#aang pov

[heavensenthearty]

“I know you didn’t mean it…” He moves his arm just enough to look at me. “But you said it because you knew it would hurt me, right?”

I… I don’t know what to say. “I seriously didn’t mean it. If there’s something I could do to take it back, I would!”

“You can’t.”

These are the most cutting words I’ve ever heard from him. “Zuko, I really, really didn’t mean anything I said last night! I’ll do anything to prove—”

“Aang.” He pushes himself to sit. “… You turned on me. It’s going to take a while for me to forgive that… Not only because of you… I’m going to sleep early. Tell Katara not to make dinner for me.”

[acidicsketches]

Based on this ancient meme

[my-cabbages-gorl]

The Chosen One

[lookingforsneha]

Bellatrix and Azula have the same vibe and backstory, I literally cannot.

Like, both had a disowned sibling, both were raised as weapons for the beliefs of their families, both were perhaps the strongest of their families, the preferred "heir"? Both went insane at some point of their lives because of the pressure put on them by their families to be perfect.

Sirius and Zuko have such similar vibes too. Early on, Sirius feels like he's a disappointment to his family, so does Zuko. They both are angry and hurt deep down, and sometimes insufferable jerks at first. Both want to prove their worth to their family. Both change sides, realising the flaws in their parent's ideologies after seeing/going out into the world. Both have a lovable uncle who guided them/helped them get out of the toxic family- with Zuko it was physically and mentally getting him out of it all, with Sirius, his uncle Alphard helped, at the very least, financially? Like I've read stuff where he's sometimes very involved, and other times he's passed, leaving Sirius with a good inheritance. Both have a strong friendship with the sunshine character of the show that helps them grow and understand themselves better (for Zuko, it's Aang going with him and helping him understand have to firebend without anger. For Sirius, it's James always being an amazing support system.)

Anyway, younger Bellatrix and Sirius have the such a similar dynamic to Azula and Zuko, and ugh, they were all just kids put through hell.

Anyway, reading All the young dudes- Sirius' perspective is literally gonna bring me to sob. I don't know why I do this to myself. Everytime.

[firenaition]

i would pay an absurd amount of money to see an adult azulaang spar. azula, still a killer on the offensive. aang on defense, trying to make it look easy (he's trying to flirt with her mid-duel please ignore him) but is ultimately given away by the tight knit of his brow.

he knows enough to never go easy on her, that's not her way. all elements are fair game. he does try to throw her off by saying things like "you look so pretty when you're trying to kill me," to which she responds by hurling a ball of fire straight at his face. even when he loses (which is more often than he'd like to admit), he still wins every time he sees azula smile when she thinks he's not looking.

[icegoddessrukia]

And what do you have to say about Aang comparing Katara to Jet?

Oh wow, I don't want to get into TSR meta too much because it always goes around in circles and never ends well.

In his observation she seemed a little like Jet at first in how she was talking. From his perspective, she wanted revenge and there was some pure rage in her. I think he wanted to make her aware of how extreme he thought she was being and "snap her out of it" so that's why he said it, though he does empathize with her. Taking a life for revenge is a major deal for Aang and it is shocking for him. I could understand why Katara might have been offended when she heard that comment but I can also understand why he said the first thing that came to his mind. I'm not going to bash him for it.

Everyone in that conversation was only looking at it from their own perspective and that's why they were arguing so much. They all said some insensitive things in the moment. It's just that fandom only holds Katara and Aang accountable/practically demonizes them for their mistakes in TSR while giving Zuko (and Sokka, though he wasn't as insensitive as Zuko) a free pass.

Obviously, Katara isn't the same as Jet. It's a completely different context but he blurted out the first thing that came to mind. Was it the best thing to say to her? No. He's not perfect. I don't think anyone in the Gaang fully understood how Katara felt or how deeply her emotions run but I will say, Aang tried. Yes, Sokka was her sibling and Aang experienced the genocide but Katara had a different personality type and way of coping with her own grief.

I'm sure Aang didn't literally mean that she's completely the same as Jet and he still allowed her to take Appa. He didn't try to stop her in the end and he understood her need to confront the guy. He just hoped that she wouldn't choose taking a life but he accepted that he had to let her make that choice for herself. I feel like regardless of what he said at first, if Aang genuinely thought she was being another Jet, he wouldn't have put so much of his faith and trust in her.

Aang wanted to protect Katara's morality and at the same time uphold his own values, Sokka was siding more with Aang because he is not as emotionally invested in it as Katara and is not supporting revenge (and also he probably, like Aang, was fearful that his sister was acting in a way that would end up traumatizing her in the end), Zuko has a more grey morality and sees nothing wrong with revenge. He also really just wanted to make Katara trust him at all cost even if it meant getting said revenge with her because of his own guilt/insecurities plaguing him. Zuko, especially at that time period had a need to make people like him and it bothered him that she just didn't.

[ssreeder]

I’ve just had the idea it would be hilarious if Sokka randomly asks about a bald spot on Zuko’s head. And he’s like yeah that’s where my helmet cut me when you tried to kill me with a boomerang. And things ensue from there.

I’ve probably read it in a fic before but the idea is just so funny to me with liab, I would rather die than hurt you, Sokka.

I also think it’s funny how liab Sokka jabbed Zuko off his own ship into freezing polar waters lol. (Canon events haha) It’s really weird to think back on how much they despised each other before becoming prison pals lol.

liab sokka would probably deny those events ever happened. Knocked zuko from where into what? On a ship together??? Nahhh never. Not his fire bender <3

thanks for the ask anon <3

[kstarlitchaotics]

Yeah sorry but if it weren't a kid show I think Katara would have killed Yon

[roseride01-blog]

Cargo

Appa knew that he was more than just transportation. 

