#fuck yang

[phoenix-king-ozai]

The Ozai, Ursa, & Ikem romance debacle…

I truly honestly hope that the Netflix adaptation doesn’t adapt The Search when it comes to Ozai and Ursa’s relationship. Which, thank Agni seems not to fully be the case. It seems that LA Ozai does care for Ursa and his family members, even Zuko. He show respect to Lu Ten and Iroh and even cried when burning Zuko. He even mentioned the “soft” mother Ursa when talking to Zuko and referenced her when saying “don’t talk to me about loss” Showing that he had feeling for her.

The Search is very poorly written and turn Ozai into a very piss-poor caricature of an evil abusive bad man for no good or compelling reason yet even fails to deliver on that interpretation of Ozai and Ursa’s complex and compelling relationship.

This song is basically the Urzai relationship in the ATLA comics!

If The Search wanted to turn Ozai into a compelling, vicious, dangerous, and cruel monstrous villain in Ursa’s and our own eyes. Then why didn’t Yang have Ozai kill Ikem when he THREATENED his father, Fire Lord’s Azulon life in defiance due to his love for Ursa? Yet, for some reason, he had Ozai spare Ikem’s life due to Ursa's “love” for Ozai which Ozai knows is a blatant lie and stupidly desperate!

The realistic and emotionally heart-wrenching scenario would be for Ozai to march towards Ikem, Ursa tries to stop Ozai, however Ozai scarred Ursa’s wrist by burning her via firebending and then backhanded her causing her lip to bleed. Then proceed to execute Ikem by immolation in front of Ursa’s very eyes. This very demented, sinister, vile, and cruel brutal punishment for DARING to raise his hand against Fire Lord Azulon, Fire Prince Ozai, and the Fire Sages wishes would had created a compelling narrative regarding Ursa having complete and justified loathing of her betroth Ozai.

It was extremely foolish, idiotic, unreasonable, and unrealistic to have a no-named peasant like Ikem, who is not a firebender, attack the royal carriage and guards no matter how brave and noble his affection and intentions were regarding the integrity of his childhood love. Fire Lord Azulon and Fire Prince Ozai probably should have immediately immolated Ikem and his familial relations due to his affront against the Fire Lord and his son. Trying to stand up against the authoritarian, oppressive, violent, and vicious absolute monarchical regime of Fire Lord Azulon and Fire Prince Ozai should have come with immense consequences just like the fire nation rebels in Episode 3: Omashu in NATLA.

Zuko mentions that Ozai and Ursa’s along with their family used to be happy, and we saw that in Zuko's flashbacks. Yang, just decided to make Ursa a victim because in his mind: URSA WOMAN, OZAI BAD MAN, SHE MUST BE HELD, HOSTAGE!!! While Ozai and Ursa arrange marriage does make sense and was confirmed by the creators. It doesn't mean that Ozai and Ursa relationship was ALWAYS BAD, or SHE WAS KIDNAPPED! Plus, the Urzai relationship is quite normal in the antiquity of Asian societies that the Fire Nation is based on aka Shogunates of Japan and Imperial Chinese Dynasties!!!

Personally, I am afraid that the ATLA comics are going to screw up the Fire Nation Royal Family Characterization and Dynamics along with making them one-dimensional especially Ozai and Azulon. They might legit have Azulon and Ozai be abusive and beat Ilah and Ursa. I'm so doomer blackpilled regarding ATLA comics considering the Serach. This is probably why the comic writers ignore making a comic Pre-Zuko Alone flashbacks.

Ozai's harshness and ruthless regarding Zuko has nothing to do with Ursa or Ikem forbidden love! Ozai wants Zuko and Azula to both prove themselves. Ozai doesn't favor Zuko or Azula. It is about which child will succeed Sozin, Azulon, and his legacy as future Fire Lord. In fact, Ozai doesn't want Zuko or Azula to think that they are the “favorite” child. He wants Azula and Zuko to improve through competition. Because of the “only the greatest of pressures can forge diamonds” & “steel sharpen steel” mentality. Ozai has the mentality of an imperialist warlord. Ozai isn't trying to be the world's most loving and caring father but rather continue and build upon a powerful and dominant legacy that his forefathers had created before him. He wants Zuko & Azula to be cold, ruthless, heartless, vicious, and brutal imperialistic warmongers like him (Ozai), his father (Azulon), and his grandfather (Sozin).

[hello-nichya-here]

Gotta love when people try to use "Zuko would never send Azula or anyone to an abusive asylum, that's out of character" as a way to snap at Azula fans despite said storyline happening in the comics.

Buddy, we're not the ones who made that abomination of a story, Gene Yang was. Go yell at him if you're (rightfully) mad at how he completely destroyed Zuko's character, not at people that are just as mad about this shit as you are.

[cannedpeachess]

Combat moves that would one-shot the Italians:

• Orlok - hug (obviously)

*please note: use wisely, would be lethal*

• Gil - high-kick (wouldn’t even have to hurt him with it, he’d just be too impressed/turned on to move for a while)

*see also: ask about gun specs (audhd info dump = automatic forfeit)

• Dante - bite (incapacitated by sheer disgust)

*see also: generalized schoolyard-tier bullying

*see also also: summon army of birds

• Nicola - dangle Dante before pool of lava (would drop everything to go save him like the Italian Bolt that he was always meant to be)

• Roberto: bird-blanket (would forget big mad and fall asleep)

*see also: trigger villainous monologue

• Yang: brandish the cross/star of David/aum/khanda/etc.

