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ATLA Book 3 Character Stats

One thing I have been wondering for a while is how many lines of dialogue each character has in ATLA. I recently figured out an easy way to calculate it, so here are the stats for Book 3. You can look at the stats for Book 1 and Book 2 at those links.

There are 3309 total lines of dialogue in the season. They are divided up as follows:

Sokka 526 lines, 15.90% Aang 486 lines, 14.69% Zuko 433 lines, 13.09% Katara 388 lines, 11.73% Toph 266 lines, 8.04% Azula 119 lines, 3.60% Hakoda 65 lines, 1.96% Suki 58 lines, 1.75% Mai 54 lines, 1.63% Hama 49 lines, 1.48% Roku 47 lines, 1.42% Ozai 46 lines, 1.39% Piandao 43 lines, 1.30% Ty Lee 35 lines, 1.06% Warden 33 lines, 1.00% Iroh 27 lines, 0.82% Chit Sang 26 lines, 0.79% Sozin 26 lines, 0.79%

More obscure characters have their stats below:

Actress Aang 19 lines, 0.57% Sun Warrior chief 18 lines, 0.54% Actor Sokka 16 lines, 0.48% Actress Katara 16 lines, 0.483% Yon Rha 16 lines, 0.48% Bully guard 15 lines, 0.453309157% Actor Zuko 14 lines, 0.423088546% Male guard 14 lines, 0.423088546% Chan 13 lines, 0.392867936% Dock 13 lines, 0.392867936% Li 13 lines, 0.392867936% Female guard 11, 0.332426715% June 10, 0.302206105% Actress Azula 10, 0.302206105% Bumi 10, 0.302206105% Headmaster 10, 0.302206105 Lo and Li 10, 0.302206105 Lo 9, 0.271985494 Xu 9, 0.271985494 Bato 8, 0.241764884 Kwan 8, 0.241764884 Mechanist 7, 0.211544273 Warden Poon 7, 0.211544273 Dealer 6, 0.181323663 Haru 6, 0.181323663 Kya 6, 0.181323663 Pakku 6 ,0.181323663 Ruon-Jian, 6 0.181323663 Shoji 6, 0.181323663 Teo 6, 0.181323663 The Duke 6, 0.181323663 Young Katara 6, 0.181323663 Actor Iroh 5, 0.151103052 Actor Ozai 5, 0.151103052 Banished servant 5, 0.151103052 Head of Dai Li 5, 0.151103052 Hide 5 ,0.151103052 Little boy 5, 0.151103052 Ming 5, 0.151103052 Mung 5, 0.151103052 On Ji 5, 0.151103052 Tyro 5 ,0.151103052 Avatar Roku 4, 0.120882442 Dream Ozai 4, 0.120882442 Ember Island teenager #1 4, 0.120882442 Fat 4, 0.120882442 Fire Navy officer 4, 0.120882442 Guard 4, 0.120882442 Ham Ghao 4, 0.120882442 Lion turtle 4, 0.120882442 Momo 4, 0.120882442 Music teacher 4, 0.120882442 Pipsqueak 4, 0.120882442 Servant 4, 0.120882442 Servant #1 4, 0.120882442 Southern Raiders commander 4, 0.120882442 Town authority 4, 0.120882442 Ursa 4, 0.120882442 Yangchen 4, 0.120882442 Actor Toph 3, 0.090661831 Appa 3, 0.090661831 Ding 3, 0.090661831 Door guard 3, 0.090661831 Due 3, 0.090661831 Ember Island teenager #2 3, 0.090661831 Engineer 3, 0.090661831 Female Fire Nation soldier 3, 0.090661831 Fire Sage 3, 0.090661831 Gondola guard 3, 0.090661831 Male Fire Nation soldier 3, 0.090661831 Male guard #2 3, 0.090661831 Male prisoner #1 3, 0.090661831 Male student #1 3, 0.090661831 Shinu 3, 0.090661831 Tho 3, 0.090661831 Tough prisoner 3, 0.090661831 Villager 3, 0.090661831 Yon Rha's mother 3, 0.090661831 Actor Jet 2, 0.060441221 Bodyguard #2 2, 0.060441221 Class 2, 0.060441221 Dock/Xu 2, 0.060441221 Ember Island teenager #3 2, 0.060441221 Female prisoner 2, 0.060441221 Female student #1 2, 0.060441221 Fire Nation soldier 2, 0.060441221 Fire Nation watchman #1 2, 0.060441221 Huu 2, 0.060441221 Jeong Jeong 2, 0.060441221 Koala sheep 2, 0.060441221 Kyoshi 2, 0.060441221 Male soldier 2, 0.060441221 Male student #2 2, 0.060441221 Qin Lee 2, 0.060441221 Servant #2 2, 0.060441221 Shop owner 2, 0.060441221 The Boulder 2, 0.060441221 Yue 2, 0.060441221 Aang and Sokka 1, 0.03022061 Aang and Zuko 1, 0.03022061 Actor Bumi 1, 0.03022061 Actress Yue 1, 0.03022061 Big Bad Hippo 1, 0.03022061 Blue Spirit 1, 0.03022061 Bodyguard 1, 0.03022061 Bogyguard #2 1, 0.03022061 Crew member 1, 0.03022061 Crowd 1, 0.03022061 Fire Nation Captain 1, 0.03022061 Fire Nation man 1, 0.03022061 Fire Nation watchman #2 1, 0.03022061 Firebender 1, 0.03022061 Gondola guard #2 1, 0.03022061 Gondola guard #3 1, 0.03022061 Gondola guard #4 1, 0.03022061 Gyatso 1, 0.03022061 Katara and Sokka 1, 0.03022061 Kuruk 1, 0.03022061 Male prisoner #2 1, 0.03022061 Male soldier #1 1, 0.03022061 Painted Lady 1, 0.03022061 Pathik 1, 0.03022061 Qin 1, 0.03022061 Soldier 1, 0.03022061 Student 1, 0.03022061 Sun Warrior 1, 0.03022061 Ta Min 1, 0.03022061 Team Avatar 1, 0.03022061 Toph and Sokka 1, 0.03022061 Villager #1 1, 0.03022061 Villager #2 1, 0.03022061 Villager #3 1, 0.03022061 Villager #4 1, 0.03022061 Weapons store shopkeeper 1, 0.03022061 Young boy 1, 0.03022061

