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APPA in Avatar: the Last Airbender

1.09 — “The Waterbending Scroll”

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I know those eyes, following me

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Tbh the problem with ship wars is that everyone tries to find a moral high ground to prove their ship is superior when actually shipping should be about making two characters kiss like a kid playing with barbie dolls

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Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

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This is very personally about Zutara for me

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my loser boy gets his notebook back and immediately gets back to work 🌊

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Sometimes I think about exactly how powerful Zuko’s story as an abuse victim is and I just have to stop and tear up for a minute.

Just let it sink in that at 13 years old, Zuko’s father mutilated him in front of an audience and told him he was worthless and unwelcome until he completed an impossible mission. Nobody stepped in to help him. Most onlookers thought he deserved it, and even Iroh was too afraid of Ozai to challenge him in Zuko’s defense.

Zuko went on for years believing Ozai was right, and didn’t recognize what happened to him as abuse. He thought his banishment and suffering were his own fault because something was wrong with him, and that it was his duty to change to become worthy again.

Then this scene? Absolutely incredible.

Zuko’s whole journey leads up to this confrontation, where he not only recognizes that he holds no responsibility for the abuse inflicted on him; he confronts his abuser and tells him he was wrong to treat him that way, that he doesn’t owe his abuser anything.

And not only that, Zuko also tells Ozai that he sees how he’s hurting the rest of the world the same way he hurt him, and vows to stop him. That’s literally so powerful, especially watching this as someone who once felt as broken and alone as Zuko once did. His story is everything to me.

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Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

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everything, everywhere, all at once

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I love how Zuko and Katara immediately turn to look at each other when Toph asks where Aang is.

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Actually going insane thinking about the way both Katara and Zuko could be either fire or water based on Uncle Iroh's descriptions in "Bitter Work".

"Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire and will and the energy and drive to achieve what they want." He is talking about Zuko here, his constant determination and drive and his need to be validated by his father, but he's also talking about Katara. Katara, who, as the last southern waterbender, needed to be the best in her class in the north and had to work both for that position and a place in that class in the first place. Katara, whose enduring hope that the war could end, that Aang could save the world, is the result of sheer unadulterated willpower.

And "Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything." He is talking about Katara here, her need to take care of her family and feel close to her culture as well as her cleverness and ingenuity in the face of danger, but he's also talking about Zuko. Zuko, who lived life by the seat of his pants and changed directions as easily as a flowing river. Zuko, who needed his family and his home so much that he was willing to do almost anything to get it back until he realized that the world was suffering for it.

Uncle Iroh is the biggest Zutara shipper and even though I do have complicated feelings about him, I do have to give him credit for that.

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❝You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun.❞

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Baby Sokka and Katara 'cause cuteness

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Thinking about zutara in the finale outfits…. this is my canon ending 🌸💕

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The Southern Water Tribe ambassador and the Firelord.

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