*see also: dowse in holy water

*see also also: trap in salt circle/tie up with red string

• Marco - threaten to drag that shit out all day (would fold ‘cause no amount of money could make him care enough)

• Oliver - show him taxes Gil filed on his own (aneurysm)

*see also: paper cut (kryptonite)

*see also also: steal his glasses (bitch move)

• Leo - take away Giulia’s cooking (would waste away within minutes)

*see also: continuous infantilization (would throw tantrum and require grounding)

*see also also: call him a poopyhead (would drown in a pool of his own tears)

*see also also also: swap gunpowder gun with water gun (would gladly water fight instead)

• Luca - swarm with mosquitos (still allergic to most waters)

[victusinveritas]

[phoenix-king-ozai]

Even Toph would be able to see and tell that Zuko is Ozai’s son and she is blind!!! 😂🤣😭

how similar zuko and ozai look from side profile got me thinking:

i mean they have the same straight forehead, same brow, and the long and sharp nose. having a familial resemblance to the person you hate most in the world is real and it sucks. i imagine this bothers zuko for a long time, bc every time he looks in the mirror he's reminded of ozai.

until one day he gets socked in the face by an assassin and breaks his nose. ever since then he has a nose bump and he's very happy with it

[quimichi]

˚✦ ˑ 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐫, 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭? ִֶ 𓂃⊹ - MDNI

WARNINGS: NSFW - MDNI, Pet names, sexual behavior, name calling, some a bit rough and mean

SUMMARY: They took your virginity. Case solved.

CHARACTERS: HSR Men X F!Reader (no aged up Charas)

WORD COUNT: 13.150

Argenti

All you can do is whine as his fingers scissor and stretch you, juices dripping down. His tongue softly rubs circles around your clit like he’s painting you, a masterpiece. And you can’t help but moan out at the new pleasure. His fingers hit that spot that sends an electric jolt to your toes and back, you desperately arch with another whine. Tears prick at the corners of your eyes from the pleasure. It's overwhelming you, he promised to be gentle, and he is. But never once did he tell you how good this will all feel.

“S-Shit Argenti-, I can’t—I’m gonna—” You can’t even finish your sentence, your voice begins to crack, your hips bucking widly as he speeds up. And then you’re coming, babbling nonsense and his name like a prayer as wave after wave of pleasure washes over you. You don’t even comprehend that you squirt all over his hand and mouth, or that he’s rutting his hips against the bed and moaning into your cunt as he tastes you. Not only is it a pleasure to please you, beautiful you. It's a pleasure to be your first. It sends a wave of possessiveness through his body.

Slowly, he withdraws his fingers, his glistening fingers running up to your waist.  “Such a dirty little rose,” he murmurs as he leans down, teeth grazing across your neck, hair tickling your skin. “Youre a sight to behold, breathless, dazed...divine.”

Aventurine

“You like that, don’t you?” He asks, grip on your throat. Its not enough to hurt you, but enough for you to know his hand is there. “You like my cock stretchin’ you out, huh?” You're unable answer him, the only thing you manage are whines and moans slipping through his fingers through your throat. He'd be mean to not let you moan out like a bitch in heat after all. Aventurine smirks knowingly, continuing his assault on your insides.

“Can't believe no one ever went inside you, youre far too good. Shit-you love it too, don't you?” You whine out, hiccuping out a moan as his other hand travels down your tummy, the soft touch sending waves to your core. His fingers eventually find your clit, rubbinh the swollen skin over and over again. Your eyes glaze over and roll back, it's too much, too much!

Your vision goes white as your orgasm hits you unexpectedly, stealing the breath from your lungs as your legs shake and back arches. “Mine, ok? Youre mine, my girl. You don't mind do you? Surely you don't...look at you, sweet girl.”

Blade

“feels s’fucking good—“ you mindlessly babbles out. His large palms are stretched out on both sides of you hips, nails digging into your skin. “Such a greedy little pussy,” he groans out with another roll of his hips. “keeps suckin’ me back in…you're a little greedy slut, hm?" he teases.

You can feel his hot breath fanning your ear while his dark hair tickles your neck. The sloppy sounds that fill the room seem to only grow louder with each thrust, as your arousal practically drips down his balls. Headboard constantly hitting the wall. You wouldn't be surprised if something would break this night, and it doesn't need to be the bed.

“if you keep moaning like a bitch in heat, i won't fucking stop,” he hissed out, as he presses down on your stomach which makes you whimper in response. "Naw, look at that," he points at the bulge in your stomach, "that's me all the way inside your greedy cunt."

Boothill

"you still good, darlin?" he asked, amused, his hands moving up to grab one of your tits, giving it a squeeze with his cold hands. He hummed at your subtle nod, his fingers pinching your nipple from below with just the right amount of pressure to bring you to the edge but not send you over. He knows he could do this for hours, his stamina is much longer than yours after all, but he doesn't want to push you just yet.

"shit.." he cursed, though not out of frustration, “your pussy is driving me crazy." he whispered against your folds, the vibrations of his voice sending shivers through your entire body, it almost felt as if you were being electrocuted or something. “its so fucking pretty for no fucking reason...”

Caelus

“shiiit-just like that...” he mumbles out as he lazily guides your movements, helping you bounce yourself up and down on his cock. Hands softly gripping your hips as he guides you. He smirks when he heard your whine as a reaction to his groans, golden halflidded eyes stare up at you. He thinks you’re adorable when you’re like this, so desperate for him yet so adamant on not asking for his help. You had no idea what you were doing, well, neither does he. But you insisted on riding him.

