First Jetkotara fanart ever and I'm really proud of it 💕
[ID: Looking at the image from left to right: Jet, Zuko and Katara are on a couch relaxing together. Zuko and Jet are sitting close, looking at a copy of Love Amongst the Dragons that Zuko is reading aloud. Katara is lying down looking up at Zuko, with her head on his legs. All of them are wearing a pair of dark trousers in different shades (burgundy, dark brown, dark purple) and a shirt. Katara and Zuko have long untied hair. Jet has his left arm around Zuko's shoulder, his hand on top of Katara's, that is holding Zuko's hand. End ID]
“You killed him?!” Aang shouted. “What about forgiveness? You said-“
“I never said anything!” Katara glared. “Forgiveness may work for you, Aang, but I never said it would for me.”
Aang turned towards Zuko with rage plain on his face. “Zuko, how could you let her?”
Zuko’s eyes narrowed. “I didn’t ‘let her’ do anything. It was her decision.”
“So you’re really okay with Murder?” Aang glared.
“He was a murderer first.” Zuko reminded. “He slaughtered hundreds- thousands even- and you’re really saying things would be better if he were still around? That Katara is just as bad as him?”
“Murder is wrong.” Aang scoffed. “No matter how you justify it-”
“My mother killed my grandfather,” Zuko said gravely.
Aang’s eyes widened. “What does that have to do with anything?”
“It means that women usually have reasons for killing men. And most of the time, those reasons are noble.” Zuko clarified. “But I do find it telling that you think Katara is unable to make her own choices and needs to rely on the permission of a man to justify her actions.”
“I never said-”
“No?” Zuko questioned. “Then why are you asking me about her decisions when Katara has been here this entire time and can speak for herself?”
Hunter would be the perfect guard dog on Christmas Eve though. No one is getting into that room before they‘re authorized to unpack their presents. No. One.
You get up to try and sneak downstairs early in the morning when Camila is still asleep and you just see glowing magenta eyes staring at you from the bottom of the stairs. I'd go back to bed.
happy pride :)
Jet preparing dinner for the 92738382929 Freedom fighters....
I BELIEVE THAT HE WOULD BE A GOOD COOK.
[ID: an image of jet drawn over a real image. He is frying rice and is sautéing it in the shape of a perfect wave. He is looking directly at us, wearing his signature outfit and wheat in mouth with the addition of an apron that says kiss the cook.
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Whenever they have the chance, Ellie and Joel get matching clothes, usually sweatshirts.
The best places to find new ones are remote gift shops that haven't been picked over yet, but they will take anything they can get their hands on, starting a small collection. It's not clear who had the idea first, but they both love it more than they're willing to admit for exactly the same reason - it makes them look like a family, and, more specifically, the package deal they are. They don't actively coordinate their outfits, but if one of them wears a shirt they both have, the other one races to change as soon as they see it.
Everyone else finds it fucking adorable, not that anyone except Tommy would actually be brave enough to say it to their faces, but the people in Jackson like Joel and Ellie more than they know; it's the way they look at each other, really, the bubble of fondness surrounding them wherever they go.
Identical shirts pose one problem though, mostly for Joel. When they're scattered around their house, left on the couch or in his bed, slung over a kitchen chair, it's hard to see what size it is. Ellie loves wearing Joel's shirts, glowing with something adorably childlike whenever she does, but Joel cannot wear hers, and he has gotten stuck in them while trying to pull them on in a hurry more than once.
He complains to Tommy about it (with the biggest fucking smile, and his brother cannot for the life of him take his annoyance seriously), but he still comes up with a solution. After collecting all of their matching shirts, he commandeers their living room and stitches their initials where the clothing tag should be (Ellie hates them, they're itchy, so she cut them off). His embroidery is great, he even makes sure to use the right color schemes, and numb fingertips are worth the crushing hug Ellie gives him afterwards.
(She still steals Joel's shirts, just because she can.)
I just love the moments when Zuko acts younger than his age due to his severely stunted social skills. like when he’s acting like a bratty preschooler while being gently bossed around by iroh in ba sing se or when he’s trying to socialize with the gaang for the first time.
I mean, let’s be real: Zuko has been starving for the attention of his peers for years, and once he gets his first dose of social approval and acceptance on his field trip with aang, he ends up going a bit off the rails chasing the high of Friendship. like he’s trying SO HARD to be Just A Normal Guy here, but he waaaaay overshoots his mark and ends up going all the way back around to “something’s a litttttle off about this dude” again.
I can’t get over how Zuko, when confronted with the mystifying quandary of how to make friends for the first time in his socially-deprived adolescent life, draws an absolute blank and, with no actual hands-on experience to draw from, simply defaults to “imitate Uncle.”
Zuko’s thought process immediately after joining the gaang was clearly: “I really want these people to like me. Uncle would say that I should just be myself and show them the real me. but that will never work!! I’m not likable!!! …but Uncle is. everyone likes Uncle. obvious solution: just be Uncle and everything will be Fine,” and then proceeded to give his best imitation of iroh down to the tea and bad jokes.
Zuko after possibly the world’s worst punchline delivery: “This is great! I’m going to get a good grade in Being Uncle, a thing that is normal to want and possible to achieve!”
“nailed it”
okay but for a split second can we all imagine short zuko? just imagine.
zuko getting upset because the gaang doesn’t find him threatening enough due to his height.
sokka making so many short jokes on him that it’s unbelievable.
azula being taller than her big brother.
iroh being about the same height as zuko and trying to let his nephew know that height is not something to be worried about.
zuko constantly getting mistaken for being younger than he is because he’s the same height that he was when he got his scar.
sokka just picking zuko up and throwing him over his shoulder and zuko being able to do nothing about it because he doesn’t want to hurt sokka with his firebending.
imagine the possibilities of short zuko. please.
Bow before Chieftess Yue and her consort Chief-King Zuko.
Zukos rank is directly below Yue, which was decided by them. Arnook and the council didn't like the idea, since that goes against their culture, but Zuko was raised in a society where gender doesn't determine role. He loves his wonderful, intelligent, determined wife. She's a great leader and Zuko is a good support.