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[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

Azulaang parallels

Air and Water were the easiest elements for Aang to learn while had the most trouble adapting to the Earth and Fire.

Fire and Earth were the easiest elements for Azula to learn while she is the most distant and ignorant of Air and Water.

(Although she couldn't literally bend earth, she was the most fixated and knowledgeable of the earth and was able to take over two whole earth cities, bend the Dai Li to her will, and no-sells Toph's lie detector skills. Katara takes her out almost twice without even needing bloodbending.)

Then there's this whole thing of mine about Aang's year being the 10,000th year, Vaatu influencing Sozin to begin the war and Ozai is the dark avatar but only because his true identity is actually Vaatu. This would make Aang and Azula spiritual foils.

[firenaition]

I've read several Azulaang AUs where Aang gets Azula to open and master all of her chakras. Each with their own take on what's blocking them.

What do you think is blocking all of Azula's chakras? What's your take?

i love these kinds of fics! i think previous authors have hit the nail on the head and done the topic justice already but i'll take a shot at it :D

earth chakra, blocked by fear: shoutout to azula she gotta have the craziest abandonment issues the four nations have ever seen. her fear of betrayal, both from others and her own mind, forces every action to be so controlled that her iron grip messes with the natural flow of her chi. (cut to aang, kissing her forehead and telling her it's gonna be okay etc etc)

water chakra, blocked by guilt: i think this one would be tied closely to her mistreatment of zuko. i truly don't think azula has much room for guilt, but deep down she's thought about how her big brother was just a kid, too, and she didn't have to make an enemy out of him.... and eventually this chakra could be blocked by her guilt over striking aang down as well

fire chakra, blocked by shame: there are obvious takes on this (the agni kai, ozai) but i'd like to think this chakra is blocked by her anger & humiliation from the betrayals at boiling rock and from being bested by katara... failure at the hands of other girls who didn't have to give up their compassion for power.... her pride has never been more wounded... (she is in dire need of a sleepover)

air chakra, blocked by grief: ursa :( ozai :( the relationship she could've had with zuko :( the love and support she wanted from iroh :( all the blood sweat and tears she put into being the most invaluable weapon the fire nation has ever seen, for the sake of her father and her country, only for it all to fall apart in a single day :((

sound chakra, blocked by lies: i think the biggest lie azula tells herself is that she's so far past the point of redemption that she has no choice but to be alone and lean into cruelty. (which aang would show her to be completely untrue!)

light chakra, blocked by illusion: maybe too obvious but i feel like this one's gotta be blocked by azula's ingrained justification of fire nation imperialism / what she believes to be inherent superiority over the other nations, right? like she needs to work on undoing that ideology to truly move on

thought chakra, blocked by earthly attachments: azula has such a concrete idea of undying loyalty that she needs to let go of the idea that people are 'hers' — not her pawns, not her toy soldiers — but rather her friends, family, etc. that she's allowed to just feel normal about! (except aang.... how could she possibly be normal about him)

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

Welcome to the club pal,

Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk you into supporting Azulaang and the Atla book 4: air headcanon, featuring the dark avatar Ozai. Because Zutara's execution wouldn't work without that book 4 and it's become my goal to make Azulaang and the dark avatar Ozai concept be as popular as Zutara.

I might just start shipping Zutara…

[linkspooky]

Just a quick update, the Video Essay on Bleach is taking longer than I thought so I have to extend the hiatus on this blog from writing Meta. However, I still want to keep this blog active and I'll be posting work in progresses of my fanfics regularly and try to at least keep a consistent update schedule.

Also, if you leave comments or questions in my inbox on my fanfics I will give you really long author's notes. Especially for people who want clarification on Burn this City Down, my Azulaang fic because the dreamlike surrealism admittedly makes it a little bit confusing. I will try to strike a better balance between having a clear plot and also portraying Azula and Lio as unreliable narrators from now on.

If you're interested in my fics you can check out my ao3 account here, and my askbox is always open. I'm grateful to anyone who takes an interest in my fics.

