#zutara parallels

[gemgirl28]

Do you think Song and Jin were meant to set up Zutara?

Hello my dear!

I don't think that was the creators intent (at least not Bryke) BUT from a narrative perspective, absolutely yes.

Let's start with Song, the girl who treated Iroh and brought them home for a hot, home cooked meal. THEN she tries to bond with him over her own scars from the Fire Nation, and reaches out to touch his, and

Meanwhile, Katara and Zuko had fought several times by the time they were in the Crystal Catacombs (with her kicking his ass for a bunch of those), and yet they not only bond over the trauma of losing their mothers, but then

Like why would you let your enemy touch your face but not an innocent bystander if not setting up for Zutara?

And then there's Jin. Before I REALLY was shipping Zutara, I thought Jinko was hecka cute. Like that was the first time we saw him just... be a teenager. Especially compared to some of the sadder parts of that episode, I loved it.

BUT specifically compared to Katara, let's talk about dinner, where Zuko, clearly on a date, screams at their server.

And then, when the Gaang meets up with Jun again to try and find Aang and she sees Zuko and Katara together again...

Definitely a lot of parallels that could have been used to set up a Zutara endgame.

(And now I'm thinking about a Zutara date where he has flashbacks to his date with Jin and grimaces and tells Katara about it and then he panics like "Should I tell my date about a previous date I was on?" But Katara just laughs because he's cute and awkward. Also when he confesses she was the first girl he let touch his scar she falls a little more for him).

#I just love them #zutara #zutara parallels #thanks for the ask dear! #the distraction is very helpful #wingchunwaterbender #my asks #zuko #katara #jin #song

[helloimamistake]

#zutara #zuko x katara #zuko and katara #atla #atla katara #atla zuko #the parallels is in fact there

[alphinias]

oh the things they don’t know yet 🤭

#need a s3 just for this I’m so serious #I need the full parallel #zutara #zutaraedit #zuko #zukoedit #katara #kataraedit #atla #atlaedit #natla #natlaedit #my gifs

[colduaire]

#sameenergy

#natla #you do see what I see? #pro-zutara #avatar netflix #avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko #katara #bridgerton #anthony bridgerton #kate sharmer #parallels #zuko and athony #the men that you are #I cannot go through this again #enemies to lovers #no one is doing it like them #find the difference between these two

[johnskleats]

hey so do you guys remember how zuko was deemed worthy and blessed with the true nature of fire by the guardians of light themselves and became 100x the firebender he was after, with a newfound understanding and oneness with his element

kind of like how katara handled the moon and ocean spirit with her own hands and was blessed with unmatched waterbending power and oneness with her element and also spirit water but get this, also the healing ability to bring someone back from certain death

y'all remember that

#zutara #the parallels never end #i 100% hc that katara was blessed singularly by the spirits and that is why she went from struggling to THRIVING in her mastery #able to bloodbend on her first try ffs #katara and zuko have a degree if spirituality that a@ng ironically does not have. he is religious #but they are spiritual #and take bending seriously as a sacred gift not meant to be raken lightly #unlike someone

[ihatehomework]

i can explain why zutara DOES NOT work because of maths. all anyone ever talks about is how they have so many parallels. fire/water, banished/respected, painted lady/blue spirit etc. "nono that only makes them a better couple" guys parallel lines never meet. they dont intersect. AKA THEY ARENT TOGETHER. AND LIKE IF WE WERE TO COMPARE ZUTATA TO ZUKKA YOU CAN SEE ZUKKAS BETTER

older brothers, prodigy sisters - similarities

fire/water, bender/non bender - differences

its a healthy balance smh

#zukka #sokka x zuko #atla #avatar last airbender #avatar the last airbender #anti zutara #parallels #it just makes sense

[pinklotusemoji]

still thinking about this…. absolutely crazy …..

#imagine ur ship having a mother mary holding her dead son parallel 😭 #i’m gonna be honest tho if it was like one of my fav toxic ships i would be eating it up #but it just doesn’t work for kat@ang bc it just highlights the mother role katara is forced into #idk! #avatar the last airbender #atla #zutara #bc that’s my audience that is where my loyalties lie

[miss-sweetea-pie]

cAvE oF tWo lOvErS/oMa aNd sHu wErE aBoUt k.AtAaNg

Shhh Don’t worry babe they color coded it for you…

#zutara #anti kataang #basically i smell cap whenever someone says omashu was not a parallel to zutara #idk what this is #I just find it funny it’s color coded #and people still want denied it #like it’s literally enemies to lovers??

