#katara: this brother

[mugentakeda]

people like to woobify zuko by acting as if he was shaking in his boots whenever katara was even slightly (and deservedly) mean to him during the western air temple when this was the actual dynamic

[meliake]

rewatching Avatar is so weird because Sokka is literally the only thing keeping them alive and fed. He constantly is like,

'guys we're out of supplies/ we need to stop/ we're attracting too much attention with the flying bison we should walk' etc.

Like in the ´The Storm' when they're completely out of money and supplies the one to get a job in hopes of making money (he never actually gets paid, the world hates him) is Sokka.

In 'The Waterbending Scroll,' it's Sokka who's concerned about their lack of supplies when Aang sends them in a wave down the river, and is making sure they're careful with their spendibg when in town shopping.

He's also seen to catch fish and gather nuts (I know more often than not he fails to catch things on screen but it's implied he's the one that does most of the hunting and gathering)

It's like- Aang totally would have starved to death or gotten completely off track with often they're completely out of food and money

[bakedbeanchan]

[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[demaparbat-hp]

Izumi (steambaby) sketches.

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Dude I can’t believe that the avatar is bald he’s bald oh my god he’s fucking bald he’s so aerodynamic it’s crazy he’s bald ohhh nooo baaaald

[dreamchasernina]

“Katara and Aang’s romance was one sided and the writers forced Katara into a relationship with Aang at the last second! She clearly didn’t have any feelings for him until the last episode!”

Uuummmm....what?

[aangarchy]

I saw someone made an AU where Aang was actually 16 when he was told he was the Avatar like he was supposed to, and froze at that age as well, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

something something making an item of betrothal in ur bfs culture

[punkeropercyjackson]

I like Older Brother Core but i'll be honest,i feel like it becoming seen as the quissisential of punk characters is a result of the whitewashing punk culture in media,in this case in the 2000s specifically.Like why is your idea of 'the ultimate punks' white boys who're mean to younger people with an emphasis on their own siblings rather than black/queer women activists and especially black queer women activists when historically they were the backbone of punk when it was being created........and why do you treat punk like it's inherently masculine when most punk men present femininely at least in mix with masculinity if not just are straight up femmes and when there's a whole punk subtype exclusively for lesbians with a subtype within itself exclusively for black lesbians

[blueamphibians]

Art for my ATLA fic :D

Edit: help, I was flipping my canvas when I was drawing and I drew his scar on the wrong side 😭😭 absolute kings; the people that pointed it out—myb it’s supposed to be the same as canon :D

[katerina-q]

sokka is not OOC in the southern raiders just because he had the audacity to agree with the spawn of satan aang and didn't want his little empathetic sister to kill someone out of revenge and hatred

like shut up about the water tribe siblings, they are mischaracterized enough here

[kacievvbbbb]

I wish there were was a scene or two where it is Sokka who has to pull Aang out of the avatar state frenzy.

Maybe Katara isn’t around for some reason (dealing with an active threat or she was just too far away) and it's Sokka that has to step up. because I do like the gradual growth of his reaction of aang in the avatar state going from complete fear to not leaving the area to stay with aang and I think it would have been a nice ed to have him be the one to pull aang out of it one time.

Not because I want to undermine Kataang because they are great. I do not want to ship sokka and Aang. But I just think it would have really added another layer to Sokka and Aang’s friendship besides them being silly and having fun together. I don’t think they really have any introspective moments with just each other like taht and I think one or 2 scenes like this would have deepened their friendship immensely (not that’s it’s not already great!)

Just Sokka deciding that Katara’s not here and Aang needs help now and so he’s got to do it. Every instinct he has is telling him to back away but he’s got to push through because Aang is his best friend, his brother and he’s not going to leave him.

I just think that would have been a nice little bow on their friendship arc with sokka being the more distrusting and harder to win over of the siblings. Like Kind of the inverse of Zuko and Katara’s friendship.

