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erisenyo · 2 years

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Aang, Katara, and Toph are worried. Air, fire, water, earth—none of their bending is acting right, and it only seems to be getting worse, not better. They’re determined to get to the bottom of it, whether it’s a Spirit imbalance or energybending gone wrong or something else entirely. Sokka thinks the explanation might be a little more mundane than that. He just needs to do a little research first to confirm it. Good thing the International Summit means there are plenty of people around who might have the answers. OR, Aang, Katara, and Toph’s bending is changing in ways they can’t control or anticipate, in ways they’ve never experienced before. Sokka thinks it sounds pretty familiar.

A little gen shenanigans for your day? Featuring the trials and travails of puberty that no one warned you about, Sokka being a good friend who is going to track down answers no matter how ill-qualified he is, a lot of people thinking Sokka is very bad at pick-up lines, The Boulder and the Boulder's thoughts on Chit Sang, Iroh and Zuko having a Parental Bonding Moment, King Bumi choosing chaos, and Hakoda being a proud dad.

For @spacecasehobbit who encouraged me to go nuts.

#Truly I packed so many shenanigans into this #Tender moments!#Comedy!#Yagoda thinking Sokka is asking for sex advice!#Interesting and non traditional applications of bending!#Very ruffled crusty nobles!#King Kuei!#atla fic #gen fic #Sokka fic

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a-todd-illustration · 8 months

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King Kuei and Firelord Zuko friendship ❤️ 💚

They like to go see plays together, but they talk through most of it. The personal guards have gotten used to it and find it amusing.

#myart #fanart #avatar the last airbender #zuko #atla #king kuei #firelord zuko #zuko/kuei friendship

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mugentakeda · 5 months

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he thought redeeming himself took one day only!!!! he mad

#this is the dumbest thing ive ever drawn #retirement era going swimmingly!!!!!!!#he thinks he has it bad. hama just came back to the south pole and cucked pakku immediately and also beats him with a stick everyday #and if pakku isnt ok with it kanna will order hakoda to throw him into the ocean ://#iroh #zuko #sokka #king kuei #atla #avatar the last airbender #alicias art

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twin-azure-dragon-wave · 2 years

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Avatar: the Last Airbender + Twitter Posts Part 2

[Part 5][Part 4][Part 3][Part 1]

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die-auster · 7 months

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The gilded cage for the king.

I wish the golden pen to look more, well, gold.

If you feel like it you can support me on my Ko-fi.

#avatar the last airbender #Long Feng #the Dai Li #king Kuei #Bosco #Ba Sing Se #the Earth kingdom

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edenianleena · 2 months

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~ Them 😩💗💙🖤 >>>

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inbarfink · 1 year

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atlararepairmonth · 3 months

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AtLA Rarepair Month - May 2024

Hello and welcome to the Avatar: The Last Airbender Rarepair Month event!

This event is a month long, spanning the entirety of the month of May 2024, and will be devoted to any and all forms of content celebrating the Rarepair ships of AtLA.

Content can include but not limited to fanfiction, fanart, moodboards, edits, music videos and playlists.

Prompts:

Week 1 - Tea Time + Role Reversal + Hobbies- May 1st to May 6th

Week 2 - Survival + Bending Swap + What "Family" Means - May 7th to May 12th

Week 3 - Food + Animal Companions + Dreams/Nightmares - May 13th to May 18th

Week 4 - Prison + Sparring Practice + Spirits - May 19th to May 24th

Week 5 - Weapons + Behind enemy lines + Secret Pleasures + Free Space - May 25th to May 31st

The rules for entries are as follows:

-Must be 18+ to participate, as we will be accepting NSFW entries (make sure to tag appropriately for content warnings)

-A rarepair must have 100 or less fics on ao3 to be considered acceptable.

-For this event we are excluding any Canon Character x Reader submissions.

-We will, however, accept Canon Character x OC submissions.

-All content is acceptable, please be courteous of other people's submissions and do not leave hate or discourse in the comments and tags. This is a celebration of rarepairs and encouraging more content for rarepairs in the fandom. If you don't like something someone made, just keep scrolling.

-When submitting your content, make sure to tag us @atlararepairmonth

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itsnotmortalkombat · 6 months

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The Lin Kuei trios dad showing Liu Kang, Sindel and Jerrod around the Lin Kuei grounds.

Sektor: Grandmaster, can I have a cookie?

Grandmaster, while handing Sektor a cookie: becoming Grandmaster was like a seismic shift to my brain-

Kuai: Father! Frost bit me!

Grandmaster, to Frost: no biting!

Bi-Han: Father, I don’t see how any realm stands a chance.

Grandmaster: you aren’t wrong.

Cyrax, comes waddling in: I’m stuck in this bucket.

Grandmaster: okay! I’ll handle all of that. Just give your Grandmaster two seconds.

