#makittuq avatar

[azuzula]

i’m putting together a team

[vilmublue]

As if Unalaq wasn't bad enough already, he stole from trans women. 😔

[memoryyong]

While writing chapter 4 of my fic, I decided to draw a scene from chapter 3.

[zeno-zero]

Taqukaq wasn’t Roku’s only waterbending master; he also learned to heal + a lot more about spirits thanks to Makittuq! (ftm mtf solidarity iktr!!)

(also love the new layout!! pfp and header are so pretty!!)

Very cool ,, I'm just gonna.... *yoink this and run away.* /j

This really enthralls me because it just makes so much sense that it can be deemed canon honestly but maybe because I'm a little biased towards Makittuq ,,, who knows. /silly

Taqukaq teaching him defense and offense waterbending.

Makittuq lecturing to Roku how to spiritbend and to heal the physical body.

I'm biting myself /pos, I just love this because it is also what I initially thought but instead of Makittuq - Roku tries self-taught :3

Also, the FTM-MTF solidarity?? Eee! <3

(And thank youu 🩷)

[mesapies]

Canon lgbtq+ avatar characters

Korra and asami - bisexual

Kya - lesbian

Kyoshi - bisexual

rangi - lesbian

Zeisan (sozins sister) and her lover Rioshon - sapphic (I think zeisan is a lesbian but I'm not 100% sure)

Mingxia and her gf Melin - sapphic

Zenko (left) and his named husband - gay

Katara saved zenko and their daughter chio from a fire nation attack

Akuudan and tayagum - gay

Akuudan and his husband tayagum were water tribe warriors that helped avatar yangchen

Hua and Rose - sapphic

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. Rose was a wealthy girl who purse was attempted to be stolen by Hua a firebending criminal but they later fell in love

Dalja Rose - trans(I think)

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. Attended fire academy fir girls when they realized they didn't truly feel like a girl.

Jiang - gay

From adventure booklet: the burning fuse. He's a detective from republic city who gained airbending through the harmonic convergence

Junyi - gay

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. He was a earth nation Outlaw during the time of roku. Hes was swordsmith who fell in love with one of his clients. The two men were set to run away together, but his lover's wife, the mayor of the town, discovered their affair. She had her husband killed and pinned the crime on Junyi. (Messy as hell)

Makittuq - trans woman

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. She's northern water tribe girl from the tims of roku who knew she assigned the wrong gender since birth. When her family didn't accept her she connected with sports who did

Massak and nyn chei - sapphic ex lovers

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. During the time of roku, Massak was a swt boatwright and inventor and he ex lover nyn chei was a fire nation inventor and engineer who'd inventions helped create the new fire navy coal fuled fleet.

Mayu - trans man

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - republic city. From republic city him and his friends Yuka and Saya ran away together after mayu came out to his traditional fire nation family who didn't accept him.(im think Yuka is non binary as well)

Mosi and his husband sayako - gay

From adventure booklet: pirate of crimson sails. From a fire nation colony as a earth nation guy. Mosi as an adult became a pirate working to go against azulon. He later fell in love with a firebender, sayako. They married and had a daughter, lily

Sunlin - non binary

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - quicksart. They were a joyful and idealistic orphan from Harbor City, and a former member of the Fire Finches during the late stages of the Hundred Year War

Wen - non binary

From avatar generations. Wen was an Earth Kingdom archaeologist broadly interested in relics. They explored the four nations in pursuit of their studies.

Netxflix Oma and shu - sapphics

Aiwei (left) - said to be gay but I couldn't find anything confirming

Jargala (right) - her artist said that she's pansexual but there's nothing confirming it

Unnamed gay air nomads and fire nation sapphics(getting arrested) from when kya was explaining to Korrasami the different views on gay ppl in the different nations

[leana-armen]

LGBTQ+ History in the Avatar World

So pretty much everyone in the Avatar/Korra fandom knows by now that Korra and Asami are together and are officially bi. And most people have also probably seen those pages from the Korra comic Turf Wars where Kya explains in brief how the four nations regard same-sex couples. But I recently went on a deep dive on the Wiki and found out a TON more, a lot of it coming from the Tabletop RPG, Avatar Legends, which is all official cannon due to Avatar Studios’s involvement in its development. So I figured I’d compile it all in one post.

And as this is going to be a long post with pictures, I'll be placing everything under a "Read more."