[lilith-91]

Love how the yin-yang couple we actually see in the series are the moon and ocean spirits, and not the conflicting opposites of Western clichés <3

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #kataang #anti zutara #tui and la #beautiful episode #parallels

[eponastory]

Huh?

Okay, okay... so let's talk about this random person on the internet who no one asked for your opinion.

First oft, there really isn't any Aang and Ozai parallels. They are both bad fathers, but Ozai has a lot more than just 'bad' father qualities. As I've explained before, Ozai is a narcissistic sociopath. Complete opposite of Aang.

Aang just plays favorites with his children... it's still not a good thing, but it's not as bad as pitting your children against each other for your personal goals. Aang was more focused on Tenzin (have I ever said how much I adore Tenzin? He's like Best Dad next to Zuko) because he is an airbender. Thus, Aang put all the attention on the child that had the most in common with him. Lots of fathers do this.

Ozai literally burned his own son to teach him a lesson. Then, he manipulated his daughter by using Zuko as a point of contention for her. I really don't see the parallels that this person is referring to. If anything, it's Zuko and Aang that have SOME parallels. Their journeys intersect quite a bit.

But I really don't know what this person is going on about...

I think this person is just reaching or only saw one post about said topic that was far off the actual premise. But I don't think anyone here agrees with the post.

#parallels? what parallels... #unless im dumb and dont see it #zutara #anti anti zutara

[theotterpenguin]

what’s your take on zutara being “you’re the wind, i’m in the water”. i’ve heard k@t@@ngs saying it’s clearly about their ship bc their elements are air and water but isn’t that a very surface level of understanding of the lyrics?

anon, i adore you for this ask because i love chemtrails over the country club (and lana's music in general).

i'm not surprised that people would try to apply this song to katara and aang because yes, at a surface level it's relevant to them for obvious reasons (water vs. wind), but i agree that the lyrics have far more depth than this.

first, we have to look at the context of the lyrics within the song. "you're in the wind, i'm in the water" presents a romanticized view of the separation of two lovers, just as the two elements brush past each other but never become one. this theme of separation is seen throughout the rest of the song as lana contrasts the privileged bubble of suburbia with the harsh reality of society, the darkness lurking behind a beautiful front.

likewise, zuko and katara have similar character arcs that revolve around an awakening to the harsh truths of society. zuko learns that the beauty and the power of the fire nation is just a facade, hiding the extreme cruelty of its colonialism and imperalism that has hurt all people (which goes hand-in-hand with zuko unlearning the abuse from his father, the personification of the fire nation itself). katara's arc involves a similar type of awakening, as she unlearns some of the dichotomous thinking she's held around the fire nation. her experiences with jet, hama, the sexism of the northern water tribe, the fire nation village in the painted lady, and even zuko show her the complexities of the war and teach her that people aren't always as simple as "good" or "evil." essentially, both zuko and katara undergo parallel character arcs that fundamentally change their worldview, reflective of the theme of chemtrails over the country club.

additionally, the "wind" and "water" that symbolize the separation of the two lovers in the song is also reminiscent of zuko and katara's journey - the two characters that have been pitted against each other from the beginning of the show, their opposing goals of protecting the avatar vs. capturing the avatar, daughter of the chieftain of the southern water tribe vs. prince of the fire nation, and the two characters that end every season finale in an climactic fight scene (first on opposing sides, then on the same side). and if you want an even more bittersweet perspective, there's also the fact that they are doomed by the narrative, two lovers who never end up together in this lifetime, fated to be separated.

if we want to look further into the song, i've also seen the lyric "nobody's son, nobody's daughter" being superficially applied to aang and katara as they have both experienced loss, but again, in the context of the actual show, it's katara and zuko who are repeatedly paralleled with this connection of losing their mothers and being separated from their fathers. katara discusses her grief over losing kya with haru, jet, and aang, but it's only her and zuko's connection over this that carries actual narrative weight in the story. and katara is the only person that zuko discusses the loss of his mother with. so it only makes sense that all of these narrative parallels culminate in the southern raiders, an episode vital to katara's character arc in which zuko is a crucial supporting character. you could also argue this ties in with the overall theme of separation in the song - being separated from your parentage and having to forge your own path.

