Arsonist's Lullaby: An Azula Timeloop Quest

[Elpis]

SEE THE VISION-
WHAT DOES IROH SEE
THAT HAUNTS HIM SO MUCH?
AS IF IT WERE AN IMAGE FROM THE PAST
SO FAR AWAY IT MIGHT BE A DISTANT STAR
AND YET SO CLOSE
LIKE A COMET BURNING HEAVEN AND EARTH

 

[Elpis]

PERHAPS WHAT WE SEEK
IS NOT EXCELLENCE THAT SURPASSES EXCELLENCE
BUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT SURPASSES CRITICISM
ARE YOUR FLAMES BLUE BECAUSE YOU ARE AZULA
OR ARE YOU AZULA BECAUSE YOUR FLAMES ARE BLUE?

 

[Elpis]

OH FIRE PRINCESS
EMBOLDENED BY THE FLAME
WHEN AGNI SPLIT YOU AND YOUR BROTHER IN THE WOMB, HE DID NOT DIVIDE EVENLY
HE GOT KINDNESS, AND YOU LONGING
HE GOT COMPLACENCE, AND YOU AMBITION
YOU WANT TO KILL HIM SOMETIMES
SOMETIMES, YOU THINK HE WANTS TO DIE

 

[Elpis]

Fire-type Specialist Azula wants to battle.

(Hello, I am Elpis, I draw stuff and also write this quest here: A Ballad for Icarus - A Pokemon Quest - if you like Pokemon and my own take on Otome Webtoon tropes please check it out, it has yuri and I try to draw at least one thing every update, the final update of my first arc should be this week)

 

[ArlequineLunaire]

Crossover fanart I did between Arsonist's Lullaby and Doctor Who: A Deal with Time, in which Azula uses lightningbending to short-circuit The Doctor's sonic screwdriver. Full colour version here.

I vaguely had a whole fanfic planned, where The Doctor comes up to investigate Azula being in a time loop, and also to visit Iroh who was a Companion in his pre-General days.

I went with mostly lineless marker art, since as I've been doing Inktober I haven't gotten the chance to use my markers much lately.

Spoiler: Bleedthrough since they're usually interesting

 

[Elpis]

Azula, the one who sigmas.

 

[waito_x]

Congrats on the vote clearing you both. I have some fanart for the thread while OP Magery is doing site stuff

Azula Crashing the Prison Riot

 

[waito_x]

Most recent voting round was closed methinks, Fantasy explorer (but glad to have you aboard this crazy train)!

Poking back in to add to some of Randino's readthru. The more recent choices our Azula has made, and the composure she's kept even in close proximity to would-be adversaries (a run-in with Katara trying to ambush her... there was even some playful "can't touch this" defensive volleys against Aang's bison). I am liking this side of her. Good voting thus far.

My personal favorite, is third loop where she tells Mai and Ty Lee to go on ahead, while she confers with Zuko-meister.

Art:

A long-overdue conversation.

 

[Elpis]

A dream of sand and lightning.

The world is not kind to you, but perhaps you can be kind to yourself. And if you do not think you deserve that kindness, then do one good deed every day. Forgive one friend, forgive your sibling, forgive yourself.

You are more than they made you.

 

[waito_x]

Days to vote tally. Please have another artwork (which should ring a bell from the get go, those having read the opening to what will surely be an exhilarating 4th Loop de doop).

Ember Island, watch out!