Page 203 – Backronyms are stupid
You’d be surprised just how few words there are that the letters A V A T A and R can stand for. Rest assured we won’t won’t be hearing this long version of Avatar’s name very often.
Speaking of whom, I’m surprised at how out of practice I’ve gotten at drawing Avatar since she last showed up. I mean, the LAST page went fine, but I had a lot of trouble remembering how to draw her in profile here.
Oh, and not to gush about the zombie kids AGAIN, but get a load of that look Alphonse gives Avatar when Tabitha hugs her! I was honestly surprised at how different he looks with an expression other than timid fear. You’d think I’d know these characters pretty well by now, but they still find ways of surprising me.
(Historical Notes: Even after all this time, I STILL have trouble figuring out how to draw Avatar’s hair when viewed from the wrong direction. She’s got a kind of a Mickey Mouse ears situation going on)
I wonder if GODOT from St. Charlie (in the webcomic Skin Horse) could come up with a better backronym for Avatar’s name. If you don’t need it to make sense for her, there are backronym generators around, here’s one output I got from such a generator:
AVATAR: an Anonymous Votive Acetylation Tallowing at an Appendaged Retelling