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Wait wait wait, can you draw Zuko singing to Sokka?
Sokka: jeez the singers been making eyes at you all night, Sooks.
*Suki deciding if she should tell Sokka who the performer was actually checking out*
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Been wanting to draw Tsungi horn player Zuko for so long and this was the perfect prompt! Hope you like!
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#I stand by all these suit choices it was an absolutely gay joy to design all of them#Sokka in a powder blue suit until the day I die#it would actually be a dream if someone wrote something inspired by this#atla#atla fanart#zukka fanart#alcohol mention#boybff#sokka#zuko#suki#tsungi horn#tsungi horn zuko
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headcanon that everytime iroh asks zuko to do a favor for him zuko always replies with "no" as he is getting up to do said favor for iroh
#“nephew can you wash the tea set for me” “No” (does it)#“nephew could you tune the tsungi horn for me since its music night” “No” (does it)#just teenager things#and iroh never questions it hes just like thank you prince zuko :) because he knows zuko is full of shit
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
THE BLUE SPIRIT - June 17, 2005
#atlaedit#avataredit#animationedit#zukaang#avatar#atla#**#**: gifs#listen listen listen. this episode got an IRON GRIP on me#the atmosphere in it is so much more intense and mysterious than the other episodes in s1#and it ends with that heartrending part with them in the forest. where aang is. so sad and lost in this new world he woke up in#also just wanna say I ADORE the framings and color contrasts in this episode. the slow shift into the night and the harsh reds against blue#is just so cheffs kiss#and the music. omg the music. ive had the tsungi horn track and the blue spirit resque on repeat for WEEKS NOW#ok thats all BYE LMAO#cinemation
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iroh bought him a tsungi horn. like, he didn't just buy a tsungi horn for the boat; he said he needed it for music nights, but he still needed someone to play it, right? he goes into his nephew's room, where he's sitting in the corner with his arms crossed. he's one of his moments where he looks exactly like he's meant to (moody)(the normal kind of moody)(like he's a teenager). zuko says he doesn't want to play tsungi horn, and that's not even what iroh was going to ask, but i guess it would be a reasonable assumption if he's been asked more than once. he probably has been asked more than once. he played tsungi horn when he was younger. iroh bought him a tsungi horn. he doesn't want to play it
#look anika's talking!#RAAHHHHHHHHH#(<- having a normal one)#atla#zuko#uncle iroh#zuko playing tsungi horn when he was little was canonized through the comics btw#this post was abt a scene from s1e18
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FIRE LORD ZUKO: a documentary
PRODUCER: so what's it like dating the Fire Lord?
SOKKA: Well, he's a very talented swordsman, you know.
CUT to Zuko, one eye twitching.
SOKKA: In fact, I'd say he's incredibly well endao-ed.
CUT to Zuko, his face in his hands.
SOKKA: But he also has an appreciation for the arts. He plays the tsungi horn *very* well.
CUT to Zuko, who has disappeared.
#zuko#sokka#zukka#fire lord zuko#another documentary au#cut to Iroh#confused but agreeable#well yes he does play the tsungi horn he's rather well known for it#jee: some might say notorious#atla
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how quick many readers thought Jin was to clock Zuko as gay af, not remembering that Jet did the same in chapter 2. Maybe I just headcanon Zuko as the kid in the iconic SNL sketch ‘Wells for Boys’. Maybe thats my opinion
#hollypunkerspost#am i drunk rereading past work while ruminating on my current ones and updating documents#whod do that#why do i remember to use tumblr 8 times a yeR#these are good questions#blue on ao3#i also got sad i never got to write zuko serenating sokka with a tsungi horn#and im disappointed in myself on that my dudes
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baby zuko playing the tsungi horn
#zuko#prince zuko#atla#avatar#avatar the last airbender#fanart#artists on tumblr#ink blot#turle duck
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But this implies that he CAN play the tsungi horn…
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Zukka #3
Zuko: Bad new, the keys of our inn chambers are stuck in the storage room
Zuko: Good news, I know how to pick locks
Zuko: Bad new, Aang is now concerned and trying to find which part of my trauma had needed me to learn lockpicking and I don’t have the emotional courage to tell him it was my cousin’s idea to look cool in front of cute girls and guys
Zuko: Good news, a cute boy saw me
Zuko: Bad news, its Sokka and since he knew me with my phoenix tail, saw me vomit the first time I flew on Appa and know I can play the tsungi horn, he will never find me cool
————Update:
Zuko: Ok so we are dating now-
#Zukka#atla sokka#sokka#sokka avatar the last airbender#sokka/zuko#atla zuko#prince zuko#atla zukka#zuko#The cousin in question is Lu Ten btw
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Cultural Practices: Pipa
Other than the fictional tsungi horn, the pipa is the instrument that gets the most attention in the ATLAverse. A pipa (琵琶) is a traditional Chinese lute. The four-string pipa is quite an old instrument, being over a thousand years old. As a result, the way it has been played has evolved quite a bit. During the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907), the instrument was played horizontally, like a guitar. Nowadays, the pipa is played vertically, like a cello. It’s interesting that Jee plays in the modern style, while Iroh and the Flamey-Os play in an antiquated style. Maybe it’s a reflection of class? Iroh and the school children are well to do, so maybe they had to learn the older, more rigid way. Jee might be self-taught, so he could have learned to play from observing street performers.
