#katara and zuko | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

kroutonart · 17 days

Text

i’m really warming up to them🥹

#avatar the last airbender #zutara #katara and zuko #zutara art #digital art #yeah it’s the scarf scene #illustration

560 notes · View notes

daintyzumin · 1 month

Text

Katara: I want to wake up with you everyday for the rest of our lives

Zuko: I wake up at 4:30 am

Katara: I want to see you at some point everyday for the rest of our lives

706 notes · View notes

parkiebearr · 6 months

Text

⋆˙⟡ Under the Same Stars⟡⋆˙

A Zutara Fancomic: Part 1

1K notes · View notes

darklinaforever · 1 month

Text

When the Zutara antis try to pretend that we are crazy for thinking that they could actually have been canon, and let's make things up... When there were literally these types of promotions :

And then we got this :

So...

448 notes · View notes

44ninina · 2 months

Text

💙Zutara ❤️

#fanart #art #digital art #procreate #zutara #zuko #prince zuko #atla zuko #zuko x katara #katara #katara atla #katara and zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #zutara fanart #zuko fanart #katara fanart

445 notes · View notes

zutarasbuff · 2 months

Text

Found this somewhere on Tumblr, it infuriated me to a great extent and forced me to crush the “coloniser-colonial romance” accusation against the Zutara nation. For this, you need to read everything quite carefully that will be presented to you.

So people who accuse Zutara use this narrative that Zuko had a princely life as a colonizer, unlike Katara. Now look at the ground reality:

Katara’s mother Kya lied to Yon Rha that she was the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe to save her daughter. A similar act was done by Ursa (Zuko’s mother) who killed Firelord Azulon with her potion as part of her deal with Ozai to save the life of her son Zuko and got banished eventually. That makes us come to one certain conclusion:

Both Zuko and Katara spent greater part of their life without their mothers and this impacted their childhood badly as we find them dealing with the trauma of loss even after they hit puberty.

As if the absence of a mother was not enough, when Hakoda (Katara’s father) leaves with the fleet for the war, it’s almost the same time when we find Ozai getting immersed in attacking other nations, so much so that he’s never there for both of his children. Technically speaking, even if Ozai was there physically, he was never emotionally available for his children being a narcissistic father.

I would say that Zuko had the worst childhood experience as compared to Katara because Katara had a brother who always supported his sister in dealing with the trauma, but we don’t see that in the case of Zuko whose own sister used to bully him right from the childhood for being too weak and the mom’s pet.

Now let’s analyze the colonizer part. Unfortunately, Zuko was born to a father who was not just the worst ruler but an equally worse son, brother, husband, and father. One can say that Zuko’s only fault was to hail from a wrong family but other than that, he was never a colonizer. You may ask why. I will give you a reason.

It’s not just Katara who has to bear the ill effects of the war that was imposed on her, but in many ways Zuko was a direct victim of what we call “Emotional Imperialism”. In psychology, it’s a condition where the colonizers not just physically take control of their colonies, but they start infusing their ideals deep into the mentality of their subjects as well.

Coming back to the case of Zuko, we find that he never gets to formulate the normal father-son relationship with Ozai, rather Ozai treats both his children as his humble subjects who need to obey him unquestionably and need to be perfect as his subjects. He’s in every sense not just a narcissistic parent but a controlling one as well who emotionally traps both his children and wants to rule over them at every cost. The apparent manifestation of this emotional imperialism is evident through:

Zuko’s quest to be the best firebender

When the colonizers start ruling over a certain colony, it’s the colonials who feel the need to be validated by their masters. It’s their first survival strategy that they embrace the change as they know resistance is going to be of no use. They simply adapt themselves to the new ideals that are set forth by their ruling masters. Similarly, Ozai always wanted his children to be the absolute embodiment of Azulon’s great bloodline and both his children obliged to his desires because they feared the firelord. Therefore, his stiff standards force both his children to compete against each other from a very young age. This is the worst form of emotional imperialism where the subjects simply want some validation in return and therefore they are ready to even forget their kinship. That’s what we find as Zuko repeatedly wants to “get his honor back and win the trust of his father”. What do you think this honor is? It’s not the quest for being the next heir to the throne, rather it’s being the absolute best in the eyes of the master who controls both the siblings. We know Ozai has a manipulative nature and this relates exactly to the manipulative attitude of a colonizer who puts the colonials against each other.

