#aang's a mcguffin

[the-badger-mole]

If I may prompt: I would like to hear your Aang Is Not The Hero rant, if you'd like to share (I have my own thoughts along similar lines, but I'm curious about your take).

It's something I've talked about before, but I don't think Aang adds that much to the story. He is the titular "Last Airbender", but his major contributions are either being a conduit for more powerful beings (La, the lionturtle, the Avatar State, which he doesn't have control over even into the post series comics), or he facilitates getting the Gaang from one place to another. He's the reason that the plot is happening, but he's not an active participant. He barely acknowledges that a war is happening, let alone takes it on himself to figure out how to end it.

To call Aang the "Real Hero™️©️®️" feels laughable when his accomplishments are stacked up against his friends. His fight with Ozai isn't even the emotional linchpin of the series. We all know that honor goes to the Agni Kai, but even confrontation between Ozai and Zuko had more weight. Heck, even the scenes with Sokka, Toph and Suki had higher stakes and emotional importance. Sure, Aang grabbing Ozai by the chin leech was funny, but Sokka clinging to Toph as she dangles in mid-air is a heart stopping moment.

Beyond that, no one's relationship with Aang matters that much. He isn't a particularly good friend to any of them, and he receives far, far more than he gives in terms of development moments (and he still manages to hardly grow at all). His most major contribution to anyone else's growth ends up with him completely misunderstanding Katara. By comparison, Katara is a much more integral character. She is the one holding the Gaang together. Her conflicts with her friends contribute to growth moments with all of them. Even Toph, as criminally underdeveloped as she is, has moments with Katara that lead to them both growing as characters.

If we want to name a true protagonist for the story, or the "Real Hero™️©️®️" , it's Katara. Katara is the true hero of the story. Without her, the plot falls apart. Aang is the inciting incident for Katara's story to move forward. Essentially, Aang is a McGuffin. He could be replaced by a magic wand and reliable transportation and very little about the story would have to change.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang #aang's a mcguffin #katara is the real hero

[mdhwrites]

