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Published: 2007-06-28 06:03:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 11678; Favourites: 81; Downloads: 48
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Description Wow, I keep putting them out....

Forgive the horrible drawing of this pic, I drew it without reference (mainly) on the back of a Wendy's bag and then did all sorts of stuff to it on Paint. Originally, you could see Mai's face, but then I decided to have her little shoulder-diamond thingy (whatever it's called) falling over her face...biggest artistic mistake I have ever made. That infernal thing was revised over and over and over again, and it STILL looks horrible....

Zuko had to be squished in Paint and re-placed for it to work....but other than that, pretty much everything is no-ref (besides the background). Mai, Zuko, and our little turtle-duck friend.

If you can't tell (and you probably can't), Mai just slipped on a puddle and almost fell into the pond....Zuko "rescued" her, but at the cost of finding himself, once again, in an awkward situation with Mai.

Seriously, when I originally conceived and created the pic, I had no idea that I was making another pond situation...it occurred to me halfway through that the odds of something like this happening are incredibly slim...and I don't like that slim of odds. I also realized that the thought gags were a lot like Toph's line from "The Serpent's Pass." It was purely coincidental. But what else are you supposed to do?

I also originally had a little Ty Lee calling Azula over....but she got cut. I considered (and am still considering) adding a squeeing shippy Ty Lee (she's a Maizu shipper, that girl), but I don't know if it would work well....the wall kind of removed the zone she would occupy....but I never intended for this to be a good deviation, and I don't feel like it is, really, it's a relative quicky....I'm impressed with myself, sure, but the number of flaws just makes me cringe.

Should I add Ty Lee (I can make room for her on the side) or leave it like it is? Should I change something?

I dunno.

They have GOT to stop meeting like that, though....props to for that particular quip, which was running through my head the whole time....

Oh, if you can tell me how to fix that thing on Mai, please do, it's bugging me.

Mai and Zuko and the turtle-duck and the Fire Nation and the pond all belong to Viacom, Nickelodeon, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. They are not my characters.
The situation IS mine, however.

P.S. My descriptions are NOT too long!
P.P.S.: That position MUST be painful....
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Comments: 56

Anime-Dragon94 [2009-05-16 04:41:23 +0000 UTC]

Yes, let her go and let her drown! Then zutara happieness will fill the world!

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BlackDiamond13 In reply to Anime-Dragon94 [2010-07-29 21:38:32 +0000 UTC]

AAAUGH! Noooo!

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Alphonselover03 [2008-07-27 04:01:44 +0000 UTC]

thats so mean I love Maizu

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Omnipotrent [2008-02-15 07:12:38 +0000 UTC]

Lol, I love it!

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swan-swan In reply to Omnipotrent [2008-02-15 16:13:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Zolem [2007-12-14 18:41:56 +0000 UTC]

It's called a mantle. It reasts on top of the shoulders and is actually seperate from the shirt, so if it was flipped up like that, it would actually be falling off.

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swan-swan In reply to Zolem [2007-12-14 19:33:04 +0000 UTC]

Would it make it past her chin? [pulls out notepad and pays attention, knowledge is always good]

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Zolem In reply to swan-swan [2007-12-14 20:19:47 +0000 UTC]

ER, I guess, depending on how it's faling, the neck area could catch on the chin I guess. But if it didn't it would probably all fall off if it's bent like that. The back area would also be hanging much loser if it was caught on the chin.

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snowp [2007-12-02 21:56:13 +0000 UTC]

hahaha!! you know I always found it weird why zuko kind of just jumped on mai... how was that supposed to help?

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swan-swan In reply to snowp [2007-12-02 22:33:37 +0000 UTC]

He tried knocking the apple off her head, but he tripped and fell...and the ship was sealed! <3

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avatar-leeloo [2007-10-20 08:01:19 +0000 UTC]

I didn't know this was a different scene, I thought he was pulling her out of the pond after they crashed into each other. Still funny, though.

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swan-swan In reply to avatar-leeloo [2007-10-20 15:25:10 +0000 UTC]

Hehehe...thanks. Yeah, the fountain scene was completely different....

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Kurachika [2007-10-07 08:11:16 +0000 UTC]

Ouch and I thought only Ty-Lee could bend like that, but Mai could give her lessons. O_o

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swan-swan In reply to Kurachika [2007-10-07 14:24:49 +0000 UTC]

Yeahhhh, hehehe....

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Burnouts3s3 [2007-09-16 17:26:11 +0000 UTC]

I don't think it looks horrible....I think you just need practice. But I see genuine effort displayed here and the idea overall is great.
Poor little Turtle Duck.

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swan-swan In reply to Burnouts3s3 [2007-09-16 18:48:11 +0000 UTC]

Well, thanks. The whole purpose is practice....

The turtle-duck is actually having a fun time....it loves to watch things like this....

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Burnouts3s3 In reply to swan-swan [2007-09-17 01:47:03 +0000 UTC]

What, akward shipping?

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waterbendergirl-0212 [2007-08-04 09:36:57 +0000 UTC]

Cute!

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swan-swan In reply to waterbendergirl-0212 [2007-08-04 14:29:45 +0000 UTC]

^_^

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HowCanIimprove [2007-07-04 08:29:57 +0000 UTC]

thats so cute i love it...what mais thinking is definatly something shed say awsome and zuko being his usual undecided self still holding on hahha i love ths

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swan-swan In reply to HowCanIimprove [2007-07-04 14:23:01 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it!

