#Azula/Hahn

[bellatrixobsessed1]

Tincan

Summary: Azula, Mai, TyLee, and Tom-Tom go to the aquarium that Hahn works at. Azula and Hahn have very different opinions on sharks.

AN: Oml, I'm so glad to be writing for Azula again! It feels like it's been forever. But I finally had time and an idea at the same time.

Azula never had an interest in the sea nor the waves. In fact, she likes to stay well away from it. She has seen it erode great and mighty cliffs, has seen it swell up and batter piers. She has seen it drag houses away from their foundations and reduce them to little more than driftwood. 

She has seen what it has done to her leg—the way it has slammed her against the rocks, the way it…

She shudders.

And now TyLee wants to take her to an aquarium. “It’ll be fun, I promise!” She insists. “I’m going to get one of those cute little otter keyrings! And maybe some stickers that I can wear on my face and legs!” 

“You can go to the mall for that.” Azula mutters. 

“They don’t sell aquarium stickers at the mall, Azula!” 

And that’s how it had started. It’s how a good many things start; TyLee gets this quirky little idea and she and Mai indulge it. Of course, it isn’t all terrible. In fact, most of the time they have a nice time together. But this time?

No, Azula doesn’t care to see the ocean again, even if it is held behind glass. Somehow the glass seems too thin, too breakable. 

Azula pulls her pant leg back down to conceal the patch work of scars. The ones that end at her kneecap where the prosthetic begins. 

“Also, I kind of already told, Mai that we are on the way…” TyLee gives a small grimace. 

Azula sighs. “Right, well you didn’t…”

“I said that we were going to the aquarium and she told Tom-Tom.” 

Azula’s stomach sinks. She doesn’t particularly want to condemn Mai into hours of dealing with a Tom-Tom tantrum; the boy had given Azula herself a good bite on one occasion. “I guess that we’re going to the aquarium.” Azula mumbles. 

“You can look at the stingrays! You like stingrays, right?”

There was certainly a time when she had. She had also rather enjoyed the bioluminescent plankton. But that was quite some time ago. “Yeah, sure, TyLee.” 

The girl is grinning from ear to ear. Azula wishes that she could keep her stomach from sinking and turning. Really it’s rather irrational to resent the aquarium. She takes a deep breath and slips into the passenger seat. 

.oOo.

“Are you sure that you don’t want to at least see the otters with me?” TyLee asks. 

Azula nods. “I’m sure.” 

“We can go pet the stingrays.” Mai offers as Tom-Tom gives her hand another tug.

“No thanks.” Azula declines. A good part of her wishes that she could, but the stingrays are never swimming alone and the thought of putting her fingers anywhere near sharks, babies or not, leaves her shuddering.

“C’mon, c’mon, c’mon.” His little feet slide across the ground. He has more success in moving himself than he does with getting Mai to budge. 

“It’s fine.” Azula gives a nonchalant wave. “Take Tom-Tom to see the…”

“Sharks!” He shouts. “I wanna see the sharks!”

“Azula doesn’t like sharks, Tom-Tom. You like octopi, right?” 

“I don’t care what Azula likes!” Tom-Tom stomps his foot. “I like sharks, not octopuses.” 

“It’s alright, Mai.” Azula insists. “Take him to see the sharks I’ll…” she looks around the gift shop. “I’ll read one of the books.”

TyLee pouts, “aww come on, at least come inside of the aquarium, you don’t have to go near any of the exhibits.” 

Right, because immersing herself in the ambient wave sounds while in a rather dim space, decorated to exactly resemble the crevice of an ocean floor trench is exactly what she needs. She bites her lower lip. “Alright, but I’m not staying for long. And I’m not going with you guys to see the sharks.” 

Thankfully they go to see the otters first. Azula supposes that she doesn’t mind otters, they mind their own business and don’t bite the shit out of anything that breathes in their general direction. She doesn’t mind watching the manatees either. 

Dolphins?

They are a little dicey. 

Does she trust them?

Not particularly. But she sticks around.

It is only when they wander off into the darker recesses of the aquarium where the sharks reside that she goes her own way. Evidently, her own way has taken her right into the kiddy section. She supposes that if she is going to be a baby about the sharks, she might as well be in the kiddy section of the aquarium. 

She imagines that TyLee will like it here anyhow; she can poke at jellyfish and starfish. So Azula finds herself a spot on the wall to prop herself against. And she waits, inspecting her nails and sparing disinterested glances at her phone. 

“Hey.” 

Azula jolts. 

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to sneak up on you.” The boy apologizes. Azula looks him over; chin-length dark hair, nicely combed and partly pulled back. Dark skin—she thinks that she sees a tattoo on his bicep, a dolphin maybe—vivid blue eyes and a square jawline to bring it all together. He smells faintly of cologne and heavily of fish food. And it is no wonder, he is wearing an aquarium uniform with several damp patches. 

“Am I not allowed to linger?” 

