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I love him, I love him in such an insane amount. Had me on chokehold since 10 years old like goodness me! What the fuck H-E-🏑🏑 !!
Nobody understood his character and that would've been greatly fine with me but the amount of mischaracterizations, misinterepations, and wishes that he's more like Kyoshi has always made me upset. Roku is a good man whose position as an avatar is poor in terms of writing and expanding his story further.
Roku outside of being Aang's mentor and guide - he was nothing more than just being kindhearted, wise, and pleasant while also acknowledging his indecisiveness, and faults. He even has a flawed perspective on the four nations, that the four nations should always be remained seperated, and still. Yet, I still continue to adore him a LOT. He have so much potential, there are rooms that people could always explore his character than just on the surface/visual level. His airbending and waterbending teachers weren't even named in the late 2010's until some informations were finally out !!
The gene yang comics are not my cup of tea but Roku telling Aang that he should end Zuko's life because he couldn't bare the thought of seeing Sozin? WOW. His friendship with Sozin has always mean something to Roku - so much so, he trusted him to the point it was his downfall. The thought of Sozin's redemption after he left him with the rubble is definitely what Roku had in his mind. But we're talking about the conflict between the Avatar and the Fire Lord, never Roku and Sozin.
His bending abilities are fucking awesome too !! Destroyed an entire palace with airbending + avatar state alone? Created a massive wave in one single move that sent his teacher flying up all the way on top of the chief's palace? He can even be quiet and and silently burrow to the ground to suprise attack enemies with earthbending? Lets not forget that the entire island that Roku was in used to be a huge one until he cut it into a cresent island !! There used to be two super volcanoes !! There's only one remaining !! His firebending shown on the show is also interesting! His fire made Zhao's crew literally run away while incinerating thd metal chains that Katara, Sokka, Shyu, and Zuko were wrapped around with,, unharmed. Him simultaneously bending all four elements at once without the use of the avatar state? Gosh,, people underestimate him sooooo much !!
"But Roku died to a volcano! He should've evacuated-" He was minimizing the effects of it! He died as a hero in that night because no other people held power his power just like he has. The citizens and his wife would've died if it weren't for him, because while it isn't explicitly explained in his wiki and show - Lava entering the ocean creates a distinctive set of hazards that have seriously injured or killed unsuspecting people eager to see up close the interaction of hot lava and cool seawater. As hot lava boils cool seawater, a series of chemical and physical reactions create a mixture of condensed, acidic steam, hydrochloric acid gas, and tiny shards of volcanic glass. Blown by wind, this plume creates a noticeable downwind haze, known as "laze" (short for lava haze) <- [From "Lava entering ocean" | U.S Geological Survey - USGS.gov] ||And to also answer the dragon part that died with him? I have no answer for that other than the plot has to move on /or the dragon relies on his orders, and to Roku's dying breath, he would rather stay with him.
And nobody talks about how painful and traumatizing Roku's death is - pyroclastic flow is apart of volcano, he either died burning alive, suffocated, or even buried alive! On the margins of pyroclastic flows, death and serious injury to people and animals may result from burns and inhalation of hot ash and gases. Archaeologists have found that some people perished in a pyroclastic surge, a wave of superheated gas and hot ash that literally boiled their blood and caused their skulls to explode, reports Neel V. Patel at Popular Science. <- [Pyroclastic Flows move fast and destroying everything in their path" | U.S Geological survey] AND ["Mount Vesuvius Boiled Its Victims’ Blood and Caused Their Skulls to Explode" by Jason Delay]
But in a summary, I love Roku and I would die to honor his name. Thank you for reading through all of this. Love you guys !! /platonically
new years shinsailings. new year is my favorite holiday thing ever to be entirely honest. i dont care for other things so it was easy for me to forget to draw things for them but i would never disappoint on NEW YEARS.
basically work skins are how you make this or this or this. you can access them via the skins link in the sidebar menu (top menu on smartphones).
the easiest way to implement them is to use an existing public work skin, which are free for anyone to use. ao3 has a few listed here.
