your centaur au is so frickin cute!! zukos design especially, i just adore it. and to answer your q in the tags, sokka/suki/zuko’s ship name is zukki or less commonly suzukka

Thank you! :D I'm glad you like it, I'm having a blast drawing them! Zuko and Sokka were actually the first two I designed for this AU, Zuko's dragon design is inspired by an entirely different AU I had in my brain at the time, lol. He was a lot fluffier in that one.

Also Zukki as a ship name is so adorable gosh I love it. Thanks for letting me know!

I'm very disappointed that centaur zuko is a dragon but centaur toph isn't a badger

Sorry! Zuko is a dragon due to how I made the Royals in the verse have super special specialness via being dragon bloods. Zuko and Azula were legit "born to be special" and Zuko in this verse feels he doesn't live up to the task. It's sort of how I incorporated the whole "the royal family is blessed/favored by Agni" thing to this AU. The only dragons in this world are those who descend from the royal family, hence why Jet mentions how "being a dragon just means he's a royal".

This is also why he's able to pass as other species though, you don't see a dragon every day. You kind of assume if they don't have horns or are a weird color they're probably some other kind of lizard hybrid, and Zuko spends the majority of the first arc with his horns sawn off as part of his banishment. They regrow quickly once he joins Azula and goes home because dragon horns just be like that and grow back kinda fast if not continuously filed back down. This is also why he has a larger set in some pictures and none/smaller sets in others.

Toph isn't a badgermole because Toph learns from them the same as in the show. Where Zuko was legit born to be special and powerful and fails to embody it in ways his Father and he himself wants, Toph just says "screw fitting the mold" and learns to be powerful and do things outside of her "nature" by finding the origin of her element without being directly related to it in the same sense Zuko is. I did originally consider making her a badger or something similar but having her be a more unassuming animal felt like it fit her origin a bit better. The whole "small and frail" image society had of her. Zuko later learns from the original dragons, too, just like in the show. Because despite being dragons themselves in a way the royals have not honored their elements origin through anything but boasting appearances in a long time.

Hybrids of the original benders of course did exist at one time, and maybe still do, but they would likely be much rarer now after the Fire Nation started the war and are probably also more limited to people who have a special link to the origins. I haven't put much thought into that yet, beyond that the Fire Nation probably makes it very unsafe to be a descendant of those lines due to wanting all the power over them? Still world building on that part.

Toph really ends up helping Zuko accept that he doesn't have to just be the perfect whatever he is in this verse as well. She learned to be herself despite what she was born to be in the eyes of others, she helps Zuko understand that he can learn to be who he is despite the same. Sibling energy wins the day.

Basically, Zuko was purposefully made after what his bending element came from because it puts the pressure of perfection on him. Toph isn't because Toph just learns it from them herself because Toph is awesome and special in a different way. Her own way. The way she chose for herself in a way. Zuko thinks he is stuck trying to fit in a slot he's not made to fit, Toph just punched a hole to make it fit herself because she can and wanted to and who was gonna stop her?

Hope I explained this well enough to get the idea across, sorry if it's nonsensical and rambly I just woke up lol. I'll elaborate if something doesn't make sense. But this is the general idea I had behind why Zuko matches his elemental origin but no one else does. At least no one we've seen in the main Gaang.

I had to draw it. I don't make the rules.

I dubbed this doodle "Sokka Likes Spicy Noodles" just so you all know.

The only context for this is "I thought it'd be funny to draw".

A Suki appears! She's a Stoat and therefor she is the baddest of asses. As she should be.

Did I mention Jet lives in this AU?

More art soon! It's taking a bit because I decided to make an actual comic and I have realized I am bad at making actual comic. It's not even good but I'm committed to finishing it now.

Hopefully I'll have it done sometime tomorrow night?? Until then, have a panel clip of Toph being the funniest character.

irritable ponytail dragon zuko is so cute oh my god. love how unimpressed he is by sokka (plus the kick must've been incredibly funny this verse, he must've slapped him halfway across the tundra lolllll)

Thank you! Oh he probably went flying, yeah, lmao poor Sokka. I'm sure he still had a cushy snow landing somewhere in the distance. He's also got the extra padding of all that floof, too!

Still I imagine there was probably a wince from everyone, including Zuko himself. Oops. Didn't mean to send that guy to the moon but there he go.

He doesn't know anything about dragon reproduction, Zuko. For all he knows that time you held hands counts.

Katara continues to be plagued by sarcasm with every new member to their little ragtag Gaang

One of them is gonna feel this in like 10 years, give or take.

Gotta love the awkward lanky lizard phase amirite

Also if anyone has any suggestions for their faves feel free to drop em, I'd love to have some ideas for the other characters! They don't have to be limited to just one animal either, hybrids are accepted. It is ATLA after all!

I am absolutely in love with centaur AU actually. As the resident Toph Stan from my friend group may I recommend a few animals? (No pressure to use any of them!) A boar, a hippo, a Wolverine, a tasmanian Devil, a mole, a honey badger, or maybe a Jack rabbit (they have seen hell)

I'd wanted something "unassuming but can kick ass" and y'know what? You're so right, Jack Rabbits have seen hell and they kicked it's ass for lookin at them wrong. Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm glad people are liking my weird little centaur ATLA AU! It makes me happy!

I'll probably draw more of it once I get over my indecision on what to make the other characters! Toph especially. Toph is a hard choice and I've been laying awake at night wondering what would do her justice.

The last of the ready made art of "that weird AU I made the other night, I don't know what happened, I don't know why I went so hard, but here we are" for now. There is other art but it is sketchy and scribbly and hard to tell what it is without context and I am lazy.

This AU also started entirely because I wanted to draw Sokka as a deer, btw. Sokka was the first one who was designed. I didn't know what to make anyone else so I just threw the first thing that came to mind at them. Anyways, Aang is a Lemur, not a squirrel, thank you.