it’s a new day. things are looking up, uncle

the mai/azula/ty lee friendship is overall pretty toxic but we should not forget that they asked azula what she wanted for the drill and she said “triple throne for me and the homies”

My take on the older water siblings, the prides and joys of the Southern Water Tribe.

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The Southern Raiders were never looking for Katara

This is one of my favorite theories behind atla and I wanted to share my own breakdown of it. 

SO the raids on the SWT began in 40 AG. They continued until each and every waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe had been captured. (Note: captured) 

Worth noting is that Hama refers to herself as the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe. 

Here’s where the conspiracy gets juicy. Hama was the only one who managed to escape. She created bloodbending to get out of the prison. And she says herself that she’s the only one who escaped. This could be for one of two reasons: 

The second option is more plausible. Hama displayed a dangerous, powerful, unknown form of waterbending and overtook a Fire Nation guard’s body. She had him unlock her cell and fled. If there were remaining waterbenders in the prison they would have been killed out of fear once Hama escaped. 

They Fire Nation couldn’t risk anyone else in their prison possessing this power. So they were all murdered because of Hama’s escape. 

Look at Hama’s reaction to hearing that the raids continued. A kind of casual “oh, you poor things.” Hama knew that the raids continued because she escaped. All of the waterbenders had already been caught! The only waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe that was known at that time to be free or alive was Hama. 

And she knew better than to return to her home, where they were sure to come looking for her. She stayed and hid right under their noses because she knew they were going to tear the world apart trying to track her down. She was too dangerous. 

When Yon Rha comes to the Southern Water Tribe in 94 AG Katara is still a child. Their tribe has been in shambles for years at this point. Katara is the tribe’s last hope and they’re a tiny tribe at that point in time. Do you honestly think that word of a child waterbender would have made way to the Fire Nation? 

Do you think that the Water Tribe would ever release that information willingly? I don’t. I think that the Southern Raiders had no idea that another waterbender had been born into the Southern Water Tribe. 

Why else would Yon Rha have accepted that an adult was the waterbender he was looking for? The intel didn’t say that a new waterbender was born, the intel said that there’s one waterbender left. The Fire Nation already knows about the last waterbender of the SWT. She escaped. And they’re still trying to find her. 

The Fire Nation is adamant about finding the last waterbender because they’re looking for Hama. Hama, who can control people’s bodies. Hama, who managed to escape a high-security Fire Nation prison without any water. Hama, the only waterbender to best the Fire Nation. And the only one left. 

Kya offers herself up as prisoner to Yon Rha. Because she knows that the past raids meant that the Southern Raiders took the waterbenders prisoner. But that has changed. 

Why would their procedure have changed? Why did they stop taking waterbenders as prisoners? Because of Hama. They stopped taking waterbenders prisoner after Hama’s escape. 

Tl;dr the Southern Raiders were never looking for Katara, they were looking for Hama. 

💞 Slowtember: Day 7-9 — Home 💞

Some people feel just like home 

just because i can’t get enough of modern!au, long-haired zuko 

Poor boy was so happy too see her

Avatar ships as the “Baby” meme

rediscovered this meme/joke format

Post canon Toph who doesn’t want to go back to her shitty parents so she just decides to stay in the Fire Nation and bum off Zuko’s hospitality.

Zuko’s like no, yeah, I totally get it, and just makes her one of his advisors. At first it’s just so she has a good excuse to stay but after the first meeting Toph storms out shouting about how EVERYONE was lying why would you even need to lie about what kind of tea you want??

Zuko: I mean they’re politicians.....but also who, and when, and in what way

They make a subtle Morse code system so Toph can warn him when someone is lying to him without tipping anyone off that she can sense lies.

Zuko gets a reputation for somehow being both extremely socially inept and yet somehow disgustingly perceptive?? You can’t get ANYTHING by him???

#my lord what EXACTLY is ms Beifongs role in these meetings #a nervous nobleman asks after the third time she interrupts them with stupid commentary #zuko with perfect deadpan: she’s my scribe

You CAN’T leave that in the tags

Nice going ruining Aang’s day.

inspired by this post!

bonus:

none of them know how to appreciate a joke

Do y'all ever think about how Katara shared the details of the most traumatic event of her life with Zuko? Like, she’s always talking about how her mom died because of the war, but she’s never actually shared the specifics of what happened that day. And then she decides to tell Zuko? I mean, she doesn’t consider him as her friend, but she goes ahead and shares this incredible moment of vulnerability with him???

And then. And then????? Zuko’s reaction????

?!?!?!?!?!?

Zuko called Kya brave. Brave. Katara views her mom as a role model and Zuko called her brave. Remember that scene from “Bato and the Water Tribe” after the ice-dodging scene? Remember which mark Katara received? Yeah, it was the Mark of the BRAVE.

Zuko said the perfect thing at the perfect time and this never happens to him. This is the same guy who, 2 episodes ago, said “That’s rough buddy” in response to “my first girlfriend turned into the moon” and started talking about a “silver sandwich” as a pep talk to Sokka after they couldn’t find Hakoda at the Boiling Rock. Zuko has a habit of tripping over his words, yet when Katara shares the details of her mother’s death, he says the most perfect thing he could ever say.

And I don’t think this was a fluke.

Zuko understands Katara on a level that nobody else really can. They both lost their mothers to the Fire Nation because their mothers were trying to protect them. Ursa made a sacrifice to save Zuko’s life. Kya made a sacrifice to save Katara’s life. And it’s because of this shared trauma that Zuko knows exactly what to say to Katara.

The subtleties in Elizabeth Welch’s writing is so underappreciated in fandom.

Zuko who spent years at sea with sailors: *stubs his toe* “Ow! Fucking son of a bitch, motherfucking god-fuck fuck fuck. Holy-“

Aang:

Avatar the last air bender has one of the least toxic fanbase because oh they wouldn’t want to upset Uncle Iroh

Aw, Redditor hasn’t heard about the shipping wars.

There is no war in the avatar fanbase.