#aang has wings obviously

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10 strongest earthbenders

i did this with waterbenders a little while ago and while i dont feel AS passionately about earthbending as i do waterbending, i still wanna give my thoughts bc i love atla and i love yapping duhhhh

rules: not including avatars and not including anything from yangchen or kiyoshi (havent read those) and honestlyyyyyy i cant think of a character from the comics in general that would make this list but im not gonna include ppl we meet in the comics either bc to be so honest 1 i havent read the lok comics and 2 i have only read the atla comics once and i read them as they came out so it was years ago. STRICTLY GOING OFF THE SHOWS!

realizing i def shouldve made this list right after my most recent lok rewatch (its been a couple months atp)

ANYWAYS lets go

honorable mentions: tbh the only one i wanna say here is the dai li. they probably could be like number 8/9 but idrk how to rank a whole group of ppl? but the way they use earthbending is super cool. in general, im realizing there are not nearly as many overwhelming earthbending forces as there are in waterbending? so this list starts a little shaky.

10. xin fu/master yu- so like. not sure what to say/how i would even differentiate. they are both masters. duh. we didn’t see much of them but we know they are easily outclassed by the rest of this list soooo… sorry! moving on

9. general fong- alright u might be wondering “who is this” so its the guy in the episode where they try to force aang into the avatar state in the beginning of book 2 to try and make him fight the firelord sooner. literally nothing of interest to note EXCEPT when he does that super baller move where he makes katara sink into the earth?!?!!?!?! logistically i dont think this makes much sense bc how tf did she not get crushed and i think this method would make earthbending kinda super broken lmfao so they literally only ever used it this one time (from what i remember) but it is suchhhh a cool move and it is SCARY! so props to this guy for being the only earthbender we see do this super sick move!

8. wei and wing- HEAR ME OUT!!!!!! they are soooo much more useful than u remember them being. they always are holding their own with their mom and aunt and all the other amazing earthbenders around them. theyre nothing super spectacular and are not given much time to shine since theyre such minor characters, but if u pay attention to the screen time they do have, they are really really good. the fact that they can earthbend so easily alongside their mom and keep up with her is really all u need to know. they WILL pull up!!!!!!!

7. bolin- so like. its tricky right bc he is THEE earth bender in the legend of korra but honestly he really is not THAT great. obviously he is great and that’s why he makes this list but yknow what i mean. he has lavabending!!!!!! which is super sick. he also has tonsssss of raw strength and agility which is probably his biggest strength. but honestly i think what keeps him low is his lack of skill, finesse, and honestly meaningful fight scenes that go in his favor. feels like his character maybe suffers from a littttttle bit of being sidelined bending wise bc he was SUCH the comedic relief. its almost like the writers didnt have time to make him a super fleshed out earthbender because they were too busy trying to make him funny?? idk im rambling but bolin is just a tricky one. still amazing! just not as amazing as the rest of the list.

6. lin- dont fight me istg. i can FULLY admit that my biases are coming into play here but im still gonna defend my point. here are the facts: i kind of cant stand lin and i LOVE su yin. i do understand that realistically, the fact that lin is the chief of police and has dedicated pretty much her entire life to it would make her crazy strong, and it does! shes the chief of republic city police for a reason. she has a fuck ton of combat experience which helps her to be as strong as she is. i just cannot, in good faith, have her any higher. from what i have seen from numbers 5-1, they seem better than lin.

5. su yin- ah su yin. i love su yin. and if im being logical, lin would be a stronger earthbender because she has (from what we know) farrrrrrrrrrr more direct combat experience. but if im being honest, when i look at them earthbend, su yin’s earthbending looks better. its more interesting, she looks like she uses more skill, shes more creative, she seems more resourceful, and she seems more adaptable as well. she killed p’li!!! also she was kicking lin’s ass in their 1 v 1 but it feels wrong to count that bc lin was like on her deathbed lmfao. still, although lin seems like she has more experience and probably a greater battle IQ, su yin just seems better. maybe its the bias! (it def is)

4. ghazan- lava bending. he is the best at it. just everyone in the red lotus is scary strong. i rly dont need to tell u why he’s this high. it is so obvious.

3. bumi- mf took back omashu all by himselffffff. i feel like bumi is by far the earthbender we see across both shows that has the most raw strength. hes also wise and shit!!! absolute beast. i know a handful of people think hes number 1, and i know MOST people think hes at least number 2, but he’s just not in my opinion. obviously still one of the best of the best.

2. kuvira- i just. wow. i feel like on my most recent rewatch i realllllyyyyyy saw how EXCELLENT of an earthbender she is. like ok first of all yes she was the villain of this season so she was definitely going to be strong but she is literally just beating the shit out of everyone for the entire season. like no one, not even korra until the last couple eps, can even compete on the same playing field. (i know korra was dealing with a lot of personal beef but STILL). the amount of skill and precision and effectiveness she has is the best we see in earthbending in legend of korra. she genuinely seems like she isnt even giving it her all in most of her fights and she is still just mopping the floor with everyone. she was a dictator for a reason ok like who is beating my girl?!?!?!? (other than thee mother of all of earthbending ofc).

1. toph- i mean. i dont want to even explain. no earthbender has a better connection, understanding, and natural ability with earth like toph. her bending is an extension of herself to the very fullest. invented metalbending. cultivated metalbending into the martial art it is today. was (kind of) a self taught master by 12. and the stuff that she DID learn she learned when she was practically a toddler from the original benders, the badger moles. i feel like some people try to argue her spot bc she isnt always as flashy as other earthbenders (bumi, ghazan, kuvira) but she is by FAR the most effective. and not just in a day to day basis, but in fights too. hence why shes the strongest. i dont think many would argue this position but yeah. GOAT.

[icangiveitback]

By the way... that wing au

The air nomads are generally the people who got wings proportional enough to actually fly with considering their element and all, lots of sea bird wings and cliff diving wings there depending on if they were more or less nomadic. (Air Nomad dating custom? Death dives. Aang keeps asking katara to ride scary animals with him or watch him almost get eaten by sea monsters for a reason not that he knows that)

Earth Kingdom gets the opposite end of the spectrum as air and flight is very far away from their home element. Lots of burrowing bird types, flightless bird types. Some peafowl like plumage in some nobility lines.

Water tribe gets waterbird wings of course, or cold weather birds, again dependant on where they settled more or less water or snow (swamp tribes lent more towards the fishing / wading birds) they all have strong wings, for the swimming.

Fire nation get the rest. Wind is the sister element to fire, you know, and even if fire should stay rooted they've got flight in their bones. Lotsa diamorphic wings there like hummingbirds or birds of paradise. The fancy ones with fancy courting habits, you know. Partridge-grouse wings too. It's said that those particularly blessed get dragon wings.

After the war of course the national standard for wing beauty were agile statement wings of red and black. Fire Nation colors mostly, you know. Having wings too big or too small or too neutral toned was kind of a faux pas

Anyways. Zuko's wings are awkwardly large and pitch colored. They've always been oversized for him. It's unseemly especially because they make him clumsy. Any subtle gesture becomes unwieldy. Ursa coos over them obviously, she says they're perfect. Ozai wouldn't necessarily have a problem with them if Zuko could do anything useful with them (ozai's wings are half the size and a kind of mottled brown. He is absolutely not pleased his son is outgrowing him).

Azula has sharp, agile wings. Too small to fly with but flashy and perfect for posturing (she figures out how to fly by herself anyways). The pinions are almost transparent and are iridescent. They're sheened with an electric blue. I think she learns to weild blue fire entirely to match. Also, because anyone snickering about how ostentatious they are shuts up when they realize she color coordinates. With her fists. (Azula keeps flinging herself off cliffs. She keeps expecting someone to follow.)

Zuko learns to keep his wings bunched up tight against his back especially after being banished. (I cannot decide if ozai fucks up one of zuko's wings as well or if zuko manages to do it pre season 1. One of his wings Is fucked up though) They're a hazard in the ocean wind and spray anyways and he yells enough to cover for everything else (his scar, his wings, his failures) so they don't matter.

(Keeping them braced helps with his signature move. Not the Fire daggers; the break dancing kick. No one expects anyone to spin around on their back with fucking wings zuko what the hell??? But zuko has had enough of ending up on his back defenseless)

It's even more important after becoming a fugitive because his wings are too large for the earth kingdom. They draw too much attention. So do his eyes, and scar.