there’s also this guide for making your own work skins but the css section honestly makes the whole thing sound way harder than it actually is. if you don’t already know css or are super basic like me, you could just take code from existing work skins and just modify them to your liking. this is really all you need to know:
text size, color, and type of font
font-size: {insert percentage};
color: {insert hex code};
font-family: {insert font name};
*ao3 only recognizes a limited number of fonts so make sure to always test this out
align text to the center/right or create lines of the same length
text-align: {insert center/right/justify};
background color and border
background: {insert hex code};
border: #px;
*optional: for border, you can choose to have a dashed or dotted line and also manipulate the color (e.g. border: 1px dashed #33aaee; )
make a section only fill up part of the screen:
width: {enter percentage here}
after creating your work skin, all you need to do within your actual fic is put this code around the text you want stylize: <div class=“{insert name of code here}”>fic text</div>
misc notes:
if you want to make two columns of text side-by-side, copy the following blocks of code from my work skin: div.reports, div.columnleft, and div.columnright
for the text message style, copy these codes: div.textto and div.textfrom
always test out how this stuff looks on your smartphone before posting
As I’m sure many of you are aware by now, I have a slight fascination with genetics. I find them so cool and intriguing, like a fun puzzle for me to solve. As such, I’ve recently been trying to figure out the genetic component behind bending in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Here’s what I’ve figured out so far!
A few notes:
Within the ATLA universe, bending seems to have both a genetic and a spiritual component. “Spirituality” is sort of hard to quantify. While it does seem to play somewhat of a role, for this post I am operating under the assumption that bending is mostly genetically linked
This ties into another thing, which is the… sort of? Canon information that all Air Nomads are airbenders. I can’t remember exactly where it was said, but it was said at some point. I am largely ignoring that in this post as well, though I will be giving some reasons as to why most Air Nomads are also airbenders
Sub-bending techniques will also not be discussed. While bending is largely genetic, sub-bending doesn’t seem to follow any kind of pattern of inheritance. Not to mention that some sub-bending techniques can only be developed through external factors (i.e. combustionbending). For simplicity’s sake I am only discussing the 4 main bending types, though if someone wanted to use what I have started to figure out the genetics behind sub-bending, be my guest!
All right, with that out of the way, let’s get into it!
A few quick terms for anyone unfamiliar with genetics:
Gene: A chemical compound that codes for specific proteins in your body that make you… you! Passed from parent to offspring
Allele: An alternate form of a gene. For example, a gene codes for overall eye color, and the alleles for this gene are brown, blue, green, etc. A person can only have two allele per gene, but more than two alleles for a gene may exist in a population
Dominant vs. Recessive: When a dominant allele is present, it hides the presence of the recessive allele so the recessive allele is not expressed, or physically seen
Phenotype vs. Genotype: Phenotype is the physical expression of a gene, whereas genotype is the actual genetic makeup of a gene. Depending on the pattern of inheritance, the phenotype may not express all alleles present in the genotype
The main problem I kept encountering while trying to figure this out was that non-bending parents could produce bending children, AND bending parents could produce non-bending children. This means that bending can’t exactly follow your typical pattern of inheritance, where there is a single dominant and a single recessive allele. If bending is dominant, then two non-benders couldn’t have a bending child. If non-bending is dominant, then two benders couldn’t have a non-bending child.
So now what?
For starters, I worked on figuring out specifically how the different types of bending would work inheritance-wise. I ended up deciding to treat the bending gene in a similar way to how blood-type genetics works, with multiple different alleles and a codominance style of inheritance.
Codominance is when both alleles on a specific gene are expressed at the same time. This is how you get AB blood types. The person has both an A and a B allele, and the two are expressed together.
Now time for my favorite part – the punnett squares!! For this gene, I opted to have 5 different alleles: non-bending, airbending, firebending, waterbending, and earthbending. No type of bending is dominant over another, because all of these alleles can be codominant.
(A punnett square is basically just an easy tool for predicting different gene outcomes of offspring based on their parents’ genes. It can also be used to show all possible allele combinations for a certain gene.)
