Golden (Zutara)

Fanwork
Title:	Golden
Creator:	ZutaraOPM
Date(s):	2020
Medium:	text, art, audio, video
Fandom:	Avatar: The Last Airbender
External Links:	Twitter
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	Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Characters; 1.2 Relationships; 1.3 Tropes & Genres; ; 2 Zine; 3 Fanworks 3.1 Fanart; ; 4 References;

Golden is a collaborative Zutara multimedia Social Media AU created by ZutaraOPM, a group of Filipino Avatar: The Last Airbender fans. It's a 300+ parts threadfic posted on twitter based on ecaworks' Idol AU fanart. ^[1]

It's written by stellardaisies, moon_embers, wondrgrlwannabe, bookinateaspoom and has animation and art by ecaworks and jowanibakugo. The companion zine has even more contributors on the team.

Summary

It’s golden, like daylight. ^[2]

Katara is an indie musician trying to make it big in the industry. Zuko, a producer working for Sozin Entertainment, finds himself in a pickle when his boss rushes him for SE's next big hit. Their whole worlds change when Sokka wingmans them into working together. Secret relationships, siblings antics, Uncle's unsolicited and wrong usage of memes... Golden has it all.

Characters

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Relationships

Many relationships, and how they came to be, are tweaked to fit in the modern au. Though familial relationships mostly remain loyal to canon, like the siblings (Sokka and Katara, Zuko and Azula), the team is a little looser with some of their other background storylines. For example, in Golden, Ozai's relationship with both his children is strained, and Kya and Lu Ten are alive.

The main ships in the story are Zuko/Katara and Sokka/Suki. Briefly, it also includes Sokka/Yue and Jet/Yue.

Tropes & Genres

Zine

Golden also has a for-charity companion zine produced as an in-universe magazine with interviews and articles that show what happened with the characters after the story's end. ZutaraOPM raised PHP25,000.00 (USD524.44) for the Save Our Schools Network (SOS) with the zine and its merch bundles.^[3]

Fanworks

Fanart

“I ibiwgwbe you.” by astriferaas
#zutara month day 6: from another’s POV by @_anyaarts

References

^ ecawork's Idol!ATLA-verse
^ Tweet by ZutaraOPM. Posted December 5, 2020.
^ Tweet by ZutaraOPM, posted May 31, 2021.

[1] work's Idol!ATLA-verse

[2] Tweet by ZutaraOPM. Posted December 5, 2020.

[3] Tweet by ZutaraOPM, posted May 31, 2021.

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