#the azutara tag

[xi-xi-chen]

bonus +

She Knows

#azutara #kazula #atla azula #atla katara #avatar the last airbender #i grew up with #the azutara tag #srry kazula tag people #:(( #<333 #luv u lots still #xi-doodles #xi-colors #xi-comix

[jujuberii]

no matter the ship, i love the trope where toph can sense who has a crush on the other bc of their heartbeats. They'll be stuttering through a convo and she'll just be there like I Know What You Are.

#atla #atla toph #toph beifong #ok i admit i had zukka in mind with this one #I CANT HELP IT THEYRE SO CUTE #zukka #zutara #i guess... #kataang #the zutara tag is very hesitant #zukaang #sukki #zukki #the gaang #found family is my weakpoint #maybe also #kazula #azutara #if u squint #or apply it to an azula redemption au

[azulas-pointyshoe]

them again

#azutara #kazula #azula x katara #azula #katara #atla azula #atla katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #isa tag

[lazyveran]

ask about your arranged marriage au you say >:) :evil_hand_rub:

So. to begin with. Why and How is this what happened? is it a postwar diplomatic treaty thing, and Zuko is already too married to Mai to be the one wed? How much Hell did Azula and Katara put whoever suggested it through, and how did it end up happening anyways? What were each of the girls up to prior to the engagement? how do they feel about it? What does the world look like at the time of this AU, both in terms of the big worldwide stuff and the roles and relationships between the Gaang, whatever side characters are around, and their political positions? Be warned: highly likely that I will continue to enquire

you have unleashed the most self indulgent lore dump. thank you so much for asking. my long winded rambles under the cut

the setting of this au has two major changes; aang is never discovered (im so sorry my baby boy) and iroh is a much more active player within the fire nation. essentially, iroh begins consolidating the white lotus almost immediately after azulon's murder. as such, the fire siblings become terribly co-dependant in both ursa and iroh's absence as he's constantly away scheming against ozai. zuko doesnt get burned at 14. he gets burned at 19! and azula kills ozai for it, setting off a domino effect that lands an underprepared iroh on the throne trying to end the 100 years war as per his agreement with the white lotus members (before azula jumped the gun)

the azutara marriage occurs for like 2000 reasons but the main one is that iroh is forced to make several concessions in order to end the war as his ministers are terribly pro-ozai, thanks to ozai's scheming before azula prematurely offed him, and that the northern water tribe refuses to sign and end the war with the FN, unlike the other nations. azula, having been the princess-general ravaging the earth kingdoms in a five-year long campaign, therefore didnt get to show her face in the water tribes, gets chosen as the one to marry into the southern water tribe. as both a savvy diplomatic move to solidify the peace and to work with said wife towards peace with their sister tribe. iroh has no choice but to agree, and azula as a loyal princess with duty to the throne, also has to agree. (she is terribly, extremely unhappy with this due to ursa-parallel related reasons. and its azula.)

katara is chosen both for her position as the daughter of the chief, and for her prowess as a master bender (to match azula's known reputation). katara herself has been working as a sort of renegade freedom fighter away from the south pole, mostly working against the admiral-prince zuko and his three year campaign against the water tribes. sokka and herself work with an elite team, the black tail wolf pack (extremely indulgent name please forgive me) as guerilla fighters against the fire nation essentially. katara is EXTREMELY unhappy about the marriage alliance that her father has signed her off to, but like azula, her duty to her people and to peace overrides her extreme dislike of the situation.

zuko is the admiral-prince, heir to the throne, burned and shamed by the late firelord ozai, and... marrying toph bei fong. NOW PLEASE hear me out on this. stay with me. as part of the peace agreed by iroh, and the fire nation's precarious position now that expansion and pillaging cant fund their economy, an agreement is made with the earth kingdoms to marry into the wealthiest family in the world. its purely an economic marriage, but since the bei fongs are essentially the only homogenous earth territory ''royals'' that aren't strictly attatched to one kingdom but all of them, and have a daughter to spare, well. their relationship is the funniest to me, they're very much a platonic-married-besties situation. zuko himself is conducting a dreadfully obvious affair with mai, and his siege-weapon of a wife does not care in the slighest. in fact she actively encourages it, as being wife to the heir to the fire nation throne gives her freedom away from her family to be herself. there will be rising tensions between the bei fongs and the fire royals, naturally, as well as toph's own character clashing with the 'no fun allowed' fire nation.

