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Tumblr's Favorite Show: Finals!
After several months of fierce fighting, with 256 initial combatants, we have made it to the FINALS
Now, it's time to determine Tumblr's Favorite Show!
Previous rounds can be found below the break:
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON
Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????
Zuko: *speaks*
Katara: nevermind I hate him
How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.
Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer
Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.
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Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.
Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.
I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies
My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:
Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*
Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?
And then it hit me.
Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender. Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.
About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang - and by extension Zuko - get away.
Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.
AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)
Ok, but now I’m also imagining the whole subplot with Zhao in season one being about him trying to humiliate Iroh. Except he knows pretty well that Iroh would completely destroy him in an actual confrontation so he’s too afraid of provoking him and always ends helping him in the end. And Iroh know it as well and keeps with spectacular failures (like hiring a crew of definitely not pirates that definitely will not steal his ship at the first occasion) just to annoy him.
Iroh: Joke’s on you Admiral Zhao; I don’t care about my reputation! *effortlessly rebuffs all of Zhao’s plots anyway*
treegona
Quick question: If Aang’s the weird teaching grandpa, what’s Bumi up to?
@treegona encasing Katara & Sokka in gemnite to force Zuko to stay for airbending practice
Weird thought because that scene has to have completely different energy with Zuko than it did with openly bleeding heart Aang. Is it to make him admit how deeply he cares about Katara and Sokka? Is his role to call Bumi’s bluff in the style of a clever fairy tale protagonist? Is it just played for comedy.
Zuko: Aang, you’re a monk. You wouldn’t kill anybody.
Aang: That’s what Bumi is for.
[a pause as Zuko remembers what Bumi was like as a twelve year old]
Zuko: *sighs* Okay fine. Let’s do this.
I. Wait. Wait wait wait. WERE ZUKO AND AANG FRIENDS 100 YEARS AGO?
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derinthemadscientist
Zuko was sent to train with Monk Gyatso, did not get along with Gyatso’s star pupil (Aang) at all for the one day he was there before running away and getting caught in a storm. Aang is determined to fulfil his duty and take on his teacher’s mantle, if only Zuko would stop being such a baby running away from training all the time.
Where’s Toph in all this?
No one’s sure whether Aang unofficially adopted her or vice versa. Either way, she’s traveling with “Old Man Twinkletoes” and helping him in his Avatar Hunt.
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
ok so i screenshotted this moment because i thought it was pretty cool
the first time we get to see all four elements working together for a common enemy, blah blah blah, but i started laughing because
sokka’s fucking boomerang. sokka threw a fucking boomerang at princess azula, renowned lightning bender and heir-apparent to the throne of the fire nation.
and sokka threw a boomerang at her.
I said it once and i say it again.
Azula considered Sokka to be the biggest threat in this group and countered him first. What this picture miss is Sokka sanding nearby. All members of this group unleash their attack at same time, but Azula reacts to boomerang first. If you watch this part in slow motion, you could see that Sokka’s boomerang was the first thing that would hit Azula and may even incapacitate her making her unable to continue to fight. So she had to counter in first. She deflected it with well placed shoot.
Then and only then, when there is no immediate threat, she starts to create her blue fire wall to counter other elements.
Lets think about this. How hard should you have to throw something to make it move faster that any elemental attack? Either all elemental attacks are slow or you are pretty strong. That said nonbenders with good aim and strong hands could easily overpower benders if they timed it right.(Aang got captured by Yuan archers who are all nonbenders.) Azula knew of this and acted according to it. She is talented bender and you may think that she should enlist other benders to help her track and capture Zuko, Iroh, and later avatar, but instead she uses her nonbender friend to help her.
Even if you have no bending you can still fight… and win.
xenavitani
Let’s not forget that on the Day of Black Sun, Sokka was the one in charge and Azula was no idiot Azula knew that.
When Aang, Sokka, and Toph all confronted Azula, she proceeded to make them chase her and waste their time. Azula is not only talented, she’s sly and smart as hell. WHO WAS THE ONE WHO SAW THROUGH THAT BS CHASE?
Sokka.
NOT ONLY THAT but after Sokka explains to the Gaang that Azula is just baiting them, Azula actually verbally attacks Sokka. Not through fighting, but through words, knowing not only that an intelligent person like him could only be brought down with emotions BUT that Sokka was the leader and if she could get him the stay, Aang and Toph would follow his lead.