Just a little headcanon of mine. Anyways, enjoy some nice pipa music below:
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Zutara Drabble # 5 & 8, please. ^.^
“Wait a minute. Are you jealous?” & “Wanna bet?”
Katara knocked once, briefly, on the Fire Lord’s office door before pushing it open and inviting herself in. She and Zuko had worked together for so long—had been friends for so long—that they no longer had the need, or the patience, for a semblance of formality.
Katara supposed that on some unlucky day in the future she might walk in on him practicing his Iroh impression, or worse (better?), with his pants down. But per usual, the Fire Lord was merely at his desk, head in hand, as his glazed-over eyes scanned some boring parchment.
“Hey Zuko,” chirped Katara, feeling herself almost expand upon seeing him, upon seeing the transformation of his face when his eyes fell on her—the subtle widening of his right eye, the easy smile that pulled at the corners of his mouth.
“Hey,” he said in response, setting his parchment aside and giving her his full attention. A piece of hair had fallen out of his top knot. “My favorite ambassador—"
“Mhm, whatever,” she joked back. “Funny how I become the favorite every time the fishing waters treaty is up for renewal—"
“You’re always my favorite, I just happen to point it out at specific times.”
Katara rolled her eyes, even though she felt her cheeks warm a little at Zuko’s words.
“Anyway,” she said, shrugging off that impossibility, “I’m just delivering the report on the healers in Fire Fountain City.” She handed him another piece of parchment, which Zuko took with some hesitation.
“The report on the healers—?” he muttered, eyes scanning the page. “But I didn’t need this for a couple more days—”
“Yes, well, Tanriq invited me to the Fire Lantern Festival tomorrow evening, so I got it done early.”
She watched as Zuko’s eyes stopped scanning the parchment, but he didn’t look up.
“Tanriq?” For some reason, his voice had gone up in pitch.
“Do you know another Tanriq?” Katara asked, curious at Zuko’s confusion.
“The—the ambassador from the Northern Water Tribe?”
“Of course,” said Katara slowly.
“You’re—together?”
“No,” she said immediately, and then chided herself. “I mean—I’m giving him a chance. So…maybe in the future? We’ll see how it goes—”
“It’s not going to go well,” Zuko interrupted her.
Katara blinked at him. “Huh?”
“I mean,” Zuko said, bringing his hands in front of him on the desk and rolling them together. “I just mean—it’s just a little odd, the two of you—the Fire Lantern Festival—"
“What’s so odd about it?” Katara asked, half surprised and half curious about the issue Zuko saw that she couldn’t. “I like festivals.”
“Right, but do you like them with Tanriq? I—I dunno you will.”
“Sure, he’s a little boring—”
“He doesn’t know you at all!” Zuko interjected, and then quieted, shifting his eyes. But he continued. “I mean, will he know to take you to the food stalls that sell ocean kumquats? Will he take you dancing early enough so you don’t miss the tsungi horn players?”
Katara laughed. “I can tell him not to!” she pointed out. “You don’t need to be worried for me, I’m sure we’ll have a fine time—”
“Wanna bet?”
Katara stared at him. “Do I want to…make a bet about whether I’ll enjoy myself on a date?”
“Um,” said Zuko, shifting in his seat so that the chair squeaked. The panic on his face did not match the regality of his formal robes. “No, that was uncalled for, sorry,” he said. “I—I—”
And as Zuko stuttered, and Katara stared at Zuko’s rapidly reddening cheeks, she came to an unlikely—but perhaps possible?—conclusion.
“Wait a minute. Are you jealous?”
She hadn’t meant to say it out loud. She had to fight the urge to clap a hand to her mouth in horror. And if Zuko had looked skeptical whatsoever, she would have curled in on herself and scurried out the door like a goat dog with its tail between its legs. And then possibly quit her job and moved to the Foggy Swamp.
