#I need to go through my taang au again lol

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Hiya Stitch!!! I hope you're doing well!

How do you think elderly Taang would handle becoming grandparents? How would they react to their grandchild?

Have a Taangtastic day, pal!

Hi Ronin! Hope all is well, and thank you for the ask!

Good question, and rather appropriate, because it’s been a while since I’ve chatted about Taang headcanons and I miss my dunebabies LOL.

So since it’s been a while, my main dunebabies include Lin, Gyatso, Suyin, and Kenji. I don’t necessarily go into grand dunebaby details because I like the idea of leaving that up to one’s imagination, but I think it’s possible that all the dunebabies grow up to have families of their own.

Su seems like the first dunebaby to have kids, and she probably starts her family relatively young. I think at first, Aang would freak out a bit, only because Suyin is a baba’s girl and so he’s a little overprotective with her. Toph on the other hand would probably know that Su is pregnant before she even realizes it haha! Toph is pretty relaxed about it all, but she makes sure that Suyin is happy about this revelation and whatnot. Having a kid young is tough work, so Toph just checks in with her baby girl.

Overall I think Toph and Aang would be very happy and supportive of Suyin! She doesn’t necessarily live in Republic City anymore, so they don’t get to see her often when she’s preparing for the baby’s arrival. I can imagine that Toph and Aang visit Su once the baby is born, and that’s when it hits them that they’re grandparents.

Aang would definitely get emotional. He’d think about the passage of time, he’d think about when Suyin was first born and what that was like for both him and Toph, and he’d think about the future, how this baby will grow up and how they’ll interact with their aunts and uncles and future children that come along the way. He’d get swept up in all of it, especially when he holds the baby for the first time.

Toph would likely feel the same way. After all, she did marry the sentimental Twinkletoes, his personality rubs off on her just a bit LOL. But she keeps her feelings at bay, and no one really notices that she thinks and feels all the same things that Aang is feeling when they hold their first grandchild. I think her mind would also wander to the thought of the Air Nation being reborn through their family, and she smiles at the thought of Aang’s heritage and culture continuing on as the generations continue.

As far as how they interact with the baby as they get older? Well, Toph and Aang like to spoil their grandkids in things and experiences, mostly to bother the kid’s parents LOL. Toph and Aang love spoiling the kid and they love getting under Suyin’s skin. It’s all in good fun, of course, no boulder are thrown post-teasing/rule breaking session.

Okay! That’s all the ideas I have for now when it comes to Toph and Aang’s first grandkid. If you guys have any HC’s about dunebabies or grand dunebabies, I’d love to hear them! Feel free to stop by my asks, and I’ll get to them eventually :)

Thanks again for the ask, Ronin! Always nice to hear from you, bud :) Hope you have a great day!

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I’m here to help get you through this Tuesday! Questions for FF writers: #19, 23 and this might be a TOUGH one... 21!

Hey friend! Oh goodness about to tear up at my desk lol. Taangst week won’t get to me, but everyone helping me get through work today WILL :) (I mean, do y’all see how fast I’m answering these? There is nothing else going on LOL).

19. Do you prefer canon-compliant, AUs, or something in-between?

As far as writing goes, I definitely like making my own little story/universe, but I almost always play in the ATLA universe sandbox. I don’t really jump into modern au’s or things like that, mostly because I'm not as creative when it comes to creating the back story and setting. Plus, the ATLA universe is just so vast and crazy detailed, it’s easy to incorporate my stories into it! I’m always down to try new things, it just takes a bit of inspiration on my end.

23. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas?

I would say my independent ideas. I love writing prompts on Tumblr, too, but if the story is Taang/Zutara/Sukka related, I tend to just work in the Taang universe I already created. It’s definitely not as specific as it could be (especially when all the next gen kids are older), but I basically have a whole timeline of when things happened so I can keep my thoughts straight. 

My independent ideas almost always fall into the universe as like a quick scene in the day in the life of the Gaang, so that’s why I like that. Prompts are like, snapshots of a scene that help me further write for my Taang universe.

The appeal for prompts and special ATLA weeks is that it lets me explore outside my own little ATLA world, which helps clear some of the ideas/works that don’t fit in the timeline. But the fact that I am making a self-indulgent story that’s pretty fleshed out is really fun and exciting to me!

21. Favorite pairing to write for? (platonic or romantic!)

Can I plead the 5th? 

JK it’s TAANG. It just... it probably always will be lol. Strictly looking at it from how I’ve written the pair, they have so much opportunity for fun and exciting and funny stories! They’ve got that classic opposites attract appeal, but then they have that side of them where they are exactly what they need in a partner. And the banter! I love thinking of fun conversations the two may have with each other, and the fluffy stuff too! Maybe I’m wrong in my thinking of how they would interact as a couple, but I feel like they just feed off each other’s energy so well, and I don’t really think of other ATLA couples in a similar regard. Tokka maybe, but also, I see them as kind of my fav angst couple LOL.

Thank you for the ask! Again, y'all be making my day :)

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