#nevermind ozai

[evilkitten3]

well the second expression is definitely confused but the first one seems pretty scared to me. the only other times i think we see her at all scared are during her argument with ozai when she talks back to him and then immediately remembers that she's talking to her pos mutilation-happy dad, and when she realizes katara is about to beat her (both are a mix of scared and angry, with the former leaning more towards scared and the latter leaning more towards angry imo)

but i think this is the first and possible only time she really looks like she's afraid of specifically her opponent

was fucking around on google images and i ended up stumbling on a reddit post from three yrs ago with a picture of iroh grabbing azula during a fight scene...

this is the only time i can think of when azula seems completely terrified.

he grabs her and she's scared shitless

but he just redirects her lightning and she's just bewildered.

i wonder what she was thinking there

[the-badger-mole]

I've seen people criticize Zuko for not taking the opportunity to kill Ozai during the eclipse but expecting Aang, a 12 y.o. pacific monk to do that instead. He was called hypocritical for being unsympathetic towards his unwillingness to take a life when he himself couldn't. I do like Zuko and tend to side with him ( post redemption ofc ) over Aang, but that seems like a valid take, I don't think I have a counter-argument to that.What is your opinion on It ? Also, what do you think was the in-universe reason for Zuko to make such a decision? He said that It's not his destiny, do you think there was any other reason for It? Is he not wrong for not doing It just bc of destiny since It's just an abstract concept and the stakes were really high ( plus It's against the show's message about shaping your own destiny) ?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it sounds like the people criticizing Zuko for not killing Ozai when he had the chance wanted Aang to do it? That doesn't sound like a contradiction, so I'm not sure if that's how you meant it?

Aside from that, I can only speak for myself. I understand why Zuko didn't kill Ozai. I also understand why Aang didn't want to. What my problem with the resolution for that was that it was the first time Aang seems to have even thought about what ending the war would entail. It doesn't make him look noble, or idealistic. It just makes him look stupid. What do you mean? What do you mean that he took this entire journey to get him to master all the elements on a deadline so he can end the war, and he had no idea what ending the war would even look like? He didn't even consider it? It had to be told to him. He really goofed off this entire series and didn't think about his project until the night before it was due. And don't anyone try to use his age to excuse this to me. First of all, Aang isn't a 12 year old. He's a fictional character who was created by writers. Writers who were telling a story. THEY are the ones who didn't consider how Aang would end the war. Second, within the story, Aang's age is never used as an excuse for why he did this. In fact, not only is an excuse not given, it's treated like a virtue on his end and not a lack of forethought on his part. He's rewarded for it.

Listen, I hate the Lionturtle/Rock of Destiny double deus ex machina, and I have made no secret of it. It was a cop out. It cheapened the finale. It made everything Aang was supposed to learn irrelevant, because no, he didn't have to make sacrifices and hard choices for his victory. He won because he was supposed to win (and how's that for shaping your own destiny?). Here's the thing, though. The Lionturtle, at least, could have worked. If Aang had to come up with the solution himself, go find the Lionturtle and ask for help (and maybe have to perform some challenge to earn it), then it would've been a satisfying ending while still not making Aang himself have to shed blood (nevermind that keeping his hands clean was a privilege most of the heroes in this story couldn't have).

I didn't necessarily want Aang to kill Ozai, and definitely didn't want him to kill Ozai just because it would look cool (although...). I would have been fine with a no-kill ending, if it had been set up right. I just think having Aang kill Ozai given the set up of the rest of the story would've been more satisfying than the cop-out ex machina double team. Or someone else could've faced Ozai, because he was never the main villain of the series. Azula was. And that fight was both satisfying and didn't end with her death, either (because it's a kids' show). It wouldn't even have to change. Aang was not the real hero of this story. Katara was the hero of the first half, and Zuko was the hero of the second. Aang was just the McGuffin. He could've sat this one out and been the one to make the "Real Hero" speech instead of Zuko. That would have been a good ending.