Grandmaster, while turning to Liu Kang, Sindel and Jerrod: Ahem! As a grandmaster-

Tomas: Father! Guess what! I have pink eye!

Liu Kang: oh my-

Sindel: by Argus!

Jerrod, while looking away: oh fuck!

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steveandbuckysdaughter · 2 months

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So, I was thinking about something in LOK.

You know the Earth Queen Hou-Ting? You know, the woman who secluded airbenders and that Zaheer killed?

This one?

Well, as you all may know, she’s King Kuei’s only daughter.

I’m sure you all remember King Kuei, the puppet king with the bear.

This guy.

Well, I made some calculus. He must’ve been in his early/mid 20s in ATLA. And his daughter had to be in her 50s/early 60s when she died.

In the meantime, Zuko is 87/88 in 171AG, when LOK3 takes place. Since his daughter is commonly believed to be around Bumi and Kya’s age, I’d speculate that she’s around 60 in her appearance in LOK4, in 174AG and when Zuko is 90 (Tenzin is 51 in 170AG and Kya is roughly 4 years older than him, so Izumi must be between 5 and 7 years older than him, which places her in a range between 60 and 62 years old).

(See? Roughly the same age)

So, my point? I think during their diplomatic visits, Zuko and Kuei had to spend a lot of time in each other’s company because, monarch stuff. And given that they were both heirs to their respective thrones, Izumi and Hou-Ting had to spend a lot of time together.

I don’t know why, but I imagine those two having the wildest, silliest yet most hateful beef as teens. And given Hou-Ting’s despicable behavior and authoritarian politic in contrast to what shown of Izumi, a rational leader who cares for her people, I am even more convinced that those two despised each other.

So yeah, I can’t stop picturing Izumi and Hou-Ting insulting the crap out of each other while saving face in front of the subjects. And I can’t stop laughing

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zuko-always-lies · 1 year

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Since the ATLA fandom always needs this reminder...

Characters which Azula captures over the course of the series:

1. Katara

2. Hakoda

3. Suki

4. Other Kyoshi Warriors

5. Ty Lee

6. Zuko

7. Bato

8. Tyro

9. Hui

10. Due

11. Tho

12. Mai

13. Tyro

14. The Mechanist

15. Pipsqueak

16. Iroh

17. King Kuei

18. Long Feng

19. Boso the Bear

20. Toph

Characters which Azula executes after capturing them:

None.

Maybe she’s not actually as ruthless or bloodthirsty as people make her out to be...

#Azula #Azula meta #Iroh #Toph #Ty Lee #Katara #Aang #Mai #Suki #Zuko #Tyro #Bosco #Long Feng #Sokka #Bato #Due #Hue #King Kuei #Avatar The Last Airbender #atla

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muffinlance · 1 year

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Shaw reeeeally want to eat the earth kings bear. It’s so exotic and he’s never tried one before. Just a nibble, maybe a haunch, then he’ll know if it tastes like orca-bear or weasel-bear.

(Continued from parts one and two.)

Kuei is, in the understated words of one of his earliest tutors, feeling mildly out of his geological stratum.

There was a war. There was a war for his entire life, for his father’s and his grandfather’s. He is only learning of it now, because it is over, and his signature is required on the official documents.

(At least they didn’t just take his royal seal and stamp it themselves.)

The young king has many questions. Mostly about his own court, and which of his advisors are truly trustworthy.

(And which would find for him a less pleasant oubliette, if he tried to rattle his palace’s bars.)

“The Fire Lord will enter through the eastern doors,” an etiquette tutor he’s never seen before instructs him. “You will stand for him, but not bow. His dragons have been instructed to enter behind him, but in practice, will do as they please. Or as he has ordered them. They are an intimidation tactic; do not acknowledge them. The terms have already been agreed upon. Place your stamp where indicated. If he inclines his head, you may return the gesture…”

It would be a significant amount of information to remember, had it not sifted down to “your presence was not required before, and is only ceremonial now.”

Kuei stands when the Fire Lord enters. His fellow monarch is young, but so is Kuei. The boy comes flanked with his own cadre of old men. Perhaps this is just what it’s like, being a king.

And then the dragons enter, which rather puts into perspective why this meeting is occuring in the grand ballroom, rather than a more usual diplomatic location. They are… very impressive specimens. The old men behind Kuei stiffen at the sight of them. The ones near the Fire Lord have to actively dodge, with a rumpling of robes and dignity alike, as the great serpents claim their place at the boy’s sides.

And then they keep coming forward, coils of them thick around as particularly rotund badgermoles, and Kuei’s advisors follow the example set by their peers. Which is to say: Kuei is suddenly rather alone at the table, with two great heads crossing paths behind him. They pause like that, for a moment, before moving on. There is enough of them to wrap back around to their Fire Lord’s side, even as they remain looped behind Kuei.

