#firelady katara

[lolabearwrites]

[stardust948]

The fire nation citizens(the normal every day citizens who are tired of Ozais bullshit) when they find out Katara the one that brough their prince back to life! Who was the painted lady(meaning she's sympathetic to regular fire nation citizens!) Is going to marry their fire lord.

Fire Nation citizens: we want her! we love her. We vote for her as queen!

Katara is the queen of the people

[gerstein03]

Noble: I thought we agreed she couldn't present her trade proposal!

Zuko: would you like to be the one to explain that to her?

Katara: *narrows eyes*

Noble: *promptly pisses himself* you know come to think of it, that's a really archaic outlook I don't see why Fire Lady Katara can't participate

Katara: well I appreciate your support, in this and in my proposal?

Noble: *nods vigorously*

Katara: *looks at Zuko* 😏

Zuko: *looks at Katara* 😍

Nobles on Zuko's council telling Katara that the Fire Lady doesn't actually have any political power vs Zuko who will do whatever his wife tells him to do.

[zuko-always-lies]

Yeah, I know the last few are a bit far out, but I had to include them for the sake of completeness.

Note that I did not say who the Firelord is in this scenario...

Please put your reasons for voting as you did in the tags!

[yenleak]

Katara ends the whole fire nation

[longing-for-rain]

ATLA Discourse Simulator: 2024 Revival Edition

🌊 katara-stan Follow

It’s sad to me how Katara was forced to take on so many responsibilities from a young age. I relate to it as an eldest daughter with trauma in my childhood.

👺 404-literacy-not-found Follow

How DARE you parentify Katara! She’s just a silly little 14 year old not mom friend!!!

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🌙 zutara-fan Follow

I like Zutara

🚓 avatar-fandom-police Follow

You’re not allowed to do this as it is personally offensive to me, a balding middle-aged man. Your femcel fantasies are pathetic and no man will ever want you. By the way I’m gay so I’m not sexist.

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🍼 aang-lover Follow

How DARE anyone criticize my perfect little angel boy, he never did anything wrong! Touching girls without their consent is just a SMALL MISTAKE and I’m sure his implied apology was really good!

🙏undercover-tradwife Follow

SO TRUE it’s so sad how many women want to ruin an innocent boy’s whole life over nothing 😢

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▪️zvtara-was-never-canon Follow

Zutara fans are such bitter harpies who self-project their desire to have a fulfilling relationship with a partner who respects them! It’s such a boring relationship anyway. I don’t care about it at all, which is why I made a whole blog dedicated to bashing it.

⛓️ basement-dwelling-pedo Follow

So true kitten! You put those stupid cunts in their place! By the way, when is the next chapter of your bdsm incest rape fetish fanfic updating? I’m getting thirsty 😩

▪️ zvtara-was-never-canon Follow

Don’t worry Daddy, I’ll service you soon. I can’t believe how horribly Zutara shippers characterize Aang. They should be more like me, and write Zuko as a pervert who rapes his sister instead. Please tell me how special and talented I am again, please please Daddy I need it!

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🔥 firelady-mai Follow

I love Zuko’s redemption arc so much! What a beautifully written story about breaking the cycle of abuse!

🌊 zutara-lover Follow

I really like Zuko too! I always admired his character 😊

🔥 firelady-mai Follow

Fuck you, I take it all back. Zuko is an evil racist toxic abuser. How dare you suggest he taint Katara’s purity with his colonizer genes?

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[swamiiyasssss]

Firelord Zuko, looking at wild turtleducks minding their business on a ambassadorial trip to the Earth Kingdom: I want one.

Firelady Katara, mother of seventy ‘one’s back home: No???

[lolabearwrites]

just some Momtara <3

[brightboisterousbananas]

It's been a while! But I'm back!

Zutara forever! I WROTE THIS BECAUSE I'M IN LOVE WITH ZUTARA ALL OVER AGAIN!

Painting by me!

Fanfiction title: Embers of Intimacy Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender Ship: Zutara Rating: E (See tags on AO3)

Summary: The playful and steamy wedding night of the Firelord and Firelady. Katara and Zuko discover a way to shed nerves and arrive at confidence and intimacy—through wrestling, what else?

Link: Embers of Intimacy

Please reblog instead of repost, thank you!

[threalcrabbysamantha]

The Arrangement

Chapter 5

Excerpt -

“As Firelady, you will be watched constantly. Inside and outside of the palace. By politicians, by gossips, by them - “ She grabbed Katara by the forearm and dragged her to the window, gesturing down at the square in front of the palace. A group of twenty or so had gathered there, kept out of the palace by a line of five guards. Looking closer, Katara realized the entire group was composed of young women, most about her age, though some who appeared as young as fifteen; even from a distance, anxious energy vibrated off of them in waves as they chatted amongst themselves, glancing at the palace doors every so often, waiting for something. 

