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Nikki | ATLA sideblog | 20 | Aang is baby pass it on

[boomer-aangs]

Aang is best boy I don’t know how to break it to y’all

[poodpoopsie]

So an old man meets an old friend with a new face...

[thesmilingknights]

The gaang go to JCPenneys

[oyuna-art]

He's BALD let him have fur

[caara-mia]

[kisaakiya]

Sorry that the BG ain’t interesting I just needed to let them escape my brain

[blackbearcollective]

[electraslight]

some adrininos

btw i have a print of this on my inprnt

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

This downwards angle of aang haunted me waking and sleeping so I colored him for your viewing pleasure

[dukeofdelirium]

Katara never played about her boy, she straight up said she would murder Zuko if he so much as looked at Aang in a way she didn’t like lmfao she was standing on BUSINESS! Queen

[kataangfanartarchive]

Katara and Aang trying ice cream on a date for Kataang Week 2025 — Day 8: Free Day @kataang-week.

Artist: kukapuddin

Commissioned by: schmittypancakes

[bugsandboos]

a compiled list of everything adrien doesn't know about yet

the chat blanc timeline

his father was monarch

his mother was once the peacock miraculous holder

nathalie worked with monarch as mayura

tomoe worked with monarch

he’s (1) reason his father died

he’s the reason his mother died

his mother’s corpse was in his basement

his mother’s videos

ladybug was not injured in the final battle

gabriel’s actual wish

all of what happened to ladybug in the london special

his father left him a letter wanting him to become the next hawkmoth

marinette stole said letter

his mother’s childhood lore

felix’s childhood lore

nathalie’s lore???? (nobody knows this one yet)

he is a sentimonster

his amok is in the twin rings (?)

felix is a sentimonster

kagami is a sentimonster

kagami and felix know they are sentimonsters

kagami and felix know he is a sentimonster

ladybug/marinette knows he is a sentimonster

nathalie knows he is a sentimonster

his girlfriend is ladybug

alix knows his identity

alix knows ladybug’s identity

alya knows ladybug’s identity

ladybug willingly TOLD alya her identity

felix knows ladybug’s identity

kagami knows ladybug’s identity

felix knows monarch’s identity

kagami knows monarch’s identity

ladybug/marinette knows monarch’s identity

nathalie knows monarch’s identity

plagg knows monarch’s identity

tikki knows monarch’s identity

tomoe knows monarch’s identity

ladybug/marinette knows mayura’s identity

the secret he erased from rena’s mind was monarch’s identity

ladybug was in love with chat noir

extra: gabriel/emilie/nathalie throuple

[mysticcheesecakebouquet]

That is a LONG list

[makiruz]

Okay, yeah, I'm watching this video analyzing Zutara, I'm not sure where author is going, but I'm tense, and I realized something: So video is getting to the part where it points out Zuko needs external validation and support, which is true, and that he mostly gets it from Uncle Iroh, but you know who is the secondary source for external validation for Zuko? Aang

Aang is Zuko's biggest supporter besides Uncle Iroh

And come think of it, you know who is the most important person is Katara's arc? Also Aang

Aang is one of the most important people in these two's arcs and the Zutara ship cuts him off entirely. And this isn't just perception, Zutarians often are actively hostile towards Aang, at best they're dismissive of him, and this is definitively saying something that the pacifist that looks the good in people and does his best to help everyone is seen are being in the way

[boomer-aangs]

I wanted to address this but I’m not going to @ the person,

This was posted by a Z*tara shipper, and it honestly exhausted me.

Let’s start at the beginning. The image shows two different images from the show. In the first one, it is Aang marveling at Katara and being flustered over how pretty she looked. But apparently, being flustered when your crush looks cute is “idealizing them.” The second picture is Katara looking exhausted while on the way to find her mother’s killer. Zuko is literally just looking at her. There’s no romantic indication or anything. He literally just is looking at her because he is talking to her. You can interpret this scene how you wish, but don’t use your own personal interpretation as fuel to hate on Aang.

They then say “Aang idealizes Katara. He only sees the surface, and if Katara shows her true self (such as in the ep The Southern Raiders) he tries to make her repress her other emotions because he would like her to be perfect and flawless.”

Several things. One of the things about TSR is that really wasn’t Katara at her true self. She was largely motivated by anger and desire for revenge, and it caused her to say things she normally wouldn’t to the others (namely Sokka). Aang never tries to repress her emotions, however. He just advises her not to choose revenge. This makes sense considering how Aang has seen how she reacted after learning to bloodbend.

Katara is distraught, and Aang and Sokka see her crying over learning bloodbending and go to comfort her. If this was her reaction to learning bloodbending, then what would her reaction to killing a man be, no matter who that man was?

Aang never forces his ideals on Katara. He empathizes with her, due to his own grief and loss, but also tries to tell her that revenge will only hurt her. If he idealized her, he would just agree with every decision she makes.

If Aang was repressing her emotions, he wouldn’t later say to her “I’m not planning on stopping you, you need to take this journey to heal.” and Katara thanks him for understanding. He was a little angry at first, considering Katara and Zuko were just going to steal his companion, but he lets that anger go. But, apparently Aang advising Katara that killing someone won’t solve anything is “repressing her emotions.”

They then continue,

They say this as if Aang doesn’t know how powerful Katara can be. They say this as if he doesn’t respect her as a waterbending master and his teacher. Zuko is having his moment of “Oh whoa” when she is bloodbending a man in her grief in anger (You know, the same ability she was crying over having learned), but Aang also repeatedly recognizes Katara’s abilities.