But Zuko didn’t look skeptical. Zuko did not calmly and coolly reject her suggestion. Instead, he noisily backed up his chair, stood, buried his hands in his hair, and yelped, “Me?! Jealous?! No—no, definitely not!” And then he laughed like an unhinged hyena leopard.
“I—” Katara started, over what sounded like the beginnings of a panic attack. “I—um,” she said, reminding herself that she was a waterbending master and teacher to the Avatar and she was not scared of anything—“I won’t go with him. If you—um—if you don’t want me to,” she said, knowing that her tone had drastically changed from teasing to serious.
Zuko’s laughter died down and he matched her serious expression. “Katara, no—I would never try to insert myself in your personal life—I’m sorry, I just got, um—” he paused, but didn’t finish his sentence.
“Can I take your bet then?”
“What?”
“But for the other side. I bet you I won’t have a nice time with Tanriq.”
“I—look—I was being childish—of course you’ll have a nice time—”
“Maybe,” she said, and Zuko’s face fell for the briefest moment before he schooled it to one of impassive regard once more. “But I think I’ll have a nicer time with someone who knows me better, like you said.”
Zuko looked away from her and stretched his arm behind him to rub the back of his neck. “I think you should go with whoever you want to go with,” he muttered.
Katara wanted to scream. But…she did want this more than she wanted to scream. “You,” she said, only a smidge of frustration in her voice. “I’d rather go with you.”
Zuko’s eyes snapped to hers. “Oh? Is that—is that—is that right?”
“If, um, if you want to,” she murmured, suddenly feeling her mortification rise. What if she’d gauged this wrong? She did get along with Hu in the Foggy Swamp. She could totally start a new life there.
“Yes,” Zuko said immediately. “I mean—yes. I do want.” His eyes were boring into hers.
“Um, great,” she said, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear. “So…I’ll tell Tanriq nevermind…and you’ll just need to tell your guards—”
“No,” Zuko said, leaning forward now, and Katara felt her blood thrill. “Many of the festival goers will wear masks. We can too.
“Really? But I don’t have a mask—"
“Don’t worry, I have an idea for us.”
#atla#zutara#drabble#zutara fanfiction#ask game#a twofer for one of my favorite moots!#TY FOR THE PROMPTS <3 <3 <3#this one was fun to think up#ok they all have been#SORRY IT'S SO LONG#it's officially not a drabble#whoops
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Would Sokka, Suki and Zuko form a band? And would they call it boiling rock (but Zuko still gets on stage with like... a grand piano or a violin or smth to make it more emo) ?
zuko plays the tsungi horn, sokka plays …
this thing . and suki probably plays the pipa.
sokka writes the lyrics (they just flow out of him, he has a gift!), zuko edits the lyrics to be more poetical by employing more allusions and using more symbolic language, and suki sings (she’s the only one who can sing while she plays, but also, i genuinely doubt zuko or sokka would have nice singing voices anyway).
the idea of them calling their band the boiling rock is so funny it’s like the ultimate fuck you.
and most importantly, iroh gets to see his dream of zuko playing the tsungi horn during music night finally realized.
#id in alt text#aclusterfuckofglitterbugs#asks#zuko#sokka#suki#iroh#thinking abt that scene in chapters 78-79 of the stone where baoyu’s elegy just flows out of him#and then daiyu is like ‘ok that was good but you should change this to this and do this and this and this instead’#that’s sokka and zuko writing lyrics for their stupid little band#also of course suki has her own band back on kyoshi island#this is just a side gig for her#when suki isn’t there to sing for them aang plays the pipa and katara sings#i think she has a lovely voice#but toph doesn’t participate at all bc she’s like ‘that’s gay nerd shit for nerds’#(she’s still scarred by the music lessons that were forced on her by her parents and she never wants to touch another instrument ever again
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What is your favorite Zutara headcanon?
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I'm so sorry this has been sitting in my inbox forever! I haven't had a chance to answer asks and I kind of forgot about it, so I'm going to give an extra long answer to make up for it lol. I have a few that are tied for first and second, so bear with me.
Firstly, I absolutely love the idea of Zuko helping out Katara with the chores after he joined the gaang. It just makes sense that he would try to help her out, and that he would feel guilty and try to do extra work. Of course, it takes Katara awhile to actually appreciate his help, but after TSR they actually manage to have fun together while they're doing dishes and laundry together, and she can't imagine it any other way.