I'm going to delete any asks that ask me for metas, but I'll try to answer questions on writing advice or asking me for shorter opinion answers. I'm really not interested in discussing the flaws of Jujutsu Kaisen though so those are gonna get deleted too. If you didn't like the ending I respect your opinion but like, I'm happy with the ending I still really enjoy the manga.

Also I just want to communicate with my followers more and keep this blog active even though I can't write meta for awhile. So please drop in asks I'll try to get to them faster than I usually do.

[hellisanhonourstudent]

001 ship meme -> azulaang

when I started shipping it if I did: When watching some S3 episodes.

my thoughts: I do like them,but I'm more of a low-key shipper.

What makes me happy about them: Meta written by fans.

What makes me sad about them: Not much.

things done in fanfic that annoys me: I usually don't read fics with AtLA ships.

things I look for in fanfic: -

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Katara to have a fling with Zuko,and Aang to date around. I mean,he's a charming sweetheart.

My happily ever after for them: More or less what happened in TLoK,but with better writing. The idea of them rebuilding stuff after the war and dealing with personal issues while keeping an united front is what I wanted for Kataang.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: They switch depending on the mood.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Figuring out fun,banal uses for their bending,specially when relating to their cultures(Aang and Katara were victims of genocide after all)

[osdove]

why i love azulaang

I got an ask earlier on what got me into Azulaang.  For me, what got me into it isn’t really related to why I love it so much, so that’s going into this post.  Azulaang from a narrative perspective, their roles in the universe, story, and as foils to each other.

Side note, but this got LONG, so it’s under a cut and thank you to anyone who reads this all oh god oh no

In the canonical series itself (aka, the show), Azulaang actually doesn’t get much interaction besides battles.  I believe the only times they directly address each other is in The Chase, and maybe DOBS-though, day was more of Sokka, Toph AND Aang talking with Azula.  The only one-on-one exchange of dialogue they have is in The Chase.  It’s where Azula introduces herself, and Aang tells her that he’s going to fight.  He’s not just prey that will go with her easily.  A nice contrast to the predator and prey theme of the episode.  Azula is relenting, never stopping in her pursuit, and though he and the Gaang run and run, eventually he decides to face her alone.  I think this is a good summary of their dynamic in s2.

But that was actually just a tangent.  See, the main form of storytelling we see for Azulaang is.  Well.  Physical.  They don’t talk, they fight.  Which is natural, since they’re enemies, but Aang talks a lot.  Like, a lot a lot, even in fights.  Azula, too, she makes verbal jabs and insults to Zuko in their fights and Suki too.  But when she’s fighting Aang, there’s... nothing? And same with Aang.  Almost all of their storytelling, their dynamics, is told through fights, and seeing as how ATLA is an action series, fights have just as much meaning in the storytelling as anything else.

You might be thinking, “but isn’t that just them fighting?  doesn’t that mean they hate each other?  you can’t have a dynamic out of fight scenes alone!” you fool.  You foolish fool.  1) Enemies to lovers.  2) You put two prodigies of their respective elements, one a princess groomed from birth to be her father’s right-hand, the other destined to become the most powerful person on earth, both designed to be weapons by the adults around them, and you think that fighting/bending WOULDN’T be as much as a form of communication, an expression of themselves, as a conversation around a campfire?

Azula killing Aang at the end of S2 is the last time they really fight, which I think is pretty interesting.  I’m sure there’s more I could say about it from a narrative perspective, but that’s more on post-show potential than anything else, plus brain not co-operating atm.

