#bato/kya/hakoda

[waterfire1848]

Villager: Look! Some idiot’s trying to prank the chief.

Bato to Kya: Oh, please tell me that’s not our idiot.

[purrincesskittens]

If Dragon Bato, Kya wasn't going to say no to the show of her husband decorated in pretty shinies. She gets to sit back and watch as a dragon fusses over her husband.

Dragon Kya, Bato snickers whenever Kya comes up and draps something new on her husband and helps make sure the kids don't mess with her hoard too much unless it's kid safe stuff in which case Kya likes her kids in the middle of it all

Both decorating Hakoda in their jewelry and fussing over him. Hakoda can't escape their attention.

[chiptrillino-art]

Hello! Wellcome to my sort of 2023 recap!

ID in ALT text shockingly i drew more zukos then sokkas this year.... which is weird to me personally? although... i did have a sudden 'i have no clue how to draw zuko?!?!?" moment this year. oh also..uh... i was wondering if i drew egnouth faces to make them 'turn around' and well...

kind of?

[hypnoticsphere]

i love polyamory

zuko, suki and sokka

kya, bato, and hakoda

azula, ty lee, and mai.

atla is just so poly-able

[poopiefart420]

After so long i finally finished smthn for the college au even if it’s just dumb stuff

[zuko-always-lies]

Historically Accurate Polyamory and ATLA?

One thing that's inexplicably on my mind right now is that East Asian royal families were generally historically polygamous, so if you wanted to have Azula or Zuko or King Kuei or some other Fire Nation or Earth Kingdom royal or noble take multiple partners, that would actually be reasonably historically accurate. It seems like the Fire Nation royalty has avoided polygamy in recent decades (or you would expect the royal family to be much, much bigger), but isn't the point at the end of the series that they are supposed to return to old ways?

Interestingly, some of this applies to the Water Tribes as well. Although I don't know nearly as much about this subject as I know about East Asian royalty and I don't want to say anything too confidentially, I know some Inuit groups sometimes practiced polygamy. I also know that some groups sometimes practiced "spouse exchanges" where two couples would temporarily exchange spouses in order to create fictive kinship between them. Although the SWT is not identical to historical Inuit groups and the NWT in particular seems very, very different with it's city and state, I think you could definitely justify polyamory being in the tradition of both Water Tribes.

While the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Water Tribes might have traditions of polygyny (where one man marries multiple women), the Air Nomads might have a very different traditions. They are inspired at least in part by Tibetan Buddhism, and Tibet has it's own traditions of plural marriage. Historically, the most common type was fraternal polyandry, in which two or more brothers would take the same wife. However, apparently polygyny, conjoint marriages, and of course monogamous marriages were also historically acceptable in Tibetan society. Of course, there were specific economic reasons why fraternal polyandry made sense in Tibet, which might not apply to the Air Nomads and we really don't get a sense of how their marriages and family life might look like, but it's another reminder not to force their culture into "Western marriage norms, circa 2007."

With all the various forms of plural marriage that would theoretically be culturally appropriate, I think you can culturally justify just about any form of polyamory you are interested in writing.

[sockfus]

bato/hakoda/kya poly idea where they don't know who katara and sokkas biological dad is because sokka and katara resemble kya more than anything. they only realise bato is kataras when she ends up an actual beanstalk

[fireflaked]

@waterfire1848 and @muffinlance got me hooked on tall kya agenda

[stardust948]

Frenemies Memes

[waterfire1848]

[ Kya, Hakoda, and Bato hanging out. ]

Hakoda: If you had to pick one of us to date, who would it be?

Bato: I don’t know.

Hakoda: Me neither.

Kya: Both of you.

Hakoda and Bato: What?

Kya: I don’t know.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Avatar:The Last Airbender,show of extremely bad and liberal messages such as 'Genocide and imperialism is the ultimate evil','being gendernonforming is good and empowering and dosen't make you unattractive or lame','women are just as good as men and don't have to conform to be a specific type of femininity or behavior to be considered female','all cultures of color are valid and deserve to be preserved after being oppressed' and 'kids are people'

[chaotic-tired-bastard]

okay I am Having Thoughts. Can you believe that Hakoda was probably just so scared when Bato got hurt because he didn't want what happened to Kya to happen to him? Because Kya probably died due to fire-related injuries, bcs Firebenders and Yon Ra was a Firebender and yeah.

Gods imagine how horrified he was when he turned around and saw Bato wreathed in flames, thinking that he's going to not only have see not just one but both of his lovers die at the hands of a Firebender. And he probably felt so, so guilty because he wasn't there for Kya when she needed him and then he wasn't there for Bato when he needed him. And he probably hauled Bato to the abbey hoping, praying that he'd live, that maybe he would be able to save him unlike how he couldn't save Kya. And every time he'd get a letter from Bato or something while he's on the mend he's so, so relieved because that's proof that he's still alive, and that Hakoda had managed to prevent this one shard of his heart from shattering.