Zuko’s almost absent friend circle

Have you ever seen the modus operandi of the colonizers? They alienate their subjects so that the subjects find no way of self-expression and eventually give up to the demands of their masters. That’s exactly the scenario that propagates in Zuko’s life. Other than Mai and Ty Lee we don’t even find his friends throughout the series. Isn’t it a bit strange that despite being a prince, he has no guy friend of his age? He has no friends at all. It’s because the master (Ozai) wanted so. The siblings never get much exposure to the outside world. When we draw a comparison of Zuko’s situation, then Katara seems to be at an advantage in that she found a peer group that allowed her to grow further and overcome her insecurities. Zuko, however never got a chance to blend into an actual peer group and that kept him secluded throughout and gave him his introverted persona. Don’t you find it strange that as a friend Zuko got no one but his uncle who had a lot of age differences and the opinions differed too? This created a rift further maybe because Zuko felt that somehow his feelings were not interpreted well by Uncle Iroh. Compared to his “angry guy” persona, he grows a lot more friendly when he finds the gang or should we say people of his age. This allows him to understand his persona in a constructive way and he strives to alter the course of his life afterwards.

Identity crisis

Out of all the characters on ATLA, people often say that Zuko is the one with the most complex attributes because he is not even sure of his “destiny”. Sounds familiar? Eh? Well, this is the typical case of an identity crisis existing in the subjects of a colony. Zuko goes through this phase where he is always striving hard to explore his identity, and his destiny thus fueling his internal rage as well. A kaleidoscopic journey is what he follows. Sometimes it’s rage, sometimes regret and sometimes he even questions the actions of his father. By the end, his driving force to change his alliances is nothing but this very identity crisis. This makes me remember a very interesting observation that whenever he’s near the gang, he’s a bit cranky and at the same time uneasy because he looks at the gang as the polar opposite of himself. To a caged bird who has accepted his fate, even the slightest call of resistance feels like Hades’ call and that’s why he repeatedly aims to avoid Aang’s calls for forming a friendship because he is afraid of peeking into his resisting side. That’s the typical thing you find in Haru who despite being a fine earthbender resists waging a war against the firebenders who roam freely in his village at first. So would you blame Zuko for never resisting the colonization when as a subject it was inherent to his mentality for a long time?

A harsh realisation

People who degrade Zutara with this stupid claim that Katara was the only one who “lost everything” need to get their brains checked thoroughly because when we compare her loss to the magnitude of the loss faced by Zuko at the end of the war, the comparing scale diverts wildly in Zuko’s favor. Though many of you know this; I will recall it for you again. Katara lost her mother to the war but in the end, she got lifelong friends to cherish with her brother as well father. On the contrary, even during the war, we find that Zuko loses not only his mother, his father, and his sister in the worst possible way. It means all his family members are lost to him in every sense when the war ends. Now some of you will come to me with the argument that the gang eventually finds Ursa back but how? With her memories all erased. It means that the war has not just left him with permanent emotional wounds but it has further taken the very idea of a family from his life.

We zutarians never ship Zutara together because we “just find them good together” but it’s deeper than that. It’s because Zuko was the one who understood Katara’s quest for Yon Rha in order to find answers behind her mother’s death in addition to revenge. This is because deep down he was always looking for the answers of his mother’s (who was the only real person known to him) banishment. That’s exactly what we find after Zuko becomes the firelord. The first thing he does is asking Ozai questions and being certain that he’s finally gonna tell everything. We ship them together because Katara was the only person who understood the value of Zuko jumping in front of Azula’s lightning to save her. We ship them together because we believe if it had become a potential canon, maybe both of them could have helped each other in healing with their individual traumas and creating a real family together.

