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Please draw more kataang they're so cute! 🥰

You draw them so well, I love it <333

Let's fast forward a bit from that last sketch...

"How did Aang react when you told him?" "He was nothing but supportive." And that made all the difference in a world that often isn't.

What everyone else sees: Police chief, elite metalbender, can destroy you with a flick of her wrist, scary battle scars, daggers for eyes. What Kya sees: Grumpy @$$ dork baby LOL

"Remember when we were kids and I used to bend you and Tenzin out to the middle of Yue Bay?"

Sketch request - Kyalin for C2

Question... Have Kyalin shippers discovered Heituat??? Because it's the exact stuff you are looking for, but the interactions are CANON.

You've got a high-strung, middle-aged military-type who scares everyone with her searing glares, EXCEPT her exceptionally skilled and good-humored waterbending healer.

Like Lin, Hei-Ran is absolutely deadly and intimidating but also so babygirl. They also both have a penchant for offering their life up if it means saving others. Meanwhile, Atuat has the attention span of a fly and even worse impulse control, but her waterbending skills are prodigious, and she gets things done when it matters.

"Anytime you two need to talk, I'm here" (Turf Wars Issue #1, p. 58).

Ko-fi / Art Tag

Just had the idea of drawing Kya II with her hair down... Ko-fi / Art Tag

A reoccurring theme in the Legend of Korra is the shadow Aang's legacy casts on Tenzin. We witness from the very first episode how Tenzin is struggling to live up to his father's image, and this eventually even culminates in him meeting Aang in the spirit world a season later. Overall, there is a lot of breadcrumbs and insight into their relationship dynamic. However, I wish there would have been time/budget/etc. to discuss Kya ii and Katara. The same way Aang got to raise his airbender son, I think it must have been very healing for Katara to be able to raise her own waterbending daughter in a world (relatively) free from the persecution she witnessed and faced in her early youth. I just know she would have made it a point to offer her daughter (and all of her kids) the love she wished her own mother would have been around to provide. In Kya ii's case, I think this is shown most evidently in the way she is portrayed as being both an exceptional fighter and healer like her mom— a testament to the attention she was shown from a young age.

Growing old with her own mother was a privilege Katara was denied. It must feel like a bittersweet, full circle moment to be able to do so with her own daughter in the South Poll as well. Ko-fi / Art Tag

Mini sketch preview for the Kyalin coloring thingy...

More coloring page previews.... I couldn't resist because I just upgraded my old tablet to a huion h610x and omg I have so much control over line darkness and thickness now ??? I literally didn't realize how much control you could have... 😅

Anyways, Lin is in this picture, haha. Her little layer is just hidden because I am trying to keep things under wraps till I am finished ;)

Kya and Lin off on a little adventure ♡( ◡‿◡ )

And here we have a full preview of one of the printable coloring pages I am working on to collect donations for people trying to evacuate Gaza.

(This is just a demo and I am still tweaking it lol)

The first 3 people to donate any amount will also get a free 2-character greyscale commission.

The lovely doodle I commissioned from @abinitioart of Kya ii with her locks let loose!

Kyalin + messy morning bedhead doodle <3 Ko-fi / Art Tag

Kya has gyatt to get better at dodging Ming-Hua's attacks...

"You sure you know what you're getting yourself into, Chief?" "Oh please." Ko-fi / Art Tag

Tags from @wilcze-kudly

LOL, good point, I hadn't thought about how perfect of a storm these two are together 😂 Like Korra has canonically hugged Suyin like two times at this point (?), and I don't see that happening for Lin and Korra anytime soon. Bolin snagging that hug was bold. I find it endearing because he clearly looks up to Lin as an earth/metalbender. He already hero-worshipped Toph, and Lin was the first Beifong he met.

Unfortunately for him, Lin is like so so uncomfortable with emotional intimacy. She tries but her brain literally "nopes" out, even when she wants people to know she cares, and she just trails off every time.

This is why I have been having a thought... and I was gonna try to draw something. But I was thinking of a scenario when Bolin and Kya have a scene together.

She would defo hug him 🥺 Also I think because she is so well traveled, she has seen a lot and interacted with a lot of different people, which is where part of her empathy was built. So, I could see something where he opens up about stuff from his childhood. I think it could be cute/heartbreaking/endearing.