His wings are half the reason jet notices him on the ferry. (And his scar and his swords and his furious scowl and—)

(Zuko keeps throwing himself off cliffs. He does not know how to catch himself with jet flame the way azula does. He does not expect anyone to follow but he has, more often than not, latched on to someone and yanked them off with him.)

Zuko doesn't quite grow into his wings. Even if one wasn't messed up they're too big and heavy to fly with. But, little gold spots start growing in. Speckling along the plumage as he molts. Not ostentatious but pretty fetching.

Azula and Zuko make a pair, standing next to each other.

(So do katara and sokka. Katara's wings are round edged and wide. Fluffy, white and spotted. Insulating. Sokka's are sharp and blue-grey. A hunter's wings. A shore-diver.)

(Would it be funny if Jet had the wings of a wood pecker?)

Iroh keeps trying to get his nephew to relax but zuko has been tense since he was 11 there's no way he's relaxing now. His mom was the one to help preen zuko's stupidly large wings as a child, after she left he did a... passable enough job on his own and after banishment he just gave up. At first it hurt too much but after his wing recovered it was just too much work for something he didn't care for.

(Jet really wants to get his hands on Lee's wings. He'd thought Lee could fit in with them and preening was a group activity. Jet loved straightening out his kid's feathers. Jet does, decidedly, Not get to do this.)

(Jet lived most of his life in the trees, jumping from one branch to the next. He knows cliff diving when he sees it.)

It's the Gaang (it's definitely Toph, because she can't see and can only know that Zuko's too tense and stiff and holding his over large wings awkwardly as they go from temple to sea side to Ember Island and she decides that's it. He is gonna pick out the sand from her coverts and she is going to get his shoulders to untense if she has to throw rocks at him) (interestingly, and completely unrelatedly, because toph gets a lot of crushes but she's adopting zuko not courting him, did you know that some birds brings rocks to their loved ones. To make nests. The rock has to be a pretty nice rock to work) that finally gets Zuko to stretch his wings a bit.

(Zuko jumps off the ledge at boiling rock and sokka is the one that catches him. Locks talons. Pulls him back up instead of letting him fall.)

(Azula jumps off the gondola, and one of her friend's follows her just the once. And then they both turn away from her. She is dashed against the cliffside)

Enough that when katara and zuko confront azula the difference is pretty striking. Zuko's well groomed for once and azula is— well. She is definitely not the most put together out of the two of them.

(When azula sobs, defeated, wreathed in blue fire, her wings flap and flutter and beat, hummingbird fast and out of control)

(Zuko had used his signature move against her. No one expects someone with wings to spin around on his fucking back what the hell Zuzu)

Zuko is crowned and he makes his speeches and his friends pile against him like turtle ducklings or parrot-skinks afterwards.

(Azula doesn't stay on the ground. Because zuko helps her up and did she know dragons immolate to show their favor? Dragons use fire for everything, none of this flighty air nomad bull shit, they just spit plasma from their mouths and whatever not worthy gets incinerated and whatever is left is. Well, by process of elimination, figure it out Azula. You're friends burned you but you're still alive. You survived the flames.)

(They both do)

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

Hello! Your blog is the first place I ever read that Zuko/Katara is a "feminist ship" and I am soooo confused, because

Their very first interaction* literally looks like "the female character is captured, helpless** and completely at mercy of the male character, who is the one holding her captive and is obviously trying to use her" - and some (many?) people watched this and thought: "mmm, I do really want this two to get together". And then they called it a feminist ship.

Like, WHAT?! This looks very much NOT feminist.

*every time before Zuko either didn't notice Katara or intentionally ignored her. Even earlier in the very same episode, when the pirate talks about Katara and Aang, because they were the ones who showed interest in the scroll - Zuko is only focused on Aang. They never had a single face-to-face scene before, I checked.

**Katara was tied to the tree until Momo helped her, so I guess she could not break free by herself

Oh, they don't just claim that Zuko and the entire Fire Nation are feminist (and that said feminism totally extendends to the women belonging to the nations they are invading, conquering and/or commiting genocide against) - they claim that the mere act of shipping Zutara is feminist and NOT shipping it is sexist because Zutara is "the female gaze" or whatever the fuck.

Some of them really went "I am a woman and I like this, therefore it is inherently a feminist thing, and anyone who dislikes this is womaning wrong."

Honestly, fandoms need to let go of this need to make everything feminist, or queer, or just generally "woke", and calling everyone who disagrees a right wing lunatic - and I'm saying this as a bisexual feminist that is related to a bunch of right wing lunatics that are still defending the guy that tried to become dictator of Brazil after losing the presidential elections.

Fiction doesn't have to be a mirror of our actual morals/political beliefs, and the romances in it don't need to be healthy. It should simply be about "What would be the most entertaining/coherent choice for the narrative and themes we are going for?"

No need to pretend there are no "problematic" aspects to things we like, or that everything we dislike has something inherently evil about it.

Zutara could have been the healthiest ship ever or the most unhealthy dynamic ever seen on screen - I wouldn't care about either possibility, I just want something that is both fun to watch and makes sense for the story. To me, Zutara doesn't fit either, therefore I don't like it.

It's as simple as that.

[zmeydeva-arch]

plots please!! please feel free to pick any from my list but off the top of my head you can spin: kell, freydís, kaghan, or adam!

▐ ⊹ ⁺ a little plotting meme ) ACCEPTING!

¹· zoya & kell: starring directly at your grishaverse for him rn i feel like there are 2 routes to take here considering i have a mess of canon verses for zoya within her universe. BUT i think having kell as a little palace instructor given his unique skillset could be an INTERESTING concept or better yet and he could be the zuko to zoya's aang and help her get a better grasp on her corporalki abilities post dragon shenanigans. ROUTE 2 would be more of a ketterdam-flavored situation. not sure how kamerov as an alter ego plays into this verse but if he is doing secret maybe evil illegal stuff for maresh family on the down low i think sapphire is a good person to have in his corner/ NOT THAT SHE WOULD BE SO WILLING!! she has to get something out of it but it compels me somehow

CONVERSELY i decide to flip the script and make zoya a black london antari because why not and i can finally get the corruption arc i always dreamed of out of her. this verse literally is vibes alone right now and i haven't thought about it until this very second but i would be willing to develop it more if it is something that interests you

²· zoya & freydís: you are gonna need to hold my hand i am so scared right now. i know literally nothing about god of war but what i gather is we are heavy on the norse mythology here (again, something else i only have surface level knowledge on ) BUT if there is some sort of way for pantheons to mingle here i have been toying with a slavic myth verse for zoya on the down low. she is champion of veles who is sent to hunt the god perun in somewhat of a rehashing of their timeless war against one another. so oops as a dragon she swallows an aspect of the storm god and gains some of his divinity and memory in the process. so this is kinda similar to having uhh memories that are not their own and having to deal with it they can relate 🤍

of course i am always down for a way to work a character into the grishaverse. obviously the concept of past lives and sainthood is a known convention already. i don't want to presume anything about freydís' status in universe but perhaps skaði was a saint of old once. they could possibly follow a similar path to zoya in terms of reawakening grisha magic prior to the establishment of orders/ when it became corrupted and cut off from its source.

we can also figure out a regular fantasy verse here i have so many Thots i am sure we will stumble on SOMETHING

³· zoya & kaghan: my little web-winged faeries my cinnamon apples. i feel like kaghan could possibly make her worse in this universe and i am 100% here for it. we threaded them a bit but i would be down to develop this concept further in terms of him coming to her aid post her father's death. i also remember me saying i thought it would be interesting if they had been childhood friends in this verse ( so very far back considering how old they both are lol ) but falling out of touch once juris decides to form his own court and essentially go rogue. the ethereal court is very much new amongst the long-standing higher courts which means this war with the spring court will either completely destroy is status and credibility or solidify it as a universal power amongst the high fae. it means a potential powerful ally for kaghan and also i know they would have mad banter am i wrong?

i was gonna suggest i make an ac.otar verse for her but do you really want that? be real with me. you would have to theysplain the universe to me and i'm pretty sure you are so divergent it wouldn't even make sense to bother with it. anyway i just want more kaghan trying to instruct her and give her council in a very volatile time. not sure what the broader implications of allying with the night court would be from a diplomatic standpoint so i would like to hear your take on that! is there gossip? is there oo'ing and ah'ing from the audience or is everyone hardcore judging her right now.

