I like to think that at least once, the Avatar cycle seemed to skip the Water Tribe—like people knew it was the water tribe’s turn, everyone was looking for them, the tests are done on all the kids, but like 60-80 years go by and no avatar until some Earth Kingdom kid shows up. People wonder if the cycle skipped a generation or what, but nothing serious was going on at that time so they shrug and move on.
It’s only many many years later that someone is researching Swampbender oral history and someone tells the story of “Ol Stinky Jess, she was a funny one, could light the swamp on fire an’ all sorts o’ shenanigans! Best catfishgator catcher in the tribe, she was” and thats literally it, she just lived a totally chill life in the swamp and nobody knew what an avatar was at the time so they just rolled with that funny gal’s odd bending ways.
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Attempts at Waterbending 🌊
Avatar Anakin, native fire bender, just can't seem to get water bending down. "He's too hot headed and impatient." says water bending master Obi-Wan, who happens to be the only one willing to put up the Avatars crap in order to train him.
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rewatching "the last airbender," and can I just say...
...how much I fucking *love* that the plot of this whole series, I shit you not, was set in motion by Katara's feminist tirade
^^Specifically, less than five minutes into episode 1 - see the above gif as a point of reference
A recap, of how our series kicks off, for those of us who need a refresher:
~ Katara is trying to practice her waterbending while she's on a fishing trip with Sokka
~ Sokka sees waterbending as a less worthy pursuit (at least compared to, say, fishing), and belittles her abilities -- Katara, meanwhile, has successfully CAUGHT A FUCKING FISH with waterbending alone
~ When Katara tries to call attention to her success (again, both with the fish + the waterbending), Sokka's literally not paying attention and is trying to show off his "skills," and deadass smacks the CAUGHT fish OUT OF THE AIR and back into the water
~ Even though *HE* is the reason they're down a fish, Sokka proceeds to belittle Katara's waterbending some more, at which point, they're caught up in a rough current + lose their canoe
~ After losing the canoe, in a moment of frustration, Sokka decides that the best way to handle things is to make your typical shitty teenage boy comments about how he should "leave it to a girl to screw things up" (even though losing control of the canoe + losing the fish had absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH KATARA and NOTHING TO DO WITH GENDER, MORE IMPORTANTLY)
~ Katara, understandably, fucking loses it.
And in the heat of the moment, while Katara is ranting about how much of an immature sexist POS her brother is - she literally waterbends open the fucking iceberg that the Avatar has been trapped in for the LAST 100 YEARS
I could *never* for the life of me put my finger on why I liked Katara as much as I did as a kid, but holy SHIT is it obvious now -
I was 8 when "The Last Airbender" premiered. And from what I remember, I watched this show in real time as it was airing.
Katara, to me, is the OG feminist icon.
She was the feminist icon I had to look up to when I was a little girl watching this show, way before I could even grasp the concepts of feminism or be expected to know what it was, and how much it would mean to me ~20 years later
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When Sun and Moon meet MASTERLIST
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Zuko x Fem!WaterBender!Reader
Enemies to Lovers
As one of the Princesses of the Northern Water tribe, you were blessed with a gift by the moon. However you were permitted to be allowed to use the gift at all costs. From many hidden waterbending usages, the aftermath of the avatar visiting the Northern Tribe had led to your beginning journey, hiding yourself as a water bender as a princess from the Northern water tribe
Season 1
☾ Prologue
☾ Chapter 1 - Welcome Avatar
☾ Chapter 2 - Encountering the Sun
☾ Chapter 3 - Dangerous Gale
☾ Chapter 4 - New Sacrifices
Season 2
҉ Chapter 5 - Trainer Sakari
҉ Chapter 6 - Hidden in Ba Sing Se
҉ Chapter 7 - Refreshing Tea
҉ Chapter 8 - Failed
҉ Chapter 9 - Tied with the Gaang
҉ Ch 10 ... Coming soon
҉ Ch 11 ... Coming soon
Season 3
𖤓 Ch 12
𖤓 Ch 13
𖤓 Ch 14
𖤓 Ch 15
𖤓 Ch 16
𖤓 Ch 17
𖤓 Ch 18
𖤓 Ch 19
𖤓 Ch 21
𖤓 Ch 22
𖤓 Ch 23
𖤓 Ch 24
Aftermath
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