This gene is referred to as the bending type gene, and I decided to represent it with the letter B. To show what type of bending the allele is for, it also has a dash mark with another letter. For example, airbending is represented with B-A. Five different alleles means twenty-five different possible combinations, which I have right here:
What’s the deal with the highlighted squares? Well, I had to decide which combinations would result in a person actually being able to bend. Genes are what code different proteins in our body, each protein playing an important part in making up our body. This gene, bending type, would specifically code for proteins that… make bending possible. Not chi paths, as I’ll touch on that aspect later, but this gene determines the exact type of bending a person is able to do. Remember, these alleles are codominant, meaning both will be expressed together.
For this gene, I decided that the non-bending allele, B-N, would be an allele that results in no bending protein being developed whatsoever. This is similar to how O blood-type works, as the O allele creates zero antigens in the blood. But, also like the O blood-type allele, if a different allele is present, such as A or B, it is that allele that will be seen in the phenotype as there is still at least one allele coding for a protein. This is how two people with A or B blood types can have a child with an O blood type! And this is also how the bending type gene works. If a person has at least one bending allele, they will be able to bend.
However, there is also the fact that bending types don’t mix. You cannot have someone who is both an earthbender and an airbender, or any combo of bending. (Outside of the Avatar, but their extra bending abilities are a result of having the Avatar Spirit, not genetics). To this end, I decided to get a little bit loose with the rules (because hey, it is a fantasy universe). This is not how this scenario would work out in real life, but it makes enough sense that I think the rule-bending is acceptable.
The body can only code for one type of bending at a time. If you have one bending type allele and one non-bending type allele, you will be able to bend. If you have two bending alleles of the same bending type, you will also be able to bend. But, if you carry bending alleles of two different bending types, you will be a non-bender. This is because the body cannot make two different types of bending proteins, only one.
Effectively, this means there are multiple ways to be a non-bender; though all non-benders will be phenotypically identical regardless of why they can’t bend. The highlighted cells of the above punnet square represent allele combinations that will result in someone being able to bend. Out of 25 possible combinations, only 12 will result in benders, meaning with this specific allele scenario, only 48% of people will be benders.
The reason I chose to go this route is because in order to make this gene work like it would in the real world, I would have to create a dominance hierarchy between the different bending types. Such as, Airbending is dominant to Firebending which is dominant to Waterbending and so on and so forth. But if this were how it worked, that would mean that one type of bending is more dominant than any other type – and that just doesn’t feel right for the ATLA universe.
Another possibility of making this work more like the real world is by making a multi-bending genotype a lethal gene combination. Meaning that zygotes/embryos with a multi-bending genotype will not survive. Honestly this being the case could provide some lore on why the 4 Nations are so segregated by bending type – people would certainly notice that mixed bending families struggle with infertility, as depending on the parents’ genes up to one hundred percent of all gene combinations would result in a non-viable embryo. Perhaps people would notice this and begin to believe it was better to stay with people of their own bending type.
But I’m trying to keep this light, so bending the rules a bit it is! Though people can feel free to use any of these scenarios in their own worldbuilding if they wish.
A quick recap of what’s been covered so far because I can’t stop rambling:
The bending type gene codes for a specific protein that dictates what element a person can bend
There are 5 alleles in the population, with the non-bending allele coding for no bending protein. This makes it functionally recessive but the inheritance pattern is still technically codominant
A person with two different bending type alleles will not be able to bend. Benders result from having two of the same bending type allele or having one bending allele and one non-bending allele
People with different bending type alleles and people with two non-bending alleles will both be non-benders, making them phenotypically identical
Now, there are still a few issues when it comes to inheritance. Although this gene accounts for the different bending elements, it still doesn’t guarantee that our known bending families would work out.
For example, Katara and Sokka have non-bending parents, but one of them is a bender and one of them is a non-bender. If both parents have two non-bending alleles, Katara couldn’t be a bender. It’s highly unlikely either parent would be a non-bender due to having different bending alleles, as the Southern Water Tribe is highly isolated during this time. So how did they get one of each?
To solve this issue, I decided to make the genetics of bending dependent on a linked gene system.
