#NWT Asks

[comradekatara]

in book 1, we don't spend a lot of tike in the nwt since it's, "more about the journey." But, if we *had* gotten more time there, what are some things you'd like to see explored / fleshed out?

I, personally, would have really liked spending more time with Yue. Not to say the time she gets is inadequate—it illustrates her character and her situation quite well, as well as her parallels to Sokka. But I would still like to see more of her dynamics with other characters. Maybe.

Also, learning something more of Kanna's past,,,, maybe entirely opposite perspectives of her coming from Yugoda and Pakku. Not to say that we don't get a pretty good idea of Kanna's character just by analysing the current text, but!!! But Atla has a terribly tragic lack of funky old lady material. Maybe her success traveling to the south and Katara's whole existence affecting / inspiring the women of the north, not for immediate change, but certainly to challenge the values inflicted upon them. And most importantly, Katara understanding her grandmother more. Which she did, of course. But.

I'm not unsatisfied by what we got. But I do wonder.

YESS!!!! I talked about this fairly recently (last november, apparently, but in my mind it feels like only two weeks ago), but yeah, basically everything you just said. yue and kanna are my favorite minor characters, and the nwt is my favorite location in the show, so im definitely biased, but also i would have loved to spend more time there. flashbacks to kanna’s adolescence, paralleling both katara and yue in various ways, and also spending more time with yue outside of her interactions with the gaang only. i’d love to see her have a conversation with arnook, or with hahn. more time dedicated to seeing katara train with pakku, to sokka training with the warriors, to sokka and yue’s relationship development in general, or just exploring the city (it’s so beautiful and interesting!). also, tangentially, i think kanna deserves a spinoff so bad. i wanna see her bildungsroman more than anything. and more of the northern water tribe in general (but not in the way the comics or lok present it, obviously). i guess we get some of that from the yangchen novels (everyone say thank you kavik), but still. #YUEFOREVER

#kallianthi #asks #yue #kanna #my babygirls<33333 #why is everyone form the nwt fascinating to me except for pakku….. #no bc like. yue kanna atuat kuruk kavik kalyaan ayunerak…. #and fucking. pakku

[ragnarssons]

why tf do we live with people in this fandom, pretending that sokka being sexist and "overcoming it" is sokka's SOLE ARC on the show???

#sokka #have yall been watching the show like AT ALL??? #avatar the last airbender #(la) the last airbender #atla netflix #this is not an exageration i literally SAW people say that #like chill it lasts three episodes in the cartoon #the kyoshi episode on the LA will be episode 2 like what do yall expect #don't get me started on ppl who are like 'yeah but sokka is sexist even after the kyoshi episode' and then ur like ok where and when? #and they just don't respond 🤷‍♀️ #genuine question WHERE? WHEN? #like he even is the one telling aang and katara to break the nwt's sexist rules about bending soooo? #i'd like to ask these ppl what they think of the show erasing zuko's sexism? #because it's there too yknow *shrugs* is it A MAJOR PART OF HIS ARC as well?

[lipstickontheglass1985]

2 5 10 na piosenki ask<3

ok ill try to answer this in english in hopes i convince someone to check out these songs! tysm!!

2. a song about sex: chciałam powiedzieć najpierw ciepłe dranie ale wsm wakacyjne pierdolenie twojej starej na basenie pasuje jeszcze bardziej </3 bardzo przepraszam wszystkie kobiety tego świata

5. a song about sadness: sprzedawcy marzeń. oh artur rojek we're really in it now......

10. a song abt history/a story: moja pierwsza myśl jak zobaczyłam "piosenka typu historyczna" to upadek związku radzieckiego i niestety to skojarzenie tak mn zdominowało że nie byłam w stanie wymyślić niczego innego...

chciałam najpierw odpowiedzieć w całości po angielsku w nadziei że udałoby mi się kogoś zagranicznego zachęcić do odsłuchania zarzuconych tytułów ale po tym jak w odp na pierwsze dałam kukiego zmieniłam zdanie djfbdbdbsbsbsnsnsn także ten post jest dla elitarnej widowni mego bloga która posługuje się polszczyzną ew. tłumaczem google. wsm moje odp są dosyć basic mam wrażenie ale jakoś nwm nie czuję się szczególnie kreatywnie teraz sowwy!

