#‘zuko and sokka are so alike’ no

[hauntingofhouses]

i tried watching the netflix a:tla live action and got so frustrated that i could only make it through 1 episode before i decided "fuck this" and started rewatching the cartoon from the first episode

anyway that led to me writing this in my notes app while half-asleep in bed last night

[pinkiemachine]

ALSO, for my Legend of Korra Rewrite, there’s an opera house in Republic City, and they do their own production of “The Boy in the Iceberg.”

It’s heavily inspired by Beijing/Peking Opera, native to China, and I’ve been having way too much fun writing this truly ridiculous, over romanticised version of the original AtLA story 😂 First off, the costumes and props—Now, Peking Opera has a set of rules/guidelines for what colours mean what, which costumes go to what kind of character, and which face paint is appropriate for this and that person, but hardly any of it aligns with the world of AtLA, so it will have its own rules. Naturally, the people are colour coded. Blue = Water Tribe, Red = Fire Nation, Green = Earth kingdom, Yellow = Air Bender. How can you tell if a character is royalty or super important? If they’re wearing any kind of elaborate headpiece. How can you tell who the Avatar is? The Avatar alone has special face paint that covers his entire face. Also, how light or dark their clothing is can inform you of their badness level, and also also, if a character’s hands are covered, it usually means they are hiding something or are very sly and cunning.

Then there’s the bending. Airbending is represented by the staff illustrated above, with two tufts of blue fluffy stuff on either end, similar to what the Ember Island Players did. This prop is very similar to a real one used in Peking Opera. Waterbending is achieved in two forms, either with long sleeves or ribbons, both used for dancing. Also straight from Peking Opera. Fire Bending is achieved through flags/staffs very similar to Peking Opera and the Ember Island Players alike. Finally, Earthbending comes across more like hand-to-hand combat in the choreography, because they use large fans to represent their element, inspired by Kiyoshi, and real life Peking Opera.

Now, the story is hilariously fun—it’s been eighty years since the events of the war, and the story has been dramatised to the Poles and back—so strap in and just imagine what the Gaang would be saying in reaction to all of this 😂

Once, there was a prince and a princess of the Southern Water Tribe. Prince Sokka was a brave and mighty warrior, and Princess Katara was the most beautiful and intelligent woman in all the South Pole. One day, they happened across a glowing iceberg, and from within emerged the Avatar! Avatar Aang was a very playful and mischievous boy (think “The Monkey King”), and upon seeing the beautiful Princess Katara, he immediately fell in love and proposed to her. But the mighty Prince Sokka took offence at such cheekiness, and challenged Avatar Aang to a duel to defend his sister’s honour. Here we have the first of many action scenes. Ultimately, Avatar Aang defeats the prince, proving his worth and proving that he is in fact the real Avatar, but when he asks the princess again if she’ll marry him, she replies that she might, if he can teach her to waterbend.

It’s about this time that Zuko, the Banished Prince of the Fire Nation, and his uncle, General Iroh, the Dragon of the West, arrive to capture the Avatar!

They are unsuccessful of course, and Team Avatar escapes. They go to the Southern Air Temple where Avatar Aang grieves the loss of his people, and then he suddenly gets a vision from his past life, Avatar Roku. Here, it is explained that Sozin’s comet is fast approaching, and Avatar Aang must learn all four elements before it comes, or else the whole world will burn. Having received his instructions, the team sets a course for the North Pole. (Oh, and Momo is represented by an actor who’s a type of “clown” as Peking Opera puts it. There to be the comic relief. Not sure if I want the same for Appa…)

At the North Pole, Aang and Katara learn waterbending, and the Chief throws a massive party to celebrate the return of the Avatar. This is where Prince Sokka meets Princess Yue of the Northern Tribe, and they fall madly in love. But it is not to last. Zuko and Iroh have arrived with a Fire Nation fleet and lay siege to the city of the North. In their darkest hour, just before the city falls, Princess Yue sacrifices herself to the Moon Spirit, saving everyone, but losing her mortality in the process. It is said that she now lives on the moon, weeping to this very day for the loss of her one true love. (Keeping in mind, Tui and La are now a state secret, as no one wants a repeat of “Admiral Zhao,” who coincidentally, is nothing but a footnote in the history books due the secrecy of the moon and ocean spirit’s physical home.)

Then, of course, the second act begins with Avatar Aang asking if Katara will marry him now that she’s learned Waterbending. But the princess is far too crafty for him, and becomes sly yet again. This time she says, she might marry him if he can find for her the impossibly rare Panda Lily. Aang is determined, though it may take him a while.

Team Avatar journeys to the Earth Kingdoms in search of an Earthbending master. Now, although the rumours of Toph being a man did stick around for quite a while (helped in no small part by Toph herself) eventually the truth comes out, and the play is amended accordingly. HOWEVER… no one is convinced that Toph is an ordinary human, oh no no no. They believe, whole heartedly, that she is a direct descendant of the badgermoles themselves, and is therefore some kind of half-human-half-spirit type being who sprouted up out of the ground one day. They fear her. As they should.

So Azula and her girlies make their appearance and they and Team Avatar make their way to Ba Sing Se, where they run into Zuko and Iroh, officially outcast from the royal Fire Nation family for failing to capture the Avatar at the Siege of the North. Azula infiltrates the city by impersonating the Kiyoshi warriors (who mysteriously replace the Dai Li in this story, and all mention of the city being controlled by a puppet master and brainwashing people is also mysteriously absent) and we meet Suki, leader of the Kiyoshi warriors, and she and Sokka begin to fall in love. Then, Aang manages to find the rare Panda Lily, but he’s not able to give it to Katara because the Last Stand of Ba Sing Se begins. There’s a massive fight at the palace, and Aang gets struck by lightning and falls into Princess Katara’s arms, trying to give her that Panda Lily she asked for. Then he falls into slumber as Princess Katara weeps. Zuko joins his sister Azula, Iroh is captured, and team Avatar flees.

That night, Katara begs the spirits to spare Avatar Aang, and Yue appears, bringing Aang back to life. It’s at this time that she gives the team a grave warning about the journey ahead of them. She reveals to them that the Day of Black Sun may aid them in their fight against the Fire Nation, and she also gives Sokka a special gift: a sword carved from moon rock. May it serve him well.

End of act two.