Azula knew Sokka was their strength and took him down. WOULD SHE DO THAT IF HE WASNT A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO HER!!??!
No. She wouldn’t waste her time and energy on someone she didn’t think was capable of actually getting in her way.
WHEN SHE GETS HER FIREBENDING BACK SHE HAS THE OPTION OF ATTACKING BADASS METAL BENDING TOPH AND THE FUCKING AVATAR WHO DOES SHE ATTACK?!?!
Azula never underestimated the power of non benders especially an intelligent one like Sokka. Sokka was a huge threat to fucking Azula on multiple occasions.
Remember that.
madamebomb
Look at this spot on fucking discourse. LOOK AT IT.
Just thought I’d drop this
into the debate as well, (instead of actually fighting him she backs off, and who blames her? Sokka’s club looks like it could shatter bones…).
Along with this:
Scenes with Azula confronting Sokka are few and far in between but they paint a pretty interesting picture, don’t they?
nightwinggirl42
I mean, Azula’s friends/most trusted warriors were two non-benders. Mai was an expert with thrown weapons and Tai Lee was the only chi blocker shown in the first series, and she was able to take down half a groups of earth nation soldiers like that. Azula knows that non-benders are dangerous and she sees sokka for the genius he is
She’s knows she can take bending, she can redirect fire and she’s fought Katara a lot- but unlike Zuko she was probably never trained with weapons, she knows she has no defense to a sword or a club, and she knows that one of Ty Lee’s biggest advantage is that people underestimate her
Let me sum this up;
It doesn’t matter how much crazy magic bullshit you have, a sword to the face is a sword to the face.
My man Sokka getting the recognition he deserves
Never not reblog
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
i just can't get over zuko and aang's dynamic. these two tragic foils, these boys who both wear their history on their faces, who both lost their homes to the fire, these born enemies, both bound by big, grand, lonely destinies, the prince and the avatar,,,,,,,, and who, the moment they're able to interact with each other for more than two seconds, both immediately devolve into the pettiest assholes alive
firebending masters was truly EVERYTHING. aang not seeing zuko as a threat AT ALL to the point where he's almost insultingly comfortable going off somewhere w him alone. zuko grumbling about how fast appa is going like an asshole older brother on a road trip. the smug little "where's that upbeat attitude you were talking about :)" aang telling zuko to his FACE that people think he's dumb. aang flipping zuko like a pancake and then bitching that zuko's not helping him. "you just haaaad to go touch the giant egg, didn't you :/" the entire concept of two of the most skilled young benders in the world sitting in goo together for hours in absolute silence until aang opens his mouth to complain. "what do we do now?" "idk think about our place in the universe?" zuko telling aang he's a talented kid. aang trying to steal fire from the hands of a guy who has actively tried to flambe him before. zuko whining about aang trying to cheat off of him. "you still think we can take them?" "shut up i never said that."
honestly what is a foil but a best friend just waiting for you to annoy the shit out of them forever
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
I love when there’s a really bending heavy episode because you just KNOW Sokka is about to get the dumbest C plot
They stuck that boy in a hole for 22 minutes
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
I’m having feelings about Katara v Pakku again, and the fact that at this point in the series, Katara has never been in a fight that wasn’t to the death. Every fight she’s ever been in has had world-ending stakes. She’s not shooting to kill Pakku because she’s weaker and less trained than him - though she is - she’s shooting to kill because she doesn’t know any other way to fight. Friendly sparring, or fighting as a spectator sport, has not been a part of this girl’s life. Pakku’s fighting Katara to put troublesome teenagers in their place; Katara’s fighting Pakku because they’ll all die if Pakku doesn’t pull his head out of his ass and train the Avatar.
Pakku is genuinely surprised to see his own reflection in that disc of ice Katara shoots right past his face. If he hadn’t dodged, it would have sliced his head right open. He starts putting actual effort in after that.
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
A fun reminder that Aang was a terrifyingly powerful Avatar.
Most Avatars are informed of their newfound destinies at the age of 16 to begin their training. Because of the approaching war Aang was told of his status at the age of 12. He had already mastered airbending, and in the span of a year he mastered the other three elements, the avatar state, and energybending. He also learned lightning redirection and seismic sense (a technique no previous Avatar had even encountered). In the span of a year.
This child was a terrifying force of nature.
