Avatar School Time Shipping, but with Zuko and his far superior season 3 hair. I already shared it over on the Zutara discord, but wanted to share it here as well!
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Chibi Zutara
I actually hate pencils so much I am an online artist/pen doodle girlie at heat but like istg the texture came out bad but the idea was nice...what do yall think??? I'm only 14 so pls dont roast also what do u think of zutara and what do u ship katara with....i love zutara and don't really understand kataang but I would love to hear other people's views! A zutara pen doodle in a similar style to the show is coming soon, and I think it will be good so keep urself posted.....
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Zuko (and Sokka) in Avatar Chibi Short - Bending Battle
Watching the Avatar Chibi Short - Bending Battle was such a weird experience. The animation itself is nice and cute, but there is something truly messed up when Book 1!Zuko - the antagonist - is the only one non-abusive bender toward Sokka. And Katara, Aang and Toph are literally Sokka’s family and friends!
The short animation is about an argument between Katara, Aang and Toph whose element is the best (Sokka tried to join their bender game but his boomerang skill wasn’t taken into account).
To prove her point, Katara - Sokka’s younger sister - froze him and literally shattered into pieces.
Toph used Sokka as a ball in a flipper-like game created by her earthbending.
When Sokka outright said he is tired of being used as everyone’s dummy,
Aang used his airbending to turn him into a balloon.
and once Sokka fell down into lake, Aang was just laughing, so proud of himself and his element.
And there is Zuko (and I can't stress enough, in his Book 1’s outfit of the antagonist) who joined the argument by throwing a flame at Sokka…
except there is no visible sign that Sokka was scorched. Only the fish he held in hand catched the fire and was burned (cooked).
And there is something to say about that scene, because the animation could easily mark that Sokka was burned in a comedic way - a bit of smoke or smoldering flame here and there - but it didn't. And yeah, in previous scenes there is no permanent damage done either, but we can see Sokka's distress (and pain in cause of Toph's bending?) but it is absent from the fire scene; Sokka's expression does not change at all, while the fish is literally on flame. Which is why I think Zuko's bending did not harm Sokka, and fire was actually aimed at the fish.
A fish that Sokka actually ate at the end of episode.
And even once the benders had another contest whose power/skills is the best, when Zuko was using his fire, he is the only one to actually warn others to stay away
while Aang, Katara and Toph just used their respective elements without any warning.
Look, I know this is chibi and not serious animation but damn, it truly hits hard how Zuko (and by extension, Iroh) is the only one person that did not use his element to abuse Sokka, the one non-bender in the group and actually seems to be caution of how dangerous the fire is (and how he couldn’t be aware if his face was burned with fire?) which fits nicely to the original source material and how Zuko did not use fire to burn people on purpose (as could be seen with Zhao during Agni Kai and how he apologized to Toph for burning her feets by accident).
All while Zuko is presented in his Book 1's outfit, when he played the role of antagonist.
On side note, this little animation would be great propaganda material for LoK's Amon and his Equalist movement, wouldn't it? Benders proving their might by abusing non-bender person? Oh yeah, that would be perfect propaganda.
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