What if Hunter’s Disability Mattered

So... this is effectively just me discussing another direction the show could have taken. Am I saying it would have been better or that they should have? Not really. I get to use what they presented as a base for this and I’ll even talk about some of the issues at the end with the plans they possibly had for Hunter. But how cool would it have been if his lack of magic actually mattered to his character? Instead of being something that was brought up twice and then cured? That it was maybe a real component in getting to understand him, his desperation to work with his uncle, etc. like that. So the big in on this, the big change, is that... His staff is Magi-tech. Belos just has access to that. And in Hunter’s second appearance, Belos gains the abomatons, which is more magi-tech. Magi-tech that, even after falling from grace with Belos, is Kiki’s domain... for some reason. Despite her having magic. What if the abomatons weren’t introduced so quickly? What if Hunter was a true threat for the Owl Family to begin with. He shows how technology could benefit them at a time when magic seems to have failed them but getting that tech would mean aligning with Belos. So while Eda works on her potioncraft and Luz works on glyphs, Hunter is harassing and hunting them. Actually doing what his name would make you expect. And while they keep losing and scrambling away, like Aang versus Zuko where it’s hard to often call Aang getting away a flat out win for the good guys, we’re learning more and that knowledge is also letting the Owl Family fight him better. And what is causing them to constantly be in conflict? The same thing that did it in Eclipse Lake: A hunt for what’s needed to make a portal. Make that a larger part of the story and you have a reason for Luz, Eda, Lilith, etc. to go on journeys that Hunter is going on as well since Belos would already know what’s needed. Then comes the mid-season finale. A crucial component, potentially one of a kind, makes Luz surprise Hunter by not running or using tricks or holding back to try and not actually hurt another person. The spell comes out, aimed at his throat in her frustration and pain that’s been growing all season, and knocks his staff away as he reflexively tries to block it. This would be the first time we’ve seen Hunter without the staff. And rather than go for the ingredient, Luz in her anger grabs the staff and goes to slap a fire glyph on it to get rid of the tool once and for all. That’s when Hunter, his confidence truly shaken for the first time, pleas for her not to. That whatever she do, she just not break that. It could take months for his uncle to gather the ingredients to make another and until then... “Until then, I’m nothing. Less than a witch. Less than a demon. Less than the very dirt because I can’t do magic without it so please, PLEASE just don’t break it.” A long pause. A hold on Hunter’s face before the sound of something snapping. He looks up immediately to see Luz’s shoe on a stick. And then his staff in front of his eyes. “Take it. Just... take it.” “L-Let me guess,” Hunter says, even as he reaches for it, hesitantly though as he’s afraid of this being some wild witch trick, “in exchange for the object, right? That’s the deal?” “No.” Luz lets go the moment Hunter takes it before walking towards the object. Hunter, stunned, doesn’t stop her, especially as she keeps speaking. “There are times I’ve felt like that. Less than human. When the bullies make things I care about seem like nothing. But...” She says as tears come down her face. “You’re always better than that. Always a person. Always worth the right to a little kindness.” She forgets to take the object as she turns around, mcguffin in hand, trying hard not to sob as she finishes with, “And that staff or books whether you have them or not... They don’t change that fact. Just like my mom would always say. And that’s why I need to get back to her, okay?” Hunter stares at Luz, silent, not even speaking as Luz runs past him. We then get a shot of him looking down at the staff and just whispering, “Still a person... even without this?” S2B would start with Hunter gaining a new edge against the Owl Family: The abomaton. But the abomaton isn’t simply for a power up for him or a big monster to constantly have around for action scenes. We get scenes of others praising the abomaton. How it’s better than witches with how it can do magic and fight better than most of them. Kiki could in fact even do a lot of this as she mocks Hunter. But he also can’t refuse the order from his uncle to use them, nor deny their effectiveness. Now the fights take a more personal element to them. There’s more anger and pain between Luz and Hunter now as the internal conflicts brought up before flare up every time they see each other. Luz’s desperation versus Hunter’s confusion. Quickly though, the confusion wins out when Belos holds Hunter back. It’s because he’s realized the abomatons are the ones winning... So why bother sending Hunter. Belos tries to claim it’s for his safety, that without the staff, he’d be defenseless, let alone without the abominations, and Hunter loses it. Screams at his uncle about not needing them, even throwing the staff on the ground hard enough to crack it. And Belos simply says no. Without them, Hunter is useless to him. So pick up the staff, apologize, and go to his room like a good little nephew. Which Hunter does... until flying out to find Luz. He’s finally willing to listen to what she has to say about his uncle being evil. How can a good man tell him something like that after all, and an evil wild witch make him feel more cared about than his uncle ever did? And so Hunter is redeemed in time to tell the Owl Family about the Day of Unity and progress forward. So... First the big things that would make this just... not happen. 1: The shortening would FUCK this plan because while I claim it could be done in one season, it likely would rather have two so the portal hunt is more the first season with Hunter’s turn happening at the end of it and it becomes more about fighting Belos for the ingredients he has in Season 2. This also brings problem 2: This would require way more focus and serialization than TOH wants. Fitting Lumity into this would be difficult if compressed to one season (though I don’t know, maybe let the two actually go on an adventure together? Multiple of them even as Amity becomes concerned for Luz’s safety against Hunter?) and Willow and Gus questionably struggle to find as much of a place here. It would require TOH to be willing to choose one of its identities and we know that would never happen since even in S3 it STILL won’t drop the school. It also requires letting Hunter be a bastard for longer. To be more dyed in the cloth of the EC. The show goes so quickly out of its way to be like “No, this isn’t him. He isn’t a bigot like his uncle” that they wouldn’t do this either. They only let him be ‘The Golden Guard’ for like... ten minutes of screen time. Then he’s a sad but mad boy. Actually being willing to wait on that reveal, foreshadow his better nature instead? That’s just not how the show does its character arcs. Not even with Amity, who they had the time to do so with. There’s also the shipping problem. This show obviously loves its ships and this would A: make it so people might expect a Lunter ship even though I made Avatar references for a reason and Aang and Zuko do genuinely work well just staying friends. More so though B: you don’t really get Huntlow with this unless Willow of all people is showing up for a lot these missions... And more likely, Hunter, especially before the turn, would get MAD about Willow’s trouble early on with magic, despite her being so powerful and finding it effortless now, being compared to him literally not having magic. It’s like telling a depressed person “Oh, yeah, I know what it’s like needing two alarms to get out of bed because I just don’t want to go to work, but I manage it every day,” when they haven’t been able to work for a month because their anxiety and depression is so severe that feeding themselves is a struggle. They’re not the same issue. The show actually is smart enough to (if I’m remembering right) never have Willow try to say the two are the same and it’s more incidental that she makes a connection with him over it. And while I don’t care about that ship, someone on the creative team clearly does so *shrug*. And I’m not saying this is perfect. While I am personally disabled, I’m not willing to speak for all disabled people. It also is possibly too harsh on the mechanisms that allow a disabled person to do more than they are physically capable of but that could actually be addressed by Hunter never getting rid of the staff. Maybe even Eda talking to him about how she’d love to not need her potions but her potions also help her feel safe and in control and she’d possibly miss them if her curse were ever cured. Then Hunter could have a a healthy relationship with his staff, even repairing the cracks made when he threw it away. But I do think it would solve a problem with TOH. The series very much so feels like it runs on a logic of “If we present deep and nuanced concepts, we don’t have to actually do anything with them to still be praised for them.” And that’s how you have Amity clearly being emotionally abused by her family but that never reflected in her actions, especially after she decides she likes Luz. That’s how you get Willow talking about her and Amity not being real friends and then not doing anything with it for so long that when it is addressed it feels almost comical that they aren’t past this and focused on more important things. And it’s how you have someone disabled, disconnected from the rest of their society simply from being born differently... and that being more for lore purposes than actually being about the character.

