#Mai and Ty Lee

[ragzonacamrencruise]

Betrayal (An ATLA analysis)

It's really important to me, how, in the Avatar universe, the person who's at the right side of the throne (essentially the right hand), always betrays the one sitting on the said throne.

Exhibit A:

Long Feng, kept the King oblivious to the Hundered Year War and handled all matters that are not partying or charity events, making him the de facto ruler of Ba Sing Se without even the King's knowledge, essentially paving a way for his betrayal.

Exhibit B:

Zuko, said it himself, that he was literally at his father's right hand. Even Azula got only the second best seat. And the next thing Zuko does? He betrays his father. I know what you're all thinking. But didn't Zuko already betray him before? Well, he did when he released Aang from Zhao as the Blue Spirit. But, the important point is, his explicit orders were to capture the Avatar to restore his honour. It didn't matter which methods he used to do it. He only ever openly betrayed his father during the eclipse and that was after he was placed at the right hand in the war meeting.

Exhibit C:

Mai, a betrayal that was a turning point in Azula's declining mental health. But hey, Ty Lee betrayed Azula too, right? Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that Mai did it first and she was sat at Azula's right hand. Mai never really feared Azula. She only followed her around out of her own will. Ty Lee on the other hand, when Azula recruits her at the circus, is found showing fear. She only had the guts to betray Azula after Mai did.

It really puts into perspective how Ty Lee couldn't betray Azula until provoked because she feared her, and Mai betrayed Azula because she didn't fear her enough. It further solidifies Azula's stellar line, "You should've feared me more!", insisting that if Mai had feared her more, she wouldn't have betrayed her. This especially holds true because it's later explained by Azula herself that, "Fear is the only reliable way." Fear kept Ty Lee in line but liberalised Mai cuz she didn't fear Azula more.

But all that goes out the window because Ty Lee betrayed Azula too. This is also one of the main reasons why Azula banishes most of the people around her. Because, "None of them can be trusted", and she trusted Mai as she knew Mai never feared her. It hurts her deeper because she trusted Mai and let her mantra of "Fear is the only reliable way" go, and guess what happens? She betrays her.

This solidifies three things in her brain: 1. Trust doesn't work, and, 2. Fear doesn't work either. 3. Nothing works, really.

Therefore, her action of banishing everybody with, "Sooner or later they all would've betrayed me."

This works for Exhibits A and B too. Long Feng never feared King Kuei and King Kuei completely trusted him until he learned of his betrayal. Trust didn't work, and fear didn't work either.

Zuko had never trusted his father. He only feared him. He has a physical scar on his body to prove it. But once that fear starts to deteriorate, he openly confronts his father and betrays him, letting go of his fear with, "It was cruel, and it was wrong!". Trust didn't work, and fear didn't work either.

So, what does work?

Well, the answer is pretty simple.

Love.

Love works. Any number and different kinds of love, be it platonic, or sibling, or romantic, it doesn't matter. It is foolproof!

Genuine care and affection for a person, doesn't let you betray them that easily. It's what made Sokka decide they should help Aang in Book 1. It's what made Yue turn into the moon. It's what made Toph come back to the Gaang again after she stormed off in Book 2. It's what made Aang come back for Bumi in Omashu in Book 2. It's what made Zuko find his path to Iroh again in Book 3.

The lack of love (from her own parents) is what made Azula's mental health deteriorate, as she thought nothing worked; it's depressing because she doesn't know that love actually works, cuz she's never known or experienced love her entire life, so she doesn't even consider it as an option.

The lack of love is what made the Dai Li betray Long Feng. The lack of it drove Zuko's betrayal to Ozai, Mai and Ty Lee's betrayal to Azula and even Jet's betrayal to Katara.

This could go on and on, but the end point here is that Azula's words on betrayal are true, but only when love is taken out of the equation. Love is the 'X' factor. Without it, there really is no equation, as all leads to zero.

[annabeth-katniss-granger]

“Do you know the day Azula lost?”

You mean the Final Agni Kai-

No,no

The day Mai and Ty Lee betrayed her

was the day she started slipping

[crybabycinna]

YALL LOOK AT MY BABIES! OZAIS ANGELS! AHHH! Also y’all look at Gordon (Aang) in the back omg 😭🤣 I love these babies so much! 😭 my little fire ladies 😭 I’m calling them all babies even tho lizzy (Azula) and I are the same age 🤣

[zukobeloved]

mai and ty lee

[darklinaforever]

Imagine how powerful a romantic relationship between them would have been... ?!

