Series: Avatar: the Last Airbender

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"Hannibal ad portus." Lit. "Hannibal is at the gates."

For whatever reason, since seeing "Day of the Black Sun," this phrase, uttered as a portent of misfortune in Rome, stuck in my head. Probably because 1) I'm a history geek and have been equating the Fire Nation with the Roman Empire since the first time I saw the opening credits and 2) "Hakoda" sounds enough like "Hannibal" in my mind theater that I have wanted to do a fanart linking the father of Sokka and Katara to the Carthaginian general who struck such terror in Roman hearts that his name became a stock phrase of terror and ill-omen.

lol. 8D

"Barbarus" is the singular of "barbarian" in Latin, because I am fairly certain the Fire Nation with their fancy ironclads considers anyone from the Southern Water Tribe to be such. I think it adds to the irony of the the COMPLETELY DESTROYED harbor gates. Hee.

i decided that Hakoda's warpaint would include the sign of "leadership" Bato painted on Sokka's head in episode 15 for obvious reasons. I will be posting a version without warpaint (and a much less dramatic background) in my scraps at a later date, for all those who voted on the Hakoda WIP.

Pose ref courtesy of: *mjranum-stock

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