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The first appearance of Toph and Aang in this AU. And their rapid disappearance :) …Sokka likes to solve complex problems. And it’s means that Katara has no chance!

Avatar AU where Aang wakes up like 3 days before Sozin's Comet returns and he has to speedrun the entire series.

The south pole and north pole exist on the same map file so if you break out of bound you can get from one to the other without having to travel the world.

Zuko's redemption stat and hair stat are tied to the same variable, so if you put the right wig on him he becomes automatically redeemed.

Toph's Earthbending allows for ample sequence breaks. If you create a ramp next to the Ba Sing Se wall you could launch yourself straight into the season 2 finale.

Unfortunately you have to complete Bato of the Water Tribe because otherwise June won't appear in the finale, softlocking from you beating the Fire Nation.

It's not actually necessary; but everyone always stops at the southern air temple to pick up Momo. It's become a tradition, where the speed runs are automatically invalidated if you didn't get him.

If I see you doing a Momoless run I’m unsubscribing.

Look it's called Any%. Momo% is it's own sub category, which is just how fast you can get Momo, and FullMomo% is Any% but you have to pick up Momo AND do all of the mini-game sections with him.

Momo% runs in 2005: Using the infinite glider glitch to fly straight to the southern air temple

Momo% runs in 2024: Modulating Sokka's SPM (sexism per minute) rate to manipulate the RNG for a favorable spawn in the underground Momo matrix

there are only so many world leaders, right? and they’re all beholden to sokka in some major way…

basically what I’m saying is sokka secretly rules the world

I think what you’re saying is that sokka secretly rules the world and has no fucking idea.

I’m totally on board with this except I think Sokka is an actual, full-fledged member of the White Lotus, and he also doesn’t realize that.

The White Lotus kept inviting him to meetings, and he showed up and assumed they were just humoring his interest. His initiation was much the same; he’s dead certain that they just gave him a robe and made him part of the ceremony to “feel included”. And he’s super touched by the way they keep inviting him to those meetings and even seem interested in what he has to say! Sometimes (a lot of times, actually, but he doesn’t even notice that) they even use his ideas!

They’re really cool people, those White Lotus guys. Sokka thinks it would be pretty awesome to be a part of their group.

#broke: didnt know they were dating #woke: didnt know they were a secret society member #thought they were just being polite

Sokka: Aang y'know how you took away Ozai’s firebending?

Aang: I recall yes

Sokka: can I have it

Aang: …what?

Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes

Aang: what no

Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko

Aang:

Aang:

Aang: okay five minutes

This fukn post had me reeling so ofc I had to draw it

hi take everything I own

There’s more!

I’ve seen a post going around suggesting Zuko doesn’t know Aang’s name, which I believe is incorrect, so: blistering hot take, here is my general estimation on whose names Zuko knows by the time he asks to join in S3:

Aang: Zuko definitely know’s Aang’s name. This is because Katara has a habit of yelling it when he’s in danger, and also because once we get to S2 Aang’s been involved in enough antics that his name and appearance seem to be generally well-known within both the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation. He says “the avatar” when he first joins because even though he knows Aang’s name he doesn’t feel like they’re on that basis yet and he’s trying to be polite. No mystery here.

Katara: Zuko sort of vaguely maybe knows Katara’s name. He definitely knows who she is, having fought her enough times. He could recognize her on sight and if you asked him “hey, what’s the deal with that water tribe girl who travels with the avatar?” he could give you a reasonable summation of her bending ability (scary) and her personality (hates him, dead mom, weirdly nice sometimes). But her name? God, give him a minute. He’s definitely heard it before. 90% sure it starts with a C.

Sokka: Zuko knows there’s a water tribe guy who travels with the avatar and doesn’t seem to be a bender. Could not tell you his name if you put a gun to his head.

Toph: Zuko has no fucking idea who Toph is. 

Hey um what. What goddamn business did Omashu have having a King?? Like I never really questioned it since it came from such an early Book One still-world-building episode but. Omashu is a city, for starters, and it’s a city in the Earth Kingdom. Which. You know. HAS a king. 

You know I bet, honestly, Omashu doesn’t have a king. And NEVER had a king. Omashu had a succession of Governors or some shit and on the day that Bumi took the mantle he said “Fuck this ‘Governor Bumi’ stuff that’s lame. Call me King.” and when his advisors said they can’t legally do that Bumi passed a law changing his title from Governor to King, stuck a crown on his head, and called it macaroni.

