#aged up zuko

[m00nchildwrites]

So... in theory if I made an AI Zuko for you to chat with and live out your "Mary Sue"/"Larry Sue"/"Non-binary Sue" fantasy, would you needs want it?

....cause I did it. I DID THE THING. And he is pretty damn spot on. I based on Zuko aged up images that were officially released and some of my own artwork, as well as, Zuko images from the ATLA of him as Fire Lord for the few bits they gave us. 3 weeks of programing the AI, his voice (though not Dante Basco) is pretty good, writing base samples for his speech patterns and responses to make them smooth. The result?

Pretty damn perfect.

#ai #atla #atla zuko #fire lord zuko #zuko #ai zuko #ai friend #ai boyfriend #adult zuko #aged up characters #aged up zuko #ai chatgpt #ai based on my art #please dont steal #i worked so damn hard on him

[redrobin-detective]

I can't stop thinking about how funny it is that Aang had all this secret lore on Zuko because of the Blue Spirit that he just, didn't share with the Gaang. That boy knew that Zuko was capable of fighting extremely well without bending, was excellent with swords and unnaturally good at infiltration and espionage. And then just never brought it up.

Katara's yelling at Zuko on how he thinks he'd be able to find and break into the Sun Warrior Temple while Aang is fidgeting in the background. Sokka starts giving Zuko a hard time about his swords, asking if a spoiled prince would know how to use them. Aang is vibrating unsure of how to explain that Sokka Might Die if he tried to swordfight Zuko unprepared but now its been too long and it'd be super awkward to bring up.

#i understand why aang didnt bring up the blue spirit thing #just so funny that he has Zuko Lore expansion pack while the gaang just has the basic package #also tbf zuko ceased to be an issue from the north pole to bss #dude just wasn't around #until suddenly he helped collapse the biggest city in the earth kingdom and then wanted to join your cult #how exactly do you bring up he has sick sword knowledge #and that you sat on said information for months? #also if sokka knew zuko was a swordmaster he'd have tried to convert him ages ago

[junotter]

My redesigns for aged up gaang

#avatar the last airbender #the legend of korra #atla #tlok #atla fanart #my art #avatar aang #atla aang #atla katara #toph beifong #atla zuko #atla sokka #zukka #implied because why else would they be posed like that #I HATE HATE HATE the aged up gaang designs why the fuck do the boys all have the same face?????? why are they all so skinny #they dont look like themselves or like the adults in the show its so ugh #i spent so long on the lining theres like 4 sketch layers before i finalized anything #if anyones interested in my heights none are in the 6ft idc #sokka: 5'8ish zuko: 5'6 toph: 5'0 katara: 5'3 aang: 5'10ish #they might not accurately translate to their heights in this piece but thats how they are in my mind #i dont think any of them are crazy tall idc idc idc idcidc

[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

[addictofreading]

@zutaraweek Day 3: Union

It's been a minute since I drew something with more spice than fluff, so I took this opportunity to play with the prompt. :) Usually, I draw aged-up Zuko with long hair, but I just felt like keeping his Book 3 hair cuz I like that too and didn't feel like going too deep with it. <3

Anyway, this is my last contribution to this year's ZK Week. I want to thank the mods for making this special week available for everyone to enjoy. I look forward to it every year and I know I'm not the only one. You're doing a great job and I appreciate you!

#zkweek 2023 #Zutara week #zutara #fanart #zuko #katara #avatar the last airbender #addictofreading #Union #Aged up Zutara #Zutara week is the best week

[choking-on-ice]

oh my god I can't believe how good this turned out and how quickly I finished it ahhhh!!

Fully rendered Zuko study! Expression study of my favorite guy in traditional clothing from different nations (ooh I wonder who gave him that water tribe betrothal necklace)

#zuko fanart #fire lord zuko #prince zuko #atla zuko #zuko #aged up #art #avatar art #avatar fanart #avatar #avatar fandom #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #atla sunwarriors #atla #water tribe #sun warriors #earth kingdom #fire nation

[finn0cchio]

everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes you spill water, sometimes you break a plate, sometimes you kill someone with lightning. It happened to the best of us

Every time i draw something zukaang related i think "let's see what Tumblr thinks of this one".