“doing so well,” he says with a slight whine as he thrusts his hips up in time with your movements. It doesn’t take much effort for him to flip you over and have you at his mercy. Your legs are now lifted over his shoulders while his dick is fucking you even deeper, "sorry,-shit-sorry I couldn't-hold myself back much longer-!"

Dan Heng

“just as i expected, it slipped right in...” your arm immediately slung over your face to hide your embarrassment. Something about the way he talks to you has you throbbing.

“fuck, so deep inside you already.” he breathes, as he eases his way into you. He's so painfully splitting you open. You whine and whimper, it feels too good to be true. “that’s it, there’s my girl.” his raspy laugh fills the silence. “youre doing so good for me, just a bit longer, ok?”

He speeds up his thrusts, "eyes on me," he says, "you can do it, eyes on me." And when he hits just the right spot, your eyes roll back and flutter closed.

"Good girl."

Dr. Ratio

“it hurts, doesn't it?” he whispers, no mock, no tease, unusual for him. He knows it hurts, he's just deep enough inside you, balls deep.

“yes, it hurts…” you whine, eyes watering as you adjust. He’s letting you distract yourself a bit, letting you soak up the pain with pleasure. “… so bad.” you keep whining.

"I know, it will get better." he presses his hips flat against you, just to slowly drag his cock out of you again, leaving just his tip inside. “Doing good for a first timer. Don't worry, I'll teach you everything you need to know.”

You nod desperately, biting your lip between your teeth.

“I'll be slow, we got time.” he mumbles, a sick grin painting across his face. He'd be lying if he would say he doesn't enjoy the power play that's going on at the moment. "I'M gonna teach you everything you need to know."

Gallagher

Your mouth falls open when he grinds his hard cock against your ass. Youre breathing hard, chest heaving. But you can't help but lean back against his chest. He slips a hand back into your underwear, rubbing slow circles against your clit. His breath is hot against your ear as he chuckles at your reaction. His middle finger slips between your folds and gathers some of your arousal to use it at your clit again. Once he had your hips jerking and whines leaving your lips, he slips two of his thick fingers inside. He moves slowly, fingers working inside of you like a caress.

“I- ‘m gonna-” you muster, weakly clawing at his arms.

He slips his hand out of your pussy again, letting his tongue run over his fingers, lapping at your juices. He hums, as the taste hits his tounge, “Shit, girl. Got me addicted already.”

Gepard

“That’s it.. Just like that..” He takes hold of the hand, kissing your knuckles, whispering soft praises into your skin to help you work up courage to keep riding him. He knows it's embarrassing for you, he knows you doubt yourself. But he also knows that you can do it.

“Doing so good for me, ok? So good, keep going..”

It takes his everything to hold back his hips and not fuck up into you, it's all too inviting.  He holds you, wrapping both arms around your torso and pull you close to his chest. One hand slips down to your hips, guiding you on his cock. "Like that, yeah."

Hot breaths reach your ear as he hums in approvment. "Good...shit--good."

Jing Yuan

“ass up. There you go, atta girl.” and you almost shiver from his touch on you'd hips as he turns you over. Jing Yuan stares at your ass, bringing a rough palm towards your left cheek. “Mm, nice. You're doing good. Don't worry, I'll go easy on you...for now.”

As he speaks, your cheek presses further against the pillow, hiding in embarrassment. Jing Yuan watches as your ass writhes and he hums, springing out his thick cock. “I'm going in, ok? No need to be scared”

“ok...” you breathe, big talk for someone who probably has way to much experience for his own good.

"I'll go easy on you, I promised you that birdie." He whispers in your ear as he leans over, slowly pushing in.

Jiaoqiu

He dives in, his tongue delving deep into your soaked folds. He laps at you hungrily, savoring your taste as he eats you out with wild abandon. His tongue swirls around your clit before sucking it between his lips, flicking the sensitive bud rapidly. “you're so hot...,” he hums against your core, the vibrations sending shockwaves of pleasure through your body. “thank you for the meal...”

Your finger desperately looking for support and found his hair, scratching his scalp with your long nails in the process. You can't help but let one hand wander to one of his ears, tugging on it. Immediately a whine leaves his lips as he laps on you more desperately than before.

He doubles his efforts, lapping at your clit with broad strokes of his tongue before sealing his lips around the sensitive bundle of nerves and suckling greedily.

"Do that again and watch me eat you up."

Luka

Luka leans down to capture your lips in a kiss, swallowing your cries of pleasure as he pounds into you relentlessly. His hands grip your hips hard you feel like you might see some bruises tomorrow as a souvenir.

"Damn, you take my cock better than expected, baby," he rasps against your mouth, his breath coming in ragged gasps. “Way to fucking well, you sure you're a virgin?" he breaks the kiss to gaze down at you. “look at me,” he commands, "that pussy is mine now. Mine."

As you meet his eyes, he reaches between your bodies to rub your clit in time with his thrusts, pushing you closer and closer to the edge.

"Fuck-didnt know you could get any tighter."

Luocha

The next thing you felt was his cock entering you all at once, barely giving you time to get used to his huge size and thickness. Hes not a mean man by any means, but he figured that maybe him going in faster with the ammount of slick you already got, might be less painful. Wronh judgment in a hazy moment. And fuck if he didn't love feeling the way your cunt stretched to accommodate him, how your walls are so tight around his length.

When he did it, it was over for you, and you thanked him with the most beautiful sounds he ever heard. You squeezed him and croed out, making a mess of yourself as you grab onto his shoulders for support. It all was too much for you, too much happening all at once. But you'd be a lair to say you didn't enjoy it.

He would slowly start to run against you, holding your hips in place as he drags his cock in and out of your hole. His slow speed was annoying, painful, but so good.

