somebody on twitter brought up the fact that Johane Matte, a storyboard artist that worked on ATLA and LOK made storyboard art of adult gaang and omg this is the adult aang that we deserved instead of that white man šš side note: sokka looks so much like hakoda, tlok animators fumbled the bagļæ¼
Itās a sketch but I havenāt drawn in so long my hand literally hurts T-T
Akemi with her small wings, decorative only. They glitter like gold and their only job seems to be betraying her thoughts and puffing up whenever she is angry. They also take ridiculously long to wash away any grime or sand they collect. High maintenance!
TAIGEN
Taigenās wings are his pride and joy, wide and beautiful. They appear bluish green in this sketch but itās mostly because of the night light. They are brown, just like those of an osprey. They shine with oil and attention they have just gotten at the brothel from all the lovely ladies heās been drinking with.
Like I wrote before, he spreads them whenever he can, especially to goad.
(Pose comes from the pilot episode and no, itās not because I didnāt master that beautiful manās face yet, not at allā¦)
And nowā¦
MIZU
Thatās how her wings look like at the time of her first duel with Taigen:
Yeeeeeshā¦ they look rough. She does cut them evenly, itās just that lack of preening and being thrown through paper walls will do that to the person (Ignore Taigen - some have good hair genes, he has good feathers).
They are cut as short as she can keep them and are matted and just sad.
For comparison, hereās how they should look like
Woah, big wingspan baby!
And much healthier, too! Shiny, glittering! I have a feeling that Mizuās wings would be almost iridescent at the top, definitely pretty enough to make Taigen jealous. Also, wouldnāt it be hilarious if they reacted to the littlest bit of care like crazy and make Akemi green with jealousy with how low of a maintenance they actually are?
Too bad no one thought to teach Mizu how to care for them properlyā¦
Anyways, hope you all like the sketches. I would love to hear your headcanons bout this au and I would be HONORED if anyone joined in!
Doodles I did while watching the BES livestream. Things from the livestream I liked:
They confirmed Taigen/Mizu so casually.
Mizu would like Baby Metal.
They want to release an art book but is not up to the creators and is more of a Netflix decision to give the thumbs up. So yāall, spam Netflix jh/
The Four Fangs have different culture double swords such as Chinese Dao swords and Thai swords that they stolen.
Chiaki was compared to Darth Vader.
James Wilson (Art Director) said āit was hard to let Heiji Shindo goā when he explained why Heiji was his favorite character. Same, he had potential.
They hated the horses.
Mizu is very tall, in episode 5 saying that her kimono doesnāt fit well.
They didnāt say anything of season two but they said they want to add more animals and fans asked to make Mizu pet a dog on the season two.