Like can you just imagine Sokka going; “ I got you buddy, I got you I’m right here” as he grips Aang tightly because he’s not the best at comforting words and and so all he can do is hold Aang close and remind him that he’s there that he’ll always be there for him.

I think that would’ve have been amazing.

[the-badger-mole]

What is your opinion on Sokka? Do you think any of the criticism of Aang not being very emotionally supportive towards Katara and other characters apply to him too? I don’t really have very strong feelings about Sokka as a character but a lot of fans really seem to put him on a pedestal which I don’t get either

I think there's enough evidence in the show that Sokka will support and defend his sister- even if he's not always super comfortable with emotional stuff all the time (makes sense)- and he's definitely smarter than a lot of people in the fandom give him credit for. He's a bit of a jerk towards her sometimes, but what older brother isn't? I like Sokka, and his relationship with Katara, and I wish it had been explored more. I wish they could've have a conversation about their mother and how her death affected them and their dynamic. I don't really know what you mean by putting him on a pedestal, though. I know there are certain fans who like to attribute Katara's virtues to him for...reasons, but I don't interact with them so I don't really know what they're saying about him.

I did see someone's art recently that implied that Katara and Sokka raised each other, and...I think it's a bit of an overstatement, but I believe Sokka would do whatever he could to protect his baby sister. The one moment that stands out to me where he's not ten toes down for Katara is when he says Aang is right in TSR. It's so wildly OOC that I can't even contextualize it with the rest of his character. He doesn't always agree with Katara, and that's fine, but to side with Aang when he's comparing her pursuit of justice for their mother to Jet's trying to drown a whole town in his indiscriminate rage? That just doesn't make any sense to me.

[demaparbat-hp]

How does that first encounter go down between them in your Spitfire AU? I imagine some real conflicting emotions on all sides!

I would love to hear you ramble!! ❤️

*cracks knuckles* Alright, let's do this.

As far as the world is concerned, Lu Ten II doesn't exist and the Royal Bloodline ends with Princess Azula. The little kid that follows Prince Zuko everywhere? That's Ten Ten, an orphaned stowaway his Crew found and adopted for some weird reason no-one ever questions—the kid is just that lovable.

(It helps, honestly, that Lu Ten II is a carbon-copy of poor, forgotten Ursa. No one would ever think to connect him with Fire Lord Ozai, long may he reign.)

Little Ten Ten loves to run off when the Crew is on shore leave. He gets into trouble sometimes, but only because of his chronic inability to look away from people who need help (it makes Zuzu both so proud and so shouty-because-he's-worried. It's fun until it isn't).

By now the Crew knows not to panic when the kid goes missing for a couple of hours in a harbor town—which is why no one noticed Ten Ten's disappearance until it was too late.

"Could someone please explain to me," what starts as a mutter becomes a shout as anxiety takes over Sokka, "why on earth did we go into town to buy necessary, highly specific supplies, and returned—not only with a stolen waterbending scroll—stolen! From pirates, Katara!—but with a Fire Nation-looking KID?!"

While Ten Ten is having the time of his life goofing with Aang, out-sassing why-is-this-happening-to-me Sokka, and melting Katara's heart—Zuko is losing his mind, sanity, and temper because how on Agni's name do you lose a Prince of your nation?

But, sir, he's like three-feet-tall—

HOW, JEE?!

Needless to say, the pirates kidnap the pretty waterbending thief and her kid with the sharp tongue and fancy-looking clothes. Which turns out to be a Bad Idea™ because, well, a skinny guy from the watertribes and his way-too-young-to-be-bald companion? They can absolutely deal with them.

A Crew's worth of murderous Fire Nation soldiers lead by the unforgiving, terrifying, bloodthirsty Prince?

They are not ready for that.

[billsbae]

okayyy look i'm a die zutara stan, but platonic zutara with sleepovers, painting nails and talking about boys makes me want scream (in a good way)