#Hunter #The Owl House #Rambles

[womanistic]

One piss poor thing I hate about atl-a fanfiction (outside of the racism and misogyny and phenotype obsession and ppl knowing Tiu & La names and colorism and Zuko weebification/favoritism and racism) is that Aang is never allowed to be wise or or get angry or lie or steal (as he and every hero in the og show did regularly) or just be a character most of the time? he's treated like a cute sunshine mascot character or mcguffin that needs to be protected at all cost not like his role is to do the protecting in universe.

Aang lacks agency and any nuance in the same way Zuko lack all his characterization any comedic moments in fics. Plus all of his beliefs not just the 'no murder' one are treated as naive and cute. Not deeply held beliefs that he would fight for.

[canmom]

rewatching AtlA, and one thing that really stands out to me that I didn’t really consciously appreciate as a kid is that the editing and pacing in this show is really good. i guess it goes under the heading of fight choreography, which is widely praised about Avatar already, but that discussion from what I’ve seen tends to focus on the show’s translation of Chinese martial arts to animation. and like, that stuff rules - the characters generally move smoothly and solidly, it uses exaggerated smears in the right places - they’ve learned the right lessons from anime, to a much greater degree than later attempts to make anime-style western cartoons like She-Ra or Castlevania.

but none of that would matter if they can’t cut it into a story! and that’s what I’m noticing on this watch

the most recent episode I watched, The Waterbending Scroll, is one of the mid-season episodes that tends not to get remembered as much as the season finales and big character episodes like The Storm or The Blue Spirit. most of the second half of the episode is an extended fight scene that turns into a chase, and I found myself really noticing how they interleaved the episode’s different subplots into each other and how clearly they showed the progression of the fight.

at each point in the episode, you knew pretty much exactly where everyone was, what their intentions were, where the mcguffin had bounced to, and despite the use of a few cartoon clichés like the inexplicable giant waterfall (which makes no hydrological sense when the baddies have sailed upriver to this point from the sea) it told a very clear and appealing story. it all rolled along very fluidly, and that - as much as the shot to shot stuff of how you animate a particular move - is a really big part of choreography.

it reminded me a great deal of Every Frame A Painting’s discussion of Jackie Chan’s fight choreography:

like Jackie Chan, AtlA makes heavy use of static camera shots. this is sort of a necessity in traditional animation with handpainted backgrounds - you’re kind of limited to what can be achieved with a pan or a dolly shot (where you can simply paint a few layers of backdrop and move them at different speeds to achieve parallax). moving the camera forwards and backwards through a 3D environment is extremely hard to animate well, so it pretty much only appears in special setpiece shots like the flying scenes in many Ghibli movies, or in high altitude scenes where the background is very distant from the camera (like many sampled in this video).

in Avatar, the result is very similar to what it has in Jackie Chan’s films: every movement is clearly staged, well-lit, and shot from a wide angle, so you know exactly what’s going on, which is perfect for this kind of martial arts story and also demands a great deal of rigour in animating for it to work. of course, a lot of this probably has to do with the animation production process from storyboards through to numerous stages of revisions and frame-level timing edits - there’s a degree of timing precision you get in animation that is very hard to achieve with live action, though of course the greater control is at the same time very demanding.

