#capturing avatar

[m-rod-unofficial]

Michelle Rodríguez || Capturing Avatar (2010)

[adzowski]

I simply love Aang.

[stygiovictoria]

i keep thinking about in book 2 when zuko was like horrifyingly happy after he got ovdr his fever and imagining if people saw him like that

[demaparbat-hp]

Maybe... the Fire Nation's got a point?

AKA the Katara Willingly Joins Zuko In His Quest To Find The Avatar AU

[cyren-myadd]

Quaritch: I got captured by the ash people and they're forcing me to teach them about human battle tactics 🥺🥺🥺

Spider: Oh no... you got captured... by somebody who forced you to teach them your ways... isn't that terrible... whatever did you do to deserve this... 🙄🙄🙄

[bokubuni]

@sulkybender said they’d realized they never saw art of sokka and iroh shopping together with zuko a mess in the back so here we are with yet another zukka sketch

lowkey forgot i could draw (as if i haven’t been taking art classes and studies for years :p) and have no idea how i whipped this up in under an hour

[zukosbangtan]

girl zuko as the blue spirit was seriously such a FORCE man...like no bending no honor just a mask his two swords and a dream like i don't think some of yall get just how crazy he was omggg.. like while he has always been a good firebender i feel like if he would've tried to capture the avatar as the blue spirit right from the beginning the series would've ended after like 3 episodes already with them on their way back to the fire nation together omg thank God he wasn't really thinking things through yet back then 💔💔

[silveryoobirch]

Watching The legend of Korra and seeing that giant ass statue of avatar aang and learning that zuko built it was a turning point in my perception of his character

Zuko is so the other woman coded .

[avocadotoastii]

what I like most about this is that it could go either way and still work perfectly. I like to think Zuko owned the pink one and Katara made the blue one for Sokka forever ago, and then when Sokka got too tall and Zuko peaked height-wise at thirteen, Sokka just gave him the blue nightgown as a gift

And then Zuko thought he needed to give Sokka a gift back and so he gave him the pink robe and Sokka never takes it off.

[m-rod-unofficial]

Michelle Rodríguez was born on July 12, 1978...

[iheartzukaang]

Zuko: If you really want to feel like old times I could uhh...

Zuko: Chase you around while trying to capture you? ;)

Aang: Hahahaha!!!

Aang also:

[vivid-ink]

My mother didn't understand why I kept saying "he looks so much like Jamie".

So, I showed her this collage and now SHE SEES. 😁

Jamie is Neteyam. Neteyam is Jamie. 🥰❤️

Special thanks to @cinetrix yet again for her render of Neteyam in the first comparison. 💕

[rollinginthedeep-swan]

JACOB FORTUNE LLOYD - BLACK WAVE,

Pour toi tu sais où <3

Crédit : Swan

[demaparbat-hp]

I am loving your Hunters AU!!!

I really like how Zuko's motivation to hunt Aang is less about going home, but more about wanting to end the war by taking the throne.

And having Zuko not play Pai Sho because he always wins was GREAT! Is not that he is bad at it or impatient (Maybe a bit impatient). He just finds it boring and can guess the next 10 moves just from looking at the board.

I wonder how a match between him and Sokka would go.

I also love seeing Katara in Fire Nation red.

Question: I know that Zukoi is pretending to be evil, so he can dismantle the Fire Nation's plans from within, as he is part of the White Lotus. But does he tell Katara of the plan from the start, or does she just know the "Capture the Avatar to end the War" part of the plan?

I feel that the "Capture the Avatar, Make Zuko Fire Lord, End the War" aspect fits better at the start for her misguided and idiotic decision of joining Zuko on his hunt.

Yes, I know that the decision stems from her trauma and the betrayal she feels from Aang's lying and leaving her. And she sees Zuko as the fastest way of ending the war that took her mother from her.

So I was thinking that maybe by the end of Book 1, after some self-destructive actions taken by Katara, Zuko tells her the WHOLE plan. The parts of sabotaging the Fire Nation, the White Lotus missions, and wanting Aang fully realized to defeat his father.

You know? He can't just tell all his plans to the girl that he just met.

Also, how does Katara learn waterbending if she with with Zuko? Does Zuko buy her the Waterbending Scroll during one of Iroh's shopping sprees?

Also, how would the whole Hama and Bloodbending develop in this universe?

You put everything into words so wonderfully! I'm in love with your thoughts on this AU. Hunters is really special to me, so reading your ask made my day.

Katara only knows about the "Capture the Avatar, Make Zuko Fire Lord, End the War" part of the plan—at least in the beginning. As time goes by she starts suspecting that something else is going on (Zuko's escapades as the Blue Spirit can only happen so often before someone notices), but she doesn't know exactly what it is.

Zuko has no reason to trust her. She's just a waterbender who knows the Avatar and has the right means to track him down and ensure he'll be willing to come along quietly. She can also make sure Zuko's mission goes along smoothly, as her waterbending talents would be greatly appreciated by his seafaring crew.

One thing I'm passionate about in this AU is the idea that no character is perfect. They all make mistakes that they need to learn from and fix if possible. Such is Katara's case! She made the wrong choice and has some awful coping mechanisms, and growing out of them is part of her character arc.

I like to think that Katara wasn't entirely honest with Zuko either.

She was desperate for a way out, for a way to end things, and Zuko held everything she could ever want on the palms of his hands. But what could Katara offer him in return? Knowing Aang and being able to reason with him wasn't enough, so she placed all her bets on something else: her waterbending.

Katara didn't exactly lie—she just forgot to mention her waterbending expertise. Which is near to none. It's not her fault that Zuko assumed, based on her instinctive control over several ice shards when she first threatened him, that she was a master.

Right?

*cough*

Katara keeps up the ruse for as long as she can, but Zuko is always five steps ahead on the game board, so he figures her out before a month goes by.

It's a miracle she lasted that long, honestly.

(She trains with the firebenders after that—it's her punishment. Training and studying and pushing her body to the extreme. It takes her a while to see that Zuko, despite his militaristic asshole-ness, only wants for her to learn and be able to defend herself. It takes her even longer to earn the right to train with him, and admit to herself that she's thankful for not having been tossed overboard the moment her ruse was up.)

It's hard for Zuko to fully trust Katara during Book I, and viceversa. This is something I find awfully compelling because they're not friends immediately. Hell, they don't even like each other at first. But they acknowledge the advantages of being allies, and eventually come to respect each other. Their trust is something tentative and fragile, yet no less pure because of it.

Which is the reason I wonder how Katara would take it when Zuko reveals his entire plan, and in which conditions this would happen. Was that trust broken, or did it finally turn into something much stronger because of the struggle?

(What was her mistake? Did she put the entire operation in danger? Did she follow him on one of his missions because she was tired of waiting in the sidelines and not being trusted? So many possibilities...)

By the time Book I ends, Zuko and Katara have finally, finally smoothed the rough edges between them. Now their connection is deeper, and they move forward together.

As for the bloodbending, your guess is as good as mine! I'd love for Katara to learn bloodbending earlier and have a different connection with it. She understands the dangers involved in bending someone's blood, but is also curious about the advantages it could have in healing or as a last resort in battle.

[stygiovictoria]

long awaited continuation of this post (not in color bc its 11pm and i have school)

[rokurookajima]

park that car drop that phone sleep on the floor dream about me