Act three begins with the mighty Sokka rallying all their allies together to launch an assault on the Fire Nation on the Day of Black Sun. Meanwhile, the Fire Prince Zuko battles with himself over his decision to betray his uncle and join his sister. He thinks of his mother, and how she would not have wanted him to follow the path of his father, Firelord Ozai. On the Day of Black Sun, he chooses to redeem himself by helping Avatar Aang defeat the Firelord once and for all. The battle was fierce—Princess Katara feared that she might lose Avatar Aang yet again—but when they arrived at his palace, no one was home. The Firelord was very crafty. He devised a labyrinth beneath his palace in which to hide, and he evaded the Avatar until the eclipse was over. The day was lost. Team Avatar was forced to retreat. However, now Aang had a Firebending Master to teach him the final element.

After much training, and much preparation, Aang was ready to face Firelord Ozai on the day that Sozin’s Comet came ripping across the sky. He tried to ask Princess Katara one last time if she would marry him, and this time she replied that if he survived his fight with the Firelord… she would marry him.

It began. Prince Sokka, Warrior Suki, and Master Toph led the charge against the Firelord’s army. Prince Zuko and Princess Katara held off Princess Azula, and Avatar Aang took on Firelord Ozai alone. Using all that they had learned across their journey, fuelled by the power of friendship and love, Team Avatar prevailed. The Firelord’s army fell, Princess Azula fell, and finally, Firelord Ozai himself fell before the mighty Avatar Aang. (Aang’s ability to energybend remains a secret.) And in the end, Prince Zuko took the throne of the Fire Nation, Prince Sokka took the throne of the South Pole with Suki as his queen, Toph became known as the greatest Earthebnder in the world, uncle Iroh opened the best tea shop in the world, and Princess Katara agreed to marry Avatar Aang. It was a happy ending indeed.

Can’t wait to finish the costume designs! Let me know what you think!

[lost-in-love-maze]

In the canon compliant world where Aang and Katara get together, I headcanon that the moment the everyone found out that Zuko took lightning in the chest for Katara during the Final Agni Kai, they all were not normal about it. Like can you imagine someone hearing about it and not thinking that Zuko was in love with her? How can everyone not be confused af hearing that Katara starts a relationship Aang and Zuko and Mai start dating again shortly after? Can you imagine all of the questions from friends, family, and politicians alike?

“So you risked your life to save her, potentially losing the throne to Azula, and the Fire Nation’s only chance of ending the war, because you’re just friends?”

“Good friends.”

“And when he went down, you ran towards him, hand extended out to heal him without any regard for your life, despite his maniacal sister still being in the fight… Crying when you revived him. All out of friendship?”

“Yes.”

I want to know how this conversation went down, what the reactions were, and how Zuko and Katara explained their way out of the situation. Because we all know Suki and Sokka would absolutely not believe them, Hakoda and Kanna would overanalyze their interactions from that point on, because that’s his daughter/her granddaughter, and the whole world would just wonder if they’re both in denial.

[thatrando13]

Sokka fr looks like comic Sokka (in the scenes where he sees Zuko). It's a wonderful drawing

-> Atlas

This is a shitty drawing I did at 4 in the morning, because I had nothing else to do, I did it for fun and it's stained because I don't know how to color [it's the best I could do, I don't know how to draw characters or bodies] 👻 It's the best I could do thank you 🗿💪🏽

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

https://www.tumblr.com/demaparbat-hp/777479724789284864/keeping-her-scars-would-tie-in-nicely-with-the?source=share

Your thoughts?

"Why is Zuko the face of the enemy?" Because he showed up at her village, threatened everyone, hunted the Gaang down for months, tried to kidnap Aang several times, and even attacked Katara for daring to offer to heal his uncle. Because he's made it quite clear that he wants his father to wreck the world through war, imperialism and genocide. He attacked the Gaang far more often than any other villain, OF COURSE he's the face of the enemy.

"Subconciously, it was about the scar" No, it fucking wasn't, Katara even says as much when Zuko assumes otherwise, and she only offered to heal it because he made it clear he had a complex over it. Learning about Zuko's abuse is important to understand his character, yes, but not in the sense that "scars mean evil person." He's a bad person because, before redeeming himself, he did things like support genocide.

"From a disability point of view" It's a scar. It didn't affect his vision or physical health in anyway. The only damage it did was psychological. It's the physical manifestation of his trauma, but it did not make Zuko disabled.

"Katara's character is explored through her compassion for others" True, doesn't mean she needs to be permanently scarred just so she can relate to Zuko more (which isn't even a guarantee, see how much "We both are scarred" meant to him when he stole from Song and her mom). It's reducing Zuko's character to just the guy with a scar, and reducing Katara to just the girl that got scarred to match him. It literally removes a turning point for her character - the discovery that she can heal.

"She saw everybody, but Zuko was the only who saw her" Bullshit. Hakoda, Gran-Gran, Sokka, Aang, Toph, and even Haru and his dad are the ones to see Katara for who she is. They saw her compassion, her strength, resilience, stubborness, courage - the good and the bad. Pre-redemption Zuko only saw Katara as yet another obstacle between him and the Avatar (aka his way back home), hence Katara literally trying to leave him behind to die in the North Pole. She's not completely devoid of compassion for him (again, she offered to heal Iroh) but they meant nothing to each other at that point.

"But Zuko was just like her, right? He was a hurt kid who lost his mother to the Fire Nation" No, they were not the same. That's the point of the Ba Sing Se scene. They THINK they're talking about the same thing, but the tragedy is that they're not. Zuko lost his mom due to the meddling of two abusive adults, his father and grandfather. Katara lost her mom to war and genocide - war and genocide carried out by Zuko's family. The same family he's still going to choose over everything else, mere moments later. Zuko does not genuinely understand, and thus empathize with, Katara's situation until their field trip.

"Katara was marked by fire, perhaps in different circumstances, but it's still similar enough to Zuko's own story (hurt by the one who was meant to love you, even if Katara's scar came from an accident and not sheer violence) that I feel like it would make them connect even more easily" Incredibly forced "parallel" since the two situations are not at all alike, and, again, "I have a scar too" meant fuckall to Zuko when he stole from Song and her mom - after they had helped him heal Iroh, something Katara also tried to do.

Zuko is NEVER, ever, EVER going to truly connect with Katara before he lets go of his imperialistic ideas, no matter what situations they're put on together or apart, because THAT'S the core problem here. His racism, elitism and entitlement. Until he gets over that, Katara is not a person in his eyes. The Zuko that was horrified at the general that wanted to use Fire Nation soldiers as "fresh meat" to bait the enemy was the same Zuko that laughed at his uncle's joke about burning Ba Sing Se to the ground.

The pain of non-Fire Nation people doesn't register to him, no matter how simmilar it is to his own pain, because he was trained, from birth, to not see them as human.