on thinking about it a little more, The Waterbending Scroll doesn’t actually show you everything all the time. It hides a lot of information by having one of the pirate characters set off a smoke bomb near the beginning of the big setpiece fight, which serves to isolate particular characters (and sets up a great visual gag where Aang blows the smoke away, finds himself surrounded, and immediately pulls it right back). on one level this was probably a budget-saving measure - it’s much easier to animate a cloud of smoke than a large group of fighters - but it also serves a strong editing purpose of isolating the story-important characters and shots, without distracting with extraneous information.

AtlA has its limitations (in terms of writing of course, and in terms of the intrinsic limitations of TV animation, and certain things improved over the course of the show - the background paintings are often quite sparse on detail for example), but it’s really kind of striking just how well even the (less renowned) first season holds up on a technical level. if I get around to rewatching LoK, it will be interesting to compare it with AtlA fresh in my mind.

#animation #avatar the last airbender

[loopy777]

If you were asked to rewrite Ducktales season 1 to be one large overarching story(similar to avatar book water) instead of 2 dozen largely unrelated tales, how would you go about it?

I kind of thought it already was? There’s the building threat of Magica De Spell, the ongoing mystery of Della’s fate, and the arc of the cast acknowledging that they’ve really become a family.

If you mean in terms of an adventure goal, like Aang getting to the North Pole and mastering Waterbending, then I’d probably expand the whole Greek gods thing in some way, perhaps with a search for a treasure from Greek mythology.

That would give us more Storkules, and I love that guy and his unabashed fangirling of Donald. More importantly, the family of the gods could be a nice tie-in to the theme of the family-building. Whatever treasure or information is being sought could also be made into the McGuffin that brings Magica back, retaining her as the final threat and keeping Lena involved. I figure the cast would return home between finding clues, so there could still be one-off episodes dealing with Duckburg, and they’d jaunt around the world looking for the next clue in the line, keeping things varied.

#thekingofwinterblog

[the-badger-mole]

Please don't take this as me being judgmental, I'm really genuinely curious, but do you still enjoy the show if you dislike Aang so much? Did you dislike him the first time you watched the show or is it more recent?

Also, just wanted to say I love your writing and they inspired me to write a couple zk pieces myself ❤

Always glad to hear another writer is writing! Maybe I've read some of your work.

I still like the show (even though I can't watch anything after the Agni Kai). Not liking the main character of a show isn't that unusual. I don't particularly care for Ted Mosby, but I still like HIMYM. I've never seen The Vampire Diaries or True Blood, but from what I understand a lot of fans don't like the mains on those shows either. The good thing about ATLA is that the other characters are so well done that I can more or less ignore Aang (tbh, I feel like he's useless to the story. He's more of a plot device than a character). I didn't always hate Aang (a lot of my stronger feelings came after finding out how awful he continued being after the show), but he was never the reason I was tuning in, either.

#atla #anti aang #at his best aang inspires indifference in me #he was a mcguffin #THE YEAR OF CONTENT!!!!

[the-badger-mole]

Aang had the potential to be a great character: wise beyond his years but young at heart, the only survivor of a Fire Nation genocide but the person best able to see what they could be instead of what they are, a pacifist who ended a 100 year war without compromising his principles. It's just the execution got thoroughly bungled. I think that's my least favorite thing about him. That, or my inability to a) figure out whether i dislike or just "don't like" him and b) figure out why that is.

I frankly can't think of a single wise thing he did during the run of the show. He absolutely lucked out a few times, especially with the combo Lionturtle/Rock of Destiny assist in his battle with Ozai, but nothing he really worked for. The Great Divide incident is the only example of him taxing his little brain to come up with a solution to a problem, but I think the solution he came up with just proves that he's not really cut out to be the Avatar.

It would have made a much more intersting story for him if in the end, the people who were so reliant on him realized that he couldn't do what was needed and instead solved the problem themselves. The message of the story would have been "We are all the Avatar", and I think the show would have been better off for it. Aang was not the real hero, despite what Bryke forced poor Zuko to declare. Literally everyone except Aang had an active part in ending the war. Aang was just a puppet for the Lionturtle. He wasn't even looking for a solution. He just decided that the most practical one wasn't for him, and the universe had to step in on his behalf.