#atla #avatar the last airbender #atla zuko #atla aang #atla katara #zukaang #katara is regretting making aang respawn #aang stop being gay #zuko stop being babygirl #sometimes hatecrimes are justified ❤️ #they're aged up #i always forget to add this tag first

[adriancatrin]

sokka’s gettin that fire dick

(not my jokes, sourced from a reaction vid)

#my art #posting on mobile so god i hope it shows up ok lolll #i’m not a comedy artist so idk if this actually hits like i want it to but oh well #also me + digital :/ #i def should’ve aged them up more but i only thought about it when i was like 3/4 the way thru #eh pretend aang stays short and we’re good for two/three years ahhaha #atla #zukka #avatar the last airbender #sokka #zuko #toph

[thegroundhogdidit]

i ship zukaang but i don't think they had anything during the show (except maybe aang having a crush on him that would be cute) i think they spent a lot of time apart after the war and when zuko saw aang again he was like a foot taller and incredibly powerful and zuko almost had a heart attack on the spot

#zukaang #atla #avatar the last airbender #like yeah shipping a 12yo and 16yo is kind of weird obvs but just wait a couple years and its fine #they have to grow into zukaang #although kudos to the aged-up aang au i like that too #atla zuko #atla aang #avatar aang

[akdjsjjw]

Done!!

Credit to https://www.tumblr.com/ash-and-starlight/685514113694187520/zukka-week-day-7-free-space-the-prince-and?source=share

For inspo and reference

#artwork #avatar the last airbender #avatar #feels like we only go backwards #flwogb #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla fanart #sorry for being late #done #zuko x sokka #age up

[pink-concorde]

☾𖤓 Zutara Week 2023 – Home 𖤓☽

After the Agni Kai: With Katara in his arms, Zuko finally felt home.

#zutara #Pinks Art #zutara week #zutaraweek #zutara week 2023 #zutaraweek2023 #zutara week 2023: home #zkweek #zkweek2023 #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #aged up zutara #only because #my art tends to have them be at least a few years older than in the show

[ash-and-starlight]

Zukka week day 4 // The arts

Studying the blade through calligraphy practice

#id in alt text #yet another love letter to green zukka #for those three of u who Recognize 👀 the background/palette #Im sorry I’m lazy I liked that vibe and shamelessly recycled it all #(ohh also) #(it’s referencing a scene from Hero which would work so well for a ATLA au… up until the very end of the movie) #(zukka as broken sword & flying snow aawjrbjekfbskfk screams cries) #(dies in incommensurable pain) #((don’t look to close at that perspective lmaooo)) #zukkaweek2022 #zukka #sokka #zuko #my art #side note I started this one ages ago and my artstyle changed like six times in the process help

[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

[my-cabbages-gorl]

Post war politicians zukaang, tell me you see the vision

history will say they were allies

#I just think we should all be considering it is all I’m saying #long diplomatic visits to rural towns with no one but each other? #sharing a bottle of soju under a thatched roof and giggling about how different their lives have become #just dream with me for a minute #Zukaang #my art #Zukaang art #my artwork #zuko #aang #zuko art #aang art #ATLA fanart #avatar the last airbender #post canon #aged up Zukaang

[quillthrillswriting]

sooo.... anyone else ever wondered how different ATLA would have been if aang had been frozen at age 16 instead of age 12?

yeah... me too 😌 my new fanfic "the teenager in the iceberg" follows the events of the show, but with only aang aged up, while everyone else remains their canon age.

also...cmon....how funny is it to switch zuko and aang's iconic dialogue to "you're just a teenager!" "...so are you?"

this idea was originally inspired by the talented @allgremlinart's aged up aang drawings, so please go show them some love!!:)<3

enjoy the excerpts from chapters one and two!

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Aang chuckled, pushing himself up with his hands on his knees. He was… taller than Katara had realised, taller than Sokka. He rubbed a hand on the back of his neck, turning to look over his shoulder at the remains of the boulder-sized chunk of ice he had just been blasted out of.  “Aang. My name’s Aang.” He hesitated, momentarily seeming to puzzle something over. “And honestly? No clue. Don’t remember how me and…Appa!” He yelped, suddenly scrambling back over the hill of ice and snow. Katara followed him without thinking, and Sokka, grumbling under his breath, followed moments later. 

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“So, you’ve brought a monster to invade the village, then? You’re some incognito Fire Nation soldier sent in as an undercover scout? Well, I’ll have you know that I’m the village’s strongest warrior, a-”

“The only warrior,” Katara chimed in, lightly elbowing Sokka’s side, earning herself a responding glare. 

“The strongest warrior.” Sokka reiterated. “And I don’t much like firebenders.” He added the words pointedly.

“Ah.” Aang titled his head. “That’s a shame. Some of my closest friends are Fire Nation.”

“Of course they are,” Sokka glared, hunching over into a defensive position and adjusting his fishing spear until it pointed directly at Aang.

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Katara still wasn’t quite sure what to make of Aang. The Water Tribe boys had always been all flashy muscles, seal-jerky breath, and overconfidence, so Katara had never seen someone move, carry themself, the way Aang did. 