He knew that he was a member of their family, the same as any human would be. 

Appa and Aang had an unbreakable bond, something he knew even before he was lost, but was solidified by the deep ache inside of the bison that had nothing to do with hunger. Appa missed Aang so much that it manifested into a physical form, and only abated on the shores of Lake Laogai, when Aang hugged him deep and Appa felt the boys tears as he whispered “I missed you, buddy.” 

Appa could not speak words that Aang could understand, nor could the bison cry to show how much he missed Aang, but Appa felt that Aang already knew.

Katara had always believed in Appa, even when sometimes the bison was unsure of himself. She encouraged him when he flew through Fire Nation blockades, desserts that stretch out endlessly, and when the Day of Black Sun came, she fought by his side, not as a master but as a comrade. 

Katara is the one who always kept a hand on him in caves, her touch comforting like winter’s first snowfall. 

Sokka, Appa had to earn his belief, and in a way, that's its own merit— Sokka believed when it was proven, and that meant that it was solid— Appa’s strength and abilities where solid, and Sokka saw that. Sokka had painstakingly designed sky bison armor, something that had never been done before, simply because he felt Appa deserved to be protected. 

It meant more to Appa than Sokka will ever know. 

Toph was different than the others, her measure of strength not coming from what she could see, but rather, what she could feel. In the desert, Appa understood the sheer amount of strength it took to hold up Wan Shi Tong’s library, while at the same time trying desperately to protect him in the sand. two monumental tasks that any earthbender but Toph would have almost no hope of achieving. In the end, despite everything he went through, Appa supported Toph’s choice, because it kept his family from being buried forever. 

Toph apologized in hushed whispers outside the Earth King’s palace, trying to hold tears back, but Appa felt he didn’t need forgive her for the choice she made, so he nuzzled against her and slept outside her window that night. 

Zuko was complicated in many ways, and Appa has seen him in many different complicated ways. An enemy, a reluctant ally, a friend, his family and as a savior. Appa wasn’t sure what it was that came over Zuko as his uncle pleaded with him under Lake Laogai, but when Zuko struck the chains off of him, Appa felt something deep inside the Fire Prince that would not be forgotten. Months later, when he came to train Aang, Appa knew he was destined to be his fire bending teacher, and to be apart of their family. 

When Zuko used his bending late at night to warm the chilly caverns of the Western Air Temple, breathing gentle flames into the air over the sleeping group, Appa didn’t rear back in fear, he huddled closer to Zuko’s warmth. 

They didn’t think of him as an animal, and he didn’t think of them as anything other than family. 

The five lives he carried on his back, the one who he was frozen for 100 years with, the one who comforts him with a touch, the one who was skeptical but truly thought he was magical, the one who fought for him despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, and the one who trusted him even as he was falling to his death, were the precious cargo that Appa carried.

He would protect them, no mater what. 

[autistic-katara]

scrolling the open atla tag nd stumbling across the weird takes i was not subjected to when scrolling only the zukka tag

[the-badger-mole]

Sorta Monthly Zutara Playlist: Anti-Kataang Edition

I Should Be...- Dru Hill

You're what I'm lookin' for. Our love can mean much more than what he's givin' you. But you must let him know that you can't take no more. Replace him with me

Water Runs Dry - Boyz II Men

Now, they can see the tears in our eyes, yeah. But we deny the pain that lies deep in our hearts. Well maybe that's a pain we can't hide. 'Cause everybody knows that we're both torn apart.

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

You got a fast car. I got a job that pays all our bills. You stay out drinking late at the bar. See more of your friends than you do of your kids. I'd always hoped for better. Thought maybe together you and me'd find it. I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere. Take your fast car and keep on driving

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Well, I've been afraid of changin', 'cause I've built my life around you. But time makes you bolder, even children get older. And I'm getting older too.

Just to See You Smile - Tim McGraw

When you said time was all you really needed, I walked away and let you have your space. 'Cause leavin' didn't hurt me near as badly as the tears I saw rollin' down your face. And yesterday I knew just what you wanted when you came walkin' up to me with him. So I told you that I was happy for you and given the chance, I'd lie again

[isnt-it-too-dreamy]

i really hate that in the end atla went with romantic aang/katara. i read that originally zuko was supposed to be katara's love interest and tbh i see it. i think that would have been so much better. katara was always alone in a way bc she was the emotional caretaker of the group and kind of in the mom role for aang, who always needs her to tone herself down and be stable for him--meanwhile in katara's encounters with zuko he always respects her emotions and gives her space to express them. their maturity level is more equal, they're both alone in a sense, damn their mothers even sacrificed themselves for the same reason, and them being "endgame" or whatever just would have been such good drama--i mean with how katara started out hating zuko's guts and how she struggled so much with learning to trust him (again). bc of their history it was sooo moving as well in the end when zuko threw himself in the way of azula's lightning attack so that it wouldn't hit katara, so i can only imagine how emotionally satisfying it would have been if they had stuck to their original plan for these two characters. ;_;

[hauntingblue]

The dialogue is bad I get it now....

[hopufull]

cr:chaiinsawmen

[gurinpotte]

pov: avatar aang has just misled you. pranked you. because he loves his wife too much

[queen-morgana91]

Omg a post about that episode where Aang is not treated as the "bad guy" for shipping reasons and other nonsense, finally

Aang wasn't forcing his beliefs onto Katara, he was just drawing his pov from his beliefs and personal experiences

"Katara needed the whole trip to find her own way. Aang should had been understanding of the needs of Katara."

He did