And, yeah, I gotta bring attention to their positions as narrative foils.  Parallels.  Whatever.  They’re similar.  Like, really similar.  And of course, Zuko + Azula & Aang + Katara + Sokka all have similarities that can tie them to one another, but Azulaang is one of the ones which I think doesn’t get the commentary it deserves. (side-note, but I wish more people discussed Azula & Katara in how they approach being ‘women’ despite being very young in the absence of their mother, where Katara puts herself in a motherly role because she and Sokka both have a hole to fill, and Azula makes herself seem older than she truly is, lipsticks and make-up and long nails and all, because Ursa leaving took the last of her childhood away)

So, let’s look at them:

Young prodigies of their respective bending arts (for Aang, his airbending of course).  They are recognized for this and praised for so.  With Azula, it’s shown in Zuko Alone when Ozai shows her off, and also her introduction scenes in s2 to show off just how formidable she was.  With Aang, it’s the fact he’s a master at such a young age.  Of course, there’s differences too.  Azula’s natural talent is honed by the adults around her.  She is being raised for war.  Aang’s is, well, I assume normal for Air Nomads.  The monks knew he was the Avatar, but given that he didn’t find out until he was 12, I don’t think that really affected his airbending.

You take these prodigies, and you put them in war.  They are given responsibilities that seem impossible to handle.  No adults can handle them, after all.  Aang must end the war that’s been happening for a hundred years.  He must be the one to defeat the Fire Lord - something that Roku couldn’t do.  Azula must capture her brother and uncle.  In time, she gives herself more responsibilities: kill the Avatar.  Conquer Ba Sing Se (which Iroh himself couldn’t do).  Aang must help end the war.  He’s a key part in ending it.  Azula must end the war.  She’s a key part in ending it.  They are on different sides of the battle.

The adults around them, the same ones who give them these responsibilities, they do not see them other than their power.  Generals look at Aang and the Avatar State, and decide to use him as a weapon.  Ozai looks at Azula and her talents, and decides to raise her as a weapon.  These two in particular get this more than any other characters in the series I think.  Absolutely there’s other characters who are strong, prodigies, young, with the world on their shoulders.  But none are quite as... not sure about the word.  I don’t wanna say dehumanized.  Weaponized?  As Azula and Aang.

Thing is, though, that Aang has unconditional love on his side.  When he was younger, he had Monk Gyatso, he had Appa.  He had the other kids in the Temples, he had friends around the world, he was allowed to be a normal kid.  Azula didn’t have that.  Ozai’s ‘love’ was conditional.  She believed that Ursa thought she was a monster.  Yes, she had friends in Mai and Ty Lee, but whether they began as genuine friendships or not, they ended with her clinging onto them through fear.  Aang had the Gaang throughout the series.  People joined him, he made relationships, he was loved by so many because of his journey.  Everyone left Azula.

So, you take these two characters, these foils, who are so close to understanding each other but one’s missing the key that makes the other stand victorious in the end of the show.  Azula’s story is a tragedy, Aang’s is that of a hero.  And I think the beauty of that, in Azulaang, is that Aang reaches out to Azula.  Despite her killing him, the hurt she’s caused, and all their fights, Aang understands her.  Most fics and such I’ve read of this pair - well, it’s not as easy as just that.  Their relationship is a complicated rollercoaster.  Recovery and redemption does not come easy.  In those fics that don’t take place after the pair has been established already, there’s something just really.  Really hits me hard.  About Azula being forgiven, loved, and challenged, by the boy she’s killed, and the boy who won the war.

Less of a meta-note and more fluffy.  But domestic!Azulaang gives me joy.  Obviously they’d presumably have responsibilities with the world post-war (married office couple talking shit about governors vibes), but I fully believe that Aang would take Azula on a Appa-trip (atla universe equivalent of a road trip) and show her the world outside of the Fire Nation Palace, war council rooms, and yknow.  War.

Also, I like bullying Ozai, and if there’s one thing that would cause him more pain than finding out his son’s partner was a nonbender with a worse sense of humor than Iroh from the Southern Water Tribe, it would be his daughter, the one he molded to fit into his absolute image, dating the AVATAR, a monk, who took away his bending and keeps showing him a weird marble trick, “Azula make him stop please this is torture, what do you MEAN you want me to spend time with your future son-in-law, i am NOT allowing you to - DONT WALK AWAY FROM ME, HELP ME”

Zuko isn’t getting bullied as much, but I think Azula and Aang would love teasing him.  Affectionately.  He wouldn’t mind as much because it comes from a place of love and care.