⁴· zoya & adam: witchypoos!! witchypoos!! i honestly can't see zoya working very well in a trc verse but when i figure it out i will let you know. although, so far i am enjoying them in an urban fantasy setting. we don't get to see adam interact with other witches after persephone's death so i think him and zoya forming more of a study group around magic seems NEAT. she could get into harvard i believe in her so consider a la ninth house ( you haven't read it i know but here me out ) they have their own little occult secret society where they probably tamper with dark forces they shouldn't.

they have a writing seminar 5pm but also a seance set for 7pm sometimes you just gotta bring your lavender scented candles with you to class! but for real i like the idea of them being hedge witches while they go to this prestigious university. it is formal education by day informal education by night. how very dark academia of them!

[mliter]

Fortnite Chapter 5: Season 2 - Myths and Mortals.

It's another fortnite season alright. Coming off of underground, we were greeted with mysterious teasers for the battle pass characters. I thought this was Hope again, lol. Hype at this point was HUGE. Everyone was ready to move on from Underground and people were excited to see what epic was cooking.

After properly being revealed, launch day came. Now to this day we don't have the story, but something BAD happened on Epic's side. All of the programmers and engineers were working for hours on end, trying to get the servers up. The servers wouldn't come up until the evening.

Regardless, the season dropped. This one is obviously themed around Greek mythology. Artemis, Aphrodite, Medusa, Cerberus, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus all make an appearance in the battle pass. We’ve seen interpretations of these figures hundreds of times throughout the years, but the idea of Fortnite of all games taking it on is quite the interesting thing to think about. You think anybody’s thought “what do you think fortnite Zeus looks like?”

The story is still there. Zeus wants to wipe out all of humanity and the other gods think he's doing too much. The looper and Hope work with the other gods to get him to cut it out. Speaking of. Hope. For the entirety of chapter 4, characters were introduced and quickly discarded as the next season came. Strangely, that did not happen with Hope and her in specific. This season is the point where everyone learned that epic is finally doing something with their characters, starting with her. Genuine shock seeing her appear in the season's CG.

The way these lot are characterized is actually pretty fun. Cerberus is still Hades’s brutal and loyal guard dog, but he has a very playful side to him. Like a... dog. Hades is actually pretty chill. References to what Aphrodite is more known for are replaced with a family friendly “god of the squad”. She also has a phone she likes to take selfies with a lot. It's a pretty funny take on her.

Also, epic for some reason made short really well made animations of some of the BP skins. They were released on a week by week basis, and nobody knows why they made them, but it was appreciated. The season was teased the day before with this awesome trailer that EXPLODED online.

Also, Korra is here! This one was a genuine surprise. I remember my jaw dropping when i saw her on the BP trailer for the first time. I'm a huge fan of TLOK. I've rewatched it in it's entirety 7 times now. One thing i really liked about her inclusion was the fact that they brought back Irene Koh specifically to do the art for both of her loading screens. There are fans in that studio.

She brought along the series's staple bending abilities, alongside a good chunk of the Gaang. As weird as it was to see Aang of all people with a shotgun, i got used to it quickly. Shame that Sokka missed out on the fun. Maybe he'll bring Suki along next time.

Each bending ability was designed as to how they are written and viewed in the show. With waterbending, you could fire off icicles and heal yourself in water, firebending was purely fast & offensive, and earth bending could be used to both defend yourself, and fire off a slow but powerful attack. Airbending couldn't be used to harm anyone. it was purely used for mobility.

Speaking of mobility, we’ve dropped the grapple blades and we’ve moved onto the wings of icarus. It’s an item that allows you to straight up fly. It was cool for like the first day, but then I stopped using it after I got shot down from the sky. Turns out your hitbox is doubled if not tripled using it. A week into the season, it was considered a suicide button. A throwing item. the chains of hades also appeared. It was a brutal melee item.

This is the first Fortnite season that i wasn't too crazy about. I wasn't too big on the theme, or any of the battle pass skins. But i still think they did a good job. I'm looking forwards to what comes next.

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

Plot twist: Like father, like kids - Years before this moment, Sokka and Katara had the same thoughts (and arguments) as Hakoda when they noticed Zuko started acting weird and blushy around them and neither of them could agree on who he liked...

"He obviously likes you, Katara. You're practically inseparable and have that ooey gooey type of relationship that's good for couples. It honestly gives me the oogies - in a good way! Just make sure I get my own wing in the palace when you get married!"

"Ha! No. He's my best friend so it's definitely you he's into. You two are close friends too! And I bet when him and Suki have whispered conversations, it's about how hot they both find you. So you'll have to give me my own wing... preferably near the turtleduck pond."

"Don't be silly, it's you he- wait, you think they think I'm hot?"

And Toph and Aang are having a field day watching it all play out.

As a multi-shipper and an ATLA fan, this is my favorite thing to think about-

Zuko: Hey, Hakoda. Um…would you help me make a Water Tribe engagement necklace? I think it’s tradition to ask the parent of the person you intend to marry, right?

Hakoda, blinking in surprise: Oh. Um. Yes, it is. Sure, son. I’ll help.

Hakoda, internally: WHICH KID OF MINE IS HE DATING?? IS HE EVEN GAY? SOKKA’S BI BUT MAYBE ZUKO IS STRAIGHT?? HE SEEMS CLOSE TO BOTH OF THEM SO WHAT IS HAPPENING??

Lmao listen, Zukka has my HEART and will forever be my fav, but I can get behind Zutara too (as long as y’all don’t hate on Aang) and this dynamic is so funny to me😂I think someone wrote a fic about it once-

[feiquacker]

Y'all know my atla traids au so i'mma add cs i want to :D here's a link to the first part: klick on this

The gills and scales of people from watertribes: the scales have different colours. All in the blue shades. It just depends on your parents scales before you. So if your parent had rather cyan scales you would also have rather cyan ones. In the Southern watertribe it's typically cyan scales and darker blue scales while in the northern watertribe people have more violet or purple scales. The gills regulate warmth. If it's to warm its easyer for someone from the watertribe/someone with gills to explerience a heatstroke or heat exhaustion. But normaly they are hypersensitive to warm/cold. They also help keep people warm in the watertribes. But it depends on the temperature they were raised in because if they were raised in the a rather warm environment like the earthkingdom it would make little to no change aka they make it worse. Because they are hypersensitive it leads to people who didn't grow up in the watertribe getting cold really fast.

Wings are connected to the spine and the brain directly. So if an airnomad is born with one wing hald a wing or no wings they are disabled (parapletic to be precise) which just means they cannot walk. It can/will cause brain damage. The wings are out of muscle that is good hidden under the feathers. The stronger the muscles the faster you can fly. If someone hurts their wing it will cause them to have poor balance, trip over easily, exhaustion, have bad coordination, have difficulty remembering stuff etc. And a plucking of an airnomads feather feels like a chink of muscle getting ripped out. Luckily it depends on the diet how fast feathers grow back. But a broken/hurt/damaged/non existing wing can not be healed by a waterbender. It needs it's time. Wings will fluff up if the airnomad is cold or get's goosebumps.

Horns are fun. They r conected to the scull and are out of bone which is actually normal even in our world lol. And if aomeone breaks someone else's horn/s the person is instantly dead lol. Horn touching (if someone touches your horns) is a sign of trust.

And now to the sneak tails with spikes :D. These are cool because they are normally also genetic. Depends on your parents color. Normally they are green and depending on the person's power they have a dark green outline if powerful/strong and none if not. But since Toph invented metal bending her and future metalbenders have a thin silver coloured outline and not green. A darkgreen outline is very uncommon. If the person is mixed, for example watertribe and earthkingdom parents. They have blue scales fading into green ones with a dark green outline. If it's firenation there is a black outline and if it's airnormad there is no change lol. If you are a nonbender your spikes are white while for benders they are black. Loosing a spike isn't always deadly but can be. You can eather trigger them on your own or not. They get triggered in stressful and/or lifetreatning situations :D

[nocek]

as promised gaang in petvengers (petbenders?) style ;) and since they are smol by default now it’s Momo chance to play Appa’s role (and also babysit) 

as for animals:

Aang a birb. Obviously because the flying thing but also he would be one of those smartass birds that can talk and mimic human sounds like phone rings or shutter sounds etc for prank reasons. So either parrot or a corvid. Although great suggestions went for either a lemur or a sugar glider (why this name is so cute >.<!) And I think I’ll reuse the lemur idea for Ty Lee

Katara i was thinking about seal but I have no idea how to draw it on a petvenger. Then I was thinking about sea otter but then it came to me….  polar bear. After all she is the mom of the group but also could and would fuck you up if needed.

