History Characters / TheStalkingZukoSeries

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The author spells his name as "Han," and after realizing the correct spelling, continued with her previous spelling for the sake of consistency.

* GrandeDame

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The Gaang is divided about the righteousness of killing Firelord Ozai. Ultimately both sides had equally valid points, but also unpleasant flaws--Aang killing Ozai would force a child and believed sole survivor of a genocide to betray his people's highest ideals and act as an executioner, but leaving Ozai alive, if not for complete chance, would have destroyed everything the Gaang fought for.
** Aang believes that as a force for good, he should uphold what he sees as moral ideals, and killing is unacceptable if they want to return to a world of peace. This proves valid in ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko'' when Iroh and Zuko discuss how killing Ozai will set a bad precedent when they're trying to portray themselves as rulers of peace and stability and undo the fear of retaliation that Ozai instilled in the people. However, this is brought up because Zuko in particular can't politically afford to be seen as responsible for doing away with his predecessor because there will always be the question of whether he did it to gain power, rather than stability.
** On the opposing side of the argument, the rest of the Gaang take the a more pragmatic stance and believe that Ozai must die ForTheGreaterGood, which proves to be equally valid because if not for a few obscure Fire Nation succession technicalities that Aang didn't know about, Ozai happening to leave evidence of very specific crimes around, and Azula happening to know where it was, Ozai would've thanked Aang for the second chance at life by starting a civil war, turning the peace talks into a cruel joke (thus resuming the first war), and permanently undermining the credibility of his only widely acceptable replacement's strength as a leader in the eyes of his people and the other Nations, thus successfully destabilizing the world yet again--as he ''almost did.''

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler: As Fire Lady, Katara throws herself into human rights and quality of life causes both national and international. Her first major project is ensuring the availability of safe drinking water in all regions of the Fire Nation with plans to make the project global if it succeeds, something that wins her a HundredPercentAdorationRating among the average citizens of the Fire Nation.]]

* StalkerWithACrush[=/=]StalkerWithoutACrush: is a victim of both variants, Katara calls him the most stalkable person ever. He has been stalked by Katara, Jet, Hakoda and the Duke.

* SkilledButNaive: One of his biggest underlying flaws. His power makes him indispensable to the war effort and his idealism is pointed out as a strength, but he's not always the best at seeing the bigger picture, so it can sometimes trip him up. Zuko justifies this by reminding Aang's in-universe critics of the boy's young age. This flaw manifests most obviously after sparing Ozai.

* SkilledButNaive: One of his biggest underlying flaws, which manifests most obviously after sparing Ozai.

* InnocentInnuendo: He mentions that he "went penguin sledding" with Katara back when they first met. It's actually innuendo for [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]], although Aang doesn't understand this.

* SerialKiller: While already established as a cruel man, hints are scattered throughout ''Not Stalking Zuko'' that he was a particularly unstable, obsessive, and sadistic one as well, who enjoyed getting personally involved with causing pain to his victims. [[spoiler:This foreshadows that Ozai didn't just order his inner circle to make people to "disappear," but personally committed some of these "disappearances" himself, and even cut off and kept the topknot bun of every person he'd personally "disappeared," which becomes Zuko's legal grounds to officially revoke his claim to the throne.]]

* QuicklyDemotedWoman: While the Fire Nation was an active threat on the world stage Katara was one of the Water Tribes' greatest warriors and became one of the six great heroes of Team Avatar to end the Hundred Years War. However, once reunited with her tribe she's treated like their maid and is the only one of the six heroes barred from the peace talks because her culture doesn't believe in giving women a voice in such important matters, and actively look down on the other cultures for having female representatives. Pakku sees her distress and suggests she marry either the Avatar or Hahn, the heir of the North, because Water Tribes only accept inter-Water Tribe marriages sans the Avatar and being married to a high status man and influencing others through him is the only way she'd gain influence in their culture. Eventually with Yue's intervention Katara is allowed to be present during the inter-Water Tribes talks, but still not the peace talks.

* QuicklyDemotedWoman: While the Fire Nation was an active threat on the world stage Katara was one of the Water Tribes' greatest warriors and became one of the six great heroes to end the Hundred Years War. However, once reunited with her tribe she's treated like their maid and is the only one of the six war heroes barred from the peace talks because her culture doesn't believe in giving women a voice in such important matters, and actively look down on the other cultures for having female representatives. Pakku sees her distress and suggests she marry either the Avatar or Hahn, the heir of the North, because Water Tribes only accept inter-Water Tribe marriages sans the Avatar and being married to a high status man and influencing others through him is the only way she'd gain influence in their culture. Eventually with Yue's intervention Katara is allowed to be present during the inter-Water Tribes talks, but still not the peace talks.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara defines family and home by people. Not only has she come to see the Gaang as her family, and thus can't imagine the South Pole managing to be her home again without them, but she no longer feels that she fits in among the rest of the Southern Water Tribe due to their non-acceptance of her value as a person. When the war ends and she's no longer needed to fight, her tribe ignores her accomplishments as a war hero and sees no problem with treating her like their maid during their stay at the new Southern Water Tribe embassy in the Fire Nation. Her father doesn't even initially understand why being treated like this offends her and the Southern tribesmen as a whole act like she's hysterical when she becomes upset by it. Katara even describes the idea of returning to the South Pole as filling her with "a thrill of ''fear"''.