But the best feeling was yet to come.

“Just you wait once I'm done with you. We'll have plenty of time left to get to know each other much better."

Sampo

Without warning, he pulled out – only halfway – and plunged back inside you with an almighty push. It .ade your eyes roll back into your skull, your mind went blank for a second. His teasing laugh pulling you back into reality, "Oops-went to hard there~" As a apology he went softer on you, slowly dragging his cock in and out of your hole.

“Doing so well for me,” he groaned, as he lightly speed up again, holding your hips in a tight grip.

"Damn-" he groans as you grap onto his shoulders and dig your nails in. "Careful there baby, you don't wanna hurt poor Sampo, hm?" He laughs again as he kisses down your neck and leaves yet another bite behind.

"We could do this more often, I know I wouldn't mind."

Sunday

The all so collected man practically loses it when you wrap your legs around his back. You unknowingly push him against you, silently asking for more. "Needy, needy." he teases as breaths in your ear, giving it a soft kiss afterwards.

“Dont you worry, I'm not done with you yet.”

Although his words came out more scary than they should, his action of hiding into your shoulder makes it all seem more pathetic than dominant. His wings flutter as your parted lips let a whine escape.

He groans, burying his cock deep just as it starts to gush, painting your walls white. Your nails dig hard into his scalp.

“That came...rather unexpected.”

Welt

“it won’t fit!” you sob out loud. No way this all will fit inside you, you never took anything, or anything that size. He's bigger than you, this wont fit without tears. But you're determined today, telling him you wanted to fit everything in you.

He trails his fingers up and down your side before one hand snakes down to thumb at your clit while the other large hand clasps your hip. "i'll make it fit, and I'll be careful." he promises, soft as he pleasures you. You expected nothing less of him, he always treated you with more care than any others. He softly rubs your clit as he enters, a way of distracting you from the pain that you will encounter.

"there you go, told you I'd make it fit."

[amelia-yap]

BANZAI!!!

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[phoenix-king-ozai]

Yang has the unfortunately common & simple misconception view of Azula as a pure evil deranged psychopathic girl! 😒😩😫😖😤🤕🤢🤮

YANG: "I love Azula. She’s such a great character. She’s totally in control for most of the animated series, and then at the very end, she cracks. She goes insane. We wanted to keep both her controlling side and her crazy side in the comics, so we gave her something of a split personality. We also wanted to figure out what it means to care for somebody like that, somebody who vacillates between evil and insane. That’s what Zuko has to do. I think a lot of us can relate to that." THOUGHTS?

… *sigh* I will say that I’m quite honored that my thoughts about all these matters seem to be so valuable, since I keep getting asks about them… But with this ask goes another long one… so get ready for the Azula fangirl rant, turn around and leave if you’d rather spare yourself from reading a huge meta about her.

Okay, then… Yang claims he “loves” Azula, that she’s a great character. Indeed, Azula is a great character, but what makes her great isn’t that she was in control for most the series and then she cracked. If that’s what Yang thinks is great about her, then for the millionth time he proves he understands NOTHING about her character, and thus shows that he doesn’t love Azula. He loves her character’s role in ATLA, but he doesn’t love the character herself.

Let’s look at all of the Princess’s actions from a more neutral point of view for once, shall we? Azula is loyal to her father, first and foremost. Her father is the leader of our opposing faction, so that immediately turns Azula into a villain. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN AZULA IS EVIL.

Azula is highly intelligent and manipulative, she knows just what to do to handle people and to get them to do what she needs them to. Her methods are terrible, she tricks and deludes her brother into a false sense of security just to accomplish her mission, she openly threatens her friend’s life to intimidate her and to give her no choice but to join her on her mission, she also accepts defeat but then attacks her uncle and flees… okay, all this is true and I’m not going to change that she’s ruthless and goes to any ends to accomplish her goals.

But there’s much more to Azula than just the conqueror, than the Princess who is determined to get her way. Zuko Alone is the first time we get to see that there’s a lot more to Azula than what meets the eye. So now, flashback time.

Little sisters and older brothers tend to have conflicts just like Zuko and Azula did, and I’m saying it because my situation with my older brother was downright similar to theirs. When I saw Zuko obtaining that amazing, meaningful dagger… while Azula was just given a doll, I thought I was watching my childhood on screen. Azula is seen as a little girl by her uncle all the way until she’s older, when she becomes a threat. Before that, she’s a little girl just like any other, who would enjoy playing with dolls… only, she’s not. She never was.

Moving on to Ursa, we see Ursa being very nice to Zuko, spending time with him and encouraging him to spend time with his sister… but do we ever see ANY approval of Ursa towards Azula in any form? No, we don’t. As I pointed out before, in these very comic books written by Yang we see Ursa treat Zuko kindly in one situation and cast Azula aside in the very same situation. What am I talking about? Toddler Zuko comes to mommy crying at night, telling her he’s scared, telling her that he dreamt Azula had burned his toys. Not only is it that Ursa didn’t bother telling her son that his sister wouldn’t do such a thing (WHICH IS WHAT MOST MOTHERS DO, REGARDLESS IF IT’S TRUE OR NOT!), but then she tells him that if he’s scared he has to hold on to the good dreams and never let them go! Right? Right.

Years later, Ursa overhears Azula teasing Zuko about Ozai killing him, and she drags her daughter out to talk to her. Azula explains everything she heard, and the last thing she tells her mother is that she’s so scared FOR ZUKO! She’s not even claiming she’s afraid for her own sake, she’s saying she’s scared for her brother’s fate. Again, even if this were a lie (which I’m sure most people think it is…), Ursa’s response to Azula saying she’s scared? “Go to bed, young lady, now“ quoted just as Ursa said it. She tries to appease Zuko’s fear, but Azula’s fear is nothing to her. Tell me, just what does this say about Ursa as Azula’s mother?

