Pomegranate

Entry for Zuko-Katara's Mythology contest

Chosen Greek myth: the Abduction of Persephone.
Prince Zuko (and his royal ponytail) as Hades, the ruler of the Underworld.
Katara and her epic plait as Persephone.
Aang as Hermes the divine herald.
Appa as my ultimate love

The scene takes place in February, last month of winter (well, at least in most European countries ), and as the myth says, while Demeter, mother of Persephone, was looking for her daughter ravished by Hades, all fertility on earth stopped.
Finally Zeus sent Hermes down to Hades to make him release Persephone. Before she went back to her mother Hades had given her pomegranate (or in the other version seven pomegranate seeds) to eat.
Thus Persephone would always be connected to the Underworld and had to stay there one-third of the year.

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Media - ink, watercolours on A4.
Zuko & Katara © Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko