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Hi ! prompt idea : What if Zuko was armed during the first episode and was stranded with the water tribe while the avatar left with Katara and Sokka, Iroh on his trail for white lotus reasons.
Oh we are going to have us some FUN with "stranded with the water tribe", say no more.
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Zuko was dripping, and steaming, and staring down two dozen women and their gaggle of small children, plus that old not-the-Avatar crone from earlier. They were all cowering away from him. Which was--
Good. It was good. If they were cowering, then they hadn’t noticed how steam was not flames. He wasn’t sure he could make flames, not after the arctic water he’d landed in, with that last sight of the Avatar glowing; not after surfacing under the ice pack, after swimming, after kicking slamming breaking through and his ship was gone and there was only ocean all around and
and he’d made it back to this pathetic little camp of the Southern Water Tribe, because that was the only place he knew for sure would have shelter, and he wasn’t going to die just because they were all staring at him, even if felt like he would.
Even if the old not-the-Avatar woman could probably take him, right now. But she didn’t know that.
Zuko pulled himself up, taller than her by at least a few inches, and blew steam from his nose.
“I am commandeering one of your huts,” he said. And added, because Uncle said even a prince should be gracious: “You may choose which one.”
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She choose her own.

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Just made myself so so sad thinking about Aang's marble trick because from a physics perspective, keeping dense spherical objects afloat on an airstream is not trivial, and he's doing it in a tiny little space without moving his hands. Bending is usually very gestural. So. Everyone in the era of the show is, at best, impressed THAT it is airbending. But Aang's an incredibly young master airbender. He wouldn't be acting like this was the bestest trick ever if it didn't take at least some skill; he's a goofy kid but he's also a prodigy. I bet other airbenders were absolutely blown away (pun fully intended) at the level of precision and force and minimalism of movement on display and now there's no one who understands at all why he expects accolades.
Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it
This flashback in ATLA, Azulon becoming enraged with Ozai for disrespecting Iroh and the recently deceased Lu Ten, is usually interpreted as Azulon then ordering Ozai to kill Zuko. I disagree with this for two reasons. 1: We don’t actually hear Azulon say that, it’s only referred to by Azula (who was around seven or eight at the time and might have misunderstood what she heard) and by Ozai, years later, when he is taunting Zuko on the Day of Black Sun. Neither Azula nor Ozai are reliable narrators. 2: Azulon is, at the time of this flashback, the ruler of the Fire Nation who has just lost one of his only two grandsons and heirs. What kind of monarch loses one heir and then turns around and demands the death of another, especially when losing Zuko would hardly bother Ozai? My interpretation of this situation is Azulon ordered Ozai to give Zuko into Iroh’s care, replacing Lu Ten as Iroh’s heir, neatly removing any argument Ozai had about Iroh’s line having ended. Ozai of course would never accept this. He either lied to Ursa, claiming Azulon wished Zuko dead, or outright told his wife he’d kill Zuko before seeing him get ahead of him in the line of succession, thus manipulating Ursa to help him assassinate Azulon. I think this theory makes far more logical sense than ‘Azulon ordered the murder of his nine-year-old grandson’.
#also I get the feeling that while Azulon was#not a nice person#he also wasn’t Evil#like#he was probably a bad dad but a great grandpa sort of thing#so he would have liked Zuko plenty and not want to kill him because who kills a kid they like?
It’s not even a question of being a good grandpa, he could hate his grandkids and it doesn’t matter – he’s a ruler who successfully held an empire together. He knows the value of heirs. Close relatives within a stable line of succession are inherently valuable no matter their likeability or even basic competence. If an heir is not actively trying to kill you or other people in the line of succession, they are too valuable to just kill off. It’s a basic question of stability. Zuko’s death would put the entire fate of the empire on Azula’s survival; the last grandchild dies and boom, civil war, end of the royal family, potentially even the collapse of the Fire Nation if it’s not sorted swiftly enough. It just would not make sense for a competent leader (Azulon seems competent, Ozai is definitely not) to weaken an already fragile line of succession through something so stupid and petty.
Having Iroh instead adopt Zuko is a much more reasonable response to this, whether he’s emotionally attached to his family or not. In this scene, Ozai is declaring himself an unstable and untrustworthy element in the family. They’ve just lost the heir, it’s at a critical point in a long war, the crown prince is away and grieving and this brat is trying to take advantage of his grief and the family instability to start shit for a personal power grab. He’s showing he has either no understanding or no care about the stability of the line, no sense of diplomacy or emotional awareness or restraint (he’s approaching his dad about usurping his brother while the man’s grieving for his newly dead son, nobody with any sense of diplomacy would have even tried this), and no respect.
Ozai is not a man who can be trusted to head a stable royal family or stable empire, and now Azulon needs to worry if this idiot will kill his own brother for the crown, or start a civil war after Azulon’s death based ont he logic of Iroh having no heirs. Giving Ozai’s eldest to Iroh solves the potential stability problem before it starts and has the added benefit of shutting Ozai up. Maybe Azulon likes Iroh and/or Zuko, maybe he doesn’t; that doesn’t affect the sensible decision here. In both cases, killing Zuko is a terrible choice and having Iroh adopt him is a good one.
Also given how things go in the main storyline (idr if they ever say exactly how far this flashback is but it seems like Zuko is in the 10-ish range so we’re gonna say 6 years), in like half a decade Ozai fucks up the Fire Nation so severely that world spirits are intervening, he’s tried to mulch his main heir and while he gives Azula the (now defunct and worthless) title of Fire Lord, it’s not a good move as a father OR leader. 14-year-old Azula, barely holding it together after the closest things she had to friends openly turned against her, immediately cracks under the pressure. It’s the exact opposite of what she needs, it’s bad for the Fire Nation (shit’s on fire and she’s ‘banished’ dozens of people in like a day and a half), etc.
Ozai never managed a major military victory and in fact the only time we see him not at the Caldera palace (I don’t think he’s even in an Ember Island flashback, that was Iroh) is when he’s flying off to set shit on fire - flashy, yes, but the actual strategic value is unclear. Nobody likes him! Nobody respects him! He commands fear and pretty much nothing else!
I’m not trying to do a full essay here (need more research for one thing) but my point is if that was the case Azulon was completely correct and justified in believing Ozai to be an unstable and deleterious element because that’s exactly what he is.
Ozai based his rule entirely around personal (firebending) power and capacity for violence, because that’s the only sphere in which he stood a chance of competing with his brother. (Even then, only a chance - he never would have challenged the Dragon of the West to an Agni Kai.)
Personal kickassery, and personal fear, is a terrible basis on which to try running an empire! There is a group size where it simply stops mattering, because no matter how good your firebending is, it can’t let you teleport across the continent to be directly involved in every situation. You have to delegate. The Fire Nation has the infrastructure for this already in place. But…Ozai gets to pick his generals, governors, and so on.
And Ozai’s delegates are people who rise high in his personal “violence is the only thing that matters” court. And, often, people who saw what he did to his own heir apparent, and thus are way more afraid of what happens if they tell Ozai something he doesn’t want to hear than of…any problems that actually exist, until the point of total collapse if that.
Ozai’s big win move was burning the whole Earth Kingdom. It did not occur to him, apparently, to wonder where the victors would be getting their food from next year. (It’s also evil to do, but rulers usually don’t care much about that.) And no one said, “Hey, uh, dead peasants and scorched earth fields can’t pay taxes,” because they were more afraid of him than of apocalyptic famine.
I think this is the first time I’ve drawn zuko?!