Chromosomes contain all of the genetic material in a cell. Genes mix together during reproduction, creating an embryo with genes from both parents. To do this, the chromosomes are broken apart into tiny chunks. The chunks are pretty random, but genes found closer on a chromosome are more likely to be inherited together. When certain “chunks” of genes are often inherited together, these genes can become linked, meaning they depend on each other for expression. They are still separate genes with separate alleles, but they are linked together and will affect one another. Oftentimes these linked genes code for very similar functions of development, but sometimes not. In humans, the genes for hair color and eye color are linked, which makes certain combinations of these two much more likely, i.e. blonde hair and blue eyes.
So, which genes on the chromosome of an ATLAverse human are linked? Obviously the bending type gene, but the other gene responsible for bending is a gene I’m calling the bending ability gene.
Remember how I said I’d be discussing the concept of chi paths later? Well, this is it! The bending ability gene is what creates chi paths in benders! Although chi is a somewhat… nebulous… concept in the universe, it clearly is at least somewhat physically present in the body because of things like healing and chi-blocking. This gene creates those chi paths, and if you also have genes that give you bending, those chi paths are what are used to physically bend the element you have the genes for.
This gene is a bit simpler, having only two alleles and a basic dominant/recessive inheritance pattern. Here’s the punnett square, with the different alleles being represented by the letters A and a:
Again, it’s a basic dominant/recessive inheritance pattern. The dominant gene is represented by A, and the recessive by a. A represents the allele that codes for bending chi paths, while a represents the allele that does not create bending chi paths. If a dominant gene is present in the genotype, the person will have bending chi paths.
I do believe there are other genes regarding chi paths, as even non-benders have chi and chi paths, but bending ability is a gene that codes specifically for bending chi paths.
So, these two genes are linked. What exactly does this mean?
Well, it means there are now three different ways a person can be a non-bender, although all three ways are phenotypically identical. It also means that bending can be hidden within the phenotype, making bending itself effectively a recessive trait in certain instances.
Let’s break it down a bit more. Here are the genetic requirements for being able to bend:
Must have at least one bending allele on the bending type gene
Bending alleles either have to be identical (homozygous) or expressed only with a non-bending allele (heterozygous)
Must have at least one dominant allele on the bending ability gene
If all those requirements are met, congrats, you can bend! But if even one of those requirements isn’t met, you’ll be a non-bender. I know it seems like I’m making non-bending more common but… actually, I sort of am. Benders are a large focus in the ATLAverse, but if you look at the population of side and background characters, being a non-bender actually seems to be quite common.
Here are a few more worldbuilding/lore points where this gene system makes a lot of sense:
Katara being the only waterbender in her tribe for a generation. Waterbenders were targeted and systemically captured by the Fire Nation, resulting in these very specific gene combinations required to bend being removed from the population. Without benders to pass down these genes, less and less people would carry them, meaning less and less people being benders
An explanation for why almost all Air Nomads are also airbenders. The Air Nomad population is relatively small compared to the other nations, meaning a smaller gene pool and less diversity in the alleles present. This means most likely, the Air Nomads just had a higher presence of bending alleles in their population compared to other nations, resulting in more benders
A way for families to be mixed in both bending ability and bending type, like Aang and Katara’s family
Perhaps even an explanation for the Harmonic Convergence airbenders. Some folks were non-benders due to their bending type gene, some were non-benders due to their bending ability gene. Harmonic Convergence could have possibly edited these alleles, giving the capacity to bend to those carrying an airbending gene, and giving those who already had the capacity to bend a gene that would allow them to bend air
Along this same line, explaining what exactly energybending does to give and take away bending. Energybending is basically gene editing, which I feel even kind of makes sense with the name. Energybending, editing your genes, therefore your energy? Anyone get me? Which further explains how Yakone was able to father two waterbenders despite having his bending taken away. He still had waterbending genes, but his bending ability gene was edited with energybending
Hopefully this all makes sense! I really, really like genetics…
Okay, so we have our two linked genes and know what makes a bender or a nonbender. Time to have some fun with punnett squares to see how these genes would play out in our favorite ATLAverse families!