This shit took like an hour to write jfc

[zuko-always-lies]

Everything you say is extremely valid and Aang and Katara's background as genocide survivors is obviously extremely different from Azula's background as being from a family of colonizers.

That being said, this is why I feel there's some similarities between the ships. Note that for Azulaang to work at all, Aang and Azula would have to get to know each other to some extent before they began a romance:

Both Azula and Katara are associated with the color blue

Both of them are powerful female benders from a different nation than Aang and slightly older than him.

Both Katara and Azula were to some degree expected to "take care of" their older brother after losing their mothers.

Both Katara and Azula are young female benders who have to struggle to achieve recognition in patriarchal societies (this is very obvious for Katara but it's also true for Azula. No other Fire Nation leader is female).

Both Katara and Azula grew up with adult-sized responsibilities being placed on them.

Likewise they both feel like they have to act as the "mature" ones

Both of them have left their marks on Aang's body. Azula when she nearly killed him, Katara when she saved him. Obviously it's not the same thing but there is an element of similarity.

Aang represented freedom to Katara, from their very first meeting, even before she knew he was the Avatar. It's easy to imagine him representing the same to Azula, who grew up in such a restrictive environment.

Both Azula and Katara are people who are powerful enough to greatly aid Aang in his Avatar duties. I'm not really sure if I'm a fan of a fic presenting things this way, but plenty of Azulaang fics do.

Water is the element of change and adaptability, but for me Katara represents power and passion rather than change and adaptability. Fire is the element of power and passion, but for me Azula represents adaptability and change rather than power and passion. I guess there's maybe this interesting thematic cross-connection going on here.

So I don't think that Azulaang and Kataang are in any way identical, but it just seems to me like they're the most similar Aang-ships, more similar to each other than stuff like Aang/Toph, Aang/Suki, Aang/Mai, Aang/Ty Lee, Aang/Yue, etc. are to either one.

And again I don't mean to argue with you. I find everything you say to be extremely valid. I just wanted to explain why the ships felt a little similar to me.

Also headcanoning Azula as a lesbian is an especially good reason not to like Azulaang. I headcanon her as lesbian myself.

Anyways, thanks for answering my questions! And if I'm being annoying, just tell me.

I don't mean to bombard you with asks or anything like that, but are there any noncanon ships you really like? Or even ones you really hate, aside from Zvtara?

when it comes to non-canon ships there are very very few i actually fuck with or can even see the vision behind. i guess to put it simply, if i can’t see it happening in canon then i can’t find it in me to ship them, and even for the ships where i can see it happening, i don’t actively seek out content for them

non-canon ships i like

katara x jiang -> katara likes em bald and pretty idk what else to tell yall. i am fully convinced they had a lil thing for each other but there was a heist going on so they didn’t have time to worry about that

kuzaang -> i can totally see pre-iceberg aang and kuzon having an innocent early childhood crush on each other. the kind where holding hands is like legendary stuff

tyzula -> azula just gives off repressed lesbian energy and i can’t help but interpret their lil conversation in the beach episode as two gay girls who kinda like each other but dont realize it’s romantic and who also don’t wanna pass off their flirting as flirting so it’s all disguised as straight girl talk. “omg you’re like soooo pretty” and “omg you should totally ask him (me) out! you could be with anybody in this room cause you’re soooo pretty (i’m including me in that).” not to mention the way ty lee getting so much male attention hits azula close to home. i think two things can be true at once where azula is both perplexed she hasn’t had the same luck and is upset that ty lee specifically is getting attention (cause lesbian)

teoaang -> more so in the sense i could see teo maybe having a lil crush on aang

non-canon ships i don’t like (other than zutara)

