#yon rha

[epic-traveller-23]

i LOOOVVVEDDDDD this scene so much, season three as a whole but this scene is so beautiful. Katara was so immature (obviously, she’s a 14yr old) and cruel and it made her feel so relatable. Aang lost his whole nation but katara still says ‘I knew you wouldn’t understand’, she says this to sokka and it’s such a horrible thing to say to someone, especially your brother, ESPECIALLY when talking about a dead loved one. But she still said it. Because that’s what grief is. Grief is depicted so well in ATLA, sokka and aang express it in deep sorrow and sadness, iroh expresses his grief in change and kindness, zuko is angry and katara and azula are distraught and they lose their composure and lash out and then fall apart. I love this show so much.

Another example is Aang with the sandbenders. He’s completely unreasonable and rude to everyone, but it’s so realistic. I love that they aren’t perfect. I love their flaws.

[beifong-brainrot]

One thing I don't get about the atla fandom is why so many people are so desperate to somehow prove Zuko was a good person from the begining of the show. Or that he was somehow innately better and kinder than any other fire national.

I've seen this point tossed around a lot and I can kinda see where its coming from but like.... guys. Yon Rha did that too. You know the guy who traumatised Katara for life and took her mother? He did it almost word for word.

He went on in there looking for a singular genocide survivor, found that survivor. The survivor gave themselves up after he promised to leave the village alone.

The only difference is that instead of killing Aang on the spot, Zuko took that 12 year old hostage with the goal of handing him over to the Fire Lord to be kept in conditions described as "You'll be kept alive. Barely" by Zhao.

Zuko's paralels to Yon Rha and his poor morals in the begining are crucial to his arc and to his and Katara's relationship.

Hell, you could even point out how similarly shaped the scarlet detailing on the Southern Raiders' helmets and Zuko's scar are.

[assassiowl]

ATLA - Katara confronts Yon Rha I think about this scene a lot. (process video under cut)

[sooz-art]

Once upon a time, once when you were mine

I remember skies mirrored in your eyes.....

-In Your Wildest Dreams by The Moody Blues

@avatar-wtf-weekend Day Two: Yearning

Before Piandao became a legendary sword master, before Yon Rha joined the Southern Raiders, they were just two young men in the army together.

And Piandao had it down bad.

[zuko-always-lies]

Yon Rha vs. Zuko

Yon Rha:

Is looking for bender (Katara). He's looking for the last waterbender (in the SWT)

Raids the Southern Water Tribe/Katara and Sokka's village to find them

Kya sacrifices herself to save the village

Kya is someone Katara cares a lot about

Stops the raid after Kya's sacrifice, because he doesn't really care about anything else.

Zuko:

Is looking for a bender (Aang). He's looking for the last airbender.

Raids the Southern Water Tribe/Katara and Sokka's village to find them

Aang sacrifices himself to save the village

Aang is someone Katara cares a lot about

Stops the raid after Aang'sacrifice, because he doesn't really care about anything else.

The parallels between Zuko and Yon Rha seem too strong to be completely coincidental, but on the other hand if they were intentional you would expect "The Southern Raiders" to include some degree of Zuko reckoning with his past actions, and it doesn't?

[cobraonthecob]

yon rha's narrative luck needs to be examined in a lab because imagine being a raiding military unit's retired captain from a nation that has been colonizing and attacking the rest of the world for over a century, and the only reason why you didn't get killed by someone seeing justice is 1) they're a 14 year old girl 2) you're on a kid's animated show 3) you have a name and face and said animated show is NOT about to show your graphic death in whatever pixel ratio atla runs on 4) it was to parallel the main character's decision NOT to kill the big bad and 5) you have a shit life after retiring from the military unit that the main character feels bad

[die-auster]

ID - ask by @steppenshe-wolf: Your favorite character you don't find physically attractive?

It's this miserable despicable guy Yon Rha.

[sooz-again]

All right, since there was a positive response to me throwing some Jet/Hahn out into the universe, how's everyone feeling about some young Piandao/Yon Rha?