#alex zuko

[local-dragon-haunt]

I sure do love my strong women and pathetic men

[sheepkebby]

I have a very specific taste in men.

[moon-saturn-and-everything-else]

oh tragic siblings. oh grief and resentment. oh old memories that taste bitter and like bubble gum. oh siblings that feel closer to strangers. oh memories that can’t be forgotten. oh i would not be me if i had not been raised with you. oh tragic siblings.

[in-som-niyah]

"but he's grumpy and toxic and mean and-"

too late, my folds are already spreading

[sandersgrey]

AU where Sokka briefly entertains the idea of becoming a judge. Just so he can tell Zukko "you may now call me Your Honor."

[eggyolkguzzler]

mod do u have a voice claim for alex

Walk with me for a moment.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Looking over my main characters/the arcs I tend to write/the characters I tend to be attracted to writing 200k+ words about, patterns start to emerge (most of which describe me pretty well, ngl). So I'm kinda curious.

[eponastory]

Alright here we go!

Azula: Netflix vs OG

Let's start off with OG first.

I guess it's safe to say she is the Cersei Lannister of AtLA. She is a character we love but also hate. I love her to bits, but I hate that she is just so conniving and cruel.

She is very well written and wonderfully voiced by the awesome Grey Delisle. She's just a well put together character that has a lot of personality flaws.

But she is also a victim, which I'll explain more about in a moment. But first, we have to look at her motivation in the OG show. Her motivation is personified in Zuko. He is her antithesis, which is represented by the color of their fire bending. Azula is naturally talented and well versed in fire bending where Zuko was not. She knows she is superior to him in that way. This drives her motivation to be the apple of Ozai's eye in a manner of speaking. We see this in the show when both siblings have to prove themselves to their Grandfather, Azulon. Zuko fails while Azula is praised. This pits the siblings against each other which we see portrayed differently in the Netflix Adaptation.

Moving on to her sneakiness and her takeover of Ba Sing Se. Where Iroh failed, she conquered. She did it decisively and in less than two weeks (I could be wrong on the timing, but this is the general consensus I see). Once again, she proves she is superior. But why does she have this idea of superiority? It's because she has been raised to believe this. It's been repeated over and over again through her entire childhood by her father, who was also taught this and so on.

I wish I could analyze everything, but others have done it better.

Now, let's talk about her mental breakdown. This is where I have a little concern on how it was portrayed in the show. It was... a little sudden, but bound to happen. The way it was shown was absolutely the way a mental breakdown can happen if the problems leading up are not addressed. All of Azula's life, she had been groomed by her father to be the perfect heir. At the end of book three, we see Ozai leave her behind. This is the straw that breaks the camels back in a sense. Ozai sees love as a weakness, and Azula loves her father, which is why she works so hard to please him. All he sees is a successor to him, and maybe a possible threat later on. There is only Ozai in this relationship. Azula sees this now, and it breaks her. He gives her the title of Fire Lord, but it's essentially worthless now because she still has to answer to him. It's what she wanted. However, she is still under Ozai's rule as he made a more superior title for himself.

It was a blow to her ego.

Now she is seeing her mother because she had always wanted her mother's love, but Ozai was the one who kept that away. He saw how Ursa's influence on Zuko had made his son weak. He corrected that with Azula. Let's be fair and say that daughters tend to idolize their fathers (coming from personal experience here), which is not bad in most cases, but it's really bad when dealing with a narcissist. That's why Azula breaks. And it's heartbreaking because we learn she is a victim of grooming.

Now, on to the next part.

The Netflix Adaptation

The mental breakdown has already started in the first season.

The signs are there, and it's glorious.

Ozai is actively seen pitting his children against each other. He keeps mentioning how Zuko is the one who found the Avatar, which is only fueling Azula's fire. Her anger is going to lead her down the road to hell, and it's going to be more chaotic than in the OG. Like I don't have much to say about it now, but if season 2 and 3 happen, it's gonna be fun.

I am a huge fan of seeing the slow cracking of the mask. So we will see how this goes.

While she is still conniving, Ozai sees it and throws Zuko in her face to edge her on. It's wonderful and as I said in my analysis of Ozai, he is a shit father for doing this. Why? Because it's all about him. He does not care and he is only in for his endgame.

Geeze, I went on forever with this. There are way better commentaries on this, but I'm way too lazy to go on and on forever. I have a story to write, and apparently, I'm doing a relationship analysis on Mai and Zuko next.

It's on my list of things to do.

[trekscribbles]

I'm rewatching season 2 of Almost Paradise (spoilers) and was working on something else while it was on in the background, got to the Waterboarder episode and did a spit take because why is Zuko trying to kill Alex? Dante Basco?? On my cheesy Leverage-adjacent show?? Amazing. Thank you, casting people, you're the best <3

[worstoftimesbestofcrimes]

zukka rwrb au. think about it.

[redtsundere-writes]

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[twilight-skies]

Haven’t even finished the series but here’s my first official ATLA headcanon: when the state of world has reached modern times, like another seventy-hundred years after TLOK, there is a widely critically-acclaimed musical theater production known as “Aang: The Last Airbender” a historical drama retelling of the journeys of the Avatar and companions that ended the Hundred Year War. Idk I just really love the idea of people in the far future retelling this absolutely surreal part of history with the same themes of “the world turned upside down” “history has its eyes on (us)” “the narrative/the story they will write some day”and “who live who dies who tells your story”

[iworshipsappho]

i don't need therapy. i need dick - zuko or alex probably

[vraska-theunseen]

aaron ehasz LOVES to have a scene in a cartoon where a character stands outside in the middle of a storm and begs to be struck by lightning

[juniperhillpatient]

thinking about how in blue mountain state alex & mary jo were like we canNNOT let sammy ever find out about us omg & then he walked in on them having sex & just jumped into the bed like “hell yeah” what was wrong with that show

[roots-of-asphodel]

you can tell its been ages since i watched legend of korra last time i didn't even realise iroh was voiced by dante basco