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K*taang fans are such silly geese for trying to parallel the Painted Lady with A.ang's Kuzon persona like first of all y'all are never beating the allegations that you feed off of Zutara scraps and second of all, Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis is RIGHT THERE I mean COME ON
I have this theory that Zuko and Katara are going to be Aang's parents in Netflix's version of the Headband and please please please it would be so fucking funny
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Bryke: Timeline of Blame
Updated in light of recent events
Again, I really want to drive this home.
I made this in October 2019.
They do this all the time I knew where this was headed from the start.
Flashforward to 2026-7 where Bryan and Michael are already having issues with Paramount. Here's to them making a statement about how Paramount fucked them over and obsolving themselves of any blame.
Thier theme song should be It Wasn't Me, but I don't want to offend Shaggy like that.
Meanwhile 2005-2008:
Bryke: YEAH THAT WAS ME
Aaron, Elizabeth and all the other talented writers who made the show what it was today:
My Supernatural Next Generation OCs
Sam and Eileen:
Mary-Jessica Winchester
The oldest daughter of Sam and Eileen Winchester
She wants to become a hunter like her father. A sweet and caring Daddys girl who loves her brothers a lot.
Robert "Bobby" Winchester
Even though Bobby looks like your typical tough boy, he is actually a nerd. He got his grandfather and namesakes temper. He doesn't want to become a hunter, he wants to go to College
Jonathan "John" Winchester
Youngest son of Sam and Eileen
Due to him being the youngest in the family, his older siblings Mary and Bobby were very protective of him. He acts annoyed but loves it actually.
Since he was a child John was fascinated by the Supernatural and wants to be a hunter. He wanted to start a early as 13, but Sam made sure to intervine.
Dean and Castiel:
Jimmy Winchester
He got adopted by Dean and Castiel, after his parents were killed by a demon. This motivated him to become a hunter later in life.
If you hurt his family, especially his younger siblings, you better watch out. Otherwise he is a kind and friendly person.
Charlie Winchester
She's a warrior princess. Badass, tough, Dean's daughter through and through. She is closest to her cousin Bobby snd wants to become a hunter later. Her specialty is her bow and arrow.
Kevin Winchester
He is a calm person and always hated hunting. He only helps research and is closest to Cas.
He pretend to like hunting for a while, because his older siblings did as well. Soon however, he confessed the truth and everyone assured him it was his choice and his choice only.
Bonus:
Sam and Gabriel
Jessie Winchester
Zuko is doing reckless shit, because any excuse to see Katara for a healing session is worth it.
if not secretly fucking why touch thigh ¿
Just to make sure it's safe.
she inspects it very closely after🙏🏻
As his healer, of course.
Zuko: Katara, I am fine.
Katara: You can never be too careful with this Zuko. You should take of your pants now so I can... get a better look at your injury.
Zuko: But I am not injured- Ohhhhhhhhhh
After all Zuko’s years of neglect and lack of love, why do they put him with someone as loving as a poisonous cactus? She never would tell Zuko things she admires in him. She would never tell him she loves him. She would never be affectionate towards him. She never said one nice thing about him as a person the whole series. She only says negative things about him. Hasn’t Zuko had that enough? I don’t understand why they put him with Mai. Of all characters… why Mai? It doesn’t compute.
If I can’t have Zutara, give me Ty lee/ Zuko or Suki/Zuko or Toph/Zuko or just someone who will treat Zuko like he’s a person with feelings/Zuko.
I’m not picky!
I just want him happy and not in an abusive relationship.
Uh, Mai openly admits to caring deeply about Zuko, in about a quarter of the episodes we see her in? They’re shown cuddling and Mai legitimately risked everything to help Zuko escape the Boiling Rock and made things worse for herself by stating that she loves Zuko more than she fears Azula? She’s shown to have liked him since childhood? They show legitimately one of the healthiest Fire Nation relationships we see? Like, go ahead and ship whatever you like, but don’t demonized the canon love interest just because you ship them with someone else?
Lol any abuser can say that they love someone. That doesn’t mean they’re not abusive.
I’m not demonizing it for another ship. It demonized itself and I’m calling the writers out on writing something so horrible.
