#katara will win!

[bellwethers]

Boo hoo did someone use spirit magic to blow up your factory?

#ahh I’m trying out a sketchier/chibi style #I kinda hate refining my drawings too much but then also don’t like them when they’re too messy so I can’t win #anyways I love them both #enablers #fanart #atla #atla fanart #avatar #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender #atla katara #katara #atla aang #aang #avatar aang

[kaiiyoshii]

i thought this would fit them

#katara just got here #she will join soon enough #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender #aang #sokka #zuko #toph #also fun fact this is the second atla fanart i ever made #the first was toph as the ‘nah id win’ panel #kaiiyoshiiart

[yourhighness6]

Was reading an article on writing love interests and there was a section about how in any romance both characters should reciprocate the other's actions, like for example if one character saves the other's life the gesture should be returned and...

(also definitely not noticing the subtle detail of Katara's hand tangled in Zuko's hair I didn't notice it and no one else should either)

#the zutara brainrot has consumed my life completely can u tell? #atla #avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko #katara #katara x zuko #zuko x katara #mutual support for the win honestly

[demaparbat-hp]

Even if zuko has a plan to end the war, making katara work amongst people who likely hold racism towards her and aided and supported the genocide of her people is still weird, especially since zuko benefits from the fire nations oppression of people throughout s1 when hunting the Avatar. Not good choices to make in a zutara au :/

Believe me, I've made these arguments against myself over and over again.

I know I'm putting Katara in an extremely difficult and unjust position in this AU with—from an outsider's point of view—little to no reason other than "I just wanted to see her in Fire Nation armor and kicking ass" and no consideration for the context. I'm not trying to somehow forgive nor redeem the Fire Nation's actions in war just because...well...just because. Not at all. People who've read Soundless (or any other of my wips, really) know that's not the case. On the contrary—I always do my best to see the war through a realistic, mature lense. And that includes everything that makes the Fire Nation so terrible in the first place.

That being said, there are some things I considered when deciding to make Katara side with them (even if her true motives lie elsewhere) in this AU. And they are not excuses. Just, different layers of context.

First of all, she was desperate. By this point in her life, her mother was dead, her father had left to fight the war, her brother followed behind a few years after, and she was left filling the empty spaces when, by all means, she wasn't ready for the responsibility. She had been feeling helpless and hopeless for years, and ached to do anything to help her people beyond doing chores and taking care for the children.

Let it be known that Aang's apparent betrayal comes from a place of trauma and misplaced anger on Katara's part. Much like how she put the Fire Nation's sins on Zuko's shoulders in S3. She is not on the right here, but this is her natural way to process and understand grief. There are many different aspects of her development as a child involved in how she views the Avatar—and, by extension, Aang—but more on this later.

Katara was young, and reckless, and she had just been "betrayed" by the first person who ever looked at her and saw more than the perfect caretaker she was forced to be. She was not in the right state of mind to make a decision like that and, to be honest, she couldn't have predicted the consequences. She saw a clear path to contribute to the end of the war, and by La she would take it.

On Zuko's end, you might argue that he should have known better than to let her join him and, well, you would be right. But there were many things about Katara's trauma response and state of mind that—unless he had known her for a long time—he couldn't have known. He will definitely blame himself later on, when the racism and cruelty towards Katara begins, and especially when word reaches her family at sea.

It's Katara's job to smack some sense into him from time to time and tell him that, yes, he should have tried harder to stop her (and she would probably be better off because of it) but what's done is done. And, by all means, the decision was hers to make. If anything, it's their fault, not his alone.

Now, Katara doesn't suffer the entire AU. That would just be cruel.

Zuko's crew was handpicked by Uncle Iroh, so you can expect dissidents, traitors and a few White Lotus agents who were smart enough to keep their true opinions quiet. There are...mixed opinions in that bunch, of course, but that's expected and, to be honest, rather easily dealt with. They are mostly honourable people just doing their best to end the war from the inside.

The real problem comes when they cross paths with, say, Zhao's fleet (or Hakoda's, let's be real).

And you may ask why Zuko is hunting down Aang, then, if he's secretly a goody-two-shoes himself... I'll explain that later in depth, so stay tuned.