Yeah, she COULD say something like that....heehee....

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StealthFart [2007-07-04 04:58:29 +0000 UTC]

heh...Cute!

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swan-swan In reply to StealthFart [2007-07-04 05:18:00 +0000 UTC]

Heh...thanks!

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zukocats22 [2007-07-02 08:59:25 +0000 UTC]

they r such a cute pairing

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swan-swan In reply to zukocats22 [2007-07-02 18:21:28 +0000 UTC]

Indeed! <3

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vick330 [2007-07-02 01:18:42 +0000 UTC]

That's so funny and you even added a little turtle-duck

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swan-swan In reply to vick330 [2007-07-02 05:48:21 +0000 UTC]

Yes. How could I draw a Fire Nation pond without a turtle-duck???

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lilfirebender [2007-06-30 14:59:54 +0000 UTC]

lol cute. I like this one.

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swan-swan In reply to lilfirebender [2007-06-30 16:16:54 +0000 UTC]

Glad you do! ^_^

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swan-swan In reply to lilfirebender [2007-06-30 16:16:51 +0000 UTC]

Glad you do! ^_^

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Tempest-in-Blue [2007-06-30 05:46:03 +0000 UTC]

A very cute and funny pic, but wow, she's in one heck of an unnatural position.

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swan-swan In reply to Tempest-in-Blue [2007-06-30 06:07:50 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, she is...I had to exaggerate, I guess, to show that she can't just pull herself back up....X.

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Tempest-in-Blue In reply to swan-swan [2007-06-30 06:10:21 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I guess you're right, it just caught me a bit off guard for her to be in such a....Ty Lee type position, but then, that's what makes it funny, so there you go.

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swan-swan In reply to Tempest-in-Blue [2007-06-30 06:20:51 +0000 UTC]

Oh, don't worry....you actually prompted me to put up my next journal.

I don't think you've commented much recently...I just get that feeling....hm....

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Tempest-in-Blue In reply to swan-swan [2007-06-30 14:09:34 +0000 UTC]

No, I haven't, I know, and I'm sorry. I've been a bit stressed, but I've got some time at the moment, so I'll go back and see what I haven't commented on.

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swan-swan In reply to Tempest-in-Blue [2007-06-30 14:47:02 +0000 UTC]

Oh, feel free to be stressed, we all need to be at times....

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xcgirl08 [2007-06-29 16:53:38 +0000 UTC]

Is this the pic you were talking about? Ah, that's cute!! ^^ Poor Mai had a lot of embarassing moments in her childhood, it would seem.

All great artists do at least one piece of work on the back of a Wendy's bag, by the way. As I best recall, "Harry Potter" was begun on a napkin......

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swan-swan In reply to xcgirl08 [2007-06-29 17:18:17 +0000 UTC]

No, this isn't it....but it'll probably be up very soon....

And I've done a lot on the back of Wendy's bags, they're great surfaces. And I have time.

And it was actually begun on plain paper....

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CubieJ [2007-06-29 15:29:12 +0000 UTC]

See, now you have to draw another picture so poor Mai can get out of that painful position. Can't leave her like that forever, can you?

Aw, you're really starting to turn me into a Maizu shipper, y'know that? XD And I don't even like shipping very much.

They are adorable, though. Especially in kid-mode. ^^

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swan-swan In reply to CubieJ [2007-06-29 17:15:17 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it's the kid-mode that drives this ship for me. Because there's SO MUCH that you can do with it without souring the ship, oversweetening it, or making it defy canon.

I DO need to get her out of it, don't I? Hmmmmm....

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Nyy2 [2007-06-29 00:26:41 +0000 UTC]

ouch! that does look really painful.

I think you should have Ty Lee come from behind Zuko and push them both in the water on top of each other.

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swan-swan In reply to Nyy2 [2007-06-29 06:59:51 +0000 UTC]

That would be Azula doing that...Ty Lee would probably just adore the two of them....XD

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Szrink [2007-06-28 20:26:40 +0000 UTC]

Hurray for random drawings on Wendy's bags! Yeah, I really hate those biggest artistic mistakes ever made too...anyway, it's cute. I like it

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swan-swan In reply to Szrink [2007-06-28 20:33:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Glad you like!

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WhiteWolfMystic [2007-06-28 17:18:13 +0000 UTC]

Very lovely!

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swan-swan In reply to WhiteWolfMystic [2007-06-28 17:39:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

Nice rose.

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WhiteWolfMystic In reply to swan-swan [2007-06-28 17:40:39 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome and thx

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heartsyhawk [2007-06-28 17:04:51 +0000 UTC]

Another lovely piece. Childhood crushes can be so awkward, for both kids, and you've captured that remarkably Yeah, that position does look pretty uncomfortable for poor Mai.

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swan-swan In reply to heartsyhawk [2007-06-28 17:38:19 +0000 UTC]

Yay, people read the descriptions!

Much, much too awkward here....heeehee...

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heartsyhawk In reply to swan-swan [2007-06-29 03:35:37 +0000 UTC]

I firmly believe (and have yet to be disproven) that we, the artists, put the comments there because we want them read. That...and I'm addicted to words. I read everything I get my hands on

hehe awkward? But that makes it fun

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