[purple-astronaut]

I love sokkla arranged marriage AUs, so i did this 🤧 😌

Azula: ugh....

Sokka: Ugh!

Azula: UGH!!!!

Sokka: UGH!!!!

Katara rolls her eyes

Aang: They are so alike but so different. They make a good couple

Azula: Take that back!

Sokka, dramatic gasp: My own friend!

Azula: You should be honored to be with me!

Sokka: YOU SHOULD BE HONORED!

Azula: NAH UH!

Sokka: YAH UH!

(There is a reason they live in the South pole and not the Fire Nation... zuko didn't want them)

[arverst-aegnar]

Day 30: Time Loop/Time Travel

heck yeah, i completed two days this year!!

the ending is a bit more abrupt than i wanted, but it just was not cooperating with me, and i was afraid that if i left it too long with my other incomplete Zutara Month ideas it might get infected with "takes too long to finish -itis". so here it is.

The word spreads quickly, covering the entire Earth Kingdom in a matter of days and reaching the Northern Water Tribe’s court within a week. Even the remnant of the Southern Water Tribe, all but forgotten at the bottom of the world, hears about it before the new moon.

Fire Lord Ozai is dead. His successor, Fire Lord Iroh, has declared his intentions to put an end to his nation’s war of domination. Petitions for peace and offers of reparations are being extended to all world leaders.

The Southern Water Tribe elders suspect a trap of some kind. Some think the proposed Peace Conference is actually an opportunity for him to kill the other nations’ leadership, leaving them vulnerable to his armies. Others suspect a subtler scheme to conquer the rest of the world through diplomacy, or perhaps a combination of culture and technology. 

For Sokka and Katara, who only hear the news by listening intently outside the elders’ meeting tent, there are more pressing matters at hand.

“Dad’s going to need me with him at this Peace Conference,” Sokka declares. He pulls out his boomerang and takes aim at a snowman some of the little kids built last week. “Whatever the Fire Nation’s planning, it’s no match for Southern Water Tribe ingenuity!”

Katara worries her bottom lip with her teeth. “What happened to Fire Lord Ozai?”

Sokka scoffs. “Who cares? He was a big, fat jerkbender like all of them. Probably set his bed on fire ‘cause he was roasting the Earth King in his sleep.”

She says nothing as her brother goes to pull his boomerang out of the snowman’s head. Nor does she say anything when her father announces that he and his entire family will be attending the Peace Conference, along with several of his best warriors. 

On the ship, she delights in opportunities to use her waterbending to speed it on its way, or to play pranks on Sokka, but often she is found deep in thought, wearing a pensive look much too old for her.

“You’re strangely quiet,” Kya observes as they prepare to disembark. The voyage is over, but the journey to Omashu will take at least another day. “Something eating you, sealpup?” She pokes her daughter in the side, which provokes a giggle that quickly fades. Face unusually solemn, Katara shakes her head. Kya frowns, but leaves the matter be.

The entry into Omashu is packed like salted fish in a barrel, people from all over drawn to the Peace Conference, but an envoy from the king gives their delegation precedence over the rest. Sokka cranes his head back to take in the architecture. Kya’s gaze flits around, trying to take in the variety of clothing worn by native and visitor alike. Hakoda’s attention is on his family, but he makes sure he knows where all his warriors are at the same time. Kanna, riding an ostrich horse graciously provided by the king, seems mostly interested in staying upright, but her head turns every now and then when a familiar scent wafts in from one of the market stalls. Katara, kept at the center of her family unit, has no interest to spare for any of it.

When they reach the palace, they are immediately brought to the main hall, where King Bumi, Chief Arnook, and three of the Earth Kingdom’s Council of Five await them, as well as Fire Lord Iroh. No sooner are the official introductions made than Katara turns to Fire Lord Iroh and, with a hasty bow, demands, “Did Zuko come with you?” A half-second later, flustered, she stutters, “I - I mean Prince Zuko.”

In the chaos of the sudden trip, some things were left to the last minute, and that includes the talk Hakoda and Kya intended to give their children about how to behave in front of foreign royalty. The blood drains from Kya’s face. Hakoda, his face a storm of anger stirred up by fear, takes a step toward Katara, prepared to pull her back to safety. But before he can, to their astonishment a broad smile spreads across the Fire Lord’s face. With a shallow bow, he waves a hand toward a door behind them. “Prince Zuko is in the garden, but I am sure he would not mind the company, if your parents think it acceptable.”

Katara is running towards the door before he finishes speaking.

*****

Katara knows she’s going to get in trouble for this later. It’s her own fault, putting off the explanation for so long, acting like the little girl they believe her to be -- as much as she can, at least. But whatever punishment they think up is nothing compared to what’s waiting for her in that garden.

If he doesn’t remember, if she’s still all alone in this, then no punishment could be worse. If he does …

She’s never seen the garden in the Omashu palace before. It’s more ornamental than the ones she’s used to, and the main features seem to be rocks and crystals more than trees and flowers. But she can sense water -- a fair amount of it, too, like a small pond -- and she doesn’t have to follow it far before she sees him.

Zuko is next to the pond, his back to her. He’s smaller than she’s ever seen him, and not just because he’s sitting down. His hair is long enough to brush his shoulders, even pulled up into the traditional topknot. Like his uncle, he is dressed in Fire Nation red and gold, but the cut of his robes looks different to her untrained eyes -- Earth Kingdom style, perhaps? Surrounding him are half-a-dozen turtleducklings, and the wave of affection that sweeps over her freezes her in place.

“Hey now.” She recognizes that mildly scolding tone, even if his voice is a little different than the one in her memory. “You have to share with your sister. You’re not getting more seeds just because you’re bigger.”

Katara tries to say something, but it seems all the words she wants to say are trying to come out at once, and have jammed up in her throat. She stumbles back half a step.

The crunch of the gravel under her feet gets his attention. His head turns slightly in her direction, then he’s leaping to his feet, turning towards her -- 

Oh.

He doesn't have the scar.

For one moment, Zuko stares at her with wide eyes. Then in the next, he’s closed the gap between them, pulling her into the tightest hug she’s ever had. Katara wraps her arms around him and buries her face into his shoulder. “Katara,” he breathes, and a little sob escapes her at the familiarity and warmth in that single word.

“Zuko,” she manages. Her voice wobbles but does not break on the name like she thought it might. “Oh, Zuko.”

He pulls back too soon, but he cups her cheek with one hand while the other brushes her hair out of her eyes. Katara tries to smile at him, but it’s hard when every emotion of the past three years wants to pour out at once. Instead, she reaches up and gently touches his left cheek. The skin is smooth and whole under her fingers.

