#* interactions / atlas.

[nemkero]

atla au but nothing changes except sokka is taller and zuko is shorter

#just wanted an excuse to draw zuko getting picked up #but also #the interactions. theyd be so funny #“why is a 12 year old chasing us” #“IM 16” #“YOURE OLDER THAN ME??????” #au where zuko peaks at 13 then never grows #he wears platformers probably #sokka: me and the oomfieee :33 #zuko: WHAT THJE FUCK IS AN OOMFIE #atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #avatar fanart #atla fanart #atla zuko #atla sokka #atla zukka #zukka #(not drawn to be but ig u can interpret it as zukka)

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

Hugs bc these boys deserve one

#zukka #zuko x sokka #atla #zukka fanart #we literally got one (1) canon hug from them in the comics and that is a sin and a crime so #I give you: food #but tbh even if it wasn’t about shipping they should’ve hugged more #like Sokka was Zuko’s first male friend his age who had the same interests (or even similar past) as him #like #do u see this opportunity?? cuz I do #anyways I’m just salty that they didn’t interact more I’ll shut up now bye x

[yourhighness6]

"Zuko and Katara would argue all the time if they ever had a romantic relationship"

Are

you

absolutely

sure

about

that?

#it seems to me like kataang are the only ones arguing here #except maiko is too so nvm #putting end of book three zutara interactions and end of book 3 kataang interactions side by side is actually eye opening #zutara #anti kataang #anti maiko #anti anti zutara #katara x zuko #zuko x katara #atla #avatar the last airbender

[redundantz]

Avatar the Last Airbender - Toph x Zuko

#give me a fandom #bear witness to one of my crack ships #they were both my favourites and i thought they were mising a lot of fun interactions #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #zuko #toph #toko #sketches #my art #fanart #redundantz art #also i hate that older toph basically wears the same clothes as kid toph #so i kinda mixed a bunch of her outfits

[oghotonghoton-potiushi]

Dante Basco : hi,I'm the captain of zutara ship

Ian and Dallas zooming by him on a saucer with 'just got married ' written on a cardboard : We Ride At Dawn, Hotmen

#zukka #sokka #zuko #zukka forever #canon zukka save me #save me canon zukka #dallas liu #ian ousley #natla #atla #netflix avatar #anti zutara #Anti zionist #Gonna tag all my posts with prev so i don't accidentally interact with a Z

[thethiefandtheairbender]

Thinking about how Zuko aligns Aang with Azula ("You're like my sister. Everything always came easy to her") and then in his first real chance to bond with Aang, the kid is flunking firebending hard and is actively scared of it, requiring Zuko to give him some nice encouragement ("You can do it. You're a talented kid")

#zukaang #antis don't interact #CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THAT AS A ZUKAANG SHIPPER BUT. the cognitive dissonances are unreal apparently #otp: kindred spirits #brotp: and now we're friends #parallels #yeah he's a talented kid he's regularly kicked your ass lmao #atla #mine

[andhumanslovedstories]

Love Iroh interacting with White Lotus shit. Zuko’s over here yelling “why do you two gas bags keep saying weird shit instead of instantly solving the problem?” and Iroh’s just smiling at other old guy saying like “The Crane Flies North On Silent Wings. Also You Simply Must Excuse My Beloved Autistic Nephew”

#PEAK Zuko episode just for the vibes he brings #REAL awkward teen boy forced to interact with his uncle’s adult friends #atla

[ranilla-bean]

culture tips for writing asian settings: ghosts of war (spoopy edition)

for halloween, let's talk about ghosts in asia—specifically ghosts as a legacy of the japanese invasion of the asia-pacific. the asian pacific rim is filled with ghost stories, especially at sites of japanese wartime atrocities.

i tend to argue that the fire nation, culturally, draws on southeast asia but without a doubt its industrialised imperialism and wide-ranging atrocities is influenced by japan in ww2. there's a lot of fertile ground for fan creators to explore the legacies of that trauma and, in a world where the veil between the spirit and physical world is so permeable, ghosts can be an excellent entry point.

my grandpa, never a superstitious man, was a child in southern china during the japanese invasion. amid the slaughter around him, he experienced something disturbing: one night, all his lamps blew out, a rooster started to crow, and outside in the moonlight he saw the shadow of a headless figure walking about. terrified, he started to recite sutras—and the figure disappeared.

my partner's family built a house on a vacant plot in the philippines and experienced paranormal activity for years. when a priest came to exorcise the house, my partner saw him chase a shadow up the stairs. an unseen force also gouged claw marks into their wall. the family eventually discovered they had built the house over a japanese burial site.

