#and she kind of put her life on Pause bc she believes she can't get anywhere with this curse. but its like gworl u put ur life on pause lon

[swordmaid]

thalia is so growing on me i love my rich woman who has Problems.. i gave her ice powers for like. the elsa vibes.

[woodlaflababab]

Listening to the song "If You Go Down (I'm Goin' Down Too)" and the general zukara vibes.

My favorite thing abt zukara is how gung ho they both are on violence and the way they support eachother in those endeavours. When they team up, somebody's ass gets kicked and I love them. 10/10 Power Couple.

Anyway, so listening to the song and it's fantastic and all about supporting your partner in crime.

However, there is one line that makes me laugh. I'm also a kataang shipper and very pro aang, but I'm still well aware of the part of the zutara fandom that's anti these things, so when the line "Hypothetically, if you ever kill your husband, hand on the bible I'll be lying through my teeth" came up, I immediately thought about zukara and a fun au came to mind based on the song

Some modern kinda dark au where Zuko or Katara are close friends and, like in the song, both end up having killed someone. They know about eachother's crimes, and continue to support eachother as they occasionally find other people they believe deserve to die.

(I can't see them as totally dark ToT I like to think most of the murders are misplaced righteousness, like the southern raiders would have been)

Anyway, Enter Aang, Katara's husband who's like, a cop or detective or smth. The kind of person where it'd be Real Fuckin Bad for him to find out, but he starts noticing things and gets closer and closer to sniffing them out. In this au, I like to think their marriage is kind of one of convenience. You know, childhood romance, everyone expects it of them, Aang's practically already adopted by Katara's family so the two of them are just like, sure, whatever, we'll get married for the benefits and whenever one of us falls in love, we can divorce. It just makes things easier.

Zuko has a repeated joke where he suggests Katara kill her husband. It's purely a joke bc of the cliche and he'll be like, "You need money? Kill your husband. Want people to give you free stuff? Kill your husband. Want a vacation? Kill your husband and collect life insurance."

However, Aang gets Too Close to finding them out and Katara promptly kills him. Not like, premeditated or angry, but just her finding herself in a corner and defaulting to murder jsbdjdndn

This scene comes to mind

Zuko looked down at the body, eyebrows raised. "Wow, I didn't think you'd actually do it."

A small grin graced him as Katara gave his shoulder a small shove. "Shut up, it's not like I had some ulterior motive. I just, well, I didn't have a whole lot of options. He was seconds away from putting two and two together."

Zuko put his arms up with a shrug. "I'm not judging."

"This was the kinder option. He'd be devastated if he found out." Katara continued to justify herself with a casualty in her tone.

Zuko nodded. "He can't be upset anymore."

"Exactly." Katara stamped the word into the air with a sense of finality. A few beats of silence passed as she stared at the corpse. "It's fine." She commented, not really directed at anything. "This is fine."

Zuko patted her shoulder in a tad awkward show of support. "It's fine." He confirmed for her.

Katara reached up to place her hand over Zuko's, their fingers lacing together over her shoulder.

"Hey," Zuko continued, "at least now you can collect life insurance."

Katara pressed her lips together to keep the small laugh from escaping.

"And it'll be so much easier if you uh, ever kill someone again. No sneaking around."

Rolling her eyes and bearing a smal grin, Katara pushed his hand off. "You're a bad influence."

An offended sound came from Zuko as Katara started moving to deal with the situation. "You're welcome, Katara, for dropping what I was doing to help hide your husband's body." He said dryly as he followed behind her to get supplies.

Their conversation fell away as they seperated to gather the familiar list of items, no communication needed between them.

When they came together to start cleaning, Katara paused for another long moment before commenting, "I'll miss him," a genuine sadness leaking into her tone.

"Yeah." Zuko dragged the word, tone unsure. "But uh, you don't have to divorce him now." The words hung in the air a moment before he continued, voice a little more questioning, "Saves you both a lot of work." He finished in attempted consolation.

Katara shook her head with a soft fond grin at Zuko's attempt. "Just help me move him."

"Okay." Zuko responded, visably relieved to be doing something easier than conversation.