Zuko closes his eyes, but not before she catches a flash of pain. Immediately, she knows what must have happened. Why he has no scar. How Ozai must have died.

“I thought I was dreaming at first,” he says hoarsely. “I told him off. Yelled at him for being a terrible father and a worse Fire Lord. Then -”

Katara shakes her head and pulls him back to her. This time he’s the one to bury his head in her shoulder. “I know,” she tells him, her throat still choked. “I know. I did too.”

Later, she thinks, she’ll tell him about Yon Rha. About how in her determination not to relive the worst day of her life, she had pulled on his blood with a ferocity she had only seen herself use in nightmares. What his corpse had looked like, afterwards, and the look on her mother’s face. How what had once been a fantasy of power and relief had, if only for a little while, become a horrifying reality. Maybe she’ll finally find the words to describe the contradictory emotions that have been warring in her ever since, but even if she doesn’t, it will be okay, because now she has someone who will understand.

For the moment, she holds him close as they both succumb to tears.

[but-a-humble-goon]

Remembering what you noted about Ozai as a villain and my stance on it has long since been that the writers ultimately were not able to thread the needle of having two main characters, IE Aang & Zuko.

Ozai as Zuko's villain works pretty well, he is this distant, looming, seemingly all powerful figure who represents everything Zuko thinks he wants and believe he can grasp if he just sacrifices enough.

Only to be revealed s a petty, selfish small man who is far less than what he convinced everyone around him he was and who is unworthy of the devotion afforded to him by family, country & soldiers alike.

That realization and story works very well for an abuse victim overcoming and then leaving their abuser in the dust.

However that version of Ozai cannot serve as a villain in Aang's story.

Because for Aang, Ozai was built up as this apocalyptic force that would conquer and or burn the world. Literally, we have Roku showing him a vision of such in season 1.

Ozai is the one presented as the biggest deal, not his armies or current conquests, or even his cunning, but Ozai's own power. Yes boosted by the comet, but the point stands.

Then we encounter Ozai and he's, well, Zuko's villain, both in terms of story significance but also as a character. His one notable skill, being fast on the draw with lightning is made worthless by lightning redirection and he is otherwise zero meaningful threat to Aang in their fight save that Aang's head is not in the game.

He's also not a good thematic villain for Aang. He doesn't wholeheartedly believe in the Fire Nations propaganda, he doesn't give two flying fucks about legacy or family, he doesn't even have a coherent motivation for burning everything that was literally just conquered down. He's just an asshole on a power trip.

As a result, the only drama is whether or not Aang will kill him, which thanks to the way Avatar has set up other conflicts... Isn't even really a conflict?

Like, Zuko & Katara defeating Azula apparently constitutes a valid enough win that Zuko is made Fire Lord & can declare war over. Though be it this only worked cos she conveniently has a massive breakdown in the final episode.

Iroh and the White Lotus seemingly just kind of shove the Fire Nation out of Ba Sing Se just so they can have something to do. Sokka, Suki & Toph end up dealing with the army in possibly lethal fashion, but its kind of nebulous & they were the one's doing the real harm.

As it is, given the Fire Nation has none bending nobility, Ozai's position shouldn't even be effected by him losing his bending and as he's not actually that dangerous in a fight taking away his Bending doesn't really mean much narratively. Its just to give the illusion of Aang having found a third way despite it not even being like... Necessary?

As a result he ends up feeling deeply unsatisfying and one note.

I don't even think Ozai works as Zuko's villain to be honest. Think of other examples of controlling abuser villains like the Joker. Yes he's ultimately a very small petty and pathetic man but he's also actually effective at what he does. You can absolutely understand how he gets into Harley's head and breaks her down. There's that kind of creepy insidious uncomfortable feeling you get from watching it that makes that kind of villain compelling and hateable.

I never got that feeling from Ozai. He's just every villain you've ever seen. You never see him subtly manipulating Zuko or Azula (outside of that one tiny scene they added of him training Azula in the Netflix show funnily enough) you just see him being either totally apathetic to them or just actively aggressive at them. He's not cunning or manipulative in the slightest he's just evil and allegedly powerful.

I'll say the same thing I said about Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue a while back, if anything he seems like the kind of ineffectual idiot who gets played by Azula, not one she lets herself get played by. He's like an even dumber Long Feng. Hell I think that would have kind of been a way better endgame, the reveal that the monster Ozai tried to create in his own daughter has long since grown out of his control and she's actually been the real power behind the throne for some time. It would certainly gel with everything we see throughout the series where Azula singlehandedly carries the Fire Nation to victory while Ozai sits at home looking important.

[avatar-legends-confessionblog]

I know it’s popular and I know it’s a motif that zutarians love but realistically

Zuko and Katara are not tui and la there is nothing push and pull about them. They have the exact same personality zuko’s just a bit angrier and katara’s more sarcastic but that’s more socialization. Even their functions with the story doesn’t support the push and pull. And honestly if any character relationship embodies tui and la it’s Aang and Zuko.

The foundation of their relationship is that they are Yin and Yang. Zuko and Aang spend the entire seasons locked in a push and pull relationship both emotionally and literally. (Emotionally Aang pulls zuko pushes, physically zuko pulls (trying to capture, Zuko is more a close range fighter), Aang pushes (getting away most defensive air bending is literally pushing people away)

Life and Death - Air is literally life you cannot survive without breathing and you need air to breathe. It is literally called the breath of life. In the past 100 years fire has become so synonymous with destruction and death people hate you on principle for being a fire bender. Even Zuko believed that fire bending was a tool for destruction to be used in anger. Also air can either fan or snuff out the flame, balance has to be reached to

Good and Evil - Aang by virtue of being the avatar is the “ultimate good” he also embodies a more child like innocence and his whole arc is figuring out a way to strike a balance between that innocence and duty meanwhile the Fire nation are the big bars and Suko is the face of that for a long time. He represents the darker side of child hood abuse and his entire arc is trying to regain some of that innocence back.

And I don’t even need to go into the yin and Yang you see the poem you get the metaphors.

But yeah Aang and Zuko are as tui and la as it gets which honestly it’s very specifically a water bending thing so the comparisons aren’t complete so take everything with a pinch of salt. And honestly tui and la is actually a wonderful metaphor for the physical flow of water bending because even just watching them you can see the push and pull.

But yeah Aang and zuko’s relationship to each other doesn’t get enough credit in fandom and Zuko and Katara’s is often forced into boxes it doesn’t quite fit.