Here’s how to make a punnett square that predicts the outcomes of multiple genes:
Get the genotypes of our two parents. For this example, I’ll be using Katara and Aang. Include both alleles present for both genes being looked at
Katara: Aa/B-NB-W, and Aang: AA/B-NB-A. I gave Aang homozygous dominant bending ability alleles due to the aforementioned higher presence of bending alleles in the Air Nomad population
Now, we make our gene combos. Either allele for a gene can be inherited, so we make sure to cover all our bases. Because these genes are linked, alleles from both genes will be inherited together, so we essentially predict all possible ways these alleles could be mixed
Make our punnett square and see what combos result!
Katara & Aang, Aa/B-NB-W x AA/B-NB-A
I know this looks a bit chaotic, but it’s easy to interpret once you know what you’re looking for!
From this combination of genes 50% of the offspring would be non-benders, 25% would be airbenders, and 25% would be waterbenders. All the offspring have the capacity to bend due to the presence of an A allele in all combinations, but not all offspring are benders due to the presence of non-bending alleles and multiple bending alleles.
Considering Katara and Aang have one kid of each outcome, this totally checks out! Some of the genes could also be adjusted in this scenario which would increase/decrease certain outcomes, but I felt this one was the most accurate to their family in canon.
One more, just because (god i need new hobbies). This time, let’s go backwards, and try and figure out the genotypes of Hakoda and Kya that would result in two non-benders having both bending and non-bending kids.
Same steps as before! Here’s what I worked out:
Hakoda & Kya, Aa/B-NB-N x aa/B-NB-W
From this gene combination, only 25% of offspring would be able to bend. The other 75% would be non-benders. Again, I personally feel this is an accurate representation. Katara was a rarity in her tribe at the time.
Again, these allele combos could be changed to increase or decrease the amount of benders or non-benders, depending on your preference. I’m just providing examples so hopefully anyone who reads this will be confident in making their own bending punnett squares!
I’ve worked out punnett squares for all sorts of families and ships, but I’ll stop here. I will say that one of the drawbacks for this scenario is that if you want non-benders to have bending children, the non-bending parents cannot be non-benders in the same way.
What this means is that if both parents are non-benders because they have recessive bending ability alleles, none of their children will be able to bend, no matter what alleles they have for their bending type gene. The reverse is true as well; if both parents are non-benders for having two non-bending alleles on the bending type gene, it doesn’t matter what alleles they have for bending ability. I don’t think this is a very huge limit, but it is something to keep in mind if you’re wanting to work within the scenario I’ve established.
And… there we have it! This has been such a fun little side project to work on, and I hope I was able to explain my thoughts in an understandable way! If you have any thoughts or questions don’t hesitate to comment or shoot me an ask, or if you just want to see me making punnett squares for your favorite families!
Been thinking about an AU where Zuko is Korra’s firebending teacher, and he initially has a hard time opening up to and connecting with her due to his grief about Aang’s passing.
(aka Pearlrose from Steven Universe but make it Zukaang)
Out of all fandoms, I don't think I've ever seen a fandom like the Avatar Legends fandom that's hellbent on downscaling their own characters.
"Oh, the characters aren't superhuman!"
But you've seen them jump way higher than prime Michael Jordan?
"There must be less gravity!"
We've literally seen the characters dodge lightning several times and Iroh literally caught actual lightning.
"Every lightning feat must involve slow lightning, making Iroh's lightning feat an outlier because human beings can't catch lightning in real life."
They've survived being burned, hit in the head with rocks, and falling from crazy heights.
"Ignore it."
Kyoshi literally split an island, Kuruk sunk an island, Aang fought a villain with the strength to hold up a mountain, and Korra literally stopped a nuke that had the destructive capacity to TEAR A HOLE IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE!
Don't know if this is a hot take or not but the widespread agreement that Rangi is really mean all the time (when she really isn't) is both based on the oversimplification of her character in memes and sketches as well as the stereotype that lesbians are really aggressive, leading to people overplaying her anger and ignoring the aspect of kindness and loyalty that is really defining for her character actually.
One of my biggest point of criticism on the Kyoshi novels, specifically the second one, is that it doesn't really do as good of a job at utilizing and fleshing out it's side characters or even just making them fill the roles they are technically meant to fill in the narrative.
