#firelady katara

[sokkastyles]

An indigenous girl suffering to fix the damages of the past isn't empowering.

You're right, empowerment is supposed to only be pleasant and easy, like wearing makeup. 🙄

Yes, this is about people being stupid about Firelady Katara again.

[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

[maikingsenseofit]

I find it so funny that Zutaras, for generations, wrote entire think pieces about how Mai is:

1. Too Apolitical and apathetic to be a Firelady

2. Completely selfish and always acting in her own best interest

3. Would only hinder Zuko’s progress as a Firelord

All in attempt to diminish her character and try and prove Katara of all people would be a better Firelady.

Now we have CANON to confirm that Mai is fearless and a staunch advocate for undoing years of fire nation propaganda. And that she’s willing to drop everything to help Zuko in a noble cause - including teaching a new generation of kids the truth about the hundred year war.

Suck. On. That.

[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???

[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!

[sokkastyles]

It's also funny when someone says that the firelady has no power AND Katara would have to work so hard to make political reform happen and she would SUFFER. Like, which is it? Is she just sitting around being a trophy wife or is she bearing the brunt of the political reforms? You can't have both. I mean, neither is a good argument, but at least pick a number.

[lolabearwrites]

just some Momtara <3

[starlight-bread-blog]

Some people say that Katara becoming Firelady would be an empowering role for her, that she could become an activist and a leader. I find this notion to be false. Firstly, even though I haven't read the comicses of A:TLA, from what I've seen from the show, the title of firelady is decorative at best. It literally just means "Fire Lord's wife". Ursa didn't have any political power, and we never heard of any other active fireladies, because they are not relevant at all. They aren't activists or leaders.

But still, Katara being a politically active firelady would require her to be associated with noblemen and councilman from the FN – the people who were calling the shots during the war, the people responsible for the genocide of the SWT. Additionally, the FN is racist. In The Headbend, we see FN propaganda up close. They've been through 100 years of indoctrination.

In The Painted Lady, the people of the village that Katara helped all turned on her when they found out she's a waterbender, only changing their minds when Sokka yelled at them.

Thus, Katara would be one of the most controversial and hated figures in the FN and maybe even in the entire world. Not to mention potential assassination attempts.

These are negative experiences she doesn't have to go through. So why would she? Why would this be her job? It isn't. Plain and simple. Zuko can and should already be fixing the damages caused to the SWT on his own. While it's true that Katara is the type of person to seek out injustices, and could want to face these horrible people, she can make a change in the community without it taking a toll on her mental health and safety. An indigenous girl suffering to fix the ethnic cleansing and damages of the past isn't empowering. Especially when it's supposed to be a happy ending. Zuko can do all these stuff, but leave it to Katara to take on the mental strain of associating with her oppressors and being public enemy 1#.

[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?

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Read more here!

[queen-morgana91]

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

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"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.

[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.