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Marinette: Wow Adrien, you seem to be an expert on Social Distancing.

" I—uhm, I like to read"

"oh that's cool! What are reading right now?"

*flashbacks to the numerous tabs of ao3 fanfics on your phone*

post-war, katara would be focused on rebuilding her home, thus water holding memory. she wants to keep her culture alive. zuko on the other hand needs to build his nation from the ground up. a rebirth, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of its past life, born anew.

both seem like total opposites: remembering and rebirth. but they both need each other. by remembering the past, you honor it and create a new future. by creating a new future, you must remember your past.

Father, I love her.

zuko had the chance in book 1 to let zhao, the man who had been plotting his downfall for months, fall to his death, and reached out a hand to let him live, showing the restraint, mercy, and compassion of his character. let me reiterate that pre-redemption ponytail!zuko knew that he couldnt in good conscience let someone die, even his enemy, when he had the chance to save them. he was faced with the opportunity to kill his father on the day of the eclipse but knew that it was the avatar’s duty to restore balance and fled without leaving so much as a scratch on his abuser’s worthless hide. lets also reflect on the fact that neither of these ppl would have hesitated to end zuko’s life had the roles been reversed

framing zuko’s response to katara’s relationship with yon rha in terms of his apparent bloodlust and vengeance only shows a fundamental misunderstanding of zuko’s character. his entire personality is grounded in the tenets of mercy, compassion, forgiveness and restraint, arguably moreso than any other character. while aang encourages katara to forgive her mother’s murderer, zuko shows an utter lack of judgement and is satisfied to let katara choose how to confront her trauma

furthermore, equating katara’s decision to let yon rha live with aang’s propagation of air nomad philosophy strips katara of her autonomy, her ability to make decisions independent of the opinions of men. katara didnt choose to show yon rha mercy or restraint because of zuko, nor aang, nor sokka, nor any other character but herself. ultimately it was katara’s decision, and i hate to see her choice framed in relation to aang nor zuko’s personal philosophies

Just two buds chilling in the rain, doing patrols and posing for pictures. Totally nothing else going on. Absolutely nothing else - they swear by it.