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i-need-of-a-hobby · 3 months

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katara (to bumi): what do we say to drugs and alcohol? bumi: no zuko (to izumi): what do we say to war crimes and genocide izumi: no

toph (to lin): what do we say to illegal bending arenas? lin: *sighs* get mom tickets toph: thats my girl katara: NO

#atla #atla headcanons #avatar #avatar the last airbender #katara #zuko #toph #the gaang #adult gaang #bumi ii #izumi atla #lin beifong

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feminist-knuckles · 2 years

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All universally loved shows have complex female characters. No, this is not a coincidence.

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hotpinkrathian · 27 days

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I am so upset (not) at LoK for making women muscular I will never get over it 😤

Also, the audacity to say the LoK women are less sexy than the ATLA women is WILD considering the Atla girls are minors

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waterfire1848 · 8 months

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I’ve seen a few fics where The Gaang is transported into the future and sees Korra’s time but has anyone ever done a fic where Tenzin, Kya, Bumi, Izumi, Lin, and Suyin are transported into the past during the Hundred Year War?

#fics #the Gaang #azula #katara #zuko #sokka #Aang #toph beifong #Suki #mai #Ty Lee #Tenzin #Kya #Bumi #Izumi #lin beifong #suyin beifong #avatar the last airbender #legend of korra #time travel

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wilcze-kudly · 7 months

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The Gaang being 'bad parents' didn't ruin their characters.

I've seen this argument tossed around a couple times and it's honestly one of my least favourite criticisms of lok.

Katara (and Sokka but we have no confirmed kids for him, which seems unrealistic with how much game he had) lost their mother as children and their father was forced to abandon them when they were barely starting their teens. They were raised by their grandmother with little to no peers of their own age.

Aang did not know his parents and a huge chunk of his childhood was him being groomed into taking up the mantle of the avatar and mastering airbending. He also was isolated from other kids his age. His closest parental figure was Gyatso who was more of a teacher than a father. Also the Air Nomads were literally wiped out so that adds to the trauma pile.

I really don't think i have to talk about Zuko's family life here, but at least he had relatively positive parental figures in the form of Ursa (though i do have a burning personal dislike of ursa) and Iroh. Despite this his struggle around the subject of his family and his trauma relating to his upbringing was a focal point of his character arc.

Toph was raised in isolation by her asshole abelist parents who did not listen to her, sent people to capture and bring her back and then disowned her. (If my cursory understanding of 'the rift' is correct, I need to actually read it because i am unreasonably obsessed with the Beifong family.)

Where, pray tell, were they supposed to learn proper parenting skills? On their brief stint as child soldiers? While fighting a war as literal children?

There is the argument that they must've matured later in their lives, of course. But you can only recover so much from copious amounts of childhood trauma.

Being a bad parent doesn't necessarily make you a bad person. Sure it makes you a failure in an incredibly delicate and important aspect of human life but it doesn't make you a bad person. And saying that it does takes a lot of nuance out of the conversation.

Like, do you know how easy it is to fuck up a child?

Especially that the ways the members of the Gaang 'fucked up' as parents feel mostly in character.

Bumi was going to face some struggles with self worth due to being the firstborn child of the Avatar and arguably one of the most powerful waterbenders in history, while being a nonbender himself. That much was unavoidable, no matter how his parents approached the issue.

And Aang was obviously going to be over the moon when Tenzin was born. Think about it. He's literally the last of his people. He has no one else 'like him'. No one else to pass down the traditions, the teachings that Gyatso and everyone else he cared about and who were horrifically murdered to. Aang is getting older and he feels like his culture and history and his entire life before he got trapped in that damned iceberg will die along with him. And then Tenzin is born and Tenzin can take up the mantle that had been thrust upon Aang.

I'm going to withhold my judgement on Izumi and Zuko, since we barely know anything about them. She seems well adjusted but that's all i can say right now. But Zuko has also been shown to be extremely, painfully aware of how fucked up his family is and has clearly been putting in a lot of work to unscrew what his ancestors have screwed up.

Toph situation feels very tragic to me,because it's obvious that she thought she thought she was doing better than her parents. She gave her daughters the freedom to do what they want, to not feel opressed and trapped like she had. How was she supposed to know that she was making her girls feel like she didn't love them? (Here's another post of mine about the Beifong family and how they just feel like they're cursed or something at this point.)

