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Hi friends new and old, I took a bit of a break from this blog but with LATLA out a lot of my old posts are getting renewed attention. Thank you for the new follows and love!! I’m going to try to go through some old asks/requests and post some more soon. Hope that’s cool with everybody :)

I was trying to wash my hair and my brain said:

Monk Gyatso was surrounded by the bodies of Fire Nation soldiers when they found his body. But how? Like how did that happen? Weren’t they all hyped up on the comet?

His clothes aren’t burned either!

If the firebenders killed Gyatso on sight...wouldn’t they be alive? If they just killed him...there wouldn’t have been any soldier casualties, right?

Well!

Y’all.

Gyatso said “I’m going out on my terms and I’m taking you with me” and sucked all the air out of the room, killing himself and a bunch of comet-overpowered firebenders in the process.

Fire can’t live without air; they’d be powerless.

So I fully buy into this hc, but it actually does make sense to me that it wouldn’t be explored in canon.

Thinking about S1 Zuko, would that boy ever admit to the wounds he received in the Agni Kai permanently affecting his senses and, therefore, his ability to fight? Never. One of Zuko’s biggest fears is being seen as weak. It’s what ultimately got him banished.

So it makes perfect sense to me that any adverse impact (aside from the scar itself) wasn’t addressed. Because Zuko would be super protective over his weaknesses and certainly not be vocal about having a blindspot or being HOH on his left side. (please correct me if I’m being ableist at all in this post)

This is a 100% headcanon of mine for sure

I think it is so strongly within Katara’s character that she would take something as traumatizing as learning bloodbending by force from Hama and turn it into something that could be used for good.

brb heading to the sea to sleep in ice for 100 years

Yeah, this is a plot hole that bugs me too. Because Katara does say her mother gave her the necklace, but she also says in TSR that when they got back to the hut Kya was gone. So, contradictory recollections. 

Which isn’t abnormal for trauma. 

I guess here’s my tentative theory on why the recollections don’t match up? Let’s assume that Kya was already dead when Hakoda and Katara got back to the hut, that would mean Katara (or Hakoda) had to remove the necklace from  Kya’s body. It would probably be less painful to just say “my mother gave it to me,” instead of, “my mother died wearing this necklace and now I wear it,” because she’d only just met Haru. 

Sharing the way her mother died is probably difficult enough without getting into the specifics. Also, since Yon Rha was already gone, I’m fairly certain that he had made certain that Kya was dead before walking away. He was on a mission sanctioned by the throne, no room for error. 

You guys read my mind sometimes! This is one of my #1 parallels in the entirety of AtLA.

I have so much to say about these two scenes. It does give us tons of insight into how far these two have come, to answer your first question. And when Katara reassures Zuko she’s speaking from experience. 

It’s so beautiful that this hothead has learned to have this much damn patience. I think this is the first time Katara cracked and saw the Zuko from the catacombs again and felt for him. 

(It’s also horrendously ugly that Zuko’s immediate action when seeking forgiveness is still to bow and wait) 

But anyway. 

Katara sees Zuko waiting once again outside of Iroh’s tent, seeking to atone for making the wrong choice. It’s deja vu for Katara, that’s why she goes to help Zuko. I really think Katara’s whole opinion of Zuko shifted the moment she saw him outside her tent the morning after she yelled at him. 

She’s used to being the one apologizing, not being apologized to. So when she sees Zuko preparing to wait it out for another entire night out of respect, their relationship has reached the point where she can tell him confidently that:

I mean

is this not canon?

I love that you asked this because this concept lives in my head rent free and I would also like to know WHY NOT as far as I know they never really explore this

Cool ass method of torture for sure