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
Aang-centric & Katara-centric Fic Masterpost
Aang-centric Fics
14.7k words, oneshot, rated T
“I want you to make me a promise, Avatar Aang,” Katara whispered. This time, when she placed her hand on top of his, he didn’t pull away. “When this is all over, when the war is won… Promise me that you’ll grieve.” (alternatively: grieving is hard. aang’s friends work harder. a series of missing/expanded scenes from a:tla exploring aang’s grief through his friends’ eyes.)
13.8k words, oneshot, rated G
“If you’re not scared, you’re not human.” That, more than anything, should prove that the Avatar is human. After all, not even the Avatar is exempt from fear. Or: five fears that Aang has. Canon-compliant. Aang-centric.
1.2k words, oneshot, rated G
I see them in everything. I see them in nothing. I see them in myself and everyone around me. I see them in the air I breathe, the water around me, the earth beneath me, the fire within me. And I won’t let them go. Or: Aang’s grief for the Air Nomads. Oneshot.
1.6k words, oneshot, rated G
When you have so many words to say, but no one to say them to, what do you do? You write a letter. - Aang writes a letter to Gyatso.
1.3k words, oneshot, rated G
Life is broken. Life is beautiful. Life is cruel and unfair and takes and takes and takes, but it is also wondrous and joyful and gives and gives and gives, and it is a choice, a choice, a choice. Or: A hundred years of war has ended. Aang has time to think.
641 words, drabble, rated G
These broken pieces, to scatter alone, Those days we spent were not my own, And so we take our final breath, And look both ways to part in death. - Aang meditates on his people.
2k words, rated G, oneshot
He smiles from across the table as he moves another piece on the board. Aang sits and looks down at the table, thinking over his piece placements, analyzing his strategies. And yet, at the same time, he can’t shake this nagging feeling in the back of his mind. This feels right… and so very, very wrong. - In which Aang has a near-death experience and finds himself speaking to Gyatso one more time.
2k words, oneshot, rated G
Additional Note: also Zuko-centric
Every night, he dreams of death. Sometimes, he dreams of flames that tower high above him, like mountains made of fire, steadily closing in on him. He dreams of an angry demon with two embers for eyes, a large, heavy hand reaching out towards his face. He dreams of lightning that slithers around a silhouette staggering erratically towards him, two hands—no, claws—lifted up as her mouth twists in a sneer. Other times, he dreams of tornadoes of fire that turn the sky the color of blood, of fireballs raining down upon decrepit temples. He dreams of screaming children running away from soldiers with skulls for faces and elderly monks rushing towards them. He dreams of splattered red and dying whispers as the flames consume even the tiniest breezes. And then he wakes up. He always wakes up. - Zuko is plagued with nightmares about the war and the Air Nomad genocide. Aang helps him out.
3.2k words, oneshot, rated G
“If you don’t mind me asking”—Aang’s voice shakes Hakoda from his reverie, and he turns to see Aang looking curiously at him—“why are you still awake?” (fire burning, burning, burning) (smoke wafting from a still body) (waking up to roaring silence) “Couldn’t sleep,” is all Hakoda can bring himself to say. He clears his throat and looks over at Aang. “And you?” Something flickers in Aang’s expression then, a flash of emotion that Hakoda notices only just in time. It disappears as quickly as it has come, but in that split second, Hakoda has seen it. Grief… and sorrow. - Hakoda and Aang have both lost too much in the war. Together, they learn what it means to live.
6.8k words, oneshot, rated G
Five times Aang took a friend dancing in the rain. One time where they all took him.
5k words, oneshot, rated G
Additional Note: also Suki-centric.
Bumi is one hundred and twelve years old and still around and kicking. Kyoshi grew up to be two hundred and thirty. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume long life is a trait exhibited by more than just those who are good. Or: Aang meets one of the firebenders who took part in the original Air Nomad genocide, and Suki deals with the aftermath.
2.1k words, oneshot, rated G
You don’t get over the genocide of your entire people and culture in a day. You just don’t. OR: Aang is grieving, Sokka is a good big brother, and he’s not sure what he thinks of this crazy kid who’s suddenly turned his life upside down, but he’s gonna try and take care of him anyways.