TLDR; I get annoyed by people saying that the Gaang being 'bad parents' ruined their characters, because to me it felt like it actually enhanced them.

Neither Aang nor Toph acted out of malice or a lack of love. On the contrary, Toph was trying not to repeat her parents mistakes, accidentally committing a bunch of her own. While Aang probably didn't even realise that he was neglecting Kya and Bumi.

But just loving your children doesn't always make you a good parent.

I think these flaws only add to them as characters. It makes them feel more real.

It's unrealistic and, frankly, just plain boring to go 'oh the Gaang were all good people so they would be good parents too.'

The Gaang were a gaggle of traumatised children forced into saving the world, because the adults around them failed them, that then grew into traumatised adults who have no idea how to be good parents.

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flameobitch · 3 months

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"I'm always lucky, Ronnie. You were lucky to be born."

Hello everyone!!! I'm doing some dark sketches today. Meet Izumi and Bumi's youngest daughter, Hina. In my version of the canon with my friend, she travels across continents, and in this one she strives to take the place of her mother and become the next dictator.

Iroh gets caught in a storm in this universe and was declared dead, which gave her a chance to become an heiress. Iroh renounces his family and finds peace with the airbenders and confronts his parents in the final battle.

Iroh and Hina are called "Blue Spirits" because of the color of their flames. Izumi and Bumi are unaware of their enmity and the power of competition. For them, both of their children are the most valuable thing they have.

And I also started the picture with Toph, Lin and Su, and I intend to finish it within, I don't know, a week?

#avatar korra #avatar fanart #avatar art #atla fanart #dark art #dark aesthetic #dark au #iroh ii #izumi's daughter #lin beifong #toph beifong #su beifong #spoilers #bumizumi #bumi lok #bumi ii #fire lord izumi #firelord izumi

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comradekatara · 1 year

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sokka’s friends all have a rule that when their kids start acting too silly in public, they’ll put them on sokka’s shoulders and sokka will proceed to go into a lecture on a really obscure, dense, and boring topic that lulls them into complaisance. the threat alone can often get them to behave, but if not, they’re hoisted onto sokka’s shoulders, at which point they must contend with the double edged sword of getting to be really tall and bounce around, while also having to endure a lecture on military history, or the importance of some ancient poem. the only problem in this otherwise perfect system is izumi, who loves all of sokka’s lectures, even the really in-depth ones about the history of irrigation systems. since she’s normally very well behaved, the threat of “shoulder time” only incentivizes her to act out, so sokka has to threaten her with no shoulder time instead. but for everyone else this system works like a charm. no one knows that the first kid to give sokka this idea was toph, specifically because she used to demand to ride around on sokka’s shoulders constantly, but since this was killer on sokka’s back, he needed to devise a way to extract her without being actively rude. and thus a tradition was born.

#this idea came to me in a dream #just now #sokka was walking through the airport with some rowdy kids #fwiw I don’t mean the gaang’s kids when I say ‘sokka’s friends’ sokka definitely has more than five friends as an adult lol #sokka #is simultaneously really good and really bad with kids #izumi #izumi&sokka #sokka&toph #postwargaang

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azulas-lightning-bolt · 1 month

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sooo I’m insane about mako right. well. well ho hum well do you remember the other ball of repressed rage firebending member of team avatar.

yeah so imagine the timeline gets switched up a bit. aang (sorry aang ily but it’s for the plot) dies a lot earlier so the gaang is all in their early thirties late twenties when the krew start to be born. none of the major plot events are going to really change (gaang will be atla white lotus age by canon, almost 60s) and rc has for the most part been established.

boom around ten-fifteen years later they’re all around fourties. the krew is in the ten-fifteen y/o age range—korra’s training in the compound, asami is being groomed into a businessgirl, but yk what that means for my favorite bending brothers? the streets.

the gaang minus aang are still active and about (sokka is alive Because) so it’s zuko’s turn to help toph run the underbelly of rc. she always gripes that she’s doing fine in her old age (she’s like,, 38) and they can just leave her alone with the damned city to rot (she mostly hates her job. only reason she sticks with it is because it’s a sort of backwards way to take care of su and lin*. if the city streets are safe, there’s no reason not to let them off free) but of course the gaang has a rotation anyway. they try to stay sort of in contact after ending a hundred year war together because that’s kind of big.