[zukosdualdao]

“i bet he ran away again" is toph's first thought about what's happened to aang. and that's... that’s genuinely a horrible thing to have to expect from their friend, who they have all agreed to be there for and fight with, and while aang did not intentionally run away (since it seems like the call of the lion turtle pulled him in a sort of fugue-state, similarly to how the swamp did), it’s not inconsistent with his past behavior. and they don't know he didn't just leave, and whatever the reason, it does still leave them scrambling. and i get that aang is a kid under pressure, and that's the defense fandom often uses for some really odd writing choices that result in aang not always looking great, but they’re ALL kids under pressure, and up to this point, the plan was for them to face ozai together!

it also just feels really inconsistent with what the show's set up prior to this. as much as i love the airship sequence with toph, sokka, and suki, and the final agni kai with katara and zuko, the show has gone out of its way to say in the past that aang doesn't have to be alone to fight the fire lord, that his strength comes not just from his power but his love and friendships. but, while he's not alone in the big, thematic, grand scheme of things - they're all still fighting the good fight with him in different ways - aang does end up in the position of fighting ozai alone. and it just feels like a weird writing choice, and it does actually make me sad for him as well as frustrated with his arc. all of the other characters get these big emotional moments with each other in the finale. but a lot of aang's part of the story falls flat for me because there's just less emotional resonance to it. he spends most of it completely separated from the relationships at the heart of the show. that's always somewhat of an issue with "chosen one" stories, and sometimes they examine and subvert it but sometimes it's played straight. and it just feels like the show tried to subvert it (thinking of the plot in the awakening) and then said "nope, nevermind" at the very end.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

I don’t understand Zut’s obsession with bloodbending. This technique, as we can see, is used for taking control over other body for the purposes of fighting the enemy, torture, abuse. We see Katara’s horror at having to learn and use it in the Puppetmaster and her disgust of the idea that someone should invade the body and control other being against their will. We see her using it in Southern Raiders and realizing that she went too far from the line she drew for herself – and it works to show her pain there. But to take it and say she should have used it more, for healing and power? I don’t get it.

Their logic is "This looks cool, therefore it is empowering, and she only ever used willingly one time, when Zuko was around, so OBVIOUSLY that means Zuko empowers her."

Nevermind that, like you pointed out, Katara did NOT feel empowered during these moments: on the first one she felt coerced, abused, terrified, and manipulated, and on the second she felt like she had betrayed her core vallues in a moment of blinding rage.

And it's just crazy to me to notice how zutarians are constantly trying to force parallels between Zuko and Katara - yet they are ignoring the one that is right in front of their faces.

Zuko was disfigured by his own father, who justified his abusive behavior as being for his son's own good and "teaching him a lesson. Hama masks her intentions of forcing Katara to learn bloodbending by claiming she just wants to bond with her as her teacher.

On the day of the eclipse, to keep Zuko around until he's able to try and kill him, Ozai manipulates his son by using his love for Ursa against him, offering to tell him what actually happened to her. To force Katara to bloodbend, Hama uses her love for Sokka and Aang against her, controlling them so they'll kill each other unless Katara steps in.

When Zuko has his Agni Kai with Zhao, he almost gives him a scar as well, but decides to spare him at the last moment because, even though he's still in denial about being abused, deep down he already knows he doesn't want to be a monster like Ozai. When Katara uses bloodbending on who she thinks is her mother's killer, then realizes her mistake, she gets quite a brutal awakening that makes her realize she's not simply going after justice or even revenge, but rather allowing herself to fall victim to cycle of violence and abuse like Hama did.

This is a genuine, not at all forced parallel between Zuko and Katara, and that the writers basically handed to the shippers in a neat little bow - and they threw it in the garbage because it did not allow them to glorify violence, romanticize Zuko's past as a villain who was prone to violence, pretend Zuko and Katara only have positive traits in common and could only ever bring out the best in each other, and demonize Aang as this abusive person that wants to control what Katara can or cannot do.

And ironically enough, in doing so, they not only disregard the meaningful theme of an abused child refusing to repeat the same mistakes of their abuser, but they also make excuses for the ONE person in the entire show who was everything they claimed Aang is.

Hama felt entitled to Katara's loyalty, obedience, admiration and respect. She felt she had the right to dictate how Katara should or should not fight, what was or wasn't against her moral code. She was deliberately manipulative to get Katara trust her, then waited until there was no one else around to help her to make her true intentions clear - and then proved she was VERY willing to react with violence if she didn't get what she wanted.