(!!Long post ahead!!)
In the first book it's kind of done well, with how Yun was being mentioned by Kyoshi as a pint of reference for what she could or should be like as the avatar. This gradually lessens because she finds more security in who she is both as a person and in her role as the avatar. But you never really forget that Yun exists fully. Because there's typically some trace of him mentioned somewhere. Until he shows up again near the end.
(even though I have to admit that also felt kind of sudden, but it makes sense in this scenario because Kyoshi was for more or less moving on from him slowly. Just for him to come back and essentially create a crack in this new security.)
But in the second book the flying opera company is not mentioned at all until they just ... Show up in the fight against Yun?
The reader, or at least I, completely forgets they existed or at the very least was wondering where they were throughout the story, because they are essentially never mentioned aside from the very start of the book where Kyoshi sees lek in a criminal (I think at least). It's not really done very well in my opinion. One of mentions would have made this better. Kyoshi reminding herself or being reminded by Jinpa to write to her friends. Mentions of then writing her. Her thinking about them whenever she's training their respective elements and so on.
It would have overall made their reappearance seem just a tad bit more natural.
But the people who have it worst in my opinion are both Kelsang and Rangi.
Kelsang because he is hardly mentioned after he dies and thus pushes Kyoshi to run away. He is not an influence on her decision making. Not a sore spot Kyoshi ever addresses. Not someone Hei-ran ever speaks about. Not someone Yun ever mentions.
His death should hold much more narrative weight than it does. He himself should hold more narrative weight than it does. Being raise by a kind air nomad should make Kyoshi more critical of violence. I would have at least liked a mention of him when Kyoshi is confronted with the decision of killing the governor. Like she is stuck between an old mentor and a new one. I think that that would have made him feel like he actually shaped her character and moral compass.
But Rangi has it even worse. Because despite apparently being a driving force in Koyshi's life that strongly influences her decisions, do her feelings hardly hold any weight. It does not matter if she is upset at Kyoshi because she will just forgive her anyway. This was mainly proven by the noodle scene, which was very funny and cute, but also showed that Kyoshi didn't really have to fear any long lasting dislike from Rangi's side because Rangi simply loves her too much.
While Rangi's loyalty is a bit part of her character and the scene was admittedly very cute, I think it would have worked better if it was split in the middle with the mother and son scene in the middle (the one where she threatens to kill one of them to get them to admit that they know where Yun is).
This way it would show how Rangi's rejection of Koyshi's plans actually affected her mentally as well as stretching the period of time that Rangi is allowed to harbor bad feelings about Kyoshi.
Especially because Rangi forgiving Kyoshi just to be blind sighted immediately after undermines Rangi's position not just in Kyoshi's life but also in their relationship as vastly insuperior. It gives off the feeling that Kyoshi just does whatever she wants and that Rangi just ... Forgives her no matter what she does, which is not what the narrative is trying to convey necessarily.
Also I think that even after the conclusion of the noodle scene, the same vibe that Rangi is still noticeably mad at Kyoshi but still does her job because she's loyal should have been pulled out further and later resolved in an actual talk we get to witness instead of everything just going back to normal.
This way it would be made more clear that Rangi actually holds narrative weight in the story instead of just being there as a plot device that has to be written out whenever Kyoshi has to make a morally grey decision.
Also just let Rangi be slightly more morally grey overall.
Tags: Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Fluff, Zuko Loves Aang (Avatar), Aang Loves Zuko (Avatar), Zuko is not a baker by all means but he baked that egg custard tart with so much love and that means so much to Aang, Mostly Aang-centric (Avatar), Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, ⬅️ They're KINDA ooc but idgaf!! It's free will!!!
Notes: This is very much a gift for @biconickyoshi! I love their 600k Zukaang on-going bible, and I love constantly thinking about it. While I'm very much dreaded for their "The Day of the Black Sun" coverage, I hope this fanfiction not only reaches out to them but to also every Zukaanger out there in the wild! <3
Tags: Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Fluff, Zuko Loves Aang (Avatar), Aang Loves Zuko (Avatar), Zuko is not a baker by all means but he baked that egg custard tart with so much love and that means so much to Aang, Mostly Aang-centric (Avatar), Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, ⬅️ They're KINDA ooc but idgaf!! It's free will!!!
