Animation, live Action & the real world

Okay! enough time has passed that I can talk about the AUs

1) During the scene where Ursa tries to take Azula and Zuko in the middle of the night but is then taken away. The first AU would be them escaping. I do think this is a fairly common AU trope for ATLA but I’m curious as to how this could be put into a darker ATLA world. But another AU for this (1.5) entails Azula blaming herself for them getting caught cause she yelled that she wanted Ozai. Azula knows she’s the reason they got caught and the reason her mom is gone which she internalized for years and carries with her into the war and Ba Sing Se. (She didn’t know Ozai would do this and she didn’t know her mother would pay the price so now her guilt is stopping her from conquering the city).

2) What if, when Aang is in the Avatar State and about to kill Azula, some of the rocks fired before he could put them all down and Azula got hurt? What if she needed medical assistant and they just so happen to have a healer right there with them? Zuko goes to Azula to try and help her but they need Katara or Aang or someone.

3) Ty Lee’s chi blocking in this season has the ability to stop someone from talking if she chooses. Post war or even during the war, Ty Lee turns on Azula and uses this technique on her, cutting off Azula’s ability to speak. However, because Azula is dealing with so much internal conflict she can’t regain the ability to speak even after the paralysis wears off so (insert character you ship Azula with) offers to be her voice until she gets her voice back.

And it cares for its hunters the same way a mechanic cares for the engine of a beloved car -- the engine itself is beautiful; a belt, worn down and used up, is discarded without a second thought.

- @theofficeghey

I never thought of this but the idea of the honmoon constantly stitching Celine back together hunt after hunt is so terrifying. She doesn’t want to do this anymore. She doesn’t want to be a hunter or fight demons or sing or anything but the Honmoon just puts her back together to the point that the next day she feels fine.

if we were to push this to an extreme, it could even become a cult(ish) thing. from initiation rituals to blood oaths, altars that shine with sweat and pendants around hunters' neck that resemble a cursed connection more than a divine bond with the honmoon.

on another note, this presents a good question. sentient!honmoon, i assume, chooses its hunters consciously, so... why rumi? to make sure gwi ma doesn't use her? is this against the honmoon's will? is it because she can serve it in a deeper way even though it slowly kills her?

and on that note—rumi. would rumi hear the honmoon's threatening thrums in her skull the same way demons would hear gwi ma's? would she have chronic headaches from this? would she go insane? would mira and zoey be privy to the information that she is a half demon? would they react in a much much much worse way than they did in canon?

also imagine this: you're zoey and you want to escape from the hell that is the american high school experience and your parents who are mid-divorce. you are mira and you want to escape from the hell that is your family and the constraints they keep you in. and you both escape! and you are happy and joyful and glad to dedicate your life to something so honourable.

and then you realise what that actually means. and there are days when zoey thinks, shit, i'd pay to go back to my grouchy parents and the awful gut punches from my bullies every day, and there are days when mira thinks, fuck, i'd rather suffer under my parents' roof than under these conditions.

I love the addition of the honmoon now whispering into their ears. A sentient honmoon looks upon the hunters like, as @fakelawyerbug mentioned, tools. Tools that it needs to keep itself intact and the best way to keep them motivated and working is to use fears and doubts to push them forward. If they fail, the world is screwed and so are they so there really is no room for error.

And it cares for its hunters the same way a mechanic cares for the engine of a beloved car -- the engine itself is beautiful; a belt, worn down and used up, is discarded without a second thought.

Mira can’t master this one difficult move?

Zoey’s struggling to think up lyrics?

if we were to push this to an extreme, it could even become a cult(ish) thing. from initiation rituals to blood oaths, altars that shine with sweat and pendants around hunters' neck that resemble a cursed connection more than a divine bond with the honmoon.

on another note, this presents a good question. sentient!honmoon, i assume, chooses its hunters consciously, so... why rumi? to make sure gwi ma doesn't use her? is this against the honmoon's will? is it because she can serve it in a deeper way even though it slowly kills her?

and on that note—rumi. would rumi hear the honmoon's threatening thrums in her skull the same way demons would hear gwi ma's? would she have chronic headaches from this? would she go insane? would mira and zoey be privy to the information that she is a half demon? would they react in a much much much worse way than they did in canon?

also imagine this: you're zoey and you want to escape from the hell that is the american high school experience and your parents who are mid-divorce. you are mira and you want to escape from the hell that is your family and the constraints they keep you in. and you both escape! and you are happy and joyful and glad to dedicate your life to something so honourable.

and then you realise what that actually means. and there are days when zoey thinks, shit, i'd pay to go back to my grouchy parents and the awful gut punches from my bullies every day, and there are days when mira thinks, fuck, i'd rather suffer under my parents' roof than under these conditions.

I love the addition of the honmoon now whispering into their ears. A sentient honmoon looks upon the hunters like, as @fakelawyerbug mentioned, tools. Tools that it needs to keep itself intact and the best way to keep them motivated and working is to use fears and doubts to push them forward. If they fail, the world is screwed and so are they so there really is no room for error.

Former show dog!Mira who’s experienced mostly the downs of being in competitive shows and is ready for a change of pace.

A sheltie like this expect…pink