Zutarians go on and on about how their ship is the "feminist, pro-Katara ship" and how Aang is totally abusive, then turn around and glorify the actions of the ONE person in the entire show that fits the definition of "Katara's abuser."

[andtheclockstruckthirteen]

I’ve seen a few works in this fandom on ao3 that portray Ursa as a worse parent than Ozai and as ungrateful for everything she had as a princess and then Fire Lady becuase it was a position of privilege that most others in the Fire Nation were too poor for yada yada

I just want to remind people that while she might not have been a great parent to Azula and while she was fortunate to not have to worry about being poor, Ozai is canonically physically and mentally abusive and Ursa was literally forced into a non-consensual marriage under threat of harm and it can be assumed (depending on your preferences, because that would be in headcanon territory not canon as of right now) that the act of producing Zuko and Azula was also non-consensual (through coersion at the very least because even if she participated in it or wasn't expressly fighting back, it's not like she realistically would've had much of a choice)???

And her not having to worry about being poor was replaced by her having to worry about living under an extremely powerful abuser that she physically cannot get away from because he is the highest level of authority in the country under the firelord and crown prince? nevermind that i think Azulon actually arranged the marriage himself? (that might be fanon i will admit, I haven't read the comics and by the sounds of it, I don't really want to see my favs get nerfed like that)

Like Ozai is an abuser from the royal family in an imperialist, war-mongering country??? She was a random girl from a Fire Nation village unfortunate enough to be related to the past fire avatar?

we don't even know if she was a neglectful parent to Azula for sure because families living under powerful abusers have a lot of nuace that people refuse to acknowledge (and who are incredibly fortunate themselves not to understand), especially when that child starts resembling their abuser (and I'm not talking about having anger issues, I'm talking about Azula making fun of Zuko for their father being ordered by their grandfather to comit filicide and their father agreed). but i digress.

even if she was emotionally neglectful of Azula, she would still be a better parent than Ozai who LITERALLY MELTED HALF HIS SON'S FACE OFF AS HE BEGGED FOR MERCY AS A 13 YEAR OLD

in what world is emotion neglect more severe than a murder attempt??? like all abuse is bad 100% but demonising the other parent as horrible and ignoring the parent who tried to murder their own child multiple times in canon??? that's some top-tier victim blaming (and woman-hating, considering I don't see Ozai getting the same treatment for emotionally neglecting Zuko in the same fucking work) right there.

[ludiharambasha]

While I am not against the idea of Aang not killing The Firelord, and instead imparting justice for the genocide of his people on his own terms and in accordance with his culture per se, something about that narrative thread and how it was explored in the series rubs me the wrong way. It was apparent that AtLA was a rather neolib narrative from the get-go, and this choice is one that is but a culmination of this twisted mindset.

The thing is, killing The Firelord was always meant to be a symbolic action rather than a literal one. The Fire Nation started its military campaigns and conquest long before Ozai was even born. Killing The Current Firelord is not an immediate band-aid fix to a hundred years of oppression the other nations suffered through. While yes, The Firelords stand for the Fire Nation's imperialism, the people of the Fire Nation directly attributed to these campaigns. Ozai didn't kill the Waterbenders of the Southern Water tribe, nor the Airbenders, and neither did Sozin. People of the Fire Nation and its soldiers did.

And killing Ozai would have been a fine narrative choice, as Ozai is nothing more than a symbol of the Fire Nation, and his death would symbolize the death of the Fire Nation itself and its ideology. One could argue that that would have been a rather simplistic choice, but a completely fine and appropriate one for a children's cartoon. After all, children's media rests upon these personified or metonymic representations of abstract things, substituting them with something concrete. While it would have been an oversimplification of the conflict, it would have been narratively more effective than what the series actually offered.

When Aang refuses to kill Ozai, it brings forth all kinds of complications into the narrative, by completely shattering that symbolic aspect of the entire ordeal. The entire series hinged on Aang going against the Firelord, and the audience's engagement was based on this suspension of disbelief that killing the Firelord is in essence, killing the Fire Nation.