Is it a little dark? Yeah, and they're both pretty ooc callous about it but I feel like they'd have to be to, you know, set a habit of murdering people. This is for comedy, not to be taken super seriously. I haven't done a voice study with them so idk exactly how they talk, just went off of what I remember, sorry if it's off.

I also like it for the idea of them stuck in such a cliche murder situation as they both now have to navigate investiagations. I feel like shenanigans would go down, some breaking and entering, Zuko and Katara answering questions at the same time but having opposite answers, that kind of thing.

"Oops, murdered my husband" au

[mooncleaver]

aot reiner rant // s4 spoilers

i have a very deep deep rooted sympathy and love for reiner braun. this man has been through a lot and it kinda baffles me.

i haven't completed the series but at first i didn't really pay attention to his character (sorry babe) bc idk my first thought was like um.. no this man enemy and i was salty but i started season 4 and i just had this reiner epiphany. imagine wanting to become an warrior so you and your family; mostly your parents can live together as honorary marleyans, only to find out your dad doesn't even want you. like that day of supposed victory and pride when he got chosen as a titan inheritor, but then his fucking dad didn't even want anything to do with him? like im sorry what?

and the reason he inherited the armored titan was bc of his extreme loyalty to marley and marcel making porco look bad to the military! like mind you they were literal children.. that must've crushed him lord. and then marcel fucking dies like i had to pause in that scene because witnessing death firsthand.. mm mm no. then he took it upon himself to convince annie and bertl to continue the mission. he was probably thinking about the disappointment he was going to face from his mother, military commandants, friends if they came back from the mission 'empty handed'. like I CANT he was called weak and had no worthy skill; that he only got the titan bc of his marleyan loyalty, aborting a mission that could change your life would have him DEVASTATED

and then his perception of the supposed enemy is super fucked! bc like why are these paradis people so kind and also suffering when it's been drilled into his mind that they're devils; selfish and pompous, and the reason why he and his family are suffering in marley. and oh yeah, bertl fucking dies and annie gets crystallized.

oh and gabi oh lawddd, i don't like (actually i hate) that she killed sasha, but i also feel bad for her. gabi and reiner situation.. mess mess mess. i think reiner sees a lot of himself in gabi, like in a way that she wants to prove herself as a worthy human being and as she should. the nation's hatred for eldians is something that can't really be.. helped? quickly i mean, i blame marley's prejudice over eldians for 99% of the character's decisions lmfao. he's like marcel in this situation, telling falco to not let gabi inherit the titan because that's what he believes is best for her. but also he can't even say that directly to his family and esp gabi herself. mrs braun lichrally got so triggered when reiner was talking about the people in paradis.

the image of warrior candidates (children) with literal guns will always haunt me bc WHAT

also i get that people are like 'reiner has plot armor' and i honestly feel so bad for him bc of that. im not wanting him to die, but he's continuously going through massive shit esp that he lived till s4. in a like isayama perspective/ if i was the author.. i kind would want to kill him BUT this is just thinking about like his unlikely circumstance (honestly im baffled at how this man has lived through getting STABBED through his NECK by sir levi ackerman). but also that would put an immense pressure on gabi to become a warrior, not saying there isn't already, but if reiner was gone they'd only have 1 person who's gonna carry that burden; god forbid if they have another child enrolling in the warrior program mess mess mess.

it was harrowing and heartbreaking to see the way he almost k*lled himself, and to watch him unmoving with no will to live in his titan form.. the pain i was in. none of these children were properly taught ways in dealing with grief and emotions,, it's just a cycle of death

ALSO HE LITERALLY BROKE DOWN IN THAT ONE SCENE WITH EREN i wanted to hug him SO MUCH OMDFJGB imagine seeing the one face that destroyed but also changed you?? his confliction between defending marley vs his personal emotions and relations he's built in the islands. i'd like to think his betrayal took as much of a toll on him as his friends (should i even call them that..) in paradis.

tldr; this man is TRAUMATIZED and that is why i care about him so much. i think he'd be a great character that has a lot of potential if there were no titan plots

also does marley not have therapists? like you have all that military, diplomacy, and technology.. where tf is sigmund freud?? creepy mf but we need therapists rn!! for every damn character in this show