finally, as a fun little addition, one of the other lyrics in the song is "my moon's in leo, my cancer is sun." and hmm, who are the two characters we typically associate with the moon and sun? (hint: "you rise with the moon, i rise with the sun"). but wait - it goes even deeper than that. i am most definitely not an expert on zodiac signs, but according to some basic googling, leo (a fire element) is typically ruled by the sun, while cancer (a water element) is typically ruled by the moon. by switching up what elements we typically associate with the signs, lana is reflecting on the duality and the unpredictability of herself like how she reflects on the duality of society earlier in the song. and similarly, zuko and katara undergo dual character arcs bound by elemental symbolism. despite being a waterbender, katara also personifies the element of fire - the element of passion, power, and will - as she stands up against injustice and refuses to back down from a fight. and despite being a firebender, zuko's arc also personifies the element of water - the element of change and adaptability - as zuko's perception of himself, his father, and the fire nation changes over time. they are both water and fire, both moon and sun, both yin and yang.

#zutara #zuko x katara #zutara analysis #atla #my post #my meta #anti kataang #kataang critical #my asks #i'm sorry this took so long to answer anon! #writing this post almost convinced me lana wrote this song for zutara #i think it just goes to show how well written zuko and katara's parallel character arcs were #i've seen many a tiktok bashing zutara shippers for posting zuko and katara to these lyrics and arguing that k//ataang fits better #and ugh... it's just such a superficial analysis to compare just based on the elements of wind and water

[sokkastyles]

Poetic cinema.

#zutara #the parallels! #the lashing out in anger at someone who's trying to help because you can't let your guard down enough to be hurt again #the terrifying vulnerability

[the-badger-mole]

Are there times where you're glad they never made Zutara canon?

Every time I revisit the comics and LoK. If that's how Bryke treated the couple they actually liked, I can't imagine how they'd butcher Zutatra. Of course, I like to believe that somewhere there is a universe where Bryke were humble enough to step aside and let the story move the way it wanted to, and that version of Zutara is absolutely gorgeous.

#atla #zutara #canon in my heart #and in a parallel universe #THE YEAR OF CONTENT!!!!

[yourhighness6]

Zutara needs to stop being Rory x Jess coded right now because Zutara is the OTP ever but I like viscerally hate Rory x Jess. Like. Jess and Zuko both work for their uncle who owns some sort of food industry business. Both their dads are shitheads and their moms were absent. Both give big city boy vibes. And then Katara and Rory are both the super talented slight overachiever types. They're both mamas girls with absent fathers. I hate this so much and I'm sad I noticed it.

#team paris forever honestly #zutara #anti rory x jess #I love when a good ship parallels another good ship but when it parallels a bad ship get so mad #atla #Gilmore girls #emmie babbles #this probably makes no sense to anyone but me #choosing to believe rory x jess is actually jetara coded to soothe the soul

[colduaire]

ENEMIES TO LOVERS, here we come!

#gordon and lizzy #giving off azula and aang energy #this is perfect #look at them pretending to hate each other #zutara parallels each other #azulaang #zutara #atla #natla #avatar netflix #avatar the last airbender #azula #aang #katara #zuko

[johnskleats]

can y'all IMAGINE zuko's reaction if he were a@ng's teacher during the katara burn incident

can you imagine

*if zuko had been there, it wouldn't have happened because he's very visible proof of what fire can do, BUT

IMAGINE.

#he'd lose his damn mind #zutara #zuko validating katara having justified frustration? #zuko acknowledging katara's fear and pain? #this is also in the beautiful world where katara healed her burns but they scarred over #so interesting for the narrative #zuko with intentional burns from malice and katara with accidental burns from negiligence #different abuse with the same outcome #fascinating #i am not saying a@ng burning katara was explicitly abusive however he does go on to manipulate and gaslight her later in the narrative #and the parallels and contrasts between zuko's feelings of fear obligation and respect towards ozai are soooo tasty when paired against #katara's fear obligation respect for a@ng #fear as in acknowledgement of power #delicious