In short, I know the decisions I've made, as a creator, are debatable at best, and downright blasfemous at worst. But they're deliberate.

I want the readers to feel conflicted about Katara's choices in this AU. I want people to have mixed opinions about the war, the (apparent lack of) morality, the characters, you name it!

I'm not trying to glorify a victim of war joining the side of the ones responsible for her people's genocide, even if it's just for show and she's actually set on destroying their government from within. Not at all.

Katara made a stupid, horrible decision, and she's going to suffer the consequences. But she's also going to fight to reach her goals, because she's stubborn like that.

I know most people may have a little trouble understanding where I'm coming from, because they don't have all the information necessary to make a full opinion.

I'm really thankful for these kind of asks. They let me explore these concepts and AUs in depth, and see what you think about them. I'm only human—my opinions are not infalible, nor The Right Ones, and this is a kind of discussion that I love to have.

So, keep the asks coming!!!

#dema answers #atla #zutara #zuko #avatar the last airbender #katara #hunters au #Katara joins Zuko AU #zutara au #zutara fic #Sorry for making this so long. But I loved writing it and thinking about it from a different pov #So thank you again for not shying away from making these kind of questions #It's always good to see things from a critical perspective #Please share your opinions about these themes! It's doesn't matter how different or seemingly nonsensical they may be. #Every single one is important #And the more asks the more I get to share and think about this AU #So it's a win win situation

[drpoisonoaky]

now there are about eight of us BUT one of us is a formar head writer of atla

https://x.com/aaronehasz/status/1763250816369267015?s=46

(he is the one who made the redemption arc thread )

#avatar the last airbender #atla #azula #katara #azutara #kazula #he called them kazula!!!! #we are winning guys

[local-space-case]

edit: tagged this post as anti zutara because even though i personally don’t consider it to be an anti zutara thing, a couple people disagree so thank you to the one person who was nice enough to just ask me to do it anyway

prefacing this by saying you can like whatever ship you want so don’t come for me (edit someone immediately came for me). but one of the reasons i don’t like zutara and don’t like that it’s being alluded to in the live action is because i feel like it waters down a lot of scenes they had together that were meant to establish each others individual characters, or rather some viewers water it down. like rather than healing zuko’s scar out of the kindness of her heart, it’s because she found him attractive. rather than returning her mother’s necklace to show zuko is more honorable than he thinks, it’s because he has a crush on her. katara doesn’t save and comfort/thank zuko in the final agni kai because zuko has effectively lost most of his remaining family in one day, its because they’re deeply in love.

i’m not saying these instances and romance are mutually exclusive, but i PERSONALLY feel the scenes are more powerful without it.

it just really feels like it undermines the power of platonic love (and f/m friendships in general) and their separate journeys as characters to find their peace in order for it to be bad boy/feisty girl romance.

#warning: opinion #personally i think the series would’ve benefited from no romance aside from sokka/suki and zuko/mai #and i say this as a die hard zukka fan #i just think they're neat #i’m not a die hard kataraang fan either #zuko #katara #atla live action #atla #anti zutara #i didn’t wanna tag it as such bc i don’t consider myself an anti but someone said i should anyway #so fine y’all win

[theotterpenguin]

#zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #atla #zuko #katara #this doesn’t really have a purpose i’m just curious about fandom preferences #i have a feeling which zutara will win but i am interested nonetheless! #my post

[strawberrymilkyumyum]

the guy im dating told me he wants to see my tumblr.... sir i run a zutara blog where i post dumb shit about two characters who dont exist from a show i havent sat down and watched for years. you are not getting my username

#but also i turned him into a zutara shipper #so a win is a win #zutara #katara #zuko #strawberry tag #zk #olives problems #zuko x katara