Air Nomads

Air Nomads just didn’t care about sexuality. Love is love and love is good. Even though Air Nation kids were pretty much raised communally, they did know who their parents were, and sometimes those parents were two dads or two moms.

This open-mindedness also extends to Trans and Non-binary air nomads. I believe this means that since the North and South temples were primarily inhabited by men and the East and West by women, individuals could chose to stay at whatever temple they felt comfortable at for their identity.

Characters: -Rioshon, a nun from the Western Air Temple in the era of Roku. She fell in love with Princess Zeisan of the Fire Nation while teaching the princess how to chi-block. More on the Princess later. NPC from Avatar Legends. -Bo, a non-binary trainee in airbending during the Era of Roku. They are a pre-generated PC for Avatar Legends. -Enuk, a non-binary member of the Southern Water Tribe who gained airbending during the Harmonic Convergence. After gaining airbending, they left the Water tribe to join with the new Air Nation. Pre-generated PC for Avatar Legends.

Water Tribes

The Water Tribes are a bit... complicated in regards to gender and orientation. As Kya states, same-gender attraction on its own generally isn't too much of an issue, as long as it stays behind doors. Or, rather, tent flaps if you're in the South. Additionally, arranged marriages were the norm in the Northern Water Tribe until at least the end of the 100-year war, so attraction often didn't even play a role in marriage.

Even though people generally weren't disowned for same-sex attraction, the Northern Water Tribe's strict ideas of gender roles did lead to at least one trans waterbender to be rejected by her family.

According to Avatar Legends, in response to Korra's relationship with Asami, Chiefs Desna and Eska officially decreed that gender plays no role in who can or can not marry each other in the Water Tribes. They have received some pushback, but they make a point to attend same-sex weddings to make their stance clear.

Characters: -Korra, of course. Bi, having been attracted to both Mako and Asami. -Kya, the one narrating the panels I'm using in this post. She mentioned bringing home at least one girlfriend to meet Katara and Aang. -Makittuq, the trans woman waterbender I had referred to, from the era of Roku. While her family and other members of the Water Tribe didn't accept her and understand her desire to live as herself, she found company among the spirits. She was an accomplished healer and was happy to teach the skill to any waterbender, and developed a method to calm dark spirits. She's an NPC in Avatar Legends. -Massak, an inventor from the Southern Water Tribe in Roku's era who worked with her girlfriend (who happened to be Fire Nation) on ships intended to help with trade between the North and South Water Tribes. An Avatar Legends NPC. -Qanitt, a non-binary chieftain from the Southern Water Tribe in Roku's era. Avatar Legends NPC -Taiki, a trans man who wished to make a name for himself during the 100-year war, though the war ended not long after he had a chance. The Avatar Wiki says he's both from the Northern tribe and the Southern tribe, and since I don't have the books officially, I can't check which is correct. He's a pre-generated PC.

Earth Kingdom

The Earth Kingdom is probably the nation we know least about in terms of how they see and respond to LGBTQ individuals. However, the Earth Kingdom is also the largest and most diverse of the four nations, so different areas could have very different views.

There's at least one Earth Kingdom town in which same-sex marriage is recognized as of near the end of the 100-year war.

Characters: -Kyoshi is bi, as shown in the comic panel and expanded on in the novels. -Mingxia and Meilin are from the comic Suki, Alone. Mingxia was a friend of Suki's who left Kyoshi Island, and when the two were reunited, Mingxia introduced Suki to her new girlfriend, Meilin. -Zenko, his husband, and their daughter are from the comic Origami from Team Avatar Tales, showing that same-sex marriage was recognized in at least one Earth Kingdom town. -Junyi was a blacksmith who fell for one of his clients, and the two men planned to run away together until his client's wife found out and that's all I'm going to say here. He's an NPC from Avatar Legends, from the Roku era. -Hua was a member of a gang within Ba Sing Se after the 100-year war. She tried to steal from Rose, the daughter of a pair of diplomats, but the two ended up falling for each other instead. Both are Avatar Legends NPCs. -Xiao and Yuxuan are both non-binary pre-generated PCs from Avatar Legends. Xiao is from the 100-year war era and Yuxuan is from a bit later, in Aang's era.

Fire Nation

Going to break up my format a little bit, because I want to talk about this panel here and some new information that shines new, unflattering light on this decree by Sozin.

