#To be frank also: if Zuko had been the prodigy he’d probably be kept under Ozai’s influence more and somewhat like Azula

[bluewithpurplepolkadots]

Honestly I think Azula wasn’t redeemed on show because of time available within the story among other things. I find that to be a perfectly valid writing decision to make: and hell sometimes sympathetic or understandable characters simply aren’t redeemed. That’s true even in real life.

But there’s people who say she wasn’t and couldn’t ever be because she almost killed Aang and anyone who writes redemption fics for her should be ~ashamed~ and why on earth would Aang ever be friends with her and and…

Bro.

Buddy.

Even if we pretend S1 Zuko was somehow that stupid to think Aang would be having tea parties with his dad: S3 Zuko sent an assassin after Aang. He also directly tried to kill him. He just used another person to do it. Hell: this guy he hired was also someone who didn’t care who else he killed. Imagine if someone else got it in the neck too.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if the guy had idk, succeeded in killing Aang as he set out to do: or killed Sokka or anyone else in the team. Zuko would NOT make it out alive if Katara got her hands on him. I mean granted: he probably wouldn’t have had Aang died in Ba Sing Se either because of Azula: but still.

Water whipped so hard he topples over the edge and collapses on the pointed rocks in the cavern below.

Honestly would fit in a short dark au given how linked Aang and Zuko are narratively.

Aang has saved Zuko’s life twice before hand: but he’s not around for the third and it’s simply Zuko’s own fault that Aang isn’t there to save him again. If he’d lived maybe Aang would have caught him. If he’d lived maybe Katara wouldn’t have felt so full of overwhelming rage and pain as to push Zuko over the edge. Yin and Yang circling each other eternally even in death.