Zuko-Always-Lies

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Genre: Gen, Romance, Thriller, Angst Characters: Mai, Azula, Momo, Suki Pairings: Mai/Azula Rating: T for violence Warnings: Fire Nation-typical Homophobia, oblique references to Schrödinger's Cat Event: @maizulaweek

Special Thanks: @privatefire for the inciting idea

Summary: Ten years after Mai thinks she's cut Azula out of her life forever, an astronomically unlikely meeting brings back feelings perhaps better left buried. Also, pirates and quantum entanglement, for a very specific definition of entanglement, yo.

LMAOO unfortunately this fandom sees Azula as a 14 year old grown woman and Zuko as a 16 year old baby

https://knightedgemedia.com/2026/08/avatar-studios-cancelled-firelord-zuko-movie-plot-details-exclusive/

The plot sounds dangerously close to a combination of the Promise and Smoke and Shadow oof

OK, so there's a lot to talk about here.

First, I really doubt the ability of Avatar Studios to write Zuko and Azula. Based on their general writing performance for the Aang movie and the specific ways that they mischaracterized Zuko, I do not think they would do well.

You also have to wonder about the comics. Would they be retconned or not? As it is, the Aang story basically had freedom to do its thing without making a decision here, but that wouldn't be really true for a Zuko/Iroh/Azula Fire Nation story. Too many critical changes were introduced in the comics for those characters.

I would assume the Zuko movie would be set about 10 years after the series, just like the Aang moive? Presumably they would also have to resolve the identity of Zuko's wife at some point, something they have been chronically disinterested in doing.

Plotwise, the premise doesn't sound very interesting, but to be fair we got almost nothing on it. Saying that "It sounds like it drew inspiration from the comics The Search and Smoke & Shadow. Since those comics were about Azula’s time in prison and eventual escape, however, it was not going to be a direct adaptation of either comic" was just a guess by Knight Edge Media.

Assuming the movie did retcon the comics, I could easily see them writing something like "Zuko has imprisoned Azula for a decade plus and then goes to her to help when he needs her," and not realize how bad that makes Zuko look. Having characters just be brutal toward Azula with zero writing awareness is a common issue both with writers and fans of the franchise.

I also would assume that if Mai or Ty Lee were in the movie, they would be depicted as very hostile to Azula.

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https://knightedgemedia.com/2026/08/avatar-studios-cancelled-firelord-zuko-movie-plot-details-exclusive/

The plot sounds dangerously close to a combination of the Promise and Smoke and Shadow oof

OK, so there's a lot to talk about here.

First, I really doubt the ability of Avatar Studios to write Zuko and Azula. Based on their general writing performance for the Aang movie and the specific ways that they mischaracterized Zuko, I do not think they would do well.

You also have to wonder about the comics. Would they be retconned or not? As it is, the Aang story basically had freedom to do its thing without making a decision here, but that wouldn't be really true for a Zuko/Iroh/Azula Fire Nation story. Too many critical changes were introduced in the comics for those characters.

I would assume the Zuko movie would be set about 10 years after the series, just like the Aang moive? Presumably they would also have to resolve the identity of Zuko's wife at some point, something they have been chronically disinterested in doing.

Plotwise, the premise doesn't sound very interesting, but to be fair we got almost nothing on it. Saying that "It sounds like it drew inspiration from the comics The Search and Smoke & Shadow. Since those comics were about Azula’s time in prison and eventual escape, however, it was not going to be a direct adaptation of either comic" was just a guess by Knight Edge Media.

Assuming the movie did retcon the comics, I could easily see them writing something like "Zuko has imprisoned Azula for a decade plus and then goes to her to help when he needs her," and not realize how bad that makes Zuko look. Having characters just be brutal toward Azula with zero writing awareness is a common issue both with writers and fans of the franchise.

I also would assume that if Mai or Ty Lee were in the movie, they would be depicted as very hostile to Azula.

Aang moves his arm in a circular motion causing water to wrap itself around Ozai's leg and up to his outstretched arm, whipping him around, before slamming him on top of a pillar. Aang flies forward and earthbends Ozai's hands and feet to the ground, trapping him. Helpless, Ozai watches fearfully as Aang hovers over him, his voice echoing with the fury of his predecessors. Aang: [With the voices of all previous Avatars.] Fire Lord Ozai, you and your forefathers have devastated the balance of this world, and now you shall pay the ultimate price! [Aang, under control of his past lives, combines all four elements together for his final attack. At the last second, however, he manages to regain control; he comes out of the Avatar State, lets his attack die out, and floats to the ground, freeing Ozai in the process. He now speaks in his normal voice.] No. I'm not gonna end it like this.

Maybe he treated her better in the comics though, but I forgot the name of the site I used to read comics on for free, so I guess I'll never know.

There are several times when Zuko makes his inferiority complex about Azula pretty obvious, to the point where he fails to even think of her as a human being, let alone as his sibling. Because of that, he doesn't recognize her (also flawed - by no means am I trying to pretend she was a good sister, but at least she made some attempts, and had a few moments of genuine emotional care, some obvious and some subtle) attempts at reconciliation or her desire for some sense of togetherness.

It’s also very notable that he never stops considering his godawful dad family, just like his mom and uncle, but Azula doesn’t even receive that grace. She is treated more like an uncomfortable physical object than a person. But that’s faaaar from ignorance, or from him simply not giving a shit about her on his part.

He mentions her pretty often, both directly and indirectly - when her name comes up, but also when she exists more as a voice in his head representing a certain philosophy, or as a benchmark for bending prowess, skill, and success that he envies. And I think that’s where the irony lies: the core of Zuko’s misunderstandings with Azula is that he never really takes her as her own person. Instead, he projects his own subjective image of her onto her, and then responds to that image rather than to Azula herself - someone who might have feelings, pain, unmet desires, insecurities, and all the other things that he himself, or any living human being, has.

I mean, fair enough, she’s become a master at hiding those things. But in his mind, she is essentially replaced by an image of her that represents something within his own psyche. She represents success, or power, or Daddy's love, or the standards he feels he can never live up to. She always represents something, rather than simply being someone. she doesn’t really get to exist in his mind as a person who lives a real life, with real pleasures and real pain (he even ariculates it in calling her just "lucky", fully internalizing Ozai's abuse of their sibling relationship), or any real obstacles she has to face daily as he himself does (therefore - lack of empathy towards her). She becomes a myth, a mental image that he needs to overcome, rather than a human being and a sister who deserves to be acknowledged and to actually be seen as such by another human being.