these aren't the only stories. ghosts of the tormented and their tormentors lace hong kong, malaysia, singapore, the philippines, indonesia, and more. if we think of ghosts as spirits who linger because of resentment or unfinished business, there's something tragic about their manifestation as a legacy of japanese occupation. it speaks to the cruelty they were subjected to, the unnatural circumstances of their death: soldiers tortured, women enslaved for sex, civilians beheaded.

there's so much room for ghosts to explore the legacy of war and trauma in atla. ghosts confront us with the past. ghosts seek to assert power and dominance over place, perhaps the same places where they had been disempowered. they evoke fear but also compassion. what do you think might be some places still haunted—literally—by the fire nation's imperialism?

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#atla #atla culture #atla meta #avatar the last airbender #asian culture tips #halloween #ghost stories #i wouldn't say im superstitious but i feel like there's Shit Out There and i'd rather not provoke it #ya feel? #also why i avoid occultism like the plague. don't need to be trying to interact with them on purpose sdjfkldsj

[vladimpale]

vacation on kyoshi island

#I'd like to think that more often than not the two of them meet sokka on kyoshi island rather than the fire nation #more people should ship zuki tbh #i know a lot of fans base their ships on canon interactions AND THEY HAVE PLENTY (at least in the comics) #can i tag this as zukki even if sokka is not here? yall should know in my mind he's very much in a relationship with them #i've had this in my wips for like a year now #this took like 9h and 5 of them were spent trying to figure out how to color this #i have so many versions of this in my phone now sjhds #ive tried drawing a background but ig its not for me djdhsk #zuki #zukki #atla #suki #zuko #my art

[cienie-isengardu]

Zuko and Azula in "The Beach"

Lately I think a lot about "The Beach" episode [x], especially about this small detail of great teamwork Zuko and Azula have during the game.

Zuko is looking ahead, directly facing their rivals (who had the control of the ball at this moment) but his body is clearly lowered to the ground, left hand most likely touching the ground, legs bent and widely spaced - a clear contrast to Mai standing near and how he stood before on two separate occasions

which is why I think Zuko willingly create an opportunity for Azula, so she could jump higher - something she definitely used to their team’s advantage. If Azula simply jumped on her brother’s back when he wasn’t expecting it or wasn’t ready, he would probably just fall face down from the impact but as the scene shows, he had no such problem nor was angry about it in the following scenes.

During the game sequences there was no dialogue shown between our protagonists, so it is hard to determine if Azula in advance called Zuko to give her a “lift” or Zuko offered on his own, or did they were that much in sync they just acted without thinking. Regardless I like this few seconds long interaction, because for me it implies how they trusted each other despite all the rivalry and bitterness from previous episodes. Like Zuko trusted Azula won’t use that moment to hurt/humiliate him by overuse of force, the same as Azula trusted in Zuko’s strength and that he won’t mess up by losing his balance. It is a small thing but no less sweet to see them working well together when fighting for the same goal - what reminds me a bit their teamwork from the previous season finale.

Interestingly, it was also the second time Zuko assisted Azula in scoring against their rivals while not scoring himself any point on screen. The first time happened almost right at the beggining of the game (second from total five sequences)

while each girl have the solo sequence of winning a point:

Azula's first attack,

later Ty Lee landing on the net

and Mai kicking the ball (and presumably scoring)

while Zuko’s two actions are shared only with his younger sister while there is no sense of competition between the siblings, something contrasting a lot with some previous and later episodes.

Azula is bossy and competitive through most of the episode and her brother lets her be that without a complaint. Azula and Zuko get along pretty well and A) do not argue (with the exception of the campfire scene and then they argue not even for the whole scene itself) and B) don't get on each nerves the way they do in the palace, with Ozai's presence looming in the back of their mind. I absolutely adore this episode, as it humanizes all our Fire Nation characters by showing them as teenagers outside the war zone but also giving us a bit of insight into what Azula and Zuko could be if Ozai didn't pit them against each other. And they could be a great team!

#atla #avata #avatar: the last airbender #prince zuko #azula #mai #ty lee #zuko and azula #fire nation #fire nation siblings #avatar: the last airbender - the beach episode is such a great mini story #look i have a lot to say about zuko and azula and their messed up relationship but this episode just make you realize how much azula & zuko #are socially awkward teenagers who have no idea how to interact with their peers #but also the deep of their bond shattered by ozai's abuse and yet somehow still connecting them on emotional level #when they can be just kids not ozai's perfect soldiers and heirs #also zuko just tagging with azula's friends is both funny and sad he has no friends of his in fire nation #while sokka will be the first boy befriended close to his own age (with aang a bit younger and lu ten some years older) #i think a lot about the tragedy of azula and zuko okay? a lot as in too much

[muffinlance]

I saw your “Zuko brings home two dragons and becomes fire lord” story (it was awesome :3). But what if Zuko got hurt somehow and the dragons went apeshit. (Cause they’re friends right?)

