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Vermillion Seas Cardinal Skies: Chapter 12 - Like a Puppet

Discovered, the Gaang journeys to a nearby island to lay low for a bit. They don't like what they find. A new bending style awaits. Oh. And Trauma.

Let's see. Average long chapter? Check. Lots going on in the chapter? Check. Buried plot points, hidden details, and fun hooks? Check. Truma? Check. I'd like to give a shoutout, as always, to my awesome beta and editor @achillmango. Without her continued support, I don't know if this would see the light of day.

Warning: This chapter does contain some decently descriptive violence near the end. It is not enough to constitute a higher rating, but it is worth mentioning.

Here, have a snippet! V

“I know.” He moves to the other bed and looks at his hands. “Sokka, did you get an off feeling about Hama when she looked at you?”  “You mean like a creepy old lady, or something else?”  Zuko looks over toward him, “Something else.” He refocuses his eyes on the ceiling of the room, “Something about her, the way she looks at me, is wrong. It’s like she’s looking through me. It’s like I don’t even exist.” 

Read more on AO3 :)

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Vermillion Seas Cardinal Skies: Chapter 12 - Like a Puppet

Discovered, the Gaang journeys to a nearby island to lay low for a bit. They don't like what they find. A new bending style awaits. Oh. And Trauma.

Let's see. Average long chapter? Check. Lots going on in the chapter? Check. Buried plot points, hidden details, and fun hooks? Check. Truma? Check. I'd like to give a shoutout, as always, to my awesome beta and editor @achillmango. Without her continued support, I don't know if this would see the light of day.

Warning: This chapter does contain some decently descriptive violence near the end. It is not enough to constitute a higher rating, but it is worth mentioning.

Here, have a snippet! V

“I know.” He moves to the other bed and looks at his hands. “Sokka, did you get an off feeling about Hama when she looked at you?”  “You mean like a creepy old lady, or something else?”  Zuko looks over toward him, “Something else.” He refocuses his eyes on the ceiling of the room, “Something about her, the way she looks at me, is wrong. It’s like she’s looking through me. It’s like I don’t even exist.” 

Read more on AO3 :)

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Felt like sharing some Lee & Kya From The Tea Shop AU sketches ✨🍵

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Vermillion Seas Cardinal Skies: Chapter 12 - Like a Puppet

Discovered, the Gaang journeys to a nearby island to lay low for a bit. They don't like what they find. A new bending style awaits. Oh. And Trauma.

Let's see. Average long chapter? Check. Lots going on in the chapter? Check. Buried plot points, hidden details, and fun hooks? Check. Truma? Check. I'd like to give a shoutout, as always, to my awesome beta and editor @achillmango. Without her continued support, I don't know if this would see the light of day.

Warning: This chapter does contain some decently descriptive violence near the end. It is not enough to constitute a higher rating, but it is worth mentioning.

Here, have a snippet! V

“I know.” He moves to the other bed and looks at his hands. “Sokka, did you get an off feeling about Hama when she looked at you?”  “You mean like a creepy old lady, or something else?”  Zuko looks over toward him, “Something else.” He refocuses his eyes on the ceiling of the room, “Something about her, the way she looks at me, is wrong. It’s like she’s looking through me. It’s like I don’t even exist.” 

Read more on AO3 :)

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Father of the Bride

Hakoda swallowed hard against a lump in his throat. He had imagined this day so many times since Katara's birth. The details were different, though. She wasn't marrying a proven warrior from among their people. That was fine. She had spent so much time traveling the world, expanding her horizons, creating her own paths. Hakoda didn't think there were one in a thousand men at home who could keep up with the woman his daughter had become, and he had resigned himself to the fact that she might not end up with a Southern Tribe man years ago.

But he hadn't considered that her marriage might take her so permanently from home. A foolish oversight on his part, he admitted. And at least she would have the means to visit her family a few times a year. Still, as he watched the final preparations being made on Katara's wedding gown-a stunning piece of art even to Hakoda's untrained eye. All silks and linens in shades of blue and silver that recalled the bridal outfits of her homeland. Furs and leathers would be too hot for the climate, but Katara wanted to tell everyone up front how she would bring her own culture to merge with her new people. Her groom-to-be not only supported this decision, but had come to Hakoda and Sokka to ask them how he, too, could incorporate the Southern Water Tribe into the wedding on his end. That had been a long night, with strong drinks and stronger emotions, but at the end of it, Hakoda had decided that despite his initial misgivings about the marriage, he couldn't have picked a better son-in-law than Zuko.

