#cloudbabies

[leantailean]

The spring sun

Katara🩵

[mintjuliee]

Please draw more kataang they're so cute! 🥰

You draw them so well, I love it <333

Let's fast forward a bit from that last sketch...

[thinky-think-brainblast]

Am I the only one that really, really , really, HATES how mixed kids are portrayed in LOK.

Like why is their so much waisted potential, and it makes me so mad because I would really love to see one person embrace both of their parents nations therefore, by inheritance, ALSO THEIR OWN NATIONS. Like don’t just embrace the nation were their bending comes from or the nation of which they look like the most. *cough cough* Mako and Bolin.

Like we all know this is about Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin,

And like I know that Aang was the last of his people so it only made sense for Tenzin to take on more of his air nomad or air nation side, and I know it could be the parents fault that children don’t embrace both cultures, and I could get into the whole argument of *why didn’t Aang teach Kya and Bumi* and all of that, but one you have already heard that like a billion times, and two yes Aang SHOULD have helped them embrace their air nomad side more after all they are part of the few people who still carry air nation genes. And lets leave Aang bieng a better father at that (which by the way am still very mad that they wrote him like that.)

Let’s get back to the kids becuase it is the little things they could have done and didn’t do, as an example why did Tenzin not give Pema a bethroval necklace, like in my mind he did and Pema wears it but we can’t see it cause her robes hide it OR why didn’t we see Tenzin wear a Parka (I know airbenders don’t get cold just hear me out) when he was in the South Pole just because its his culture and he can embrace it down there. Or why doesn’t Kya carry around the necklace that Yang Chen, Gyatso, and Aang have, correct me if am wrong but I believe that they are used by air nomads to meditate, and she enjoys meditation even taught some of the knew air nation. I imagine she wouldn’t wear it around her neck but have it wrapped around her wrist or wear it on her hip like if it was hanging from a utility belt and then when she meditates she would USE IT. Imagine it is the necklace Aang used to wear so it would become parallel to katara wearing her moms necklace. And this are small details because I know Tenzin is the last airbender for a while and Kya is one of the few waterbenders who originally come from the southern water tribe, so they wouldn’t be able to embrace both their cultures so much. But lets talk about the other one… BUMI, in my mind he doesn’t only dress in water tribe clothes but his outfits are the perfect mix between both his cultures, he is a non-bender he doesn’t owe anyone anything, but the writers are cowards. And for me thats the bare minimum anyway, if it were really up to ME THEY WOULD ALL EMBRACE THEIR CULTURES.

Then again there is also the issue that whatever traditions or customs Tenzin does or practices will probably be copied or passed down to the air acolytes and the new air nation. We see this in LOK in one aspect, the nuclear family’s, Tenzin was raised by Aang and Katara in a reasonably big family ,water tribe style, this is something him himself carried on to do. This is not the traditional way to raise or procreate as airnomads, but it would have also been very hard to to due to there only being one airbender. Air nomads get raised in air temples with several other people they aren’t or don’t know if they are related too. So Aang and Tenzin did have to have a nuclear family, but the way Tenzin family is is very much representing of how he was raised. In the water tribes I ca imagine is more common to have big family’s and a little detail that is a clea water tribe family aspect I noticed in LOK is when Tenzin and Pema are sleeping in bed and we see Meelo right in the middle also sleeping until he answers the phone. I imagine this is something Tenzin learned from his own childhood, to have little kids sleep between both their parents while they are still toddlers or very young children, we can’t be sure but it will probably happen that this would be seen in Meelo, Jinora, Ikki, and Rohan, when they are older in their own families, if they have kids. Either way when we think about the air nation having a mixed of aspects of the water tribe culture we can’t ignore the fact that the new air nation will most likely also bring Earth Nation traditions into the air nomad culture, I mean Opal isn’t going to completely leave the traditions she was raised in and she is still pretty young imagine an older person having to cut off the traditions they have known all their lives. So at the end how much effort does Tenzin need to put into keeping air nomad culture as alive as it can when the changes that are going to happen to it are so clearly going to continue. I mean am sure Aang knew for a fact that air nomad culture was never going to be the same again. It wouldn’t make a difference in the world if the culture wasn’t the exact same, it would be a great loss in history and extremely saddening for a entire culture that was so different to others be changed(one of the reasons I don’t want to read Yangchens books is to not see how much of this culture was really lost), but it is not crucial to the balance of the world. What was crucial was for their to be airbenders, how this people go on about bieng airbenders doesn’t really matter to the safety of the world.

So yeah I got a bit side tracked, cause airbender culture is a whole other topic

[nyamadermont]

kataang “You look adorable in that.”

(fumbled the specific wording, but I hope you'll forgive me)

Katara scrunched her shoulders, clenched her arms, and rubbed her face.

A lovely nap for a quiet afternoon. I wonder how I got away with it.

She curled up into herself for just a moment longer before twisting her body and rolling off the bed that she still couldn’t quite believe she had been sleeping on for most of fifteen years.

If Aang says one more thing about my back, I’ll pull out my pelts and he can sleep alone.

She scoffed to herself and shook her head. They were parted too frequently as it was. There’s no way she’d send him away.

Opening the shutters over the garden answered her primary question.

Down below in the garden, Aang held little Tenzin in his lap while Kya played her pipa beside him, and Bumi danced with his pipes.

Sokka would love to draw this. His art has gotten so much better over the years.

A wave of her hand brought enough water spilling over the windowsill to lower her gently to the garden. The children were oblivious, of course, but she saw the moment that Aang noticed her descending on her impromptu waterfall.

The smile on his face was so gentle and goofy that she had to return it.

“I want to thank everyone for playing so nicely this afternoon. I had a lovely nap.”

At the sound of her voice, Tenzin startled in his father’s lap and jumped up to run to his mother. Bumi and Kya stopped playing just long enough to switch tunes, and suddenly, everyone was dancing to Secret Tunnel.

Bumi reached over and took Tenzin’s hands, spinning him around to their matched cackles while Kya kept playing and singing.

Katara looked up, and Aang was right there in front of her, tall and handsome, with eyes only for her.

His kiss had a whole other playtime in mind, and she melted against him.

Behind him, Kya stopped playing, and Katara heard the pipa get laid down on the grass.

“Daddy! You promised!”

His forehead dropped against hers, but she could feel the chuckle inside his chest.

“You’re right, my little waterspout.”

He gave Katara a quick peck and stepped back, twisting and folding himself down to be eye-level with his little girl.

Kya looked up at him, and raised her hands to be picked up. Aang pulled her in close, and stood to turn to face Katara.

Her heart melted at the sight of matching flower crowns on two of her favorite people.

And then it melted again as Bumi struggled to carry Tenzin closer, both wearing crowns of their own.

Katara knelt in front of her children, wrapping them all close to her chest. She looked up at her beloved husband, and assured them all.

“You look adorable.”

[corpsedisturbed]

kataang's kids really were going THROUGH it 😭😭😭 tenzin getting fucked since season 1 and after kya and bumi showed up they never disappointed (were always in some life threatening situation)

[mako-enthusiast]

I cannot describe the love I have for the cloud babies/ Kataang kids. They need a KUWTK style reality show for all I care.

[greyfongschemmenti]

Onto Season 2 of legend of Korra and it just doesn’t make sense or doesn’t sit right with me.

You’re telling me that of all the years Tenzin has been alive that no one told the Southern Air Temple that Aang had 2 other kids besides Tenzin? The fact that they are older than him is even worse.

Imagine being in your 50s and just now learning that people didn’t know you existed. It’s an ugly feeling.

It kind of put more truth into when Kya and Bumi would say that Tenzin’s memory is foggy because they weren’t in those trips. It’s sad that Aang wouldn’t share his culture with all of his kids.

It doesn’t make sense with the Aang we know. He was willing to share his culture to everyone. So to not do that with all 3 of his half air nomads kids. It doesn’t sit well with my spirit. It’s not the Aang I used to know.

[kataangiscanon]

Bumi talks about his Dad,Aang. My baby Aang was a Good Daddy.

[starssssss]

Rewatching Korra w/ my brothers is causing me major heart damage so I do Little Miss Sunshine redraws now

[archerygun]

Sometimes, I get a bit weird. A bit funky. Frankly I lose all sanity. And the only way to cure that is by drawing whatever godforsaken terrible cursed idea has implanted itself in my brain and begun haunting me.

So I present yet another instance of this happening (probably a year old by now) for your enjoyment. Some of these designs I like more than others tbh but that’s a problem for future me if I ever decide to redraw them and repeat this mistake.

If you remember this show, sorry?

[flameohotwife]

potential prompt idea: kataang star-gazing in the South Pole 😌

A short drabble for you, my friend! Also on ao3:

Peace in the Starlight

“It’s so quiet out here tonight,” Katara whispered, leaning against Aang for warmth. The absence of the wind was almost unnerving, especially with her husband around. She snuggled in closer and Aang rubbed his hands up and down her arms as they leaned back against the snow of their hut in the Southern Water Tribe.

Aang hummed in agreement. “It is quiet, but maybe it feels extra quiet to us because it’s been such a loud day and this is the first bit of peace we’ve felt in hours.”

Katara chuckled. Loud was an understatement. They’d spent much of the day flying on Appa, and had made the terrible discovery that Kya was getting her two-year molars and that she experienced motion-sickness on long flights. Kya had flown on Appa many times before in her young life without issue, but only for an hour or two at once. Unfortunately, this trip from Air Temple Island to the South Pole was much, much longer than that. 

Kya wailed the entire day. Not quite two yet, it was all just too much for her little body to process. Katara could tell Aang felt terrible, but there wasn’t much they could do. They needed to get South for her father’s retirement celebration, and both of them had been caught up in Republic City for too long to take a ship. Not that a ship would have necessarily been better, Katara thought.

Poor Bumi had tried to cheer her up to no avail, before deciding to spend his time reading or hanging over the edge of the saddle to talk with Aang on Appa’s head. But even he got sick of the noise after a while and, like most nine-year-olds, began to complain himself.