* DifferingPrioritiesBreakup: More like "differing ''outlooks'' breakup." Zuko is a passionate and honest person trying his best on a number of serious causes and responsibilities, while Mai is a seemingly disinterested noblewoman who keeps tight control on her emoting. While Mai does care about Zuko, she isn't very understanding of his priorities and concerns and frequently tells him that he's boring and she doesn't care what he thinks or how he feels. On Zuko's side, he often asks more of her than she feels comfortable giving, such as his request that she visit Azula, which blows up in Mai's face. They inevitably break up because there really wasn't much keeping them together other than the perception of being convenient for each other, and even that falls apart pretty quickly due to how dysfunctional they are as a couple.

* MasterPoisoner: It's implied this is how she killed Azulon, she also notes that she could have used her talents to become something else.

* {{Irony}}: Water is the element of change and adaptability, but the Tribes, particularly the North, are so tradition-bound that many of their people have given up trying to change the StatusQuo.

* OutnumberedSibling: Rozin is the only boy in the group of siblings.

* CrazyJealousGuy: This is how others see him, and it's implied there's an element of truth to it. He spends much of his own narrative calling the women he interacts with horrible sexual insults, especially Jin, whom he feels so strongly about that he simply dubs her "Shameless Hussy." Notably, Jin briefly dated Zuko, Jet continues to insist she's still interested in him despite her being the one to end their brief attempt at romance, and her initial demonstration of romantic interest in Zuko is what precipitated the escalation of his insults towards her.

** Aang believes that as a force for good, he should uphold what he sees as moral ideals, and killing is unacceptable if they want to return to a world of peace. This proves valid in ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko'' when Iroh and Zuko discuss how killing Ozai will set a bad precedent when they're trying to portray themselves as rulers of peace and stability and undo the fear of retaliation that Ozai instilled in the people. However, this is brought up because Zuko in particular can't politically afford to be seen as responsible for doing away with his predecessor because there will always be the question of whether he did it to gain power, rather than stability. ** On the opposing side of the argument, the rest of the Gaang take the a more pragmatic stance and believe that Ozai must die ForTheGreaterGood, which proves to be equally valid because if not for a few obscure Fire Nation succession technicalities that Aang didn't know about, Ozai happening to leave evidence of very specific crimes around, and Azula happening to know where it was, Ozai would've thanked Aang for the second chance at life by starting a civil war, turning the peace talks into a cruel joke (thus resuming the first war), and permanently undermining the credibility of his only widely acceptable replacement's strength as a leader in the eyes of his people and the other Nations, thus successfully destabilizing the world yet again--as he ''almost did.''

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The Gaang is divided about the righteousness of killing Firelord Ozai. Aang believes that as a force for good, he should uphold what he sees as moral ideals, and killing is unacceptable if they want to return to a world of peace. This proves valid in ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko'' when Iroh and Zuko discuss how killing Ozai will set a bad precedent when they're trying to portray themselves as rulers of peace and stability and undo the fear of retaliation that Ozai instilled in the people. However, this is brought up because Zuko in particular can't politically afford to be seen as responsible for doing away with his predecessor because there will always be the question of whether he did it to gain power, rather than stability. On the opposing side of the argument, the rest of the Gaang take the a more pragmatic stance and believe that Ozai must die ForTheGreaterGood, which proves to be equally valid because if not for a few obscure Fire Nation succession technicalities that Aang didn't know about, Ozai happening to leave evidence of very specific crimes around, and Azula happening to know where it was, Ozai would've thanked Aang for the second chance at life by starting a civil war, turning the peace talks into a cruel joke (thus resuming the first war), and permanently undermining the credibility of his only widely acceptable replacement's strength as a leader in the eyes of his people and the other Nations, thus successfully destabilizing the world yet again--as he ''almost did.'' Ultimately both sides had equally valid points, but also equally valid flaws--Aang killing Ozai would force a child and believed sole survivor of a genocide to betray his people's highest ideals and act as an executioner, but leaving Ozai alive, if not for complete chance, would have destroyed everything the Gaang fought for.

* TheNarrator: Of all three main stories in the series. Each is framed as being told through Katara's [[SecretDiary Secret Diaries]]. The first, ''Stalking Zuko'', comes from a small "stalking journal" that exists solely for the sake of recording all she learns about "Subject" in case he betrays them. She stops writing in this journal after she decides to cease stalking Zuko, and at the start of "Not Stalking Zuko" she purchases a proper diary, having decided that she likes being able to sort out her private thoughts in writing. It's implied that the narratives for both ''Not Stalking Zuko'' and ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko'' come from the contents of this same second diary.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler: As Fire Lady, breaking with tradition. Unlike her predecessors, Katara does not leave all the work to her husband and throws herself into human rights and quality of life causes both national and international. Her first major project is ensuring the availability of safe drinking water in all regions of the Fire Nation with plans to make the project global if it succeeds, something that wins her a HundredPercentAdorationRating among the average citizens of the Fire Nation.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Katara believes Azula and Zuko are similar in their lack of regard for their own safety, as seen in their fight at the Western Air Temple, which nearly resulted in both their deaths.

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