#aang death

[tossawary]

Listening to someone else watch the original ATLA again, just starting season 3, and there's this line where Aang suggests that it didn't just look like he died, but he DID actually die and Katara brought him back. And look, I don't know much about the lore introduced by TLOK, but this sounds like a really fun place to start an AU inspired by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s take on the temporary death and resurrection of a cyclical chosen one: Aang is brought back to life and is STILL the Avatar, but his temporary death still also causes another Avatar to be born into the Southern Water Tribe (or Swamp People or refugees on some southern island, whatever).

Like, I know the Avatar is a reincarnation thing, but weird things can happen with spirits! Maybe this glitch in the cycle causes the spiritual equivalent of mitosis to happen to the Avatar and the spirit attached to them, so there's just two of them now! Maybe having two Avatars has some spiritual downsides, maybe not, it's up to whatever path you choose to explore in this AU.

I just think it would be really funny for post-canon 20-something Aang (and the Gaang and the White Lotus and all the spiritual / religious orders on the planet) to suddenly be confronted with a 10yo water tribe kid who is ALSO the Avatar.

A water tribe couple shuffle awkwardly up to Sokka, like, "Sooooo... we think our 10 year old daughter might be the Avatar...? She can, uh, bend all the elements and all that. Look at this shit." And Sokka is like, "Fuck, Aang is dead?!" Before he's like, "Wait, I saw Aang last week, this kid is way too old?!" And he has to hastily contact Aang like, "Hey, buddy, you're still alive, right?" And Aang can only reply, "Uhhh, last I checked, yes?!?!"

It's probably Sokka and Katara who put the pieces of the timeline together and figure out what caused this, because all of the other Avatars are probably initially like, "Yeah, I have no idea what's happening here. I'm you and you're me, but I'm also her and she's also me, and you and her are kind of the same person, but you're obviously different people now? Wow! Good luck figuring all that out, kid! You're really going places none of us have gone before! A real groundbreaker!"

Aang, through gritted teeth, "I am really not TRYING to do that, thank you!"

[hadesisqueer]

'Katara is a Booktok boyfriend' idk but she's the kinda person who beats you up for even looking at Aang the wrong way and I always respected that lmao

[quillthrillswriting]

no love story trope will ever hit quite as hard as "two traumatized teens (often) with unique abilities who are forced to save the world each help the other shoulder the burden of their respective destinies and slowly become each others safe places as they shift from friends to something more."

[thebxghag]

Sometimes the only way to fix things is to kidnap your younger cousin after faking your own death in order to make her help you help the Avatar.

Lu Ten survived au?? :OO obsessed with @mugentakeda's character design for Lu Ten so I leaned heavily on it as an influence.

inprnt | comms | bsky

[justaz]

realistic zukka: zuko is swamped with being firelord and righting everything wrong w the fire nation that he has No Time for visitors or personal letters, sokka is busy as chief of the swt and building all his little inventions to speed the rebuilding efforts along. zukka doesn’t speak for weeks bc they simply don’t have the time or mental space to think about that.

that is, until zuko wakes up in the middle of the night to a face over his, grinning like a madman. zuko’s instinct is to fight bc there has been five assassins this week and it’s only monday. sokka is screeching like a banshee bc if zuko breaks his invention-

the guards burst in and light up the room to find chief sokka of the swt desperately scratching at the ground to get away from a half awake firelord zuko who is currently beating him with the first thing he could get his hands on: sokka’s invention.

they don’t speak for weeks bc sokka is Upset

[theofficialpresidentofmars]

annual Christmas cookie making!

ft Saiki K, Hamlet, Zuko, Aang, Bill Cipher, and Near

[mugentakeda]

more low effort avatar doodles (spoilers its mostly katara)

[misty-memories09]

As a Zukaang and Jinko truther, I say Zuko has a type.

[the-badger-mole]

I find it weird how Aang supporters are always finding your anti Aang post and calling it mischaractization without actually acknowledging all the source material. Then want to insult you after coming into your space. It's like they hate the idea of scrolling away or marking it as 'not interested '.