Yes. Yes, he could see why this would be an effective intimidation tactic.

The Fire Lord looks at the chair he’s been provided. Then down the length of the great table, to where Kuei would sit. There would have been servants to carry the papers between them, but… well. They are probably not going to risk scaling the dragon’s sides. The Fire Lord huffs, and walks to the chair to the left of Kuei’s, before setting down a pile of scrolls.

They let him carry important documents himself. That must be nice.

“Have you had time to read the final draft?” the Fire Lord asks, his chair scraping against stone as he pulls it out. He sits, and looks to Kuei expectantly.

Do not speak to him, says the voice of the tutor in Kuei’s memory. He is the violent offspring of an upstart island; you are the rightful inheritor of a continent. You bow to him on paper only.

“I… have not,” Kuei admits, and takes his own seat.

“Neither have I,” says the boy. “We should probably make sure the copies match, too. My advisors kept telling me not to worry about it, which is probably a reason to worry about it.”

So they unroll two copies of the finest calligraphy, and push their chairs close, and get down to reading. It is not an exaggeration to say that Kuei has spent his whole life practicing for this.

“This map cannot be accurate,” Kuei says.

“It… looks okay to me?”

“This is nearly two-thirds of our western fishing ports, nevermind the river transport routes, whose ‘tax rates and availability to outside use shall be at the discretion of the Fire Lord’?”

“That’s where my people live.”

“Then where did my people go?”

“Uh,” says the Fire Lord. Who is actually quite significantly younger than Kuei.

“...Did your advisors hand you papers to sign, too?”

“They said you’d already agreed.”

Kuei’s own advisors had implied they’d all be eaten by dragons should he refuse to sign, so. That was certainly a form of agreement.

One of the Fire Lord’s very intimidating serpents has laid its great head down across most of their table, and appears to have fallen asleep. The other is… scenting the air? Well. That's mildly alarming. It coils its neck back, to the limit the high ceiling allows, and stares down at something outside its coils.

Which is the point Kuei hears the whuffing of his bear cub. Which his advisors had very firmly told him could not be at this meeting, so little Bosco had been left in a garden with servants for attendants, but so many people are as afraid of a simple bear cub as they are of these great beasts of dragons, so it was no surprise he’d escaped to find the one person who really cared—

“Spit it out!” shouts the Fire Lord. “Spit it out!”

Kuei is not entirely certain how he ends up with his arms inside a dragon’s maw, his formal hairpiece being dripped upon by hot saliva fresh from a fang. But at least he's not the only monarch to be in such a state.

The dragon’s great size is, in retrospect, a blessing: a little morsel like Bosco had not required chewing. The bear shakes in his arms, but Kuei’s combing through wet fur had not turned up a scratch upon him.

“That is,” says the Fire Lord, looking up. And up further. Until he finds Bosco’s trembling muzzle, pressed against the top of Kuei’s head, “a really big… bear-otter?”

“He’s just a bear,” sniffles Kuei, hugging his poor baby back, if not quite so heartily as Bosco is hugging him. “A little cub. How could your dragon do such a thing?”

“Uh,” says the Fire Lord. “Shaw… apologizes?”

The dragon does not look at all apologetic. It's nuzzling the Fire Lord’s back, in a way Kuei himself recognizes from a hundred objects pulled from a baby bear’s inquisitive mouth. But father, can’t I eat it? Please?

“We,” Kuei says, his chin lifted haughtily, “are going to refresh ourselves in the royal chambers. You are welcome to the guest baths. And then we are going to sit down with a real map.”

Not whatever fanciful one the Fire Lord’s advisors have concocted.

“Fine,” the boy snaps back.

When they meet again, an hour later, both are free of the sulfurous stench of dragon spit. And both have brought their own maps, of the Fire Nation’s current military occupation.

Kuei does not sign until his people have free access to their own resources again. If slightly less land than they began with. As he is not eaten by a dragon for his troubles, he sets his sights upon his advisors, next.

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#Bosco: vomits up a stomach full of half-digested fish in front of Shaw #Shaw: lightly toasts it and eats slightly more than half #Bosco: licks the rest off the charred floor #World Peace #So Beautiful #Avatar The Last Airbender #atla #Zuko #King Kuei #Ran and Shaw #Hello Dragons Here

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comradekatara · 2 years

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obsessed w sokka going around the earth kingdom smacking the shit out of their most esteemed generals because they annoyed him and then being really smug when it works every time

#id in alt text #sokka #general fong #general sung #<– as if i will ever use either of those tags again lmfao #i like to think sokka spends the rest of his life doing this #the first time he smacks king kuei his guards are ready to arrest him but kuei is just like 'no its okay. stand down. i deserved that'#aang: violence isn't the answer #sokka and toph: EXCEPT FOR WHEN IT IS

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sokkastyles · 11 months

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How much do you feel Zuko is to blame for his part in Ba Sing Se? I've seen people saying what he did there was never meaningfully brought up or addressed, so I'd love to know what you think.