(also i’m talking explicitly about how i feel about the ships, not the shippers. i don’t care if you ship them)

azutara -> just no please

sokka x azula -> i have to look away

azulaang -> it’s getting painful (really good fan art tho i must admit)

zukka -> this one doesn’t bother me as much and i can consume fanfics where they are a background pair, but i mean very very background. like they’re only ever mentioned and they contribute nothing to the story 😭

zukaang -> i made a joke once about how this ship has potential in a tier list, so this may seem hypocritical, but i made that tier list (along with every tier list posted on this acc) with an irl who got really into atla after the netflix version came out, and we died laughing putting zukaang in a tier of their own. idk it was funny as fuck in the moment and we were kinda greening out, so every time i look back at that list i giggle a lil bit. and i kind of have this ship to thank for that memory so i can’t bring myself to hate it hate it just because it makes me laugh so much and reminisce on that moment. also, great fan art. there’s this one artist who drew aang and zuko so adorably for their au and it is admittedly one of my favorite atla fanarts. but, overall, i don’t ship them together like at all

taang -> the most sibling coded pair to ever sibling code. i absolutely can’t with this one. like this is genuinely in the top worst atla ships of all time

katoph -> this just feels like taang 2.0 to me

[writebecauseyoucannotbreathe]

What if orange is Azula's favorite color, but no one ever asks her something childish like "what's your favorite color?" and even if they did it's not like she can answer anything but red.

Red is her mother's favorite color. She likes a cherry hue the same color as Azula's lipstick. Her father likes burgundy and her uncle likes the red jasmine leaves

Her brother's favorite color is one of dragon's skin. The kind on their flag. It suits him. It's proper.

But Azula likes orange the color of sunrise and the color of her flames before mother left and father changed.

She envies the dyes belonging to the Air Nomads but it's not like they can trade with them anymore and it's too late to change the past. She was born into the war. It's too late. It's too late.

[likealittleheartbeat]

It is an important fact in the atla canon that Zuko (nor Azula) did not become a romantic partner with anyone whose culture the fire nation actively oppressed. But it’s not specifically because of any dynamics within the show. The trope of the “converted colonizer” romancing the “Indian princess” has a long and violent history with ties to real world experiences of violence. It is often used narratively to emasculate and/or devalue indigenous men’s vitality. At the same time, it has presented indigenous women as a prize to be won by liberal colonizers, and typically connotes the native people’s submission toward and assimilation into the colonizing culture. Avatar’s choice to exclude this trope (and satirize it in the Emerald Island Players) stands out in the history of media about empire and colonization.

However, what fans should take into account is that people, both colonizer and indigenous, throughout history and throughout our present world and in (fan)fiction, can and have entered into meaningful and even transformative relationships across the lines of colonized and colonizer. The relationships, whatever form they take, present specific challenges and tensions, of course, but they don’t cease existing just because they’re over-represented in media. People are not ideologies. Neither, at their best, are characters. Shipping and creating fanwork with colonized/colonizer relationships can thoughtfully engage imperial ideology; or it can entirely focus on other aspects of the characters because good characters are like people with an abundance of facets. Limiting character dynamics and possibilities to simply their ‘racial’ identity is not the hot take you think it is. People and characters need to live, with all the complexity that involves. All we can ask ourselves as creators (of characters and life) is why did someone’s heart lead them here (or is it even truly their heart and not a history of other’s voices that’s speaking to them)? And once they’ve chased it, what kind of love and pain do they feel having followed it? 

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

Aang's wife deserving a quite, peaceful life after the war and learn to be a healer and peacemaker, that almost sounds like a fitting arc for Azula than it does Katara.

Now, there's no shame of wanting to retire and raise a family but how they went about that with Katara doesn't feel right.

The first and most infamous example is how there's not one statue to her name. Others include not doing anything to fight off the invading north and showing up to her granddaughter's tattoo ceremony thing.

The writer's excuse for this is "back problems." Back problems or not, no way would she let history repeat itself, not after learning to grow more powerful since the last time we saw her. Zuko is two years older and yet is still flying around kicking cans.

Katara always had a desire to fight. For her whole life, she felt powerless and prayed that the avatar would return. Sometime after doing so, she learned to rely on herself more.