#dzieki za aska raz jeszcze uwielbiam odpowiadac na takie rzeczy nwt jezeli moje odpowiedzi nie sa jakos mega inventive #ask #thots

[lunarduties]

👪 FAMILY - what is their family like? what is your character’s relationship to them? does your character have any siblings?

EMOJI HEADCANON MEME. ― ( NO LONGER ACCEPTING! ) ↬ @inkorrnate

yue was the only child born to her father, chief arnook, and her late mother, chiefess sedna. the couple attempted to have another child after yue, as arnook received pressure from advisors to have another (particularly male) heir that could be a "backup" of sorts due to yue's chronic sickness. this led to sedna's passing, as she grew ill towards the end of her second trimester, leading to the loss of both her and yue's younger unborn sibling. yue was coming up on her fourth birthday when their deaths took place.

this left just yue and arnook as the primary members of the royal family. they were joined only by arnook's brother, tulimaq, who was only two years his junior and served as one of the members of the chief's advisory cabinet, and tulimaq's wife, mikiruk. tulimaq was an even more staunch traditionalist than arnook, and fit in well with the conservative cabinet. he was never super close to yue, but encouraged a friendship between her and his son (her cousin), kanguk.

in depth descriptions of yue's relationships with all of these people under the cut.

arnook: yue and her father are each other's closest confidants and best friends. before his rule, it was not custom for women to be on the chief's advisory committee, but arnook loved and trusted yue and her opinions enough that he nominated her for a seat on her fifteenth birthday. after almost losing yue, seeing the vision of her becoming the moon spirit, and then going on to lose his wife and unborn child, arnook took it upon himself to make sure that he would do everything in his power to protect her. this included things like being deeply involved in her daily life and setting up her arranged marriage so she would have a clear path in life.

still, arnook's dedication to tradition and yue's unwillingness to disappoint him because of their closeness leads to a silent distance between them. if he's honest with himself, he knows that his daughter longs for more freedom, but refuses to give her more than what she has out of fear of her dying an early death. this, in turn, impacts yue's happiness, though she respects her father and the values/duties to their tribe he's instilled in her far too much to ever voice such a thing. this positions them at an impasse, a father and daughter who love each other too much to disrupt the system they live in.

sedna: with sedna dying when she was only four, yue does not remember much of anything regarding her mother. while she was alive, however, yue was sedna's entire world. eager to watch over yue as a result of her being born sick, the two were rarely ever apart for the first few years of her life. sedna, who was deeply proficient in sewing, made many of the clothes that yue wore throughout her childhood. this is what began the princess' affinity for purple, as sedna would always use purple thread for her to differentiate her from the standard water tribe blue. when she knew she would pass, sedna undertook a final project and made a pair of purple gloves for yue to grow into as a teenager.

sedna was also a deeply spiritual woman both before and after tui saved yue. because of this, she would often take yue to the spirit oasis as a toddler, igniting her love for the space. yue would often return to these deeply spiritual places throughout the northern water tribe as she grew to feel closer to her mother.

tulimaq: yue and her uncle tulimaq were never very close. while they loved each other as family does, he frequently voiced worry to arnook that yue's chronic sickness and connection to the spirits would not make for a good ruler. when arnook refused to make his brother's eldest son kanguk his heir, tulimaq advised him to consider hahn as yue's betrothed fiancee, having always liked him. besides this, yue and her uncle frequently butted heads on arnook's advisory committee, leading her to believe he didn't care for her very much. despite their differences and his opinions about her, if anyone else where to question yue's abilities, tulimaq was always quick to silence them.

mikiruk: yue was always closer to her aunt mikiruk than she was her uncle. a quiet, timid, and kindhearted woman, mikiruk was among many of the waterbending women in the tribe that were taught to be healers and attempted to save yue as a baby. being one of the only older women in her immediate family after, yue often went to mikiruk about issues she didn't feel she could talk to arnook about. she also often dismissed her chambermaids and caretakers so that yue could watch her younger children, a job that was deemed unfit for the princess that she thoroughly enjoyed anyway. to yue, her aunt and uncle's dynamic eventually somewhat resembled that of what she believed would befall her upon marrying hahn.

kanguk: a friendship between cousins yue and kanguk was established early and nurtured by both sets of parents. the two were only months apart in age and, because of their royal blood, were often segregated from other northern tribe children for things like school, etc. all of these things led to them growing close, particularly as they entered their teenage years. kanguk, a waterbender like his mother, expressed frequent unhappiness with not being able to train with other boys his age under master pakku. he was yue's only confidant regarding the suffocation of royal life and, unlike his father, slightly more liberal when it came to the tribe's sexist views.

