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life next to the living and a pile of tiny corpses above the dead
she spent most of her youth memorizing him and YET the only time he could see what she saw was in that final moment only to have it all be taken away the next
it’s the way zutara isn’t “it’s us against the world”
it’s zuko going “it’s ME against the world FOR katara”
y’all: zuko can’t stand katara, he wouldn’t give her any agency—
zuko: throws himself at some rocks, at the LITERAL EARTH for katara
thinking about how mikasa does even the simplest things with refined elegance and delicacy. she’s a literal princess