“Who are they?” asked Katara. Manami let go of her arm. 

“Your Firelord’s fangirls,” she explained, obvious judgment in her tone. 

Katara blinked at her. “What?”

“They’re in love with him, come gather here every morning hoping to get a glimpse of him.”

A fit of giggles overtook Katara immediately at the thought, and she turned away from Manami, bending over and clutching her stomach as the giggles transformed into a full belly laugh. In her mind’s eye, all she could see was Zuko, sixteen and pouring undrinkable tea and embarrassing himself with his terrible jokes. How was it that boy could have all these girls vying for his affection?

—

Read more here!

[sokkastyles]

Every time an anti bitches about a zutara trope it immediately becomes part of my headcanon. Zutara cheating? Firelady Katara? Sexy bloodbending? Katara kept her scars? Yep, they're mine now.

[queen-morgana91]

"Firelady Katara" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

"Mai is a toxic girlfriend, Zuko deserves better" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

"Katara is an incubator and Aang's trophy wife" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[bookdragonideas]

Toph should have been homeless.

A lone wanderer traveling across the Earth Kingdom. She would have taught metalbending to anyone who wished to learn. Beating up bullies and helping small towns recover and rebuild. Occasionally blackmailing one of the MANY world leaders who owe her into letting her crash at their place and eat all their food.

As she gets older she gets wiser. Becoming the Uncle Iroh to the younger generations. She's never as gentle as he was, but she remembers him fondly and never hesitates to dispense some cryptic wisdom on some hot-headed kid.

As years pass she stops wandering quite so far. Instead she stays for long months in the Fire nation or on Kyoshi Island. Occasionally she drops in on that new town/nation that Zuko and Aang are building. But she never stays for long.

She never marries. Never has kids. The rest of the Gaangs kids refer to her as Auntie Toph, and she loves them. But she decided long ago that she didn't want to be a mother.

She's there when Aang dies, holds Katara like Katara has always held her. Whispers to her that twinkle toes isn't gone. Not forever. He'll be back. He's the avatar after all.

She's there when Suki dies. Unable to save her in the heat of battle, unable to heal her afterwards. Sokka takes a few months to join her on her travels. She protects him, even as he fights with a recklessness that scares her. Suki would want him to survive.

Sokka calms down, goes home to his sister and his people and the white lotus. Toph keeps traveling.

She hears of her parents death. She spends the next week helping a lost child find his parents. And she visits the Boulder on her next trip through town. He much to old to be fighting her, but they rematch on the ring anyways. He mocks her the same way he always does and never says a word about her parents.

She gives him her parents wealth, he runs an animal shelter now and could use the funds.

She isn't there when Mai dies. Far on the eastern edge of the Earth Kingdom when the news of the Fireladies death reaches her. She takes Zuko on fieldtrip when she gets back to the Fire Nation. He owed her anyways.

They find Dragons.

The new Avatar emerges. A hot-headed young girl from the Southern Water Tribe.

She nothing like Twinkle Toes.

She's so much like Aang it hurts.

Katara is getting old. She hides it well but she's slower now. Not quite as fierce. Calming down as the years slip by.

Sokka dies and it rips Toph apart. He was her big brother. He died to save the world. She spends a few months with the sand benders. Spends a few more months deep in a swamp where occasionally she can still hear his voice. Once she hears Aang, sounding as young as the day they met.

Katare is so quiet now. She teaches the young avatar to heal. But not to fight. Saying that honor belongs to a younger teacher.

Honor make Toph think of Zuko.

She's there when he steps down and gives the throne to his daughter. It's a lovely ceremony. Afterwards they go on another fieldtrip. They find sky bison. Living wild and free in small island chains far from the mainland. Toph tells Katara who tells her children. And Airbenders fly with Sky Bison once more.

Katara passes peacefully in her sleep. Toph cries.

She goes on fieldtrips with Zuko every year now. Sometimes they find things. Sometimes they fight people. Sometimes they visit places that echo with memories.

The war was a horrible thing. Toph knows this. But a small dark shard of her heart is eternally grateful for Sozins greed. Without it she would never have known her friends.

The house on Ember Island lays in ruins now. The house Zukos family uses nowadays is smaller, more inconspicuous, a friendly little cottage.

They stay at the old house. Laughing when they find the rooms burned from when Zuko chased Aang. There's a small spot outside where the earthbent remains of Melon Lord stands. Toph can still remember Sokka's voice planning, Suki's light footsteps. Katara's fierce fighting and Aang hesitating before the final blow.

Zuko can't.

Zuko forgets more and more. Until the only thing they do on fieldtrips is go places. To remember. He asks where Uncle Iroh is. Thinks Mai is with them. Doesn't remember that his daughter is the Firelord now, not him.

A new threat arises. Zuko dies defending his nation and family. The world's mourns Firelord Zuko the great peace bringer. Toph mourns Zuko the awkward friend.

The new avatar dies. And Toph realizes that she doesn't know her own age.

The world is different now. There's so many new inventions. Toph thinks that Sokka would have loved to see this modern age.

A celebration for a hundred years of peace helps her remember her age for a few years.

Theres a new New avatar. A young boy from the sandbenders. His voice reminds her of Aang when she teaches him metalbending.

The next she hears of him is his marriage to some fire bending girl.

She spends time in the swamp, helps the swamp benders fight against those who would destroy the land. She gives council to the Sandbenders, as they seek independence from the rest of the Earth Kingdom.

She visits the house on Ember Island. It's part of a protected forest now.

She nearly kills a man on Kyoshi Island. He was telling a story of the end of the hundred year war. But he got it all wrong.

The four nations are no more. There are more than ten nations now. The Water Tribes split long ago. Three distinct Air Temples operate separately and with different principles and beliefs. The Republic continues to grow. The Sandbenders and Swampbenders are still sorting thing out, but they'll both be independent soon.

The two hundredth year of peace bring war. As tensions break and new weapons are being used. Bending is no longer the most powerful weapon out there.

The two hundredth year of peace bring war. But Toph is not there to see it.

Three years earlier she sits in a cave. She had spent the summer teaching some kids metalbending, and even just basic Earthbending.

It had been... nice.

But she's so tired now. She sits in the cave. There are no other people for miles around. But she's not alone. The memories of her friends, her family, weigh on her shoulders and echo in her her ears.

As she sits in the darkness she hears a sound. A quiet shuffling and then a loud crash! As walls are reshaped and her oldest friends find her.

Badgermoles live for centuries. And these Badgermoles remember her. They remember a small, scared little girl who was just like them.

In the darkness the Badgermoles snuggle close. Keeping her warm. Keeping her company.

Toph sits in a cave surrounded by Badgermoles cuddling her. Slowly she falls asleep.

She does not wake up.

Above the world goes on. War leads to peace leads to war leads to peace once again. The avatar lives and dies and is reborn, over and over again. History stretches larger and larger. Until the truth becomes legends.

Firelord Zuko, Avatar Aang, Chief Sokka and Warrior Suki, Master Katara the Mother of the Southern Benders. These names are preserved, remembered. Their stories become legends. Passed down from generation to generation. Written of in both fables and historical records alike.

The first ship to leave orbit is called Aang. To be a sokka is to be inventive. Hundreds of girls fighting groups are named after Katara and Suki.

Zuko the Tenth oversees the signing of a new peace treaty as the neutral party.

Only a few footnotes remember the Forgotten member of the ancient Team Avatar. The earthbender. A girl named Toph who disappeared from records shortly after the Hundred Year War, though rumors of her were recorded for nearly two centuries afterwards. Her story is a rather farfetched one. More likely she either died in the war or soon after. Perhaps, some optimists say, she settled down and lived a normal life afterwards.

Many centuries later a mining company makes a wonderful discovery. The ancient burial caves of the now extinct Badgermoles. But a mystery awaits within this archeological marvel. For nestled within the hundreds of Badgermole skeletons there lies a single Human skeleton.

She lies there alone, surrounded by Badgermoles. Almost as if she was one of them. Almost as if they respected her, honored her.

Loved her.

And in a small town, a blind boy hears a legend. A legend that inspires him. A legend of a girl named Toph.

[soratobukujira]

Currently obssessed with this track because this is very Maiko coded. And by Maiko I mean Mai x Zuko from Avatar The Last Airbender. They are like the cutest underrated couple. And Mai is often misunderstood simply because Zuko once said she's 'a big blah'. Well, their loss. She's no hero, which makes her even more interesting. Hero and heroine are cliche and boring (I adore Katara and Aang to the moon and back but this is about Mai),so it's refreshing to see a female character who prioritize herself and her loved ones. But, anyway, this particular song is Mai and Zuko when they are married and after they become husband and wife. Because as a Firelady Mai will be and is under scrutinize, always, but she can always lean on her husband because her husband loves her. And together they can through it all. Think Gomez Addams and Morticia but in a more dramatic scenario full of politic bullshits and elderly assholes. Oh, btw, this is not an essay or anything. It's almost midnight and my brain suddenly has this urge to write this. More like command my eyes and fingers to type this. Incoherent? Not my problem. I just love Mai and since Mai loves Zuko so much, hence I love Maiko. ❤️‍🔥

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

Zutara I think isn’t even that wild of a concept of a ship to happen and I can even see why people would dig it.

But I’ve never really seen a Zutara take or fic or serious piece of art that felt remotely in character to me. The only way I can read it is if it’s a background ship and I don’t have to think about it too much and instead it’s a story focused on Aang or Mai.

I don’t think /they/ even like really the ship themselves either because they just make bland ass shit which feels like generic romance novels or fanfics you find in every fandom which all sound the same. Like when I used to read hp fanfic I’d run into dramione and they sounded.exactly.the same.

Hell: there’s this ‘spicy’ YA series called ACOTAR where the main couple of Rhysand and Feyre seem like carbon copies of popular versions of firelady!Katara and fanon!Zuko. It’s eerie. And honestly probably not the only one out there.

In the zk fandom they both become these bland ‘sexy’ main characters which are made to be easily slapped into any situation but it’s not ever really them.

I feel like Zutara could be an interesting story or concept and keep them in character even if I can’t see it lasting: but the fandom surrounding them has apparently no interest in doing any of these things.

There's a reason the few normal zutara shippers avoid their own corner of the fandom: they like the real Zuko and Katara, so they're as bothered by that shitty content as we are.

[kataraslove]

I just stumbled across your acc and I gotta say, I agree with alotta ur takes

Ur sooo well spoken and I really enjoy reading your thoughts and opinions

Katara is one of my favorite characters and it makes me really happy to see someone appreciate her and her writing

Ngl a lot of atla fans r lowkey braindead so ur acc is pretty refreshing

Thanks for posting!! 🩷

thank you! 🩷 your words are too kind. i appreciate it.

i did mention this before, but this blog stemmed kind of entirely out of spite. i was sick and tired of fandom on here telling me that there was only one way to interpret and enjoy my favourite character, dictating who i could or could not ship her with and how much of a stan that made me. it’s not an experience just unique to the atla fandom, of course. it’s becoming something more apparent nowadays especially, the ways in which multiple readings and interpretations of a character is heavily discouraged by fandom in favour of just one.

it’s baffling how, for so many years, there was a strict binaric interpretation of katara’s character, with 0 being non-canon and 1 being completely in favour of all things canon. either you had to vehemently agree with everything that bryke wrote for katara’s within atla and post-canon, to the point where i have seen people defend the lack of statues of her as “oh, she probably didn’t want one anyway,” (NO!!) or you had to have deep-rooted anger and rejection for all things that were done to her story, in the guise of katara deserving better.

katara does deserve better narratively, but NOT in the ways that the tumblr fandom thinks she should have. not in the ways that she should be ambassador to the fire nation, or become firelady (a racist depiction in fanon and nothing but a decorative title in canon) and live out the rest of her life by zuko’s side, serving and prioritizing zuko’s nation.

“but wouldn’t it be empowering if katara sat on the throne of her oppressors and got to dictate - “ no. it’s not. stop advocating for that type of ending for women from oppressed and marganized groups. stop acting like that is the ideal future that katara wanted this whole time, that ruling as part of a foreign monarchy that decimated your people and your culture is the ultimate threshold for liberation.

i’ve seen people who claim to take a doylist perspective for critique of atla (read: kataang)’s writing completely lose all comprehension when it comes to critically assessing post-canon zutara. by that i mean, if we continue with the writing direction that we saw for all of the female atla characters in the sequel series, a zutara endgame would position katara in a worse outcome than she got narratively. but you tell anyone that and it’s an instant “zuko would have given her 10 statues!!”

but most importantly, nothing has radicalized me more over this year than seeing the “katara deserves better (in the form of zuko)” crowd, the same crowd who is currently dreading any form of fixing or retcons from avatar studios in upcoming content, defend the hell out of natla katara’s writing. the very same people who were praising katara’s arc to the stars, stating that it was nearly complete until the two grown men decided to pair her up with aang and ruined all at the end.

well, what about the group of zutara shippers in the natla writer’s room who handed her everything in the narrative, who removed her flaws, her anger, her compassion, who stripped her down to everything except hope, all in the name so that she wouldn’t appear unlikable to audiences. i mean, that tremendously backfired for them, because now the young actress who plays katara is getting hate spewed at her for failing to portray katara interestingly, when the problem has always been the shit writing.

anyway, i appreciate this message! glad i could be of service and it’s nice that you’re a zuko fan who ships kataang! lots of people who love zuko do.

“a lot of atla fans are braindead” LMAO you can say that again!!!