Sokka (who was thiiiis close to being a kangaroo for boomerang reasons ;P ) totally would be a wolf. He has his wolf themed armor, wolf-tail of awesome and also there is this whole reverse werewolf thing with Yue :D

Toph here the bending teacher animals are perfectly fitting. So choosing from either badger or mole I’d go with badger. Mostly because it’s ability to deal srs damage if needed :D

Zuko 100% a dog and you can’t change my mind. Our boy is way too loyal for his own good. There is also the S1 mode of all bark and no… considerably small amount of bite. Considering.

Suki her name refers to a moon. So bunny? It could also fit? Cute and looks harmless but also  can go Monty Python and Holy Grail on your ass if needed.

Actually great suggestions were also birbs (because fans=wings) like either swans or cassowary which is great and fits soo much but also if we gonna with fan theme why not ham it up and go with a peacock (omitting the gender thing by the rule of cute) which is actually what I wanted to draw but cou’ldn’t fit it to this particular picture. Will draw something more later.

Also will draw Azula (cat) Mai (sloth) and Ty Lee (lemur) because the brilliant suggestion for cat!Azula needs to be fulfilled :D 

[zukos-firebending]

ID: Digital art of Jet, Zuko, and Sokka. The image is split in half diagonally. In the first half, Sokka is a vigilante standing on the edge of a building looking out over a nighttime city. They wear a black zipped suit with blue highlights, grey mechanical glider wings, black goggles, a blue mask, blue knee-high boots, grey fingerless gloves, an earpiece, and a blue boomerang is strapped to their chest. Their hair is up in a wolftail. They say, "Phwoo..." In a popout bubble, Jet and Zuko are shown from the waist up, talking about Sokka. Jet wears a black mask, and Zuko is fully covered in a black outfit and Blue Spirit mask, with swords strapped to his back. They face each other in profile, and one says, "We gotta help this guy."

In the second half, the scene is daytime, just outside of an open garage with a sign up top with a large copper gear and the visible letters "THE M E C". Sokka is lifting the garage door with one hand as they walk out. Zuko is seated and leaning against the wall, eyes closed and faced more towards Jet than Sokka. Jet is closest to the viewer, standing and shown from the back, looking towards Sokka. Sokka wears a pink denim skort-overall outfit, a white necklace, and brown boots. Their hair is down and chin-length. They say, "You okay? My sister is an EMT--" Zuko, holding onto one arm with the other hand, and with a spiky pain indicator above his hand, responds, "Just need a moment to rest, thanks." He wears a black hoodie, black pants, and black shoes. Jet has a wheat in his mouth and wears a green tee and blue jeans. He is blushing slightly and says, "Uh..." END ID

AU under the cut because this got very long. Keep an eye out for the process video which I'll post later because I got very tired of the uploading process :)

AU Where Jetko are vigilantes by night, local disaster gays by day. Where genderqueer Sokka is a vigilante by night, and a burgeoning business-owner by day, and also they tend to present masculinely as "Boomerang Boy" and femininely as "The Mechanic" i.e., just Sokka. The Blue Spirit and whatever the community calls Jet (he has a name for the group, the Freedom Fighters, but would go by Jet if it didn't make his boyfriend so nervous to reveal his secret identity) take Boomerang Boy under their wing. Meanwhile, Sokka is pretty sure Jet and Zuko need a friend (friends, once they introduce them to Katara, Aang, Suki and Toph) and also maybe the bit of first-aid experience they've picked up from vigilante-ing having Katara as a sister; how the hell do these guys keep getting so many cuts and bruises? And no, that's not hypocritical, Sokka has a reason.

Obviously this eventually becomes Jetkko (good ship name??). Also in this AU Zuko is trans and ace and Jet is demi-romantic.

More bits of this AU:

Jet makes zero effort to hide his identity beyond the mask, but people are like "the loudmouth anarchist kid also being the local vigilante would be a little too on the nose" and besides, the vigilante definitely has a boyfriend (The Blue Spirit) and Jet definitely has a boyfriend (Zuko) and there's no way the half-blind kid who trips over air is expert swordsman Blue Spirit.

Sokka made their own costume. It's very tech-y and also fashionable. They also made the pink denim skorteralls; they are good at sewing and for some reason shops don't sell what they want to wear.

"The Mechanic" is a local queer-friendly makerspace that Sokka runs, aimed at getting kids familiar with all sorts of tools from hand-drills to waterjets to welding. It's well-decorated, every decoration being someone's machining mistake, because Sokka celebrates learning in all its forms.

[bayofalgecirascranes]

I've got a few ideas for the members of Class 1-A and their Quirks, if you're still interested. There's some I'm not 100% sure about, and obviously if you've got a better idea for any of them please share your thoughts.

Aang: One For All

Katara: Bloodbending

Toph: Earthbending & Seismic sense

Suki: [not sure]

Zuko: Fire

Azula: Blue Fire

Mai: Can pull knives out of her wrists.

Ty Lee (transfers from Gen Ed): Can block quirks with a single touch.

Yue: Like Dark Shadow except for made of light and manifests itself as different creatures associated with the moon

Hahn: like Todoroki's ice side, but less powerful and all of him

Jet: [ not sure. something to do with making explosions? Nitroglycerin sweat like Bakugou?]

Pipsqueak: Rock Mutation Quirk

Smellerbee: [maybe a tail mutation quirk like Ojirou?]

Longshot: Like Snipe's Quirk. Can pick a target within line of sight, and can make  projectiles he shoots hit that target.

Teo: Paralyzed from waist down, but has wings and can fly. Father is a famous inventor of Hero support gear.

Kuzon: [torn between Pyrokenesis (Can't make fires, but can manipulate them) and a fire transformation Quirk where he can turn some or all of his body into a living fire]

Haru: can levitate inanimate objects by touching them with all five fingers

(Four other kids who transfer out as soon as they witness Bumi's... Bumi-ness.)

There is plenty atla au for bnha and a distinct lack of bnha au for atla, I will not stand for this double standard

[missturtleduck]

The Girls of Ba Sing Se - (Sokka x f!Reader) Pt.2

Part One│Part Three

“Not yet a man, he had bright eyes, pleasing to look at. His grin was contagious, though what he was smiling at was beyond her.”

Dinners at the Beifong household were uncomfortable. Both girls had confided this in each other as they pinned their hair back earlier in Toph’s room, the price of beauty and status being the pain of a scraped back hairstyle. The imminent coddling of Toph was made all the more awkward since Y/N had witnessed her decimate fully grown men with little hesitation.

“Was that the first time you’d been defeated?” Y/N asked, voice muffled by the hair grips she held between her teeth.

Toph scoffed. “How could you tell?”

“I’ve never seen you so mad.” Y/N said, wincing as she felt the strain of her bun, “But you know that was the Avatar, don’t you? He cheated you to win.” The girl huffed, tugging at her long white sleeves. Purity – that was what the Beifongs wanted to see when they looked at their daughter. Purity and innocence, because what else could their blind daughter have if she could not have her sight?

“Are you sure it was the Avatar?” 

Toph’s question brought Y/N out of her thoughts and from her careful painting of her lips. Her heart pounded with what could only be anger. "Quite sure.” She furrowed her brows as Toph snorted. “Well, I met Twinkle Toes earlier today.”

Eyes widening, Y/N turned to her friend, who seemed completely unbothered. So far, they had managed to avoid the war in its entirety, Gaoling untouched by any direct attacks. Ba Sing Se, where her mother had sent her from, was equally as safe. But the Avatar coming into town? No matter how good his intentions, the war followed him, the destructive force of a tornado circling the eye of the storm. Whatever business he had with Toph, it better have been important. 

Kuai at their heels, the girls headed towards the dining room where only Master Yu stood patiently behind his chair. The man smiled tightly in greeting at the two – not that Toph would know that, Y/N thought – scowling at the sight of the dog they had brought in with them. Not too long passed until Lao, patriarch of the family, entered with his wife Poppy in tow.