They aren’t quite opposites attract the only opposite thing about them is fire and ice they are actually pretty similar, like their colors they are just hotter or cooler versions of the same personality. On similar ends on the sliding scale of temperament. And honestly I think that’s what makes them so fun!

If anything Zuko and Katara are two sides of the same coin. Similar in disposition different in socialization. It’s why the water siblings and the fire siblings mirror each other so well. Personality wise zuko is katara Azula is sokka if the conditions they grew up with were more extreme. (Obviously they have their differences) but even their principle relationships with their parents are similar. Zuko and Katara with their moms and Azula and Sokka with their fathers. (Again obviously the two parental situations are nothing alike just how they function with each child’s story is similar)

X

[veryever]

The NATLA stuff hates women can seem dramatic but

When Aang agrees to go with Zuko in NATLA, Katara runs and yells "wait" and tries to reach him

Sokka physically stops her and Aang tells her it's okay

Aang says "no one has ever fought for me before" and the camera pans away from Katara to Sokka. Sokka is 80% of the frame.

The next shot is Sokka squarely center frame, implying Aang is looking directly and only at him when he says "you're the bravest person I've ever met."

We then get a reaction shot from Sokka where he sad frowns, alike aww shucks.

And a reaction shot from Katara where she huffs. she actually huffs.

Aang turns to leave without even sparing a look at Katara again

Even setting aside how insane this makes me feel when in the OG Katara is the brave one. Katara is the one who fights for Aang.

Even putting all that aside and treating these like brand new characters... The cinematic language here is telling me Katara doesn't matter. It's telling me that Katara is being silly by getting involved.

Aang basically tells her to calm down, Sokka has to physically restrain her. Aang doesn't consider her brave or worthy of acknowledgment, only perfect boy Sokka.

He could have called them both brave, he could have thanked both of them. It's intentional to further downplay Katara after decentering her in the story.

But yeah. I'm so glad they removed the sexism.

[findingzukkarp]

calling out for a zukka rp!

I've been ravenous for a good zukka rp for a while now and have decided to finally reach out into the void in hopes of finding one! Hopefully, the below information will lead wayward people like me into an amazing story!

Basic Information about me:

I am 26 years old

I live in the United States on EST

I only rp on discord.

My writing style is adv lit/novella. (word count is typically 500+ words)

DISCLAIMERS:

Writing style is very important to me. It is genuinely make or break for me. I am also a long time fanfic writer so I believe my writing is very thorough. I am not semi-lit whatsoever. My writing will be lengthy and thorough most often so I please ask that you do not interact with this post if you do not think you will be compatible with my writing style. (Samples will be included in this post!)

I am not too keen on most topics, themes, or tropes that fall under the umbrella term “Dead Dove”. Nothing involving minors and adults together in sexual or romantic relationships. Not too keen on heavy violence, gore, or any type of ageplay.

Who I'm Looking For:

Someone who is 21+ (will settle for 18+)

Someone who writes third person

Someone who is able to write as close as possible to their character’s cannon personality (with some liberties, of course!)

Someone who is comfortable writing NSFW content (smut:plot usually ranges 40:60 but I’m willing to adjust)

Someone who writes adv-lit/novella (very important)

Extra RP Details:

I am primarily interested in writing as Sokka! I can write as Zuko but Sokka is my main muse!

As irrational and immature as it is, I am only interested in Sokka as the primary top. Sorry to all my bottom Sokka lovers- I just find bottom Zuko too beautiful.

I’m pretty open to a wide range of ideas yet I do love to lean a bit more slice-of-life and modern in role plays. I love angsty, plot heavy ideas as well– however, I do wish for a good bit of planning and deliberation beforehand!

Extra Fun Details About Me:

I am a lover of omegaverse (including mpreg) but I am completely fine not including it into my RPs!

Humor in writing is hardwired into my brain so expect bad jokes and terrible puns (Sokka is my muse, after all)

I have a love for slow-burn but I've found that slow-burn in RPs is notoriously frustrating sometimes but I'm always down to try!

You've reached the closing:

Now that you’ve somehow gotten through all of that, please take note of all the information I’ve painstakingly laid out! I will not be negotiating things I have blatantly laid out but I am open to questions or concerns!

Now, without further ado, please give this post a like ❤️ or send me a dm 💬 if you’re interested in starting an rp with me!

Writing samples will be listed from here on so please enjoy!

Samples:

Being Fire Lord came with a slew of advantages and disadvantages alike. He got his meals whenever he pleased, a sprawling bedroom with a chaise lounge, and his own naturally heated mineral spring attached to his quarters. There would never be anything more satisfying than handing scraggly old Fire Councilman their own smoldering asses and then slinking back to his room to slip into warm, healing waters.  There are far too many disadvantages to properly list. It would take a mile long scroll and a bottomless ink pot to scribe them all. 

As Zuko paces the stone floor next to the balcony doors, he laments for what his mind recalls as a false, simpler time. A time where he roamed the Earth Kingdom, free of responsibility, his title, and his name. 

-*-*-

Zuko was fictional. He had to be. Or at least that’s what he thought when his roommate first unlocked their door and paused in the doorway when they’d met for the first time. There was no way in hell that it was even remotely fair to Zuko to look the way he did– even with a gnarly burn wound blooming across the left of his face– wisps of dark hair curling where it met the collar of his shirt. He was the embodiment of every tortured, panty dropper, heartthrob he’d ever read about in his ex-girlfriend’s books (although Suki claimed to never know where they came from) and at that moment, Sokka felt as if his body had plummeted through the earth’s core and was shooting out the ass-end of the planet and somewhere into the stratosphere because holy shit he’s never seen a guy more attractive in his life.  Needless to say, the absolute lack of words Sokka was able to produce probably impacted their first meeting more than he could even think of seeing as when he woke up in the morning, Zuko wasn’t there. When he went to sleep at night, Zuko wasn’t there. On the fifth day, he was beginning to think he’d totally screwed up and was going to have to suffer having accidentally offended his first-ever roommate by gawking at him as if he were a pubescent boy seeing a tit for the first time. 

[ehliena]

Soulmates start seeing in colour when they meet for the first time AU where Sokka starts to see colour when they try to swap Mai's brother for Bumi in Omashu and he doesn't notice until things die down that omg he's seeing colour now.

All the while, he's worried that it's because of Mai bc it can't be Ty Lee since he's heard that soulmates are nothing alike (false) and it can't be Azula bc Azula. He's worried at first bc Mai is Fire Nation.

After the Boiling Rock, he's worried bc Mai is Zuko's girlfriend, and bros don't do that to bros.

