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Azulon: Azulon is almost the same as Azula, except his rivalry with Azuko (Zuko as a girl) has a specific type of weight now, considering the prodigy is now a boy. Azulon's negative feelings towards his sister are driven by his envy on her getting their father's love and her being the heir to the throne, and most important, influence of their mother. Unlike Azula, I think it would fit Azulon more to lose his temper often.

Ty Long: Ty Long has more of a jocky personality. He's very into looks and athleticism, typical teenage boy that is big on looksmaxxing. Ty Long, like Ty Lee, praises Azulon a lot and considers him a role model. Even if both girls obeyed Azula, in the boys' relationship with Azulon the power imbalance is more evident.

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The cheating headcanons will never not funny because zutara shippers accidentally admitting what they want most:

canon.

Like, “Maybe Katara cheated on Aang with Zuko once 🥺”

Ohhh, so now suddenly canon matters? 😭

You don’t actually want an AU. You want Zutara to have happened inside the real timeline so badly that we’ve reached the “secret affair offscreen” phase of negotiations.

It gives me so much happiness that they want to have something apart of canon and That keeps me warm at night.

Well, if I remember correctly, they were going to put them in even more sexualized outfits but that got vetoed by Nickelodeon.

Anyways, it was fanservice (in an episode that parodied fanservice), just like shirtless Zuko was.

Mmmh

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Sorry but I can't stay silent anymore, these posts are insane

Aang: a kid/genocide survivor lashing out because his best friend and only living link to his people has been stolen. The avatar state (a power he is afraid of) was a response to losing another part of his home, the only person connecting him to his past and eradicated culture

Katara: saw Aang loosing control in the avatar state and CHOSE to be at his side and help him, because she KNOW what's it's like having your loved ones stolen from you, she is hurt from seeing him hurting because she's an empathetic person and she loves him. She's comforting a friend during an emotional crisis.

Zutara/Zuko's stans: Ugh violent destructive tantrums save yourself katara! Zuko <3

Mh ok.

It's funny because those people are stanning a character who called Katara a peasant and threatened to wipe her village and only were in good terms in the last few episodes. They are stanning a character who was a villain/antagonist for two seasons (and half of season 3) who tried to kill her and her friends over and over again. But that's ok, he suffered and redeemed himself in the last 3 episodes, so it doesn't matter, while everything the abuser/toxic Aang """did""" was beyond forgiveness.

That's the message of Avatar the Last Airbender :)

The way people in this fandom are so unempathetic towards a 12 year old who lost everything is so crazy to me.

These episodes are full of sad moments with a lot of hurt behind it. These are all children (child soldiers also) overwhelmed by moments of severe loss. These children are human and they have flaws.

Also, their point is dumb considering Aang never threatened Katara or harmed her even while in the avatar state. And she knew he wouldn’t hurt her. Which is why she grabbed him in the desert ep.

Aang also never asked her to do any of these things for him. She did it unprompted… because she loved him lol. He did not declare her as being in charge of regulating the avatar state.

Actually, I can - because unlike you, I base my opinion of the characters on the actual stuff that happened in the story, not the bad faith takes dumb people on the internet come up with.

Zuko literally only survived past book 1 because Aang was the ONLY person amongst the heroes that gave a single fuck about his well-being. Aang offered to be FRIENDS with him as early as episode 13, even though this dude is trying to kidnap him.

In the first damn episode we see him realize and try to remedy Katara's struggle with no longer being able to act like a kid and have fun. He wants to travel with her so SHE gets to learn waterbending. He willingly lets Zuko take him into his ship because he understood that a conflict could lead to the people of the water tribe getting hurt or killed.

In Warriors of Kyoshi he apologizes to Katara for letting all the praise and admiration go to this head. He makes sure to put out the fires Zuko and his crew started in Suki's village.

He tries to help remedy the Hei-Bai situation, even though he is unsure of himself and even scared, because he knows he is the only one that has any chance of helping - and the thing that allows him to connect with Hei-Bai is the fact that he is ALSO upset about the destruction the Fire Nation has caused AND hopeful that the world would eventually heal.

He thinks Jet is awesome because he wants to help people that are being oppressed by the Fire Nation - and then is horrified when he finds out his intension is to "free" them by killing everyone

He wants to help the two rival groups not only safely cross the Great Divide, but also stop hating each other.

He confesses that he hid the map to Hakoda because Bato, Katara and Sokka are showing how much they appreciate and trust him and he feels unworthy of it after what he did because he knows it'd hurt him if the roles were reversed.

He is so devastated by the fact that he ACCIDENTALLY hurt Katara that he swears to never firebend again. He is also able to recognize the same principle behind his mistake in Zhao's fighting style, allowing him to win the battle against the bastard.

He accepts the fact that the Northern Air Temple is now occupied by people who not only don't belong to his culture but also don't understand it and unknowingly destroyed something sacred to him (and that one of them had been forced to make weapons for the Fire Nation) because these people have nowhere else to go and he doesn't want them to suffer.