“Actually, I was kind of hoping that you would stick around for a bit. It’s been kind of a slow day and it’s getting a bit boring being by myself over there.” He jabs his thumb in the direction of the interactive tanks. “Most people like touching the starfish and jellyfish so Star is getting all of the attention.” He nods at the interactive tanks that run parallel to his own. “Star always takes the starfish tanks and our boss lets her do it because the kids love it when Star talks about starfish. Hanh, on the other hand…he gets tired of that joke.”

“Who is Hanh?” 

The boy chuckles. “Me, I’m Hanh. I get tired of star puns.”

“Oh.” 

“Yeah…” He rubs the back of his head. “So…”

Azula quirks a brow. 

“I know that it’s all kiddies stuff here but would you like to feed the stingrays or something?”

Azula casts the tank a weary look. “They share a tank with the sharks.”

“They’re just bamboo sharks.” Hanh smiles. “And they’re just babies.” 

“They still have teeth and my fingers, that I’d like to continue to have, are just small enough to fit in their mouths.” Azula twirls her bangs around one of said fingers. 

“Have you ever pet a cat before?”

Azula scrunches her brows. “I frequently pet my friend, Mai’s cat. Why?”

“Bamboo shark and cat teeth are pretty similar in size and shape.”

“I’m going to need to know where you are sourcing your information from.” 

“Firsthand experience.” 

“The weakest kind of evidence when trying to debate or win an argument.” Azula declares. 

“Well good thing we’re not arguing then.” Hanh folds his arms over his chest and smirks. He, Azula decides, is not as clever as he thinks that he is. “They’re bottom feeders, you know.” He continues. “Unless your fingers are made of mollusk shells or taste like crustaceans they’ll be fine.” 

Azula presses her lips together and half-frowns. She can’t quite deny that she does, at least somewhat, really want to pet the stingrays. She used to love them well enough, she still has all of the plushies and posters that Sokka used to give her before he and Katara moved away for an unconventional life at sea with their father.

Stingrays, like Sokka and his sister, are part of a bygone ear. A small window of her life that drifted out and away shortly after her accident. Part of a childish innocence that had been yanked and torn away from her at the very same moment her leg had been. 

“I’ll pass.” 

Hahn groans and buries his face in his palms. When he looks up he is wearing the most ridiculous, exaggerated pout that she has ever seen. His once attractive face is not tainted with this forced bug eyed look and a jutting lower lip that she is certain he thinks is adorable. “Please, my boys are starving!” 

“Your boys?”

“My stingray babies need food.”

“Then go feed them?” She tilts her head. 

“They are tired of me, they want you to feed them.”

Azula swallows. He reminds her of Sokka. Her stomach sinks. She misses Sokka. She misses surf competitions with Katara. She misses long summer nights spent on the beach with Chan, Sokka, a campfire, and the beverages that Ruon managed to smuggle. She misses a lot of things.

“I don’t like sharks, Hahn.” Perhaps it is the nostalgia. Perhaps she is just tired of keeping things to herself, out of sight and out of mind, just the way father likes it. She pulls up her pant leg. “I’ve seen what they can do. And I’d be perfectly okay with plucking one of them out of that tank and watching it flop around.” 

Hahn grimaces. Whether it is at the sight of her mangled leg and prosthetic or her words, she isn’t certain. 

“Sharks are like people. Some of them are bad and some of them are good…”

“I’ve heard the statistics.” Azula rolls her eyes. “A shark attack is about one in eleven-million. You’re more likely to get struck by lightning, drown, get into a car accident. Yes I know. But I didn’t get struck by lightning and I didn’t get hit by a car.” She scoffs.

“Sorry.” He mumbles. “I’ve always been a shark enthusiast.”

Azula sniffs. “Spoken like a boy who has never had his leg torn off.” She pauses. “I’ll bet that you’ve never even seen a shark up close.”

“I actually swim with them.” He replies quietly. Azula’s stomach sinks—she has just sucked the enthusiasm right out of him. But is it not his own fault for pestering her? “Sorry, I’ll leave you alone.’ 

Azula swallows. “I didn’t say that you had to stop talking to me.”

“You didn’t have to.” 

She thinks that she should say something. But he is already sulking back to his shark tank, probably to coo at the sharks and tell them that he’ll protect them from that mean girl who wants them dead. And later he will probably vent to Star.

It is what it is. TyLee is calling her anyhow.

.oOo.

Hahn brushes his fingers over Tincan’s smooth skin. Tincan has always been his favorite since the day that she had tried to eat a tin can. Or maybe she had been trying to make a home of it. Either which way, Tincan quickly became his favorite shark. 

He waits for Shipwreck to glide away and drops another mollusk into the tank. “Hurry up.” He mumbles to Tincan. “Before Shipwreck comes back and steals it again.” 

“How’s it going over here?” Star asks. 

Hahn shrugs. “I guess it’s going alright. I haven’t gotten much company aside from that one girl.” 

“The pretty one with the prosthetic?”

Hahn nods. 