#inkorrnate #thank you SO MUCH for letting me ramble abt the nwt royal family. #theyve been bouncing around in my head for years now #and this forced me to rly write some stuff down so (: #╱ ❛ answer. ❫ — i have duties to my tribe. #╱ ❛ hc. ❫ — my mother named me yue. for the moon. #ask to tag /

[hazel-of-sodor]

Is the NWT any gauge in particular?

009! which can be anywhere from 2ft-2ft 6inch. I'm leaning 2ft gauge at the moment, but I haven't locked it in yet beyond not 2 ft 3inch, so as to explain its serperation from the exisiting Sodor Narrow Guage lines

#ask hazel #hazel asks #Hazel q&a #NWT AU #North Western Tramway AU

[ssreeder]

I felt like starting a small fandom game of going around asking some of the big fandom blogs of the Atla fandom questions about the show for funnsies to see what everyone's answers are. Feel free to answer if you wish or pass it along by asking other blogs as well. My question for you is:

"What is the most intriguing nation/kingdom/culture in the Avatar the Last Airbender world?"

Thanks for the ask!

Ummm I really find all the nations and cultures in Avatar really intriguing, there is just so much to explore. But if I had to pick one that I would focus on it would have to be the air benders…

I love world building and their world wasn’t present in the series (damn it sozin) so I’d be so curious how the different temples operated, how the air benders lived together, how they worked with the other nations and what other animals they had around that might have vanished after their demise.

They seem like a really cool culture & I would have loved to explore that more.

#I think there is a new book coming out #which is cool!! #but idk the way aang was so casual about mentioning the dragons #I like to believe there was dragons just hanging out #maybe chillen with the air bisons #their temples were so cool I’d love to know if there were different cultures of air bender in each temple #like NWT & SWT #did they travel to the other nations to do trading?? #idk just so many cool options #such a cool nation #plus like there had to be non bending air nomads #what were their lives like?! #idk so cool #so so soooo much world building to be done #SO MUCH #ask

[eyeblocks]

The government spy assigned to my phone is watching me frantically switch between google, Etsy, and eBay to try and find that one webkinz carrier for a price that isn't completely out of my budget and going :(

#why are they all nwt???? i dont care about the tag. i care about the bag!!! #pls guys #i cant even justify asking for it for christmas or whayever bc its so expensive when you include shipping for something i might not use #that much :((( but i want it :(((((( #webkinz #kinzblr #bonelesstalks

[ask-badlydrawn-canadia-provinces]

I think your blog is hilarious. I've never been to Canada. I don't understand half of this...but I'll file all of this as FACT 🤣

NWT: I'm glad you enjoy my siblings antics.it can be tiring to deal with sometimes.

Mun: Are you sure you want to do that?

#hetalia #hetalia provinces #hws provinces #mun #badly drawn #badly drawn hetalia #hws northwest territories #hetalia northwest territories #hws nwt #hetalia nwt #ask answered #i-did-not-mean-to

[allbeendonebefore]

I’m not at all interested in realizing a full sequel to Dominion Day after all the stress it caused but I still think about how i would write it and basically it would be Matt being convinced by everyone around him (esp Ontario) that NWT and pals are going to be perfectly pleased to be annexed and he’s personally saving them from a host of problems and he finally works up the executive function to deal with the “problem” of the west only to immediately without hesitation have his nose broken by Manitoba and that’s how it should be.

#nwt i picture as employed by the hbc at this time and she would just be like no one ever asked me about whether this would happen #people would look at her like shes supposed to do something and she would just flatly say what am i his mom?????? #and then she would add that if she were she'd let him bite more people actually #quebec turns up briefly to fistbump nwt and then peaces out immediately #because he has a macdonald effigy to burn at 6

[toonilumi]

would you mind if I asked for some info about the universe, multiverse? Nowhere train takes place in?

I've been doing a little cleaning up of NWT as a whole, mainly redesigns and concept clean ups, but i can give you what i got so far.

Most of NWT takes place in the pockets between dimensions... or the space on a line between point A and point B. Time moves immeasurably slow there, and it serves as the transport space for most trains.

Purposes of trains vary, but all of them have one. Some are for transport (of people or objects), some are for fighting, some for therapy.... it's a little weird sometimes but if they can make a case they can do it.

