“Who do you think Zuko married then?”: We Need to Get off Our Avatar: The Last Airbender High Horse and Accept the Most Realistic Answer to the Greatest ATLA Mystery

Avatar: The Last Airbender left it's entire fandom wondering about a mystery it created after the show finished airing.

Avatar the Last Airbender and Zuko

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  • After the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko broke up with Mai, putting his daughter's parentage into question.
  • While fans have had some weird speculations, it is most likely that Zuko married some Fire Nation nobility.
  • It is odd that the entirety of Gaang had kids, but not Sokka, who was the most confident with his partner, Suki.
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Avatar: The Legend of Korra gave us a glimpse in the lives of the Gaang after they defeated Fire Lord Ozai. Audiences saw Zuko, Toph, and Katara as members of the old guard who were still fighting the good fight against tyranny and separation. We were also introduced to their children and grandchildren, such as the Fire Lord in Korra’s time, Izumi.

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Fire Lord Izumi as she appears in Avatar: The Legend of Korra

While it was assumed that Zuko would start his family with Mai, the Avatar novels that were set after the main series revealed that the duo had actually broken up. This puts Izumi’s parentage into question, something that fans have a lot of speculations about.

From Ty Lee to Azula (yes, his sister Azula), everyone is on the list

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Ty Lee from Avatar: The Last Airbender || Nicklodeon

A post on The Last Airbender subreddit took it upon itself to figure out who the mother of Zuko’s child was, and the theory ranged from reluctantly plausible to very, very out there.

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While there are a lot of possibilities about who could be Zuko’s partner after he split with Mai, sometimes the best answer is the one that is the most simple. While it might be possible that Zuko had a child with a character of note, it must be remembered that Toph sired two children with two different fathers that no one knows about. It could be a similar case for Zuko.

Zuko was the Fire Lord, and it must be noted that he existed in a system where family mattered a lot. This would mean that there would be a lot of people vying to marry Zuko off to their daughters in a bid to gain power, which would elevate their social status, and also make their child mother to the empire’s heir.

While Zuko, Aang, Katara, and Toph had children, it is odd that Sokka died before he could have any

Sokka in Avatar: The Legend of Korra

The entry of the Gaang had children, who made an appearance in The Legend of Korra. However, it was odd that despite adult Sokka making an appearance in the story, there was no mention of any children that the character might have had. Even Suki was not mentioned in a story that was rife with callbacks to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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While introducing Sokka’s children might have extended the cast a little too much, it is odd that the character died without having any, given the characterization that fans were familiar with over the course of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

While there are some theories that suggest that Bumi, Aang’s eldest son, was actually Sokka’s child whom Katara and Aang adopted in the wake of his death, the official canon suggests that Sokka did not have any progeny to speak of at all.

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Anuraag Chatterjee, Web Content Writer
With a passion for writing fiction and non fiction content, Anuraag is a Media Science graduate with 2 year's experience with Marketing and Content, with 3 published poetry anthologies. Anuraag holds a Bacherlor's degree in Arts with a focus on Communication and Media Studies.