a simple three-step guide by hama of the southern water tribe
1. start 'em young
s3 katara is a baddie and already a master in her own right. she knows enough to get by WITHOUT having you as a teacher, which is why she was super cool w just Not Bloodbending and then throwing you in jail
s1 katara, on the other hand, took 2 months to learn to wiggle some water and was willing to risk it all stealing a waterbending study guide from literal pirates. homegirl is desperate to learn and is a lot less likely to pass you up when she's been entirely self-taught up to this point and has no other options
2. decelerate the curriculum
don't go from soup-bending to blood in like two days. yes, the full moon is only once a month. still, it is ENTIRELY possible to hold out on making muppets out of men for another four weeks. establishing a good, trustworthy rapport is more important. your student has gotta believe in you as a teacher 100% for you to go all in
3. for the love of La, DON't start with people
self-explanatory. even yakone, one of the baddest bloodbenders out there, started his crazy talented spawn on the local wildlife. people eat animals and it's a delicacy, people eating people is cannibalism and also illegal. bloodbending animals is similarly more digestible
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New tag game: are you a Too Many (Parentheses) ADHD, a Too Many — em dashes — ADHD, a Too; Many; Semicolons; ADHD, or a Too…. Many…. Ellipses… ADHD…?
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Chapters: 14/49 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences In which Kya’s sacrifice—dying in place of the last Southern Bender—drives the North to rejoin the conflict consuming the world, and the Avatar is discovered by the wrong pair of wayward siblings. An AU where getting out of the Fire Nation Palace a handful of years early works wonders on the mental health of certain individuals. Basically a series rewrite where the Water Tribe’s a lot more active and a little more antagonistic, if that’s your cup of tea. Sokka prefers the Ginseng, himself.
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not the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished parallels between Zuko and Katara
katara s1: urges Haru to save Old Man Mine Snitcher, Haru gets taken away by the fire nation army
zuko s2: gives lee the knife thing as a gift, lee gets conscripted by the earth kingdom army
both have a meal with the victim’s family beforehand. both consequences fully affect someone else. both are told about said consequences by the mom of the victim
Just a quick Zuko fan art!
okay yall stand back while i prepare a formal essay on why Prince Zuko and Samwell Tarly are the same character
it's not gonna be good i just wanna draw every parallel i can
time to play my favorite game:
google sleuthing to see if something is actually canon or just a Collective Fandom Consensus™
Okay I’ve seen aus with Jet going to the Boiling Rock after Ba Sing Se and aus where Zuko fights Azula and gets sent to the Boiling Rock, but, consider, both
They both get arrested and Zuko has to explain to Jet that yes, he’s a firebender, and yes he’s the prince of the fire nation, and yes he hunted the avatar across the whole world, but he’s totally good now and Jet has to process that he tried to recruit the literal fire prince into his gang
Zuko gets thrown into the cooler very regularly, almost as much as Jet gets put in solitary, because they rarely last more than ten minutes in the same room before Jet tries to start a brawl. After a while he’s not even angry, it’s just kinda boring in prison and Zuko fights good
Suki recognises Zuko immediately, but after she hears why he’s in prison and watches Jet almost throw him off a ledge several times, she decides to forgive him
Thus starts the weirdest friendship trio ever
They actually work really well together, because Suki supplies the group brain cell, Jet gives them terrible ideas, and Zuko carries them out
The other prisoners and some of the guards quickly recognise that the three most dangerous inmates are teenagers, and now that they’re working together, all they can do is pray. They all end up teaching each other fighting forms they know, and Suki discovers Zuko is a total avatar nerd and thinks Kyoshi was the best avatar since Wan (she approves of his assessment)
Suki plays the ‘you burned down my village’ card exactly once. Jet uses ‘you burned down Suki’s village’ almost daily to get Zuko to do things
Sokka arrives looking for his dad and spots Suki in the yard distracting a guard while Jet keeps watch and Zuko steals his keys. He thinks they’re actually planning a break out, but no, Jet just wanted to fuck with the guards and see if Zuko could melt metal
(They’ve tried escaping, but Suki usually stops them because Jet suggests tying all their blankets together, stealing a messenger hawk and training it to tie the rope to a rock across the boiling lake and climbing across that. Zuko, who has never had a plan beyond ‘break into the maximum security stronghold and go from there’, is 100% on board)
When Hakoda arrives and the other inmates warn him not to piss off the three teenage prisoners, he thinks they’re joking. They’re not. He reevaluates when he sees Jet start a riot in less than ten seconds, Suki kidnap the warden, and Zuko break the gondola lever and jump across a boiling lake
Sokka comes back from his fishing trip with four missing people and no fish
Bonus: Suki: “this is my boyfriend Sokka and his boyfriend Zuko and his boyfriend Jet”
and im out here writing in NOTHING even close to chronological
makes revisions for continuity a bitch and a half, but nothing beats the freedom of slapping down that scene youre super excited for an arc and a half ahead
actually forces me to outline properly, too
Me: This scene is so boring and hard to write.
My brain: Just skip it? Scenes can be written in non-chronological order.
Me: