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no more group chats. we meet once a week from now on and everyone prepares 2 personal stories and 3-5 memes and we sit in a circle and have a Socratic seminar covering these topics

when you think about it no wonder they called lucy the valiant, and i don't mean because she went to war. i mean because after the wars were over, she was the one on the battlefield, cordial in hand, tending to the dead and dying. she was the one with so many lives in her hands. she was the one having to make the call about who was gravely injured enough to be healed and who would keep suffering. lucy the valiant. lucy of the fire flowers. lucy of the healing hands. the queen who walked among the dying and tried to bring them back to life. how much must that wear on a person? on a little girl?

really, do you think peter's decree not to carry it into battle often was to spare the cordial, or to spare his sister?

Bro was about to summon Mahoraga at the first episode lol, my boy was done with life from the start.

It's tiring, arguing with foreign dignitaries. Even after replacing the Fire Nation ones to people loyal to him meaning he at least doesn't have to argue with them as well, it's difficult. Chief Hakoda tries to work with him, at least, and the Northern Water Tribe delegation isn't usually actively working against him, but the various Earth Kingdom ambassadors are hell to deal with.

"At least our Kingdoms aren't ruled by insane, child abusing tyrants," one of the more temperamental Earth Kingdom men hisses at the Fire Nation woman he's arguing with. The entire room falls silent. Zuko's head snaps towards the man, gaze intense. Hakoda is already half out of his seat, ready for a possible fight. The servants have frozen. Once the shock wears off, the Fire Nation people look furious. They're proud and loyal people, after all.

Zuko, after taking a few measured breaths, asks, "Are you implying something?"

He doesn't understand how the conversation devolved like this. All he'd done was tell one of the scribes to make a note that he'll need to talk with his ministers about changing something else to the mandatory coursework for the schools. The man had muttered something about the Fire Nation not caring about its children and the woman had taken offence.

"If I may, Your Highness?" the servant next to him, a young girl not much older than him, asks quietly. Zuko nods his consent. "The Fire Nation regards children as gifts from Agni himself. They are to be nourished, loved and protected at all cost. What Ozai did would have led to a civil war, had the greater public ever found out."

"Do not speak on issues you have no knowledge of," the woman who'd originally been arguing added viciously. "Ozai was a cruel and despicable man as were Azulon and Sozin. As were most of the high ranking officers in our military. But they were chosen specifically for their ruthlessness and lack of soul, and do not represent our nation at its core. We are proud and sometimes angry people, but we are also kind and warm."

Listening to someone else watch the original ATLA again, just starting season 3, and there's this line where Aang suggests that it didn't just look like he died, but he DID actually die and Katara brought him back. And look, I don't know much about the lore introduced by TLOK, but this sounds like a really fun place to start an AU inspired by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s take on the temporary death and resurrection of a cyclical chosen one: Aang is brought back to life and is STILL the Avatar, but his temporary death still also causes another Avatar to be born into the Southern Water Tribe (or Swamp People or refugees on some southern island, whatever).

Like, I know the Avatar is a reincarnation thing, but weird things can happen with spirits! Maybe this glitch in the cycle causes the spiritual equivalent of mitosis to happen to the Avatar and the spirit attached to them, so there's just two of them now! Maybe having two Avatars has some spiritual downsides, maybe not, it's up to whatever path you choose to explore in this AU.

I just think it would be really funny for post-canon 21yo Aang (and the Gaang and the White Lotus and all the spiritual / religious orders on the planet) to suddenly be confronted with a 10yo water tribe kid who is ALSO the Avatar.

A water tribe couple shuffle awkwardly up to Sokka, like, "Sooooo... we think our 10 year old daughter might be the Avatar...? She can, uh, bend all the elements and all that. Look at this shit." And Sokka is like, "Fuck, Aang is dead?!" Before he's like, "Wait, I saw Aang last week, this kid is way too old?!" And he has to hastily contact Aang like, "Hey, buddy, you're still alive, right?" And Aang can only reply, "Uhhh, last I checked, yes?!?!"

It's probably Sokka and Katara who put the pieces of the timeline together and figure out what caused this, because all of the other Avatars are probably initially like, "Yeah, I have no idea what's happening here. I'm you and you're me, but I'm also her and she's also me, and you and her are kind of the same person, but you're obviously different people now? Wow! Good luck figuring all that out, kid! You're really going places none of us have gone before! A real groundbreaker!"

Aang, through gritted teeth, "I am really not TRYING to do that, thank you!"

sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

decided to make silly cat versions for the whole avatar team

Anyway Aang is the boy of all time

Dog toy plushies have fundamentally different souls than that of regular plushies. Unlike regular plushies, which are content with just existing (and just go to regular heaven when they get destroyed and don’t mind being resurrected), dog toys seek Valhalla. This is why you don’t need to feel bad when your dog/cat/especially strong bird rips it to shreds, because this was the warriors death they were seeking all their life