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lilyznow · 1 month

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Zuko found a new friend 🦆

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko avatar art #avatar art #zuko fanart #zuko art #zuko #fanart #lilyznow art #turtle ducks #zuko is an awkward turtleduck

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zutarasbuff · 8 months

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Reasons why do I think Zuko is a walking green flag (according to what I have noticed within the show):

1. Always feels guilty after doing something that contradicts his principles.

2. Listens to his uncle despite the differences and always turns to him whenever the time calls.

3. Never ever harms the children unlike many of other fire nation soldiers and generals.

4. Lets Uncle Iroh play Pai Sho.

5. Keeps his trauma inside his heart, and even when gets provoked is extremely worried about troubling others with his inner conflicts.

6. Is a fine listener.

7. Lets Appa free and earns Appa’s trust.

8. Doesn’t feel ashamed in working at a tea shop despite being the heir to the fire nation’s throne.

9. Cares for Azula despite her wrongdoings.

10. Is ready to apologize for his faults.

11. Never forgets his duty toward Mai despite his suffering.

12. Is even ready to breakup with Mai to save her.

13. Is an extremely loyal and encouraging friend.

14. Doesn’t hesitate a bit to stand with the right, even if it means challenging his own father or sister.

15. Loves Uncle Iroh so much.

16. Never forgets his mother even after years.

17. Makes sure that the fire nation finds a new way of fuelling their bending other than anger.

18. Preserves the lineage of the dragons and honours them.

19. Hard outside, kind inside.

20. Puts himself at a risk by using fire bending to light up the fountain in Ba Sing Se in the days of wartime asylum just to make Jin happy.

21. Has a very empathetic nature and votes against fire nation waging a war on others in the council of the firelord himself.

22. Is determined to accomplish his goal whether it’s catching the avatar or saving the world.

23. Never tolerates bullying.

24. Is a fine swordsman.

25. Is hot with a hotter voice (thank you Dante Bosco for being the perfect Zuko) and a freaking cute smile.

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glitter-gummy-bears · 1 year

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Made this forever ago and found it!

It's based on that pidgin girl meme!

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billsbae · 22 days

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katara: are you flirting with me?

zuko: i'm trying

zuko: i don't know what i'm doing

#he's a bit awkward but he's trying his best!!!#zuko is an awkward turtleduck #zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #zutara my babies #zutara incorrect quotes #atla incorrect quotes #atla #netflix avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla netflix #katara #zuko #prince zuko

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aurithemoon · 2 years

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When your secret crush falls asleep on your shoulder and you have to stay very still so she doesn't wake up.

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livrere-green · 9 days

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Here, dear @bryverros just make me think too much about this lmao

So... Is Zuko Disney Princess coded? Let's see.

He's canonically part of a royal family, so the title is there, no marriage needed.

He has superpowers (firebending) and a particular ability his really good at (swordfighting), you know like Elsa with ice and Mérida with archery.

Another thing he has in common with Mérida is the fact he doesn't agree with his father about stuff and he doesn't know how to shut up about it (:

He got the evil parent AND the evil sister (at least Cinderella was adopted)

He talks to animals (yk the frog thing), animals trust him too (Appa), and he got a magical pet (Ruk).

He had an incredible glow up.

Let's say that Iroh is his fairy godmother, gives him good advice, helps him prepare for his dates and always reminds him that he is a prince even at his lowest.

He is fighting for his honor (I mean, if you told the guy he would get back his honor going to the matchmaker, he would've been first in line, doing way better than Mulan with the tea thing)

He would cry looking at his reflection while this verse sounds in the background "If I wear a mask, I can fool the world, but I cannot fool my heart".

Being Lee for a month show him that he was meant to fulfil his role as a part of the royal family (customer service/domestic work does that to people)

He got a love interest that fell for him with zero knowledge about who he was: his title or his past or real identity, so if you want to eat up the classic Disney princess romance. There you go.

He goes through the tantrums, emotional rollercoasters and "the world hates me" moments like a pro.

The change of heart moment happens to him as it happens to most disney princess, and it defines his destiny. So point checked.