Mai and Zuko’s relationship is purely physical. There is not one instance in which she is there for him emotionally. Zuko tries to make her happy multiple times. Mai has no respect for Zuko. She never says one good thing about him. She doesn’t understand him nor try to. She disagrees with him standing up against his abusive father. She doesn’t even know who he is other than some kid she ogled at when she was six. Their relationship is shallow and cold.
It’s a paragon for male emotional abuse and people’s defense of it is a classic case of dismissing the severity. I think it’s very sad, knowing and loving some victims of female on male emotional abuse in a romantic relationship myself.
Things we see Mai do: -crushing on him from a young age -cuddling with him on a sofa -comforting him over the fact that he wasn’t invited to a war meeting -having a romantic picnic -staying with him at the beach instead of wandering off somewhere more private -yelling at him for attacking a guy for talking to her -comforting him again when he admits that he’s confused -he left her a fucking letter to let her know he was betraying his country and dumping her, the in-universe equivalent of breaking up over text -she interrogated him in a cell to ask for answers, not out of malice -Mai was raised with the same patriotic propaganda as seen in our glimpses of Fire Nation life, of course she’d hold some sense o patriotism -so basically she had the right to be pissed -you could see tears in her eyes when Zuko left her a second time and locked her in that cell -she helped him escape the Boiling Rock alongside two known companions of her country’s greatest enemy -knowing that she would probably be imprisoned or executed for treason, with legitimately no possible gain unless you count telling off Azula -going out of her way to tell a psycopathic lightning bending princess that she loved Zuko more than she feared her.
Things we don’t see Mai do: -manipulate or attempt to control Zuko in any way shape or form. She’s always upfront with him about their relationship and her feelings during it, and she supports him even to the point of endangering herself
Honestly, I actually ship her with Ty Lee and the relationship felt a bit flat to me, but having witnessed and researched abuse, Mai was far from abusive and I’m a bit offended that you’re trying to sell her as the bad guy when about half of season three is meant to show that people are complex and are more than their base character traits.
I’m very offended that you are trying to show that these very abusive things are not abuse, to be honest. All of those things you named do not negate her abusive behavior. Mai never, ever supports Zuko. She only does the opposite. She’s almost equally manipulative as Azula. Azula manipulates her, but that excuses absolutely nothing, nor does her pompous upbringing. I ship Mai with no one, unless they’re also a horrible person, because as Smoke and Shadow shows us, she’d abuse any partner, as she does her new boyfriend, Kei Lo, in that series.
Things we see Mai do:
• The Awakening: Mai tells Zuko that his abuse is “silly” and refuses to listen to his very real worries and fears about facing his abuser again after three years away. Zuko opens up, and Mai yawns at him, tells him “I just asked if you were cold, I didn’t ask for your whole life story.” Then, Mai leaves him alone outside, visibly distraught over a very real fear. She does not care about his life. She does not care about the past three years she did not see him. All she cares about is that when she was six, she thought he was cute, and he’s the prince, so that’s pretty cool to date him. The Awakening is the first scene in which we, the audience, are show their relationship. The only foresight we are shown is in a half-assed comic strip in a magazine only diehards would know about. In that comic strip, Mai also is set up as a manipulative scheme by Azula to be with Zuko. Mai also throws an ice dagger at his head, and laughs when he tells her that wasn’t okay.
• The Beach: Mai ridicules Zuko the entire beginning of the episode. She scoffs at him when he brings her ice cream, and mocks him. She derides him for giving her a shell. She barks at him at the party and orders him around like a dog. She slaps him by the campfire. She screams at him, encouraging Azula and Ty Lee to shout at him aggressively to open up about his strife until he emotionally cracks.
• Nightmares and Daydreams: Mai only cares about Zuko’s royal perks. Zuko is visibly distressed, and all she cares about is fruit tarts. Mai calls the war meeting “stupid” and reminds him “what happened the last time he went to a war meeting”, shoving his failure and biggest regret in his face. When he tries to open up again, she talks about fruit tarts. Mai kisses him on the couch and cuddles, but all they have is physical things. You are using cuddling as a pro to their relationship, but that has nothing to do with what a real, genuine, loving relationship should entail, which is support, love, understanding, and trust. They have none of that at all whatsoever.