The meal began as soon as Lao took his seat at the head of the table. Y/N, gracious as ever, sat arrow straight, each movement strained with the effort of maintaining face. She could see it in Poppy, too; the woman played the role of dutiful wife with such perfection and ease on the surface, but Y/N could see it for what it was. On the surface, she was graceful, but below the surface was the efforts of a woman staying to a strip, constraining her actions into meekness. It reminded her of a Turtle Duck, all image on the surface, but below the water it worked constantly to stay afloat and moving.

That’s what Y/N taught. She taught girls to stay afloat.

“Y/N,” Lao addressed her with an amiable smile. “How is my daughter coming along in etiquette?”

She fluttered her eyelashes in a flattering manner, placing her teacup down with grace. “Mistress Beifong will be ready for high society in no time at all, Sir. Her blindness has been no handicap to her gracious manner and pleasant conversation.”

Lao, obviously not noticing the snort Toph masked under a polite cough, seemed pleased. “Excellent. Where would she be without you? I much prefer your lessons for my daughter than the dangerous earthbending Master Yu subjects her too.”

“Indeed,” Y/N agreed, taking her turn to mask an amused smile.

“My lessons are absolutely safe,” Yu objected. “I am keeping her at a beginner’s level. Basic forms and breathing exercises only.”

‘Ah, yes; Toph, a beginner level earthbender, could only perform basic forms. How quaint,�� Y/N thought as she took a sip of tea.

It was then a servant hurtled into the room, shocking everyone from their drinks and Kuai from napping on Y/N’s feet under the table. The Avatar, he had announced, had come to visit the Beifong family. Why ever wouldn’t he? They were, after all, the most affluent family left in this time of turmoil. Y/N was sure that these thoughts were going through Lao’s head, but Y/N knew better. He needed something, and she’d bet her finest ceramics that it had to do with Toph’s skills.

As they rearranged the table placements, Y/N got a good look at the team going against Lord Ozai. The Avatar looked young, taking her aback. Wasn’t he supposed to be at least a century old? His tattoos deemed him a master, and yet they weren’t overly inconspicuous. How he hadn’t been apprehended made her wonder.

The girl was naturally from the Water Tribe, likely Southern. Despite not being the oldest, she looked like the responsible one, a kind of maternal air surrounding her. If she were ever a student of Y/N, she had no doubt the girl would be masterful in the art of restraint and wit, although there was a subtle rage simmering behind her blue eyes.

And last the boy. Not yet a man, he had bright eyes, pleasing to look at. His grin was contagious, though what he was smiling at was beyond her. It only took a moment for her to piece two and two together, viewing the similarities between the him and the Water Tribe girl; they were siblings. He had growing to do, Y/N thought, though when he grew into his shoulders, he would likely be stunning. From under his robes, she saw two fluffy ears pop out, causing her to stifle a giggle into her hand, feigning a sneeze. Kuai growled as he picked up on the fourth guest.

“Avatar Aang, it is an honour to have you visit us,” Poppy said, her face almost eerie in its pleasant stillness.

“Y/N tells me that the war is likely to be over soon,” Lao announced, diverting attention to the girl for just a moment. “What is your opinion on this, Aang?”

“I’d like to defeat the Fire Lord by the end of summer,” He said, taking some of the soup without roasted duck. “Although I can’t do that without an earthbending teacher.”

And the other shoe dropped. Y/N was correct in her suspicions that Avatar Aang desired to utilise or learn from Toph’s skills. How he found her was beyond the girl however; Toph was the Beifongs best kept secret. The pointed look he gave her only confirmed that, her friend looking thoroughly annoyed with the complete lack of tact he was displaying.

“Well, we have only the best tutors for our daughter,” Lao bragged, gesturing to Master Yu and to Y/N. “If you want to learn earthbending, Master Yu is the finest teacher in the land. He taught Toph from being little!”

“Wow, she must be amazing then. Maybe even good enough to teach someone else!”

The tremor Toph sent to his seat wasn’t noticed by her parents, but Kuai stirred once more from napping on Y/N’s feet, yelping lowly and crawling out from under the table. Despite all logic, Y/N swore she saw the dog glare.

“Toph is still learning the basics.”

Lao nodded at Master Yu, citing her blindness as the reason for her limitations. “I don’t think she’ll ever become a true master.”

“I’m sure she’s better than you think!”

The next few actions led to a catastrophe that Y/N preempted before it began; sending another fissure to disturb the Avatar, Toph hid a grin as she heard his face fall into his soup. He looked up, perturbed, his nose twitching. Y/N was already out of her seat as Aang began to ‘sneeze’, stood over Toph just in time for him to bend the soup outwards at a rapid speed, covering everyone bar Toph in it. Taking a napkin off of the table, Y/N dabbed soup off of her face, smiling so hard it hurt. If she didn’t smile, she was afraid she’d hurt the Avatar instead.

“Well, shall we move into the living room for dessert, then?” Poppy suggested, a thinly stretched smile across her face.

Y/N sighed, her demeanor failing slightly. “May I be excused to change?”

The woman nodded, naturally understanding of the situation. She bowed low in respect before taking her leave, walking out into the hall as if nothing had happened. As soon as she was alone – or as alone as one could be with a dog sat licking soup of off the bottom of your robes – Y/N shuddered in disgust, removing the pin from her hair and letting it fall down her back.

“Hey, erm, Miss Y/N.”

Eyes wide, Y/N turned, trying to smooth her hair into something presentable in front of a guest. “Just Y/N will do.”

It was the boy from earlier, not the Avatar. Perched on his shoulder was a winged lemur, staring at her with big eyes. Kuai growled as it leaned towards them, swiping a finger across her robe to get some of the soup, strange little creature. Seeing him up close, he was more handsome than anticipated. Clearing her throat, Y/N stood as tall as she could, despite the soup, the dog, the lemur, and the cute boy.

“I- uh, I got some more napkins for you.”

As promised, he pulled numerous napkins out of his pockets, some from the table and another that looked to be his.

Giving him a small smile, Y/N took the napkins and headed away as quickly as was polite, ready to clean herself of the meal and of the embarrassment that came with it.

[yukippe]

wonder what she thinks of me

for @yuekiweek ​ day 3: reunions | word count: 2.3k | read on ao3

“you need to buy your books suki!!” sokka lectures through the phone. last year suki didn’t buy the books for any of her classes and she was fine. she isn’t actually planning on buying books this year either, except now sokka’s roped her into coming to his book club and she can’t lie and say she doesn’t like to watch sokka rant about something dumb while enjoying the baked goods that sokka will have convinced his gran gran and his parents to make for them.

unfortunatley, this means suki has to brave the bookstore during some fancy author signing to try to buy the book sokka’s demanded everyone read for next week. he’s still talking through the phone, though suki’s mostly tuned him out. she’s normally much better at listening to sokka’s rants, but the bookstore is packed with awkward high school students and suki would rather not, at the moment. she slips around a table of overpriced waterbottles and planners and weaves past a random grandpiano over to one of the computers with the bookstore directory. “sokka,” suki asks as she almost trips over a four year old holding a picture book. “why did you have to send me to this bookstore at this time?”

there’s a huff on the other end of the line and suki sighs deeply, “suki, please you should be thankful! they’re running a special discount if you buy a tote bag to go with the book this weekend!!” well. okay, maybe suki collects tote bags and sokka is probably being a good friend. but suki hasn’t been to this store before, having not bothered with buying her textbooks last year and getting anything for fun as an ebook. but sokka believes in the experience of a physical copy or whatever, so tote bags and author signings it is. 

suki puts her phone between her shoulder and ear as she sets her fingers onto the keyboard of the computer directory, “hey, what’s the name of the book again?”

“have you listened to anything i’ve ever said to you?” sokka asks her. suki can picture him in their apartment at his desk, doing something fancy with math as he coaches her through a bookstore, pinching the bridge of his nose out of frustration. suki doesn’t actually need him to tell her the name of the book, she just likes to rile him up sometimes. she types in the title. suki thanks him for his help, asks him if hes found his glasses yet (the same glasses she hid before she left) and hangs up with a smirk.

adaptation by malinda lo. there, young adult section. it’s supposedly sci fi thriller and sokka, though he lacks taste in most things, has always had solid book taste. suki looks around for the sign to section she needs and spots it, tucked behind a tech display and next to the little cafe. suki walks over, eager to grab her book and get out of the shop. she walks through the shelves searching for the author’s with the last name l. malinda lo. there, suki reaches out to pluck the book of the shelf, when the back of her hand brushes against someone else. 

suki steps back, book in hand, to look at the girl next to her. she has brown hair in a pretty updo and really cute heart shaped beaded earrings. she looks familiar, but suki isn’t sure where she recognizes her from. 