And maybe just MAYBE he feels guilty because he thinks it's his fault, if only he was faster, more alert, stronger, whatever, he could have saved them. Kept Bato safe and unscarred. Saved Kya and made it so his children didn't have to grow up without a mother.

[mugentakeda]

its not right to me whenever bakoda only happens After kya dies in fics. All three of them were freaky frotters.

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

art dump?? this is all from today lmao

also i did promise azutara so

fem zuko hating on azutara

and live Action redraws

i really REALLY like the headcanon of hakoda being shorter then his Partners so

also the First time drawing ANY of them lmao

i was about to draw mai but like next time

[witchering10123]

is this ooc for kya and hakoda? yes but HEAR ME OUT neglected sokka

sokka seeing katara waterbend for the first time. sokka dragging katara back into their igloo like "mum! dad! look at this look at this!!!" and being so excited because his little sister is a waterbender, that's so cool, and his parents are making a really big deal about it and hurrying katara out to see the elders and sokkas falling a little bit behind but that's ok, because katara's a waterbender and they need to tell the elders

and so they host this celebration - nothing big because they may still get traders but they don't want this to go out to the fire nation - and hakoda and kya are doting over katara and making sure she's had enough to eat and everything and sokka... feels a little weird. he knows its kataras special day but he just feels a little lonely, but when he goes up to his parents they tell him they're busy, so he tells himself that he'll talk to them tomorrow.

but then the next day, his dad is in meetings all day - that are about katara, he gleans from gilak and bato, who look a little confused as to why sokka's alone - and when he goes to find his mum, she's with katara and she's watching her shakily try to bend on command, instead of by accident. so he goes up to her to say hi but she tells him that she's busy and not to distract her. sokka frowns because it doesn't look like she's doing anything and can't he say hi? but then katara loses concentration to say hi to sokka, and though his mum smiles at katara, she doesn't spare another glance at sokka.

which. is fine. he thinks. obviously life is different now that his little sister is a waterbender and he had sooo many adults tell him as such when their village celebrated it, so... it's fine. maybe it's just because his parents look a little worried, he thinks, as they sit down to eat before bed. they do look worried.

and then katara says that she's tired, and his parents wish her good night and their mum goes to tell her a bedtime story and it's exactly as it should be. except that sokkas still eating and they usually wait til both of them are in their cots before the story happens. so he tells her to wait while he quickly shovels his food into his mouth, and he thinks it's fine but then once he's eaten and moving towards his cot, he hears the end of the story

he pouts, saying that he wanted to hear it too, but his mum tells him not now, sokka. she sounds tired. he doesn't care, he wanted to hear it too. she sounds a little angry when she tells him to be quiet, because kataras sleeping, but he doesn't care, he wanted to hear the story and why didn't she wait? it's his dad that scolds him this time, telling him that katara needs her rest. sokka goes to say that he was only a few extra minutes, but he's shut down. his parents tell him that they won't be speaking to him when he's being so rude, and sokka doesn't understand but hes too tired so he cries in his cot before falling asleep.

the next morning, his dad isn't there and neither are katara and his mum. and he learns. he learns through his parents ignoring him when he asks a question and scolding him when he wants something that he's selfish. what else could he be, trying to put himself above his sister, who could be targeted by the fire nation (which he didn't originally know, he finds that out when his dad yells at him one day and, oh ok maybe he is being a bit selfish) and katara needs her parents more anyway because shes the only waterbender, she needs guidance in connecting to her culture and her history. he wonders whether it's technically his history too, but he doesn't ask. he stopped asking a while ago, stopped talking a while ago.

he thinks he hates katara a little. bato tilts his head and asks him why, when he tentatively tells him after the man prods and prods because "I haven't heard you speak for ages kid, you ok?", and sokka doesn't have an answer for him because he doesn't know why he hates katara but he doesn't want to hate her, it's just that his parents like her more cause she's a waterbender. bato tells him thats silly, of course his parents like him, and he ducks his head and mumbles an apology and doesn't notice the way bato frowns and glances over to gilak, who sports an equally worried frown.

the next day his dad takes him fishing. he's so excited but he's nervous too, he doesn't want to upset his dad and his dad is already looking at him weirdly that morning so he answers the questions his dad awkwardly pushes towards him and doesn't ask for help even when he can't get the bait on his hook, and eventually his dad takes the rod from him and does it for him, and he apologises but his dad looks at him weirdly again and so he doesn't speak again on the trip. but... it's nice. his dad claps him on the back everytime he catches a fish and he proudly displays his three fish to him at the end and gets a laugh for his efforts. so. it's nice.

the following week, there's a raid on their tribe. sokka runs towards their igloo, having lost katara in all the chaos. he pulls to a stop by the entrance, hearing his mum talking to some guy about the waterbender and... what is she doing?

he freezes. the man stomps out of their home, sees sokka and throws him aside. sokka doesn't feel the bruises til the next day, and when he does he doesn't care.

there's no point. he's got to take care of katara. that's his job now