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would there be an earthbending god?? a giant badgermole kaiju under the Earth Kingdom??
wait... THATS COOL
Yes!! In the original version of spirit blessed Zuko her name was Yaoji (after a mountain in china I believe) and she was a giant badgermole who lived under ba sing se
She was only really a very surface level concept bc I cared more about Agni and Zuko than I did the rest of them lmao but she'll probably stay pretty much the same but with a different name and some more in depth lore than "giant badgermole under ba sing se" in the redesign/rewrite
The mother of all mothers
Spirit Blessed Zuko Master list
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First concept
Agni's design
Yuzukka
Azula's design
Lore/world building
Redesign #1
More Yuzukka
Redesign #2
Zukka staring longingly into each others eyes
Agni redesign/rewrite
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━ ps, most things before the second redesign have been retconed as redesign #2 is also a rewrite, apologizes
Spirit blessed Zuko redesign redesign
1st redesign
Og design
So I redesigned Spirit Blessed Zuko..
Also you can remove his clothes like a dress up doll lol
Spirit Blessed Zuko AU Fire Nation lore stuff!!
Back when the Fire Nation was still run by the fire sages it was actually fairly common for the members of the Royal family to be sprit gifted/blessed and the Fire Nation being well the Fire Nation, made crowns about it.
There are 3 sets of 8 crowns, each set has 8 distinct designs for each of the Original 8 Benders. The crowns were worn by the princes and princesses of the Royal family no matter how far away from the throne they were as long as they were spirit gifted/blessed, once a spirit gifted prince/princess became Fire Lord they'd add the Fire Lord's crown to the back of their top knot and keep wearing their spirit crown at the front. There's 8 versions of the Fire Lord's crown because each spirit crown is a different shade of gold so they obviously had to match the golds!
Some examples of the crowns:
The reason there's 3 sets of the crowns is that when the Fire Nation was at its peak spirituality it was so common to have spirit gifted royalty they simply ended up needing that many. I'm talking multiple generations packed full of spirit gifted/blessed people, family portraits used to be alive with so many shades of gold and red! But now, as the Fire Nation loses it's connect to the spirits less people are gifted. Crowns sit untouched in the royal vault for decades. Family portraits devolve into the same deep reds and yellow golds. It used to be a bad sign to have a whole generation be skipped by the spirits but now it happens so often that no one bats and eye at it. No one truly understands, or cares to understand, the reasoning behind why the spirits haven't touched the Royal family in 5 generations.
With the birth of Agni gifted prince Zuko and La gifted princess Azula, it seems the Royal family has finally regained the spirits good graces, but I don't think they'll like the reasoning all that much.
Did I ever mention that Azula was also Spirit Gifted?
I changed the rules of spirit gifting a lil so now people that aren't from the spirit's patron nation can be gifted by them but it isn't like a requirements like regular spirit gifting is
POV: your first gf turned into the moon and now your scared your first bf will turn into the sun
Agni design!!
Zuko's post
Lore dump under the cut
Agni is one of 8 original benders, they're the 8 spirits of the elements basically. Tui and La are together water, Agni is fire, Yaoji is earth, and Bei, Dongfang, Nan, and Xifang are wind
All 8 original benders have a sacred time of day and a sacred day of the year, when a child is born on the day and time of their nation's patron spirit they are gifted by the spirit. Zuko was born at noon on the summer solstice so he was gifted a kind heart and resilience by Agni
Someone is spirit blessed when a spirit goes out of their way to help the person reach their destiny, like Yue becoming the moon or Zuko becoming Fire Lord
Spirit gifted people are much more common than spirit blessed people
Agni's mortal dragon form lives at the bottom of the Volcano that the Fire Nation capital is built over
Agni design for WIP Wednesday
+ her next to Zuko's full body
Spirit blessed Zuko ideas bc now he's living in my head rent free
- Agni is actually a spirit in this AU bc I was devastated to learn that she does not, in fact, exist in canon
- Zuko was born Agni's favorite, born on the summer solstice at noon, Agni wished to give him many a gifts at his birth but was only allowed one so she gave him a kind heart in hopes it would heal her nation
- at 13 Zuko is banished and his bearly healed wound is infected, almost killing him prematurely
- Iroh prayed to Agni to save his nephew, she obliged, taking this opportunity to bestow him with gifts she couldn't at his birth.
- Zuko's scar tissue turned from melted skin to firey red scales, his hair from a brown deeper than dark chocolate to yellow so warm it looked like liquid gold, and his eyes from golden brown to the pure gold of a dragon's. He radiated light, just like the sun. And his fire turned from an almost solitary orange to a rainbow of colors refracting in the light.
- also, she gave him a dragon
- Sokka thinks Zuko will turn into the sun (he will not)
- Zuko spends like half of season one trying to convince the Gaang that he's there to teach Aang fire bending, not capture him a take him to the Fire Nation
- Everyone is generally disturbed by Zuko when first meeting him because he's the only person in the world to have blonde hair
Agni's post