So I've been considered a fake fan by some but i guess thats the price when you prefer canon over fanon and wont stand for bnf fandom nonsense my loyatly will never be to appease aang haters. its to canon . not fanon.
Zuko/Katara would never hate Aang/ Aang is Zuko/Katara BEST Friend and they all love eachother . so the ones calling me a fake fan can enjoy fantara and being a miserable aang hater seems like a waste of time to me
. Canon agrees with me that aang is zuko/katara best buds and zukaang/kataang have so much symbolism with aang being their first real friend , aang giving them hope.
and look at this they both share HUG scenes.
my idea of zutara/aang is comfort/friendship/ the whole aang abuses katara and she needs saving from zuko is so blah to me .. zuko is finding true friendship love and thats what important . its not saving katara from aang its zuko finding love with his new friends.
I was thinking about the Gaang post-war and I felt sadness for Aang. He was 12/13 at the end of the show, not even a proper teen yet. Who's going to teach him to be a man? Who does Aang go to for emotional support? I mean he has his friends but sometimes the comfort of a loving parental figure can't compare to the love from friends. Where's his home? When he has problems with his romance with Katara, who is his father figure?
It's pretty depressing. At least the Gaang have homes and communities to go home to.
I see Zuko and Aang being very close post-series, and I think Aang would go to Zuko for a lot of the "big brother" stuff, especially since Zuko learned from Iroh how to be a man. I also think Aang goes to Zuko for advice about Katara, since Zuko is both older and been through his own struggles with toxic masculinity, and since Zuko knows Katara really well and connects with a side of Katara that Aang often does not understand. Which I really think is an under-explored zutaraang dynamic, btw.
I also like to imagine that Aang post-series lives a nomadic lifestyle (something the series never actually shows), especially because his Avatar duties take him all over the world, and sometimes he takes his friends along with him. The air nomads are irreplaceable, but Aang also has homes all over the world, and his friends are his family, something I wish the comics had emphasized more with both Aang and Zuko, who also should not be living alone and isolated in the location of his abusive childhood. I think Aang and Zuko go on a lot of trips together and Aang just drops into the palace from time to time, so Zuko always keeps a window open.
why does zutara give me such an ick but zutaraang makes me happy.
Is it the acknowledgement and respect of Katara choosing Aang. Is it the delight over Aang and Zuko's bromance. Is it that Katara pulling multiple world leaders is a funny, delightful idea. Is it their increased likelihood of hijinks as a trio.
Is it that... the hatred displayed by zutaras was so disheartening that it permanently turned me off to a ship I would've otherwise been neutral-positive toward.
I might get burned at the fandom stake here, but I personally think Zuko x Katara x Aang being a thing when they are older would be very interesting and hilarious. Just hear me out-
Katara and Aang, married, both looking at Zuko: "Hey so my wife and I saw you across the bar, and we saved the world together and all so, can I get you some tea?" kinda vibe.
Like the three of them are all each other's narrative foils and parallels. They circulate each other narratively and emotionally throughout the whole series and even comics. When they're all older restoring peace around the world, they would have all spent so much time together I like to think it would just, kinda Click for them
if it piques your interest at all, this is a request for some zutaraang - i'd love to maybe see your take on them grown up in honor of the upcoming movie!
It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations will help you become whole.
zukaang enemies to friends to awkwardly not dating in the polycule despite having massive crushes on each other who only get together with executive meddling from their friends while their mutual girlfriend katara watches on in amusement to lovers
Aang teaching Zuko how to dance but they keep it on the down low away from Katara until one fancy event where Zuko asks Katara to dance and Katara is like "Zuko, you don't know how to dance." And Zuko is just like "Trust me ;)" and so they go out and Zuko gets to show off what he's learned and Katara gets to be charmed like the princess she is while Aang is in the corner watching his two favorite people dance and be happy and sobbing because he's so in love.