#katara beloved

[punkeropercyjackson]

'How is Katara punk?????'She's literally a brown native girl who fights gender roles and the goverment by defying and subverting them and destroying establishments and roasting and beating up authority figures and doing activism to help out other colonized communities and people,how is she NOT?Do you have proof she wouldn't dress punk and listen to punk music if it existed in her time too🤨No you don't,since it dosen't exist.Because Katara IS a punk!

[cyanorhis]

kya and lee my beloveds

from @nerdylizj delicious amazing wonderful fic “forgetting is a kind of mercy”

[bemnie]

ATLA POLYWEB!!! OH YEA

[thethiefandtheairbender]

popular fandom: Katara does all the chores and emotional labour around camp, no one ever helps her (except Zuko) and she just suffers in silence!!

actual canon:

and most of all, from Katara's actual goddamn mouth:

but yeah Zuko serving the gaang tea two (2) times (which is mostly about his relationship with Iroh obviously, given that both times his connection to Uncle is highlighted in dialogue or in action) clearly disregards all of the above

[zukobeloved]

Zutara 😍

i love zuko x katara

[navajja]

My first attempt at drawing alta characters

[daintyzutara]

Katara: I want to wake up with you everyday for the rest of our lives

Zuko: I wake up at 4:30 am

Katara: I want to see you at some point everyday for the rest of our lives

[7in1shampoo]

some atla fans will never understand how katara's mom's death affected her differently than sokka just like how hakodas departure affected sokka differently than katara because theyre blind and have the emotional intelligence of a rock

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

something something making an item of betrothal in ur bfs culture

[sokkastyles]

Katara felt exilhirated, her hands catching the cool night air as it whipped past. Bright flashes of colorful light popped on either side of her, accompanied by the huge crackle-boom of what she had learned were called fireworks.

At first, she'd been hesitant to the idea of explosions during a festival, but over time, she'd become more used to the Fire Nation's idea of fun. She had even found it beautiful. Aang laughed, leading Appa to race through the colored smoke while Sokka and Suki screamed in delight, and Katara screamed, too, holding up her arms and feeling free.

Until she looked over at Zuko, whose face seemed to be turning a shade halfway between ghost-white and bogwater green.

She tried to edge closer to him in the wide saddle, but it was impossible to move with how fast Appa was flying. Zuko's eyes met her gaze, and she asked "are you alright?" Her words were swallowed by the wind, and Zuko hadn't heard her, his eyes far away. There was another reverberating boom as an explosion of color went off on her other side.

"You want to know what fireworks are like for me?" Toph said to Sokka as Appa landed, a mischievous grin plastered on her face. She had not been enjoying the festivities any more than Zuko had.

Katara winced as Sokka closed his eyes at Toph's bidding, then watched her brother yelp as Toph screamed "BOOM!" into his ear.

Sokka wasn't the only one to jump. Zuko was still clinging to the side of Appa's saddle, even after they had stopped.

"Hey," Katara said, holding out her hand to him. "You alright?" she asked again, now that she could hear herself talk.

Zuko stood up without taking the offered hand, and climbed out of the saddle only a little shakily.

"I'm fine," he said, and walked off.

She found him later sitting on the edge of a fountain ringed by lantern light.

"I used to love fireworks when I was a kid," he said as she approached, his gaze on the bright reflections in the water. "Now it's just...I...I can't see as well, when Appa goes so fast, and it's hard to hear anything."

Katara remembered how noisy it had been when they were in the air. She remembered her first Fire Nation festival, back before the war had ended, and how afraid she had been of the fire. Now, fear was part of the thrill. Experiencing something like that in a way that was safe and fun, knowing it couldn't really hurt you. It was the kind of fun that Zuko must have grown up with. He must have always known that the fire couldn't really hurt him. Until it had.

"It took me a long time to be able to bend again, after," he said, looking up at her, finally, and Katara didn't have to ask him what he meant.

"Maybe someday I'll be okay with fireworks again," he said.

"It's okay," she said. "Even if it's never the same as it was."

It would never be the same, of course. Sometimes, a part of her wondered when she had become so desensitized. It had to be the opposite for Zuko, now. She saw the way he looked sometimes, when people made references to his past, the way he cringed when he spoke about it, how angry he grew on behalf of the Earth Kingdom citizens he had once considered beneath him. It was funny how time changed the way you looked at things. She wondered if it changed the way Zuko looked at her, the way it had for her. Sometimes it seemed to her that they were always just missing each other. Maybe they would never be able to see each other face the face, but for that one moment long ago, under Ba Sing Se. There would always be a part of her that remembered the feeling of being seen, of being known and having been known, by an enemy who was no longer an enemy, but something else entirely.

Together, they sat on the edge of the fountain, just the two of them. They stayed beneath the lantern lights, while everyone celebrated around them, and remembered what it felt like, to burn.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Katara's three moods

[snugjammies]

They can stay in my head rent-free for as long as they want🥰

Original comic by sundae kids on Instagram!!

Addition of zutara photos by me :)

[blommis-writes]

what I say: I’m fine

what I mean: in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the ending theme is a sort of positive foreshadowing that follows you throughout the whole show until, in S3E13 The Firebending Masters, you find out that it’s the rythm to the dancing dragon which Aang and Zuko work through together. In that moment, the show makes you fully realize just how much Zuko was destined from the start to be part of Aang’s support and so much more than what he seemed early on in the show. The ending/dancing dragon theme was there from the beginning to hint that the show was not only about Good vs Bad, but that it was also a story about redemption and about how Zuko would have his own part to play but only after he’d gone through his own journey separate from that of a classic villain character chasing after the main protagonist. In this essay I will-

[starlight-bread-blog]

"Aang Has No Empathy"

When Katara lost her mother's necklace, he made her a new one.

He refused to learn from the sexist Pakku after he said he won't teach Katara.

He helped children of the nation that genocided his people.

Katara wanted to learn waterbending, so he offered to take her across the world.

He saved Zuko - the guy who kidnapped him - from death in the North Pole.

[bluespirlt]

zutara renaissance..? alright

here are some sketches+character boards i made ages ago for my spiderman!zuko au, might as well share them here

[zukobeloved]

zuko x katara