[ididgettomeetyou]

thank you, katara

#atla netflix #aang/katara #kataang #we be winning

[comradekatara]

zukka fans boil your rocks

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka #zuko #sokkaxzuko #sorry guys i had a dream that i made this and i have an obligation to follow my dreams so. #zukka shippers annoyed me so much that i had to like. swear off them entirely #like when ur eating smth that u love but then it gives u food poisoning so u can never eat it again #but then slowly u work ur way into accepting into ur diet again #like. their dynamic is so funny #just objectively hilarious #sokka is the only person in the world who is like 'aww zuko is so nice and earnest and well-meaning and submissive' #unaware that its bc he effortlessly domesticated zuko by being hot and cool #meanwhile zuko is feral w literally everyone else just gnashing his teeth and snarling and growling and biting #katara is like the only other person who comes close to domesticating him #like he'll yell at her but he'll hug her #notice how he only cares abt winning her over AFTER he befriends sokka tho #he's like 'oh no that's sokka's sister better make sure i'm on her good side' #he doesnt even care that he & katara are themtically fated narrative foils for him it's all abt impressing his crush's family #fucking idiot.

[gojonanami]

oh

the people who wrote the avatar the last airbender live action...don't know what character development means....

or what good writing is....

yikes

#sab speaks #like #taking away sokka's sexism isn't the 'woke' win you think it is #and taking away katara's 'motherly' tendencies also is...a choice #a bad choice #my god #i already lost all hope once bryke (the creators) left #but oof

[waterfire1848]

Zuko: I managed to deal with the Ozai supporters.

Katara: How?

[ One of the nobles comes running out with Azula chasing him. ]

Noble: Firelord! Please. Make her stop!

Azula: There is no stopping! You’re playing my game now!

#incorrect quotes #source: jessie #zuko #katara #azula #the Fire siblings #Fire siblings #fire hazards #Azula gets to let off some steam and Zuko gets rid of ozai supporters #win win

[punkeropercyjackson]

"Hobie wouldn't be friends with Aang because Aang dosen't kill"WRONG,a villain tries to taunt Aang by mocking his refusal to take lives and he smiles and says 'You're right,i don't kill.BUT MY BROTHER DOES' and Hobie ends that bitch with his guitar from behind because they were doing teamwork and they go to eat Air Nomad and jamaican food together afterwards and he calls him 'Little Steppa'.Also Hobie would never force anyone to kill if they don't want to but especially not if it's because they're a poc and it goes against your culture,he knows what intersectionality is and would kick Zuko's ass instead of giving up his entire self to be more palpable for him like y'all think Katara wants to because you think you're her.WRONG THE SEQUEL,HOBIE IS KATARA!!!!HE WILL NEVER TURN HIS BACK ON PEOPLE WHO NEED HIM AND SHE HATES THE FIRE NATION,SHE HATES THE SYSTEM,SHE HATES LABELS-Where was i going with this

#OH RIGHT aang and hobie are brothers-coded(there's your actual platonic punkflower)and transfem unlabeled sapphic katara 4 da WIN!!!!!!!! #hobie brown #aang #katara #anti zutara #nomadpunk brothers #kataang #t4t kataang #spiderpunk comics #atsv #spiderman #atla geekery #anti natla #punk katara #trans 4 trans and autistic 4 autistic foumd family realness #💌 #summerposting

[randombook4idk]

#i get a feeling that zutara will win the poll and im not sure how many have seen sky high but hey maybe layla x warren get some spotlight? #layla x warren #warren x layla #forestfire #forest fire #sky high #sky high 2005 #zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko

[deadontheinsidesexyontheoutside]

So many bombs were set off this week, enough to make my girl STAY SLEEP!!!😴

#zutara #katara #zuko #SOOOO MANY WINS THIS WEEK #WE STAY WINNING #atla original scripts #the southern raiders original script #sneezy #katara catches Z's while we catch W's she's so real for that!!!

[myimaginationplain]

do you ever think about how Katara's portrayal in the Ember Island Players' stage play is an in-universe, textual example of an oppressor state adultifying & sexualizing a racialized girl as a form of pro-colonization propaganda

and then do you ever think about how a third of the fandom also participates in that completely unironically

#this is in response to someone on twt saying that the EIP's portrayal of the DOBS cave scene was a 'win' for them as a zk shipper #& I know that tweet was a silly jokey joke.....but man #thankfully a lot of people are eloquently calling them out in the quotes of the tweet so I don't really feel the need to take it over here #but still. I try so hard to be neutral about zk & zk shippers because I really don't dislike the ship at its core. #but so many of you just can't help but make that impossible by consistently showing that you don't care about atla's themes at all ugggh #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #the ember island players