Now, when you decide to take this route you have to engage with the literal implication of their fight. Killing the Firelord isn't the end, as the people who actively upheld that system are still alive and did not answer for any of their crimes against humanity. So naturally, defeating the Firelord would only be the first step in that direction - but the writers of the series did not engage with that choice, not really. The series did pretty much end with Aang defeating the Firelord and taking away his bending, and reinstating Zuko as the new Firelord. The people who up until yesterday murdered or fully supported the murder and annihilation of the other nations, just magically started supporting and accepting peace, and aside from Azula and Ozai, no one answers for anything.

Nevermind that Iroh was also a military commander and killed many innocents, nevermind what Zuko did, nevermind that people that tortured Hama and their ascendants are walking scott-free, never mind that we never see what happened to the police officers in the Boiling Rock or the Fire Nation's soldiers that didn't die during Sozin's comet. No one ever pays for murdering Jet's family.

I truly don't understand this choice. You either make the narrative more simple, or you dabble in the more complex implications of it, you cannot have your cake and eat it too.

The people of the other Nations are supposed to just make peace with the people who butchered their loved ones for an entire century.

[riderofblackdragons]

If Love Could've Saved You

Day 23: Forced Choice | public display | broken pedestal | "I'm doing this for you"

Here we go, a day late but nevermind! This is part of the Commander to Firelord Pipeline, which I personally am very fond of atm

Hope you enjoy!

Azula hadn't heard the news about the war meeting until after she could've stopped it. The Agni Kai that had transpired was a different matter, though. Their father didn't tolerate disrespect, and she knew it. And speaking up in the war room? Azula would've liked to know Zuko was going in there, so she could stop him, but it was definitely a sign of disrespect.

Didn't stop her from poisoning the old man who should've been Zuko's opponent, though. She doubted that he could've beat her brother, but there was always the slight chance. And Azula was not above rigging the game in her favour (or in this case, her brother's).

It wouldn't have killed the man. Just made him significantly weaker, and blocked his firebending a little. Not enough to be noticeable to Azula's father, but enough that it should've secured Zuko's victory.

The glee on her face faltered, when she realised that her father was participating in the Agni Kai. Only for a second, Azula wasn't going to show any weakness, but enough that it was a mask afterwards and not her true thoughts. Zuko wasn't going to win against their father, not in a million years. Ozai was just too strong, had too many years of firebending prowess on both of them. Azula doubted she could win against her father, when it came down to it.

At least Zuko was smart, though. Azula's brother didn't even try to fight their father, and whilst the bloodthirsty part of her was disappointed, the rest of her was relieved. Ozai couldn't kill Zuko, not when he'd already blatantly surrendered. Not like he could if Zuko had fought, being able to pass it off as just an unfortunate coincidence of the Agni Kai.

She should've expected her father to torture him anyways, though. Burning his eye, forcing Zuko to be blind in one of them? Making Zuko weaker than he already was? Azula's body burned with the injustice of it all. The only thing Zuko was going to learn from this was that his father couldn't be trusted. It was a useless lesson.

It reminded her of the Kaminoans, in a way. But they had been less sadistic, she remembered, and more practical about everything. If it were the Kaminoans against Zuko, he'd have just been dead, no ifs ands or buts. He wouldn't be scarred for life like Ozai had done. It was unefficient, and therefore useless.

Her brother's punishment reminded Azula more of what Palpatine had done to her and her men. Not quite this sadistic, perhaps - the scar would be ugly, and Palpatine would've hated looking at something like that every time he'd called Fox or one of her men up to see him. But similar things, definitely.

It was her experience with Palpatine, actually, that kept Azula smiling gleefully at her brother's mutilation, even as she didn't feel it in her soul. The pain she'd been given in a past life for not keeping up appearances, even when being actively tortured. It wasn't wuite the same, since she was only watching this time, but she knew.

She'd jabbed Iroh in the sides a few times, as well. Ozai was looking over at them, seemingly delighting in his older brother's anguish at Zuko's pain, and at Azula's glee at the same. Iroh needed to stop looking so upset, she felt. The more upset he was, the longer Ozai could take to remove his burning palm from Zuko's face.

Ozai had had to stop, at some point, but it wasn't because Iroh had started looking less upset. He hadn't stopped that, and whilst it warmed Azula's heart that her uncle looked out for her brother, at least, his open caring wasn't helping anything in the moment.