azutara's relationship is an EXTREME slow burn, enemies to enemy-wives to friends to lovers. they're both 20 at the time they're married, but both have been child soldiers for years. azula spends a week acting like an arrogant prat and treating her wife like a peasant through politicking power plays before katara just kicks her ass three times over and azula realises theres actually no power imbalance to play off of. she promptly begins acting like mr darcy. katara has to grapple with the very alien culture of the fire nation and stumbles through all the subtlties of both court and royal life, as well as having to deal with her enemy turned wife and the absolute paradox of a woman that azula is. AND negotiating with her hostile sister tribe into trying to broker peace after a generation of war. i think marrying azula is harder than the whole 'world peace' affair really. they're both miserable and angry and cant understand each other but still see each other

sokka will be an intermitten character, as he becomes a diplomat for the southern water tribe as well as a member of the three nations peace council set up in the wake of the war. im trying to add in suki but im unsure on how, perhaps as another representative or something. ursa will have a plotline and azula will NOT be happy about it at all. iroh is frankly wracked with guilt that in order for peace he has to make the last of his family utterly miserable. all their relationships are complicated and messy and everyone's a little awful

i think a really fun aspect of this au is my odd ideas about azula and gender. azula is, in the eyes of the fire nation, both male AND female. female as a princess, a woman who's royal duties involve marriage and so on. but her status as a master fire bender legally classifies her as male. honestly the fire nation cannot afford to disregard azula on gender lines, since she's the most powerful fire bender on the planet at this point. she's a general in the military too, a traditionally male held role, and so azula herself becomes a grey area in terms of legal gender. as such, azula is technically kataras HUSBAND, not wife. and with that comes all the expectations of a husband over a wife in a royal imperial court. very very indulgent of me i fear

i hope this lore dump/word vomit makes some sort of sense. please feel free to ask more abt this au!!!! i have many many worldbuilding hcs for the fire nation and this au <3333

#political marriage au #im just gna make that its own tag now #azutara #azula #katara #veran speaks #ask #starrdio #i wont go into specific plotlines as i am actually writing this into a fic that will most likely become. very long #but i love to talk abt it. please let me talk abt it

[waterfire1848]

Azutara AU - While Azula is sleeping in the spirit temple, Katara arrives as well. Katara, when she finds Azula, tries to capture her only to find they can’t leave the temple. The two are then forced to partake in spirit temple that’s filled with visions that the other can see.

#kinda like the promise episode #that she ra episode #azula #katara #Azutara #azula in the spirit temple #not really a spoiler but I’ll put the tag just in case #azula in the spirit temple spoiler

[dont-leafmealone]

Decided to do one of these lil shippy chart thingies

(O's are for ones that I simply do not vibe with; ?'s are ones that I have no data on or just have not considered).

Credit to @bisexuali-tea-imasnakebitch for the second template (clear versions below)

#atla #shipping #NOT tagging all these ships I'll just tag my favorites #sukka #jinko #jetko #maiko #jetara #azutara #bakoda #yukka #mailee #suyukka #jinjetko #hakursa

[juniperhillpatient]

new chapter of 'the devil you know' aka ATLA Scream AU :)

this time - Azula & Katara attend Lakewood's annual fall festival but the evening ends in bloodshed. Mai confronts Zuko about his feelings for Azula. Hakoda prepares to reveal a family secret to Katara.

#azutara #zucest #i'm tagging the two most relevant ships of this chapter in the self promo . something i never do #except i'm honestly very proud of this chapter it's some dark shit & i love it #shameless self promo #go read atla scream au (yes it's a random combo but it's fun i promise) pspspspspsp

[laugh-of-the-medusa]

It’s a fecking pity Measure Each Step to Infinity didn’t have a full-blown Korra sequel, because I would’ve loved “sex with a woman is a hundred times better than sex with the avatar” to be a random af saying/phrase/inside joke that got passed around in the Southern Water Tribe and beyond.

