Chapters: 7/60 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Azula/Katara (Avatar), Azula & Mai & Ty Lee (Avatar), Azula & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Azula (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Ozai (Avatar), Ursa (Avatar), Lu Ten (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Gran Gran Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Teen Romance, Found Family, Fluff and Angst, Hurt Azula (Avatar), Blood and Injury, Mental Health Issues, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fix-It of Sorts, slightly OOC, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Secret identity/ Secret benefactor Azula, Double agent Azula, Altered motivations, Alternate Character Interpretation, Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Allies To Lovers, Calculated self harm, sacrificial behaviour, Bad Parent Ozai (Avatar), Bad Parent Ursa (Avatar), Complex Family Dynamics, complex sibling dynamics, Azula is a tactical genius, Protective Zuko (Avatar), Protective Katara, Mai and Ty Lee are trying to keep her alive, Nobody knows Azula is helping them, The Gang thinks Azula is a monster but she’s actually their shield, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, no beta we die like men, Fuck AI, Ty Lee low key thinks Azula is suicidal, you can take these em dashes from my dead body Summary:

In the Fire Nation Palace, love is a conditional currency, and perfection is the only shield against a tyrant's wrath.Trapped in a psychological cold war against her father, Azula makes a desperate choice to survive: she will keep the Avatar alive from the shadows, sabotage her own war machines, and walk an impossible political tightrope. But playing the villain perfectly means being hated by the very people she is bleeding to protect—especially a fierce Waterbender named Katara.

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Writers choose whose stories get told, who will be shown in a sympathetic light and who will inevitably be redeemed. This doesn’t even have to do with a character’s inherent characteristics—because it will always be up to the writer what this character chooses.

That’s probably why I’m so against the hate for Azula. We got to see little to nothing about who this character actually is and only who she is in relation to others. Iroh is a good example of writers bias—being a literal fire Nation war lord and likely causing the death of so many Earth Kingdom soldiers and Fire Nation soldiers…and he is represented to the audience as a fully redeemed character, utterly incapable of repeating his past because he realised his mistakes?

I guess I just hate how Azula is never given the same courtesy…Ursa wasn’t negligent because she was going through a hard time, Iroh became a good person so his sins are actually forgotten, and Zuko decided to be good obviously!

While, Ursa’s negligence shouldn’t be forgotten just because she was a victim too, Iroh became a good man but that doesn’t remove the past and Zuko was given up to three years before he even considered changing.

Bruh why is writing fanfiction just creating motivation for me to draw??

Anyhow, if anyone wants to read a fic that’s basically Azula secretly helping the Gaang and still being a badass bitch;

Vapour by Nohomobro666