It did mean that she let him go with Zuko in his banishment. Azula knew how to take Iroh out, if necessary, but. He did care for her brother. She knew that Iroh would make sure Zuko remained safe and alive through all of it, no matter what came at them. Even though she knew that he wouldn't do the same for her.

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[akiizayoi4869]

Always a good time for de aged Azula!

1. Sokka is pretty sure he’d rather fight Ozai than have to deal with Azula on a sugar rush again.

2. During a childish moment, Azula makes a drawing of the Gaang. Sokka keeps it.

3. Most of the Gaang members aren’t afraid to tickle Azula. Nevermind all of the Gaang members aren’t afraid to tickle Azula.

4. Will Zuko see a childish moment from Azula?

Hello anon!

Why did I not think of this before, lol. Azula on a sugar rush? Yes please😂

This is so cute🥺. She's definitely going to draw them a picture at some point.

They sure aren't afraid to tickle her and she acts like she hates it but she actually loves it.

Funny that you ask that because I've been thinking about it for the past few days now, lol. Safe to say that yes, Zuko will indeed see a childish moment from Azula and it will freak him out😂

[bluedancingkittykat]

op: i've grown up and while i still love atla, i now recognize that it's not a perfect show like i did when i was younger

me: oh this will be an interesting read

op: point 1) aang shouldve killed ozai

me: nevermind. [block]

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

Mini-ramble: I wish you were mature

There is this post going around describing why the OP prefers childrens’ media to adult media. In its comments, some people raised doubt about it, surely there is adult media that matches the maturity of current childrens’ media? And there is, mostly in books I’ve noticed. But when it comes to TV shows, things can get dicey. Consider that to this day, we are still arguing whether Aang sparing Ozai was the right thing to do. Because there is no right answer, just perspectives. Meanwhile, a show based on a book series made to subvert the fantasy genre’s idealism . . . Ended up repeating them in its later seasons. Game of Thrones quite literally became its own antithesis, where clever manipulators like Littlefinger are given an unfair trial and killed with pity excuses. Because Littlefinger was a bad guy and those executing him were the good guys. Nevermind the Frey pies. Or, as happened in a recent serious crime show here, the last episode loses all cohesion and includes a Mortal Kombat-style fight scene and goes downhill from there. Completely going against the tone of the show. And this is not at all unusual from my experience. I feel the limits of a childrens’ show actually allow space for more introspection, at least in recent shows. It should not be like this, but a lot of ‘adult’ shows are held back by trying to me adult and serious, only to then fall into self-parody.

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

I've seen it said so many times fans of iroh view him as a saint but i never seen these fans . I haven't seen anyone not know that obviously he ain't perfect /did horrible things.

But. i have seen fans of zuko/azula brush off their actions as nobiggie and its fine cause their kids nevermind so were aang/katara/sokka and esp aang aang doesn't matter to 80 percent of the fandom

i never see anyone not say .. yeah iroh was a general/ who caused his men/earth kingdom soilder a lot of misery/death/ tried to take over a city. no one ever denies this the show even has it shown its his biggest regret cause it lead to his sons death/ something im sure got him to realize all the other deaths it caused. sure the could have done better but it wasnt the tale of iroh or the tale of zuko or the tale of azula.. ( im right in the past 3 years ive been around this fandom has a big boner for the FN characters esp the kids)

.. azula fans deny she acutally won/killed aang in the process of taking over ba sin sa/ and make big claims that she had the best intetions for her brother when taking him home to her abuser/ deny anything ozai does/ hate ursa/iroh instead of her acutal abuser

/ zuko /usually zutara fans deny well everything he did to the gaang/ his girlfriend and instead lablel aang an irreedable monster but i never see iroh fans denying he's not perfect. cause he's not.. no one is..

but sometimes it feels like the fandom tries to make characters perfect or demnoizes em to prop up their fav as did nothing wrong when the show didnt give em their ship / preffered ending for their fav character

. this fandom has a very black/white view on the characters

[treeswhospeak]

I was gonna just write in the tags but it started to turn into an essay so nevermind!

