#zutara my babies

[billsbae]

this is so momtara and dadko coded

#zutara #dadko #momtara #momtara and dadko #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #they're the mom and dad of gaang #atla #avatar the last airbender #netflix avatar #katara #zuko #prince zuko #zutara my babies

[paranoid-spotlight-everest]

Good morning kisses with with the best waterbender in the world, and her boytoy, the Fire Lord!

#Zutara my babies #zutara #suggestive

[sevrinve]

Prince Zuko 🔥

#atla #prince zuko #zuko #atla zuko #avatar the last airbender #fanart #atla fanart #draws #attempted to watch the new show and it made me so mad I had to turn it off so I’m rewatching the original again #he’s so baby #Zutara incoming because I can’t help myself #my art

[multivstx]

same energy

#missing my babies #forever my comfort show #fire nation #zutara #zutara gifs #atla zuko #prince zuko #katara #katara gifs #atla katara #zuko and katara #zuko x katara #avatar the last airbender

[becasart]

for the request thingy katara and kaishi

Really happy I got this request 💕 it's been a while since I've drawn em 🥺

#my sweet baby boy #kaishi #katara #zutara #atla #steambabies #oc #requests #my friggin art

[srirachaz]

i feel like the biggest reason that dimartino and konietzko left live action atla production was bc the show runners wanted to make zutara canon

#atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #tbh the series was not as bad i was expecting it to be #it wasn’t great but i appreciated it #it would’ve been a great tv show if it had been an original one #and i stg they’re making it canon #zutara #can’t believe it’s making a 2024 comeback #squad i will not deny 8 y/o me is v excited #baby me saw “hot fire guy” and self identified as the “awesome water girl’’ and i was gone #zutara hate recognized but will be ignored #love my man aang i just didn’t think kataang had romantic chemistry when i was 8 #obviously now i See The Light with kataang but i digress

[burst-of-iridescent]

“in wildest dreams, i never dreamed of this…”

- this love, taylor swift

#ofc i had to edit my babies to 1989 in honour of 1989 tv release this month <33 #zutara #zutara edit

[morb22]

I’ve gone full Charlie Day mode over this.

#zutara #ship bait oohaha #natla #zuko x katara #zuko #katara #i love them #my babies #delulu

[eternally-sunkissed]

Hear me out guys...

...okay time to go on why this makes sense to me. Here's what I can think of while doing the dishes. (not spoiler free!!!) Comparison between Zuko and Manolo

Zuko and Manolo break the toxic cycle of their family (Zuko not being an assh*le and Manolo not killing a bull)

Zuko and Manolo lost their mom and have a strict dad who raised them in an environment they eventually wanted to leave from (Zuko's mom is alive yes but he and everyone else believed she was gone for years)

Their moms helped them shape into the man they are today

Both willing to sacrifice their life for the one/people they care for (Zuko taking the lightning shot and Manolo trapping himself with Chakal with the giant bell) Now for Katara and Maria

Strong sense of justice even at a young age

Raised by a single dad who they had a somewhat strained relationship at the beginning of the story

Would not hesitate to throw a punch (literally and figuratively) when needed

Voice of inspiration (Katara pushing the team to get better and Maria inspiring the townsfolk to fight with her)

Both will not hesitate to do anything to help their people/people in need

And remember Zuko's quote? "You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun"

Well...Maria and Manolo are canonically reincarnations of their past lives, Maya and Zatz (from Maya and the Three, made by the same creator :DD)

Spoilers for Maya and the Three beyond!!!

And coincidentally enough, when Maya and Zatz die, they become the world's sun and moon...possibly the same sun and moon in The Book of Life timeline. Zatz and Katara rise with the moon, Maya and Zuko rise with the sun.

Another similar thing both pairs had is that they were both, in a way, royalty or rather from a very important family.

Zatz, like Zuko, sacrificed himself to help/aid in the battle/fight, leaving both Maya and Katara to finish off the enemy one way or another.

That's all I can think of for the meantime but yeah your honor that's all I got.

#maya and the three #book of life #avatar the last airbender #fan theory #zutara #atla zuko #katara #no you dont get it i love this #sun and moon dynamic #my otp #my babies #my baby #my babbling #please please please

[andthatisnotfake]

Bedtime story

“Though the prince could bend fire, his heart was cold and frozen. Slowly, the ice spread to his whole body; he was afraid that he’d never freeze forever.”

Katara paused by her son’s bedroom door, listening as Zuko told him a bedtime story.

“Noooooo!”

“Don’t worry, someone could save him.”

“Who?”

“A beautiful princess, whose heart was warm and full of love. She was kind to him, and slowly but surely, his heart began to thaw.”