So let’s see… an uncle and a mother who dote and praise her brother, but all they do is disdain her and act warily around Azula. Is it honestly any wonder that Azula turns towards the only person who seems to appreciate her? Is it any surprise that she took so much after Ozai, that she became his favorite child? She was the embodiment of Ozai’s perfect heir. Prodigy firebender, genius strategist, commanding authority at all times… the only person who praised her and seemed to show her any appreciation, no matter of what kind, was Ozai.

And you know what the sad part is? That most of Azula’s behavior came from a dire need of attention. Do you really think that kids who act like she does are evil and insane? That upon seeing a kid behaving like this, her mother should say “What’s wrong with that child?”…

Azula’s behavior is far more frequent in children than it would seem. Yes, perhaps she wasn’t as innocent as most girls out there, but that didn’t mean she was a freak just for the things she did and said. Why is that? Because Azula was CRAVING attention. Azula wanted attention, and she had no idea how to obtain it from her mother. Her father was easy enough to sway, a cool bending move or two would have him nodding in approval… but her mother? Her mother didn’t care for Azula’s bending accomplishments. I doubt she’d care much about Azula’s school accomplishments either, because in academics, whatever the younger child does, the older one already did first (the curse of the youngest, believe it or not). So Azula had no idea what to do to impress her mother. Emulating Zuko’s behaviour wouldn’t work, because as I said, she would be amazed by Zuko but with Azula it would just be imitation of what Zuko did first. So what’s Azula’s conclusion? If Zuko is a good kid, and that’s the way he gets mom to pay attention to him, then I’m going to be a bad kid and maybe she’ll start paying attention to me too.

THIS HAPPENS. It’s quite a common behavior from kids who feel they don’t get enough attention, they try to obtain it through whichever way they can and they have quite a hard time seeing that their actions are wrong. So Azula burns flowers and talks about her grandfather dying and at last, Ursa finally bothers to look at her… but looking at her as what? As a monster. Ursa doesn’t realize, given her “What’s wrong with that child?” phrase, that Azula isn’t acting like this because she’s a Vaatu spawn, as I read someone say recently. Ursa doesn’t seem to care that Azula’s behavior is encouraged by Ozai, she’s oblivious to the fact that he’s more than happy to see his youngest child is turning out to be so similar to himself. Ursa telling Azula off just makes Azula turn towards Ozai for approval, and she always gets it. Who is she going to side with, with the mother who has never showed her any kindness, or with the father that praises her every move? It’s just a matter of logic. Did Ursa ever think of sitting down to talk to Azula as she did with Zuko? Just spending some quality time together, smiling and laughing and encouraging her subtly to be a better person, to just enjoy sitting in the gardens together…

Given what we’ve seen from Ursa up to date, the answer would be NO.

So Azula grows in this environment, and thus she becomes the teenager we meet her as. Ruthless, strong, willing to achieve her goals through any means. And with the strong conviction to be fiercely loyal to her nation and her father first and foremost.

Now speeding up a little, let’s take a close look at Azula’s “could have” scenarios. Azula defeats and captures the Kyoshi Warriors, takes their outfits and takes over Ba Sing Se in a matter of days. When I first watched this, I thought “Damn, Azula must have killed the warriors!” … but guess what? She didn’t. She didn’t kill them even though she could have.

She takes over Ba Sing Se in a heartbeat when her uncle spent 500 days sieging the city, killing Earth Kingdom soldiers and causing the death of Fire Nation soldiers as well, his son included. How many people did Azula get killed when she took over Ba Sing Se? One, and technically none, given that Aang came back to life anyways. So… how about that.

Azula offers Zuko a helping hand in Ba Sing Se. Given how she had been so cruel towards him previously, I expected her offer to be hollow. I thought she’d use him to her benefit and once the battle was done she’d lock him up with Iroh.

But she didn’t! What does this say, really? What possible profit came for Azula if she gave Zuko the chance to return to the Fire Nation in quality of hero instead of traitor? I’ll tell you: NONE!

If Azula were as megalomaniac as everyone seems to think she is, why would she feel compelled to bring him back? She was next in line for the throne if Zuko wasn’t in the way, so she was much better off by double-crossing Zuko and keeping her privileged position if that’s what she cared about. But she didn’t. Why? Because that’s NOT what she cared about. She was actually helping Zuko, and she did it for no other reason than him being her brother. She helped him return, and he was worshipped and admired by the Fire Nation people even though Zuko wasn’t happy about being back… but let’s be honest, he had spent the entire series saying he wanted to go back, and when Azula brings him back he’s unhappy. Is that any fault of hers? No, it’s not. She did what she thought he wanted, and thus she paid him back for helping her out in Ba Sing Se.

Sure, she drops the weight of killing the Avatar on Zuko’s shoulders, a sly move to save her own butt. If Zuko was hiding something, he’d pay for that secret. Now, if he wasn’t, he would take all the credit for slaying Aang. Simple as that. A move of evil? No, it’s a move of intelligence if you ask me.

Afterwards, she tells Zuko not to visit Iroh in prison anymore. Zuko asks her what she wants, and Azula tells him she honestly wants nothing, that’s she’s looking out for him. And from what we saw in the rest of the story, she really didn’t want anything from him. It was advice, which Zuko didn’t take, yet advice all the same in an attempt to avoid trouble for her brother.

