History FanFic / TheStalkingZukoSeries

** Aang is competent and trained enough to defeat the Firelord with the use of all four elements and the Avatar State, but he isn't a ''master'' in all four. After all he had less than a year to learn his non-native elements: about seven months learning Water, four or five learning Earth, and only a month or two learning Fire. Every one of his masters worked on understanding and working with the nuances of their individual element for years, while Aang had very limited time with each to adjust to feeling and manipulating them. After Aang defeats the Firelord, his education in bending can afford to become more nuanced and less combat-oriented.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHimHer: Katara wonders constantly what draws Zuko to Gloomy Hairbuns (Mai).

** Zuko introduces Katara to guests as "my Katara" three seperate times over the course of Zuko's coronation party. Later, the two discuss how to help guide Aang as he grows up and Zuko offhandedly says the experience will be useful for when they have kids, before [[VerbalBackspace desperately correcting himself and insisting he meant when they have kids in general, not when they have kids with each other]]. Katara also has her moments.

** Like in canon, Aang ignores the advice of all of his friends and past lives and spares Ozai's life after their battle. [[[spoiler:Ozai takes the very next opportunity to try to kill them, nearly succeeding in doing so to Toph. Also, leaving him alive leaves Zuko vulnerable to the political instability of a still-living predecessor who never legally abdicated the throne, meaning rebellious forces have a someone to rally around, and Ozai continues to sneak them orders on how to undermine and assassinate Zuko from prison. Ozai's made very clear that he's going to use every moment he has left in life to further his goals of hurting others and all Aang's decision does is jeopardize the attempts at peace and risk lives.]]

* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: A platonic version between Fat and Zuko, who last saw each other when Zuko was a child.
* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]]: Sokka is seen for Suki as this by the Southern Water Tribe warriors, which actually makes Sokka feel uncomfortable as he feels that they are disrespecting both himself and Suki.

* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See in Her?]]: Katara wonders constantly what draws Zuko to Gloomy Hairbuns (Mai).

** Like in canon, Aang ignores the advice of all of his friends añd past lives and spares Ozai's life after their battle. [[[spoiler:Ozai takes the very next opportunity to try to kill them, nearly succeeding in doing so to Toph. Also, leaving him alive leaves Zuko vulnerable to the political instability of a still-living predecessor who never legally abdicated the throne, meaning rebellious forces have a someone to rally around, and Ozai continues to sneak them orders on how to undermine and assassinate Zuko from prison. Ozai's made very clear that he's going to use every moment he has left in life to further his goals of hurting others and all Aang's decision does is jeopardize the attempts at peace and risk lives.]]

** Early in ''Not Stalking Zuko,'' Katara is stung by a Scoridillo. Aang had time to scare it off with fire before it stung her, but chose airbending because he didn't want to hurt it. The air blast only serves to startle and agitate it further, and it responds by immediately stinging Katara. If Katara hadn't had access to immediate first aid, this could have been a literally fatal flaw in Aang's response. [[spoiler:It also foreshadows the problems that will arise from Aang's decision to spare Ozai.]]

** When Zuko and the rest of the Gaang are trying to help Aang face the fact that the fight with the Firelord willbea duel to the death, Aang tries to use Air Nomad philosophy to try to think out a solution to the problem of Ozai that doesn't involve killing him. In doing so, he effectively uses Air Nomad teachings to victim blame Zuko for his father being a bad person. In summing up Aang's argument to Zuko, Katara writes "the Monks always told [Aang] to meet violence with forgiveness and maybe if Zuko forgave his father, Ozai would be a nicer person and maybe if we were all nice to Ozai, he might see the error of his ways and stop fighting and then the war could end bloodlessly." Unsurprisingly, this offends basically everyone else in the Gaang.

* CovertPervert: Not only does Katara love to watch Zuko shirtless, but secretly her favorite parts from ''Love Amongst the Dragons'' are the heavily implied explicit scenes, which she has reread multiple times.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Jet, after his friends interpret his stalking of "Lee" to mean Jet has a crush on Lee. He continues announcing his non-fat sexuality frequently and often unprompted for the rest of his appearances. The denial is not helped by the fact that almost everything he says to Zuko can be interpreted as a FreudianSlip.

** Zuko introduces Katara to guests as "my Katara" three seperate times over the course of Zuko's coronation party. Later, the two discuss how to help Aang mature as he grows up and Zuko offhandedly says the experience will be useful for when they have kids, before [[VerbalBackspace desperately correcting himself and insisting he meant when they have kids in general, not when they have kids with each other]]. Katara also has her moments.

** Zuko introduces Katara to guests as "my Katara" three seperate times over the course of Zuko's coronation party. Later, the two discuss how to manage Aang as he grows up and Zuko offhandedly says the experience will be useful for when they have kids, before [[VerbalBackspace desperately correcting himself and insisting he meant when they have kids in general, not when they have kids with each other]]. Katara also has her moments.

* FreudianSlip: Zuko introduces Katara to guests as "my Katara" three seperate times over the course of Zuko's coronation party. Later, the two discuss how to manage Aang as he grows up and Zuko offhandedly says the experience will be useful for when they have kids, before [[VerbalBackspace desperately correcting himself and insisting he meant when they have kids in general, not when they have kids with each other]]. Katara also has her moments.

* FreudianSlip: Zuko introduces Katara to Fat as my Katara. Katara also has her moments.

* IgnorantlyInsensitive: Following Katara's and Zuko's return after the Southern Raiders manhunt, Aang persistently and passive-aggressively slips in disapproval about Katara's inability to ''forgive'' into basically every conversation with or in earshot of Katara. Aang is doing this because he genuinely thinks forgiveness is the right choice for Katara and he wants to help her get there, but it comes off as so condescending and self-righteous that he just ends up hurting and infuriating Katara instead.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Almost all of the cast have moments of this, but especially Aang. He genuinely loves and wants the best for his new surrogate family but has enshrined the simplified and idealistic moral teachings the monks taught him in his childhood, so he doesn't understand or respect his family's difference of opinion on how to go about managing their personal problems. In trying to help them overcome personal challenges, he can become very callous and preachy towards their actual feelings.

** Similarly, Aang's particular brand of IgnorantlyInsensitive preachy idealism, insistence that everyone immediately forgive wrongs against them, and denial of the moral nuance involved in justice, healing, and actual forgiveness doesn't mean that the world and those around him actually conform to his standards. By ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko,'' it just means that Aang's friends don't always inform him of the more morally complicated parts of events they're involved in because they don't want to be preached at.

** Similarly, Aang's particular brand of UnintentionallyInsensitive preachy idealism, insistence that everyone immediately forgive wrongs against them, and denial of the moral nuance involved in justice, healing, and actual forgiveness doesn't mean that the world and those around him actually conform to his standards. By ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko,'' it just means that Aang's friends don't always inform him of the more morally complicated parts of events they're involved in because they don't want to be preached at.

** DefeatMeansFriendship: Defied. [[spoiler: Aang expected the Firelord to stop being a bad person and see the error of his ways after Aang spared him. Aang can't understand why Ozai isn't greatful and cooperative now that Aang has defeated him and spared his life. Instead, Aang sparing Ozai means that Ozai continues to have (and take) opportunities to hurt others and destabilize his son's new reign.]]