#atla #anti aang #aang wasn't the hero #he was the mcguffin that got the ACTUAL heroes where they needed to be #if you remove aang from the story very little has to change except for the initiating event #and that is a problem that's easily solved by making katara the main character #don't ask me how #that is actually the plot of a fic that i'm hoping to put out soon and i don't want to spoil it

[the-badger-mole]

https://www.tumblr.com/the-badger-mole/748859167656312832/how-is-aang-a-terrible-friend-genuine-question-i

while i agree with all your points, i tend to give aang some grace for the desert - he lost his best friend, he didn’t know what had happened to appa and he’s also just twelve

but at the same time, i do see your side of it, that isn’t always an excuse, especially when by the end of the show we haven’t been shown any sort of development of his character, we just need to assume he did all the development and he’s now the “wise and fully realised avatar”

The way I see it, this is a fictional story. The main character is fictional. He should have an arc. He does lots of terrible things that never get walked back, and that may be true to life, or whatever, but it doesn't make me root for him. Aang is the hero of the story. The hero is allowed to mess up, sure, but the hero also needs to be called on it and become a better person. Otherwise, what is even the point of telling the story? I like ATLA because I consider it to be more Katara and Zuko's stories than Aang's. He's not a good character. He's not as relevant to the story as he should be. He's just there to move the plot along. I can accept him as a McGuffin, but he will never be the hero in my eyes. If I find it more compelling to steer into his worst traits, blame Bryke. They wrote him that way.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang

[the-badger-mole]

urm. How do you watch the series and say he didn’t play an active part. I am baffled. How was he not as involved for 60+ episodes as the rest of his friends? He is always fighting with them. And that is a very tunnel visioned perspective to say it wasn’t ‘practical’ for him. He accepted to sacrifice one of the most sacred values of his people. It’s a huge thing. You know, the whole genocide and wiped out culture and everything which might be pretty important. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Narratively speaking, Aang's only purpose was to move the plot forward. His major contributions (such as they were) were either failures (like DoBS ) or the result of some more powerful beings' intervention (Like La, the Lionturtle and the Rock of Destiny, and the past Avatars). Other people put in the actual work of discovery (Sokka), self-improvement (Zuko) or heroically putting themselves on the line for the greater good (Katara). If you remove Aang from the story, you don't lose the over all plot. While the Avatar is an important feature in the plot, Aang himself does very little to effect the story. He's a McGuffin, not a protagonist. He could really be replaced by a good boat and a half-way reliable map without changing the story much. Or get rid of him and keep Appa.

As for the Air Nomads, their loss is an in universe tragedy, but it hardly ever comes into play in the actual story. I know the loss of the Air Nomads is tragic because the story sometimes tells me it is and I have real world, historical context for what that tragedy means. The story itself doesn't really make it personal, though. It's something that happened and it was bad, but Aang seems mostly fine with it, so why should I be emotionally invested? It doesn't really motivate Aang to end the war. It doesn't make him more sensitive to the injustices happening around him. He barely brings up their loss even when it would be poignant or a way for him to empathize with the people around him (like in TSR). His grief over their loss is hardly touched on at all unless it's convenient to the plot of an episode. At most, he throws in some out of context quotes from them as if they're supposed to mean something to the people around him. He was more affected by the temporary loss of Appa than by the death of his culture.

Compare that to how the loss of her mother motivates Katara. Kya's death is an indelible mark on Katara and it's an unbroken thread in her character development. Once you understand how Kya's death impacted Katara, her entire character makes sense. Kya's death is the lense through which Katara views her power; it's how she connects with people; it's the reason why she is so driven to help when it's within her power. Frankly, Katara was the real protagonist of the show, not Aang.

