Current Events > If one Avatar: TLA character was gay, which one do you think it'd be?

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Roku and Sozin are right there. Sure they weren't alive during TLA but they're important.

ROBANN_88 posted...

She's like 8 or something in the show

She's 12 when she's introduced.

Zuko is yaoi bait for the fujo fans.

asdf8562 posted...

I mean...you chose Zuko....

Zuko being gay in the super homophobic Fire Nation fits his characterization of being the biggest, unluckiest motherfucker in creation

pegusus123456 posted...

Zuko being gay in the super homophobic Fire Nation fits his characterization of being the biggest, unluckiest motherfucker in creation

I don't recall there being any blatant homophobia in the show, anywhere
You're gonna have to explain that one

ROBANN_88 posted...

I don't recall there being any blatant homophobia in the show, anywhere
You're gonna have to explain that one

It's all there in the manual. That is to say, literally from the canon TTRPG manual. Plus a little bit from Kya, Aang's lesbian daughter.

As you'd probably expect, Air Nomads are super chill about both sexuality and gender identity, freely accepting any and all.

The Water Tribes differ a bit between the North and South. They sooooort of accept same-sex relationships (it's rare that you're kicked out for being gay), but it's custom to keep personal matters private and keep your sexuality to yourself. The Southern Water Tribe is naturally the more progressive of the two, the Yangchen novels having a married male couple a few centuries before Aang's time. It was post-Korra that Desna and Eska of the Northern Tribe decreed that gender would not limit marriage and they received pushback for it. Both the North and the South tend to shun trans and nonbinary people.

The Earth Kingdom is regressive as a whole, but it's such a large, fractured country that there are areas where it's seen as completely normal. Going by the wiki, it almost seems like they were more accepting of gender identity than sexuality; it mentions that same-sex attraction isn't viewed very well, but it only lists examples of gender nonconformists who found acceptance there.

The Fire Nation under Sozin, Azulon, and Ozai's rule is the worst about it. As I mentioned once ITT, same-sex marriage used to be legal, but Sozin outlawed homosexuality because he hated his lesbian sister. And not just in the "you can't get married" sense, you would be arrested for it. We can probably assume Zuko ended these laws when he rose to power.

Well my respect for Sozin just plummeted.

LeCh0nk posted...

Well my respect for Sozin just plummeted.

you suddenly lost respect for the genocidal power-mad maniac?

It makes sense for the strong nationalist stance of the Fire Nation. They would be pushing for families, for more fire nation children. When you have such a government they are against things that could in their eyes bring forth less children, less potential fire nation soldiers.

I could see the same thing with the Earth Nation during war time. Less that they would be anti-LGBT and more that they would push for more children during war time, except in Ba Sing Se as there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

ROBANN_88 posted...

you suddenly lost respect for the genocidal power-mad maniac?

I thought the /s didn't need to be said outright.

Kyoshi, she created her own harem of female warriors. Based

LeCh0nk posted...

I thought the /s didn't need to be said outright.

ah, fair play

creativerealms posted...

It makes sense for the strong nationalist stance of the Fire Nation. They would be pushing for families, for more fire nation children. When you have such a government they are against things that could in their eyes bring forth less children, less potential fire nation soldiers.

I don't think there was that much thought put into it, Sozin was just a hater

Seaman_Prime posted...

Kyoshi, she created her own harem of female warriors. Based

She is canonically bi.

The one that says "pipipipi pippipipi" all the time.