Trains have been the main form of interdimensional travel for a looong time. At this point its for the sake of tradition. That's not to say attempts haven't been made to introduce other forms of transportation, but none have been as popular.

The Interdimensional Railroad company is the head of it all. Run by seven chosen trainmasters who keep the whole thing in order. They are not the sole interdimensional organization and they are not the highest ranking one (there is one above it that is more powerful) but they are the main one.

I'm trying to avoid too much unnecessary info but i think that's generally it? idk

#sorry this ask has been rotting in my drafts #not lumi art #nwt worldbuilding

[ultfreakme]

Actually you know what, thinking on it, Sokka's sexism in the original was really weird and when writing fic, I had a hard time understanding where that even came from. We've been told Gran-gran left NWT because of the sexism and stayed at SWT, Hama was a fighter, Hakoda didn't condemn Katara for fighting or learning bending, there's a trivia thing where we learn Hakoda actually wanted to find a waterbending teacher for Katara. Now sure you can say fighting doesn't mean sexism wasn't present, but Sokka's conveyance of that sexism didn't work if that's the case.

Sokka specifically underestimates girls in fighting. That's how his sexism is largely expressed. Kanna wouldn't have raised Hakoda that way and in turn Hakoda wouldn't have raised Sokka like that.

He would be overprotective of Katara and stifle her as a bender, but not because he's sexist, but because Hakoda said "Hey you're our last warrior"- and this is actually the crux of his character.

One big argument people make is that Sokka's character arc with Suki apparently won't happen. But interviews state that the new focus on Sokka-Suki would be about them finding strength and solidarity as non-benders. In the original we do see Sokka trying to figure out his place and part in the war and among Gaang, he does feel insecure about his strength and ability to protect people. I think taking the new direction would connect well with the Serpent's Pass reunion.

I understand why people are hesitant but I just saw posts saying Sokka's sexism is inherent to his character as Toph's blindness is!?!?!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU????? There's so much to unpack there I don't even know where to begin. Like this is getting ridiculous and in trying to say Sokka's sexism is good actually, you guys forget that the original was kinda fumbling its way through Sokka's sexism arc. It's not that fast or easy to make someone dismantle sexism, and the Kyoshi Warriors + Suki are playing into the idea that a woman is only equal to a man when she has combat prowess (I still kinda cringe at Suki saying "I'm a warrior....but I'm also a girl" she says that about her romantic interest in Sokka and kissing him, like why is being a girl or romantic interest associated with 'girl'?). They could've stretched out the arc and included Yue in helping Sokka learn that women aren't inferior but all talks of women's equality was restricted to combat.

I ADORE the Katara v Pakku fight and I think that was a far better discussion and showcase of misogyny and commentary on inequality. Because yes it was a fight, but it was, underneath all that, about Kanna and Yue.

It is the first time we see that actually, Kanna and Yue should get to choose because that is a fundamental right they should have. Healing was allocated entirely to women, but Katara learned it and it was never seen as an inferior form of bending. Everyone should get to pick if they wanna fight or they wanna heal or both. Katara'a fighter, a healer.

So I just wanna ask; Do you want Sokka's sexism to be there to comment on the unfairness of gender inequality? Do you want it there to give this one male character a character arc (because Sokka never talks to Katara- the one whom he hurt most with that attitude- or acknowledges his contribution in suppressing her advances in bending after this little lesson he learned from Suki)? Or do you want it there because the og did it so it has to be there? Because if it's the first, KATARA's arc does it a million times better and that's still in the show.

#atla la #natla #atla netflix #avatar the last airbender #atla live action #sokka #atla

[comradekatara]

ohh yagoda like "berry" in many slavic languages:) its a name too here (jagoda)

I guess that makes sense in terms of a russian name being used in the northern water tribe which clearly takes inspiration from siberian cultural influences…. although idk why they couldn’t have given more water tribe characters actual indigenous names (e.g. in inuktitut or yupik) seems kinda like a missed opportunity -_-

#vampire-dyke #asks #kataras name is arabic…. sokka’s name is (i think) urdu???? #bato is a pun on the FRENCH WORD FOR BOAT #like cmon now #and okay yes yue’s name is chinese (and mispronounced) but i think that’s fine bc the chang’e imagery is so prevalent #and also the nwt does have chinese influences #but that’s my one exception to this otherwise very valid gripe #i mean. azula is spanish so this isn’t JUST a water tribes issue #but you get what i mean

[dukeofdelirium]

This has to quite possibly be the dumbest Anti-Aang I’ve seen on Tumblr. “Aang didn’t go out of his way for anyone”. Like that’s objectively wrong, factually incorrect. Like saying The Earth is flat, you can think it all you want, but it ain’t true. I ask you, I genuinely ask you, how can someone call themselves a fan of this show when they completely misinterpret it and hate the main character this much? This person’s crazy.