• The Boiling Rock: Mai throws things at Zuko. Mai insults Zuko. Mai does not attempt to understand at all why Zuko left. When he explains, she shuts him down, again. She does not care about his dreams, hopes, beliefs, morals, or goals. All of these things are of exemplary importance to Zuko and integral to his character. Mai is gray morally and cares for nothing. Zuko talks about how he has to save his country, and she calls it a betrayal. This shows, beyond doubt, that she does not even know who Zuko is, nor does she care. Zuko told her she stood up to his abuser. Mai should be proud. He did it in a bad way, of course, but he did it to protect her, and she refuses to understand. She does sacrifice her life for him, but it felt like a last ditch to “convince the audience” she did care because it felt like we were supposed to believe she didn’t.
• Avatar Aang: Mai threatens Zuko with implicit violence to stay in a relationship. I don’t care if it was ~a joke~. Would that be funny if Zuko did it to Mai? Reverse the roles in any of these scenarios, and ask yourself, would you be okay with that portrayal if Zuko was a woman and Mai was a man? I don’t see how anyone could say yes. It’s harder to see abuse through a man’s lens due to the way society has crafted it, but once biases are set aside, this relationship is very disturbing.
(I don’t know how you feel about the comics. I think they’re shit, but if they are of any validity to you, it only paints Maiko in a harsher and more abusive light)
•The Promise: Mai abandons Zuko at his lowest moment when he is suicidal and people are trying to murder him just because he didn’t tell anyone he was so upset and felt he couldn’t confide in anyone and he went to his father because he was so low emotionally.
•The Search: Mai is not there for Zuko the entire heart-aching search for his long lost mother, arguably the most important mission of his entire life to him.
•Smoke and Shadow: Oh boy. Buckle up. There are so, so, so many fucked things Mai does in this, I have written several meta on it explicitly. I’ll try to précis for you. Mai exploits a boy who loves her to get to Zuko. Mai witnesses her father attempt to kill Zuko and his entire family, and lets her father go. Zuko asks Mai upfront if her father is leading the coup that tried to assassinate him, and she lies to his face, saying no, therefore endangering Zuko and his whole family’s lives. Mai knows that her father will stop at nothing to kill Zuko, he told her this, and she still says nothing. Mai defames Zuko the entire time. She says he is a terrible fire lord. She says that he is turning into his father. She slanders his choice in friends. When she is forced to come clean for her little brother’s sake, not Zuko’s, or because she feels guilty or scared for him, she yells at Zuko for not instantly sympathizing with her situation and for being upset. This is the definition and paragon of gaslighting. Zuko should have had her executed for aiding and abetting: treason. She never apologizes once to him, instead: she makes Zuko apologize.
Mai is a horrible person. This would be fine, if the narrative did not try to tell us she was a good person. This is gross, and flawed writing.
Disclaimer: I'm a rabid Zuko stan, he is my favorite character next to Katara. Okay, now that that's out of the way;
So you're telling me that Mai saved all of them, Zuko saw this happen, definitely knew what the consequences would be, and indeed Azula was going to straight up KILL Mai before Ty Lee paralyzed her, we know this because she got into the pose for summoning lightning, but he seems to not even think about her again until that one part of the final episode where she shows up to the palace for his coronation (how did she get in there?).
"Mai! You're okay! They let you out of prison?" BITCH WHO IS "THEY"???? HE IS THE FUCKING FIRE LORD!!!! HE IS THEY!!!!!!! WHO WROTE THIS??????
I'm supposed to buy that he is in love with her when he didn't seem worried about her a single time after she sacrificed herself for them all and then apparently also didn't think of her when they won the war? Didn't think to say "Hey! My girlfriend Mai, someone needs to find out what happened to her and where she is and report back to me immediately! I need to know if she's okay!" and then immediately have her released? Her uncle had to pull some strings???? Not Zuko, who is the Fire Lord, but her uncle the warden?????? And yeah I know he wasn't crowned yet but that's more of a ceremonial thing, he still had the authority.
And yeah I know Zuko had a lot on his plate but this is the girl he's supposed to be IN LOVE WITH, she should be one of his first concerns if you want people to believe he's in love with her.
I'm supposed to think the girl he literally tried to DIE for is just a friend and he feels nothing for her but the girl he is allegedly IN LOVE WITH he basically just left behind to die. He was willing to die for Katara, but was willing to put his concern for Mai's life and wellbeing aside for the sake of the mission.
Obviously, from a doylist perspective I don't think this is what the writers intended, but from a watsonian one, this is the conclusion we are led to.
