#aang stans

[atla-confessions]

@ that anon who namedropped me to send an anti Aang ask:I ain't reading past my name(ish) but i knew y'all were gonna send one because Aang antis are obsessed with him and us Aang stans.You could've at least gone after the me projecting Tytara onto me and my girlfriend one to say Ty Lee is too much of a bimbo for Katara or that Katara gives straight vibes🙄The obsession y'all have with sexualizing Aang and Katara goes crazy and i mean 'crazy' as in your asses should be in therapy

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[queen-morgana91]

Avatar the Last Airbender beautifully told the story of how imperialists lie and have to be called on it and yet somehow certain people missed that message and turned into fire nation apologists

[muguathepapaya]

It’s Master Katara

After one too many officials dismiss Katara, she gives a friendly reminder :]

[katy-89]

Nothing to say here....

[lefthandedbastard]

I've been assigning them modern styles

[wilcze-kudly]

One thing I don't get about the atla fandom is why so many people are so desperate to somehow prove Zuko was a good person from the begining of the show. Or that he was somehow innately better and kinder than any other fire national.

I've seen this point tossed around a lot and I can kinda see where its coming from but like.... guys. Yon Rha did that too. You know the guy who traumatised Katara for life and took her mother? He did it almost word for word.

He went on in there looking for a singular genocide survivor, found that survivor. The survivor gave themselves up after he promised to leave the village alone.

The only difference is that instead of killing Aang on the spot, Zuko took that 12 year old hostage with the goal of handing him over to the Fire Lord to be kept in conditions described as "You'll be kept alive. Barely" by Zhao.

Zuko's paralels to Yon Rha and his poor morals in the begining are crucial to his arc and to his and Katara's relationship.

Hell, you could even point out how similarly shaped the scarlet detailing on the Southern Raiders' helmets and Zuko's scar are.

[longing-for-rain]

[kidcaroline]

accusing kataang to be "hero gets the girl" (reducing katara to "the girl" ok) when actually "hero gets the girl" fits more....Zuko and Mai

accusing aang, the genocide survivor, to be rewarded by the narrative when the character who got totally forgiveness (way too fast from the gaang), the throne, iroh back, his mother back and a "new better sister" is....zuko, not aang

mind you, i love zuko and maiko, but certain people here should stop projecting their nonsense onto aang

[katerina-q]

Sorry but I can't take seriously Zuko/Zutara stans complaining about "Zuko the colonizer" posts when many of you are literally calling a 12 year old Aang ( a pacifist monk and a genocide survivor) rapist, incel, abuser, selfish and misogynist.

There is a whole anti aang tag here on tumblr of Zutara shippers saying the most horrible shit about him, all because your ship is not canon (yes that's the real and only reason)

You have no fucking right to talk.

[dragonfoxandfound]

Kataang shipper: Zuko wanted Katara to kill Yon Ra he even encouraged it

My brother/sister/nb-sib in christ, Zuko had the chance to kill Ozai his father who scarred and banished him, the man who all but ruined his entire life.

Zuko even tried to save Zhao, the man who tried to kill him multiple times.

What in the actual fuck are you talking about?

[garussy]

One thing I am SICK of is atla fans especially z*tara fans making Zuko the cool tough bad boy and Katara being the sweet innocent nerd

NO

Katara is the cool smart bad girl who probably knows how to ride a motorcycle and Aang is her cute pacifist boyfriend

[atla-confessions]

"People who say they are Aang stans and then..."

Damn right, the only person true Aang stans hate is the fucking guru

(lmao plz ask me why)

Why?

[queen-morgana91]

live zuko and aang reaction to the ass takes about them in atla fandom

[burst-of-iridescent]

i really hate it when people act as though zuko is being selfish or self-serving in some way when he tells aang in the finale that the only choice he has is to kill ozai because a) at this point, zuko is right and b) zuko's brutal honesty here is coming from a place of fear for both aang and the world.

are we all forgetting that unlearning his own idealization of his father and realizing that ozai never had been, and was never going to be, the person zuko thought he was, was a significant part of zuko's own arc? it took him sixteen years to understand that giving ozai any grace or understanding or forgiveness was a mistake, because it would be just another tool for ozai to manipulate him with. and that's not zuko's fault, because he was an abused child growing up in an incredibly damaging environment, but it does make sense that he doesn't want anyone else, especially aang, doing the same thing.

zuko is harsh on aang here because he sees in aang the person that he used to be - the innocent, naive kid who wanted so desperately to believe that ozai wasn't a monster, that there was any shred of humanity within him at all to be appealed to. it's not a coincidence in this show so rife with parallels that aang goes to face ozai at around the same age that zuko has his agni kai. and what did it get zuko, when he threw himself at his father's mercy and counted on ozai's non-existent humanity and compassion to save him?

zuko isn't coming down hard on aang because he's angry that "aang won't do his dirty work for him" or whatever other bullshit version of this argument i've seen zuko antis make - he HAS to impress upon aang how dire this situation is because he knows better than anyone that believing for even a second that ozai can be redeemed is incredibly dangerous. aang cannot give ozai an inch because it will only be used against him (and indeed, this does happen in the final battle when aang turns down the opportunity to redirect lightning at ozai and in return ozai presses his advantage to the point where aang would almost certainly have been killed if not for rock ex-machina).

furthermore, this idea that zuko wanted ozai dead for self-serving reasons doesn't really have much basis either, because if that was the case zuko could have just killed ozai himself during the solstice. he doesn't because at that point, he still had an alternative: aang (and you'll notice his word choices never explicitly refer to what ozai's fate will be; it's only "i'm going to help him defeat you" or "taking you down is the avatar's destiny"). as with many abused children, it's likely that zuko himself didn't really know if he wanted his father dead, but when it came down to the final battle without any other viable options presenting themselves, it was something he had to resign himself - and aang - to.

zuko himself does not lack faith in others (in fact, his whole journey is about understanding that his love for and belief in humanity is a strength, not a weakness) but he's learned the hard way that having this faith in the wrong people can result in devastating consequences, especially when the stakes are so high.

i imagine it terrified zuko to see the echoes of his younger self in aang, knowing he's sending him to face his father at the height of his power. at this point, with no knowledge of energybending or any alternative way to defeat ozai, well aware that a fight with his father can only end in bloodshed, zuko has no choice but to give aang the reality of the situation: kill, or be killed and doom the world alongside you.

[katy-89]

save me characters who are still hated and mischaracterized in 2024 for the sake of a fanon ship save meeeee

[melu-lis]

That isn’t the reason why the Katara keeping her scars headcanon exists at all. Sure, a lot of Zutara shippers like the idea of Zuko and Katara bonding over their scars, but it’s also because we want Aang to have more consequences for the mistakes he made and put more focus on Katara’s pain. After Aang burns Katara, there is more focus on Aang feeling bad about hurting Katara than there is for Katara being harmed due to Aang’s recklessness. Also, what’s with this generalization that every Zutara shipper hates Aang? There are definitely Zutarians who dislike and even hate Aang, but there also others (including myself) who like Aang but don’t find his romantic relationship with Katara compelling and believe he could’ve gotten better writing as a character.