She detested the thought of just being a healer and wanted to fight and protect others. Once she gets into fights, you can tell she excels at it and enjoys doing so. It empowers her.

At the same time though, she understands the importance of healing and wants that to be a unisex concept as well as combat.

...

Then there's Azula. Like Katara, she too excels at fighting but we see how it extracts a heavy toll.

She's almost had all the power in the world but was raised to be a struggling perfectionist trying to live up to impossible expectations.

Contrary to popular belief. She's not bloodthirsty by choice. She just finds being so to be necessary. She NEEDS to be a fighter and she NEEDS to take pleasure in it.

It's clear to see that she secretly hates the expectations put on her, she hates being nothing but a weapon and hates being considered a monster, despite her hardest to convince herself that it is what it is. Her latest solo comic shows more detail about it.

It's also evident in how she willingly disobeys Ozai's orders to bring Zuko in as a prisoner and instead gives him his old life back. She tries to put the bad blood between her and Zuko behind them.

In the beach, she tries to act normally and take dating advice. She explains the thought of being a monster in a somber tone before forcing herself to act indifferent. Peaceful adjustments and social norms are foreign to Azula but she has considered getting into them from time to time.

A recent theory suggests that the spiritually attuned Fire Sage woman Korra met up with who tends to heards of sky bison is Azula herself. If it's true then she's successfully got the peaceful life she deserves and secretly wanted and is doing her part in undoing all that she has wrought.

Would I like her to also have statues, fight when necessary even at an old age, and be ambitious enough to want to be a Phoenix Queen before and after marrying Aang? Yes, definitely.

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

One of my Azulaang takes has her take up the mantle of Pheonix Queen. Ozai designed that mantle to transcend all nations including his own. With this title and the avatar by her side, she'll go from belonging nowhere to belonging everywhere.

Even without Azulaang, Aang has the potential to be a good listener for Azula if he wasn't written to be a 24/7 Katara simp.

He too knows the feeling of never truly belonging anywhere anymore. Azula, of course, will be reluctant to trust him and believe that his nation deserved its grim fate for propaganda reasons, but I picture Aang saving her from any life-threatening situations and this would cause her to rethink everything she's ever known.

You can NEVER belong

You know, I was watching Lilo & Stitch the other day when something sort of dawned on me. Mainly, I believe I figured out why, at least to me, Azula's handling in the comics was so horrible.

Her storyline basically was "you don't belong anywhere".

Think about it. Her brother shoved her in an asylum and basically saw her as a tool. Her mother replaced her with a half-daughter. Her friends hate her guts. And she has absolutely NOBODY in the post-war era who is willing to hear her out or treat her anything less than a monster.

Going back to Lilo & Stitch, this was something that Jumba flat out told Stitch when he ran away into the jungle. That he was meant to destroy, and he didn't belong with anyone. Mind you, this is after Stitch leaves Lilo and Nani cause he believed he screwed things up so badly, the two are gonna be separated.

What the comics did was basically validate Jumba's comment to Stitch, only with Azula. That because she was raised to be a weapon and conditioned by her father, she was a burden and didn't belong in society.

...please note that the comics were geared towards kids. Some of which are probably gonna be atypical and struggling with the same stuff Azula or Stitch were grappling with.

Imagine them reading this comic...and walking away with them believing that like Azula, they're good for nothing. People like Zuko can belong because they fit easier into society.

If you identify with Azula though, the comics might as well have a big sign that says "we don't want you around".

[firenaition]

[ecojojo]

Avatar: tla, Azula 🔸

[ilikepjo24]

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Istg if no one sends me a link of this idea in a fic form by the end of this week I'll riot.

I'd write it by myself but I'm suffering from a deadly sickness called lazyness so...

A fandom-style Azula's trial for War Crimes:

Azula has just recovered from her breakdown, not so well, but well enough to be dragged to the court, in chains.

She has no lawyers or parties because she doesn't deserve them.