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i'm going to delete this fucking document before i finish writing it so have what was supposed to be the intro to my pirate!zukka fic that is giving me a headache; as a treat 🥰
Everything starts on a random, unassuming, and sunny Thursday afternoon.
He’s strolling through Caldera, hood securely pulled up over his head to avoid recognition, both by the guards who are undoubtedly looking for him and the citizens of the town. He’s supposed to be in the palace square, there’s a hanging scheduled for today, but Zuko’s never been very interested in the…fanfare of it all. The announcement of all the crimes committed, the rich and snooty cheering along as his fa—Ozai reads about their crimes and eggs the crowd on with his propensity for dramatics, the executioner lazily sharpening his axe or checking the knots on the rope—whichever form of death Lord Ozai had decided would be more befitting for that particular pirate on that particular day.
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i know we all go crazy for the prince and the fool but i also really go crazy for "Sokka was brave enough to do something stupid for someone else, but he needed you, Zuko, to remind him that being brave can mean failing. Your experience with failure and your refusal to give up helped Sokka when he needed it most. And maybe you needed a bit of his foolhardy spirit to remind you that you are human too and that trying to do the honorable thing doesn't always mean doing the right thing."
what if we started romanticizing divorce

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sorry I dont get how u could hate the Raava/Vaatu storyline its literally "inside you there are 2 kites one is a mean lesbian the other is an evil gay man" what else do you want