just tryna get a lil serotonin boost

she/her | been on my zutara hyper fixation again

[katara-and-zuko]

We don’t talk enough about the fact Zuko would rather have been crushed by rocks just so Katara wouldn’t have been…

[demaparbat-hp]

Cradled

[xxmilkandsugarxx]

The only universe where they are actually canon lol (well if you close your eyes...) I haven't seen too many people do a crossover so I decided to throw my hat in the ring. ( if you don't know they have the same voice actors/actress!)

[opheliaaesque]

he swooped in SO FAST………………….and he still tried controlling the landing by ensuring the brunt of the impact falls on him……………….leader of the katara protection squad………………

[opheliaaesque]

the thing with zutara is people think their dynamic is just pure heated sexy dark Enemies to Lovers……..no……..they went from enemies (who STILL showed acts of compassion for one another) to allies with lingering tension of belligerence (which you can’t help anyway, considering their history) to FRIENDS (genuine, actual, wholesome friends. a slow, deep friendship) to LOVERS (eventually. inevitably. agonizingly. beautifully)

[desertbcrnnobody]

Look up in Japanese culture what grabbing the wrist means especially over the pulse point.

It's basically intimacy flirting.

Now remember the way Zuko held Katara's wrists in the pirates episode.

I want to explore this further because he had no other reason to do this hold.

He knows she is not a trained waterbender yet.

Zuko your crush is showing.

Again.

[ninsarchive]

[opheliaaesque]

well…….heart just broke….

[charlottebaskerville]

People who are like "zuko is naturally aloof" drive me nuts even outside the context of zutara because be fr do you see how he behaves with mai???? He's so romantic with her and she bitches at him for it all through the beach episode. AND when it comes to zutara, he was the opposite of aloof with katara in season 3. He's incredibly emotional regarding her, consistently. He smiles when she comes into his room. He tells HER he won't let HER down. He waits all night outside her tent, are you serious? Even in season one this guy is constantly screaming about everything what do you MEAN he's "aloof"

[maldeldest]

Zuko is doing reckless shit, because any excuse to see Katara for a healing session is worth it.

[zoeackerwin]

one paintedspirit crumb and i’m running with it

[mayskalih]

one happy cabbage

[opheliaaesque]

there is not enough jealous, petty katara in the world…………….katara who braids HER beads into zuko’s topknot………….katara who ties HER blue sash around zuko’s fire lord robes………..katara who happily disregards fire royalty propriety and clings onto zuko’s elbow and kisses his cheek in front of other noble ladies trying to sweeten him up……………katara who wakes up burrowed in zuko’s arms………who peppers him with morning kisses…………katara who climbs him like a TREE at any opportunity given because that is her god-given right………katara who is his WIFE (like, eventually)

[opheliaaesque]

they look so Kitty here

[opheliaaesque]

me watching the leaked film wallahi

[zukosbangtan]

hate when people assume that i don't like kataang just bc i ship zutara like no even if i didn't like zutara i still would very much dislike kataang. like honestly i would be totally fine with zutara not being canon if kataang wasn't canon either bc for me its not about being bitter that "my ship" wasn't canon i simply don't like what kataang does to katara as a character

[frogdisco2021]

Zuko is canonically a sappy hopeless romantic who enjoys romance stories like Love Amongst The Dragons, we know this because his problem wasn't that his mom would take them to see a gushy romance play but that they did it badly. You don't care about something getting butchered unless you like that thing.

He has trouble expressing himself but tries to make thoughtful gestures and give little gifts to people he cares about to show affection.

Early on when Iroh and he are living in a cave and he's going through one of his Robbing People With Swords phases he steals a fancy tea set for Iroh in a misguided attempt at showing affection.

In another misguided attempt at affection he gives the Earth Kingdom boy his knife.

After struggling the entire night to bond with Jin because he's socially inept he does his cute little gesture of lighting the lanterns and risking outing himself as a firebender because he wants to make her happy. And then gives her a coupon for a free cup of tea when she clearly wants to kiss him, because he's clueless.

We see this style of showing affection come out with Mai as well except she sneers at it and shuts him down and hurts his feelings about it. He is the kind of sappy bastard whose first instinct on seeing something pretty is "I'm going to give this to my girlfriend :)" but it seems like this is supposed to be showing us that he and Mai aren't a good fit. He tries being sweet and vulnerable and makes little gestures, like seeing a beautiful perfectly intact conch shell and trying to give it to her, and she verbally rolls her eyes at him and hurts his feelings about it.

Later on when he's with the gaang and starting to feel safe being his true self, he's showing them affection in his typical way by making and serving everyone tea (and on a more subtextual level I think this is a way to demonstrate humility to them, since he comes from royalty he's trying to show that he sees them as equals).

He does other kind gestures to show his new affection for them in the forms of leading a prison break with Sokka and taking Katara on a trauma closure (but murder not NOT on the table if she wants) mission and waiting outside her tent all night like a wet dog on her doorstep.

Dude is a piner and a yearner. And you know what, you know who would LOVE IT if Zuko found that seashell and gave it to her and wouldn't turn up her nose at it? A certain waterbender who he acts more in love with than his canon gf.