In terms of “canon-compliant” zutara, I think often about how Zuko’s development is both his redemption and his doom.
Because how come the obsessive go-getter of the show does not fight harder against fate (bryke’s annoying ass) to save his beloved from putting herself into a rewardless martyr-like situation in the form of a marriage that serves as repopulation program? (Which I always thought was ridiculous).
He learns bit by bit to acknowledge and make up for his mistakes. He respects Katara above all else. He fights fair. He does not guilt-trip her nor treat her like a reward. He loves her. He gave his life for her. He would not have survived had she not been the exceptional person she is. He supports her decisions no matter what. He listens to her.
So when she tells him about her ridiculously good and selfish intentions of pandering (once again) to a non-celibate Monk who wishes to have her mother his children for the sake of airbending and his supposed affection that was born out of the self-insert of narrators who give way too much importance to childhood crushes for one’s babysitter, he might argue but he can’t help but love her and respect her decision, both horrified by the cruelty of fate (aka bryke) and filled with admiration for the person she has always been.
If Orpheus loved Eurydice too much not to turn back when she tripped behind him, then Zuko loved Katara way too much not to validate and support her terribly selfless decisions. Because how dare him be selfish and want her for himself. And how dare him tell her what to do after years of war.
It is terribly tragic because on the other side, a part of her wishes he had fought harder.
A “villain” turned “hero” sometimes can mean the upholding of ideals made by two men who enjoy shaming young girls for their choice of love interest. Sometimes, the lack of a “villain” to whisk away the princess from the “hero’s” hands means said princess will remain unacknowledged and forgotten in a narrative that turns it into something of her own volition, a narrative that ignores everything a beloved female character represented for the people she was made to represent (by their own words, must I say). It leaves the realm of picking the love interest (which honestly could simply not ever happened in any form and would still be better than this) and enters the realm of once again giving a poor treatment to a female main character who quite literally Drives the story from its beginning.
And just like Orpheus and Eurydice are doomed by fate, Katara and Zuko are doomed by Bryke. And surprisingly, Katara gets the worse of it.
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the way the turn writers had the chance to change lives with this one line and the scene was scrapped
“when you see any man hang?” “yes sir” WHAT????
now keep that in the back of your mind whenever there’s an execution scene because oh my god it ruined me emotionally upon rewatch. i am this scenes number one defender. s3 literally starts and ends with hangings and this one line would’ve made things come full circle at least for ben’s plot that season i would’ve killed for this actually
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Kismet headcannons
Ages: (going from eldest to youngest)
Ablaze: 29 (bros pushing his thirty’s 😭)
Trickee: 28
Boom: 25
Branch: 24
Hype: 21
Nicknames
Ablaze:
Honeybuns(a joke nickname from hype calls ablaze,he hates it not a ship thing!!!!)
Blaze
Micky mouse
Darling (yet again a joke nickname from trickee)
David
Dadvid
Trickee
Stuart (branch just randomly called trickee this one day and it stuck no has any idea why)
Trickster
Trixx
Sugar t*ts (trickee once said smt sweet and hype started calling him this )
Tee-shirt(boom)
Branch
twig
Tree
Trunk
Roots
B
Bob
And all the tree / branch puns under the sun
Boom
Rainbow
Joe
Bread
Cavetown
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee x ♾️
Rainbow alphabet
Hype
Hyperpop
Hyper
Jim
Random head cannons
Boom wasn’t born with rainbow hair he made the grave mistake of letting his friend choose his hair colour and he just dyes it rainbow now
Ablaze was once angry at trickee so trickee got branch to hold a hose, hype to play guitar and boom to hold a hair dryer and he sung a sad song to get ablaze to forgive him, it went badly everyone got soaked , booms hair got caught in the hair dryer, the hair dryer caught fire (somehow?) but ablaze forgave him (trickee ate the last of ablaze’s cereal how dare he)
Ablaze and trickee live together . It’s mayhem .
Boom loves Alec Benjamin so does branch
Boom says he doesn’t listen to cavetown but he does
Trickee once covered branch’s bunker in every kind of
Sticker he owned (branch was not pleased)
Hype once challenge ablaze to an arm wrestle (he lose. and cried)
Trickee loves to prank everyone (mostly ablaze)
Branch, hype, ablaze and boom once’s blasted a smash up of all the songs trickee hates as payback for all his pranks
They was friends since they was kids but only started the band at the end of trolls 1 branch was called B and wore a mask
Trickee and ablaze like to joke flirt but sometimes your can’t tell if it’s a joke or if their actually flirting
After finding out about branches past ablaze unofficially adopted him
Everyone (but branch who was the voice of reason) once got really high and ate crayons they never spoke of it again (expect branch who told poppy)
Sexuality’s
Ablaze : gay (not canon)
Trickee : bi (not canon)
Branch : bi (not technically canon but it’s so heavily implied it’s crazy 😭)
Hype : aroace (not canon)
Boom : gay (canon)
Ships
(Warning these are my ships not everyone will agree)
Ablaze x trickee
Boom once had a small crush on Floyd and cried when he remembers (I don’t ship boom x Floyd btw sorry😞)
That’s all
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