“What were you guys talking about anyways?”

“How much she hates sharks.” 

“Oof, you could have just told me that you were having a rough day.” She frowns. “I, on the other hand, have had a delightful day!”

“And this is why I didn’t tell you…” he grumbles to himself. He likes Star well enough, but geez that girl can be so…clueless. 

“I met the most adorable little girl today. She had these chubby cheeks and these really bright green eyes. She loved the jellyfish and was able to tell me all about them. Of course I already knew everything that she mentioned, but…!” She pauses and wiggles her brows. “I pretended like I had no idea.” 

“You’re a real saint, Star.” 

“Sure am.” She beams. “The kids love me.” She pauses again and sticks out her lower lip. “They love the starfish more.” Quickly she adds, “but they definitely love me too!”

“That’s nice, Star.” He dips his finger back into the water and lets Tincan rub against it. He tries to pay attention to Star. Really he does, she has better things to say than his own brain does. But he can’t quite focus. 

He stares at Tincan, at her beady, precious, little eyes. He couldn’t even change the mind of one person. And there are probably millions like her out there; people who would feel no remorse, who would, perhaps, even delight in slaying a shark. Spiders, bats, bears—they’ve all got their reputations. And their reputations don’t seem to inspire compassion. Rather they seem to spark some violent itches in people. 

He would love to lift Tincan out of the water and give her a little kiss on the head. Maybe when Star leaves for the night he’ll dunk his head into the water and give her that peck. Of course, he will have to reckon with the stingrays and Shipwreck too. 

“Oh! Sorry, Hahn, looks like I got another group.” 

“Don’t worry about it. Do your thing.” He waves her off. 

He glances at the clock on the wall. His shift will be up soon. He will probably have to wait until he gets one of the night shifts to give Tincan her kiss. He finds a container of stingray food and scatters it into the tank. He watches them swarm their meal until he hears footsteps behind him. He takes a deep breath and prepares to prattle off his usual chipper greeting to a small child. When he turns around, that greeting dies on his tongue.

“I have decided that I will feed the stingrays.” 

“Are you sure? There are still baby sharks in there?” He grumbles. “And they still want to eat your fingers specifically. Not anyone else’s, of course, just yours.” 

Her expression deadpans. “You’re being redundant; saying that they want to eat my fingers specifically is the same thing as saying that they don’t want to eat anyone else’s.” 

“Just trying to emphasize the point.” Is he being an ass. Yeah. Probably, a little. “Maybe Tincan doesn’t want your fingers in her tank anyways.” 

“Either she wants my fingers to be in the tank so that she can eat them or she doesn’t want them there. Which is it?”

Hahn blinks. He can’t tell if she is being snarky or if she genuinely wants to know. This girl certainly knows how to hold up a good conversation. “I already told you; these sharks are friendly. They’re more likely to get hurt–usually by people–than hurt someone.”

At this the girl seems to flinch, it is only the slightest little motion. The faintest flicker of hurt in her eyes. Hanh sighs, maybe he is being a little harsh. Or alot harsh. “You were probably attacked by a great white or a tiger shark. Those ones are statistically the most likely to attack unprovoked.” He pauses. “But a lot of times people provoke them without meaning to…”

The girl nods. 

“Bamboo sharks nip sometimes, but it’s like a cat bite.” He pauses. “I guess that, that can still hurt…”

“Are you going to let me feed the stingrays or not?” 

“Yeah.” He replies flatly. “Sure.” 

The girl takes a cluster of dead shrimp.

“I kind of already fed them so they might ignore you.” He mentions. “...Just like you’re ignoring me.” 

“I’m not ignoring you.” She states simply. “I just don’t speak when I don’t have anything worthwhile to add.” 

“Right.” He folds his arms across his chest and watches her reluctantly lower her hand into the water. 

.oOo.

Azula has to admit that she is a touch disappointed that he had been right about the stingrays ignoring her. One brushes up against her knuckles as it makes its lazy circles around the tank, but mostly they glide out of reach. 

She should have just stuck with TyLee, Mai, and Tom-Tom. But Tom-Tom wanted to see the big sharks and the big sharks make her stomach lurch. She can imagine them locking eyes with her and banging into the glass in an attempt to finish her off.

And if she stares long enough she can envision herself suspended in the water in a cloud of red. She shudders. She isn’t even by the large sharks and she can feel the phantom tingles tracing the lines of her scars. 

“Are you okay?” Hahn asks. 

“Perfectly.” She replies quietly. 

“Really, because…”

“I’m just disappointed that the stingrays aren’t interested.”

Hahn bites his lower lip. “The stingrays aren’t but someone is…”

Azula jerks her hand out of the water. 

“She won’t bite, I promise.” Hahn tries. “Look.” He dips his hand into the water and rubs his hand right over the baby shark. “She actually loves to be petted.” 

It is Azula’s turn to pout. 

“Here, I can…” he begins with words and finishes with a gesture. She lets him take her hand and guide it back into the water. 