Anyway, the Courtroom Deputy being conceded for Members of the White Lotus and they are: former child solider trainer Jeong Jeong, former military officer Piandao who won-many-battles for the FN, Chey the bomer, Bumi who liberated Omashu through mass of destruction and Pakku (all got pardon). 

The Judge is, the Uncle everyone loves, welcome the great Dragon of the West, General Iroh!

Trial begin:

"Princess Azula of the Imperialist Fire Nation, are you ready to face the consequences of your own actions?"

Azula stands alone in the middle, eyes on her. She said nothing.

Iroh: "whether you're ready or not it doesn't matter, you committed crimes against humanity and especially against my nephew Fire Lord Zuko, the idealist with a pure heart and unquestionable honor, the hero the Fire Nation needs but doesn't deserve."

Azula almost rolled her eyes but couldn't and continued her silence.

"Your first victim would testify on your hideous crimes. Ironically how she was capable of forgiving Zuko who burnt down her village without any respect of its war neutral policy, but not you, just like Zuko deserves..."

Suki stands, hatred blazing from her eyes. She was sitting behind Ty Lee the Kyoshi Warrior and Mai whom she just played Pai Sho with (both helped in defeating her and her sisters while taunting them about it).

Suki: "She defeated me and my sisters and put us in prison because she claimed "any allies of the Avatar are her enemies". I can never forgive her for that."

Mai and Ty Lee: "we committed the highest possible treason in front of dozen of witnesses yet we suffered the mildest consequence for it. Clearly Azula is the absolute worst. She also emotionally abused us since we were 5 years old."

Iroh: "since I'm also on Zuko's party, I can confirm how she was responsible for Ozai's neglect and abuse of Zuko, had she not been so competitive and talented, Ozai would've given Zuko the attention he deserves."

Azula only managed: "What this trial is even about-"

"An evil seductress who committed genocide and left mountain of corpses is not allowed to speak!"

"I- what? I didn't do that!"

"It doesn't matter what you did and didn't do. We're judging you."

One of the Deputy: "we're not judging your actions, but your disorder. If you didn't do the evil thing, it simply means you didn't get a chance to do it. And therefore you will be charged accordingly."

Iroh: "we've come to an agreement that your sentence for Ba Sing Se conquest would be a death sentence, but because we're merciful you will only get a life in prison."

Azula: "but what about you?"

"We got pardon."

"And we can't get to be good people and get along if there wasn't someone to blame for everything."

[writebecauseyoucannotbreathe]

Hi hi!! So I've been neck deep in azulaang for a while now, and your blog is a GODSEND. Do you have any blog recs for azulaang content? or maybe a discord server?

Tumblr is kinda dead so a lot of rare pair blogs deactivated. The ones remaining are on and off and you can find them through the azulaang tag. There are some azulaang shippers on twitter who still create content, you may have to search aangzula instead to find them. Stay away from fandom discord servers. Nuff said.

Not the answer you're looking for but since Avatar The Last Airbender was added to Netflix there has been a lot of toxicity and ship bashing. People have been incredibly rude & entitled and I guess small ships look like targets to them. I'd recommend sticking to the ao3 tag.

If you produce azulaang content feel free to rec yourself in the replies.

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

Azulaang - Azula’s chakra ideas

I've read several Azulaang AUs where Aang decides to temporarily be a Guru and gets Azula to open and master her chakras. Each stories had there own interpretation of what turmoils could be blocking her chakras. I've listed my own theores about those turmoils and would like to know your thoughts.

Earth. Deals with survival. Blocked by fear: Her worse and greatest fears are rejection and abandoned. The way she almost begs Ozai not to treat her like Zuko already makes it obvious. There's also the idea she had fear of her mother thinking she's a monster and fear of her ideologies being nothing but cruel lies.

