#atlab.

At his coronation. Some of his surviving crew Start a sea shanty. Coz though he pretends he hates them they know he loves them.

There’s a moment of tense quiet when all the upperclass look at the new fire lord shocked at sutch a scandal. To see what he’ll do, expecting him to be angry . Only for Zuko ( who in his defence is still on a lot of pain meds ) to join in enthusiastically knowing all the words .

If she had been born seeing she would have no reason to learn earth bending like that .

Looking at a well documented and wide known  discipline like earth bending from sutch a different angle comes from necessity.

( real world example. As a dyslexic person . I get my phone to read to me And Wright for me. Coz I cant always do that . Witch is assistive tec originally made for blind people. A lot of people who don’t need that . Don’t even know it’s a thing you can even do with your phone . In college I researched and Wrote a essay Wilst basically being Illiterate Because I HAD TO or I would fail. I found a different way to Wright and read coz I had no choice)

If she had been seeing she would have been strong . But not to the level she is . She would have learnt from a tutor and been told how it was supposed to work. And she would have no reason to question it . Or even meet the badger moles.

But she is blind. The traditional way wasn’t a option. She needed to “see” so she learnt a skill that gave her that ability . She made it work for her . And from that she was able to invent a new discipline and later a new type of bending completely .that even able bodied people thought was impressive.

That my friends is assistive technology.

Was it useful in the context of fighting . Yes.

But it only exists through the needs of a Disabled person trying to function in the world that’s not made for them.

And she probably only made the connection between earth and mettle bending because as a disabled person shes so used to thinking about things from the point of view of . “Ok I can’t do this but I have this and I need to do that “. How can we make this work.

As a kid, Zukos mum encouraged his love for the arts. Zuko loved wrighting and playing music. He would tell her all about how one day one of his songs will be played on stage.

When she disappeared anything that wasn’t war was considered week and somthing to be ashamed of. As a loyal son all his music stuff was packed away . And he stopped going to the theatre .

It was shameful hobby for a prince

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When he was banished he certainly had a lot of time to himself away from his fathers disapproving eye And in the encouraging eye of his uncle. 

He started wrighting again and if he joined music night on the ship . No one commented .

Over three years he filled many notebooks of music . Some of it was just angry venting . But some of it was good .

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In ba seng se he would spend his days off watching the shows by the amateur dramatic groups . If asked he would complain it was a waist of time but he would always watch to the end eyes glued to the stage.

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if his vigilante persona was a character from his Favorite play. No it wasn’t

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When he joined the gang he didn’t realy have time for hobby’s but katara found his notebook when she was snooping through his stuff to “ find proof that he’s still evil”. Zuko found this horribly embarrassing but kataras couldn’t help but find it oddly endearing

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As he started to bond with the group he even began to share his interests.

Him and sukka bonded over there love of poetry .

Toph thought the note book itself was boring. But she bullied him into playing some music on an instrument she found and she had to admit that he was really good.

they all found it amusing to listen to the normaly quiet boy rant about everything wrong with the ember Islend players .

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At his coronation Zuko wasn’t well enugh to do any of the traditional coronation festivity’s , he could barely stand . So the fire nation decided to put on a show in his honner to celibrate the end of the war . So all he had to do was sit still and watch

As ang called it “the ember Islend players the corect way “

Though sukka would deny involvement . One of the performances played on stage sound a lot like one of zukos songs.

It basically would’ve gone down the exact same as the scene from defying gravity in wicked.

And if they ever found out about the musical (I feel like it would’ve been an earth nation musical) they would take great joy in re-enacting that scene and absolutely belting it. ( both are theatre kids)