(Continued from this prompt.)

Hakoda’s fleet set sail six months ago. Fire Lord Ozai was assassinated in the middle of his own war council, by his own son, two months ago. The Earth Kingdom contacted Hakoda three weeks ago, with the proposal for a joint operation.

The new Fire Lord is traveling his lands, securing allies—rooting out opposition—in the wake of his regicide. A source close to his inner council, one concerned by violence uncommon even by the standards of Fire Nation nobility, leaked his travel schedule. Much of it is by sea.

They skirt the blockade to the South, between shifting glaciers. They work their way north, flying merchant flags. They strike at night. The deck crew is easily overtaken. Understaffed, even. Suspiciously so. But if this is a trap, it’s one they’ve already sprung. And if this is the work of the same traitor that sent them the prince’s schedule and ship plans, then Hakoda won’t waste the opportunity.

“Wait,” he whispers, as Bato catches a startled servant from behind. The kid is young. In his nightclothes. Freshly scarred by his nation’s own fire, in a way that doesn’t say good things about why a young child would be coming out of the Fire Lord’s own cabin in the middle of the night. Wide gold eyes stare at Hakoda over the top of Bato’s muffling hand. 

“Son of a—” hisses Bato, as quietly as a man can, when a child has just bitten his hand. The kid keeps struggling as Bato pins him against a wall. Hakoda shoves the Fire Lord’s door open, and—

Is greeted by an empty cabin, with mussed sheets, still warm from their occupant’s departure.

Hakoda steps back into the passageway, and crouches down to the kid’s eye level. “Easy; we aren’t here to hurt you. Where’s the Fire Lord?”

The kid glowers at him. “Did General Bujing hire you?” 

Footsteps down the companionway herald a much different general’s arrival. “That would be telling,” says Fong. “Excellent work, Chief. We’ll take it from here.”

…Facts click into place, and Hakoda does not like what he’s left with.

The kid is the Fire Lord. 

The Fire Lord is barely thirteen.

And Hakoda is realizing how much of their intelligence on the monstrous patricidal new Fire Lord came through Earth Kingdom channels, and how many details Fong did not find pertinent for the Water Tribe’s easily recruited Chief to know. 

“I think we can keep one kid contained on our ship,” says Bato, who also saw the cell General Fong had specially prepared. It had seemed a reasonable cruelty, at the time.

“I’ll bite you again,” growls the Fire Nation’s tiniest despot, not helping.

There’s a tense moment as Hakoda’s men, finished securing the ship, gather around him. Just as Fong’s men are gathering around him.

“Very well,” the general concedes, with a smile Hakoda no longer finds affable.

* * *

The new Fire Lord is a man of his word: he does, indeed, bite Bato again.

* * *

It’s dawn on deck. They hurry the prince off his own ship, partially to get away from Fong, and partially to move the boy past his dead countrymen as quickly as possible. The kid’s face had been—

Hakoda had not expected to find the new Fire Lord so young. But it’s even more of a surprise, somehow, to find that the new Fire Lord cares. Not all of the kid’s crew are dead. And it wasn’t the plan, but… Hakoda orders them left that way. Sends his own healer over to save as many as possible. 

“You didn’t use your fire against us,” Hakoda comments, as they stand on his own ship. Fire Lord Zuko’s eyes are fixed on the triage happening on the next deck over. But he takes a moment to look up at Hakoda, and finds a shade even paler than white to turn. 

The healing burn over his own face was a partial answer. The look on his face gives Hakoda the rest. 

“Good,” Hakoda says, even though the kid hasn’t said anything. “Fire shouldn’t be turned on people.”

“Fire is life,” the boy says quietly, in some kind of agreement. He turns back to watching his crew, his people. Those of them that can be saved. 

Hakoda knows that feeling. Has stood that watch. 

It’s dawn, so a streak of red in the sky can go unnoticed for quite some time. Blue as well, as the morning’s colors fade. Until both are rather too close to be ignored. 

Exclamations spread among the crew. He can hear them from Fong’s ship, as well. But it’s the cheering on the Fire Lord’s ship that sends the first chill down his spine. 

The new Fire Lord is barely thirteen. And he hasn’t been scared at all during this; not for himself. 