Then when they have a chance to talk, he finds out that Mai has always seen colour since she was a kid (and so has Zuko) while Ty Lee can't see colour. Then Ty Lee says that Azula mentioned being able to see colour shortly after they reunited in Omashu.

So now Sokka is worried bc his soulmate turns out to be Azula and she's Zuko's sister...and she's Azula.

[tangledbea]

Not sure if you care about atla, but if you do, what characters do you think Rapunzel, Eugene, Varian, and Cassandra would quickly connect with or take a liking to?

I do care about ATLA! It is the gold standard to which I hold all other cartoons! (Not to say it's flawless, but it's been almost 20 years and I have yet to see another series - animated or live action - have such a carefully planned and expertly executed plot.)

Anyway, Rapunzel and Aang are bffs right away, no questions asked. Suspended childhood and too much responsibility on their shoulders while they just want to run around and play? Check! Love animals and fun and adventure? Check! Loves/wants to fly? Check! Have people hate them and want them dead just because of who they are? Check! Not to say that she wouldn't get along with literally all the protagonists, because that's how Rapunzel be. But I think she'd form the fastest, deepest connection with Aang.

Eugene and Sokka are going to sit in the corner and be the meat and sarcasm guys together. I mean, come on, those two are so alike. They're both kind of weirded out by the magic (or "magic") that exists in their world. They consider themselves the keeper of the leader of the group. They mask pain with humor. They consider themselves a ladies man (or did, once upon a time). Let's face it, Sokka is Eugene eleven years ago, if he never got into thieving.

Cassandra and Toph would get along smashingly, I think. They're both entertained by violence, they hold their emotions close to their vest, they pride themselves on being tough, competent and independent, and they don't feel the need to talk constantly. Toph and Cassandra would sit quietly by the fire and laugh when Sokka or Eugene inevitably hurt themself somehow.

Interestingly, while it's not quite so easy a match, I think Varian would get along well with Zuko. Ex-villain with a redemption that makes them a major part of the team. Father issues. Childhood trauma. It all checks out.

And you do my boy Lance dirty by not even asking about him, but I'm going to include him anyway, because I love Lance and I'm not going to allow him to be overlooked. Lance would pal around with Iroh. He'd happily take advice on how to be a better father figure, and share his own life experiences with someone who would laugh at his anecdotes and appreciate that he's found a new, honest path in life, one that's true to himself. And Iroh would be tickled that Lance would regularly try recipes on him. He'd always know exactly what tea would go best with the proffered meal.

[discordiansamba]

mmmmmmm lee in the ember island villa. do you think he would find old family portraits and get a strange sense of recognition when he looks at young prince zuko?

katara keeps her word.

toph and the avatar leave. the only ones in the villa are himself, katara, and sokka. they can't find a room that locks from the inside, so toph metalbends one into existence before she leaves. katara lets him cook his own meals (though she and sokka keep spying on him). she makes no attempts to touch him.

lee mostly tries to stay in the room he's been given. he's safe there- relatively. but he's not used to staying in one place for so long without anything to do. after a bit of trepidation on his part, he takes to wandering the interior of the villa. maybe he can find a way out if he pokes his nose around enough. something toph missed.

he wonders whose villa this even is.

he gets his answer soon enough.

there's a family portrait hanging in the entrance. it's not the young princess azula that he recognizes first- it's fire lord ozai. it was hard not to. his portrait had been everywhere when the fire nation had taken over ba sing se. the owner had been forced to put one up in the tea shop. lee had scowled at it every day. after the earth king reclaimed the city, and the portrait was thrown away, the owner would tease him about it.

("it was an expression that didn't really suit you, lee," she'd say.)

the older woman next to him... he didn't recognize. but if this was a portrait of fire lord ozai and princess azula, then she had to be the fire lady, right? ozai's wife? he wasn't sure what her name was. no one had ever talked about her, so he'd kind of assumed she was dead. she was... pretty, lee thought. he could see where the princess got her looks from.

the young boy at fire lord ozai's feet must have been prince zuko.

he unconsciously touched his own face as he stared at the boy in the portrait. he guessed they looked a little alike. the portrait was in monotones, so he couldn't really be sure. he leaned closer, narrowing his eyes- then sighed and shook his head.

what was he even doing? he was just entertaining katara's nonsense.

on his way back to his room, he paused to stare in a hallway mirror. his unconcealed eye was a shade of yellow not common among the people of the earth kingdom. his hair had grown out enough so that he could wear it in a proper earth kingdom braid. his bangs were long enough now to completely conceal his scar underneath them. he pushed them back, staring at his scar in the mirror.

it was ugly. like a brand. a reminder of the worst day of his life. it made everyone who saw it deeply uncomfortable. jin would smile at him and tell him he was handsome even with it. she'd touch it tenderly, in a way he only ever let his father do. he sighed and lowered his bangs.

he guessed he could see the resemblance. there was no point in denying it. even princess azula acknowledged it. he could see the resemblance, but...

...the only person he could see in the mirror was himself. was lee.

he huffed. how could he be brainwashed if he could so easily recognize himself in the mirror? he wasn't going to let katara worm her way into his head that easily.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

What do you think, Azula and Zuko are more alike than their fans want to admit or are they completely opposite and going in different directions?

ANON, YOU FOOL, YOU OPENED THE FLOODGATES!

Azula and Zuko are a classic case of "same writing, different font." Just two sides of the same coin. Zuko is who Azula would be if she had been the scapegoat of the family, wore her heart on her sleeve, was just a good bender instead of a prodigy, and was willing to question Ozai. Azula is who Zuko would be if he managed to suppress emotions, didn't get in his own way due to impatience/desperate need to prove himself, was the golden child and never questioned Ozai in any way.

They have MANY things in common. Both are stubborn, proud, deeply patriotic, ambitious, social disasters yet super badass when in their element, passionate about their beliefs and, more importantly, take their roles VERY seriously - what creates contrast between them is what said roles are. Azula is the "perfect", ruthless, cunning princess that was taught to be proud about not caring for others. Zuko is disgraced son that has to prove himself (to himself, to Ozai, and, later on, to the world) that he is worthy of being the future Fire Lord.

This point is even highlighted by the role reversal that happened in the Last Agni Kai, in which Zuko is winning by using Azula's tactics, letting her attack and waste all her energy, while he saves up his own so he can strike full force once she's too tired - he even tries to goad her into using lightining so he can redirect it and win, and it would have probably worked if Azula hadn't found an easy target in Katara. Their strategies, levels of confidence and even personalities change to be more like their sibling's based on their situation.