Her tummy is tickling frantically. A fluttering that grows more and more intense with each centimeter that the shark closes. And then it is upon her, nuzzling its maw against her hand. She feels like she is going to be sick.

“It’s alright.” Hahn promises. “She’s just going to take that shrimp from you.” 

Azula grits her teeth and eyes the shark with a burning intensity, half expecting to see her fingers reduced to bloody stubs. But the shark is…it is gentle. It takes the shrimp from her the way that Mai’s cat takes bits of kibble. 

“See.” Hanh smiles. 

Azula nods. 

She watches the shark circle her hand a few times, rubbing against it. It’s skin is so smooth and so cool against her own. 

“That means that she likes you.” Hahn notes. “Her name is Tincan. She doesn’t eat fingers but she did try to eat a tin can once.” 

“Oh.” Azula replies. “Okay.” 

And Hahn laughs. “You’re not easy to talk to, you know.” 

Azula nods. “Yes. I know.” 

He chuckles again. “I didn’t offend you?” 

She shrugs. “It’s not offensive if it’s true.”

“Some of the most offensive words are offensive because they’re the truth.” He counters. 

“That’s the smartest thing that you’ve said all day.” She replies. She scrunches her brows, purses her lips, and peers more intensely at the shark. 

“You’re not thinking about…”

“I’m not going to hurt the shark.” She cuts him off. She is, however, still slightly concerned that it will hurt her. 

And perhaps her anxiousness shows one her face because Hahn speaks up again. “Do you want to give her another shrimp?” 

Azula bites her lip again. “I…I guess.” 

Now Hahn’s eyes are sparkling. He hands her another shrimp. This time she lowers her hand without his to guide it. Her brows knit in concentration.

“Well?” 

“Well what?” 

“Are you guys bonding?” 

Azula tilts her head. “Maybe. I guess.” 

.oOo.

At the very least, she looks much more relaxed. 

“I’d say that you’re ready to go swim with the great whites now.” 

The girl’s head jerks up and she shakes it quite quickly and adamantly.

He laughs and lifts his hands, “I’m joking, I’m joking.” 

“Thanks.” She mutters. 

“For what?” 

“Not doing that thing that people tend to do when they see me.” 

“Run away in fear?” 

“Ha.” The girl rolls her eyes. “No. That thing where they look at my leg or listen to me talk about what happened and then…” she trails off. “They get weird about it.” 

“How so?”

She takes a deep breath and offers an impression of a sympathetic expression. And with an almost uncanny softness in her voice says, “I’m so sorry, that must have been really. Hard. I don’t think that I would be able to handle it if I lost a leg. You’re so brave.” 

“They’re just trying to be nice.” 

“They end up being patronizing.”

“So you’d rather have a bunch of idiots like me, telling you to just get over it and love sharks.” 

She nods. 

“Seriously?”

Another nod. 

He bites back the urge to call her strange. 

“I’m tired of pity. And I’m tired of people being delicate with me.” She replies. “You say it how it is. Sort of.” She hums to herself. “You have your opinions and you didn’t listen to my sob story and change them. You like sharks. I…”

“You what?”

“Can maybe tolerate one specific shark.”

Hahn beams from ear to ear. “Tincan is a good girl. Shipwreck is friendly too. He’s been hiding in his…”

“Plastic rendition of a shipwreck?” She guesses.

“That’s right.” Hahn confirms. “Hey, if you come by tomorrow, I can introduce the two of you.” 

“Okay.” 

His grin widens. “Great, I’ll see you tomorrow then…”

“Azula.” 

“I’ll see you tomorrow, Azula.” 

“Okay.” 

“And I’ll have Tincan and Shipwreck well fed so that they won’t crave human fingers.” 

.oOo.

Azula rolls her eyes. But stupid jokes certainly beat saccharine, socially obligated niceties. Truth be told it is kind of nice to have someone willing to make tactless jokes for once. It is more authentic and somehow more comforting. 

It makes her feel normal. 

She takes one glance back at the shark tank before finding her way back to the lobby where TyLee stands, dripping in otter merch. A ridiculous, fuzzy otter hat and a bright pink t-shirt that reads ‘you and me otter go to the aquarium more often.’

Tom-Tom, naturally, has his own shark hat and a shark fin affixed to his back. He holds a plastic shark that he has taken to running around with while making swooshing noises. Azula supposes that she should probably give Tom-Tom credit too. Most people don’t even mention sharks around her let alone act out shark attacks with toy sharks in front of her. 

She hates to imagine what sort of chaos he and Hahn could cause to her psyche in a team effort. 

Of all of TyLee’s whimsical ideas, Azula thinks that this might have been one of the better ones.

[zuko-always-lies]

@sooz-again there's actually one really good Azula/Hahn fic, if you are interested: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2735222/chapters/6129629

Anyways, good premise. Azula/Hahn is underrated.

I can't decide which prompt would work best for Azula/Hahn lol

I'm feeling 'education/teaching' for them.