Hakoda realizes again just how little he knows about the new Fire Lord, just in time for two dragons to land. The blue one dives into the water. It barely makes a splash, but the force of water its titanic body displaces sends his ship lurching under his feet. It surfaces again, the great coils of its body wrapped around all three ships. It’s like something from a drunken sailor’s yarn about sea serpents; the kind that shouldn’t have left any witnesses alive to tell the tale.

The red one lands almost daintily, its four feet touching down on the only ship it doesn’t care about sinking, like a polar bear-ferret perched on a too-small rock. The rails of General Fong’s ship are forced down nearly to the waterline, his crew scattering and shouting. 

Two heads the size of a god’s dreaming loom over Hakoda’s deck.

The boy next to him huffs. “I’m fine,” he says. And then he looks up at Hakoda, with that same confidence he’s had, even when he was tackled by strange men in the darkness of his own ship. 

“The war is over,” says the burned child, with the force of two ancient dragons behind him. “We should negotiate.”

…Hakoda negotiates.

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#What Zuko Thinks He Is Saying: okay this was an awkward start to international relations but you’re here now so let’s talk? plz? #What Hakoda Is Hearing: My dragons sure look hungry don’t they. better talk fast chief <3 #World’s Tiniest Most Sincerest Fire Lord Continues to Strike Terror in All Adults He Interacts With #More at eleven #Avatar The Last Airbender #atla #Zuko #Hakoda #Hello Dragons Here

[nemkero]

zuko when i make him my oc (hi)

#hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby #there is almost zero difference between them #but #he gets less scrawny #and grows a lil #im just soft for happy affectionate comic zuko #hes so cute #hope he die #and this will be like #the only time ill draw book 3 zuko standing straight #anyways #only drew this to use as reference #bc i wanna draw them interacting #i love stupid self indulgent time travel bs #atla #avatar #avatar fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #atla art #atla zuko #zuko #fire lord zuko

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

Korrasami bc I haven’t posted them yet and international lesbian day was this week

#korrasami #korra x asami #atla #korrasami fanart #I LOOOOve them sm #when I first watched the show I shipped them from their first interactions #cuz like #I was starved for wlw stuff #but then they ended up being CANON??? #literally screaming crying throwing up but also now #we have a lot more wlw representation in cartoons #everyone say thank u Korrasami :)

[punkeropercyjackson]

Aang:....Sometimes,i can't help but feel like i was being selfish for not killing Ozai because i wanted to keep the Air Nomads alive through me.Like i'm actually a bad person-

Zuko,cutting him off and upset:Maybe you weren't actually a bad person.Maybe you were just fucking twelve

@kitkatperce

#CANONICAL INTERACTION🗣🗣🗣I WOULD KNOW I'M A GAANG MEMBER AND AANG'S BESTIE AND ZUKO BOYWIFE☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼 #ZUKO SAID AANG RIGHTS BIIIIIITCH Z/KS STEP OFF #aang and zuko #aang #zuko #pro aang #aanglove #aang defense squad #dadko #genderfluid aang #audhd aang #pastel punk aang #trans zuko #autistic zuko #atla geekery #avatar:the airbender legacies #zunia #nia the dragon nomad #dragon parents #💌 #aang supremacy #summerposting #anti zutara

[telffiin]

hate that whenever a person even dares to say something remotely sympathetic about azula there's like 10 fuckers in the replies going like 'nah she's pure evil there's nothing redeeming about her' SHUT THE FUCKKK UPPP GOD STOP PISSING ME OFF.....

#esp when they pull out the 'zuko was also raised under ozai!' shit...... zuko wasn't exactly an angel either people....... #this is why i don't like to interact w/ atla twitter............. #atla #avatar the last airbender #azula

[dracupie]

This is my proposal for a nicktoons unite roster. (yes its self indulgent)

#Uhhhhg yea i feel like shit and im losing my mid #But hey i watched Quinton's vid on nicktoons and he mentioned monster high so i shall deliver #He said not to include the main 4 AKA Timmy Jimmy Danny & spongebob #So i figured #Magic adjacent tech genius powers silly guy #And like i thought and thought and BOOM #I would like to see this 4 (5 bc of catdog) interact #Also i would like to have Zim as the antagonist #This is just a silly thing i made for my own fun bc i cannot muster to be alone w my thoughts rn #Also i feel awful about what Quinton has been going on and i hope only but the best for him #shadow talks #More like a ramble #draculaura monster high #Monster high g3 #donnie hamato #Rottmnt #toph beifong #atla #Catdog #Nicktoons #Nicktoons unite #quinton reviews #Im going insane