I think an important thing to note as well is that Zuko was not doing this purely out of selfless wish to help Katara heal. His main motivation was to get on her good side because she was the only one not to forgive him yet. I love Zuko, but I don’t love his actions in this episode. And, Zuko even tells Aang that he was right about what Katara needed.

It is one thing to have interpretations, but it is another to outright ignore canon in order to use interpretations to bash characters and ships. Please learn the difference.

[dukeofdelirium]

Also…

Aang is advising Katara specifically because of what they have been through together. In the Desert episode, Aang literally does kill an animal. When that wasp creature steals Momo, Aang goes after it even after he has gotten Momo back and cuts it down from the sky, implying he just killed it. He shows no emotion besides rage either after doing so. He then finds the sandbenders and it’s very much implied that had Katara not stepped in to stop him, he would have killed one or multiple of them. Why? Because they’ve taken away someone Aang loves, taken away another part of his family, taken away the last connection he has to his deceased people.

That’s why when Katara scoffs and says, “I knew you wouldn’t understand”, Aang stops her and says “Wait, stop! I do understand!”

Katara is obviously not acting like herself because she is consumed with grief and rage, but Aang does speak reason to her. That he does understand her desire for revenge, her desire to kill someone for having harmed her irreparably. Why? CUZ AANG LIVES WITH THAT SAME DESIRE THE ENTIRE SHOW!

It’s not as if Aang’s pacifism is something that has no thought in it. He makes a conscious choice to do so. And we see him wrestle with this rage and grief and desire to hurt others for having hurt him repeatedly throughout the story. But Aang knows who Katara is, because he is her best friend, because she is his confidant in war, and because they both love one another deeply. And that’s why he tells her it like it is. Sometimes being a good friend to someone you love is telling them when they’re going to do something they’ll regret. Just like how Katara did the same when she physically stopped Aang in the Desert, when she talked to him in the Serpents Pass about shutting down, when she disagreed with him in the Avatar State, etc.

She loved him, she knew who he was at his core, and she let him know when she disagreed and when she believed he was doing something he shouldn’t… especially because she couldn’t watch him harm himself, and stated such.

The exact same thing is true in the Southern Raiders. Aang loves Katara, he knows who she is at her core, and he isn’t afraid to let her know that he thinks what she is planning to do (killing her mother’s killer) is ultimately going to harm her in the end. And he was right.

As for that whole passage on Zuko…. I don’t even know what to say. Zuko wasn’t even in the group long enough to deeply learn anything about Katara, nor was he there long enough for either of them to forge a strong unbreakable bond. He never saw her as “motherly” because he literally just wasn’t there. Had he been, Katara would have treated him the same way she treated Toph and Sokka… the one person who never states anything about Katara being “motherly” who was actually in the group longterm is in fact Aang. Because Aang never viewed her as motherly or as filling a mother role in his life… and Katara if we would like to compare also never treats Aang how she treats Toph, Sokka OR Zuko (yes that’s right. I said it).

Even though Zuko is with the group short term, Katara still makes time to treat him like a brother, lol. She teases him exactly as she teases Sokka. Does Katara ever treat Aang like this for comparison? Nope! 🙄🙄🙄

[boomer-aangs]

Couldn’t have said it better!

[woodlaflababab]

Me, holding up the immaculately written friendship arc that provided the base for the themes of the show through their repeated parallels and draw to destiny: "But what if they kissed"

[linuseer]

I'm tired of people defining Aang as this boring little vanilla guy. Aang helped Katara destroy a factory. He participated in Toph's scams. He shrugged off Katara's theft of the waterbending scroll and heartily laughed at her jokes about it. He was delighted by the Painted Lady ruse. He mastered airbending at twelve and the avatar state at thirteen. He snooped around the old ship after Katara said it was booby trapped and dared her to follow and stepped up to take the blame when it went badly and then surrendered himself to protect the village because he knew he could hand everyone on that ship their asses and escape. He outright lied to two communities that had been bickering for a century to get them to stop. He egged on Katara when she decided to throw hands with Pakku. He wants to ride every big animal in the world ("they don't like being ridden but that's what makes it fun" -unhinged take). He has sick burns for everyone which are doubly funny because they're almost always unintended as such. He threw a clandestine dance party in the nation that banned dancing and thought he was dead and wanted him dead. Before that he corrected and argued with teachers, beat a bully without lifting a finger and then brought his teenage friends to pose as his parents. The whole Bonzu Pippipadaleopsicopolis the Third thing. The being idiots with Sokka in Ba Sing Se thing with the bowing and the busboys disguises. He rightfully asked "what's cosmic power compared to a girl". Let's add all the badass stuff he does as a bender and as the Avatar up to and including energybending and the conversation with Koh the Face Stealer. That time in The Chase when he finished the fur trail and then decided to just sit down, sleep deprived, to wait and face whoever it was chasing them. Aang is one of the funniest and coolest characters I've ever seen and he deserves more respect. Absolutely unhinged kid with immense powers and the world is lucky he's goofy and has a good heart.

[nahellet]

A while ago I read about a headcanon about the Air Nomads don't actually have a problem killing people but that Aang was a kid who doesn't know all about his people and that Zuko having traveled to the temples (ignoring of course that his ass wouldn't have the patience to read about Air Nation culture nor would the genocide army would leave much behind mind you) so he would teach and preach to Aang telling him all about his culture

I hate this fandom fanatism on Zuko reaching into practically Xenophobia for the other characters