And the citizens of Omashu were probably just like “alright” cuz like. Bumi strikes me as the kind of Local Town Eccentric who has a working personal relationship with pretty much everyone so all 100,000 people of Omashu heard this decree of Kingship and went “yeah that tracks” and got on with their day.

Outside of Omashu though? Good god. That’s gotta be a fucking look. At this point 112-year-old Bumi has been ‘King’ for a lifetime longer than the actual Earth King. What a look. How much sleep do you think Long Feng loses about this??? How many assassination attempts do you think he tried to carry out, only to have the Dai Lee come crawling home with the imprint of Bumi’s face smashed into their armor and some rock candy stuffed into their socks?

Ba Sing Se adores its appearance of order and structure and hierarchy and I cannot even begin to imagine their Daily Hell of dealing with Omashu’s centenarian feast-loving candy-munching batshit unhinged and utterly unkillable pseudo-King. 

The Fire Nation taking over Omashu was probably the happiest goddamn day of Long Feng’s life.   

We never saw Bumi’s children so it’s a distinct possibility that his heir was his pet rabbit. 

It must be the literal weirdest living in Omashu. At first it’s like, sure, your king is extremely elderly and seems to have no heirs but, hey, he mostly hangs out and eats rock candy, so whatever, he’s chill. You go about your life. The Avatar shows up and surfs your postal system, but your extremely elderly king seems fine with it so you just kinda shrug and continue with your day. Then one day the Fire Nation appears and your extremely elderly king just…surrenders. No questions asked. And you’re living under colonial rule for months. And then the Avatar shows up again and surfs your king around for a second before putting him back in jail. But then, then an eclipse happens and suddenly your extremely elderly king explodes out of prison shirtless and absolutely positively ripped and kicks out the Fire Nation single-handedly before fucking off to Ba Sing Se to hang out with his weird old man buddies leaving you and your city standing there like. What. What are you supposed to do with that.

This is a god-tier take and you should be very pleased with yourself.

A few contenders for Avatar’s Spiciest DILF:

1. Gansu

Pros 

- Zuko-approved (probably)

- protective af

- probably has a mysterious, dark past

- will fight cops

- can fix your roof

- pretty built tbh

Cons 

- his kid was a shit-stirrer 

2. Iroh

Pros

- canonically the smoothest man in the whole earth kingdom

- 1000% Zuko-approved

- dragon-approved as well

- protects endangered species

- makes great tea

- does the whole firebending breathing thing

- actual royalty

- invented lightning redirection 

- went to prison and got buff

- single-handily broke out of prison

- has fought cops

- enemy of the state 

Cons 

- more of an uncle figure 

- did some war crimes 

- shopaholic 

3. Tyro

Pros 

- can earthbend

- best(?) beard in the show

- went to prison twice 

- will fight prison guards

- broke out of prison 

- tall

Cons 

- needed some random teenagers to help him break out of prison 

- that beard again, is it the best beard? or is it too santa claus-esque? 

- let Haru grow that dumb mustache 

4. The Mechanist 

Pros 

- best(?) eyebrows in the series 

- chaotic energy 

- raised Teo, aka the literal definition of sunshine 

- King of Accessibility 

- biomedical engineer 

- made some cool submarines 

- has gone to prison 

- has fake fingers 

- will have snacks on standby at all times 

Cons 

- gentrified a genocide site 

- made some airships for the fire nation 

- has that Count Olaf hair going on 

- worst(?) eyebrows in the whole series 

- some randoms kids had to force him to grow a spine 

- does he have a name? who knows? 

5. Hakoda

Pros 

- Cheekbones™

- gives good hugs 

- beat up a tank 

- where Sokka got his Hair™ from, you know what I’m talking about 

- protective AF 

- single dad 

- Zuko-approved 

- tripped a prison warden after being in prison for 5 minutes 

- said ‘fuck cops’ 

- dad jokes 

- supports both of his kids equally unlike *glares at his unroyal majesty bitchlord Ozai* SOME PEOPLE 

- went to prison and escaped within less than 2 days 

- I mean… is it really a competition? 