*by the way sokka is not their dad. they were made in a terrarium because toph Built kids out of boredom and aang gave them bending as a joke and they just. grew. became alive. idk it seems more in character than toph having kids the normal way.

so anyway zuko is out patrolling. he’s on gang-spotting duty, so basically toph has the aging fire lord running around after guys who graffiti gang signs on walls and Politely Asking where their hideout is. today he happens to stumble upon an inter-gang scuffle. it’s pretty typical, and he’s moving to stop it when—boom, lightning and screaming. now, it was mostly thanks to his (and a reformed azula, because she will be getting in here somehow) efforts that lightningbending masters took hold and spread the subbending more commonly, but it’s still not typical to see it in poorer areas. yet there’s one person with a gang rumored to have it—you guessed it, zolt!

so zuko goes chasing after the source of the lightning, thinking toph is gonna be so happy she won’t punch him for a week and keep her griping to a minimum once he brings in one of the biggest thorns on her side.

but it’s not zolt he’s chasing. it’s twelve year old mako, scared shitless that the firelord is chasing him down and nowhere near fast enough to outrun him or hide. none of zolt’s cronies are dumb enough to try and bail him, he knows, but he also doesn’t want to leave bolin waiting on a dead brother.

zuko catches him, baffled that ‘zolt’ is so small. mako says nasty shit (because in best impression of 12 y/o mako voice : royalty. You are the 1% that makes Us like this) trying to wriggle free, revealing himself as definitely not zolt.

Zuko stares at this grimy, angry little twelve year old with old, peeling burn scars (I’ll make a post soon about the scars he definitely has from like,, everything) and fresher lightning scars and is like,, hmm. tiny angry firebending child with scars and likely insurmountable levels of trauma=me as a child who just needed some guidance and turned out fine (not really but it’s the thought that counts)

and then he uses his brain really hard and decides he will give tiny angry firebending child with scars and likely insurmountable levels of trauma guidance. so mako gets picked up by the scruff and is dragged, kicking and screaming, by the firelord to the police station.

toph hears a child shrieking and is immediately like no. get it away. out of my police station NOW. and mako is like YES get me out of her police station NOW. and they have a moment of commiserating mako’s presence in the police station together.

but then zuko is like what if we gave him Guidance. toph says bring that bullshit to katara and gtfo. cue lin and su, annoyed teenagers/young adults around canon krew’s ages for highest potential siblingism. btw the beifong relationships are much better in this. su is immediately like. can we keep him mom please. lin agrees with toph and wants it OUT she just started working here and tenzin’s yapping about kids does not need to follow her to the bullpen.

mako is put into police custody (su drags him around with her and watches him overnight). he wheedles her into finding bolin and becomes much more agreeable when he has his brother to hold in a death grip. when asked to separate, he threatens multiple creative methods of murder.

this got really out of hand but the idea is that katara and sokka side with zuko and they all gang up on toph, who somehow caves and agrees to let zuko give Guidance to tiny angry firebending child with scars and likely insurmountable levels of trauma. she forces bolin on suyin but she doesn’t mind too much, shoving metalbending down his throat.

korra meets them earlier on, finally having some friends her age! they’re all really really weird though so none of them are well adjusted when korra finally runs away to rc (they follow her everywhere). how terrible. but mako and bolin are like 5000x stronger without even trying and they also have money.

all three teenage freaks meet asami (who is immediately endeared by their weird asses), shit goes down, but this time featuring nebulously-father zuko, favorite person-without-title-but-probably-scary-aunt azula definitely mom-adjacent katara, weirduncle sokka, toph who goes to the swamp whenever she wants because lin is basically chief of police already and big sisters lin, su, kya and izumi. also featuring cousin-ish iroh II and long distance/reluctant (respectively) older brothers bumi and tenzin.