I'm so happy to see people agreeing with this. It's kind of impossible to choose a favorite character in Avatar but for me, just as a person, Aang is the most important, for many reasons.

the dude literally breaks every rule he hears. INCLUDING when he chooses not to kill Ozai. It always bothered me so much seeing people criticizing him for that. The writers didn't make that choice because killing is universally always the wrong choice. Aang as a character clearly did not believe in adhering to a single moral code. he was accepting of everyone, including his friends, all of whom held the unapologetic belief that killing Ozai was 100% the correct and ethically good thing to do.

Aang didn't kill Ozai, not because Ozai didn't "deserve" to die, but because Aang didn't want to. he made a radical, difficult, unpopular decision to prioritize himself, even under all the weight of his prescribed role. that was fucking powerful man! I've never loved a decision a character made more than that.

off topic but while I'm thinking of it- I've seen the lion turtle accused of being a lazy solution, divine intervention or whatever. and while it is literally a divine intervention, I don't see it as random or unearned at all. Aang is a very spiritual character. it was very fitting with the themes and storytelling of the show to have him connect with this sort of extra-planer being at that moment of crisis. as the culmination of everything the characters had worked towards, it was the most pressure Aang had felt in the course of the show, while also being at his most self-actualized. it would have been weird for him not to have a new spirit journey lol

also it's worth saying that by the time he actually speaks to the lion turtle, Aang has accepted (reluctantly) the advice of his past lives and resigned himself to doing the thing most against his nature as a person, because at this point in his character arc he fully understands his role as the Avatar and is willing to do what has to be done.

TLDR, all that tangential rambling to say I agree with op lmao. Aang is a comrade, a badass, and a beautifully written idol of autonomy.

I'm tired of people defining Aang as this boring little vanilla guy. Aang helped Katara destroy a factory. He participated in Toph's scams. He shrugged off Katara's theft of the waterbending scroll and heartily laughed at her jokes about it. He was delighted by the Painted Lady ruse. He mastered airbending at twelve and the avatar state at thirteen. He snooped around the old ship after Katara said it was booby trapped and dared her to follow and stepped up to take the blame when it went badly and then surrendered himself to protect the village because he knew he could hand everyone on that ship their asses and escape. He outright lied to two communities that had been bickering for a century to get them to stop. He egged on Katara when she decided to throw hands with Pakku. He wants to ride every big animal in the world ("they don't like being ridden but that's what makes it fun" -unhinged take). He has sick burns for everyone which are doubly funny because they're almost always unintended as such. He threw a clandestine dance party in the nation that banned dancing and thought he was dead and wanted him dead. Before that he corrected and argued with teachers, beat a bully without lifting a finger and then brought his teenage friends to pose as his parents. The whole Bonzu Pippipadaleopsicopolis the Third thing. The being idiots with Sokka in Ba Sing Se thing with the bowing and the busboys disguises. He rightfully asked "what's cosmic power compared to a girl". Let's add all the badass stuff he does as a bender and as the Avatar up to and including energybending and the conversation with Koh the Face Stealer. That time in The Chase when he finished the fur trail and then decided to just sit down, sleep deprived, to wait and face whoever it was chasing them. Aang is one of the funniest and coolest characters I've ever seen and he deserves more respect. Absolutely unhinged kid with immense powers and the world is lucky he's goofy and has a good heart.

[aanglican]

natla s1e7 reaction liveblog

zuko officially committed treason ruh roh

wait nevermind. zhao was just baiting them

BLASTING JELLY? zhao is so troll

i notice the colors for the title cards change and i’m now realizing it’s cus each batch of episodes focus on different nations (1–2 air nomads; 3–4 earth kingdom; 5–6 fire nation; 7–8 water tribes)

NORTHERN WATER TRIBE BABEYYYY SHOW ME KURUK AND JOEL OULETTE

the north knew they were coming

WELCOME TO AGNA QEL’A

buffalo yak lmao

JOEL OULETTE I MISS YOU ON TRICKSTER

PAKKU

this yue wig 😭

“quit it before they think there’s something wrong with you. more than there already is.” katara pls

zhao and iroh both lying to each other imma laugh

”the fire lord has given me the great honor to lead a great armada” 🤓

zhao: i can’t fail if i never tried anyway

the fire nation using earthbender prisoners for practice ohhhhh

sokka stop staringggg

pakku incoming

yue is a waterbender WORLD STOP 🛑✋

i never thought i could make instant ice cream with waterbending omg water kinda the best element to me now??

yue is so much more down to earth here oh i love it

hahn is so much nicer here

pakku’s face when aang said actually airbending is defensive in nature. like he was disappointed i’m ctfu

arnook and pakku looking at each other like 🗿🗿

i love this visual of waterbending

YUE BROKE OFF THE BETROTHAL?