They're also driven by the same fears: of not being good enough, of not being worthy enough, of not being loved. Fiting considering they were indoctrinated/traumatized by the same system/person, under the same roof, even if they were abused in different ways.

We see them making a ton of the same mistakes as well.

Zuko wants to make the ship go through a dangerous storm to chase the Avatar because "the safety of the grew doesn't matter", Azula has her infamous "Do the tides command this ship?" moment.

Azula banishes everyone because she's struggling to cope with her friends' "betrayal", Zuko becomes a much more cruel and self person after being disfigured by Ozai and even tries to get away from Iroh several times.

Azula is verbally abusive to her brother and sometimes her friends, Zuko is verbally abusive to their uncle.

Azula throws Zuko under the bus to be in Ozai's good graces, Zuko throws Iroh under the bus to win his dad's affection.

That last one is also part of a very noticeable pattern: Whenever Zuko is being unapologetic about being a villain, he tends to be VERY cunning and one hell of backstaber.

The Avatar returned but he couldn't capture him? He tried to keep it a secret. If no one else knows about it, they can't steal his chance to go home by capturing him first.

Some pirates want to attack the Gaang because they stole a scroll? Free henchmen. He just has to pretend this kid he wants to capture is not the Avatar, and thus not worth A LOT more than what these guys are getting as a reward. Zuko even has the nerve to go "Don't listen to him, he's just trying to divide us" when Sokka points out that he's REALLY screwing them over with this deal (they should make a support group with Long Feng).

Zhao captured the Avatar before he could? Go kidnap that monk back. It doesn't matter that Aang's capture means the nation Zuko genuinely loves will have no true obstacle in it's path for victory: If he's not the one scoring that major win, NO ONE is. His nation and his family can have their moment of glory AFTER he got his, not a second earlier.

Zhao tried to kill him and is going after the Avatar again? Time to dress up as one of his men to be taken by the idiot himself to the North Pole so he can interfere with his plans - literally the same as Azula pretending to be Suki, taking over Ba Sing Se and as a bonus discovering about their plans for the eclipse.

Azula is tracking Aang to capture him? Just follow right behind her and wait until she doesn't have her friends along so he has a better chance of winning the fight against her and being the one to take the Avatar to Ozai.

Oh, he was brought home because the Avatar is "dead"... except that might not be true, so maybe he'll be banished again? Mouth shut, Azula is the one who "killed" him anyways. Worse comes to worse, send an assassin to finish the job.

Hell, even when he's already determined to be a good person, he calls himself stupid for not blaming the whole assassin thing on his sister. Literally blaming her for his fuck up, the same way she did with that "Zuko was the one who killed the Avatar" thing.

His POV in Earth Kingdom Chronicles also give us some insight into what exactly he was thinking during the events of Crossroads of Destiny:

Zuko, I’m begging you,” Uncle said. “Look into your heart and see what it is that you truly want.” “You are free to choose,” Azula said. Then she and the Dai Li left. She is right. I am free to choose. And Uncle is right too. I must look into my heart and find what it is I truly want. That is easy. It’s what I’ve always wanted. I cannot deny my heart, my heritage, and who I truly am. I raced from the cell out into an open courtyard, where Azula was battling Katara and the Avatar. They had reached a stalemate, and then they were each waiting to see who would strike next. I did. I sent a fire blast that landed right between them. They were all looking at me, wondering what my next move would be. Good. I will show them my choice, the choice I always knew I would make.

Uncle looked at me without saying a word. Then he looked away. I can tell he’s very disappointed in me. But I had to do what I did.

Zuko is, to the Gaang, what Azula is to him: the wildcard, a huge pain in the ass, the unreliable son of a bitch that every so often gets them to chill just enough that they forget they REALLY shouldn't trust him, as he has a tendency of putting himself first, screw everyobody else. And much like he struggled to win their forgiveness and friendship after all that nonsense, Azula has to deal with Zuko's understandable suspicion of her intentions whenever she actually feels like genuinely being a good sister to him.

And what makes that parallel even more obvious (deliberately or not on the show's part) is that, when fighting Azula, Zuko is represented by the color red, but when compared to the Gaang, Zuko is constantly represented by the color blue. That's Azula's signature color, her name was literally chosen by the showrunners because of her blue flames - yet Zuko is the Blue Spirit, and is represented by the blue dragon when he and Aang meet Ran and Shaw.

And speaking of blue dragons, the "shoulder devil" in his fever dream has Azula's voice, while the "shoulder angel" has Iroh's voice... yet when he's trying to be one of the good guys, not only does Zuko explicitly ask himself "What would AZULA do?, he actually manages to be accurate when putting himself in her shoes, unlike when he tries to think/talk like Iroh, which always comes out as pure giberish.

So while the part of him that is more Azula-esque is very much treated as his "bad" side, it is still clearly a side that isn't going away, and sometimes it represents him better (and is far easier for him to understand/connect with) than the part of him that is more like Iroh - again, especially when Zuko's being compared to more "moral" people - and the writers are VERY aware of that pattern of Azula being THE person who knows how to get into Zuko's head like no one else can, mainly because of their familial relationship.

This quote about it by Bryan Konietzko in an interview was very interesting (and yes, I needed the wiki to let me know which half of "Bryke" he was 'cause I still can't tell them apart)

"When you study Eastern philosophies, the ego is a really tough enemy or antagonist. Again, we like to treat our characters very realistically. In real life, people have moments of great weakness, usually tied in with the ego. Your siblings can push your buttons. I have four siblings, a brother and three sisters, and no one can get you like your siblings. Azula knew ALL the right buttons to push to play at his weaknesses, parts of his ego which were susceptible to her. She did it well, and it was a moment where he just tasted this thing which he's wanted and focused on, obsessed over, for so long. I think it was very realistic."

Azula being Zuko's "ego" (or at least the person that can use it to their advantage the most due to her understanding of it) ties into her being his "bad" side, and makes for a nice parallel with her POV in the book Earth Kingdom Chronicles

I sent a message to Iroh’s tea shop — making it look as if the note had come from the Earth King — requesting that he and Zuko come to the palace as guests of the king, to personally serve him tea. There was no way Iroh could resist such an offer. The next day, I watched from the shadows as Iroh and Zuko set up tea in the palace tea room. I marveled at how soft and so pitifully domesticated they had both become. The once great general, who was called the Dragon of the West, and the Fire Lord’s firstborn, preparing tea like servants. If my father could see his son … Well, no matter. Soon they will be back in the Fire Nation, or else they will be destroyed.