Lin is the final boss in Bolin's "I need everybody to like me" campaign.

Kya's healing skills are so goated she said "fuck it" and revived all three of them kids by scanning them like a fax machine.

The Gaang being 'bad parents' didn't ruin their characters.

I've seen this argument tossed around a couple times and it's honestly one of my least favourite criticisms of lok.

Katara (and Sokka but we have no confirmed kids for him, which seems unrealistic with how much game he had) lost their mother as children and their father was forced to abandon them when they were barely starting their teens. They were raised by their grandmother with little to no peers of their own age.

Aang did not know his parents and a huge chunk of his childhood was him being groomed into taking up the mantle of the avatar and mastering airbending. He also was isolated from other kids his age. His closest parental figure was Gyatso who was more of a teacher than a father. Also the Air Nomads were literally wiped out so that adds to the trauma pile.

I really don't think i have to talk about Zuko's family life here, but at least he had relatively positive parental figures in the form of Ursa (though i do have a burning personal dislike of ursa) and Iroh. Despite this his struggle around the subject of his family and his trauma relating to his upbringing was a focal point of his character arc.

Toph was raised in isolation by her asshole abelist parents who did not listen to her, sent people to capture and bring her back and then disowned her. (If my cursory understanding of 'the rift' is correct, I need to actually read it because i am unreasonably obsessed with the Beifong family.)

Where, pray tell, were they supposed to learn proper parenting skills? On their brief stint as child soldiers? While fighting a war as literal children?

There is the argument that they must've matured later in their lives, of course. But you can only recover so much from copious amounts of childhood trauma.

Being a bad parent doesn't necessarily make you a bad person. Sure it makes you a failure in an incredibly delicate and important aspect of human life but it doesn't make you a bad person. And saying that it does takes a lot of nuance out of the conversation.

Like, do you know how easy it is to fuck up a child?

Especially that the ways the members of the Gaang 'fucked up' as parents feel mostly in character.

Bumi was going to face some struggles with self worth due to being the firstborn child of the Avatar and arguably one of the most powerful waterbenders in history, while being a nonbender himself. That much was unavoidable, no matter how his parents approached the issue.

And Aang was obviously going to be over the moon when Tenzin was born. Think about it. He's literally the last of his people. He has no one else 'like him'. No one else to pass down the traditions, the teachings that Gyatso and everyone else he cared about and who were horrifically murdered to. Aang is getting older and he feels like his culture and history and his entire life before he got trapped in that damned iceberg will die along with him. And then Tenzin is born and Tenzin can take up the mantle that had been thrust upon Aang.

I'm going to withhold my judgement on Izumi and Zuko, since we barely know anything about them. She seems well adjusted but that's all i can say right now. But Zuko has also been shown to be extremely, painfully aware of how fucked up his family is and has clearly been putting in a lot of work to unscrew what his ancestors have screwed up.

Toph situation feels very tragic to me,because it's obvious that she thought she thought she was doing better than her parents. She gave her daughters the freedom to do what they want, to not feel opressed and trapped like she had. How was she supposed to know that she was making her girls feel like she didn't love them? (Here's another post of mine about the Beifong family and how they just feel like they're cursed or something at this point.)

TLDR; I get annoyed by people saying that the Gaang being 'bad parents' ruined their characters, because to me it felt like it actually enhanced them.

Neither Aang nor Toph acted out of malice or a lack of love. On the contrary, Toph was trying not to repeat her parents mistakes, accidentally committing a bunch of her own. While Aang probably didn't even realise that he was neglecting Kya and Bumi.

But just loving your children doesn't always make you a good parent.

I think these flaws only add to them as characters. It makes them feel more real.

It's unrealistic and, frankly, just plain boring to go 'oh the Gaang were all good people so they would be good parents too.'

The Gaang were a gaggle of traumatised children forced into saving the world, because the adults around them failed them, that then grew into traumatised adults who have no idea how to be good parents.

Katara will no longer accept being the group babysitter🤭

Aang took the children on vacation to an air temple and has decided (in the early hours of the morning) that he should give them a history lesson🤭