In The Beach Azula shows sides of herself we never knew existed. She shows something that goes beyond what it seems in the surface: Azula wants to know if she can be appreciated just for who she is and not for what she can do or her position in the world. She also shows for the first time on-screen that her mother is a looming shadow over her. But let’s look at that scene closely, shall we…? Azula brings Zuko down from the mansion and to the beach because the place was depressing, right? She tells him to come along, in hopes that he’ll stop moping once they’re away from those memories. Now, when the famous Ember Island exchange happens, everyone has a say upon everything. Mai gets to show her emotions for once before everyone, Ty Lee gets to complain about her sisters, Zuko gets to realize he’s angry at himself… and all this because they all stopped to look at each other’s problems and find what they all kept bottled up inside.

And what about Azula? Azula gets Zuko telling her, SPITEFULLY, that she surely has nothing to complain about because she’s so perfect… and Azula unexpectedly reveals that her mother thought she was a monster. The other three stare at her, say absolutely NOTHING (Zuko could have at least said “That’s not true, she thought you were a difficult child but you’re taking it too far”), and then Azula covers it up by saying the woman was right, but it still hurt. STILL HURT. And even with that? Nothing. The subject is changed again and that’s all Azula gets to say about her issues, while being the most troubled person in the group, no less.

Azula’s character is transformed after this episode, because it’s when those who hadn’t noticed yet realize that Azula, underneath that armor and that clever mind of hers, is just a teenage girl.

So next we look at Day of Black Sun, she’s tough enough to beat Aang, Sokka and Toph without her bending and she manages to manipulate Sokka just so that he’ll lose sight of their goal and waste their valuable time. As ever, a display of Azula’s brilliant mind.

But then in the Boiling Rock things start to look really awry for her for the first time. By then, Zuko is a full-blown traitor, who went to the side of the Fire Nation’s enemies on a whim, as any Fire Nation person would see it, and by doing so he threw away everything Azula had given him. If I were Azula, I’d be downright disappointed and angry that after all of what she did for her brother, he pays her back with this coin. Ozai obviously declared Zuko an enemy of the Fire Nation, so Azula, and anyone in the Fire Nation, really, is obliged to capture him upon finding him. So, I repeat, he’s a traitor; she gave him the chance to become the crown prince once more and he discarded it, and he ran off to fight against his nation.

Azula gets betrayed by her friends on the least expected moment. She never thought such a thing would happen, but indeed, handling them through fear was just going to come back to bite her eventually. My theory on Azula is that she insisted to herself that emotions were completely useless, and that to keep people close to her she had to do it through efficient means such as fear. Yet she couldn’t stop those emotions from taking over her, and the anger and sadness upon that betrayal struck her where it hurt most.

And she thinks Zuko is responsible for said betrayal. After all she did for him, he betrayed the Fire Nation and turned her friends against her. She goes all out on him after he got his enhanced firebending powers thanks to the dragons, and they’re evenly matched also because Azula’s emotional turmoil is already gaining on her. She threatens to kill Zuko here, yes… but when she’s falling down that cliff, and she saves herself at that last moment, doesn’t Zuko sound genuinely disappointed that she made it? So he was fine with saving Zhao when he did, but his own sister? The sister who did all she did for him, who tried to give him the life she thought he wanted… she deserves to die even though Zhao doesn’t? So yeah, Azula threatened Zuko’s life, and Zuko was just fine with allowing his sister to die. If this makes Azula evil, doesn’t it make Zuko evil as well? Ah… curious, isn’t it?

Azula’s downfall only gets worse when the one person she was sure would always rely on her decides to discard her as if she were a broken toy. Ozai waves her off and tells her he’s going to take over the Earth Kingdom alone. Azula snaps and she tells him she deserves to be by his side, that he can’t treat her like Zuko. Azula is genuinely scared of becoming the same thing Zuko was to her father, and she hardly even gets why he would treat her this way. Granted she has failed him a few times, but she’s certain she can succeed if given another chance. But Ozai will not give her that chance. She gets the throne, almost a hand-down and nearly meaningless now that there’s the Phoenix King, but she seems to accept that. Still, she’s horrified that her father would throw her away as he did. It’s the last thing she thought would happen, and it’s the last straw that throws her world into disarray.

She starts to question everything, to lose what little faith she had placed in those around her. Because they’re not even around anymore. She’s alone now, and nobody is willing to stay by her side even those who can see she’s falling apart. Her decisions don’t even make sense, she banishes people just for the sake of it and in the end she’s all alone. Ursa’s hallucination, in my honest opinion, was just proof that Azula was trying to find something to hold on to, anything. When everything falls apart, you run to the arms of someone you know will be there… but in her case, there’s no one there. Ursa has left, her mother, the one who should have been the greatest source of love and care, who should have held her as she cried and told her that everything was going to be better soon… so Azula has nobody to turn to.

Azula fears that, even if Ursa was around, she wouldn’t even bother doing what any other mother would do for her child, because Ursa thinks she’s a monster. So Azula is alone, with nothing but a hallucination to keep her company and to continue breaking her down until she can’t take it anymore. The hallucination says what Azula thinks Ursa would say, as someone pointed out, but Azula still won’t believe it. Azula can’t believe it, not after Ursa was gone for all this time, not after she thought her daughter to be a monster. And what I think finishes breaking her, along with the mirror, is realizing that she wasn’t seeing anyone for real, that it wasn’t Ursa, that she was really, truly, alone.