[tournamentpollsinc]

Round 2

[the-genius-az]

What do you think Ozai would be like if he were a good father?

Ironically, he would be very overprotective.

Is Zhao bothering his son? Banishment with a burn on the face!

Is someone flirting with your daughter? Torture and exile!

Are they threatening her two babies? Murder!

And because he is a good father, he would also have a good relationship with Ursa, if it is not romantic then it would be like two best friends who have two children.

Although she will still send her two babies to war, obviously with a lot of protection, until she realizes that the two have fled and have their own army (Mai and Ty Lee), she immediately becomes worried and sends for them everywhere.

And when he sees that his two sons don't want the war, he immediately ends it and makes an excuse about how his nation doesn't need more people dying.

[arrumrosee]

The End Of Every Tether

1/?

Rated E

Zutara

Recovery efforts in the years following the end of the hundred-year war have not been easy. Factions challenging the power and legitimacy of the Avatar have risen across the world, and even people in support of Aang are growing restless. The end of the Fire Nation’s reign of cruelty was supposed to mean an era of peace, but Aang and the other young heroes of the war have had to work tirelessly to bring the world back into balance. In the most crucial point of recovery, the Avatar goes missing. Despite personal tensions and various commitments to their own nations, Katara, Zuko, Toph, Sokka, and Suki now have to work together to find Aang before the world falls out of balance permanently.

[coffeepot-looks]

Mai and Ty Lee Modern AU

[balsa-margarita]

Do Mai & Ty Lee even have a moral compass or do their moralities mostly revolve around themselves?

Their moral compass is aligned with the imperialist Fire Nation's, for starters - so, not good - but they are also both very self-focused. Which made them much more willing to betray the Fire Nation when it came down to it.

[rish-you-were-here]

Happy pride

[shrewisweird]

Big cousin Lu Ten helping the kids on a hard level

I like to think that he was a lot like his dad, spending time with them and showering 'em with affection.

[nanamis-username]

non-bending baddies !!! 😜😜😎🤺🔥🔥🪭😝💅🏼🤸‍♀️😋🤭🔪✨💕 (-> pt. 1)

[crybabycinna]

My bf and I also agreed that if Katara was on some evil shit she’d have her own kiss of death like I talked about with Azula and she’d like freeze the blood in your body and I can picture them arguing being like you stole my kiss of death shit it would go something like this!

Azula: you peasant you stole my thing!

Katara: I stole nothing from you! This is my own technique!

Azula: LIES! Zuzu told you how I kissed Chan and cooked him alive so you decided to steal my thing! You just freeze them instead!

Katara: WHO IS CHAN?! I have no clue what you’re talking about!

Azula: YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!

Katara: NO I DONT I FIGURED OUT I COULD FREEZE BLOOD WHEN I FOUND THE MAN THAT KILLED MY MOM THEN I TESTED THE KISSING THING BY KISSING THIS GIRL WHO FLIRTED WITH AANG

Azula: you like girls?

Katara: yes but what does that have to do with anything

Azula: would you like to test to see if our techniques would cancel each other out?

Katara: sure

*they go to aggressively make out somewhere*

*in the background*

Ty Lee: THATS SUPPOSED TO BE ME

Mai: *comforting Ty Lee* maybe you could ask to join them

Ty Lee: really?

This is all for shit and giggles before someone loses their minds 🤣 also yes ik Katara didn’t freeze the dudes blood who killed her mom ik she did use blood bending on him but she didn’t freeze his blood but shhh Shh in my mind she killed him as she should 😌 FUCK HIM ALSO as for the girl I’m talking about the one from the headband episode where they were in the fire nation idc that girl was a little too friendly with Aang 😭 so Katara said freeze that bitch AND YES IK ITS OUT OF ORDER IDC! I know the headband episode came first, then the blood bending episode and then the episode Katara and Zuko pull up on the dude ik again idc cause ik some of y’all will be sensitive Shh Shh it’s fine

[zukobeloved]

ty lee and mai

Look at themm

[swedenis-h]

Ozai’s angels!