“hi,” the other girl says, her voice sounds like a princess. all bells and whistling wind. 

“uh,” suki coughs, smiling crookedly and titling her head. “hi!” 

the other girl giggles at her, but her smile is warm and suki finds herself settling. “i’m yue - so adaptation? what made you interested in it?”

“oh, my friend is hosting a book club and this is this months pick,” suki tells her. maybe she should have done a little more research on the book before she’d shown up. she hadn’t really pictured a bookstore as the spot to meet a cute girl. 

“oh!” yue says, surprised. “i have the same one assigned for my book club. do you want to grab something to drink and let me tell you about it?”

“sure,” suki says, her smile growing even wider. “that sounds great” 

yue winks at her as she grabs the same book of the shelf, “perfect, there’s this bubble tea place a block a way i want to show you.” yue turns on her heel, her hair falling onto her back as yue bounces in her steps. suki checks to make sure her flannel is neat and her docs are tied before hurrying after yue. 

the two of them wait in line one behind the other at the register and yue flips through the display before the register of pins and pens and bookmarks. a rainbow lion turtle eraser set catches suki’s eye and she lifts it up to her face to look at it closer. it’s the type of thing aang would like, so suki puts it on top of her book when she gets to the register. after she picks out the simplest canvas tote bad (most of them have obnoxious book puns katara would make fun of her for months about) and pays, suki finds yue waiting by the door peeling a sticker off of a sticker sheet suki remembers seeing on the display. 

“so,’ yue asks. “where do you want your sticker?”

suki blinks, “what?”

yue waves the - oh it’s a hello kitty sticker with fairy wings. suki blinks at it, “um. cute?” she gets a smile for her efforts and then yue leans in and grabs her wrist, turning suki’s hand around and carefully placing the sticker onto the back of suki’s right hand. 

“so,” yue says, after failing once more to steal a drink of suki’s boba. her mouth is screwed up in a light pout, but it feels teasing. “do you go to ba sing se u?”

only a little while later, they are wandering to nowhere in particular, still holding hands. yue keeps trying to steal a sip of suki’s drink even though when suki ordered yue had made a face at the idea of coffee boba. yue’s own drink is sweet like her. strawberry, reportedly to match yue’s nails which are done up in a neat mimic of the fruit. 

suki nods, squeezing yue’s hand and lifting her drink over her head, too high up for yue to reach, though that doesn’t stop yue from playfully batting at it. neither of them caring about what passerby might think as they wobble on the sidewalk smiling at each other full of silliness. “yeah, i’m majoring in gender and women's studies with a minor in literature and art.”

yue lights up, the way she’s done every time suki’s shared a fact with her. suki’s face feels flushed, yue makes her feel like she’s on her first date ever. “oh wow!” yue says. “i’m majoring in four nations politics with a minor in theology and spiritual studies but i would love to see what your classes must be like. i think i could be a student forever, you know?”

and then yue doesn’t let go of suki’s wrist. instead, she links their fingers together and suki watches their hands held together hang between them. she looks up and smiles at yue, stupidly happy for a moment. and really, suki doesn’t even know for sure if yue is into girls even if yue does seem to be flagging. for now, suki just lets yue tug her down the street as her phone buzzes in her new tote bag with texts from sokka she’ll ignore for now. 

“hm, not really, i think one degree is enough for me. but academics are cute,” suki says, watching as yue swings their hands back and forth as they walk. they’re both absolutely terrible at walking together, suki’s noticed. they can’t seem to walk in a straight line and suki’s almost fallen off the sidewalk twice already. it’s nice. suki’s finding that yue makes her comfortable everywhere. 

“oh?” yue asks, her eyes twinkling. “does that mean you think i’m cute, suki?”

“hmmm,” suki teases out, a trace of laughter in her voice as yue finally manages to dart forward to steal her drink, finally realizing her success would be increased if she let go of suki’s hand. suki doesn’t even mind that much, wow. “well,” suki settles, after a moment of false consideration. “yeah, i think you’re pretty cute.”

yue winks at her, the same way she did in the bookstore, and takes a sip of suki’s bubble tea. then she makes a completely disgusted expression shoving suki’s drink back at her. “suki! that’s so gross, tui and la, how do you drink that?” 

suki can’t help the laugh that spills out of her as yue sticks her tongue out and crosses her eyes, making a fuss that shouldn’t be as sweet as it is. well, suki’s always been a sucker for clowns. suki reaches out and links their hands back together and they both sip at their drink as they seem to stop together at the bus.

they make shy eye contact as a bus comes up to the stop. “so,” yue says. “i’ve got to go, i’m meeting up with a friend. but this was really fun, right?”

suki smiles, “yeah, it was really fun.”

“that’s great! i really liked talking with you!” yue informs her. then, yue leans forward and kisses suki’s cheek before turning around, and her earrings sparkle in the sunlight as she jumps onto the bus right before the bus doors close and it pulls away with the rest of the flow of traffic. suki blinks and watches it go, still feeling the soft touch of yue’s lips on her cheek.

when suki pulls her phone out of her bag to video call sokka he immediately points out the lipstick mark on her cheek and she resolves not to give him any details, no matter how much he pesters her 

-

two weeks later, after bemoaning to ty lee about how she was dumb and completley forgot to ask the cute girl she met at the book store for her number, she sees yue again. at sokka’s book club.

the members of the secret book club hadn’t been a surprise for the most part, consisting of sokka (obviously), aang (one of sokka’s only friends who wasn’t a gay girl), azula, mai, ty lee and suki (the gay girls sokka was friends with). sokka’s parents, hakoda, kya and bato, had baked with sokka all last night and prepared a whole table full of snacks that sokka had made her haul over to their apartment. suki thinks it’s a ridiculous amount of food for their handful of friends, and then she and sokka ate a good section of it before their friends even show up.

mai, sokka and azula are arguing over the finer points of the book already even though the meeting has yet to officially start. sokka and azula, to be fair, have actual opinions that they are fiercly defending from their spots on the floor as mai causes problems on purpose on the couch she and ty lee stole as soon as they stepped through the front door. 

there was only one person that had yet to arrive, and apparently only aang had met her before. azula had raised an eyebrow at the pronoun and asked sokka if he’d made friends with another gay girl. the answer had been yes, and suki who was looking for another chance at talking to a cute gay girl after flopping earlier in the month and failing at getting yue’s number or social media or anything, was looking forward to meeting the newest cute gay girl sokka was friends with. 

sokka had impeccable taste in cute gay girls (besides azula). so really, maybe suki shouldn’t have been so surprised to answer the door when the bell rang to find yue holding a tray of pastries. 

yue stands out in the hallway with its broken light, looking as pretty as the moon in the sky. her face breaks into a smile at the sight of suki, and suki’s sure her expression matches. “suki?!” yue asks. “wow, small world huh?”

suki nods back, her cheeks starting to hurt with how big she was beaming. “so,” suki says. “do you think i could make up for last week and get your number?”

laughter comes from behind suki, and suki knows her friends are probably making fun of them right now, but she’s too interested in yue’s answer to pay any attention. 

yue rolls her eyes, but she doesn’t stop smiling, “of course suki, now do you want to help me bring these in so i can program it into your phone? no excuses not to call me this time.”

