#zeno-zero

I would like to ask a bunch of questions, and these are I have to say:

What do you interpret Azulon's childhood like? Especially with a mostly busy father who's old enough to literally be his great grandfather (who is not even his father), and a mother (who is also not his mother) have may or may not have personal problems with him? Does he have any at least friends or handpicked any friends of nobility for him just like Sozin did? How did Ilah and Azulon took care of Iroh underneath their hands? And lastly, but not the least, did Ilah knew she was gonna die or didn't noticed she was slowly dying till it's visibly clear?

You can answer some of them, and ignore the others dw !! Just very curious.......... methinks............ 💞

HI ZENO HIIII srry it took me so long to answer this 💔💔

i personally interpret Azulon’s childhood to be very very isolated and he also went through unhealthy mental development, (like seeing things he shouldn’t have seen at that young of an age ) but he was also put upon a very high pedestal as Sozin’s only son and heir. i actually do headcanon that Azulon had sisters, although very much older, who he surpassed in the line of succession due to his gender (and some other reasons that I talked abt in my fic)

i do think Azulon had friends, but his social circle was handpicked by wealth and political relevance. most of them were also really just training dummies to build his people skills (aka lying and manipulation), which was encouraged by his mother. as a teenager, he was very emotionally calculated and would use others to benefit himself, sort of like Azula I guess, but worse in the way a lot more people got hurt. he had very few willing friends in adulthood because no one trusted him 😭

the way he and Ilah raised Iroh was sort of….complicated? i guess? Azulon and Ilah had two very different ways of raising children due to cultural differences. (Ilah being from the outer islands and Azulon being from the mainland caldera) He wanted to raise Iroh like he was raised and Ilah was like “why do you want to put our son through a torture ritual . hello.” because obviously her husband is not the greatest example of the benefits of Fire Nation royal child-raising traditions. SO they compromised !! (yay!)

Ilah was the one to handle Iroh’s education up until he was old enough to attend the royal academy, his discipline, and just general like. things a parent should do for their young child. while Azulon was the one to instruct Iroh in politics and necessary “stuff you should know as the crown prince”, and he also hand-picked his firebending teachers. Iroh lived a very much better childhood than that of azulon’s basically

(Rokuuuuuu yehehhshs sorry sorry go on)

Well it depends on what age he is.

He seems pretty old in that image, so I would say not a lot shocks him. For someone as worldly as Roku at that age, you would think he's seen everything.

Then again, Sozin seemed rather elusive in motivation up until the final betrayal. But it's supposed to be surprising; that's why it is a betrayal.

This is a very broad question, so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to answer it. I imagine people acting unlike themselves to him would be shocking?

💓: who initiates most physical contact?

^_^

Roku cares a lot about conduct and being a gentleman so I don't see him suddenly grabbing Sozin, especially in public (to Sozin's chagrin).

Mind you, Sozin cares about public perception too but he's also a romantic, y'know?

If giving Roku *eyes* doesn't work, Sozin will have to initiate. (Roku is too busy thinking about work so this often happens).

I like to think overtime Roku becomes more confident and knowledgeable about Sozin's boundaries and this gap shrinks.

But this is just how I write them. I'm sure everyone has their own different answer.

💚: who tends to get sick more often? who is better at taking care of the other?

Who's who? :3

I'm assuming you're talking about Romin.

Roku has a better immune system because he travels more. Therefore Ta Min contracts illness more frequently.

I would say Roku is better at taking care of her than vice-versa. Simply because he knows how to show love in that way. Ta Min could do it, but she wouldn't relish in it. It would stress her out more than anything. She doesn't want to be responsible for the Avatar's poor recovery after all (but that's one of her duties as his wife). Luckily Roku adores her so he won't give her a hard time about it at least.

Of course!

(I will warn you now, this is going to mostly feature Azula).

5. Azutara (Azula X Katara)

First F/F ship from ATLA I got into. I got a bit bored of Zutara, and decided to try something else... plus, I wanted to understand Azula more. This subfandom has very good writers and fics! Still quite underrated in the larger fandom though.

4. Yuezula (Azula X Yue)

They are cute. I love them dearly. They have more in common than people think. I also quite like Azula X Yue X Katara too.

3. Azulaang (Azula X Aang)

I like bad girl X good boy pairings (although I try to engage with characters beyond their archetypes). While I have grown a bit bored of Azula Redemption fics, its always nice to see her get a happyish ending.

2. Maizula (Azula X Mai)

My kind of thing tbh. I love angst, so they are perfect to me. Most of my favourite tropes happening here.

1.Rozin (Roku X Sozin)

I suppose these two must be number one. They are my current long-term hyper-fixation. Reckoning of Roku pissed me off so badly, it made me brainrot these two for over a year (somehow). I guess I ended up identifying with Sozin a lot in ROR, despite how rushed and compressed his arc was. He winded up getting on my list of all time comfort characters. Really? This MF, brain? *SIGH*, OK FINE. I mean I quite liked him beforehand, but Daddy Issues sealed it for me, ok!

Of course this list will probably change, but this is how I would answer it right now.

Quick question, how long have you been writing for? :]

Hi Zeno!

Thanks for asking.

Any headcannons you wanna share for teen Ozai? ^-^