it's made me strong

Poor thing, she's dying from cringe 😔

doing another atla rewatch and been dying to get back into animating so emo sonboy brooding it is

Zuko, freshly scarred: I had a dream that Uncle and I were clinging to a piece of driftwood for weeks before we ended up at a lovely spa and tended to and all my injuries were healed up

#I think there are explanations other than prophetic dreams but this is funnier#like for example him looking in the mirror and seeing air nomad tattoos is probably#just a manifestation of his anxiety around helping aang and what that means about him#but considering Zuko's grandfather is a former avatar and he later joins aang#that is a very funny dream for him to have#I vote Zuko has been having prophetic dreams this whole time but they involve a lot of symbolism#and he Does NOT do symbolism#so he's just like hm. yeah that was weird#and then when life poetically mirrors his prophetic dreams he doesn't even notice#This never comes up during his life time but some historian eventually uncovers his dream journal and finds it pretty blatantly#predicts every major event from his lifetime and beyond#and it ignites massive debate about how this foreknowledge was affecting his decisions as a head of state#hint: it wasn't (@an-android-in-a-tutu)

#listen not to read too much into the one line about love among the dragons#but zuko definitely knows about poetic symbolism but he doesn't believe in prophetic dreams due to thinking it's old man stuff for his uncle (@rogha)

#zuko thinks the curtains are blue and nothing else#prince ‘…which could mean nothing’ zuko (@averagemrfox)

#apollo throws the dodgeball and it just bounces off zuko @noccolibroccoli)

#Zuko being the spirit’s favored Normal Human (along w Sokka)#and him doing absolutely nothing with it#bc it never strikes him as relevant#(as opposed to Sokka who knows about the spirits but actively chooses to ignore them)#(out of spite and non-belief) (@seaglassdinosaur)

#sokka who had Multiple close encounters with spirits. still thinks they’re total bs#🫱🏽‍🫲🏼#zuko who has prophetic vision and thinks they’re total bs (@aneclecticmoonchild)

#zuko 🤝 sokka#yes I've had encounters with the supernatural no I don't believe in it (@emkini)

#he's that guy#the one who has prophetic visions but also impostor syndrome so he's like 'ugh it's just weird dreams'#'prince zuko have you considered maybe you have a gift--'#'there's only one gifted child in this family and she's a massive pain and also better than me at everything actually' (@aethersea)

Zuko allows this insult to pass with decades of experience. As his body is currently nine, he does this with a certain inherent smugness.

"...Regardless," his little Actual Baby of a sister continues, from her chubby baby face, "you go south and secure our new familial alliance.

"I," she says, lightning sparking from her little fingertips, "will stay here, and discontinue our previous paternal contract."

"...You're just trying to secure the throne for yourself."

"YES I'm trying to secure the throne, you already had a turn, do NOT make me involve mother in this."

As she stamps her tiny foot, Zuko reflects that, perhaps, time traveling into ones' significantly younger bodies may be having some... developmental consequences.

He also reflects that they have a mother. Then he throws back his head, and yells.

#i need them to get into an ugly physical altercation STAT#pleeeaaseee i need them to meet so bad and then i need to munch popcorn while watching what goes down... the potential tHE POTENTIAL#i hate them /aff#man how i wish they weren't one-off quest characters *sigh* i wanna see bhumi and suki and haroo and-

Well. I watched The Serpent's Pass and I am being FED. Now to see how long it takes for these two to get into a swordfight...

They say the Southern Air Mountain is haunted….

zuko: oh, sokka said i’m not allowed to

katara: what?

zuko: i suggested a thing i used to do all the time when uncle and i were on the run. i don’t know why sokka didn’t like it, it’s the simplest scam ever

katara: 

katara:

katara:

katara: do i want to know

toph, earthbending him to the top of the hill away from the rest of the group and then kicking him awake: rise and shine sokka’s asleep let’s go rob some people

1. Straight Up Robbery w Toph

2. Breaking into Ancient Sacred Temple w Aang

3. Breaking In and Out of Prison w Sokka