Cons 

- is bad at starting prison riots 

(in no particular order, added entries will be considered, but we all know what’s up)

some added entries: 

6. Bato 

Pros

- Tall™ (canonically the tallest person in the series)

- hair is very pretty 

- spent months chilling in a perfumery so he probably smells fantastic 

- can cook 

- isn’t a dick to children 

- went to prison 

- supportive stepdad 

- very good at Boats™ 

- drinks his Respecting Sokka Juice 

Cons 

- technically a step-DILF 

- is kind of intimidating when you first meet him 

- doesn’t appreciate good comedy 

7. Chief Arnook 

Pros 

- also drinks his Respecting Sokka Juice 

- doesn’t ignore solid advice just because it’s from children 

- Hair™ 

- father of the moon 

- will fight imperialists 

Cons 

- engaged his daughter to a grade-A douche bag

- isolated his tribe when the Southern Water Tribe was dealing with the aftermath of a genocide  

- upheld the patriarchy 

- allowed bitchmaster Pakku to be a dick to children 

8. Than 

Pros 

- loves his wife 

- probably tells good dad jokes 

- solid beard 

- world traveler 

- most likely spent a portion of his youth wandering aimlessly in the desert drinking cactus juice before getting his act together and becoming a functional human being for his wife 

- Zuko-approved (in the sense that Zuko decided not to steal from him) 

- gives good foot massages 

Cons 

- won’t fight cops 

- named his kid Hope 

- is most likely the kind of guy who would engage with the cashier at the grocery store who doesn’t particularly care about the taco night he’s planning and is probably too hungover for this shit and sir could you please just buy your vegetarian beef and leave 

9. Sha-Mo

Pros

- Tall

- kinda looks like he’d be buff under them sandbender robes

- did his best as a single dad

- courteous to outsiders and offered to give hospitality to the Gaang

- he recognized a sand sailer and what tribe it belonged to in seconds you KNOW this man won’t forget ur anniversary 

- shut his son down when he was being a Little Bitch

- his name is French for camel and that’s a pro bc i think it’s cute damn it

Cons

- man of few words

- raised Ghashiun to be Like That

Nearly two decades later, I think it just fully hit me why Iroh told Zuko's crew about how he got his scar. It wasn't just to say, "Have some sympathy for him, he had a hard childhood." It was because the crew were all upset (rightfully so) that Zuko had said, "The safety of the crew doesn't matter." and Iroh was trying to point out that, yes, what Zuko had said was wrong, but that's not what he really thinks, at least, that's not what he used to think. There was a time when Zuko cared about the safety of soldiers he had never even met, so much so that he spoke out of turn, which is what led to the domino effect that caused all of them to be sitting on that ship together. And this is brought full-circle when Zuko climbs the ladder to help the helmsman at the end of the episode. And that's when the crew realizes that, temperament aside, Zuko actually has been and is still willing to put everything on the line for the safety of others.

Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?

this made me laugh so hard

Beam Of Lightning in Kangiqsujuag

More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:

au where Aang gets told he's the Avatar (and subsequently frozen) at 16 like he was supposed to.... I think it would change a lot honestly

there’s a reason why the entire story of avatar the last airbender begins and ends with katara. there’s a reason why we are introduced to katara first before we are introduced to any other character. there’s a reason why katara is the narrator. there’s a reason why the creators have emphasized over and over again that katara is just as titular to the story as aang - she’s the other main character.

when you water down katara - remove her compassion, her ability to connect with others, her nurturing role, her ANGER and RAGE and DRIVE - you water down the very fundamentals of the story. you drastically and severely alter the core dynamics of the gaang, because katara was so important to the development of every single one of them. she was the rock and glue that held team avatar together.

katara was unlike any other character to ever appear on television; she was a young brown girl who took no shit from anyone, yet at the same time remained kind and compassionate and nurturing. katara was a force of nature; proud of her heritage and culture, burdened by the responsibility of being the last southern water bender of the water tribe, angered over the death of her mother and everything that the fire nation took from her, determined to help every single person in need, determined to change the world, angry and resentful because old men and rules and laws kept telling her what she could or could not do, thus, she was determined to restructure thousands of years of patriarchy that stood against her from accomplishing her goals and dreams.

watering down katara into at most 2-3 tangible characteristics, stripping her away of all her motivation and agency and nuance, telling the audience that she wants to help and change the world only to have her stand in the background with an air of grief, demonstrates that the writers of the live action fundamentally misunderstand the spirit of avatar. and that’s something so unforgivable. no matter how many changes they decide to make, or how much they decide to stay true to the original story in other areas, no matter how many flashy VFX fight scenes we get - if you fail to properly understand katara, you fail to understand the heart and soul of avatar the last airbender, everything that makes avatar such a timeless classic.