By the time the Last Agni Kai happens, she’s already in such a state of mind she can’t think things through as she used to. As I’ve thought many times before, Azula could have pulled another one on Zuko as she did in the Earth Kingdom, when he challenged her to an Agni Kai and she declined. Just think about it… she could have raised an eyebrow, told the Sage to carry on and BAM! Azula is Fire Lord and Zuko can’t do anything about it anymore. TA DAAAAH!

But no, I don’t know if it’s Azula’s sense of doing things the proper way, given that Zuko was the older child… or if it was just her clouded mind, but she accepts the challenge. And Zuko, our caring, brilliant brother Zuko, sees his sister is falling apart and he thinks “This my chance to beat her!” So really, I HAVE to ask… what standard of heroicity is Zuko being measured with? How can a “hero” see his younger sibling in this state of mind and just think that it’s the perfect situation for him to make profit out of?

Nevertheless, this was supposed to be an Azula meta, not a Zuko one. So Azula fights Zuko, and her moves are pretty awesome but he’s besting her because of her troubled mind. Azula then throws lightning at Katara (honestly, someone explain to me why on earth was Katara standing there to watch two enhanced firebenders burn down half the city with their power. She wasn’t even on the sidelines, she was in the fighting area!) and Zuko saves her by sacrificing himself. Azula could have just bowed down and said “And that’s how it’s done. That’s that, Zuzu, now I’m the new Fire Lord!”, but her state of mind got the best of her and she decided to bring Katara down too, which brought her down in turn.

So we see Azula crying desperately at the finale, chained to the ground and unable to do anything but breathe fire and scream. At this point, Azula has lost EVERYTHING. And all her big brother does is stare and then toss her into a mental institution because he plainly has no time to deal with her.

So now, after all I’ve just pointed out… is Azula EVIL? Is Azula INSANE? Azula was born in the wrong side of the war, perhaps, but this doesn’t mean her heart is corrupted and that she’s a heartless psycopath. Because if that breakdown shows anything, it’s that she’s anything but heartless. A psycopath, by definition, is someone who feels nothing, who can feign feelings and imitate what others feel, but he actually isn’t in the capacity to love, to hate, to be sad, to feel any emotion whatsoever. Azula’s breakdown is characterized by emotions, emotions we had no idea she could feel or even feel so strongly. Ah, but her feelings are what makes her crazy in the eyes of the writers and the fandom, right? That’s why she’s Crazula, ins’t it? That’s why they make fun of her and misunderstand her character completely, because apparently a villain with feelings becomes a nutjob.

News of the day? A villain with feelings is not a nutjob. A villain with feelings can be (and usually is) the most amazing character of a story! Villains who feel nothing, those aren’t anything new. But a villain like Azula, who undergoes all those trials and breaks down precisely because she’s human, because she can’t remain cold and aloof when her family and friends turn their back on her… that, my friends, is a GREAT character.

So yes, Yang is right. Azula is great. But did he ever stop to look pausedly at her every move, at all her actions, to realize what they truly meant? Given the way he characterized her, my answer is NO.

Keeping Azula’s controlling and crazy side in the story? No, Yang. That’s NOT the way it’s done. When you write about a character, you write about THE CHARACTER in itself! You don’t think about how to combine two sides of her, that makes no sense whatsoever! A character is comprised by traits, by what sets said character apart from the others, and in Azula’s case it’s NOT her controlling or her crazy side, but it’s everything I’ve described above! It’s as if I were to take Aang to be the pet-guy who likes to laze around and play with butterflies. Aang is SO MUCH MORE than that, and so is Azula. So starting off from there, Yang, well, congratulations, you just proved your incompetence as a writer once more by showing us that you DO NOT understand Azula’s character in the slightest.

Split personality, for crying out loud… where was the need to give Azula a split personality, mind you? What Yang did here was for the sole purpose of reinventing Azula’s character in a way that he could handle her because he had absolutely no idea how to handle the character she became by the finale. Azula’s complexities are such that trying to settle things just by giving her a split personality shows that he was actually not trying to settle anything at all. Azula didn’t need any split personality, adding this factor to her character was only a way to say that she’s so broken that Yang wasn’t going to waste a minute of his time trying to fix her. He damamged her situation her even more than necessary just to make the readers say “Oh, she’s really messed up, I feel so bad that the Gaang has to put up with her…” and so that nobody would be surprised to discover that she couldn’t get any closure here and that she’d run off and get lost in a forest without any resolution of any kind.

Well, guess what? I’m not surprised, I’m DISSAPOINTED.

“We also wanted to figure out what it means to care for somebody like that, somebody who vacillates between evil and insane. That’s what Zuko has to do. I think a lot of us can relate to that.”

Okay… okay… this sounded really good in an interview, it made us think that Zuko would prove to be supportive of Azula, that he’d try to help her out…

But he doesn’t say or prove that he wants to help her out IN ANY WAY until she’s already running off into a forest. Placing a blanket over her is, as I’ve already said, as meaningless as Ursa kissing Azula’s cheek while she was asleep. IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK OF THEM TO SHOW KINDNESS TO AZULA WHILE SHE’S CONSCIOUS?! Why, it seems like it is! Do you think this is the way to HELP someone with a mental illness? When someone tries to support someone with a mental illness, the first thing he/she has to do is show he’s there to help! That he’s not going anywhere, that he’ll stand by the sick person and that he’ll do his best to help that person heal no matter the cost. That much is already going to help wonders. But how does Zuko show Azula he wants to help her?

By saying she’s an uncomfortable conclusion.

By dangling her on the edge of a cliff.

By telling his friends to TAKE HER DOWN.