I mentioned her earlier, but Fire Lord Sozin had a sister, Princess Zeisan. As is family tradition apparently, Sozin and Zeisan were constantly pitted against each other, but Zeisan was born without bending. She sought out the Air Nomad, Sister Rioshon, to teach her chi-blocking, and the two of them fell in love.

Fire Lord Sozin outlawed same-sex relationships while his own sister was in love with a woman.

Honestly, I'd love to see more of Princess Zeisan's story. She seems like a VERY interesting character based on what the Avatar Wiki has from Avatar Legends. What I wrote here is just a tiny piece of what we know of her.

Other characters: -Rangi, Avatar Kyoshi's girlfriend from the novels. -Nyn Chei, Massak's girlfriend and partner in developing ships, until Massak broke things off with her when she realized their designs were being used for the Fire Nation's fleet. Avatar Legends NPC from Roku's era. -Dalja Ro, non-binary leader of the Fire Navy relief fleet in Korra's era. They attended the Fire Nation Royal Academy for Girls as a kid, but they realized that they didn't exactly feel like a "girl". With the help of their classmates, they were able to figure out who they were. NPC from Avatar Legends. -Sunlin, a nonbinary orphan from the 100-year war era. Pre-generated PC from the quickstart of Avatar Legends.

[azuzula]

How do you feel about makittuq x sud?

Wait a minute… you’re cooking. I see the vision. Walk with me…

I feel like Makittuq, at least at first, would have no idea what to do/how to react to Sud. I imagine her as being somewhat shy? Definitely friendly to those who approach her, but still somewhat in her shell due to her family’s rejection of her gender/true self.

Sud, on the other hand, would be slightly put off by her slightly closed off nature - though he’d still be intrigued and work to become friends/closer. He’s stubborn and very kind!!! Based on both ATLA canon and my own, he is very bold and blunt; not in like the ‘Oh I’m blunt so that means I just say whatever I want and you can’t complain when I say something mean!’ way - he’s just very open with his feelings, having a very friendly & very out there personality. Sometimes his words can be a little harsh but never malicious. Most of the time lol

Once they really get to know each other though, I can see them gelling pretty well; they’d be a bit awkward at first, and I can’t quite definitively see them getting a bit frustrated with one another since they’re pretty different, at least on the surface level (it’s like jock x shy girl unironically lmfao)

Sud would bring her out of her shell (my guy is definitely a hype man. It’s like those guys who go gaga over their partner even when they’re barely put together). Makittuq would get him to slow down almost, softening (not ‘mellowing him out’ but something similar. I can’t quite think of the word but hopefully you get what I’m trying to say?)

Something something the metaphor of a stream running over stone and smoothing it out while the stone provides a strong foundation for the stream to keep moving. Is it cliche? Yes. But it fits.

Really the biggest issue is that they’re both bottoms 🤷‍♀️ But that’s a topic for another day lmfao

Thanks for the ask! 🤍

[azuzula]

the sillies

[memoryyong]

Chapters: 2/?

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Chosen

Relationships: Makittuq/Sud (Avatar) Makittuq & Sedna (OC) Sud & Sedna (OC)

Characters: Makittuq (Avatar), Sud (Avatar), Sedna (OC), Roku (Avatar) mentioned.

Additional Tags: trans female character, Transphobia, Estranged, First love, Fluff, idk if smut will be in this but I might change my mind, family reunions

Language: English

Source: archiveofourown.org

[azuzula]

if i think about gyatso for too long i WILL start crying

[memoryyong]

Just some sudittuq art

Reference photo:

[vilmublue]

For context: Makittuq is from the era of Roku, which confirms spiritbending was not invented by Unalaq.

As if Unalaq wasn't bad enough already, he stole from trans women. 😔

[memoryyong]

Chapter 6 is officially out! I'm sorry for not active for a while, I had a lot of stuff to do.

Chapters: 2/?

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Chosen

Relationships: Makittuq/Sud (Avatar) Makittuq & Sedna (OC) Sud & Sedna (OC)

Characters: Makittuq (Avatar), Sud (Avatar), Sedna (OC), Roku (Avatar) mentioned.

Additional Tags: trans female character, Transphobia, Estranged, First love, Fluff, idk if smut will be in this but I might change my mind, family reunions

Language: English

Source: archiveofourown.org