#atla #anti aang #katara #master katara #katara deserved better #aang was a plot device #katara was the hero of the story #but for real ALL the other characters were more necessary to the story than aang #that's what happens when you hobble your character's growth

[the-badger-mole]

Katara Appreciation Day

Without Katara, everyone on the show would be some form of dead. She was not only a warrior who fought with valor, she kept everyone fed, kept their clothes clean and wearable, she healed them, she empathized and inspired people everywhere she went. She is the true hero of ATLA, and she doesn't get nearly enough credit

#atla #katara #give her her flowers! #and a statue! #thank you katara #she was more important to the show than Aang #aang was her mcguffin

[the-badger-mole]

A little salt with breakfast

If we want to get right down to it, Avatar: the Last Airbender would still be pretty much the same show without the last airbending Avatar. The show was mostly Katara's story. She was the real protagonist. Zuko was the deuteragonist. Aang was the McGuffin. He could be replaced by a halfway decent map and a reliable mode of transportation. Even when he plays a part in a major action, he's usually acting as a vessel for something more powerful (La, the past avatars, the lion turtle), and I'm sure there was another workaround. Magic exists, and non-Avatar mortals have access to the spirit world. There's no real reason it had to be Aang those particular beings had to work through. He has so little actual impact on the plot. What does Aang actually bring to the table?

#atla #katara #zuko #anti aang #katara was the real protagonist #she was the TRUE hero #aang didn't actually do anything #he was just a way for the spirits to do the things #he could be replaced by a magic wand #we could have had an aang-less atla #and the show would have been better for it #let's be real #don't mind me #i'm just annoyed by the anti-k@t@r@ takes that have been floating around #this is my way of evening the balance #plus katara was smarter cooler braver and all around just better than aang #she should have been the avatar #zutara #if you squint

[the-badger-mole]

You know what? I’ve figured out that I don’t actually dislike Aang. I just dislike how his arc was handled.

I hate them both.

I admit that a lot of my dislike of early Aang is retroactive, but Aang as a character was consistently self-centered and unempathetic from the first season. He was always awful, but it was easy to overlook because what 12 year old isn't at least a little self-centered? But he never grew past that. I even can't give him the benefit of calling him OOC in the post ATLA canon because his worst traits were there from the beginning. But since Bryke went so hard making him a Gary Stu, they couldn't have anyone calling out his flaws or show him facing negative consequences for his actions. Having him addressing his short-comings and growing past them would mean admitting he wasn't perfect from the beginning and we can't have that now, can we? Aang turned out exactly how I would expect someone who is given everything without really putting in work for it to turn out.

His arc is a joke, frankly. I've had people try to justify his arc to me by saying it was supposed to be a flat arc, but Aang didn't even address that there was a part of the problem that was his responsibility to find a solution for. He doesn't question his part in ending the war until the second to last episode! And even then, he doesn't find the solution; the solution finds him. He only needed to be the one to take down Ozai because the plot demanded it. He didn't have to work for the solution. He didn't even have to master the Avatar State- which he didn't, seeing as he still relied on Katara to stop him from magic murdering people when he got pissed off in the comics.

Even Aang's losses ultimately mean nothing to him. His being struck by lightning was more Katara's moment than his. He lost on the DoBS and the next episode he wanted to screw off and go play after Katara and Sokka's father had just sacrificed himself to save them. That turned out to be Sokka's moment. Aang's attitude is never even really addressed. So what was the point of him even being there? Aang doesn't do anything to forward the plot. He is only there so the others have something to do and problems to solve. Aang is so passive and useless in his own story, that he could be replaced by Appa and convenient map. He's a McGuffin who somehow got promoted to the main character.

ATLA is a masterclass on how to go so hard on writing a Gary Stu character that he becomes irrelevant to his own story.

#atla #anti aang #katara should have been the avatar #or zuko #even sokka would've been a more interesting choice of hero #seriously what is the point of aang #he did the least #learned the least #grew the least #and they didn't even let toph have an arc after dobs

[the-badger-mole]

Do you think Bryke will pull a JK Rowling with the new Avatar Studios and say Zuko was gay all along?

I think that would be the kindest, most interesting thing they would do to Zuko, but I don’t think they have the imagination for it. More likely, if continue Aang’s story at all (do they even have the rights to those characters?), they’ll probably strip him of any character development and make him into mini-Ozai because...evil is hereditary or something. I predict that if they try to redo ATLA in their new studio, they’ll probably strip all the strong character moments from Katara and Zuko (post redemption) and give them to Aang to justify their insistence that he’s actually the hero of the story and not the McGuffin. 

Of course, if they do make him gay, they will probably put him in a relationship with Sokka (because of course that's what those hacks would do), and probably give Katara's character beats to Sokka (whatever ones they didn't give to Aang), because they have no imagination at all.

#atla #zutara #500 followers special #anti-bryke #brkye has no love for Zuko or his brilliant arc #the jealousy is real #anti-zukka #a little bit