He went into a life changing adventure with the first cute and friendly guy that stood in front of him (I'm not even explaining more about this).

He gets the throne at the end of the show (in this point we only got Elsa, and I'm sure Zuko also considered moving to the forest after being Fire Lord for a year, but his sister wasn't as reliable as Anna).

His canon love interest is a childhood love that ended up saving his life and that's so princess coded that there's no need to give an example, it just makes sense.

I think there are things I'm not addressing, but for now this is enough to conclude that... yeah, he is sooo princess coded.

#zuko #prince zuko #atla #atla thoughts #fire lord zuko #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #maiko #jinko #zukka #avatar the last airbender #atla zuko #zuko x jin #zuko x sokka #zuko x mai #liv rambles

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qelos-nia · 3 months

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Reposing it from my twt

Jetko !au Where we get to see Jet visiting the Fire Nation

#jetko #art #digital art #they are in love #jet avatar #jet atla #zuko #prince zuko #zuko atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #jet x zuko #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #they are gay

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ambriel-angstwitch · 7 months

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Sokka: Identify yourself!

Zuko panicked: Zuko, Fire Nation, 16, bi

Sokka: Wait your bi? That’s so valid.

#I imagine this being an alternative version of when he went to join the gaang #of course then sadly there would be no hello zuko here #and zuko would probably never do openly admit he’s bu #but I saw it with Percy and thought it was hilarious #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #zuko avatar #zuko #sokka avatar the last airbender #sokka of the water tribe #sokka #atla sokka #atla zuko #prince zuko #incorrect atla #atla incorrect quotes #incorrect avatar the last airbender quotes #incorrect zukka #zukka

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evadingreallife · 4 months

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Ver 1, Ver 2

For @amisti

#AFSS23 #atla #zuko #turtleduck #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #firebending

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juune-moon · 2 years

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A fluffy moment from Incendiary by @roslynwrites

(I’m hooked!)

#zutara #i took some liberties #turtle ducks #atla #zuko #katara #avatar the last airbender #my art #fic: incendiary #fluffy #zuko is an awkward turtleduck

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eponastory · 2 months

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Ah, Sarcastic Chorus...

Let's break down the 'I'm going to fix you' argument for Katara.

First off, no one can 'fix' anyone. Going into a relationship thinking you're going to change somebody and make them different is going to make that relationship bad. It's not necessarily toxic, but bad. Why? Because it's not your job to 'fix' the other person. The only one who can do that is the other person. You can only 'fix' yourself.

A lot of relationships fail because of these expectations.

I'm going to talk about fanfiction here for a moment since I've been writing a Zutara story. Since Zutara isn't Canon (but we really wish it was) and all, I only have what does happen in Canon and what happens in fanfiction tropes I see a lot.

In the show we get these wonderful little moments where Zuko and Katara are fighting each other (book one), and it sets a nice theme of opposites attract. The motifs are there with all the color symbolism... it's nice. That does immediately set our brains to 'oh they are so going to get together'. There are a lot of nuances to that, and it's lovely.

I'm not going to lie, Katara is in that group dynamic of 'The Heart' role, and yes, it does put a little pressure on her character to care for everyone. It's my least favorite role for a character and it's a bitch to write when you want that character to be independent.

Anyway, back to Katara. She's the mother figure, the caring and nurturing one that has to help everyone else sort out their problems while she has to internalize her own. It sucks. It really does. So when we get to TSR in Book 3 and she is practically berated by everyone for not acting like herself... she gets pissed, rightfully so because she had to help everyone else with their bullshit until Zuko finally joined. This is where Zuko becomes a foil for her.

Just to be clear, a foil is basically a character that encourages change to happen within a dynamic. It can be a group or a pairing. Usually, that character had opposite goals or a different personality. Zuko started out as the antagonist, but when he joined the Gaang, he's now a foil for the entire group.

Back to what I was saying... what was I saying? Oh yes!

So Katara is rightfully pissed because she needs to deal with her trauma when everyone is suddenly 'this isn't who you are'. No, this is exactly who she is. She is very much like her element. Water is fluid, it can be calm and it can be a torrent... which is exactly the way she is written. It's always been her, she just put everyone else's problems above her own. Now that she has to deal with her problems, it's chaotic for everyone else.

