#katko

[muirneach]

gold for czechia 💙🤍❤️

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

Zutara/Azulaang - Dominant wives

Aang: Hey Zuko, I hear your wife has been quite the controversial authority figure for the Fire Nation. Some love her, some hate her.

Zuko: Yeah, for a waterbender, Katara has the passion of a firebender.

Aang: And you've been acting more like a cool-headed waterbender, you have the lightningbending to prove it. Balance through irony.

Zuko: Yeah. Is...uh...is your wife behaving yourself?

Aang: Well, Azula hasn't zapped me to death twice, as you can see. The Phoenix Queen and I helped Toph construct a metalbending academy. She's like Katara, Toph, and Bumi if they were firebenders.

Zuko: It's still a bit strange to see that side of her, she's been so good at bottling up her emotions for so long, that I just assumed she never had any to begin with.

Aang: You can thank her for opening her chakras and revealing these hidden depths.

Zuko: There are days when our wives teaming up and planning something worries me more than them fighting each other.

Aang: Tell me about it. Together, they are weapons of mass destruction but we can't help loving them anyway and I'll always be grateful that they are getting along.

[frie-ice]

As someone who doesn't like getting involved in ship wars I support both Kataang and Zutara. Katara and Zuko being two of my favourite characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and how the two were originally set to be lovers in one of the earlier plots, I find myself having a soft sport for Zutara. I couldn't settle for six images alone for the collage, so it ended up like this. Its a nice change and reminds me of the Owl House collages I've done of Dadrius and Flapjack.

Their ship is also known as Blutara and Katko.

[badlucksav]

Ever think about how Zuko/Katara ship name could've been Katko

Yes, I have. And while that name is absolutely precious, I’m glad the fandom settled on Zutara.

[tanunigans]

One of my beans, adapted as a demon. Katko

A bastard, loves to prank people and cause trouble THEN make a run for it.

[muirneach]

so about those czexes and their darling chinese third... a timeline

2020/2021

so imagine you're some flop czech tennis player who honestly isn't very good and somehow you start dating this really cool woman. and she's way out of your league. but you're in love! so who cares everything is wonderful :3 also you are an entire nineteen years old. lol. lmfao even. [authors note: i feel like this post from 2020 is kateřina's first soft launch but i genuinely don’t know? could be unrelated. whatever]

KOZERKI OPEN 2022

you're grinding it out on the challenger tour and you beat this random guy in the final of some random polish tournament in august 2022 in a weirdly lopsided three setter. you two are the 5th and 6th seeds and come into the event ranked 160th and 161st in the world. he never makes a challenger final again. whatever. you probably won't see him again.

AUSTRALIA 2024

fast foward to 2024. somehow you and that guy partner up for doubles for australia. you're not super close and both usually play singles but well why not. somehow you run all the way to the semis together.

MARSEILLE 2024

so you stay together and at your second ever event together you win a title. it's both your first ever atp main tour titles!! and now you guys are great friends.

CLAY SEASON AND THE CHANNEL SLAM 2024

clay season is a little rough for you at first but he does like, pretty well. you guys get to the doubles semis in barcelona. before going to roland garros you do beat novak casually at a 250 and this gets you to your first ever singles final, and lose. but suddenly people care about you a little bit! in roland garros and wimbledon you and your best friend both lose in the same rounds in singles. you play doubles though, and get to the quarters at roland garros. you also play mixed doubles with your girlfriend at roland garros and lose first round. she wins the channel slam in womens doubles. you and your girlfriend break up.

PARIS OLYMPICS 2024

it's the olympics now. you and her had signed up to play mixed doubles because luckily you were from the same country. it's a little awkward, but out of pride for your country you stay in the draw.

you're doing singles too, obviously, but you have to meet your best friend in the first round, which sucks. you win in 3, again, but lose next round so what was the point.

but it's okay, cause your now ex girlfriend is so good at doubles that she drags you all the way to the gold medal match. pride for your country.

but the draw once again brings you and your best friend together. he's had a weird olympics too, his partner withdrew last minute and won gold in singles, so now he's with someone he hadn't played with before, but suddenly they're in finals across from you. you win, obviously, his and his partner's luck could only last so long against someone as good as your ex girlfriend. but hey, he wins a medal too.

you and your ex kiss, people speculate if you really broke up or not, you joke about it but she confirms it. rough. but you are a gold medalist.

ASIAN SWING 2024

none of you three do anything big in north american hard court summer. then your best friend gets to his first ever tour level final at a 250, just like you, and also loses. in his home country. where he had hoped to become the second man from his country to win a singles title. at nearly the exact same time as his loss, his compatriot wins a final, also in their home country, making HIM the second man to win a singles title instead. damn.

SHANGHAI 2024

you two go to your best friend's hometown event. he loses in a heartbreaking first round. you play doubles, and also lose first round. it's not like he has to bear his entire country's expectations or anything.

however you upset a top three player in singles and get to your first masters semi. in his hometown. and he's the first thing you mention post-win, via the format of camera writing. tomas <3 partner zzz :^)! you lose that semi, but who cares, it was a great run.

END OF SEASON 2024 -> START OF SEASON 2025.

after a first round exit at the last masters for both of you, the season ends. your ex girlfriend gets the year end number 1 for doubles though, again. new season. united cup. both your countries fumble to the united states. whatever! your ex girlfriend wasn't even playing for your country

AUSTRALIA, AGAIN. 2025

it's australia again. where it all began for you and your friend. he very politely asks you if he can play mixed doubles with your ex girlfriend and you laugh and tell him yes. it's not like you and her were gonna play. they end up losing first round anyways.

he loses first round in singles. you get to the third round but can't beat djokovic again. you still enter in doubles, naturally. but fail to defend your semi finals points by falling third round as well.

and yeah, your ex girlfriend wins another slam in womens doubles. she's still better than anyone could dream to be.

and all this time you're just a random czech guy trying to figure out how to make your shorts shorter, which is totally not distracting for either of your doubles partners when you crouch in front of the net or anything.

[muirneach]

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[muirneach]

a few possibilities:

zhizhen, as a married man, thinks the messy situationship of his best friend is really funny and is actively trying to start drama by partnering with his ex

zhizhen, as a married man, is trying to relationship therapist them by spending time with both of them

tomáš asked zhizhen to partner with kateřina so he can hear what she’s up to

kateřina asked zhizhen to partner with her so that she can hear about tomáš

or both of the above for a looney tunes situation

its somehow related to kateřina beating zhizhen and xinyu in the gold medal match (revenge? learning from the greats? who knows. notable to me that he isn’t partnering with xinyu, who is at ao)