Aang never went out of his way for anyone? My god, if this take were true, Zuko would have been dead at the end of season one. Everyone aside from Aang was fine with the idea of allowing Zuko to freeze to death, leaving him to die. Aang was the one that saved him.

Holy shit, the first thing Aang ever offered to do with no expectation of anything in return was to offer Sokka and Katara a ride home before they died themselves stranded in the tundra. He then offered to take Katara to the other side of the world to fulfill her dreams. When he was banished from her village, he left without protest and even said he didn’t want to come between Katara and her family. Even when he was sad to leave because he had just made a first friend in who knows how long (seeing as we know he was ostracized at the temple), he still left.

He then came back not to break the banishment but to save their lives. He offered himself up, LITERALLY sacrificed himself for them, with no expectation of anything in return.

Aang is an extremely compassionate, good natured person. He is the most “altruistic” character in the show, followed only by Katara who comes nearly as close (one of the reasons they are so good together).

He singlehandedly put the fires out on Kyoshi Island that ZUKO SETS, he protects the NWT from invasion in every possible way he can and singlehandedly wipes out their fleet when he gives himself over to the ocean spirit, he demands they search for Bumi NOT because he needs a teacher but because bumi is his FRIEND! He saves everyone in the cave by making sure they don’t get fucking crushed with its collapse, he is willing to sacrifice himself and force himself into the Avatar State to win the war because he is that guilt ridden even when the AS is extremely painful and traumatizing to him, he stops this only when it affects Katara because he loves her, he offers to let Toph run away with them not because he wants to use her as a teacher but because he listened to her life story and wishes to help her feel free, he fucking dies for Katara and sacrificed his own love for her to save her life

he tries to shoulder every burden he feels on his own as a means to protect the other characters

he supports Sokka when he voices insecurities, he is welcoming and friendly to Hakoda and even inquires about how Katara is feeling when he meets Hakoda, he sobs during the eclipse invasion because Katara and Sokka have to be separated from their father again and Aang blames himself for this defeat and is grief stricken because he is so upset they are losing their dad again (and he thinks it’s his fault)

Why the actual fuck would Katara ever “choose” Zuko over Aang?

Katara was never deeply tied to Zuko. She always saw him as an enemy trying to take away the boy she loved. This is why she threatened to fucking kill him.

Zuko helped his sister murder Aang right in front of Katara’s eyes. It was canonically the darkest period of her life.

Katara’s anger and hatred toward Zuko is 100% justified. Of course, Zuko is a self absorbed ass, so he claims her anger isn’t justified and that she’s just projecting. Her anger toward him specifically had far more to do with what he did to Aang and far less to do with what the Fire nation and Zuko’s family did to her mother. Even still, she’s right to be angry about her mother’s murder too, and Zuko’s piece of shit family is responsible.

Why the fuck would Katara magically drop to her knees and suck Zuko’s dick? He’s literally a colonizer for over 2/3 of the show. He didn’t just have a passive role, he was an active player in the war and invaded the NWT with the FN as a means to capture Aang and take him back to his daddy, where Aang would have undoubtedly been tortured mercilessly and kept on the brink of death. He assaulted Katara during this and knocked her unconscious, he taunted her with shitty words and undermined her bending ability and threw some racial/classist remarks as well as some misogynistic ones her way.

When he eventually did get his shit together and join the group, he just used her mother’s death against her and Sokka because that’s all he ever did in regards to Katara and Sokka’s mother. He learned how she died, then had Sokka divulge trauma to then use said trauma to try and force Katara to forgive him by persuading her to go on a suicide mission of revenge and bloodlust. He also literally mocked Aang’s culture and genocided people to his face, when his family committed the genocide. Oh, and he also mocked Aang’s forgiveness despite begging on his damn hands and knees for that very forgiveness like 3 episodes prior.