Never meaningfully brought up or addressed?

It's a major plot point that heavily affects the narrative on multiple sides. It's also something that is telegraphed as something Zuko instantly regrets and will regret. It's a pretty classic pyrrhic victory, and part of the reason it's not continuously brought up like some of the other things Zuko did is because Zuko never gets to realize the benefits of it.

Even when he's being pampered back in the palace, even while his father is praising him, even while he's standing in front of a cheering crowd, it's pretty clear that he's not happy, that his victory in Ba Sing Se is based on a lie and something he knows he should not have done.

Ba Sing Se marks a turning point in Zuko's narrative that pretty clearly primes him for redemption, not just because he flirted with switching sides but failed, but because from the moment he chooses the wrong side, he knows, and everyone in the audience knows, that he chose wrong.

That's why it's not continually brought up or reminded to us that Zuko did a bad thing. Because he's already paid the price for it.

I've also talked a lot about how Zuko is manipulated by Azula, which doesn't negate the harm he does by choosing her side, but it does mitigate the gaang's understanding of why he did what he did and their ability to forgive him. Particularly with Katara, who is the person who does continually confront Zuko with what he did in Ba Sing Se. She gets the last word the first time Zuko tries to join the gaang and is rejected, and then specifically brings up Ba Sing Se to the others, and they agree with her, all except Toph.

Katara brings it up again twice after he's accepted into the gaang. But the reason she brings it up is not because Zuko needs to like, do reparations or something, or be continually punished for something that he felt bad about the instant he did it. It's because she can't trust him again after having her trust betrayed before.

Which is why the focus is more on Zuko earning back Katara's trust, and Katara coming to understand that Zuko has genuinely changed.

Katara also comes to understand that Zuko was manipulated and that if he didn't side with Azula in Ba Sing Se, he would have been brought back as her prisoner. This is important for Katara as it relates to her arc with Azula and how that relates to her arc with Zuko. I'll never get over talking about how these three characters are intertwined. Katara goes from having to fight Zuko and Azula together in Ba Sing Se, after feeling betrayed by Zuko and not understanding why he sided with her, to protecting Zuko from Azula when she comes back for him at the Western Air Temple, and finally joining him against Azula, warning Zuko when she realizes Azula is trying to manipulate him again, and finally saving him from her.

Same with Zuko's arc with Iroh and how his betrayal at Ba Sing Se is about accepting Iroh's forgiveness, not about the specific actions he did. It's about Zuko needing to accept that he could be forgiven for his choices just as much as it is about atoning for them, so continually bringing it up as a mark against him would be pointless.

As far as him atoning for the specific actions, I think saving the world should be enough.

There's also the (neglected) parallel of Zuko and King Kuei as leaders that is established in "The Earth King" episode, with Zuko dreaming of being on the throne while being manipulated by a dragon with Azula's voice and not being able to make a decision, while King Kuei's inaction leads to the fall of his city and Azula using the Dai Li to take control. Zuko becoming the leader of his nation and ambassador of peace to the nation he helped to conquer definitely has a symmetry to it, and I think both of them work together and learn from each other post-series.

I've said this repeatedly, but what a character did in the past matters less than whether they've stopped doing bad things and are not motivated to continue doing those things. Once Zuko has proven himself as on the side of good, and once the characters who were personally wronged have already forgiven him, why would it need to be continually brought up?

As Toph points out, there's a difference between holding someone accountable and letting hurt feelings get in the way of making progress towards a greater good.

#zuko #katara #azula #toph #iroh #king kuei #ba sing se

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cienie-isengardu · 2 months

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Avatar The Last Airbender: North and South

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #sokka #zuko #sokka & zuko #so good to see them again #king kuei

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shipping-all-ships · 2 months

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The tragedy of Fire Lord Lu Ten, homosexual.

Before he legalized it, it wasn't exactly illegal to experiment but he could never know if the guys he hit on were saying yes because he was their prince or because they were into him.

In the army, the power imbalance as a general and prince was too tragic.

Then he was too busy before he was crowned to think about dating and now he's the Fire Lord and who's gonna say no to him, especially since he legalized being gay?

He has to wait until people approach him and at this point it's only people who want to kill him, which his guards and cousins have told him to stop saying yes even if he hasn't died yet.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #fire lord lu ten au #lu ten #when he finally meets someone on his level his hints aren't being picked up because king kuei was incredibly sheltered #and chief hakoda is definitely picking up on them but keeps rejecting him #yue's dad isn't hot enough for lu ten he has standards

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