“don’t worry,” suki says as she takes the sweets from yue. “i’ll be sure to blow your phone up more than sokka when he’s trying to prove a point.”

she’s rewarded with another kiss to her cheek (and teasing from her friends at another lipstick stain) and yue’s number in her phone saved as yue🌙💖😘. 

yue, through suki’s phone, texts something to herself and suki leans over yue’s shoulder to see what it is. 

omg yue you’re so hot please go out with me <3

suki bumps yue’s shoulder as best as she can with her hands full and raises an eyebrow. “so, yue?” suki asks. “will you go out with me?”

yue giggles, her lipgloss sparkles and suki wonders what it tastes like, “of course, suki.” 

a few seconds later, suki has her question answered and can confidently report that yue’s lipgloss tastes like mango. 

suki passes the tray off to sokka, who was helpfully waiting right behind her with the tried familiar expression of accidentally setting up his exes. then, suki tugs yue into the loveseat, kicking out aang who had been sprawled across it.

book club is much more fun than suki was expecting, though almost all things are improved, suki finds, when she’s hanging out with her friends and eating sweets and practically sitting in the girl she likes lap while yue braids her hair and teases sokka with her. yue winks at her as aang and ty lee stop azula and sokka from getting into a fistfight with mai and sticks another hello kitty sticker onto her cheek. suki leans over and kisses the same spot on yue. fair is fair after all. 

[beignetbenny]

If you're comfortable would you share more you projecting your relationship onto Zukka? I originally followed you from the grocery trip post and i honestly love that sort of thing

You... you want me to project my relationship onto Zuko and Sokka more? My relationship? The one where my GF texted me “if i cosplay zuko and you cosplay sokka and we kiss would that be crazy or what?” that relationship?

I have literally been DYING to do this

Zuko and Sokka met in their junior year of college (performing arts college because if we’re projecting we’re projecting) and the first time Sokka sees him he’s already like: I’m in love

Since Zuko is an arts student, his style is a little more on the quirky side i’m not gonna lie. It’s usually a mix of grunge and goth stuff with the occasional surprise like “oh you have a turtleduck pin on your backpack. Are those pride flag socks?”

Sokka already had a pretty established friend group, but Zuko had transferred back in that semester after taking a leave of absence for family reasons. So, immediately sokka takes him in.

Zuko becomes really good friends with Aang and Katara and Suki and Toph of course, as they spend most of their time together. With rehearsing, running to get food at obscene times of the night still in their dance gear because rehearsals ran long. They food hop and get boba at 2 am, coffee at 3 am, McDonalds at 4 and so on. They go out and get pasta at midnight and refer to it as pasta time. Only one of them has to drop that phrase alone in the groupchat and everyone agrees on a time. Pajamas be damned. They get away with it because technically they are student athletes

A joke by Sokka that is run into the ground by the time they sneak ben and jerrys into a Tap level 5 placement. Zuko is the only other one out of the friend group that gets the highest dance placement as Sokka. It’s understandable, tap dancing is very hard, its’ a difficult skill, and not everyone can do a winged time step into navy time steps it’s rightfully difficult and the timing is off

So... the two of them start rehearsing together more. It wasn’t that they didn’t a lot before, but the class was mostly split and sure they were definitely friends outside of classes too but Sokka felt like his super mega crush on the hot belter who came in with Aftershocks from Next to Normal was something he could get over. So he kinda stuffed it away the more they worked together. 

Then they get assigned a scene. An acting scene. An acting scene that ended in a passionate kiss. An acting scene the teacher said they were both capable of

So they rehearse it. They’re both dead letter perfect by the first night because they have expectations to live up too and both of their siblings just get things so much easier and suddenly they’re talking instead of rehearsing.

Three hours pass before they remember “holy shit we’re running this with blocking in class tomorrow we should probably get this right”

So they go through the scene, the emotions are pretty high, and they both lean in for a stage kiss before Sokka stops

Sokka: Wait...  Zuko: What? Sokka: This is okay right? I can touch you? I mean we didn’t talk about it first and- Zuko: Sokka Sokka: And I know this is both of our first scenes with a kiss and i really respect you as an actor and i don’t want to make you uncomfortable Zuko: ...Sokka Sokka: And I just want to say that- Zuko: You can kiss me Sokka: What? Zuko: It’s not a big deal. We’re both trying to be professionals right? It doesn’t need to mean anything.  Sokka: ... yeah...

So they kinda uh... kiss... and they don’t really stop... kissing

They do it in class and the kiss maybe plays off a little too well. The other classmates clap, the teacher gives feedback. His main point is that you’re supposed to be in love but you’re acting like it hurts.

And sokka makes some bullshit excuse about how he saw the character differently and Zuko tags along to that idea giving more validity to the statement and the teacher is like “alright, bet. You’ve proved your point. It’s probably not what the playwright wanted but this is about expression so i’m glad you feel expressed”

They don’t rehearse together anymore because both of them feel like they’ve gotten it and don’t want to ruin anything. They still hang out. They still have pasta nights. But things are kinda weird. But more than anything, Sokka really misses his friend

In the end, they end up having to do the scene for a showcase. Meaning that during rehearsals they have to do it again and again and again and again until it sort of just becomes normal

Good luck kisses back stage turns into kissing in greeting when they’re visiting each others dorm rooms turns to picking up food orders for each other. Never in front of people, because you can make it platonic. And realistically it’s only done so both of you can make the stage kiss feel more comfortable.

But that doesn’t stop Sokka from being like “woah man i’m getting mad butterflies when we kissed even though I immediately called you dude after the kiss broke"

So sokka comes up with a plan because as much as he likes whatever they’ve got going on, which he does because friend and kissing and cuddling is GREAT for someone who is scared of commitment because the chance of something happening to that person would literally destroy him and that doesn’t feel great.

Instead, the night of the showcase he gets all of his friends to hype him up to ask Zuko out with his favorite candy, a coupon to get pasta, and well... the obvious question

But Sokka waits until they’re in places like an asshole but also because he’s kinda terrified and if something goes wrong it could change the whole dynamic of the scene and they’d both flunk out of fucking THEATER SCHOOL AND-

And he shoves the snack and the coupon and a note he hastily wrote into Zuko’s hands before running to his own entrance to do the scene because he’s stage left while Zuko’s stage right.

And they do the scene, but somethings a little off. Zuko seems distracted but he’s also happy? like super happy? Like did the laugh queue and made it sound genuine instead of spiteful happy? And he smiled into the kiss? That wasn’t... something they did. But Sokka went along with it because the scene SEEMED to be working fine

And then they go off stage and the second the theater darkens, Zuko shoves the prop pillows into Sokka’s chest

Zuko: Fuck you Sokka: What? What did I- Zuko: I mean, yes, obviously yes. The hot tamales were a great choice but fuck you. Sokka: Yes? Zuko: Yeah!

And that’s the only conversation they get in because they have to help with the other prop changes but the moment they are finally backstage and their mics are off they kiss in the little hallways backstage that goes from one entrance or another

(at least they think they’re mics are off but uh... that was embarrassing and i don’t want to put that on them carrying on)

When the show ends and they’re both wiping they’re stage makeup off about to leave their director approaches them and obviously they both think they’re in trouble because they just did a 180 to what they had practiced for the last month but the director loved it. And then he asks them why it was different and Zuko admits that something finally clicked. And the director chalks it up to opening night vibes and that now they should keep it that way for the rest of the performances

The night the show closes they do a Gaang pasta night and the rest of them don’t even realize anything is different until Sokka reaches over and takes something from Zuko’s plate (which was usually off the table and would result in getting fussed at) that they noticed something was up.

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Avatar the Last Airbender: Zuko - Type 6w5

Zuko is complex, emotional and holds a lot of self doubt. Throughout the series Zuko changes a lot as he learns who he is and becomes more sure of himself.

At his best, Zuko gains a sense of calm and a better sense of self (integrating to 9).  By the end of the series, Zuko grew into a benevolent leader ushering in an era of love and peace. He finally realises the love he gets from Iroh and becomes truly happy.  

At his worst, Zuko was bitter and jaded because of his exile. He carried a pompous attitude and had a fixation on regaining his birthright. Zuko would sometimes resort to dishonest means to achieve his goals or to secure his safety (disintegrating to 3). For example, he stole from the family who took him and Iroh in for dinner. 

Even in the first season, Zuko was principled and loyal. There were numerous times when he had to choose between capturing Aang and the safety of his soldiers or Iroh and in every instance Zuko chose to leave Aang behind. Additionally, Zuko was banished because he felt the need to speak up because he felt it was wrong for Fire Nation soldiers to be sacrificed.

Throughout the series, Zuko experiences a lot of internal conflict and often behaves like a walking contradiction. For example, he would always say he was marked as unlucky but at the same time believe he made his own luck. This kind of duality and contradictory nature is something that is often seen in 6s.