He chose Katara's life over the mission, over his own life, but he chose the mission and his own life over Mai's life.
And I'm supposed to think he was in love with Mai and felt nothing for Katara.
Bryke you are MORONS.
Zuko be like:
Can you imagine how different the Jet in Ba Sing Se plot would be if Jet, when realising Iroh is a firebender traveling with Zuko, who’s an obviously traumatised teenager with a giant burn mark, assumed Iroh was the one to burn him ??
Like think about it, it would give even more reason why Jet was so obsessed, even when he’s trying to get a fresh start (Ik canon Jet has his reasons too but I think Smellerbee and Longshot would be more willing to help Jet if they think Iroh is actually hurting someone)
Jet thinks hes protecting his crush from an abusive family not realizing hes attacking the part of his family trying to protect his crush from the abusive family
The rise and fall of zutaraanti reveals a disturbing problem within atla's shipping fandom. Antis are happy to drag in real world issues, that affect actual people and exploit them for moral high ground while insulting and invalidating these peoples actual experiences when their ship preference becomes inconvenient to their narrative.
That as long as you're hating the 'right' thing the atla fandom will not only watch you push the envelope deeper and deeper into harassment and racism, but they'll join you, argue for you and happily follow your example right up until you go to far.
All of a sudden, posts disappear, reblogs go away and comments get deleted. The one person left holding the bag gives a shitty, half assed apology that still frames them the victim before disappearing while everyone goes back to acting like they were always against this. And when someone inevitability brings it up two months down the road, those same people will go, that was one bad actor, we don't claim them so it doesn't really count, you zk's have done worse.
And just like that, we end up reprising the role of the villain.
At least until they come back with a new blog, a new pfp and a few more sock puppets to start this song and dance all over. On cue atla fans will manage to suffer a bout of mass amnesia before they watch and inevitably join in again.
All Zukos are equal, but some are more equal than others
This person is truly idiotic enough to say that Zuko and Katara tolerated each other at best... based on a picture of them embracing in a scene where Katara finally forgives Zuko after a whole episode they spent together on a journey proposed by Zuko, which literally allowed Katara to grieve for her mother, and that after their reconciliation they spend almost all their time together, and that at the end Zuko takes a lightning bolt to the chest to protect Katara, with Katara doing everything she can to reach him and heal him, crying when she finally succeeds. BUT THEY JUST TOLERATE EACH OTHER! THEY ABSOLUTELY DID NOT BECOME BEST FRIENDS!
And we need to stop with the "Zuko belongs to such-and-such family" argument when Zuko is literally the complete opposite of his family. He didn't choose to be born into it. And if it had actually mattered, he would never have become friends with the gang and ultimately become part of their little family! I don't understand this bullshit argument. If it really mattered, friendship with the gang wouldn't even be conceivable. It's insane.
And damn it, they don't understand the concept of redemption.
Literally, again, bringing up the fact that he hunted them down as if he hadn't had any redemption is idiotic. REDEMPTION! Do these people even know that word? Again, if it really mattered, he wouldn't have even become friends with the gang. There was redemption. He was forgiven.
Oh, and I think this person would have a stroke if they saw the enemies to lovers. It's a classic trope: enemies hunting each other down, trying to kill each other, one of whom comes from a particularly horrible family, but this character ultimately finds redemption and ends up in a relationship with the heroine. Wake up!
Well foolish me, here I was thinking that one of the core themes of Atla was that it doesn't matter where you come from or who your parents are. What you do with your life and the person YOU become is what's important. And that anyone is capable of doing good and bad no matter their background.
No I guess if you have a few bad apples the whole tree is rotten.
Also so funny how they can say "tolerating each other at best" over a picture of them warmly embracing each other.
Lol imagine being new in the Avatar fandom and just reading the argument that "people ship Katara with her colonizer" and are super confused as to why people ship Katara and Ozai
"The reason people don't ship Kataang is because of the kind of masculinity Aang represents."