13.2k words, oneshot, rated G
“You always do this,” Katara whispered. She hoped he could hear the hurt there, riding the waves of her voice. “I don’t have a choice.” Aang’s voice sounded bitter, a caustic edge she’d rarely heard from him surprising her as it cut into her heart. - Aang doesn’t come out of his fight with Ozai unscathed. He should’ve known he wouldn’t be able to hide it from Katara.
2.5k words, oneshot, rated T
Aang is plagued by nightmares, and they get worse after Katara tells him she’s pregnant. Then, meditation brings a shocking surprise.
4.1k words, oneshot, rated G
“Fire is life,” said Zuko. Aang blinked away Roku’s memory, eyes clear. “Fire leads the spirits home.“ - Or, after the war the Fire Nation offers reparations to the three nations. Aang remembers that there used to be a fourth one.
5.7k words, oneshot, rated G
“Have you ever experienced something so horrible that you can never forget it?” Aang asked, glancing somewhere else other than him. It was said as if with trepidation, a whisper that Hakoda only caught because he was listening. Hakoda smiled ruefully at him. “I’ve lived my whole life in a war, Avatar. I know exactly what that’s like.” - Or, Hakoda and Aang form a bond through the years, and rites of passage are only a part of it.
3.7k words, oneshot, rated G
Once, Aang was a tall, rather broad-shouldered man hailing from the Northern Air Temple. He had a tangly beard that reached his midriff, billowing robes that he insisted he wore even though they were out of fashion, calloused hands that were skilled in woodworking, and an unrivaled passion for hot tea on a cool autumn day. The monks had called him Dorjee, a scepter, a representation of spiritual strength. He first wailed out his presence in the Eastern Air Temple, a newborn with a need to tell the world that he existed. He was told the midwives held him high above his birth mother so that he would touch the rays of sun that streaked through the open window, and that his eyes glowed for just a second into a brilliant blue. - Or, Aang remembers his people through the lives he’s lived as other Air Nomads. He is the story of a lost culture.
3.9k words, oneshot, rated G
“What are you doing here, Stinky?” Aang lifted his head, blinking at a rather tall aye-aye that stood on its hind legs, upright and bipedal. Like a human. Its gigantic yellow eyes were boring into him, observing him with outright judgement. It tapped one of its long, spindly fingers on its pointed chin. “These humans are making you work for it. You should be outside! Enjoying nature! You look like you need a bath too! Did you forget to wash again?” - Or, the winter solstice causes Aang to be all of his past lives. All at once.
3.8k words, oneshot, rated G
Additional Note: also Sokka-centric
She shook her head. The water splashed back into the bowl. “I’m afraid that everyone will forget about all the selfless things he’s done for us,” she remarked. “He’ll keep doing this for the rest of his life, Sokka. He already ended one-hundred years of war. Don’t you think Aang deserves something in return?” Sokka pulled his sister toward him until he clasped her in his arms. “You’re right,” he agreed. He let her go and gave her a grin. “I might have an idea.” - Or, in the days leading up to Zuko’s coronation, Sokka hatches a plan to thank Aang for all he had done for the world. It helps that everyone else is in on it too.
3.6k words, oneshot, rated G
“We are infinite sources of love and healing, Aang. When you are hurting, when things get hard, you must not give into it, but instead let your energy flow down inside your body, and let yourself feel whole. Let yourself forgive. We know this to be true, the same way we know that the wind cannot be contained. The same way we know we are many currents, but we live in one sky. And it’s important to learn, don’t you think?” One hundred years go by in an iceberg. Aang wonders, sometimes, if Gyatso knows just how right he was.
1k words, multi-chapter (complete), rated G
The boy was scared. A month ago, he had been a child playing air ball in the courtyard. Laughing freely with his friends. Being bested at Pai Sho by his cherished mentor. He was a child—in his home, surrounded by his family. He was content, happy, carefree. Now, he was scared. He had his tattoos and he was the Avatar and he was scared… and they were going to send him away. Away from his home. His friends. His mentor. Away from everything he knew and everyone he loved! Away. ⇋ OR an exploration of Aang’s thoughts, of Gyatso’s reaction, and of how one hungry lemur changed the history of the world.
133.9k words, multi-chapter (complete), rated T
Additional Note: Kataang, but with a focus on Aang as a character
After breaking up, Aang and Katara go their separate ways. But when unexpected events throw them back together, they have a hard time moving on—even if moving on is what’s best for themselves, and for each other. Kataang break up with eventual make up. No cheating or dating others. Post-ATLA. COMPLETE
4.2k words, oneshot, rated T
The war is over, and the Gaang gathers for one last time before going their separate ways. Aang struggles with the prospect of losing the only family he has left, but with some help from Iroh and accidental cactus juice shenanigans, he learns that friendships don’t have to end after saying goodbye. Rated T for accidental Tipsy!Kataang and Tipsy!Maiko. Written for Kataang Week 2022, Day 4: Drunk Kataang
Katara-centric Fics
20.5k words, oneshot, rated T
“What if… What if I can’t forgive him?” Forgiveness isn’t easy. (And really, who ever said it was?) This fic follows Katara’s emotional journey from the events of “The Western Air Temple” to those of “The Southern Raiders,” as she experiences firsthand both the challenges and rewards of forgiving others (and perhaps even learns to forgive herself along the way).
5.7k words, series, rated T
Sometimes people leave you, halfway through the wood. / Do not let it grieve you. / No one leaves for good. / You are not alone. / No one is alone. / Hold her to the light now, / Let her see the glow. / Things will be alright now. / Tell her what you know. How are we hurt? How do we heal? Kanna-centric and Katara-centric companion pieces, exploring waterbending a language, the damage of war, and the process of healing.
4.1k words, series, rated G
It’s hard when you can’t remember who you were supposed to be. It’s even harder when the world takes your identity away from you. But maybe those broken pieces can be found again, and even though it will never be what it once was, it’s a start. We all have to start somewhere. - Katara, the Southern Water Tribe, colonialism, assimilation, appropriation, and learning how to find her cultural identity once more.
4k words, oneshot, rated G
If there was anything Katara learned from the legends and myths of her tribe, it was that the Avatar is a god. And gods aren’t human. OR: Katara always thought that being the Avatar meant being a god. She learns from Aang that she is wrong. Oneshot.
2.7k words, oneshot, rated G
Scarcity and war can birth traditions of resilience. After the war, Katara struggles to grasp at the deeper meaning of those traditions when she fears they might not have a place anymore.
2.2k words, oneshot, rated T
Katara kills Yon Rha, and deals with the fallout.
45k words, multi-chapter (complete), rated G
Katara is passionate about many things, but when it comes to Aang, even she doesn’t know her own heart. Or, the story of how Aang and Katara got together after the DOBS kiss, told through missing scenes. Katara’s POV.
8.8k words, oneshot, rated T
Katara struggles to heal Aang after he is struck down by lightning. Five times she can never seem to do enough, and one time she discovers she is everything he needs. Or, the story of how the ordeal of healing Aang almost breaks Katara before she learns how to hope again. Written for Kataang Week 2022, Day 6: Quiet Moments/Healing Techniques
5.8k words, oneshot, rated G
“Life isn’t fair, Katara,” Sokka had told her once, eyes hard and knowing and caring and real, and she had tasted a challenge on her tongue and decided you couldn’t know unless you tried. Life has never been fair but Katara will never stop trying to make it so. This is not soft or naive or an illusion of bravery, this is a strength, and it is hers, it is hers, it is hers. (Team Avatar gets captured, and they escape, and they live. This is how it happens.)
7.7k words, oneshot, rated T
It’s one thing to say you’re ready to forgive someone, and quite another to actually do it. Katara and Zuko become friends while dealing with the potential end of world. It involves a lot of hiking, shared trauma, and trying to reclaim their childhoods from the grasps of war. Oh, and the rest of the gaang is there too.
3.2k words, oneshot, rated G
They’re on Ember Island, Sozin’s Comet is coming, and Katara has a lot of thoughts about a lot of things. (Or: three times Katara feels the weight of war in her lungs, and one time she’s able to let it go.)
11.5k, multichapter (completed), rated T
Hers was a culture of storytelling, of oral tradition that even the children found sacred to their people. It was the waters of their life, the legends and folktales that had to be told because there was no need to write them down when they had their songs and their words. From the great dancing Southern Lights where the spirits played in the festivals each year, to the Mother of the Ocean who complimented the moon. There were the tales of the folk of the highlands, those who had given themselves into nature and lived as shapeshifting beings that could change from animal to animal. Everything had a spirit, a soul. The weather, the mountainside, the iceberg that bobbed erratically upon the rough waters in the edges of a storm. - Or, Katara and Aang meet as children, and together they learn to live.