165 notes · View notes

rifari2037 · 3 months

Text

Yes, I'm here for Zutara. No one can change my mind. I've been shipping them since I was a kid, long before I knew about shipping and fandom. When I re-watch ATLA, I shipping them even more. When I watch Zutarian art and video, I shipping them even more. When I read Zutarian meta, fanfic, or headcanon, I shipping them even more. Even when I read canon shipper points, I still love and shipping Zutara even harder. I mean, just look at their chemistry! And some people still denying.

195 notes · View notes

billsbae · 12 days

Text

okayyy look i'm a die zutara stan, but platonic zutara with sleepovers, painting nails and talking about boys makes me want scream (in a good way)

#platonic zutara in zukka aus is just so <3 <3 #because sokka is obv the boy zuko talks about #them painting each others nails !!!!#and braiding each other's hair !!!#platonic zutara #zukka #'i don't think he's that good for you' 'you're literally crushing on my brother do stfu you have to taste'#katara #zuko #platonic #katara and zuko #zuko and katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #the gaang #zutara

108 notes · View notes

peachyminguk · 2 months

Text

˙ ⋆✮Blue spirit and the painted lady ✮⋆˙

116 notes · View notes

themoonandocean-spirit · 2 years

Text

Zuko x Katara:

The Southern Raiders

#katara and zuko #avatar the last airbender #zuko #zutarian #firebender #firebending #waterbender #waterbending #katara #zutara #atla #prince zuko #the blue spirit #appa #zuko x katara #atla rp

2K notes · View notes

ellllsia · 6 months

Text

Nickelodeon justifying why we didn't get zutara as endgame by claiming that a character, who has had one of the best redemption arcs in history( and I'm an expert in those🤭), is a "bad guy" and shouldn't get the girl is downright the worst argument I have ever heard ( and I'm an expert in those too🙂).

#tv shows #avatar the last airbender #cartoon #katara #katara and zuko #zuko #nickelodeon #nickelodeon shows #atla #shows #cartoons #zutara #atla gaang #the gaang #shipping #ships #atla ships #avatar

182 notes · View notes

daintyzumin · 2 months

Text

Iroh: she’s got talent, charm, beauty, courage…and you’re just friends?

Katara and Zuko look at each other

Zuko: yes uncle..

Iroh: I didn’t raise you very well.

1K notes · View notes

parkiebearr · 5 months

Text

Zutara Week 2023

Day 2: Solstice

#zutara #zutara week 2023 #zutara week #zutaraweek2023 #zutaraweek #modern zutara #zuko and katara #zuko x katara #avatar: the last airbender #zuko fanart #katara and zuko #katara x zuko #atla fanart #avatar the last air bender fanart #my art

520 notes · View notes

darklinaforever · 4 months

Text

Me, realizing that Zuko wore all of Oma's colors. Red, yellow and gray :

#zutara #pro zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #zuko and katara #katara and zuko #zuko #pro zuko #prince zuko #pro prince zuko #katara #pro katara #anti kataang #anti maiko #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar : the last airbender

334 notes · View notes

azaasterblue · 1 year

Text

i love platonic relationships/soulmates that are like yes you are all that I will never be and yet you are all that I am. you are half of me and my whole and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to figure out what that means but I know that you are safe.

889 notes · View notes

skylarstark4826 · 2 months

Text

I loved this other beautiful fanart of Zuko and Katara because it is also based on their scene together in their Live Action series and I still vote because they both become a Canon in their Netflix Live Action series. I honestly prefer them together than Aang and Katara. No offense to those who are fans of Aang and Katara

By the way, this beautiful avatar fanart together is not mine and the credits are not for me but I warn you that right here I am going to leave you the link of the true creator of this beautiful masterpiece on Twitter

#zuko x katara #prince zuko #katara #katara x zuko #zutara #zuko and katara #katara and zuko #zuko #atla zuko #atla fanart #katara atla #katara fanart #Zuko and Katara movie #Zutara movie #Katars x zuko

89 notes · View notes