“She saved him!?”

“Yes, and he fell in love with her.”

“Did she love him too?”

Katara walked into the room. “She sure did.”

#Zutara #plus Zutara baby #ATLA #My fics #My drabbles #40 for 40

[ongoing-catastrophe]

conceptually i know that fandoms have shipping wars that get like, bad, but it's just so funny to me because here I am with 7 ships involving the same 4 characters in various permutations because everytimr I see someone else's interpretation of the story and its just like "oh! neat!"

#this is specifically about #atla #btw #zutara this kataang that #let my babies be happy i dont care who theyre fucking #zutara #zukka #kataang

[billsbae]

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

[eponastory]

My therapist said I need to live in reality.

Well reality sucks.

I'm going back to writing my fictional romance between Zuko and Katara now.

Because that is therapy too.

#ill replace your reality with my own #zutara all the way baby #zutara therapy #zutara fanfiction #zutara

[sevrinve]

bedtime

#zutara #steambabies #Zuko #fire lord zuko #Zutara fanart #Zuko fanart #atla #avatar the last airbender #dadko #fanart #my art #they have the exact same bed hair #this is kya #Zuko has a real soft spot for her #I headcannon he used to pace with her in meetings strapped to his chest with those baby wraps #and now whenever he holds her for a bit she falls asleep on him immediately #also she hates the cold and frowns exactly like zuko lmao #but she is so like Katara in most other ways #especially her stubbornness #anyways I’ll stop yapping now

[bunnybunbunny]

Fluffy little zutara sketches !!

#I have never drawn zutara before and I decided to change that today #Here they are #My babies!! #Zuko #Katara #Zutara #Atla #Avatar the last Airbender #atla fanart #They're not perfect but this is my first time drawing atla characters so #I'll have to draw them more often I love them

[ok-boomerang]

what casual viewers take away from ATLA

My partner finally watched ATLA with me, and I kept mum about my Zutara shipping until the very end because I wanted to see his reaction.

When Zuko saved Katara from being crushed by rocks, he said, “I think they’re gonna get together” (because we’re soulmates 😭❤️).

Then, when Zuko and Mai hugged during the finale, he was legitimately mad. He went off about how the narrative set them up to be terrible for each other and how them getting together made no sense, and how Mai was mean while the whole point of Zuko’s redemption was that he was not. Please know that he didn’t remember Mai’s name and was just calling her “the bored girl.”

And when the KA happened during the finale, he was really confused. (“She clearly didn’t like Aang back!”) But mostly he was still mad about Mai.ko, because he felt it undermined Zuko’s redemption—a redemption he had called since s1, as the narrative made clear even to casual viewers that there was more to Zuko than being a bad guy. This was pretty interesting to me, because at the time KA made me angrier than MZ, because Katara was my priority. But my partner was frustrated that the show had gone to such lengths to show us that Zuko and Mai were wrong for each other and then ended with them together. It’s lazy writing; it’s insulting to your viewers.

I love hearing reactions of the ATLA finale from casual viewers (at least those that I respect lol). It’s one thing for us big fans and shippers to analyze the scenes and storylines but it’s another entirely to see what a casual viewer notices, someone who’ll forget the names of the main characters in a couple weeks but won’t forget how the ending left them unsatisfied, even if they don’t have the words like meta writers do to explain why the canon ships don’t work. What casual viewers do have are understandings of the implicit themes of the show, the major characterizations, the big plot moments—you can’t let the casual viewer be surprised—you can’t merely rely on major fans to pan the show for crumbs, like what one would have to do for any evidence that Katara returned Aang’s feelings. To my partner, Mai was "the bored girl"—that's what stuck out to him from her characterization. But Zuko is anything but indifferent—he is defined by his passion, whether we're talking about s1 Zuko searching for the Avatar or s3 Zuko joining Team Avatar.

Meanwhile, Zuko and Katara’s relationship arc fits the big themes of the show (e.g., harmony and balance between things that seem to be opposites but have much more in common than we realize) so their relationship development is not surprising. It makes narrative sense—it’s natural. It would have made sense to the casual viewer.

This post was inspired by this beautifully titled post, THE DUMPSTER FIRE OF MAI.KO, by @burst-of-iridescent

#anti maiko #anti kataang #zutara #zuko x katara #atla critical #Sure my partner is one person but I respect his opinion especially as a nonshipper and casual fan #Also I asked my partner while writing this if he remembered 'the girl Zuko ended up with' to see what traits he could recall #and he said 'the bored girl? I don't remember her name but I'm sure you could look it up' #I love him #that's right baby i forgot her name #I'm normal about children's cartoons #just like you