an upcoming post. Go to #Lalta Basics for more basic details surrounding this AU like gameplay, mechanics… etc. But for things such as lore, characters and world building, go to #Lalta lore, which I will feature in an upcoming post about the four main characters [Yangchen, Kuruk, Kyoshi and Roku] and how they differ in this AU compared to their canon selves).

Why did I make the Avatars morally ambiguous you may ask? Because I wanted to make a commentary on how we as a society have a tendency to glorify certain people, while unintentionally dehumanizing them in the process and very much forget that they can abuse their position as a ‘hero’ or completely break down from all the pressure. While we also do see this mythologization/glorification in other characters, like the villains. The Avatars are meant to be a direct representation of Humanity’s neverending urge to glorify people and push them into the role of hero, ever since the dawn of mankind. And that no matter how much we improve on learning on the human psyche and realize how bad dehumanizing and glorifying people is, we will all unfortunately fall back into our old ways as every generation has dozens if not thousands of people who have been shoved into this ‘hero’ role and is demonized to be anything else that isn’t it.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: The games are actually being made into a real thing, I’m currently learning code (still very bad at it btw) from my friend to create Yangchen’s game. Unfortunately, It’ll probably take like 8-10 years or more to finish Yangchen’s game because I am very, VERY slow (esp at drawing), unfortunately. So get mad at me, call this project pointless for the ridiculous wait time but that’s the reality of it, unfortunately :’) And I have to be as honest as I am in this project to not get myself put in those “The Avatar visual novel scam” videos /hj