Flying-spark - I Don't Know What I'm Doing

Illustration I created for @zukozine

Just thought it'd be nice to see a peaceful Zuko going about daily life in Ba Sing Se :')

Can you imagine Gaoshun telling his wife and daughter about the happenings at work be like…

Gaoshun: Master Jinshi gave his hairpin to this girl

Taoimei and Maamei: he did what

Gaoshun: she happily ate poison at the banquet

Taoimei and Maamei: she did what

Shen Jiu! Parenting!! Ning Yingying!!!

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“Hi baby.” Shen Qingqiu cooed at the infant. He was a bit embarrassed at how easily he melted around Yingying, but she was his daughter, and he figured he was allowed.

This time, however, he’d forgotten where he was. In the middle of a peak lord meeting, surrounded by wide-eyed, incredulous stares.

“Do you think he realizes we’re here?” Wei Qingwei mused loudly, wincing at a kick he got from one of his martial brothers.

“Shut up! Do you want him to?”

Qi Qingqi was usually never speechless, but today, it seemed she did not have any sour words in her for Shen Qingqiu, who she always passionately loathed. Her mouth was catching flies.

Most others seemed to feel the same. Liu Qingge sat frozen in his seat, staring. Yue Qingyuan seemed startled and…oddly wistful.

Shen Qingqiu was in his own little world. “Oh my goodness, you’re so chubby…” he lightly pinched at Ning Yingying’s little cheeks and gasping in delight when she let out a little squeal of delight.

“This has to be a hallucination,” Mu Qingfang muttered to himself, eyes wide. “Were we poisoned?”

Ning Yingying caught her adoptive father’s finger in her tiny fist and shoved it in her mouth, drooling happily all over it. Shen Qingqiu just laughed.

Meanwhile, a certain Shang Qinghua sat in his chair with his head in his hands as he mourned the death of the canon universe.

[ID: A digital painting of the character Zuko from the cartoon Avatar: the Last Airbender. He's depicted as he is in Season 1. He's walking down a boardwalk and holding a ball of yarn, looking down and smiling at an orange cat rubbing against his legs. End ID]

back to drawing my one singular atla oc (aka giving zuko a cat)