And then at the end of the episode, Zuko states himself that he legit doesn’t understand Katara or what she needs in life. Cuz of course he doesn’t. He isn’t a survivor of genocide, he hasn’t suffered ethnic cleansing, he isn’t oppressed. For fucks sake, his mother isn’t even dead and he gets reunited with her a few years after the canon shows timeline. Everything Zuko loses, he has returned to him. His honor, his right to the throne, his mother.

But tell me again how Katara and Aang are a bad match when they are the only two who will ever truly understand the other

#I don’t hate Zuko but I’m sick of this fandom dickriding him at Aang and kataangs expense #kataang #pro kataang #anti zutara #avatar the last airbender #atla

[zuko-always-lies]

List of Azula AU/fic ideas

Better parenting Ursa

Azula raises Katara AU (and continued) and more

Azula and Katara get friendly postwar and talk about their brothers.

Mai is significantly older than Azula and Ty Lee AU (Older "sister" Mai)

Jin works at Iroh's teashop but finds out about his past

Zuko tells Azula about the Spirit Water

Ursa and Ozai get along better, and it's not a good thing AU

Imperialist Lu Ten survives the war and tries to regain his throne afterwards

Zuko finds out more about his nation AU

Revolutionary Azula takes over Ba Sing Se AU

Three different AU ideas in one

Favoritism in the royal family is a little different

What if Zuko had a nonbending twin sister (who he doesn't get along with).

Zuko's daughter changes how he sees Azula

Zuko and Ursa try to isolate Azula ("for her own good")

Ozai gets exiled and the Gaang stupidly ally with him

Earth Kingdom ends up with custody of Azula postwar and support her bid for the Fire Nation throne when Zuko starts another war with them.

The Gaang tries to figure out why Zuko joined them.

Dangerous Ladies find Ursa in Book 2

Azula and Toph fake dating

Zuko/"world leaders" try to force Aang to take away Azula's bending and he's very much not OK with it.

Azula is thrown away to the NWT postwar as a trinket and Chief Arnook adopts her.

Comics! Ursa's letter about Zuko being a bastard gets out.

Zuko and Katara lie about what happened during the Agni Kai

An exiled Azula finds Fire Imperialist! Ursa postwar

Aang has to save Azula from being executed by Zuko

Zuko's defection during DoBS goes very badly for Mai

Zuko joins the Gaang at Ba Sing Se, but it ends poorly

Zuko killed Azula during the Agni Kai, and now he has to deal with the consequences.

AU idea where Zuko keeps Azula permanently imprisoned in bad and torturous conditions postwar, and Izumi finds out about when she’s relatively young, and draws exactly the sort of conclusions about her parents that you would expect. Not to mention being terrified that she might be treated the same way if she missteps…

Ozai never declares Zuko and Iroh traitors

Iroh-Azula roleswap au

Zuko asks Azula for help with his firebending

Zuko wants Azula to like him but doesn't get why she doesn't like him (postwar)

Katara has an arranged marriage with Zuko and Azula tries to get into the good graces of her sister in law

"Katara is supposed to have an arranged marriage with Zuko, but she falls in love with Azula instead."

Another take on Zvtara (arranged marriage) and Maizula.

Azula-Katara AU idea (or: Katara runs into an Azula who has changed a lot in some ways and not very much in others)

Zuko is actually Ikem's son

Firelord Azula ends her brother's exile

Azula raises Izumi (it's complicated)

"AU idea: Azula commits suicide out of despair, and just about everyone is convinced that Zuko had her murdered or at the very least “encouraged” her to do it."

Dangerous Ladies get banished/declared traitors and Azula basically gives up. Mai has to step up her place

I have to say, “Zuko has to deal with finding out that Ursa very much isn’t who he believed she was” remains excellent fanfic fodder.

"AU idea: Ursa is more aware of Ozai’s abuse and potential for abuse than in canon, so, right after her exile, she seeks out Iroh and charges him with protecting both of her children."

Firelord Iroh treats Azula in a really screwed up way.

"AU where Azula dies during the latter stages of the war or right after it, and Mai is the only person who ever morns her as a person, not as a politically convenient symbol (Ty Lee runs away from her complex feelings on Azula as much as she can)."

Dark idea

"Since so much of the fandom is convinced that Azula is Zuko’s older sister, I need an AU where this is true and Zuko is just as throne-obsessed as canon and spends all his time trying to usurp his older sister."

"AU where Ozai has a heart attack and dies right after the fire siblings return to the Fire Nation, and Zuko and Azula have to pick up the pieces. Meanwhile, the Gaang are plotting to overthrow them and bring the war to a close once and for all..."

