#avatar the last airbender ursa

[randombook4idk]

"i love complex characters" y'all can barely handle the characters parents.

EDIT: This post is about characters parents who care about their kids and do their best but make mistakes and parents who aren't great and have flaws but get mischaracterized way worse in fanfiction

[worst-mother-throwdown]

The propaganda for Ursa is plain wrong, not to mention incredibly sexist. Yes, she DID abandon her children with their abusive father, but it was either that or let them be killed as Ozai suspected she cheated on him with her former lover. That's right, Ozai forced Ursa to marry him while she was already engaged to another man and it's heavily implied (as much as it can be in a comic for a younger audience) that he r*ped her, so Azula and Zuko were not even conceived consensually. Ursa had her memories taken away by a spirit, go figure. She DID get them back later though, despite how much pain it caused her, and did regret her actions.

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[demaparbat-hp]

Arsonist's Lullaby

[tadpole-art]

Little turtle duck :)

[goldenvulpine]

I want to clear up a mistake people make with Azula and Ursa.

Ursa didn’t play favorites.

Ursa didn’t think Azula was a monster.

Ursa simply, unequivocally, just didn’t enable Azula’s worst traits like Ozai did.

Ozai’s favorite child was Azula, but Ursa still loved her more.

Because enabling isn’t love.

What did Ozai’s enabling do? It made Azula into the type of person to never have any loyal friends. It made the type of person that Mai and Tai Lee would betray at the risk of their own lives.

Ursa pushed Azula to be with her friends. To be with Zuko. Ozai pushed Ursa away, and both kids suffered for it. Azula became a sadist, enjoying seeing her brother get burned—while Zuko was pushed away because he cared for his people.

Azula thought her mom hated her because her mom was the only one who cared enough to tell her no.

[memopmiff]

Show the baby!

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

so my friend had the most insane take today

edit: to anyone who wants to further pick my beautiful companion’s brain, please refer to i still worship the flame by @sketchbonked on ao3, a zukka retelling of atla if zuko joined team avatar from the very beginning.

[late-draft]

I sketched out the Fire Nation royal family, it's curious to follow who resembles whom physically and which traits got passed

[charlesoberonn]

[bluespiritshonour]

how zuko trying to help azula would go like

[longing-for-rain]

I don’t understand why people think Zuko was “acting like Ozai” by thinking that killing Ozai was the best option.

I mean.

Deciding to murder a Fire Lord because it’s objectively the best option given the situation is more of Ursa’s thing.

Momma’s boy Zuko as always.

[muguathepapaya]

What, you never saw season 4? Where the gaang goes on a hunt for Zuko’s mum, they learn about his scar, he doesn’t immediately take the throne BECAUSE HES SIXTEEN, GIVE THE KID A BREAK OMG, aang has character development and reaches the avatar state through personal sacrifice, and the adults don’t leave rebuilding a post-war economy to literal children? What a shame.

anyways, give me mama-bear Ursa, who was in hiding and reluctantly takes the throne to make a better world for her son now that Ozai mysteriously died. (She has ten plus years experience of living at fire nation court, she’s got this) here

[worst-mother-throwdown]

BRACKET 1

Round 1

Propaganda under the cut, but feel free to add yours in the reblogs

TW: child/animal neglect

Ursa propaganda

(I couldn't find the panel, sorry. But I think the one I chose is close enough?)

Rainflower propaganda

[demaparbat-hp]

Forget about canon, I want Kyoshi Warrior Ursa.

[m-r-moth]

not in front of the kids..

fire hazard sibling parents..

[cultofthewyrm]

Fire Nation Royal Family by Denver Balbaboco