So, instead of Hahn swan diving off the top of the Fire Nation ship and getting himself killed, what if he was taken captive? Taken back to the Fire Nation as a prisoner (though prob not elite enough to go to the Boiling Rock, maybe they keep him with all the other waterbenders just in case he can waterbend and is hiding it, or something) where he remains until after the war ends. He's gotta go back home at that point, buuuuut-

What's going on with Azula? I do really like thinking that, after her mental breakdown during the Agni Kai, she gets some much needed rest and then is finally able to think and behave regionally again. She's a smart cookie, she knows Zuko is Fire Lord, there's going to be a lot of changes, and she can either continue trying to be her disgraced father's perfect little soldier, or she can adapt. She might not agree with Zuko's vision, she might not be particularly happy at how things have gone, but she knows when a fight is over. And really, she's just so very tired of trying to perform at such a high level all the time.

So anyway, Hahn needs to get home. A lot of prisoners need to be returned. That is going to take a lot of time and organization, to ensure everyone gets to where they need to be in the most efficient manner. Maybe Azula helps to work on this task, of planning which ships and how many ships go to various ports, etc.

However, there's one odd prisoner out.

The Northern Water Tribe secluded itself so well during the war and entered into so few battles (namely, the siege of the north), there is only one member of the Northern Water Tribe that was ever taken prisoner: Hahn. And even with the importance of reforging and then maintaining positive relationships with the other nations, it is hard to justify sending a manned ship (or airship) all the way to the North Pole for only one prisoner.

Azula isn't about to allow there to be a lose thread under her watch, though. She will see each and every prisoner returned to their homeland if she has to escort them there herself.

....Which is exactly what happens with Hahn.

And so begins the story of Azula and Hahn's journey to the North Pole, largely on foot, through the Earth Kingdom. While they make the trek northward, they're bound to end up teaching each other a thing or two about themselves, their culture, and the way they view the world.

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I don't think this is something I could easily illustrate for for the event month though, lol. But it is fun to think about!

[pechuyu]

I must say...I AM IN LOVE WITH YOUR ART AND HOW YOU DRAW YUE AND AZULA. YOUR TANGLED!AU FOR THEM MADE ME GENUINELY LAUGH WHEN YOU WROTE THAT YOU MIGHT MAKE SOKKA THE HORSE.

(Happy April's Fool, for the joke here is that I am forever anon~)

Aaa thank you ^_^ ily anon <3,, here’s horse sokka

[atlararepairmonth]

AtLA Rarepair Month - May 2025

Hello and welcome once again to the Avatar: The Last Airbender Rarepair Month event!

This event is a month long, spanning the entirety of the month of May 2025, and will be devoted to any and all forms of content celebrating the Rarepair ships of AtLA.

Content can include but not limited to fanfiction, fanart, moodboards, edits, music videos and playlists.

Prompts:

Week 1 - Fairytales & Legends + Mental Health/Support Systems + Seasons- May 1st to May 6th

Week 2 - Musical instruments & Poetry + First Time Bending Experiences + Love Languages - May 7th to May 12th

Week 3 - Education/Teaching + Confessions + The Four Elements - May 13th to May 18th

Week 4 - First Kill (Hunting or War) + Writing Letters/Secret Messages + The Human Spirit - May 19th to May 24th

Week 5 - Retirement + Chores + In Sickness and In Health + Free Space - May 25th to May 31st

The rules for entries are as follows:

-Must be 18+ to participate, as we will be accepting NSFW entries (make sure to tag appropriately for content warnings)

-A rarepair must have 100 or less fics on ao3 to be considered acceptable.

-For this event we are excluding any Canon Character x Reader submissions.

-We will, however, accept Canon Character x OC submissions.

-All content is acceptable, please be courteous of other people's submissions and do not leave hate or discourse in the comments and tags. This is a celebration of rarepairs and encouraging more content for rarepairs in the fandom. If you don't like something someone made, just keep scrolling.

-When submitting your content, make sure to tag us @atlararepairmonth

[dieauster-und-diegarnele]

I guess I did A Thing

All the characters with known age (based on wiki)

NB: if characters are between the lines it means they were born in the next calendar year but in current lunar year. For example, Katara is 14 y/o so her sign should be the Horse, like Azula's, but Katara was born before Chinese new year and it means her sign is the Snake, like Mai's, who's 15 y/o.

Basically, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Jet, Hahn, Kanna and Yagoda were born somewhere in January - middle February.

Ty Lee, Suki and chief Arnook have only their age mentioned, so I assumed that their calendar and lunar years are the same.

[crossonover]

Hahn x Azula

[zukkaart]

Okay I couldn’t just leave it soooo

THE EPILOGUE TO TRY HARD IS COMPLETE

I can’t thank you guys enough for 10k hits and all your comments and love and support. You are truly amazing.