Fire Lord Zuko. Fire Lord Zuko was going to be his son-in-law. Sometimes the thought made Hakoda chuckle. Sometimes it sent a chill down his spine. Not that he was worried about Zuko himself, but Katara's proximity to his throne. The crown. She would be coronated the next night in a ceremony as lavish as the wedding. She would become the Fire Lady. Co-ruler of the country that had spent a hundred years ruining countless lives with a war over something as silly as imperialist pride. Hakoda didn't think they deserved his daughter. If Zuko had earned his trust and respect, the rest of the Fire Nation certainly haven't. Not the nobles, anyway. When he brought them up to Katara, she laughed, though it didn't reach her eyes, which were flint hard and grimly determined. She told him no matter where she went in the world, she would have to fight for any respect she got. At least here she would have Zuko fighting beside her. Hakoda wasn't sure he agreed that was a worthy trade off, but he knew better than to try to talk his daughter out of it.

The Fire Nation had already benefited from her presence. As a foreign advisor, she had fostered trade and exchange agreements between the Fire Nation and all of the Water Tribes, Omashu and Gaoling. As an ambassador, she'd helped negotiate reparation packages that have helped the parts of the world hit hardest by the war recover. As one of Zuko's most trusted counselors, she'd helped him work the Fire Nation's budget so the government could provide for education, health and services for returning soldiers. The same kinds of programs she'd helped Hakoda and Sokka build in the Southern Water Tribe. It suddenly struck Hakoda that she had been acting as Fire Lady for a long time. Before she and Zuko had even realized they were in love, maybe. Today and tomorrow would just make it official. Hakoda still didn't think the Fire Nation deserved a Katara, but any chance he had of talking her out of it had long since slipped by him. And he now he wasn't sure he would talk her out of it, even if he did have the chance.

The final touches were done. The maids stepped back in a flurry of excited chatter. Kanna stepped forward, moving stiffly in her old age, smiling up at her granddaughter through tears. She had had this moment with Kya years ago, and Kya should be standing in her place now. Kanna reached out and ran her fingertips over the necklace she had passed to her daughter, and her daughter had passed on to Katara. Kya was here, Kanna assured herself. And Kya would be here with Katara as she made these next steps, first as a wife, then as a queen, then someday as a mother and grandmother herself.

"She would be so proud," Kanna told Katara. The two women embraced. Then Katara stood up, head high and looking as regal as any queen in any nation ever had, and turned to Hakoda.

"Are you ready, Dad?" she asked. Hakoda shook his head.

"I was never going to be ready for this," he confessed. "But it doesn't matter. You are ready."

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Okay so I just saw something and I now understand why people ship Azula and Aang

I don't ship it but I understand it now and it's not toxic

So after Azula has the break down(s) apparently in the comics she went through a lot of healing and Aang was there for it and helped her along

This paired with them both being extremely young children who were prodigies and the fact that the authority figures they looked up to basically place the world on their shoulders creates a great foil between the two of them

Showing the different ways they were raised and who they became and then their growth past that and into them becoming adults is why they are shipped

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Zuko finds out Katara was parentified from the age of eight and was a single mom friend of three until he stumbled into the position of gaang dad friend. So when she visits the Fire Nation Zuko dotes on her, making sure her every need is anticipated and catered to. He even goes as far as - to the horror of his council - kneeling to remove her shoes.

Because of this she earns the nickname Lady Katara among the palace staff which she finds amusing but a little confusing. So one day over tea she asks Iroh why they call her that and he explains:

"They're just practicing."

"Why would you need to practice a nickname?"

"Well my dear, they expect that within a few years Fire will preceed it."

And that's about when Katara chokes on her tea.

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@zutaraweek 2020 Day 1 - Reunion

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Katara would never want to be Fire Lady, she would never want to lead the nation that killed her mother.

Idk, the girl staged a prison break, committed ecoterrorism, and demolished cultural misogyny. Getting the nation responsible for her mother's death under her thumb sounds exactly like her MO.

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the notes are broken 😂

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i rewatched ATLA recently and zutara still hits strong like always :")

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As a personal challenge, I’m rewatching Avatar and doing a screencap redraw for every episode

Here’s episode 1: The Boy in the Iceberg

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Back from Hiatus

It seems like I got my inspiration back and I'm here with a new story.

It's an Avatar the Last Airbender one, which will feature the beauty that is Zutara, personal growth for everyone and a badass OC.

So give Yin and Yang a chance ^^

Comments are my lifeblood, I need moooorrrrrrreeeee :D

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Tumblr is really interesting because you can say something like thursday is duck with a top hat day, and half the website will reblog it

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