And yes, she does have survivors guilt.

That is her main problem, so now she has to deal with it. And Zuko gives her that chance.

This is getting pretty long, so I'll try to wrap everything up here.

Zuko doesn't need to be 'fixed' he's already done that himself by himself. Joining the Gaang was essentially a fresh start for him (I use that term lightly) which is why he is so awkward when he goes to talk to them at the Western Air Temple (or is it Eastern? I don't remember ahhhh. Fibro brain!) And it's so cute and I just want to hug him. I digress, but it's great.

He's got a shitty past, but he is trying to change himself even further by accepting responsibility for what he did to them individually. In Katara's case, he has to work hard for her. It's lovely, and the payoff is great. I know for sure that is what I see in their relationship. He cares so much about her that he works hard to win her trust again. Why? Because she showed him compassion in CoD, and that struck a chord in him. Her strength is her compassion when he was taught by his sociopathic narcissist father that emotions like that are a weakness.

That my dear Kat*angers is why we love this ship.

It's a beautiful dynamic between them that I would have loved to see Bryke explore, but they just gave us the most vanilla bland version of a romance they could find by pulling a D&B (Game of Thrones writers) and subverting expectations. It sucks.

TLDR version.

Katara doesn't have to fix Zuko.

#dont go into a relationship thinking you can fix someone thats bad #fix yourself and it will work out fine #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #anti anti zutara #pro zutara #pro katara #zutara #anti kataang #anti bryke

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spacecasehobbit · 2 years

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Y'know what I've realized I'd like to see more often? Zuko befriending the Gaang while still dealing with the fact that his instinctive response to insecurity or fear is to get defensively angry and snappy. Less of Zuko being a quiet mouse who flinches away from any hint of aggression from the others, and more of Zuko who does his best to reign in his temper and then flinches away from his own defensively snappy remarks or the instinct to firebend out his frustrations. More of Zuko who has let go of the bulk of his anger and is doing his best to lean in to his mother's and his uncle's lessons on compassion and empathy, but who is also still in the process of unlearning his years of reliance on anger as his go-to method of covering up any insecurity or "weak" spot around other people.

#atla #zuko #zuko and the gaang #he deserves to be a complicated person #with complex emotions and trauma responses #and also get friends who learn how to understand him #more of zuko and the gaang both learning how to communicate with each other #without triggering the other's fear/defensive instincts and causing unintentional harm on both sides #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #but even a turtleduck might snap at you if it feels threatened

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zutarasbuff · 2 months

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My connection with Zuko & Zutara

I’ve always been so passionate about Zuko and the way his character has layers of complexity within the show. It is said that art inspires life. People often accuse Zuko stans of “having alustful attitude toward a fictional character as the girls simply want him for his looks”. I believe it’s not the case. This is something I have always kept in my heart.

My reasons for being a part of the Zuko fandom are not just based on the show but on a personal level as well. Zuko helped me in coping with some of my worst nightmares, the trials that I believe were the hardest. One of my friends mocked my idea of Zuko as being too much obsessed with a fictional character. According to her, this was not normal and I should have gone to a therapist but I have seen the real world. I have seen how cruel the reality is, and in those moments it was his character that provided me comfort and strength.

Back when I was a child, I watched the season first and fell in love with the concept of “bending”. Honestly, at that time, I hated Zuko because of his mad hunt for Aang and the gang. I always wanted him to fail because, in my eyes, it was always Aang who was going to save the day (being the hero). As I grew up, I watched the season again and this time I looked at Zuko from a different perspective. It was something that I now noticed. I noticed how similar Zuko was to me because both of us had experienced the absence of our mothers in a very young age and this kept the trauma alive throughout our lives. In the show, we find that Zuko was emotionally abused by his father to be someone he didn’t want to be. I had gone through the same experience when I was always considered “not good enough as a daughter” no matter what I did to please my father.