I believe both mako and bolin, if possible, would be considerably more batshit insane considering who they were raised by, but also more calculated on mako’s part because azula absolutely got her time in with him. I think katara would’ve taught them, for an absolute worst case scenario, how to handle bloodbending, so they would’ve wiped amon. I think mako, considering azula, definitely wanted the kill with that lightning on amon but, considering azula, knew it would only turn him into a martyr for the equalists to rally behind without exposing him first.

also puppy love makorra in the compound. then korrasami in rc because pretty girl with a bike but then ‘sorry I kind of have a crush on your childhood best friend korra but I’m still in love with you’ ‘WOAH sick really? same lol.’ ‘we should all kiss.’ then makorrasami!!!!

so yeah I totally lost my train of thought but that’s like. generally it(?)

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mesapies · 28 days

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Gaangs kids favorite aunt/uncle

We know lin was close to aang.

We can assume that bumi was closest to sokka. I also see him getting along with toph but she can only handle him in small doses since he was said to be a handful as a kid

I feel like tenzin favorite uncle was zuko. I have nothing to back it up, it's just a feeling in my soul.

Kya's favorite is suki 100%. Kya favorite song is Secret Tunnel, and suki loves the band. Suki was definitely the one that introduced her to that song and gave katara and aang a headache

Izumi showed up for a solid 7 seconds in tlok so we don't know what her personality is like but I can see her being close to katara

Suyin, idk. Maybe sokka or zuko. Could also be katara. I could maybe see her getting along with ty lee

#katara #aang #sokka #suki #zuko #toph beifong #bumi ii #kya ii #izumi #suyin beifong #lin beifong #kya #bumi #tenzin #ty lee #the gaang #atla

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steveandbuckysdaughter · 1 month

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since you talked about Izumi in some of your posts (like Dad!Zuko and Mom!Mai and their “conquering Ba Sing Se adventure”) and the Hou-Tong/Izumi beef, I was wondering if you were open to make Gaang kids headcanons.

and if you were, can I request Kya and Izumi headcanons on their friendship etc?

Ok so, anon refers to this post and this other post in the ask, FYI.

But yes, I absolutely am down to make adult gaang/Gaang kids’ headcanons of any kind. So if y’all want any headcanon of that kind feel free to send an anon!

Anyway, back to the ask. I absolutely love the potential of Kya and Izumi’s dynamic. But since I love angst, here’s some little HCs with p a i n.

Izumi and Kya are roughly the same age, maybe Izumi is a year older than Kya.

Ever since they could sit straight, they’ve been inseparable. And as kids, with the republic city construction, they used to be constantly together

I headcanon that Izumi was more responsible and protective of Kya, while Kya saw Izumi as her idol, because you know, pretty firebending princess who punches everyone who looks at Kya the wrong way

I also like to think that Izumi was Kya’s gay awakening in her teens, but never acted on it because Izumi was straight and uninterested. Also, I HC that Izumi had a thing with Bumi, but that’s another story

Anyways. Since Izumi most likely had Iroh at like, 20, Kya would always hang out with Iroh as his fun aunt, doing mischief around etc.

But, and let’s go to the angsty part, I also HC that Kya and Izumi kind of began losing contact once 30s approached. Because you know, Kya was always traveling, and Izumi had crown princess duties to partake in.

Also, given that Zuko was Fire Lord and kind of not as involved in republic city as he used to be, the FN royal family did not hang out with the rest of the gaang as often, and Izumi ended up being often excluded from the drama etc. nothing unfixable, but stuff that definitely hurt Izumi.

I also feel like Izumi (and parents) was always invited to all of the gaang’s and their kids’ milestones, like weddings, ceremonies etc.

And when in 158AG Sokka died protecting Korra, Zuko and Izumi were at the funeral despite their problems in the fire nation.

But, and here we reach the most angsty part, a year later it was Mai who died, of an illness that had taken her like, five years prior. Of course Zuko and Izumi were distraught, and asked Katara, Toph and the others to attend.

But the day of the funeral, only Katara showed up. Because Bumi was in the United forces, Kya couldn’t interrupt her spiritual travels, Tenzin had a heavily pregnant Pema at home, Lin was working, Suyin was just up in her business in Zaofu and Toph was nowhere to be found.

This made Zuko very sad, but Izumi? She was furious. Absolutely furious. Because, how could they miss the one time they needed to be there for her after all the times she had gone out of her way to support them?