Water. Deals with pleasure. Blocked by guilt: The context of the hallucinations combined with how badly she takes betrayal such as Mai and Ty Lee's and when she thought Zuko was angry with her at the beach could heavily imply that despite her tough exterior, Azula may be harboring some guilt and remorse about how she acted in the past; but she tries bottling up her guilt, supress it and keeps telling herself that her atrocities are justified because Ozai approves them and her. But that guilt is finding other ways to be expressed.

Fire. Deals with willpower. Blocked by shame: Her fiasco in agni Kai during Sozin's Comet and her failure to uphold her status as fire lord and the perfect daughter as Ozai expected would certainly make her feel ashamed and humiliated. Since then, she spends her time in the comics trying to "redeem herself," fulfill Ozai's wish by various methods and "reclaim her honor." Sound familiar? It's also possible that the thought of her mother hating her also makes her feel ashamed. Fortunately, pride isn't the opposite of shape but its source. Only humility can be the cure for shame.

Air. Deals with love. Blocked by grief. This, at first, was difficult to decipher. She didn't act all grief-stricken over Lu Ten's but she did act angry and disappointed at Iroh for falling back instead of pushing forward. As if she expected her uncle to avenge his son. Her seeing him serve tea to the people who murdered her cousin didn't make his case any easier. Any non-death related grief she may have is her loss of her closet friends, the disappearance of her mother and the fall of the nation she thought was glorious. But that loss can be reborn in the form of new love. Despite Azula's jealousy of Ursa's love for Zuko. She is willing to stick her neck out for him, give him a chance to return back home, she advises him to be more careful when he secretly speaking to Iroh despite it being treacherous, she brings Zuko to join her at the beach because the beach house is "too depressing." Thankfully; Zuko does state in the search that no matter how bad their family is, he'll never turn his back on her.

Sound. Deals with truth. Blocked by lies: Azula claims that Ursa thought she was a monster, this thought process was basically what helped shape her character and her mental meltdown but literally everyone, even her own delusions tell her otherwise. Which made we wonder; where does this whole monster thing come from? Is it another expression of her guilt and shame? I then made the theory that it was Ozai who told Azula that Ursa thought she was a monster and has been internally believing it since. It makes sense if you think about it. Ozai being a warmonger, he'll want every weapon he can get. If this particular idea is enough to nearly give her a seizure then just imagine her reaction about it actually a lie and it was told by the person she trusts and wishes to gain validation from.

Light. Deals with insight. Blocked by illusion: Growing up, Azula was told that the fire nation was the most advanced civilization in history, and the war was a justifiable way of "sharing that greatness. She truly believed that the fire nation was superior enough that the world only needed her nation and it deserved to rule the world. She also believes "fear is the only reliable way" to control people, and it's worked for her for some time until Mai reveals she's always loved Zuko more than she feared her. She may not have ever feared Azula in the first place. What happens when people fear you too long? That fear turns into hatred. Azula never considered that her innate desires to be loved by friends and family with her attitude of being feared and respected could never go hand-in-hand. She also chases the illusion of perfection. Based on her "almost isn't good enough." mentality, Azula is expected to be perfect in every way, even the most light-hearted mistakes are like a death sentence. It was only a matter of time before her imperfections would catch up with her.

Thought. Deals with pure cosmic energies. Blocked by earthly attachments: It's Ozai. For her entire life, everything Azula's ever done, has been in her father's name. She regularly dumps all her trust, her sanity, her identity and her free will onto him and is mentally reliant on him. Azula, ultimately, desires love and acceptence, regardless of where it comes from, so Ozai's show of appreciation over her talents and personality was enough to win Azula over and she proceeded to maintain his validation at any cost. Even in smoke and shadow when she no longer seeks the throne for herself or break Ozai out of prison. She tries to get Zuko to be the fire lord Ozai would be. She even leads a secret society named after her father. I made up a future event about Zuko convincing Azula to give up this crusade but decides to go after Aang and have the avatar be the "Ozai figure." Azula and Aang eventually enter a psychological war, with Aang on the winning side. After that heat settles and Ozai officially betrays Azula. Aang and Azula get started on their chakra sessions.

Does this sum it up alright?