#prince azulon

[deadlyangelofpurity]

Based off my headcanon of Azulon being adopted by Sozin.

[demaparbat-hp]

No war au: first time meeting each other at a diplomatic event. zuko, crown prince of the fire nation kisses the hand of katara chief of the southern water tribe.

Beyond diplomacy.

[dragologist]

Nobody:

Men from the Fire Nation:

More like the Fire Baddies 💅🏻❤️‍🔥✨️

[doodlerose]

[zeno-zero]

I am, admittedly, on crack today /j

[jessmalia]

I rewatched The Avatar and the Fire Lord a few days ago, and god, what a good episode. Revealing that Zuko is a descendant of both Sozin and Roku was a genius move (and that's not even getting into the Zuko/Aang parallels of it all). But there's something the show doesn't seem to think of, and that I haven't seen anyone in the fandom discuss either — the fact that Zuko isn't the only one descendant from both these men. Azula is, too.

The conclusion of this story that Iroh presents to Zuko at the end of the episode is that he alone — because of his lineage from both men the war was started from — is uniquely capable of cleansing the sins of his family and the fire nation and bringing peace to the world. But, the thing is, there's two sides of this conflict, and therefor two sides to its legacy. The external and the personal. The legacy of the external is the war, but the legacy of the personal is the sibling rivalries that kept repeating through generations of the royal family.

Though Roku and Sozin were not actually related, they were childhood friends as close as siblings and fucking shared a birthday, so the symbolism works. We know very little about Azulon's childhood or if he even had any direct sibling rivalries like this at all, but from what I can find on his wiki page, we know that Sozin favoured him over "other family" (I'm assuming his siblings). What we know very well, however, is what happened in the next generation between Iroh and Ozai. We know Azulon favoured Iroh over Ozai, and that this likely is the initial source of their hatred for each other, which resulted in perhaps the worst sibling rivalry of them all (what with the indirect patricide and throne stealing).

Then we go on to Zuko and Azula, whose upbringing kept going in the same patterns, but the key difference is them being the first ones to both be descendant from the men who started it all. If Zuko having this lineage makes him uniquely capable of ending the cycle of war in his country and restoring balance to the world, shouldn't that mean that both he and Azula having this lineage makes them uniquely capable of ending the cycle of brutal sibling rivalries and restoring balance to their family?

This conclusion I've presented seems to fit perfectly with the lesson Aang draws from the same story as well:

"Roku was just as much Fire Nation as Sozin was, right? If anything, their story proves that anyone's capable of great good and great evil. Everyone, even the Fire Lord and the Fire Nation, have to be treated like they're worth giving a chance."

I know this is supposed to be foreshadowing to Aang refusing to kill Ozai later, but I can't help but think it's even more applicable to fourteen year old Azula. It's really so ironic that the show runners thought Azula deserved what she got when their own show seems to be telling them that Zuko mending his relationship with her is what he ultimately should've done.

But, then again... that does sort of make her the perfect tragedy.

[kacievvbbbb]

Honestly Ozai’s treatment of zuko and Azula was probably less about who they were and more about him projecting what he wishes his father would have done for him with Iroh.

He is after all a second born child himself and he’s always just wanted his father to see that he was the better child.

Azula was never a person to Ozai not really she was just his self insert in the fanfiction he was writing himself. It’s why she stops mattering the moment he finds something bigger than being fire lord.

[sailorluna15]

azula headcanon

azula is def the child-free friend/family member who acts like she can't stand to be around the kids but all the kids love her. She's like a kid magnet and baby whisper and it actually freaks her out. Anytime zuko & mai (I hc that mai is izumi's mom) need a break they always give izumi to azula. She'll be like "Ugh, stop giving me y'all's child 🙄" but will never tell them no. She's the bougie, rich aunt for sure.

[aangarchy]

Guys, when Azulon ordered Ozai to kill Zuko, do y'all think his intention was for Ozai to actually do it? Or do you think Azulon just told Ozai to do that to teach him a lesson about family and didn't expect Ozai to want to go through with it?

I rlly don't know the answer myself. Like i want to believe in the goodness of people but seeing how ruthless Ozai was, he had to get that from somewhere right

[nerdypeanuthoagiebanana]

So I was thinking about how ATLA inverted the favored sibling trope -if u can call it a trope-. Like usually in fiction, it's the older sibling that is the favorite and the younger one is kind of the underdog. And then I realized that they didn't only invert it they also subtly executed the classic version of it. It's never said explicitly but in the one scene, where we see Ozai and Azulon interact with each other, it is abundantly clear that Azulon favors Iroh - his older son- and completely dismisses Ozai. Ozai is the one lacking, Ozai can't do anything right in his father's eyes.

And now we go one generation further, Ozai is now an admittedly terrible father to two children. Zuko and Azula, and who does he favor?!