In honor of the epilogue

Summary:

"He's got a rose tattoo but he keeps it covered

I play guitar but he's into drummers

He's seen my face around but he doesn't even know my name"

or

Zuko is the bassist in a fire nation punk-rock band which includes Ty Lee, Mai, and Azula as the lead singer. They're still royalty. He has a major crush on his favorite Olympic Volleyball player (Sokka)

Sokka also has a crush on his favorite band member (Zuko)

They meet at a red carpet event, mutual pining and awkwardness ensues

Chapter 1

Playlist

Art

Art

Better art

Logo for Zuko/Azula/Ty Lee/Mai’s band (Eight Minute Eclipse)

[rizzless-trans-guy]

lover boy

hater boy

and manipulator boy

[sockfus]

still thinking abt the toxic jetko thing but like the abusive ex jet trope is SO overdone so boring. what if zuko was the toxic one 🤨 what if they were both mutually toxic. justice for jet he deserves better than this. let them both be assholes

[zuko-always-lies]

Younger characters tended to be presented more sympathetically, so this is an interesting question. Please reblog for more votes.

@atla-polls

[tachiha3]

Yoohoo natla ep 7~~~~~

• Jeeko jeeko jeeko jeeko jeeko

• I wanna eat the northern water tribe. So much ice....

• AAAAA WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT WIG?? 😭 The penis looking hair from the movie was better...

• Not loving what they did to Azula. At all.

• Hehe "just a girl". 🎀

• Yue can bend.............

• Yue's so pretty aaaaaa!!! If it weren't for that goddamned wig.

• YUE WAS THE FUCKING FOX ARE YOU KIDDING ME I WAS WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK THAT THING ON HER TAIL IS

• They took away Hahn's bitchiness 🙄 god forbid a guy is a bitch

• Why is this so gay? Everything is gay in this show.

• Kuruk seccy...

• Wtf is wrong with you, kuruk...... Wtf is this. Do you people.... don't like male characters being anything other than reSpOnSiBLe?

• Oh so that was a memory. Plothole again.

• Dude your mom literally died and that's your most painful memory?

• Five sentences and they're already locking lips 😑

• ...........i hate this. (at the aang and katara scene)

• ..i hate this a lot (at the azula scene)

• .....i hate this with every ounce of my being (aang trying to butt in)

• Wow this is stupid.

• episode 3 got competition for being at the bottom

[venussaidso]

𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐭.

Kathryn Merteuil from Cruel Intentions is portrayed by Ketu natives. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amy Adams, and now Sarah Catherine Hook.

Characters that I randomly thought would be Kathryn Merteuil's daughters, just so happen to be played by Ketuvians; particularly known for having manipulative, cunning, power-driven personalities.

This relentless pursuit for power and control extends to other Ketu characters. I have explored this theme already in my Ketu Dominant Themes post, I just didn't use female characters as my examples.

Cersei Lannister is an extreme version of this archetype, set in this non-modern, brutal world in Game of Thrones, known for her psychopathy.

Being extremely ruthless and cunning, with a thirst for power and control and an unchecked ambition, it doesn't come as a surprise that she is portrayed by a fire sign native Lena Headey (Venus nakshatras share these themes, as well).

Reminded me of Cate Blanchett's character from Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, who has a desire for control and maintaining power. She is absolutely heartless and cruel.

The same actress also played Hela who driven by power, is absolutely cunning and even more ruthless, possessing this superiority complex.

Having this deep desire to dominate and conquer, it comes as no surprise that the actress has an Aries stellium; proving it true that the rashi comes first, as the signs alone can be known for these negative, power-seeking traits. These fiery traits in the Ketu section are specifically exaggerated. The Ketu rulership seems to not only exaggerate the traits of the fire rashis, but darken them too. Technically; Ashwini is Dark!Aries, Magha is basically Dark!Leo and Mula is just Dark!Sagittarius lmaoo.

Just shortly describing Hela's Ashwini traits, I thought of Azula, who is voiced by Magha Sun Grey DeLisle.

Having a fiery determination and borderline exaggerated Leo traits; much like Hela, she is obsessed with being domineering. Known for being cunning, extremely ruthless and driven by power and control.

Another Hela-type character is the formidable antagonist, Artemisia, played by double Ketu native Eva Green in 300: Rise of an Empire.

Similar to Azula, she is driven by vengeance and is relentless about it. She is extremely strategic and power-hungry, seeking dominance over others and causing destruction.

Both Magha ASC Eva Green and Magha Moon Katie McGrath played the character Morgana, though with different arcs.

Eva Green's version of the character is more overtly power-driven and manipulative, as she has a double whammy effect of the Ketu nakshatras. While Katie McGrath's portrayal is her journey to villainy as she grows a thirst for vengeance and power, becoming a formidable force in the series.

Madison Montgomery from AHS: Coven! Played by Mula native Emma Roberts, she is undeniably ruthless and chaotic.

She seeks power & status in the witch world, being cunning, mean-spirited and manipulative.