2.3k words, oneshot, rated G
Katara loves her mother with all she has, and that’s why, on the day when the snow falls down dark and ashy from the sky, the first thing she does is run back to the family igloo.
2.8k words, oneshot, rated G
Katara contemplates the various family ties in her life, on a normal and chaotic afternoon with her children. Featuring bickering cloudbabies and impromptu parades and lots and lots of love.
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
For the record while ATLA is an excellent show and Zukos redemption arc was perfectly paced, I would kill to have had Zuko join the Gaang at the end of book two, because the first half of book three would have been the funniest thing on the planet. Like. Just picture it. A bunch of unsupervised teenagers travelling undercover through enemy territory, trying to blend in… and the only people who have even been there before are 1. A guy who hasnt been there in a century, and 2. The former crown prince who has literally never spoken to a fire nation citizen who wasnt nobility, military, or one of his servants.
Like. Neither of them have any idea what they’re doing, or how normal fire nation citizens act, but they’re pretty sure the other one is wrong. Rest of the gaang knows even less. No adults. Zuko and Aang getting into a shouting debate over the finer points of fire nation culture is a nightly event. They are both so wrong, and so, so awkward
Zuko, for the fifth and probably not last time: FOR THE LAST TIME, NOBODY USES THE PHRASE ‘FLAMEO HOTMAN’!
Aang, aware of that fact but in too deep to back out now: OH YEAH? THEN WHAT DO THEY SAY!?
Zuko, clueless and bluffing: …Something about glory to the Fire Lord?
Toph, well aware that both are lying through their teeth and have no idea what they’re talking about, and fucking loving every second of this train wreck: Clearly the only solution is for both of you to go into town tomorrow and test your theories out.
And the side taking, oh my god the side taking from the other three. Katara sides with Aang every single time. Does she honestly believe that the people of the Fire Nation greet each other with ‘Flame on, my em-brother’? Hell no. Would she rather die than say that Zuko’s correct? Yes.
Sokka usually sides with Zuko, unless he comes up with something astoundingly stupid. Zuko’s thoughts, while usually wrong, sound a lot more plausible then Aangs, and fuck it he’s willing to take a gamble.
Toph is the closest thing to a neutral party they have, in that she knows damn well they’re all full of shit, and has chosen to instead egg them on to make it worse. She’s an agent of chaos, and this is free nightly entertainment. She’s having the time of her life right now.
The debate takes a brief pause once they stop going undercover and get to the business of actually saving the world, but holy shit. once things have settled down? it’s back on with a vengeance. Except now Aang and Zuko aren’t the two most wanted people in the Fire Nation, they’re the two most influential people in the world. They are trendsetters. They can make slang become a thing.
When Zuko first hears the phrase ‘flameo, hotman’ being thrown around casually, it takes a lot of deep breathing exercises to not immediately return to his previous occupation of hunting the Avatar.
Iroh: I’m so proud of the way you’ve been ruling, nephew. Flameo, hotman!
Zuko, in tears: How could you say that
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
I know I’ve said this before, but I hate when people interpret aang’s insistence on maintaining his pacifist values in his fight with ozai as an indication that he is otherwise hypermoral, or god forbid, “lawful good.” just because aang firmly believes that killing is never justified, doesn’t mean that he doesn’t believe in causing as much chaos as possible, to everyone around him, everywhere he goes. he lies to resolve conflicts, he lies for fun, he steals, he scams, he lets animals loose to stampede throughout a city, he uses a city’s mail delivery system as a slide, he blows up a factory and then immediately laughs and gushes about how fun it was watching it explode, he throws a secret dance party, he gives sokka concussions for fun, he throws illegal dance parties in the middle of an enemy nation that wants him dead, he destroys public property, he destroys private property, he shamelessly uses his status to get out of trouble—and he is never made to feel bad for any of this, because why would he? the value system he was raised on believes in tolerance, forgiveness, respecting nature, and pacifism. but his mentor/father figure monk gyatso also taught him to use his skills to throw pies directly on the heads of their community elders. his close friend bumi showed him how to wreak havoc across the four nations. yes he has a fixed moral code when it comes to matters such as killing, but he also thinks plenty of actions that others would morally object to are harmless fun. zuko calling aang “guru goody goody” is not only offensive, but it’s also inaccurate. aang is cooler than you.