This is not fully fleshed out or formed particularly well, but I, of course, had More Thoughts as I do my annual "it's turning toward spring, therefore AtLA" rewatch and re-obsession. Maybe I could eventually be bothered to come back to thing and put in proper context/references, but for now all I got are thoughts.

So, I watched the Ember Island Players episode earlier this evening and had some more thoughts on the play and what it tells us about Fire Nation views on Zuko. Obviously it's made clear that they're supposed to not like him, as the audience in the episode applauds when he is killed by Azula, but even before that we can see the setup of this dislike for him, namely in the rendition the Players do of the crystal catacombs of Ba Sing Se. We see Katara and Zuko's characters in the catacombs sharing a moment, where it's then "revealed" that Katara has "always had a thing" for Zuko, and then they are implied to hook up.

What's interesting to me, with my Literature Degree™️ lens and what I learned in my theory class about the positioning of Nature in relation to Man in Western philosophy (which really reached its epoch during the Enlightenment) makes the subtext here really fascinating. Hooking Zuko up with Katara serves to undermine him to the FN audience with their implicit biases against not only anyone who isn't FN, but against people of the SWT in particular: people who they consider peasants and savages. We see this in our own world with indigenous people, or "less civilized" people like Africans, because they are "closer to nature" and therefore "sub-human" in a way, being positioned closer to animals. (This way of thinking also is applied to women in our world through this Western philosophy, but I don't think that vector actually applies to the FN perspective because of all the nations they are actually shown (in the show) to be the most equal between the genders.)

So by putting their "civilized" prince with the "uncivilized savage" who is not deemed anywhere near the level of even the lowliest FN citizen (and perhaps considered even lesser as a waterbender than a nonbender would be, but that's pure conjecture), the play is subtly setting up and prepping their audience to be more and more okay with the "betrayal" of Zuko first when he joins the Avatar's team, and then finally when he is killed near the end of the play. He's already been "tainted" by the less civilized Katara in the second act.

If the writers of the episode were worth their salt, they would have realized that's also what they were doing when they put that in, beyond it being "hur hur zutara" (according to the creators, it was ostensibly supposed to make fun of the zutara shippers, though in my, and many others', opinion it…… really failed to do that), but I'm not entirely sure they would have, considering that it's very on par with the implicit biases that plague us in the Western world today

since we finally got book 1’s soundtrack after 15 years I am once again asking for book 2 and 3 😩🙏🏻 please I need it so I can listen to Peace and The Avatar’s Love on repeat until I melt into the floor

KatAang!

my first fanfic on ao3, 60k two-shot!

random things in my sketchbook that Just Make Sense

i love you azula, i really do...

Ozai, SC P III/IV: Hits a magnificent fireblast into Aang's direction whilst he takes shelter in a rock structure that results in him being slammed into a rock structure

Azula, JTBSS P II: Hits a magnificent fireblast into Aang's direction whilst he takes shelter in a rock structure that results in him being slammed into a rock structure

Zuko, be like: I support women’s rights *the southern raiders episode* but I also support women’s wrongs

Cicero Pig: Wait a minute...has anyone noticed that Bugs is missing too?

Daffy: (horrified) Oh no....I knew it was only a matter of time! (runs to Taz) Taz ate Bugs! (opens Taz's mouth) Bugs, I'm coming for ya, buddy!

Petunia: Daffy, Taz didn't eat Bugs. He's probably with Lola.

Daffy: That's just what Taz wants you to think!

(climbs into Taz's mouth)

Porky: G-g-g-get out of The Tasmanian Devil's mouth, D-D-Daffy!

just some designs mainly created because I wanted to draw hakama and then it spiral out from there

bald zuko under the cute

The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being hard. Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purify right.

- The Lion Turtle, ATLA

"Owl at Home" by Arnold Lobel is a whole mood