#Oma x shu

[bluespirlt]

omashu?.. you mean..

the city founded in honor of star crossed lovers, whose villages were enemies?..

who wore red and blue clothing?..

...

the bait is baiting but i am no better than a fish

[garnetrena]

oh so in the ATLA live action, Oma and Shu are lesbians? nice!!

[onefail-at-atime]

Alright, which one of us is going to write the Oma and Shu fanfiction? Two lesbian lovers from warring villages? C'mon. If it doesn't exist already, it should.

[onefail-at-atime]

My actual reaction to Oma and Shu from the live action. My LGBTQ+ friends are already adding to the Omashu lore to feed into my love of such a tragic power couple.

A Tale of Two Lovers

[aquariusshadow]

Echoes of the Past: The Tale of Two Lovers

Hello everyone! This is my piece for @zkbigbang !!! This was my first Zutara big bang and my second big bang overall so I’m really happy with how everything turned out!

The writer for this lovely multichapter fic will be revealed on September 15th, so stay tuned and give them all the love and support 💙 Be sure to click the underlined title to read their fic!!!

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[kayray-art]

Day 31 - Reincarnation

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[geothewriter]

Hath No Fury

“Afraid I’ll redirect it?” 

The final words Katara knew she would hear him say. 

The simmering crackle of death followed swiftly. The electric white energy quickly built in the other girl’s fingertips. 

Its sheer power sundered the air as it released from her grasp.

Over.

It was over.

No one can outrun lightning.

Her body tensed, bracing for impact.

But she could not move, anchored in fear, or perhaps acceptance.

Then it happened.

He happened.

He who worked harder than any man should to win her trust.

He who started as an enemy.

Then an ally.

Then a friend.

Then something else.

Something more. 

He outran the bolt. He dove into its path. Did the impossible. 

For her.

She blinked, closing her eyes. She couldn’t watch it. Couldn’t bear it.

Every fight they ever had played out in instantaneous moments lasting minutes, hours, days in her mind. Anything to delay the inevitable.

She was weak. She was strong. He bested her. She bested him.

In the crystal cavern, their paths crossed, pasts reforged. In that cavern, they fought. In that cavern, neither won.

On an airy mountain cliff she derided, he pleaded.

On a distant sea, she trusted, and he supported.

On an island paradise, she forgave.

Somewhere between, he opened her heart.

He became more.

And now, he was giving everything. Everything for her. 

Giving her everything before she could return anything.

Crackling light flashed in her still-closed eyes, already filling with glistening tears, wet with fear. 

His body fell, energy coursing and crackling through. It lay motionless before her. Her inner turmoil screamed in anguish waiting for the deafening roar of thunder.

The thunder never arrived.

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Her eyes flashed open.

The sundering of air had only just begun.

Her hands formed into fists that were not hers, feet slid into a stance she did not practice, together in a motion she did not know.

He dove before her, but her arms had already risen, solid anchored forms bestowing power yet unseen.

The ground began to quake.

She realized, in that blitz of motion, that her mind was not her own.

She was watching from afar, through a looking glass, as her body moved of its own accord.

It thought too quickly, too fully, too absolute to be her.

A sheet of crystal, perfect in its construction, erupted from the plaza in front of him, blocking the energy from ever reaching his form.

Another column of emerald pushed from the ground beneath her feet, carrying her into the sky.

She shouted then, in a voice that did not belong to her, “You will not take him from me! Not again.”

And with the power of her words, the ground quaked as though the mountain itself was waking from slumber. 

Her fists clenched in a rage she did know. 

Her heart raced. 

She could only observe what would come next. 

The other woman, standing in an awkward stance, hunched to one side began wide arcs of movement. But before she had the chance to make more than a quarter turn, Katara flicked her finger, and a shard of rock impacted her opponent’s wrist, ruining the stance. 

Still, her fists clenched, fury swirling within, and she felt it. The liquid answered her call. This feeling was familiar, one she was so intimately close with, she couldn’t deny it. It pulled and sloshed and coursed, the feeling brought comfort.

But when it arrived, she felt terror. 

A seething fury of unstoppable fiery death erupted forth from the ground across the plaza, launching rock and metal in its wake. She stepped forward from her perch with confidence she did not know she had.

A swirling tempest of molten rock met her fall and carried her back skyward. 

Acceptance.

This is who she was. This was who she is.

A voice still unknown to her shouted once more, “For your actions, I can never forgive you!”

Her molten wrath obeyed her command, streaming and pressing outward, warping and churning toward her prey. 