I can just imagine Asami teasing Korra about it like “well, thank the spirits you’re a woman, then” or some shit 😂

#korrasami #azutara #korra #asami #tlok #fanfic #MES #I’ve added #azula #and #katara #to the tags just because MES was Azutara

[klm-zoflorr]

POV: The Fire Princess, who you are bethrothed to, just made her fashionably late appearance at the royal ball...

This is a shameless Royalty/arranged marriage Azutara AU

The plot: The situation between the four nations is... Tense, to say the least. So much so that comes the time to seal an alliance with royal weddings. The water tribes of the South and North, conspiring together, quickly wed off Prince Sokka to an Earth Kingdom princess. The fire nation is now stuck: they have two water princesses to marry, and only one male heir. Or... Are they?

When her bethrodal with the fire nation heir is announced, Katara, closeted lesbian, despairs. Only, at the party thrown down South to celebrate her engagement, she discover her future fiance is... The most drop dead gorgeous woman she's ever seen. And that my dudes, is why the gays always win.

Little tidbit of info: katara sent a necklace to her bethroded as a diplomatic gesture, because i want to mix up traditions a bit more. That adds to the surprise when Azula shows up wearing it

#azutara #atla #avatar the last airbender #azula #katara #au #lesbian #wlw #klm-zoflorr #top tag #art #my art #digital art #digital drawing #atla fanart

[sev-rh]

An atheist priest hears a indigenous descendent person that was forced to follow the path of Christianity rambles about some hetcomp bullshit and how it was a sin to love another woman and doesn't know what to do about it.

The priest happens to be the girl she's talking about.

and they kissed at some point too

#azutara #kazula #azula #katara #atla #my art #oh but a woman cant be a priest FUCK YOU I DONT GGIVE A SHT ANNA SHUT THEFU K UP ABOUT YOOUR CHURCH BULLSHIT #the previous tag was personal and not that much related to the post

[likeadragonfruit]

Azutara

Oh, this is a tricky one. Normally, when I’m on the fence, I’d say “it’s okay.” But I’m leaning towards saying 

Don’t Ship It

Why don’t you ship it?

I want to be very clear about something. I don’t hate Azutara, it’s not even that I dislike it. Yes, I’m reblogged Azutara fanart. Yes, I’ve read Azutara fics.

But the question is “do I ship it?” And ultimately, I don’t currently. 

As for why? It just doesn’t speak to me in the same way it does for a lot of other people. 

What would have made you like it?

Again, I don’t dislike it. But if there’s something that I can think of that bothers me, it’s how little canon gave us of these two. Oh, sure, they fight. But even for a dynamic between enemies it feels… lacking. At least in my opinion. Which is an absolute shame, because it absolute shouldn’t be like that.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

This is a ship with amazing writers and artists and fics and art. Even though I wouldn’t say I ship myself at this point in time, there’s plenty going for it.

#azutara #anti azutara #not really anti azutara #adding that tag to help with people’s tag filtering #ship ask game

[the-badger-mole]

As someone who does not really vibe with Zutara (mainly because aroace katara is everything to me, and I like some zukka fic), I do not understand why people seem so fucking mad about it? Like, you reblogged one (1) post being slightly negative about Azutara and you got like... 3 hate anons in the span of 15 minutes, and that's just the ones you answered. My respect for you and the ship community at large has just doubled, how do you do it?

Also wanted to send some love your way, because the anons seem rough. I liked the fics of yours I have read, even as someone who doesn't really vibe with romance-centered fiction! You're really good at crafting dialogue, and I love the nuances and subtext in conversations when you write.

First of all, THANK YOU!! I love writing and I love hearing that other people connect with my work. Even if it's not your normal taste, I'm glad that you like it.

Second of all, thank you so much for thinking of me. I'm fine though. I'm mostly amused by that annon. It is hilarious how tight the booty cheeks on some people clench when you call them on their hypocrisy. I didn't even post that in the Azutara tag. That's someone I found posting in the Zutara tag, and I had time for them tonight. Truly, I don't care much what other people ship as long as they keep it cute, keep it classy and keep it over there. But if they do want to stir the pot, they can eat from it, too.