And especially, Izumi felt betrayed by Kya, for not even passing by or answering back to the news. So Izumi kind of ghosted and stopped talking with everyone.

The first time she saw any of the Gaang kids was during Kuvira’s storyline. And even then, as cold as ice

So I kind of headcanon that Korra had some business to do in the fire nation and the gang kids tagged along, and kind of had a some of fight with Izumi about her ghosting them and them never visiting

Izumi would be the most angry and hurt with Kya, and they would kind of be angry with each other for the entirety of the storyline

But then by the end, they would have an actual talk and begin speaking to each other again

So yeah, happy ending but TONS of angst. I know right? Amazing❤️

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nerdasaurus1200 · 2 months

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If this is 100% true, I really hope we get a baby Izumi cameo. And also Sokka and Suki being an old married couple

#avatar: the last airbender #nerd talks #zuko #izumi #aang #katara #toph beifong #sokka

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forever--rain · 27 days

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🌧️ for the asks please :)

Hi, hon! Thanks for the ask. I hope you’re doing well!

🌧️ share something angsty

This is from my untitled Dadko Zutara fic. :) (This is still the first draft of this fic and will ultimately end up edited and refined.)

Once Toph was safely through her own front door, Zuko closed his and locked it with a sigh. With Toph gone and Izumi long asleep, he was left only with the quiet of the night and thoughts of Katara. Night was a lonely prison. It made him vulnerable and thoughtful. It stirred within him a longing for someone with whom he could close up the house and get ready for bed.

He wanted someone who would warm her cold feet up on his calves at night. He wanted someone who would help him make pancakes for Izumi on weekends. He didn’t want to be turning off the living room lights alone and tripping over the coffee table with no one to giggle at his swearing.

As he quietly cracked the door to Izumi’s room to check on her, he wished there was someone next to him who would care about her as much as he did. Someone who would see her fast asleep beneath her glow-in-the-dark constellations and surrounded by her stuffed animals and be just as overwhelmed by love for her as he was.

Zuko brushed his teeth alone. He changed into his pajama pants alone. He pulled his shoulder-length hair into a ponytail without anyone to comment that it was getting long.

Turning off the light in the bathroom, he stared at his bed, deflated.

He wanted Izumi to know that a happy family didn’t have to just be the two of them. He wanted her to know that love was possible, even after a terrible hurt.

Endgame Zutara, of course, with lots of pining and a dash of angst. I love a long-term friends to lovers situation. something something life imitating art something something

Send me an emoji and I’ll share something from one of my current works in progress.

#ever writes #current wip #zutara #zuko #katara #toph #izumi #zutara au #dadko

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sound-under-the-sea · 22 days

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I’m wondering if Kya and Izumi are the same age. Not because I’m guessing but because of how Zuko and Sokka are the same age, and Katara and Azula are the same age. By that connotation Kya and Izumi would be the same age just to keep the trend going. Lin and Tenzin kept it going for Aang and Toph.

#avatar: the legend of korra #avatar: the last airbender #kya ii #izumi #sokka #zuko #katara #azula #aang #toph beifong #lin beifong #tenzin #bengi thinks out loud

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hotpinkrathian · 22 days

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Thinking about, however sad it may be, if Aang had died earlier (shortly after Tenzin was born) Korra's team avatar could've been Lin, Kya, Tenzin, Bumi and Izumi.

I feel like the Gaang's kids would've made the perfect team avatar in another timeline

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waterfire1848 · 10 months

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Katara: Sokka and Zuko are very angry at us.

Toph: Why?

Aang: Izumi didn’t know she was adopted and Katara told her.

[ Katara hits him. ]

Toph: She had to find out at some point.

Aang: Yeah, but how would you like it if someone told Lin and Suyin their dads abandoned them?

Lin: What?

[ Lin and Suyin had been sitting in the other room. Toph glares at Aang. ]

Aang to Katara: We have to get out of here.

#incorrect quotes #source: friends #katara #sokka #zuko #toph beifong #Aang #Izumi #lin beifong #suyin beifong #Kataang #zukka #atla

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thena0315 · 8 months

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Team Avatar's Kids

Aang and Katara's

Bumi

Kya

Tenzin

Toph's

Lin

Suyin

Zuko's

Izumi

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