A voice, hardly a rasp broke through the raging anger of not her mind. “Katara, don’t…”

The hands that still were not her own paused, and the mountain fell silent. And with it, the lava froze into obsidian as it surrounded her opponent in a prison of shining black stone.

Carried by unfamiliar legs, she strode toward him with an unnatural speed. 

The voice belonging to another called softly to him. To he who perished saving her, if only in her mind. 

“I will lose you never again.”

She found her arms back under her control as they tightly wrapped themselves around his neck. 

Tears rushed again to her eyes, recalling what was almost. What nearly wasn’t, and she found her wavering voice under her own control once more. 

“I thought I lost you. Was going to lose you.”

Zuko’s eyes flashed green for but an instant, and a strong, confident voice that was not his answered.

“Never again, my love. Never again.” 

In the moment that followed, recognition flashed across their brows. He returned her embrace and she finally accepted that she longed for his touch, and he for hers. Their embrace tightened, unresolved for far too long. Apart for what seemed like forever.

Their hearts grew, remembering an ache, a familiar feeling, a distant memory. Their minds danced with the possibility. 

Their lips met. 

The possibility that it wasn’t true, sundered in an instant.

Together once more. 

At last. 

Their love was strong and they found their way.

[tsususumi]

Happy Ghost~

[materia1gor1]

Oma is going to ask Kyoshi if she can channel the avatar spirit to cosmically rage at the writers

In the name of the blue-red Oma and Shu and scarf scene, it’s time for my favourite Zutara/Oma&Shu meme (author: @randombook4idk)

[mal3vol3nt]

zutaras hating aang so much is so ridiculous but also makes sense considering that what aang has with katara and zuko is what they wish their favs had together

like canonically aang helped zuko rebuild the fire nation by acting as a symbol of life and fun and love. he was the only one who knew of the kind of spark the fire nation had before it was fluffed out by sozin, and he made it his mission to bring it back step by step. zuko and aang became lifelong best friends and were each other’s rock. they understood each other in a way no one else could and had the basis of their enemies-to-friends arc engraved into the very structure of the show. their entire relationship is the show and zutaras want that so badly for themselves that they insert katara into aang’s role

and canonically aang and katara’s love is built up throughout the show. their love is symbolized in the legend of oma and shu, and tui and la. katara believed in the avatar before she met aang, but believed in aang before she knew he was the avatar. they were each other’s shields and motivations in surviving the war. they were two genocide survivors finding solace in one another but being horrified of losing the other. their kiss at the end was an acknowledgment of their budding feelings that the show had been hinting at and building up. but zutaras hate the canonical symbolism of katara x aang so they insert zuko into aang’s role

they hate aang so much because he is everything they want zuko and katara to be

[lieuxtenant]

most kat@@ng shippers annoying as fuck but the most annoying of them are the obtuse ones, and oh boy, there are so many of them

you gonna look me in the eyes (or in this case, at my tumblr’s pfp, almost the same thing) and say there is not a single hint of romance in katara and zuko’s dynamic? no, you can’t! stop lying.

trying to deny the very obvious romantic subtext is so stupid, we all know you don’t really believe that, you can’t be this unaware, the only way the writers could be more obvious about what they were trying to do with those two is if they had put a little momo holding a sign in the corner of every zutara interaction with a text breaking down the meanings of the scene, and there are a lot, just throwing here some ones without really going into it one by one or i would be here all day:

the fact that we have zuko and katara’s main fight in book 1 finale that is also when we learn about tui and la, atlaverse’s version of yin yang

their personal arcs being literally that “in kindness there’s evil and in evil there’s kindness” meme

not only that but they’re basically the catalysts in each other’s arcs (zuko’s in “the crossroads of destiny” and katara’s in “the southern raiders”)

“you rise with the moon, i rise with the sun” (they’re so nasty for this one)

do i really need to extend the “zutara are yin yang” topic? like come on

also tui and la means push and pull, zuko incorporates this waterbending pushing and pulling move he learnt by watching katara to his firebending

blue spirit zuko at book 1: water x painted lady katara at book 3: fire ????? absolute cinema

zutara bonding in a cave designed to resemble the cave of the two lovers (they’re so nasty for this one 2: electric boogaloo)

and wearing the same colors as oma and shu?!!?!! the star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of a war??¿? sounds quite familiar

(edit) because how tf did i forgot to include him willing to die for her in the last episode? directly mirroring the way her own mother sacrificed herself to save katara from the fire nation? and now there’s the fire nation’s prince jumping in front of a lightning for her

katara saving zuko’s life is supposed to be the final step of her healing, she was too young when the fire nation came and she felt helpless she couldn’t help her mother, her arc ends with her not only being able to overthrow azula, therefore putting an end to the fire nation’s tyranny but she was finally able to fell she can protect herself and her loved ones

[miraculousbumbble]

Voltron x Avatar

I have a cold, so enjoy some Voltron x Avatar artwork.