King Kuai adopts Azula as his heir

Things get complicated, darkly (Azula exiled postwar AU)

What if Zuko tried to be a good brother

"I really need an AU where Lu Ten returns and is pissed over Ozai’s usurpation, so he kills Ozai, seizes the throne, and continues the war. Of course, Iroh ends up supporting his actual son in all of this, and the conflict in the Fire Nation ends up boiling down to Zuko and Azula vs. Lu Ten and Iroh as the situation spirals toward civil war, at the same time the 100 years war continues."

"Maizula AU where Mai married Zuko, but he died not long after Izumi was born, and Azula and Mai are secretly carrying out a relationship while raising Izumi and ruling the Fire Nation as her regents."

Azula joins the Gaang with a twist...

"The chaos which would result if Lu Ten showed up alive again in Book 1 and launched a rebellion against Ozai in pursuit of “his” throne."

Ursa opposes Firelord Zuko

Iroh tries to kill Azula during "The Chase"

Mai and Ty Lee on trial for "war crimes"" and Azula has to save them

This is very long list, and people are welcome to steal any ideas they want from it for their own use.

#Azula #Au Idea #Au idea #Azula au ideas #Zuko #Ursa #Mai #Ty Lee #Katara #Ozai #Iroh #Not very friendly to Iroh #Various au ideas #fic idea #crack fic idea

[atlaculture]

Possible Water Tribe Weddings Pt. 2: Sakha-Style - The Bride-Welcoming Ceremony

I’ve gotten quite a few asks regarding what sort of wedding traditions the Water Tribe would have. This has been a difficult question to answer, as the Water Tribe’s primary cultural inspiration (Inuit/Inupiat) traditionally didn’t have wedding ceremonies; pre-Christianized marriage was simply a matter of moving in together and starting a family. I recommend reading through Mostly-Mundane-ATLA’s blog, if you’re interested in learning more about Inupiat and Inuit culture.

That said, I also recognize that ceremonies can be a great source of inspiration for writers and artists. So I’ll be covering the wedding traditions of the adjacent cultural inspirations for the Water Tribe.

Also, the engagement necklace practice we see in the show is unique to the Avatarverse.

Sakha Pt. 2

Another source of inspiration for me when building up the culture of the Water Tribe is Sakha culture. Sakha people primarily live in Russia's Republic of Sakha, a region located partially within the Arctic Circle. Since Sakha weddings are pretty elaborate and multifold, I'm going to say these are marriage practices are more NWT than SWT.

I'm going to add a "Keep Reading" line for this post, as the process is quite lengthy. I've split the details of Sakha marriage into two-parts.

After the payment celebration party, the groom would pick a day to officially retrieve his wife and take her to his family's home; the young couple would also be accompanied by the bride's family and friends on the journey. At the groom's home, there would be another celebration waiting.

This "second wedding" was to welcome the bride to the groom's home and land. When the couple arrived, there would be a horserace between the bride's party and the groom's party. This was all in good fun, with the belief that the winning family of the race was responsible for blessing the marriage with the most happiness and prosperity. Similarly, if the bride's horse stood straight and alert as it was being tied to the home's tethering pole, this was seen as a good omen for the marriage's health and fertility.

Once the race was over and everyone gathered into the home, the bride would then change into her fanciest dress. Rather than describe what a traditional Sakha wedding dress looks like, I'll just show some examples below:

Once the bride was done dressing, she would stand on a white horse-skin rug in front of the family's fireplace. She would then provide an offering of meat to the spirit of the home, by throwing pieces of meat into the fire. She would also recite a prayer, stating her duties as a wife and asking the spirit of the home to protect her marriage. Everyone would drink horse milk wine (kumis) in support of these prayers. She also must offer a prayer to the spirit of the land. She would do this by tying horsehair to an outside tree near the entrance of the home and praying to be accepted as a new resident of the land. She would then pour kumis mixed with animal oil on to the tree as an offering.

After the bride was done with all of her prayers, family and wedding guests would be free to offer their own blessings to the couple. This was achieved by "feeding" the home's fireplace with offerings of meat and prayers. Everyone was expected to drink kumis after each offering and prayer. These prayers were usually for fertility, health, safety, fruitful cattle, and general happiness. After all the formalities were finished, everyone would feast and partake in kumis. This celebration would last two to three days.

