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ATLA: 2020 EDITION
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Sokka predicted them being together even before Aunt Wu did
I can absolutely hear him say that btw
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my favourite lad (◡‿◡✿)
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#atla#atla fanart#the gaang#hi im kinda back after the whole funeral thing#i dont rmb how to tumblr anymore
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it’s common to see zuko as the angsty goth kid, but what about the shy jock who releases his pent up emotions through basketball???
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Avatar | Parallels
#this is too much for my heart#the gaang#atla gifset#fave#atla#a friendship that transcends lifetimes
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The air nomads don't get nearly enough love (or discussion) in fandom, so if you wanted to meta about *slides five dollars* I would love you forever. Thanks!
I don’t have a particular about the Air Nomads to haul out that hasn’t been said by people much more talented than me — about how them being underestimated or their (Aang’s) values being derided as weak in fandom reflects the perspective of the imperialist nation that wiped them about; about how their values of peace, fun, freedom, and childhood (even into adulthood) were the first to go in a war; about Aang as a forgotten ideal, etc. — however, as a brief one, perhaps:
We really don’t give Monk Gyatso enough credit. His character always reminds me a little of Gran Gran, in which we learn way more about him than I would ever expect to. (Like, in ATLA even the grandparent has a fleshed out backstory. God tier). Like, he was friends with Avatar Roku and Guru Pathik and tried out new, exciting airbending moves (glider surfing) just like how Aang invented the air scooter. Imagine how touched he was when the baby boy he’d been given to raise turned out to be his old friend in a new lifetime.
Like Monk Gyatso so clearly imparted the best of the monks’ teachings onto his boy and raised/loved Aang as his son, which is something that Aang knows in how he carries the monks teachings with him and has so much respect and love for them, but also how he looks at Zuko in Book One, when Zuko says this:
Z: This staff will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers, being raised by monks.
Like of all the parental figures in the series, if we’re going by percentages, Gyatso is the most consistently involved and healthiest parental figure for his charge. That’s not to say the other parents in ATLA are bad (except, obviously, for Azulon and Ozai) or that I’m blaming them for their absences/choices/deaths, but it is the truth. Iroh was largely absent in Zuko’s childhood as was Ursa; Toph’s parents abused her as well and were extremely unhealthily controlling & dismissive; Kya died and Hakoda left, leaving both of his children with massive issues about it.
Comparatively, until Aang woke up from the iceberg (I believe ATLA takes place over nine months in total?) and for 99% of the first 12 years of his life, Gyatso was a loving and active parent. People really tend to undersell Aang’s loss of his people, but I see almost no one ever talk about how he’s the character (outside of Toph) who’s lost a parent most recently, and a singular parent at all. Gyatso filled every main role for him in that way (as some of the other monks did, I’m sure, but Gyatso was number one). He encouraged Aang’s travelling all over the world to friends like Kuzon and Bumi, he was complimentary and good natured, and also fiercely loyal and protective.
He was willing to put his boy above the supposed needs of the world, even when the situation escalated. And while Aang was his old friend reincarnated, Gyatso is someone who always saw Aang first and foremost as Aang, not the Avatar.
Even when the elder monks were applying greater pressure and Aang was socially ostracized from his peers, Gyatso managed to keep his spirits up. He taught him Pai Sho (I will always believe that Aang is Iroh’s favourite person to play Pai Sho with post war, because he knows all the old styles / moves too). He trained him into a master airbender and a very sweet young boy.
And Aang ran away, not really knowing what he was doing (and certainly not where he would end up), not knowing that Gyatso was going to flat out refuse to let them be separated, because he loved him just as much. And then Gyatso finds out Aang has run away — which, as an Air Nomad with a sky bison, isn’t too terrible but still kinda scary, if only because Aang did so because he was so upset and would have said so in his letter, which must’ve torn Gyatso’s heart in two. First because Aang was so distraught to do something like that, and then Gyatso realizing that Aang thought Gyatso was going to let something like that happen, which is a terrible gut punch, because Gyatso was actively about to stop it. Then, the fear of his kid being out in an awful storm.
We don’t actually know how much time passed in between Aang running away and the Air Nomad genocide. It could’ve been days, weeks, or months. Did Gyatso go out on his own bison to look? Did he and the monks organize a search party? Did they come back day after day with nothing, and then had to conclude either Aang had successfully gone missing, or drowned at sea?
Did Gyatso cling to the hope that Aang was alive all that time, and as the Temples burned, and as other children died around him? As Gyatso’s own breath gave out?
Like I always get so emotional at this line in “The Storm” because
A: How could [the monks] do that to me? They wanted to take away everything I knew and everyone I loved!
in the end, the monks didn’t do that. The Fire Nation did.
So like, Aang sticking to his practices? The fun loving way he approaches travelling and his airbending? How Gyatso is always the direct face of Aang’s unimaginable loss? Aang reciting Air Nomad sayings that Monk Gyatso would’ve taught him? How proud Gyatso would’ve been of his son? Aang moving from a child’s Air Nomad’s shawl to a Master’s, complete with the necklace Gyatso wore, and for once entirely at peace with himself the way his father always wanted him to be, while also being safe and happy? That these are the robes he continues to wear even (presumably weeks) later in the Ba Sing Se epilgoue?
Fucking tearbending city, man
Side notes: It also shows that Aang and Gyatso were not afraid to critique the monks or their ways, or even go against them, when the verdicts seemed unfair. As well as Aang and Katara both having necklaces, ultimately, to remember the parent’s demise they discovered when they pushed aside a blue curtain. The importance of Aang’s staff (perhaps Gyatso carved it for him), his arrows, and his ceremonial robes.