I immediately stopped watching that TikTok when I heard that. Aang actually represents the classic hero, classic masculinity on the nice guy side. There's nothing different about him. The entire relationship with Katara was written from a misogynistic point of view to fulfill a childhood fantasy of Bryke's. A self-insert. There's no more classic masculinity than that. Just because Aang is a pacifist, vegetarian child doesn't mean he embodies a different kind of masculinity. You're analyzing the pure surface. It's astounding. Obviously, this opinion came from a man... Aang is such a pacifist that the show never confronts him with the potential problem of this viewpoint when facing Ozai by pulling a magic turtle out of a hat. He doesn't need to make any effort. He's a vegetarian but feels entitled to criticize the food of the Water Tribe or have bones read by Aunt Whu. He kisses Katara multiple times without her consent. He objectifies/idealizes her. He naturally expects her to reciprocate his feelings. He's excessively jealous. He doesn't understand her, as seen in the episode about his mother's killer, etc. Not to mention that he is constantly mothered by Katara, including in the new movie. If there are examples of different kinds of masculinity in this show, it's more Uncle Iroh and Zuko than Aang, honestly. Aang is an attempt at that, I won't deny it. But since he's essentially the self-insert of a complete opposite, the writing doesn't follow. And since Bryke obviously didn't really focus on characters like Iroh or Zuko, there are some truly different forms of masculinity here.
Iroh and Zuko's storyline actually does a lot to deconstruct the construct of masculinity on a thematic level.
This video explains it beautifully.
It's something I thought the show was going to extend to Aang, especially when Iroh has that one scene with Aang, but the show never quite gets there with Aang and instead stops where most Nice Guys stop, at blaming women for their own insecurities as men.
This is why Zuko actually stands out as a champion of unconventional masculinity by the end of the show.
I think people also forget that ATLA was created in the early 2000s. None of the core make up of his character was really groundbreaking in 2003, we were obsessed with the Nice Guy being the hero at the time. So nothing super revolutionary was really going on with Aang, half-assed pacifism aside.
Unfortunate, because it could have. A show where the male protagonist DOESN'T get the girl because he realizes he hasn't really been seeing her this whole time?? THAT would have been awesome
He could still be with her at the end after learning a lesson on letting go of his possessiveness. "If you love someone, let them go and they'll come back to you" sort of thing.
Sure that could work too, though I honestly think at the time, “the hero doesn’t necessarily get the girl just because he wants her” would have been a good message to send to kids.
Yeah, and I'm not trying to fix kataang because I still wouldn't ship it. Just saying they didn't even try.
Ohh your conversations reminds me of my favorite Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The hero didn't get the girl in the end, but other than the villain who wanted to burn her for not reciprocating his feelings, he accepted her choice, valued her friendship and was rewarded with the freedom and acceptance of the people of Paris he longed for his whole life.
And here we are 32 years later and everyone is complaining that Quasimodo and Esmeralda didn't get together.
So apparently criticizing Mai's character makes you a misogynist? People need to stop believing that criticizing a character means hating them (like Aang) or being a misogynist if it's a woman (like Mai).
Zutara fans, maybe we will get more than 3 milliseconds of screen time after all.
For the people that are unaware, some parts of the script got leaked as well. I didn't get the chance to read or save them because they got taken down, but some people saw them
The erasure of Zutaras friendship in the new movie is going to piss me off :/ He takes lightning for her and then they never speak again yay
Well..... maybe..... 👀
So apparently, Azula is responsible for Kya’s death, even thought she was murdered when Azula was EIGHT, and probably didn’t know anything about the water tribes
jesus you Zuko stans have such an inferiority complex, not our fault Azula is more charismatic and brilliant than Zuko
Not what I said, but this is a really great example of how Azula stans will take everything in the most bad faith possible to make their baby seem like the most victimized.
The funniest thing about this is that there are a lot of people who already try to make Zuko responsible for Kya's death, mostly zutara antis, even though canonically Zuko and Katara bonded over both having lost their mothers. Zuko also personally took the opportunity to help get Katara closure for her mother's murder once he realized he had the power to.
The same thing cannot be said of Azula, who resents her mother for trying to teach her right from wrong, and took the opportunity of Ursa's disappearance to mock her brother.
That's another reason why Sokka would not buy into the Azula pity party when it comes to Ursa. Sokka relied on his little sister when his mother died. Azula took the opportunity to mistreat her brother once their mother was no longer around to protect him.
This also reminds me of that time Azula stans tried to say that Sokka would "understand Azula's responsibilities as princess" because of Yue. Sokka would be right to call Azula out if she ever even tried to make that comparison.
Me reading that ask:
