FanArt: The Last Airbender - Water Tribe, part 7

[sherkahn]

Out-maneuvered, out-manned, out-gunned, Captain Zhao and his crew take the initiative and turn the naval ambush into game of chicken. Hunter becomes hunted, and in his bid for survival Zhao leads his foes into an environment deadlier than the Fire Nation ships themselves... the merciless ice fields of the north.


*Cannot stress enough that this is fandom... but great fandom.

*big scans to come. Sorry dial-up people. And fair warning, the posts will get MUCH bigger from now on, as the story escalates.


... before the storm.






Yup, getting MAJOR Alfred vibes Kwon. They must be related.





And this is why I like this interpretation of Zhao. Humbled, he's still very human, not fully being able to accept and feel the "right" emotions because he's messed up inside.

















Yup. It's Alfred.


















































Next time.... we come back full circle. No, really.


suggested tags

title: The Water Tribe
character: Admiral Zhao

creator: Johane Matte

Comments

[proteus_lives]

Like this so much.

It's a rule of the multiverse. A lot of the times wherever there's a brilliant, misguided asshole, an Alfred might raise to guide him/her.

[dejadrew]

A part of me wishes it had ended here. You know, "And he lived happily ever after, except he was pretty cold sometimes."

[neuhallidae]

Motto. While I totally understood the progression to the actual ending, this would have been a very nice ending as well.

[deliandra]

Als the beginning of the next chapter is so worth it. xD

[neuhallidae]

God, I love Arluk in this part. Also, Nauja. And the "touch my daughter and be a bloody smear" glare.

[thandrak]

It... escalates? Oh. My. GOD.

[mercia]

I have really been enjoying this and can't wait for more. (And if the next bit makes me grind my teeth, why I'll just pretend it ended right here! :D)

Thank you for posting it.

[sianmink]

This may be fanfic, but as far as I'm concerned it's canon.

<3

[espanolbot]

Considering the woman who did this worked on the actual show, it might as well be.

Unless the sequel series (apparently based 100 years after the original) called 'Avatar: Legend of Korra', openly contradicts it in some way.

[janegray]

Wait a minute. Iroh knew that there was slave trading going one, and didn't do anything to stop it?

Sure, some of the people were eventually rescued (but I seriously doubt that they, especially the girls, weren't harmed in their months of slavery), but many weren't. How could Iroh tolerate that? No way.

[sherkahn]

There would be slave trade before and after Iroh was gone, just as there would be piracy.

Iroh is playing the game of thrones, with Azula still out there and renegade Fire Nation commanders in play. Zhao would be Iroh's best asset in making contact with them, exposing them and getting to Azula.

[janegray]

Sorry, but the "bad things always happen" excuse just doesn't work for me.

[mcity]

Maybe he needed to find out what was going on, hence sending Zhao out to beat the bushes, albeit accidentally. We don't know if he had some sort of concurrent investigation on.