They have such a beautiful, loving, tragic, and underrated relationship, and I will love them forever.
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reblog this with how you watched avatar: the last airbender for the first time in the tags. i watched the first few episodes at my friend’s house and found the rest of the episodes on vimeo.
#fun fact i saw the original trailer and maybe 1 or two episodes on nick when i was living in america#and then that summer i moved to SEA and i didnt have cable for a bit so i missed out on A LOT#eventually we got cable and therefore nick and i got to watch atla on tv again#i watched it when it aired until the end! but not chronologically i think i missed the early eps of book 2 and 3#i don't think i watched the entire show in chronological order until it came out on netflix for the first time in 2017/18#anyways i also wanted to point out that when i migrated it was a really tough time for me as a ten year old#i was going through a big cultural shift and identity crisis#and watching atla aka something familiar from my previous life (if i can call it that) was what grounded me#tldr: everything changed but not this cartoon so thanks atla for being an integral part of my childhood#damn nobody asked for this backstory fairy#personal#atla
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Brave Soldier Boy…
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WIP: Helpless
So here’s a WIP of the fic I typed from scratch today because I have no self-control and I’m pretty hyped
My brain wanted Helpless feels and so it spawned a Hamilton-inspired fluff overload Kataang AU. Here’s a snippet:
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“Avatar Aang!” Sokka greeted him, waving at the young monk.
“Ambassador Sokka! It’s good to see you again,” the Avatar said as they clasped each other’s forearms in traditional Water Tribe greeting. “Are you here with Chief Hakoda?”
“Nah, Dad had to take care of some business down South, you know, with the reconstruction and all,” Sokka said.
“I see. And you’re with ….” He looked curiously at her, and she tried to ignore the loud thumping her heart was making at the attention.
“Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” she said, trying to sound confident. “It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
A questioning look flashed across his features. “Southern Water Tribe?” he asked, glancing at Sokka.
“My sister.” Katara thought she saw a hint of relief touch his eyes, but it was gone in an instant. “Dad sent us here in his stead.”
“Thank you for ending the war, Avatar Aang. We’re greatly indebted to you,” she said, bowing deeply.
He studied her for a moment before taking her hand and pressing a kiss to her fingers. “If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it,” he said with a smile, his eyes never leaving hers.
There was a pregnant silence as she dumbfoundedly took in his words, his eyes, his hand, his lips on her hand. Her mouth hung slightly ajar, and she was pretty sure Sokka’s was too.
“All right, this is too much for me,” Sokka said, breaking the tension. He raised his hands and started to back away. “I’ll leave you to it.”
#i am looking respectfully#my dumb ass that knows nothing about hamilton is looking respectfully#kataang#ficrec#atla#atla fanfic
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Melt this iron heart 🤔
Post-series AU in which Bumi dies and Aang takes it really, really hard. Instead of processing the loss of his friend he shuts everyone out and hardens his heart and even forces a wedge between himself and Katara. To the point where they actually break up :( This hurts Katara, obviously, so she decides to turn away from him too.
Our babies suffer a bit in their time away from each other </3 But they grow and heal some, too. So they eventually find their way back into each other’s arms :> Snippet with zero Kataang content (because I haven’t even reached anything past Bumi’s death lmfao) under the cut!
“Bumi, you’re a mad genius.”
Being able to say his name out loud brings tears to Aang’s eyes. It feels so good to have found someone from before. Even now Aang is still adjusting to calling what feels like 2 weeks ago as his old life. It’s been so much longer. There’s always the painful reminder that he’s just a boy stuck in a different timeline.
But now Bumi is here. Bumi, with his crooked smile and his face full of moles and his endearingly obnoxious laugh. Bumi is here and alive and Aang dives right into his wrinkly old arms, bubbling with laughter of a heart so full. The tears come without him realizing, without him meaning to. He wipes them away because there is no room for them here in this moment of friendship.
When Bumi says, “Awh, Aang, it’s good to see you. You haven’t changed a bit,” Aang wonders how he could have missed the tone of mischief that is so unique to Bumi all this while.
AYYYEEE this fic is so great in theory. Now who should I pay to write it
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hi do you care them
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WIP Title Game
Thanks lovely for tagging me @penguinsledder !! <3
rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and i’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!
Honestly I haven’t touched ANY of these since August.. I think since the end of Kataang Week 2020? But I guess I’m gonna have to start on them now that I’ve put them out into the world LOL
In no particular order:
melt this iron heart
keep me alive
aang loses katara au (LMFAO i haven’t found a name yet)
nothing gold will ever last
Words
Untitled document (this one is so angsty I couldn’t even begin to name it)
And these are the Kataang Week prompts that never saw the light of day therefore never got to the proper naming stage heh heh
Day 2: Soft
Day 4: PDA
Day 6: Napping
Day 7: The Red Thread of Fate
Day 8: Reunion fic
And that’s it! Tagging anyone who feels like doing it. :D
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I like your writing!! You write Kataang well even if you say you're new at it 💖 my favorite kataang fics are usually kataangst with hurt/comfort hehe. Also did you say kataang wip 👀
sorry that i just noticed this D: your comment means a lot!!! i’m motivated to wipe the dust off my wips now LOL. right now i’m working on a reunion fic with kataang as the main otp. it was meant to be my fictober fic.. but we’re well into October by now
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You're about to rewatch Appa's Lost Days? Braver than the marines, my friend
HELLOOOO i totally ugly cried like a baby when Appa flew back to the dessert and tried to dig up WST’s library D: the US marines don’t know pain like this
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I finally made a piano arrangement of The Avatar’s Love! 💖
This cover’s actually been a long time coming, but this fandom renaissance finally gave me the push to finish it. Hope you guys like it! ✨
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