In the same season, AHS: Coven, we also have the ruthless and powerful, vengeful witch Marie Laveau played by Magha Sun Angela Bassett. She means to assert her place in the world, embodying LEGACY (Magha nakshatra nod, much like Azula who strongly represents legacy and her ancestors).

And alongside her is Ashwini native Jessica Lange playing Fiona Goode, another ruthless, cunning Ketuvian/Fire sign character obsessed with power, youth and maintaining superiority over others.

Speaking of power-hungry witches; Ashwini Moon native Kathryn Hahn plays Agatha Harkness, who has a lust for power and control, finding herself completely fixated on Scarlet Witch's powers and wanting to gain control over such an immense force to master it within herself.

Magha Moon Helena Bonham Carter played the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, the character having a very fiery temper and an obsession with control. The Leo characteristics being exaggerated by the nodal rulership, she has an oversized ego and an extreme sense of self-importance, ready to inflict punishment on those who slight her.

A far lighter, less sinister, version of this Ketu archetype, is the Evil Queen in Mirror Mirror, played by Magha Moon Julia Roberts.

She still fits this highly manipulative, power-hungry archetype, her motivations rooted in status and control over the kingdom.

These characters thriving on power and control speaks to the emptiness and wounds they hold within. People who naturally possess power do not seek it, yet it seems to be a theme for these Ketuvians to be hungry for it. As if there's a beast inside of them that wants to suck things in and conquer, which makes sense for the Ketu x Jupiter polarity as Jupiter has excess to give out and Ketu wants to possess it (as I've talked about Ketu constantly absorbing things & people intentionally or not). The more cunning portrayals show how these characters live through their domineering force, deliberately using it to pull things under their control; ready to combat any outside forces that mean to take away their status and things that signify power to them. This combativeness is specifically shown in Ashwini Moon Blair Waldolf who becomes very combative when threatened. I believe people forget that Ketu alone is different from Ketu nakshatras. The fire signs will always remind you that they're fire signs, that's why observations like "Ketu nakshatra people have zero ambition and only seek spirituality and they represent nothing" is a completely one-sided statement and a disregard to how the houses and signs ruling these nakshatras operate. If this observation were the case, then I wonder what the Ketu gold-digging archetype implies if not everything I talked about.

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have a dump of thoughts about the mer zuko au in no particular order:

Iroh eventually told the Gaang his nephew's full history- why he was chasing Aang in the first place, and, most notably- how he got his scar. It... actually manages to somewhat improve their impression of Zuko- while also making their impression of his father even worse.

Like, they knew Ozai was evil. but wow. that guy is EVIL evil.

after her defeat at Ba Sing Se, the Earth King's generals attempt to use Azula as the grounds for a prisoner exchange... but Ozai never responds. he has simply abandoned her.

(azula does not take this news well)

(mai's uncle, however, does very quietly arrange for a prisoner exchange for his niece right under ozai's nose)

(azula doesn't take that very well either)

despite his initial resistance to it, Zuko does eventually start to actually bond with the Gaang outside of Toph. he and Katara end up with a shared interest in cleaning up the Fire Nation's many polluted rivers.

(katara and aang don't get to do ecoterrorism in this au. sad.)

azula thinks her uncle is pulling her leg when he tells her what happened to zuko... at least until she sees him for herself.

azula: uncle! you should have told me sooner. this would have fixed my mental breakdown entirely.

zuko: it could be worse. the ocean spirit could have made me a waterbender too.

katara: what's that supposed to mean?

zuko: uhhhhhh

plot twist: the guy who chased you all over the world turns out to be incredibly awkward

zuko tricks sokka into 'holding your breath underwater' contests way too many times. sokka, you're not going to win. he can breathe underwater.

aang, you're not going to win either.

zuko: wait. so if yue becomes the moon spirit if anything happens to it, will I become the ocean spirit if something happens to it?

aang: probably!

zuko: ugh.

iroh WILL be cleaning up that ember island beachhouse. for zuko's sake.

many theorize that prince zuko is afraid of the ocean after his near death experience. this is why he never goes anywhere near it.

zuko: <-----guy who will turn back into a merman if he gets wet enough

toph and aang help earthbend a secret tunnel down to the ocean from zuko's quarters at the palace. aang decides this is the PERFECT time to teach toph and zuko the secret tunnel song.

zuko: thanks, I hate it.

iroh: ...how do I explain to the palace chefs that my nephew is carnivorous now?

the palace chefs: prince zuko eats a concerning amount of fish these days. i don't believe we've seen him eat a single vegetable since he returned home.

local merman gets really into water tribe fish dishes.

yue: (complaining about hahn)

zuko: i think you should kill him

yue: that is tempting...