Notes: This is very much a gift for @biconickyoshi! I love their 600k Zukaang on-going bible, and I love constantly thinking about it. While I'm very much dreaded for their "The Day of the Black Sun" coverage, I hope this fanfiction not only reaches out to them but to also every Zukaanger out there in the wild! <3
TikTok comments about Zutara piss me off so much because they just intentionally miss the point of why people ship them.
“We saw kataang happening from a mile away” yeah but when people argue Zutara should’ve been canon they were wanting that to be subverted. Have Aang grow out of his crush and have them grow to be friends instead (Which imo would’ve made a greater impact on the story)
“Katara hates Zuko” followed by any scene before the end of ‘southern raiders’ “see!” Like first of all that’s the point of enemies to lovers but also you can’t just ignore everything that happened after that episode and then get mad because people aren’t sticking to canon.
*Shows a bunch of Zuko ships for an edit/animation*
people in the comments: “Hell yeah and no Zutara” If you hate the ship that much why are you bringing them up in comments that have nothing to do with them????
Follow up from that, when people want to use the “Zutara is a coloniser x colonised ship” but then Zukka, Jetko, Jinko or just any other ship that involves him and someone from outside the fire nation. Like if you don’t like the ship because of the perceived “coloniser x colonised” that’s genuinely fine. I personally don’t think that description fits Zutara but obviously everyone’s different and could see that dynamic and get put off by it. But if you’re going around just using that argument to put down the ship you don’t like while ignoring how that could also apply to ships you do like, that’s such a red flag.
I have more I could say but those are the main ones I see/are the most annoying for me personally. People just need to get more comfortable with saying they just don’t like a ship instead of acting like they’re on some moral high ground.
Do you have any Flying Opera Company headcanons? ^_^
Yeah I do (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
(I'm really sorry about this post taking longer. I'm just kinda really bad at thinking of multiple headcanons at once sadly so these collections will always take slightly longer)
I like to think that all of their fighting styles/techniques/strategies are influenced by different aspects of opera. Like Lao Ge is acting (deceiving his opponents to think he's weaker and more uncoordinated than he actually is) Wong is dancing (moving really gracefully while earthbending, kind of like we see with Kyoshi) and Kirima is more like the gymnastic figures [I hope you know what I mean] that may be incorporated into the act (like we see her do a complicated move once and I think she twists and turns in strange ways to confuse her opponents. No receipts for this one just kind of intuition). Lek hasn't quite found his niche just yet. At the moment I think he kind of resembles someone more so from the backstage crew, working from the outside to ensure the play goes well? But I'm unsure.
Lao Ge is their mentor but in a secretive and manipulative way. He makes sure they don't get themselves killed by pulling strings in the background but never actually taking charge over them openly.
They 100% see both Rangi and Jinpa as their sworn sister/brother but don't say it out loud because they know Rangi would flip a table or something (hehe)
I think they are like all really good at just slipping into different personalities/disguises on the fly. Probably have a chest of costumes somewhere. It was one of the first things they taught Kyoshi, Rangi and Jinpa (and maybe also Hei-Ran and Atuat) after the plot was over.
They probably have at least a few performances planned and ready to perform if someone were to question their identity. It's not really needed anymore after the novels because they kind of work for the avatar but they still insist because it's tradition.
They probably had to perform one of them once. Rangi refused to participate because it's stupid and had to be persuaded with the fact that her not doing so could lead to trouble (and kyoshi getting harmed). She had to be a tree because she lacked passion.
When they first met Hei-Ran they tried convincing her that they were related to Kyoshi by blood (Rangi found out and tried to fight then for it but wasn't allowed to leave the bed)
I do think that they refer to each other as brother/sister occasionally which freaks people (Hei-Ran and bystanders) out
They don't visit Leks grave because they wish to keep the location secret but they do sometimes throw pebbles that would have been good for his slingshot into the woods or a body of water while thinking of him.
This turned out to be more than I was expecting to write. Hope you enjoy (◕ᴗ◕✿)