Just like Zuko, I always had questions in my mind why did my mother leave me and where she was at the moment? Just like him it also turned me into a bitter person, a person who had a hard time trusting someone with all their heart. I looked at him and his struggle. Zuko is always ridiculed for his quest to “redeem his honor”, but the truth is if you have ever walked in his shoes, you will be able to find out that all he wanted was to be loved and accepted by his father because he had an absent parent. It is natural for a child to want the attention of a parent especially when one of the parents is absent. He did everything for Ozai. Just the way I made my career choices based on Papa’s willingness. I felt a strange connection with Zuko because both of us were the same. You will find that the hard shell of Zuko starts breaking when someone shows the slightest concern of care or love toward him. This is the sole reason why Zuko always pretends to be a cruel guy because he’s broken on the inside. He doesn’t want to give someone a chance to play with his emotions and make him vulnerable again because he knows the cost of it from his traumatic past.

This is how broken people are. I have gone through the same phase and in doing so I believe I must have hurt people who were kind like Mai and Uncle Iroh were to Zuko. It’s because people like us are afraid of falling in love and showing the slightest traces of weakness. We act strong because we have fought our demons hard. We are afraid of turning out to be the horrible version of our parents. Even Zuko kept on fearing that he might turn up to be like Ozai after being the Firelord. It’s because all his trauma, his hurt, his unspoken emotions, and his pain were still there and he knew it wouldn’t change.

As a lover, we find that he tries to save Mai from being blamed as the girlfriend of a banished prince, and for this reason, he breaks up but never forgets to care about her. As a person, who was broken in more than one way, I have done the same in the past. I built my walls so high so that no one could get hurt by my harshness, and my demons but even after that I never forgot to care for the people who were significant to me, because people like us know the consequences of inflicting hurt upon someone very well. Zuko to me is the guy who if was real would have understood me and people like me.

I know it might seem a bit bizarre to several people here, but I think I love this fictional person from the core of my heart because I know his traumas, his pain, and his hurt. It’s not easy to pretend that you are fine when you are clearly not okay. I love him because I believe that he would be the only person in the world who had an idea of my heart and traumas. When I ship him with Katara, I have this idea in my mind that she is the other person who lost her mother had issues with her father, and pretended to be happy despite all that she went through. Maybe it comes off as a selfish declaration but as a person who has gone through worse in life, somewhere in Katara I see a version of myself who is angry, hurt, and still feels safe with someone like him. I wish if a parallel world existed, both of them could end up together there, and get all the happiness they have always deserved.

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whatthepaagal · 11 months

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zukka fic where sokka keeps reciting haikus for zuko whenever zuko is in like a royal fit or whatever (bc in my head i feel like zuko prefers casual robes to the royal firelord ones and doesn't wear them unless he absolutely has to and he tell sokka it's cuz he's uncomfy so sokka is like oh yea u know what i'll just tell him how hot he looks in prose bc im such a good bro and absolutely not in love w my BRO i just want him to be comfortable and safe and protected and-) and at first this annoys the hell out of zuko and he's always incredibly embarrassed but eventually he ends up realising he's in love w sokka and now it's even worse bc as embarrassing as the haikus are HE STARTS TO LIKE IT- cue idiots in crisis :) someone please write this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pLEASE PLEASE-

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grahambaham · 2 months

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ATLA FIC REC

Aang, Sokka, and Katara are Awkward Turtleducks (Literally) by SeleneMoon

One of my favorites. Super funny and it's mostly, like 90% fluff with a bit of angst here and there. Aang was born to be a turtleduck, he's so fucking adorable I wanna cry and squeeze him to death.

Summary

Aang, Sokka, and Katara should take more care in where they sleep. Now three little turtleducklings don't know what they are going to do. Fortunately, Prince Zuko has always liked turtleducks.

#ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic recommendation #ao3 #fanfic rec #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #avatar aang #zuko #sokka #iroh #turtle ducks #zuko is an awkward turtleduck

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art-ro-vert · 1 year

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They are playing Never Have I Ever! Aang is also there, he is in lack of words😅

In case my hand writing is too bad, here are the captions:

S: “Never have I ever kissed Jet!”

K: “uh, Sokka! It’s unfair! It was only me!”

T: “Not only!”

K: “You what?”

S: “Are you into guys?”

T: “Ahaha! Wish I could see your faces!”

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