“How much longer?” he’d whined, pressing his hands against his ears in attempt to block out the auditory assault. 

“Still a couple more hours, Boom. I’m sorry,” Aang said. 

“UGH!” Bumi yelled at the sky. Those last couple hours had been filled with Kya’s screams, sickness, and Bumi’s near-constant grumbling, while Momo chittered nervously about their shoulders. 

Now, though, it was quiet. So quiet that their ears were almost ringing with it. They’d arrived in time for dinner, which Kya obviously refused to eat. Aang took her and gave her a soothing bath and put her down for bed while Katara and Bumi caught up with Hakoda, Sokka, Gran Gran and Pakku. Much later, once everyone was finally in bed, Aang and Katara escaped to recuperate and decompress. Together. 

They sat in that silence for a while, relishing it.

“The stars are beautiful, though,” Katara said eventually. They always seemed brighter in the South Pole than in Republic City, but they were particularly spectacular tonight. The universe seemed to twinkle in chorus above them, soothing her frazzled nerves. 

She felt Aang’s head tilt down towards her, and she angled her neck to peer back up at him. She grinned, already knowing what he was going to say. 

“Not as beautiful as you,” he said, leaning down even more to press a soft, sweet kiss to her lips. She sighed through her nose, losing herself in the comfort of him.

“You’re so cheesy,” she teased when he eventually pulled back, but her wide smile gave her away.

“Yeah, but you love me,” Aang said, cocking his head and donning a smirk of his own.

“Mmmmmm, that I do,” Katara breathed, lips so close to his she could feel the warm clouds of breath that escaped. “I love you, too, Sweetie,” Aang replied. Then he closed the miniscule distance between them to capture her in another kiss, erasing the hardships and exhaustion of the day. Maybe the stars weren’t brighter here. Maybe it was just the love she felt in this moment that made everything around her sparkle just a bit more. Whatever it was, she wanted to hold on tight and never let go.

[tachiha3]

As someone with a same similar age gap (eight years), does someone have any cute bro fics with bumi and tenzin??

[bedtimehour]

cloudbabies

[emily-rose34]

A box full of Leo #cloudbabies #catstagram #ragdollcat (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5RGBVo1rA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rms10]

Agree with all the above, and have one additional thought that seems to get overlooked. Bumi appears to be almost a decade older than Tenzin, and presumbably left home at 16, the age of majority in the ATLA world. So, Tenzin is most likely 6 or 7 when Bumi heads off to find his own way in the United Forces. All the vacations Tenzin remembers would be ones where his big brother is out in the world living his own life. Obviously, Kya splits the difference in there somewhere, but the same issues appear to be true of her.

Beyond that, Tenzin works for 20 years of his adult life alongside Aang, so of course they spent more overall time together. Meanwhile, both Bumi and Kya are out in the world. It seems like Aang was happy to have a child work alongside him, and equally happy to allow children to go carve their own niche out in the world.

My personal HC is that Aang always understood in some avatar-way that the universe would fix things somehow. While he wouldn't have expected Harmonic Convergence, he also wouldn't have been surprised by it. I do suspect Katara felt internal pressure at times because she really wanted to give him an airbending child, but it's all of her love for him and his culture, and the fact he'd never ask it of her would make her want it all the more for him.

The presentation of the three siblings throughout S2-4 of LoK actually did a reasonably job of showing that they had fairly normal, imperfect relationships of a healthy family, so I'm always a bit perplexed why people take one interaction and go off the rails with it. The story also clearly shows that all three were versed in the basics of Air Nomad traditions and lore, while Tenzin (a Master in his 50's) knew details by rote. That doesn't mean the other two didn't learn the basics though! One is in his lifetime professional specialty, so of course he's more versed and knows the fine details the other two don't!

I really do hate the idea that Aang was having kids JUST to repopulate the air nomads. The idea that Tenzin was a third time’s the charm situation, that Aang kept “trying” for an airbender and was disappointed with Kya and Bumi

I honest to god think Aang was not thinking “I hope this kid’s an airbender!” Each time. I don’t think the thought would even cross his mind until someone else suggested it. He’d be typed up thinking about how he’ll balance his new child in his life, Katara’s health, how to even be a father having no parents himself. All of those take priority in his mind

I honestly think Aang would be super appalled by the suggestion that “repopulating” was his goal with his family. What it says how about he thinks of his wife.

If anyone is going to have the thought “I hope it’s an airbender” I’d bet it was Katara. It’s still not why. But she knows and loves Aang and has seen how hard he’s struggled without the airbenders, how lonely he’s gotten, I could see Katara having the thought “For Aang’s sake I hope you’re an airbender” before Aang ever thinks “I hope you’re an airbender”

I don’t know man. This idea is just so gross to me, and I hate how it’s thrown around by the fans like it must be the case, with no room for questions, why ELSE would Aang be having kids?

Rubs me the wrong way. Really does

[corpsedisturbed]

cloudbabies i love you soooo much