Who would the avatar be?

head cannons below!

I'd like to think that in this universe as the fire nation started attacking the South Pole, a lot of the water benders chose to move out and either head North or go into hiding near the Earth kingdom.

Hence, I give you Lance Mcclain of Varadero, a small village located on the eastern beach of Kyoshi island.

Keith meanwhile comes from a line of Fire Nation rebels. His mom, Krolia is an upper member of the League of Marmora and has spent the past few years infiltrating the army and is currently a General who patrols the Earth Kingdom territory of Oma-Shu.

Keith also has a sister, Acxa, who has been traveling the world with the Fire Nation's exiled Prince, Lotor, while he searches for the Avatar.

Pidge meanwhile is from the swampy territory within the Earth Kingdom and can control the plants and mud rather than the earth itself.

Their father (An Earth Army weapons inventor named Sam) and brother (a drafted soldier named Mat) were captured by the Fire Nation a year ago and presumed dead.

Hunk is a farmer and cook who lives just outside Ba Sing Se. His family sells wheat and grain to the upper ring but on the weekend, he goes with his father to sell food in the lower ring.

[firelily-mermaid-jedi]

General consensus from the antis (based on Twitter post I saw recently and the most recent episode of Braving the Elements) is that the Zutara Ship launched from The Crossroads of Destiny. Which kind of baffles me.  I always believed  that if not fully took root that at least the seeds were planted at the Cave of Two Lovers.  

but like…why was there a legend about forbidden lovers from warring peoples with a red and blue color motif who met in underground caverns lit by glowing crystals…and then a pivotal scene of rapprochement between zuko and katara that opens with them framed in the exact same standing/kneeling position as oma and shu and that takes place in an underground cavern lit by glowing crystals…if all that wasn’t supposed to mean anything??? like i’m just supposed to believe that was all a huge coincidence??? that they created this amazing parallel by accident??? that is the fakest news tbh

[sketch-shepherd]

Just sayin if NATLA had the power to make Oma and Shu a lesbian couple yall can be a little brave and make Zuko X Sokka canon when you get to Book 3 💅

[atla-confessions]

Hello, are you looking for a new atla ship? Sick of the ship wars? Consider with me, if you will, joining the zukaang fandom.

Do you like grump/sunshine trope? "I don't know why but I thought this thing would be a lot faster." "Appa's right Zuko, in our group, typically we start out our missions with a more upbeat attitude." "I can't believe this." - literally them.

Do you like the yin/yang trope? Zuko's flaw is literally his aggressive approach to his problems which is foiled by Aang's flaw of passive approach to his problems. They are the definition of yin and yang.

Do you like forbidden love? Even beyond the whole "Avatar and Firelord" thing, they both have to have bio children. They are tragic as hell if you want them to be.

Do you like excessive parallels and reading way too much into symbolism? The writers spent way too much effort in building the parallels between these two and there's always more to say about them.

Do you like shared trauma and similar backstories? They literally had an entire episode dedicated to showing how their backstories mirror eachother.

Do you like (lovingly) making jokes at Zuko's expense? What's better to tease him about than his absolute obsession with the avatar.

Do you like parallels to past lives? Zukaang has simularities with Sozin-Roku and Oma-Shu and there's even Kuzon.

Do you like m/m but never felt much connection for zukka? Zukaang is full of connection.

Do you like being canon but kataang just didn't do it for you? Zuko is literally quoted as being the person closest to Aang in his life and there's an official picture of them holding hands as adults and the culmination of the zukaang hug is iconic just like the kataang kiss. They're like an inch away from being canon.

Do you like enemies to lovers but zutara never caught your eye? Their inevitable friendship was built since book one when Aang asked if they could be friends.

Are you sick of antis? Zukaang has two (2) whole anti arguments: the age gap which is nothing between adults, and the idea that Aang is related to Zuko bc Roku was his great grandfather which doesn't make sense unless you consider Korra and Katara to be married. Beyond that people don't care.

Do you prefer small but active ship fandoms to the big name ship fandoms? Zukaang is right on the border, big enough to be plenty active but small enough to be free of drama and full of likeminded people.

Like talking about your ships but rather do it through group chats instead of tumblr? We have an active discord server.

If any of this appeals to you, feel free to join us, we'd love to have you! :D

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