#atla #zutara #anti azutara #ship what you want #just be cool about it

[azulas-pointyshoe]

more azutara/kazula content for your brain

#azutara #kazula #azula x katara #azula #katara #atla azula #atla katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #isa tag #azula would get jealous so easy 😭

[themetaisawesome]

#atla #Katara #Toph #Suki #Mai #Ty Lee #Azula #Ursa #Yue #Kya #katoph #tysuki #maizula #sukitara #yutara #kyursa #tophlee #azutoph #azuki

[burst-of-iridescent]

at the moment, 5.7k people are following the kataang tag, not 2.9k, as you said, why would you lie? in addition, even on Tumblr (which remained almost the last popular zk place among all fan platforms), Zukka is ahead of Zutara in popularity, and a lot of talented and popular creators of fan art and fan fiction are now concentrated in the Zukka and Maiko fandom. It is fundamentally a mistake to focus on the popularity of the ship, because shipping should be for personal pleasure, but this only shows that most people are ATLA fans (namely fans, not casual viewers) they actively love ATLA and did not see zutara in the canon. In addition, can you give evidence of your words that «almost all of the main cast and most of the writers» love zutara? From the cast, only Dante actively confessed his love for zutara, but he also spoke about his love for zukka, Mae Whitman not against Zutara and joked about it, but she also said in podcast that she also loves kataang, the rest of the actors did not speak at all about their preferences in shipping (except Grey DeLisle who prefers zucest).

none of the screenwriters has ever confessed his love for Zutara, on the contrary, Ehasz has said several times that he loves Maiko, he also wrote almost all the most significant maiko and kataang episodes. The only one of the 13 main writers of ATLA who spoke about sympathy for Zutara is John O'Bryan. Zutara never featured in any of the original scripts, and in ATLA's "bible," the only love triangle that was originally planned was Aang-Katara-Toph (who was a boy in the original script). In a recent interview, Ehaz also answered the question of how he feels about zutara vs kataang, that he, as a professional screenwriter, "follows his characters" and their final canonical choice of love interest is the choice of the character himself, not the writers.

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i wrote 2.9k the first time around by mistake. the original post has since been amended to reflect the actual numbers of the kat.aang tag, though frankly the disparity between the two tags is still so large that i don’t even think it matters. anyway, my bad. thanks for letting me know.

many cast members and former writers on the official atla podcast, braving the elements, have talked about shipping zutara — including, but not limited to, dante basco, jack de sena, michaela murphy, joshua hamilton, and john o’bryan. grey delisle, mae whitman & greg baldwin have also spoken about being zutara shippers. i’m not sure why them liking or showing support for other ships somehow means they don’t ship zutara, because people don’t need to ship only a single couple to prove they’re “real” shippers lmao. i like azutara, sukitara, ty luko & even book 1 kat.aang myself; that doesn’t make me any less of a zutara shipper.

i’m also not sure why you expect me to do the work of providing evidence for you when, given the fact that you’re here, i’m certain you have just as much access to google as i do. this information is freely available online. feel free to fact check me.

and let me say this again, in case it was not clear enough: i truly do not care about zutara’s popularity. even if none of the cast and writers shipped it, even if the tag only had 10 people, even if every single wonderfully talented writer & artist & AMV editor & GIF maker in this fandom left, i would still ship it. because it’s a better story, because it is more thematically and narratively cohesive, and because it makes me happy.

and if you disagree with that, that’s fine by me. but somehow trying to “prove” to me that zutara is unpopular and no one likes it is not only a) factually false it’s also b) not going to do a damn thing to change my mind lmao. the opinions of other people have never been a reason for me to ship zutara, and they never will be.

#zutara

[xi-xi-chen]

I LOVE your azutara posts oml

I also love how this ship is getting slightly bigger every year

Hi~ thanks! I know right! And I'm always reading everyone's tags, and then cringe with overwhelming realization of the power I possess in basically recruiting new fans, i don't hate that, i just get a little flustered. I mean, I wonder if anyone else is reading the tags they put, they're so cute lol.

#xi-chat