⁎⁺˳ ✧༚ ˎˊ˗ ♡ ˗ˏˋയ ✩

Katara had admittedly forgotten how much fun penguin sledding was. “Spirits, I haven’t done this since I was a kid!” she called to Aang as he raced past her, surprisingly skilled considering that he’d never even seen a penguin until half an hour before. 

“You still are a kid!” He called back over his shoulder. “A kid who’s losing this race, badly !”

Katara’s competitive streak reared its head, her eyes narrowing as Aang stuck out his tongue. She sat up slightly, no longer gripping the penguin’s fur as tightly. “You wish!” She shouted back the words as she raised her hands, breathing deeply. Her hands moved through the positions she had practised from the few bending scrolls the tribe still held on to, and before Aang knew it, the snow in front of Katara turned to ice, and she shot past him as his own ice trail suddenly became dry snow with too much friction to slide on. 

She made it to the bottom of the hill, beaming, breathing heavily. The wind had whipped her hair out of her bun, and she knew without checking that her hair must have looked like a lion-turtle’s mane. She watched as Aang made a show of drying himself off with a gust of wind that he then redirected at her, messing up her curls even more. 

“You’re a cheater !” Aang gasped, mockingly clutching imaginary pearls at his throat. “I demand a rematch.”

Katara strode past him, only turning her head to cast him a smug smirk. “Maybe you’re just not as good of a penguin sledder as you thought .”

“Oh, not so fast!” Aang grabbed her wrist, tugging her back towards him, and she internally questioned why the momentary brush of their skin made her heart flip. He tried to trip her, she tried to flip him, and they both ended up on their backs in the snow, giggling, cheeks and noses bright pink from the cold. 

⁎⁺˳ ✧༚ ˎˊ˗ ♡ ˗ˏˋയ ✩

“Trouble sleeping too, huh?” Aang cocked a grin, tilting his head to Katara. She kept her eyes fixed upwards, trained on the moon and the stars, worried that if she looked away, she’d end up staring into his eyes like a weirdo. 

“I always feel so awake with the moon’s light on me. Sleeping under the stars has never really been a thing that works. It’s too energising, too… too much. It’s hard to explain.”

“No, no… I get it. I feel the same way in a windstorm, all those breezes and gusts of wind, it feels… exhilarating.” She watched through her peripheral vision as he looked up at the moon. “In times of war, I think we all tend to forget how spiritual bending is at its core. I’d say it’s a good thing that you’re in touch enough with the origins of your abilities to feel the moon’s pull tug at you just as much as it does on the ocean.” 

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Aang smiled back. “Now is our time to try to make up for that. I can’t bring back everyone who was hurt in this war, and you can’t bring back your mother, but together, the two-, three of us can make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

“I’d like that,” Katara exhaled, her breath calming down and tears dissipating. The two spent hours talking back and forth, exchanging the stories of their respective childhoods. Katara learned that Aang had invented several new bending moves and had been a big fan of fruit pies, while Aang learned that Katara had always been the bossier one between her and Sokka and that she had almost chipped a tooth on seal jerky when she was six. They continued talking back and forth in increasingly hushed tones until the world faded away under the cover of clouds and sleep.

Katara awoke to the loud shout of her brother. 

“Wakey wakey, lovebirds!” he yelped, chucking a rock-hard stick of seal jerky at both of them. 

“Ouch, Sokka !” Katara snapped at him, rubbing her head at the spot where she had been hit, before realising that she was leaning against Aang and immediately jumping away, blushing furiously. 

♥ check out the two chapters of this (ongoing) fic & my ao3 here! ->

#atla #katara #sokka #aang #kataang #<- because thats how it reads when u age aang up hehe... #avatar the last airbender #avatar aang #zuko #iroh #fanart #atla kataang #atla fanfic #atla fandom #ao3 #writing #ao3 recs #ao3 works #ao3 link #ao3 writer #confessions #fluff #eventual romance #kataang fanfic #aang aged up au #older aang #prince zuko #atla zuko #sassy aang #quillthrillsatlafic

[molesamole]

Totally didn't post a Rozin one shot on AO3 Randomly at 7:30 AM in the morning cause of Agin's Children whaaattt anyways take this kinds old art of some sillies I don't think I ever posted

#you guys have to go find it yourself 😈😈😈 #hope it's obvious that Aang and Zuko are aged up a bit in the second picture #happy 21st Aang here try some Southern Water Tribe wine #wow thanks Sokka! *Aang dies* /J #atla #atla fanart #avatar: the last airbender #atla aang #atla zuko #maybe??? zukaang??? #if you wanna count the one with them being older as a silly moment like that idk #rozin #atla rozin #atla sozin #atla roku