He is furious at Pakku for refusing to teach Katara waterbending, because he knows how much it'd mean to her and how unfair it is that she can't learn it just because of her gender.

He is so devastated by the death of the Moon Spirit that the Ocean Spirit latches onto him to avenge it and save the day - and the leve of destruction it causes haunts Aang, even though the violence was against his enemies. And still, he tries to go into the Avatar state again because people are dying and he can't accept that.

After the fall of Omashu, he wants to rescue Bumi, not because he needs a teacher, but because they're friends.

He felt empathy for Toph when she was explaining to her parents how lonely and unappriacted their over-protection made her feel.

He and Katara both feel bad for snapping at Toph during "The Chase" and wanted to apologize for not understanding that being part of a group was a radical change to her, even though she had refused to even try. He also didn't have a problem with fighting alongside Zuko and Iroh against Azula, AND he looked concerned when Iroh was injured.

After Katara comments on the fact he called Toph Sifu but not her, he calls her Sifu while bowing, to show that he respects her both as his master and friend.

The hopelessness and downright depression he was feeling after Appa was stolen only starts healing because he saw a couple being happy with their newborn baby - the same couple he decided to help cross the Serpent's Pass, even though he and his friends had just been allowed to take a much safer route to Ba Sing Se.

His understanding and sympathy towards Jet, even after everything the guy did, was so strong that it freed him from literal brainwashing.

He doesn't want to push his love for Katara aside to gain power because he cares about her too much - and then does it anyway because, even though not making her his main focus 24/7 offers the risk of her being hurt, him neglecting his mission guarantees she'll get hurt.

He is devastated to learn that the world thinks he is dead because he knows he was everyone's last hope - and yet in the end he still accepts the burden of failure because he understood that, at that moment, everyone would be safer if no one else knew he was still alive.

He goes to a Fire Nation school and bonds with the kids, wanting to give them a taste of freedom and joy, as well as trying to understand what the war is like from their perspective. The same episode also has him pull Katara for a dance because he noticed she was feeling left out.

The boy felt empathy for, and understood the mistakes of, both Ruko and Sozin. SOZIN. Aang could see the humanity in the monster that is responsible for him losing his entire culture and everyone he loved.

When Zuko spoke about wanting to control his impulses so he wouldn't accidentally hurt anyone, Aang explicitly connected with that struggle and saw them being teacher and student as fate, and Zuko agreed because that's how deep their connection was.

Aang is not happy about Katara wanting to murder a man, but he still lets her take Appa on her mission and is not disapproving when she ultimately spares the guy but does not forgive him and makes it clear she never will.

He feels empathy for freaking Ozai, to the point that refuses to kill the guy - even as he has the balls to say that Aang's family, his people, deserved to die. He spared that guy - but only after he had a way to do that without it meaning the death of more innocents. Aang, the pacifist, was going to turn his back on everything he believed in just to avoid more human suffering.

They aren’t saying he’s sort of like Bear from Obsession, they’re saying he would do exactly what Bear DID! Which was erase Nikki’s bodily autonomy, rape her, and never do anything to fix it or help her!

Instead, we'll get one of two results:

Zuko is retconned into being an angelic brother, which places any and all responsibility for issues in the Zuko-Azula relationship on "irrational" and "unreasonable" Azula. This is extremely boring, and is also the approach taken by most fanfic writers.

Zuko's hatred toward Azula is depicted as rational, good, and reasonable. This is the main approach employed by Gene Yang et all. Again, it is boring, and once again it places the entire responsibility for any issues on Azula.

I don't think Avatar Studios has a good enough grasp of Zuko's character to understand his flaws, nor do I think they would ever risk besmirching one of their cash cows with a story that would cast a negative light on him. It's a pity, because I think there is a real market for depicting complex and flawed sibling relationships.

The day they retcon the comics –because every installment they're introducing after the fact doesn't fit into the comics timeline anyway– is the day the universe implodes on itself.

Even if, hypothetically, they retconned all those comics, Zuko's (mis)treatment of Azula is still a very big factor to consider.

If they acknowledged it, they'd have to admit to themselves their perfect little redemption arc Zuzu is fundamentally dishonorable...

In fact when comparing Aang's parenting to Ozai's and calling him a terrible father they also insist that Katara was absolutely ok with how "terribly" aang was treating her kids. And she must be absolutely supporting of this if she had 3 kids with him and age difference between 1st and 3rd child is almost 10 years. We know Katara well enough to understand she is not someone who gonna tolerate something she doesn't agree with. If Aang was a bad father and treating their kids awfully Katara would break up with him on the day one. She wouldn't be having kids with him again and again if it was the case.

So they have a choice: either they destroy Katara's character making her a terrible mother who gonna tolerate bad treatment towards her kids, or they have to admit that Aang was a good loving dad and that is what Katara liked in him besides everything else. Either one or another.