#kuei atla

[lily-alphonse]

So I’ve been rewatching ATLA...

and LADIES WHAT THE FUCK? Tell me why we havent been talking about the earth king. Excuse me? Look at him. I NEED EVERYONE TO SIT DOWN AND HEAR ME OUT ABOUT THIS.

The very first time I saw Kuei appear in his little fuckass glasses I was smitten. And that SMILE? There's a freak in there somewhere I just know it. He needs to be cracked like a glow stick.

He's probably like a 35 year old virgin, there's no queen. He is kind, sheltered, loves animals (he has a pet bear he dresses up and feeds only the finest cuisine) I AM FERAL.

I'm cooking up an explicit fic for him right now against my will because he has like maybe two on AO3 and neither of them are an arranged marriage reader insert / OC and I need it.

I NEED IT.

But also if you feel inspired to create anything for him yourself please tag me fr.

Also also sorry to my followers for the most random hyperfixations lmao

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Sooo… does Long Feng qualify to be an imperial perceptor? I’m just asking for my TGCF x ATLA Crossover

[punkeropercyjackson]

The Western Earth Kingdom, especially Omashu, has a long history of not really liking Ba Sing Se, and you can see this in the fact that while Omashu has to answer to Ba Sing Se, it's still considered a kingdom in it's own right, and the ruler is a king, not a duke or something. All this to say that after the war, Xinyi would have a lot of fun teasing Kuei

Also some shit I learned about the earth monarchy just now: most give up their given name. Queen Hou-Ting was called that because she was a queen in the Hou-Ting dynasty. Wu, Kuei, and their ancestor Jialun just like their names ig. Also Hou-Ting ate Bosco??? All her evil feels like misogyny tbh since her dad was so nice, just extremely sheltered

Omg...../pos

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To The Victor Goes The Spoils

By LizaGreen

On Archive of Our Own

Status: Complete; 27,416 words

Summary: Hakoda kills a Southern Raider. This backfires spectacularly. Zuko is just trying to keep four kids from dying while not being a traitor to his nation. Toph is concerned. Sokka finds himself rethinking everything he had previously considered the norm. Or Kuei orders all of the Fire Nation out of Ba Sing Se after Azula fails her coup. This has wider ramifications than he thought.

My thoughts: Nice. Zuko with kids, caring about his citizens.

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King Kuei and Firelord Zuko friendship ❤️ 💚

They like to go see plays together, but they talk through most of it. The personal guards have gotten used to it and find it amusing.

[mugentakeda]

he thought redeeming himself took one day only!!!! he mad

[thebxghag]

A young Kuei looks up at his mentor and foster father figure, Long Feng, as the ministers bow and court begins.

ko-fi | comms | inprnt | bsky | cara

[longing-for-rain]

I’ve been thinking about The Promise again, and it’s really interesting to me how the narrative tries to frame Zuko as the “dark” character once again, despite the fact that Aang was the one considering banning interracial relationships and supporting the Earth Kingdom in invading Yu Dao (which most of the people living there did not want).

In canon, Aang only changed his stance on interracial relationships after realizing it would affect him personally. But consider this—what if Katara wasn’t interested in Aang at that point. What if she was with someone else?

It would be interesting to explore how that would change the plot.

[thegirlfromgonewiththewind]

So, I was thinking about something in LOK.

You know the Earth Queen Hou-Ting? You know, the woman who secluded airbenders and that Zaheer killed?

This one?

Well, as you all may know, she’s King Kuei’s only daughter.

I’m sure you all remember King Kuei, the puppet king with the bear.

This guy.

Well, I made some calculus. He must’ve been in his early/mid 20s in ATLA. And his daughter had to be in her 50s/early 60s when she died.

In the meantime, Zuko is 87/88 in 171AG, when LOK3 takes place. Since his daughter is commonly believed to be around Bumi and Kya’s age, I’d speculate that she’s around 60 in her appearance in LOK4, in 174AG and when Zuko is 90 (Tenzin is 51 in 170AG and Kya is roughly 4 years older than him, so Izumi must be between 5 and 7 years older than him, which places her in a range between 60 and 62 years old).

(See? Roughly the same age)

So, my point? I think during their diplomatic visits, Zuko and Kuei had to spend a lot of time in each other’s company because, monarch stuff. And given that they were both heirs to their respective thrones, Izumi and Hou-Ting had to spend a lot of time together.

I don’t know why, but I imagine those two having the wildest, silliest yet most hateful beef as teens. And given Hou-Ting’s despicable behavior and authoritarian politic in contrast to what shown of Izumi, a rational leader who cares for her people, I am even more convinced that those two despised each other.

So yeah, I can’t stop picturing Izumi and Hou-Ting insulting the crap out of each other while saving face in front of the subjects. And I can’t stop laughing

[acutemushroom]

Can we talk about a political consequence that Sokkla, Zutara, Zukka and Azutara could have ?

About the fact that the Earth Kingdom, especially Ba Sing Se, would be scared shitless of such union(s). The 100 Years war is still a very recent event all things considered.

That the literal Fire Lord and Chief of rhe Southern Water Tribes/Republic City council man are now husbands or brothers-in-law if not both. And that they are related to the girl who actually managed to conquer the capital and the man that had the most successful attempt before her.

Was I a politician or King Kuei, I'd be terrified. Because while I do not think they actually would, it would be pretty easy for them to ally and try to conquer the Earth Kingdom. And for good this time. They might even get the Northern WT on board !

They wouldn't. But it sure would be a fear in their head.

[theduckeminence]

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Kueifeng as Bingqiu 💚❤️

Inspired by the cover of the first novel of SVSSS!

[zuko-always-lies]

Historically Accurate Polyamory and ATLA?

One thing that's inexplicably on my mind right now is that East Asian royal families were generally historically polygamous, so if you wanted to have Azula or Zuko or King Kuei or some other Fire Nation or Earth Kingdom royal or noble take multiple partners, that would actually be reasonably historically accurate. It seems like the Fire Nation royalty has avoided polygamy in recent decades (or you would expect the royal family to be much, much bigger), but isn't the point at the end of the series that they are supposed to return to old ways?

Interestingly, some of this applies to the Water Tribes as well. Although I don't know nearly as much about this subject as I know about East Asian royalty and I don't want to say anything too confidentially, I know some Inuit groups sometimes practiced polygamy. I also know that some groups sometimes practiced "spouse exchanges" where two couples would temporarily exchange spouses in order to create fictive kinship between them. Although the SWT is not identical to historical Inuit groups and the NWT in particular seems very, very different with it's city and state, I think you could definitely justify polyamory being in the tradition of both Water Tribes.

While the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Water Tribes might have traditions of polygyny (where one man marries multiple women), the Air Nomads might have a very different traditions. They are inspired at least in part by Tibetan Buddhism, and Tibet has it's own traditions of plural marriage. Historically, the most common type was fraternal polyandry, in which two or more brothers would take the same wife. However, apparently polygyny, conjoint marriages, and of course monogamous marriages were also historically acceptable in Tibetan society. Of course, there were specific economic reasons why fraternal polyandry made sense in Tibet, which might not apply to the Air Nomads and we really don't get a sense of how their marriages and family life might look like, but it's another reminder not to force their culture into "Western marriage norms, circa 2007."

With all the various forms of plural marriage that would theoretically be culturally appropriate, I think you can culturally justify just about any form of polyamory you are interested in writing.

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[nayadoesstuff]

ATLA sexuality tier list

guys this is just my opinion btw; anyone can have different interpretations :)

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