the girl who won’t grow up

seeing all the leaked screencaps of the aged up gaang got me thinking about yue </3

(tap for better quality)

Alrighttt, now to do the rough sketch for Yue, then lineart for both, and if that doesn't kill me I'll do coloring!

I am debating making Zuko a girl here simply bc I want Zuko x Yue Yuri. Thus the question mark beside the she/her, I still haven't made a solid decision on that yet tho.

@grapesshouldbecrunchy *throws more of this au at you* enjoy

(bonus concept sketches for something⬇️)

After being exiled, she decided not to take her children (not just Zuko) with her because they were in danger, yet the fandom still blames her for "leaving them behind." She chose to rebuild her life because, given her exile, returning could lead to arrest or even death—a fact established in the series itself—and for that, she is labeled the worst mother of all.

She decided to change her face to avoid precisely that fate and to free herself from trauma (specifically, at least ten years of abuse at the hands of her husband); she even showed remorse regarding her children, as she was genuinely in a bad state, yet she is still considered the worst mother of all. Before leaving, she chose to say goodbye to both children—though one happened to wake up, which wasn't part of her plan.

Modern AU Zuko I cooked where he studies Political science and a black belter in taekwondo.

that’s why even though it is written plain in my bio, even though a cursory look through the more like this posts underneath that belong to me would never include a single post of me gushing over zutara of all fucking ships, they still have to engage with my post on that basis immediately lol. i remember responding with a mild rebuttal against a maiko post and one of them rushed into my reblogs excited to use a gotcha about katara and once i explained that i don’t ship zutara and couldn’t care less what katara does or doesn’t do for zuko, there was no reply. it starts and ends there, they have no way of making the behavior of these shippers stand on their own, they need someone to do “worse.”