KURUK SHRINE

justice for kuruk’s memory

KURUK KURUKDKXJXJXJ

btw why is yue an arctic fox spirit…….

oh they’re answering it now LOL

part spirit mostly human

“so u popped over there (in the spirit world) FOR FUN???”

yue is so different here. her duty to the northern water tribe royal family was completely ditched.

“i’ve been fighting firebenders ever since i left home, can any of ur men say that?” let them know 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️

oh fawk yewww for using the attacks on the southern tribe against katara

damn aang got emo from his conversation with kuruk 💀

“someone much smarter” (cue to azula)

azula talking back and ozai is enjoying it cus he baited her into showing her true colors OUUUU

sokka said ass 🚨🚨

katara said pakku meet me at the playground after school

the hair 🚶‍♂️

that fighting sequence was not it i fear… kia could have put more emotion into that & i wish their movements and waterbending were more explosive

“the legend of aang” reference uhhh why do they keep giving katara these dialogues i’m gonna cry

MOMO

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

Of course Zutaras are now using what Azula said in a anger fueled hallucination as the undeniable proof that Zuko DETESTED mai and loved Katara

https://x.com/zukokins/status/1719231596203536518?s=46

https://x.com/azulasmind/status/1719194482422263842?s=46

And plenty more

Ah, yes, the most trust-worthy source on how Zuko feels about Mai: Azula, the girl whose mental health took a major dive after Mai chose to end their toxic friendship and help save Zuko. Her opinion on their relationship totally isn't biased, and her claim that Zuko didn't love Mai isn't just her ego and hurt feelings pushing her to assume Mai was then discarded by an uncaring Zuko and is now totally regretting turning her back on her princess.

And as an Azula fan, it will NEVER cease to amuse me how people are constantly repeating "Azula is crazy, don't take anything she says into account" and "Azula always lies" whenever she reveals something that gives her a little bit of sympathy/makes a popular character look flawed, but then the very second she says something people want to hear they take it as gospel truth - even when it's clear she's lying/has a warped perception of the situation.

Azula implies she did something bad to Suki EXPLICITLY to distract the Gaang long enough for the eclipse to be over? Obviously she was telling the truth, meaning Avatar is not a kid's show, after all it has torture/rape/whatever crime they want to say Azula commited.

Azula clearly doesn't see herself as a victim of her father? That means she cannot possibly be a victim of abuse, nevermind the we see in the finale that he is the one person that can manipulate her, and that in the novelization of the show she's explicitly wondering if Ozai will burn her for raising her voice at him.

Azula says Zuko doesn't love Mai? CLEARLY she knows what she's talking about, she's totally not just trying to cope with the fact her friend was 100% to end their friendship.

Not to mention, even if Zuko had either never loved Mai or stopped loving her after their break up, that does NOT mean he HAS to be in love with someone else, and specifically Katara.

Once again, it's Zutarians assuming their ship just HAD to be the default endgame, and that anything else like Kataang and Maiko were just last minute changes that "got in the way", and if these "obstacles" are removed, naturally Zutara will start. They cannot process the simple fact that their ship was NEVER gonna happen, even if Zuko and Katara both spent the entire show single and having no love interests.

[oflgtfol]

SCREAMS. I JUST ENCOUTNERED MORE OZAI FUCKERS

[psychologeek]

Did I just spent over an hour on making a very niche xover?

...... Maybe.

Anyway, Roku Zaguri isn't impressed.

Ozai: I'm the phoenix king!

Eoku: Bza't. Takhmazila

~

Roku: Matkalhamsh!

Kiyoshi: say no more....

Roku, turning around to zuko: uh, Kapara Aleyka, akh shibrak? Did you eat? Nevermind, I'm gonna make food, eat! 😄😄

(pulling money out of nowhere)

Imagine how the show would have changed if Gyatso ended up in the ice with Aang. Like they have a whole ass adult and he and Iroh enjoy playing Pai Sho while the kids fight.