At the end of the wedding, both sides would exchange gifts. The bride's family would give gifts of cattle, fur, and meat to the groom's family. In turn, the groom's family was expected to give the bride's family similar gifts but twice as many in quantity. An especially wealthy groom would give away horses as wedding gifts for the bride's party. Invited guests (non-family) also received gifts from the groom’s relatives as well. Finally, the bride was similarly expected to give wedding gifts to the groom's family as a thank you for welcoming her into their home. There would also be more kumis drinking before the bride's side departed to leave the bride with her new family.

There is also a post-wedding tradition for Sakha people known as Terkyttyy or "coming home". The bride takes a trip back to her family home about three years after the wedding, usually not long after she has fully recovered from having her first child. She and her family would exchange gifts; the expectation is that the bride's family give the new mother bigger/better gifts than what she's giving them. This essentially acts as a post-birth baby shower.

If you're wondering where I got all of this information from, click here.

While I'm tempted to write about the wedding traditions of other northern Siberian ethnic groups, I think I'll stop here for now--- mainly because this is a really time-consuming series. However, if you look at the marriage practices of other Siberian peoples such as Nenet or Evenki, you'll find that their practices fall somewhere between the simplicity & practicality of Chukchi weddings and the spirituality & ceremony of Sakha weddings. I think this is due to many Siberian ethnicities being culturally and ancestrally a mixture of Turkic and Indigenous North American. But this is just a theory of mine, so feel free to correct me if I'm totally off the mark.

Anywho, I think Chukchi weddings feel more SWT while Sakha weddings feel more NWT, since the Northern Water Tribe is more spiritual and patriarchal. However, I also think you could mix some of these traditions together for either group, since they are "sister tribes". After all, the Fire Nation's wedding traditions certainly aren't from one exclusive culture.

Like what I’m doing? Tips always appreciated, never expected. ^_^

#building up #water tribe #phew #finally got this off my checklist #it was a fun but intensive write-up process #I swear my next new post will be more ATLA-related

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

i just read your ask about how zutaras think airbenders are racist, sexist, ect. and i'm like?? aren't air nomads canonically the most accepting of the 4 nations??? i don't know how accurate the avatar universe wiki is (it's one of the most expansive wikis i've ever seen for a fandom), but it says it there.

Even if we don't take the wiki or anything except the show itself into account - nothing in the show itself indicates they were racist, sexist, etc.

But you know what nation is confirmed to be very fucking racist, and there's hints of it being a least a little sexist? The Fire Nation. The one that commited genocide towards both the air-nomads and Southern Water Tribe.

Zutarians are constantly going on and on about how their ship is more "complext and adult", yet lots of them are TERRIFIED to engage with aspects that would make it a complex, adult, very messy dynamic - aka the fact that Zuko is not only a direct descendent of the guy that started the war (Sozin), of the guy that was responsible for the raids on Katara's tribe (Azulon), and of the guy that order her best friend's capture/death (Ozai) but he also took A LONG time to realize "Holy shit, what my family is doing is terrible" and was in fact constantly putting Katara and her friends in danger, helped Azula get the upper hand in Ba Sing Se and thus kill Aang, then sent an assassin after them to finish/repeat the job later.

There's also the fact that, due to their immaturity, they think they HAVE to hate Aang just because they don't him and Katara together, and it can make them look really bad to hate on the sole survivor of a genocide while praising the prince that was trying to help his nation get rid of said last survivor.

They could deal with that by doing stuff like making modern AUs to avoid the war thing, or actually addressing the complexity of the situation, or being mature enough to say "I dislike Kataang/Aang as a character, but obviously Zuko was an objectively worse person back when he was supporting literal genocide."

Instead they decide to make the air-nomads look like "asshole victims" to reduce sympathy for them and Aang, pretend the SWT and the NWT are exactly the same to make it look like Katara felt oppressed by her own family and culture instead of being traumatized by their death, and pretend the Fire Nation is not only the "feminst nation" but also that said feminism would TOTALLY extend to the girl they were taught to see as being part of an inferior race just because there's a new guy in charge.

Zutarians tend to only acknowledge the elephant in the room when it's for the sake of a fetish or extra drama (see the non-con fics or "Slave/Concubine Katara" fics), or when they are genuinely fucking clueless/racist and think "Oh, it wasn't so bad" and say as much openly.

#anti zutara #pro kataang #pro aang