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
headcanon that uncle iroh was very scary so the sailors on zuko’s ship never swore around him and zuko knows no swearwords. aang, however, knows all of them and just chooses not to use them
aang: i said fuck once cause gyatso said it and all the monks got mad at him. i haven’t said it since
zuko, who has never heard a swearword before: ????
iroh like a month later, having a zuko who knows swearwords returned to him: which one of you was it? ):< sokka?
i’m wheezing
u know what,,, au where while zuko is chasing aang, aang is letting out the most creative stream of swearwords known to man and zuko just. keeps. pausing. like what is he saying?? what does he mean???? meanwhile iroh is like,,, ‘avatar aang, i don’t think you’re a good influence on my nephew’ because zuko repeated ‘monkeyfeathers’ once to ask what the fuck it means. imagine ur enemy’s uncle comes up to u mid fight to request that u stop partaking in fights with his nephew because ur a bad influence and you’re LITERALLY the avatar and do not control the rate at which zukos attempt to fight you
Aang, on the phone with Sokka: he’s in the kitchen again…
Zuko, reading a recipe: “beat three eggs.” In what? Hand to hand combat?
Sokka: GET. HIM. OUT.
#Zuko: it says I need to 'cream' the sugar and butter...
#Aang: frantically trying to cross the apartment at the speed of panic before Zuko punches a sugar bag
(via @erisenyo)
Zuko: [gently places a stick of butter and cup of sugar in the mixing bowl]
Aang: Oh, thank god.
Zuko: [pours in entire pint of heavy whipping cream]
Aang: NO!
Zuko: “fold in the mixture”
Zuko: [gets out a towel and pours the batter into and starts folding the towel]
Zuko: Oh shoot, I forgot to "grease the pans."
Zuko: [pulls bacon from freezer.]
Zuko: [cooks from frozen]
Zuko: [burns the bacon]
Zuko: [pours burnt bacon grease into pans]
Zuko: it says to “pressure cook” the rice
Zuko: [stirring rice in a pan aggressively] you’ll never amount to anything. COOK FASTER BE BETTER
mahpotatoequeen reblogged
I know we all know that toph loves to cuss, but I just realized
She had an extremely sheltered upbringing, then when she snuck out to fight, she went to the Earth Kingdom version of WWE, which, if it’s like real world WWE, is family entertainment, and she never spent time backstage, she came she fought she left
I don’t think Toph knows any swear words
She learns to swear from team avatar and becomes all powerful.
I don’t think Sokka or Katara would know swears either; they grew up in a village consisting of them, Gram Gram, and a bunch of little kids and their moms
I don’t know if the airbenders taught aang swears or not but I know he’s not really the type to swear anyway
Zuko, on the other hand, spent about 3 years of his life as a young angry teenager surrounded by sailors
Zuko and Suki teach the Gaang to cuss— the Avatar spinoff.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aang & Suki (Avatar) Characters: Suki (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Toph Beifong, The Gaang (Avatar) Summary:
Bumi is one hundred and twelve years old and still around and kicking. Kyoshi grew up to be two hundred and thirty. It's perfectly reasonable to assume long life is a trait exhibited by more than just those who are good.
Or: Aang meets one of the firebenders who took part in the original Air Nomad genocide, and Suki deals with the aftermath.
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Somewhere, Aang’s voice is filtering over the music, loud and excited. She catches a glimpse of him directing a small army of children in a group dance of some sorts. They’re fumbling with the steps, stilted and disjointed and unfamiliar, but are quickly catching the drift. Zuko watches, too. Mutters, quietly, “He’s crazy.” Suki nods. “Utterly insane.” Both of them sound far too fond.
Source: archiveofourown.org
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 5 of childhood living is (not) easy to do Summary:
Let’s talk about Sokka: the funny one, the comic relief, the butt end of every joke. Let’s talk about how he hides behind his sarcasm and his humour, how his heart pounds in the face of danger and he tries to lighten the mood with a voice that doesn’t shake.
He makes them laugh, because he has to, because someone has to. He cannot bend the world to fit into their small hands, these kids who he keeps in his stronghold, but he can make them smile, or at least he can try.
Sokka: A character study.
Source: archiveofourown.org
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 5 of childhood living is (not) easy to do Summary:
Let’s talk about Hakoda, who left. Let’s talk about Sokka, who was left behind. (This is a boy so defined by loss.)
Sokka: A character study.
Source: archiveofourown.org