I know he doesn’t believe Iroh and all his talk of turning to goodness. I know what Zuko wants deep in his heart. I have always known him better than anyone else. He can’t hide his true feelings and desires from me, no matter what he says, no matter how noble a face he puts on for others. I know what choice he will make, even if he doesn’t know.

It's interesting how Azula knew how to appeal to Iroh's ego as well - and that she's almost offended on their behalf, seeing them acting as servants, because, whatever her issues with them, they're still from the same bloodline as herself, and she very much would NOT accept being in such position, therefore they shouldn't be playing that role either (and it's clear she'll deal with them harshly if they fail to prove they were not, indeed, "domesticated").

But it's also obvious that she has a much better understanding of how to bring Zuko to her side - and that she doesn't care that much if Iroh follows along or just gets destroyed. Zuko was very much the true goal, and she actually lets us know why.

Poor, poor Zuko. I actually feel sorry for him. He still doesn’t understand, even at his moment of ultimate achievement. “Father doesn’t need to restore your honor, Zuko,” I explained. “Today you restored your own honor.” My brother looked away from me with a pained expression across his face. I hope he can eventually believe what I have told him: that by choosing his family, by choosing me over the Avatar, he has come back to his rightful place in the Fire Nation. And I welcome him by my side.

If Azula is Zuko's ego, the part of him that encourages his manipulative, selfish, cruel tendencies, Zuko is Azula's heart. That part of her that is still, in some way, innocent. Just a young girl that wants her brother to come home, so they can be a family again. The part of her that wants to be beside him, not three steps ahead of him in everything, taunting him about how he'll never catch up - because if he doesn't, she's alone.

Zuko's mistake was indulging his ego way too much, Azula's mistake was neglecting her heart - and both mistakes are a result of the same thing, namely Ozai and what he thought made someone strong or weak. Admiting fault and caring for others is weakness, and needs to be punished harshly. Burning everything down to be king of the ashes is strength.

And loyalty is something he demands from, and imposes on, others, not something HE is to ever give to anyone, hence him leaving Azula behind in the finale, to which she argues "You can't treat me like that, you can't treat me like Zuko."

She played by his rules, she neglected her heart so she would be worthy of Ozai's love - and then he took his love back anyway, just because he could. And then Zuko shows up and gets his happy ending after having asked Katara "How would you like to help me put Azula in her place?" He tamed his ego, and was rewarded for it.

Now, there is one big problem with that dynamic of "Zuko has to be loved, Azula has to be controled" which is when an incompetent writer crosses the line from making that literal instead of symbolic - which is how we end up with the Yang comics, in which Zuko cannot be described as anything but Azula's abuser, whom she's both loyal to and incredibly hateful towards.

He's the new Ozai, which is very ironic considering that was what Azula wanted him to be, and what the comics are telling us Zuko is fighting back against, even though he's constantly framed as the good guy for showing his sister the back of his hand (or an asylum to be neglected in, or the edge of a cliff to be thrown off of) when she's in the middle of a psychotic breakdown.

The show avoided that gross narrative with one simple solution: Ego's (Azula's) "Death" is not the triumph one would expect. She's humanized more than ever in the finale (and before in The Beach), the music is somber, and Zuko looks at her with pity by the end of the battle because this is a tragedy.

Because Azula is not just part of him, a symbolic element of his arc, she's her own person - and Ehasz making it clear that he planted the seeds for Zuko to help Azula redeem herself by showing her unconditional love frames his return as being not just her foe coming back to defeat her, but as her Heart sweeping in to rescue her.

Because, despite all the false dichotomy about how it's either him or her ("born lucky, lucky to be born", "I'm about to celebrate becoming an only child", "the showdown that was always meant to be") it simply is not a true victory for Zuko if the consequence is Azula's demise - and clearly the same applied to her, since she went out of her way to bring him back home.

...And to give credit where credit is due, even Gene Yang didn't fuck that up completely as, in Smoke and Shadow, when Azula is talking to Zuko (in a crypt belonging to a former Fire Lord's most trusted advisor no less) the man has Azula herself tell Zuko that sooner or later he'll realize they're one in the same.

(Even if I suspect that is just a result of him continuing trying to make Azula "Avatar's Joker" and since Zuko would be Batman, she would be obsessed with being his opposite and "completing" him, but hey, accidentally getting something right is still getting something right)

Oh, and they're both really pretty. That has nothing to do with anything, but I felt the need to mention it anyway.

[uuuhhmmm124]

Ty Laru headcannons

i know what you're thinking: this thing came out from the Chibi shorts, and Haru and Ty Lee don't even meet in ATLA!

But but.....

Why not?

These are all my headcannons that support a certain theory i'll talk later about......

They could have met the first time at Zuko's coronation, but probably they wouldn't have even talked. But then Ty Lee became a member of the Kyoshi Warriors, and this gives her the possibility to travel to the Earth Kingdom

Maybe it's a festival in Kyoshi island: a good reason to leave the Fire Nation with her comrades and go to the Earth Kingdom.

During this festival she can meet Haru: he is a friend of the Avatar, Zuko knows him. I don't believe it's love at first sight, but they meet again later, in a mission of the Kyoshi Warriors around Haru's village.

They have the chance of work togheter, and Ty Lee finds this guy pretty great. Haru is brave and kind, the same things that Ty Lee possibly liked about Sokka (??)

In the moment they become a couple they have a few problems with Haru's father, who doesn't exatly like Firenation people. They have a bad time there, but thanks to Mai, who supported Ty Lee and helped her with the old man, they can get together with Haru's father approval.

Haru would move in Caldera because of Ty Lee's job as part of Zuko's guards, but the Firelord and the Earth King give him the role of contact between their two countries, so often he travels in the Earth Kingdom too.

They has two child. The first one has Izumi's age, and they'll be best frineds as Mai and Ty Lee are. The second one was born years later, when both of her parents are kinda old. It's Pema.

I bet you heard the theories already, they are not mine, credit to whoever invented them (you're great).

There is the most famous theory about Ty Lee, that she is the descendant of some airbenders. And then someone said that Pema may be Ty Lee's daughter bc they kinda look alike. And it isn't weird that all of Pema and Tenzin's sons/daughter (don't know about Rohan but let's say he is) are airbenders? It's a great thing, ofc, but even a couple as Aang and Katara, both benders, has a son who is a non-bender. And Pema, a non bender, and Tenzin has three/four children who can bend? Maybe.... because of Ty Lee legacy. It's normal that children of non bender people can be benders (as Katara). Maybe Ty Lee's airbenders ancestors bending went throught the family till Pema's children? This could mean nothing, Pema could be daughter of some other airbender descendant, but that's how i like to see that:)