Tell me, is it ANY wonder Azula ran off? Is it? Why on earth should she believe Zuko wants to help her just because he says so now?! Actions speak WAY louder than words, and all his actions so far have showed that his caring for Azula isn’t what Yang seems to think it is. I don’t know if he has any idea of what he wrote, but The Search has NOTHING to do with Zuko helping Azula. Zuko went off to find Ursa to make some sense out of his own life, and not until Azula was already running did he suddenly think that maybe she needed help and he that perhaps he could give it to her…

So what do I say about Yang’s interview? That it would be just wonderful if he had actually written a story about the real Azula, not a split-personality copy of her that didn’t have a shred of the depth her character had in canon, and that it would have been a great comic if Zuko had actually figured out what it meant to care for Azula and tried to help her out, WHILE IGNORING THAT NOTION OF EVIL AND INSANE.

Because the minute he labels Azula as evil, he deems her to end up on the losing side even though this wasn’t even meant to be a battle. Because just as Zuko’s lightning hurts no one because this is a children’s comic, well, it’s a children’s comic so evil HAS to lose. Azula was condemned to get the worst part of this story from the minute this man gave this interview, and sadly I only came to notice that now.

If you made it down this huge post, you’re welcome to say what you will about me exaggerating matters and taking everything too far, I don’t care because I’m not going to change my mind about what I just said. Azula is far more interesting than what Yang made her out as, and given that his notion of her is that of an “insane and evil” character, I’d rather they don’t give him another chance to write about Azula. If that’s all he understands about her character, it’s downright clear he’s not going to deliver a good story about her, he didn’t do it in The Search and I don’t believe he’s going to be capable of doing it afterwards either.

(now, I appreciate y’all being so eager to get me to write these huge response posts, but please… @___@ can we just leave it as that? Can you accept that I’m not going to change my mind about Yang’s writing and characterization no matter what you say about him? If my opinion is this prized, why, I feel very fortunate… but man, even I can grow tired of typing such huge posts once in a while…)

[qualityrain]

@aphantomdweeb

[strayklds]

I.N HALLUCINATION, 2024

[phoenix-king-ozai]

Honestly Ursa is just lucky Azulon didn't find out about those letters because he would incinerate Zuko, her and probably Azula just to be safe and beat Ozai's ass for being 'incompetent' enough to let his wife supposedly sneak out and get laid behind his back.

Yeah the comics make her moronic because she legit endangered everyone just to see if Ozai was reading her stuff.

Funny in a morbid way…

Ursa? Killed by her daddy-in-law! Zuko? Killed by his granddaddy! Azula? Killed by her granddaddy! Ozai? Ass beaten by his daddy! Iroh? Heartbroken and furious because of his daddy!

I affirmatively agree, that if Fire Lord Azulon found out and read about those letters then Zuko and Ursa definitely would be killed for treason if Ozai and Iroh had not stepped up in Ursa's defense. Fire Lord Azulon is extremely old and as Azula stated not as powerful as he used to be. Ozai most definitely would not let any harm come to his favorite child and daughter Azula. Probably would fight an Agni Kai in her defense. Ursa probably would have to beg Iroh and Ozai for protection for herself and Zuko. Ursa is extremely lucky that Ozai knows the truth that both Zuko and Azula are his children. Along with Ozai being willing to defend Azula at least and Iroh willing to defend Zuko.

To be frank and brutally honest. Ursa was extremely stupid for writing that the Fire Prince of the Fire Nation and fourth-in-line to the throne Zuko is an illegitimate bastard that she had with her lover Ikem during her marriage with Fire Prince Ozai and she is trying to pass him as Fire Lord Azulon's rightful grandson and Fire Prince Ozai’s rightful son. It would be very hard to convince Ozai to defend Ursa after she wrote some hateful, untrustworthy, unfaithful, and cruel lies about their child; claiming that he is another man’s son. If Ozai were to side with Azulon and probably the Fire Sages then Ursa and Zuko are roasted and toasted LITERALLY!

I am completely against and appalled by how the ATLA comic The Search made Ozai a completely inhuman monster and Ursa a complete moron. Ozai and Ursa are a heartless and idiotic himbo and bimbo couple in the comics, unfortunately…

[hello-nichya-here]

Gene Yang, the guy who wrote the comics of her in the asylum, said "We'll see the effects a place like that has on someone's mind." The whole thing is straight out of a horror movie. Azula is restrained and beaten even when not doing anything. She's doing worse than ever.

People don't hate that because Azula is saint who did nothing wrong - they hate it because the supposed good guys threw a mentally ill person in a place where she's CANONICALLY being abused, they witnessed said abuse, did nothing, and then are shocked that she hates them more than ever before because "they're trying to help."

That is a HORRIBLE way to address mental ilness in kids media AND is a complete disrespect to Zuko and the Gaang as characters, because even if they never forgave Azula and didn't want anything to do with her, they'd still NEVER do something like that to anyone.

This isn't "help" or justice - it's "the mentally ill are always evil and up to no good so we need to put them in their place, preferably through violence"

You can dislike Azula and not want her to be redeemed without pretending this shit isn't pure ableism and abuse apologism.

I think it's weird how Azula fans think her family are the bad guys for putting her in an asylum and it's misogynistic and this and that when they were only trying to help her. They didn't put her in there to make her a perfect obedient girl etc wtf are you people going on about? You can like the character all you want but don't shift all the blame onto the other characters to make Azula look like a poor innocent angel.

[cannedpeachess]

As if the fact that the Italians are eating LITERAL flowers wasn’t funny enough, someone had the absolute AUDACITY to draw them in a squad outfit

Like, bitch, they could NEVER

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

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