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examples of atla live action’s attempts to be more feminist and how they actually had the opposite effect and/or hurt the integrity of the show

already talked about katara and pakku. does not make sense that she did not have a master. point blank. just because something sounds empowering (ie katara saying “yes. and ur looking at her.” after zuko asked if she found a master) doesn’t mean it automatically is. there still needs to be logic and katara “being her own master” defies logic imo im sorry!

katara in general. she has no ferocity here which to be very honest i dont think is fully the writers’ fault. some of the blame goes on them but the actress for katara just delivered alllllll of her lines w the same exact mild tone. katara is overly motherly. she is bossy. she is passionate. she is nurturing. she is emotional. THERE IS POWER IN THESE THINGS!!!!! why would we take away her spark?!?!?!

i loved live action suki. however, i LOVE the line in the original when her and sokka part ways and sokka says “i treated u like a girl when i should’ve treated u like a warrior.” and suki says “i am a warrior” *kisses sokka on the cheek* “but im a girl too.” THAT LINE WAS SO PERFECT like lemme say it again there is POWER IN FEMININITY! there is no shame in that!!!!! why does this show wanna take that away so badly. at one point live action suki says something like “im not just a warrior, im a kiyoshi warrior” and before she parts ways w sokka she thanks him for showing her some of the world or something like that. which was fine but i just love the simplicity of the original. a girl can be a warrior and have a crush. why do we have to change that?

this is a small one and it doesnt REALLY matter, but i cant help but think they changed this to be more “feminist” which is just dumb. yue isnt betrothed? well she was but she broke it off? and hahn (her ex) isnt a huge dick? i mean it wasn’t the worst thing and i didnt really mind it but i was just kinda like ?????. feel like yue being betrothed tied into her sense of responsibility and foreshadowed the sacrifices she will make for her people. so. feels rly weird that they changed it. i think it was to show more women agency which is always cool. but in the original, yue finally gets her agency by becoming the moon spirit. that should be the end of her character arc. idk. a weird change that seemed unnecessary.

sokka not being sexist. honestly i think the live action did a good job at omitting this while not REALLY making it feel like something was missing. with that being said, something was still missing lol. once again, its apart of sokka’s character. i feel like everyone has already expressed their hate for this so ill just leave it at that.

i am a TAD indifferent on the women of the northern tribe joining the forces during the fight. on one hand i cant lie i smiled bc obviously i love water bending and i love women so there was definitely apart of me that was happy to see that moment. however. it was kind of giving like in endgame when theres that random shot of all the women superheroes in one frame so the movie could have a “slay queen. we are girlbosses:)” moment. like it just felt a little empty and it wasnt the feminist battlecry they thought it was. these women have been healing their whole lives. why would they be any good on the frontlines of a fight? they never learned combat skills! HOWEVER, when we see them, its mainly just them reinforcing the walls so like. that makes enough sense. im cool w that.

i know im dwelling but as we know i hold atla in the highest regards. it does a lot of things perfectly imo. and one of the things i think it does PERFECTLY is its treatment of female characters. literally the only thing i can think of that i dont like is when team azula beats the kiyoshi warriors and ty lee says something like “u are NOT prettier than us” NDBSKSJDJ like ok that was weird. but anyways. it irritates me how the live action kind of seems to have this pov that says “the original was good, but there were some ideas and plots that were outdated so we changed them to keep with the times” like they’re fixing something that was broken if that makes sense. when in actuality, i think atla’s representation of women is perfect and timeless. it was relevant and powerful in 2005, and it is equally as relevant and powerful in 2024. there was nothing about its feminist themes that needed to be “fixed” or “updated”.

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Zuko has had a sad, shitty, and tragic life, but so has just about every major child character in ATLA, and Zuko's story is by no means necessarily more tragic than his counterparts. Sokka is a victim of genocide, for instance, yet I've seen almost no stories which meaningfully explore that.

To add to what I said here: Azula, Mai, Ty Lee all had awful lives and were treated terribly by their families.

Aang had his entire culture genocided and completely destroyed.

Sokka and Katara are victims of genocide, had their mother murder, and had their father leave them years ago.

Toph was treated terribly by her parents.

Jet and the rest of his group are orphans whose parents were murdered by the Fire Nation and

Yue's story seems a little less tragic (if we ignore the part where she seems to have lost her mother at some point and that she has an arranged marriage to someone she doesn't love), until the point where it turns out she was always doomed to die young.

Song had her father kidnapped (and likely murdered) by the Fire Nation when she was young, in addition to being burned by them.

Teo lost his mother, his home village, and the use of his legs when he was young.

Haru had his father stolen from him and was banned from bending.

Tragic backstories are the norm for kids in ATLA. I don't believe in playing trauma Olympics or anything like that, but if I had to rank backstories in the order of "how tragic are they," I'm not sure Zuko would even make top 5. Just about the only young characters who don't seem to have extremely tragic backgrounds are Suki, Hahn, Jin, and On Ji.

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[zukkaart]

SURPRISE

I posted Chapter 11 of Try Hard early because I love to spoil you guys.

*jealous and protective Zuko has entered the chat*

Also we learn some more Zuko lore. And for those of you wondering wtf is going on with Azula and the Northern Water Tribe - trust you will find out. I’ve already decided I’m going to name the chapter “Azula, Interrupted” (get it?)

Anyway please enjoy