This one is kind of cheesy, but I love the idea of them both being musically inclined, but in different ways. Zuko is obviously great at the tsungi horn, but he's an absolutely awful singer, and Katara can't play an instrument to save her life, but she has the voice of an angel. They like practicing songs with each other to let off steam, and even after the war whenever Katara finds herself in the Fire Nation or Zuko in the water tribe, they still get together to make a bit of music. They're also both wonderful dancers, Zuko from growing up learning dances in the FN court, and Katara because it's a big part of her culture, and she also just thinks it's fun. Zuko never really liked to dance, because it reminded him of being boxed in at court, but Katara shows him some different steps and he actually enjoys himself for once. In an AU where they end up together, their kids grow up combining the dances of both their cultures and creating new trends in both the FN and the SWT.
This one isn't really Zutara-centric, but Toph teases the HELL out of them. She literally goes around making the snarkiest comments and she will not stop until they are both blushing like tomatoes.
In an AU where they get together, they are the second in the gaang to get married, after Suki and Sokka but before Aang and Teo (I said what I said). Their wedding is obviously a huge event, and Sokka and Aang are the groomsmen while Toph and Suki are the bridesmaids, obviously. Katara is super into wedding planning and picking out her dress. Uncle Iroh helps her with the plans and buys fireworks and organizes the guest list and Zuko rebels against the both of them at every turn because he doesn't really want a huge, ostentatious wedding. He eventually realizes that this is way more important to Katara than it is to him, though, so he stops trying to get them to tone things down and only helps her with the planning when asked, to give her all the creative freedom her heart desires. In canon (where they don't get together) I like to think that Zuko would be Katara's 'man of honor' at her wedding with Aang. Partially because of pining and angst, but mostly because they want to be there for each other and see each other happy, even if they aren't going to be the ones spending their lives together.
Zuko would be the first one to realize his feelings for Katara, but he'd be in denial for so long that by the time Katara realizes her feelings back, they're at about the same place when it comes to their relationship. She's the first one to say "I love you" and even though it takes him a little time to say it back, it's only because he's scared to be so vulnerable with someone at first. She gives him time, and his love confession ends up being simultaneously the most awkward and the most romantic thing in the world. Zuko is the one to propose and Katara says yes without question.
They end up having two kids, twin girls named Kya and Ursa after their mothers. Kya, the nonbender, is set to inherit the throne, and Ursa, the waterbender, has a special gift for healing. Zuko only wanted one kid because he was afraid of messing them up, but he ends up being a wonderful father. Katara is a great mother as well, of course, and she loves to teach Ursa waterbending while Zuko helps her incorporate firebending moves into her fighting style. Kya feels a little left out of these family training sessions at first, but Zuko teaches her how to use the dao swords, her Aunt Mai teaches her how to throw knives, and her Aunt Ty Lee teaches her chi blocking, so she's just as deadly as the rest of her family.
Katara's first project after becoming firelady is to help spearhead pollution reform and create industrial regulations that help the FN become more environmentally friendly. She eventually travels back to the village in "the Painted Lady" with her daughters to show them the value of respecting nature.
This one also isn't very zutara-centric, but I don't think Katara and Azula would ever really reconcile. Although she becomes good friends with both Mai and Ty Lee (who are dating, obviously), she can never forgive Azula for some of the most traumatic events of her life. Zuko and Azula do eventually have a healthy relationship after Azula realizes the error of her ways, but she decides to move away from the palace of her own accord. There are too many bad memories there.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my headcanons! These are the only ones I can think of right now but I probably have more somewhere in my brain.
#atla#avatar the last airbender#zutara#zuko#katara#katara x zuko#zuko x katara#headcanons#zutara headcanon#asks#emmie babbles#emmie answers
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Did you know that in season 1 episode 18 of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh went into Zuko's room on the ship and Zuko immediately said "I'm not playing tsungi horn" which means that Iroh asked him beforenrnsmmgnghk
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Commission: Music Night (te-al-latte)
I was going to wait to post this until May but…^___^
Please behold and delight at the marvelous @te-al-latte who I was lucky enough to commission (and just in time for Zutara month!) My request was something sweet from the Tempest in a Teacup’s drowning the moon arc, a.k.a. Zuko and Katara’s years at sea. Of the choices discussed, the final winner was – Music Night! (Because, really, what could compare?)
I adore how well-matched @te-al-latte made the pair look in the pic: Katara’s warm cheeriness is mercilessly on par with Zuko’s jaded irritation. Any minute now she’s going to dig that elbow in a little deeper and mention the tsungi horn…
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zuko is a theater kid but he would feel too awkward to act. where is the zuko plays tsungi horn in the pit band au?
#zuko my beloved is not a fabulous actor#he does have passion though#he can canonically play though#sokka does set design#underrepresented theater kids au where#atla#zuko
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