It's like I'm not marking it antiAang or something. Honestly, it's cute they think I'm here for debate. I hate the characters I hate. I love the characters I love. I will ship Zutara until I die. I honestly kind of feel bad for the people who are so worked up about my opinion of Aang. It means they haven't read, seen, or heard enough stories to understand that you don't always have to like the main character. I shudder at the thought of explaining Death of the Author to them. I bet they think it begins and ends with cancelling a creator.

[cowboygideon]

I don't know whose idea it was to kill off sokka for tlok but if I ever find out I'm putting a hit out on them because WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT HE AND KORRA WOULD HAVE HAD THE BEST DYNAMIC WHY ARE YOU A COWARD

[somewhereincairparavel]

isnt it sadly ironic that Jet spent most of his life hating the fire nation and feeling threatened by them but then died to a random brainwashing earthbender inside the supposedly 'safest city in the world'?

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Aang: How the hell did you two deal with Kyoshi? Kuruk: No idea what you mean by that, Aang. Yangchen: Nope, what do you mean by "deal?" You mean "interfere?" We're dead! We just watched her. Aang: Like, how were you able to stomach watching her???? Yangchen: Easy, with adoring stares. Kuruk: Did you see the way she handled that one politician? Ugh, beautiful. Not that I would know when it comes to dealing with such a thing, but it really was a sight. Yangchen: Oh no, you're right! It really was. Not how I would do it, but results are sometimes more important than the journey. There's more than one way to bake a cake! Aang: SHE KILLED PEOPLE! HOW COULD YOU STOMACH THAT?! Kuruk: Easy, I just ignored it. Aang: YOU WHAT?! Yangchen: You'd be surprised what closing your eyes and covering your ears can do for your conscious, Aang.

[libertatias]

whatever you do don't think about zuko abdicating the throne the same year sokka dies because he can't bear ruling without him 🫠

[complexraspberry]

Roku Week Day 6: Fire Lord

[id: two digital illustrations. The first drawing shows teenage Roku and Sozin sitting on a rooftop overlooking the city. Roku is looking down with a gentle smile on his face. Beside him Sozin sits, leaning on one of his knees. He is looking at Roku with a soft smile. There are gentle flickers of light in the background.

The second drawing has Sozin, now an adult in his Fire Lord robes, leaning forward on a railing overlooking the city. Gone is the smile of his youth, now looking pissed off. The specks of lights from before now resemble embers. /end id]

Fire Lord Sozin... what a bitch. However, the dynamic with Roku and how everything just falls apart is interesting. How do you go from being BFFs with a guy to planning his death (and taking over the world)

[woodlaflababab]

Man, the zukaang fandom is so mean to Zuko. He's the one-side piner, he's the other woman, he's the one that has deal with Aang dying like, smh, we love our boy so much

[blastaway2004]

I NEVER SENT LONGING-FOR-RAIN DEATH THREATS!

⛔️WARNING: MENTIONS OF RAPE AND DEATH THREATS⛔️

I’ve argued with longing-for-rain recently about the way Katara was animated. I take serious issue with the way longing-for-rain and other ZKs have made sexual comments about Katara including the former writing a fic where Katara gets raped in graphic detail, specifically to be saved by Zuko. She claims it’s in the name of feminism depicting a women’s struggle, when in reality this women is essentially writing a torture porn of a 14 year old merely to prop up a fanon ship.

In response longing-for-rain was very argumentative acting as thought I was the one who was misogynistic, even telling me to die.

HOWEVER, it’s come to my attention that longing-for-rain has receive death-threats not too long after this. 

PLEASE DO NOT SEND HER DEATH THREATS. I don’t care if you think she’s a horrible person, I don’t care who you ship or if you’re disgusted by her rape fic. Death threats and rape threats are NEVER ACCEPTABLE!

It appears longing-for-rain thinks, I’ve made multiple accounts specifically to harass her, but this is honestly NOT the case.

She also claimed I found the rape fic hot and sexy, when I used no such words, I’m genuinely disgusted by that, but I’m also disgusted by deranged Kataang lunatics sending death threats.

I did NOT ask for this, I do not condone any of this. If you’re sending death threats to this person, you’re genuinely a horrible vile evil person and I want nothing to do with you. 

If you see this longing-for-rain, I’m sorry people are threatening you, this honestly was not my intention. 

Kataang shippers, DO BETTER!