Like Sokka, Zuko has shown himself to be quite strategic. For example, he successfully hid his movements from Zhao by using the damage done to his ship as a smokescreen. He was also able to evade an attempt on his life and make Zhao think he had died. Zuko is also able to think quickly and solve problems, such as using his swords to shine light on the sunstone.

Zuko was the typing that I struggled the most with, because he shares a lot of traits with other types. I have seen Zuko typed as a 4 and an 8, however the enneagram is about motivation and I do not think that Zuko fits the motivations of these types. For Zuko I was stuck between a 1 and a 6, because his main motivations were to regain his honour and to become accepted by his family again. Ultimately I settled on type 6 for Zuko over type 1 for a few main reasons. The first reason was that Zuko is very reactive and has trouble controlling his emotions. This is much more in line with type 6 than type 1, as 6s are part of the reactive triad. Furthermore a key characteristic of type 1s is that they repress their anger which is something Zuko is not successful with. Zuko often uses his anger as a sort of fuel for his actions and it is a driving force of his bending for most of the series. Another reason why I think Zuko is a 6 over a 1 is that he will resort to immoral acts if they need to be done more readily than a type 1. That said, Zuko does have an extremely strong moral compass and will always try to do the right and honourable thing. For example, he tries to save Zhao even though they are in the middle of an Agni Kai and Zhao had tried to assassinate him.

Type 6s often have complicated relationships with their father. Obviously this is evident in spades with Zuko (who at one point even called the Fire Lord the Father Lord). He was never treated well by his father but always wanted to earn his respect and approval. This is quite common in type 6s who often seek acceptance and approval from their parental figures. 6s seek stability and want to have a safe home. At the beginning of the series, Zuko has been exiled from the Fire Nation and has been told that the only way he will be welcomed back is if he finds the Avatar. This is essentially a wild goose chase as at the time he was given the mission nobody knew about Aang. Even so, Zuko doggedly pursued the mission as it gave him a false sense of hope of being able to return home. It takes Zuko a long time to learn that he will never get the acceptance he craves from his family and to appreciate Iroh's unconditional love.

Zuko shows his 5 wing as he is more reserved and aloof than a 7 wing. He is also more independent and will often push people away (like Iroh) which is unlikely in a 7 wing as they are more people-oriented. 

Tri-type: 6w5 - 1w2 - 4w3

Some quotes to describe Zuko’s traits and motivations:

"I used to think this scar marked me – the mark of the banished prince, cursed to chase the Avatar forever. But lately, I've realized I'm free to determine my own destiny, even if I'll never be free of my mark."

"I've struggled for so long to do what's right; to even know what's right. [...] But asking you to end me if I went bad; that was like asking you to figure out right and wrong for me. [...] I understand now. The struggle isn't something a Fire Lord can escape."

"After I leave here today, I'm gonna free Uncle Iroh from his prison. And I'm gonna beg for his forgiveness. He's the one who's been a real father to me!"

“I finally have you [Aang]. But I can't get you home because of this blizzard. There's always something. Not that you would understand. You're like my sister. Everything always came easy to her. She's a firebending prodigy and everyone adores her. My father says she was born lucky. He says I was lucky to be born. I don't need luck, though. I don't want it. I've always had to struggle and fight, and that's made me strong. It's made me who I am.” 

"For so long, all I wanted was for you to love me, to accept me. I thought it was my honor that I wanted, but really, I was just trying to please you. You, my father, who banished me just for talking out of turn! My father, who challenged me, a thirteen year-old boy, to an Agni Kai! How can you possibly justify a duel with a child?"

[yelling angrily toward the sky] “You've always thrown everything you could at me! Well, I can take it, and now I can give it back! Come on! STRIKE ME! You've never held back before!”

“I’m angry at myself!

“I don’t need any calming tea! I need to capture the Avatar!”

“Why am I so bad at being good?”

[storytime-with-moth]

Sokka and Zuko are rival RA’s

Writing Prompt - take what you like - I don’t need credit but I would love to read what you write! 

Now I have never stayed on campus before but TikTok has informed me that being an RA is like babysitting a bunch newly minted “adults”

I think it would be in cannon for both of the boys to have gravitated towards the responsibility, but come at it from two different angles.

Sokka gives me camp counselor, themed rooms, will show up to parties organize lots of mingle events, and is very approachable. Sokka probably took the job for the money and free room and board at first but ends up enjoying being a leader and bringing some safe fun to the freshmen. He especially likes that he can keep an eye on his little sisters boyfriend who is like a brother to him. Man that kid gets into trouble with that yes lets attitude of his. (No Aang you can’t fly)

Zuko gives me more of an orderly, and reserved vibe. Room rules are typed and handed out. His kids say he is really nice once he gets talking but he definitely gives off a scary frost impression. Zuko holds tea time hours in his room for kids to come and hang out and ask for guidance and advice.

Zuko and Sokka are in wings or floors next to each other, so their kids start a my RA is cooler than yours war which turns into a prank and party war. (Anything you can do I can do better)

Zuko and Sokka get pulled into the nonsense and actually start to get to know each other.

The freshmen then decide that war is not the answer but getting their RA’s to fall in love is.

Things I would love to see

Zuko subtly has pride things on his door (maybe a safe space sticker)

it is unspoken knowledge that Zuko's tea time is also a great opportunity to ask for LGBTQ sex Ed and health advice no judgement (god knows that the children didn’t get taught say queer sex in high school. He will provide condoms and dental dams)

Sokka has a bi pirate flag in his room because he is obviously a himbo birate

Sokka themes his floors rooms with magical elements (even funnier if bending is still in the AU - “uh sokka? It says I’m in the lava bending room. “Yes you are Lee!” “But I’m an air bender? “Yes you are Lee!” )

Once the pranks get out of hand Sokka shows up to tea time with Zuko and they have a really awkward tea (“So…. Are kids are at war?” “Yes… would you like some tea?” “Ya why not”)

Sokka and Zuko are some of the kids emergency contacts who have no families and one night they both show up to the ER to pick up two freshmen who got into a fight and they get all mother hen about the injuries and also disappointed mum about getting into fights

Sokka is in water polo or hockey (or maybe he just likes to go swimming late at night to clear his anxiety ADHD brain) so he always has wet hair from the showers and keeps weird hours (maybe runs into insomniac Zuko now and again)

Sokka starts showing up to more tea times and him and Zuko play pai sho

Aang definitely drinks to much at his first party and tries to fly

One of Sokka's dads has to be a professor or scientist so Zuko can marvel at the two men switching to a different language and talking with such passion about whatever to each other, a father and son on equal footing

Zukos is amazed by Sokka's two dads in general

Sokka becomes best friends with Iroh

Aang, Katara, Ty Lee, Toph, and Azula (maybe Haru and Teo) are all new students either first or second year

Sokka, Zuko, Mai and Suki are all older

Sokkas freshmen girlfriend (Yue) was killed in a drunk driver/driving accident or something tragic and so while he’s having fun being an RA he is also taking it very seriously (making sure no one drives and every drinks water) and hasn’t drank since her death

Feel free to add on

freshmen hijinks

Zukka moments

What’s the boys would be like as RA's

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I have so many WIPs, especially Mechs fics, but a post had Avatar Aang say "I'm just happy to be here!" Andnow I want toerite a ficwhere I crossover Mechs with A:TLA.

I am particularly keen on TS as Avatar. No other ideas at all. No plot just vague idea.

Ashes would be a firebender obviously.

Tim would be the explosion guy. Can't remember the name. Boom Boom man?

Nastya would be either a water&blood bender or a metal bender (is mercury a metal?)

I feel like Ivy would be a spirit bender but Idr which element thst goes with. Air?

Raphaella has wings do it's tempting to say air but I aldo like the idea of herbeing a non-bender. Or someone who worked out how to give bending powers to non-benders.

Brian... I want him to be a healer, so water bender, but i also want him to be an earth/metal bender. Can't decide.

I can't decide for Marius. So many options! Maybe Raphaella gave him waterbending but he is unused to it?

I can't work out Johnny. Fire &Lightning? Earth & Lava? Something less obviously destructive?

And the TS as the Avatar. Created by a non-bender and the avatar spirit joined the TS somehow. Total chaos. Can bend wood, somehow, because I say so. Everyone is baffled because the Avatar is a wooden soldier and not a human.

The Aurora is either a sentient ship of some sort OR a moon spirit currently in the form of either a sky bison or a sentient ship.