THE YOUNGER ONE

AZULA

Of course he does, Ozai heavily projects on both of his kids. He goes the extreme other way and puts the same abusive pattern on his own children, just reversed.

- Iroh himself btw never has the opportunity to develop that pattern, first of all because he only had one child, and second of all because he was the one who got the at least somewhat "healthier" dynamic with his father and probably his mother, if we go with the theory that Ilah died in childbirth.-

Because he sees the exceptional prodigy of Azula as himself, the second child, who in his narcissism is the better option. Who he can form to be the perfect successor of his legacy.

And in that way of thinking he treats Zuko, his older child with the same neglect and dismissal as he was treated as a child. He himself does not realise it, but he creates in that way in Zuko a kind of distorted mirror image of himself.

With one difference. Zuko has his mother and his uncle to teach him compassion. Not only that but Zuko himself is someone who as a person has a strict honor code he follows. (See 41st division).

Zuko is with that in mind, not just a reflection of Ozai but also a WEAK reflection from his perspective.

Which puts us back to the reason of, why he burned the face.

So in conclusion did ATLA not only invert a trope, it also used it to develop a unhealthy family dynamic and create a realistic picture of the cycle of generational trauma.

[deadlyangelofpurity]

Sozin with his 'son' Azulon. Totally not stolen-I mean adopted into the fold lol. Also adopting in your eighties probably isn't a good idea as you can see...

[trashfactorysstuff]

Iroh is so proud of that.

[fuzzykidney]

Little thought process and personal belief on the ages of Iroh and Ozai.

Some people are under the impression that Ozai is like 15 years younger than Iroh. I don’t personally think that because:

-grey hair doesn’t mean much. In the flash back of the siege of ba sing se Iroh has black hair. But then Lu Ten dies and Iroh’s world falls apart. He loses himself and his respect and everything. That easily could have taken a big enough toll on his body to turn his hair grey early.

-flashback and portraits of him in the canon book “legacy of the fire nation “ show black hair. He only stopped being a general like what? Five years before the story we see?

-I wouldn’t doubt someone like Ozai would just ignore hair dye lol. He wants to look his best.

-the live action actors prove a point somewhat as well. The actors are only 4 years apart, and Ozai’s is actually the older one.

However I do think the timeline for avatar is whack in many instances. So this is just one thing I try to grasp.

Side note: Sozins age and kids are just whack. Tenzin’s age difference from Pema was unnecessary. And why couldn’t Iroh the second be younger???

ANYWAY. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THNX.

Edit: I remembered this picture from the series. Lu Ten and Iroh with zuko. Best I can do is guess that zuko is maybe a year and Lu ten could be around 8. So 8 years is the max I can concede to lmao. But also makes sense. It’s still a sizeable gap.

[dragologist]

What's up with men from the Fire Nation having wives that are either absent, unwanted or unconfirmed?

Azulon's the odd one out??

Info down below:

Are the Zesty genetics that strong??

[the-genius-az]

Maizulee as men.

Mai is named Mael, Ty Lee as Ty Len, and Azula is obviously Azulon.

When they first saw Azulon they simply thought he was a very pretty boy.

Azulon felt his heart beat very fast when he met Mael and Ty Len.

At first Mael and Azulon had a fragile masculinity, fortunately Ty Len did not.

Ty Len loved touching his friends, and he felt butterflies in his stomach.

Mael thought of poems describing Azulon and Ty Len.

Azulon was always the one who bought everything his friends wanted, Ty Len made fun that he looked like a Sugar Daddy.

Maybe they masturbated thinking about each other for the first time.

When they met again, Mael and Ty Len couldn't help but tease each other about how short the Prince was.

When betrayed, Azulon scoffed that all men are equal.

It was worth waiting for her prince to come out of the asylum to go on a date.

[zukkaart]

What would you think, if, after getting advice from Iroh, Zuko and the gang travel to the spirit world in order to find Aang’s people so that Aang can teach the air acolytes more about the air nomads? Zuko and the others are able to get into the spirit world using a portal. But Zuko gets attacked by a mysterious spirit and then hits his head. He reverts back to post banishment (but pre Season 1) Zuko after losing some of his memories. The gang manage to get Zuko out of the spirit world before the portal closes, but Iroh and Ursa don't make it out in time and end up getting trapped there. Zuko is confused and doesn’t know why he’s firelord. The gang try to explain things to him, but it only causes him to become even more confused. Aang and the gang then leave Zuko behind to spend more time with the air acolytes.

While they’re gone, Zuko is very uncertain about what to do, especially since his dad is presumed dead, but soon corrupt advisors convince him to restart the war. Zuko doesn’t remember his friendship with Aang, but he hears that he once joined Aang, so Zuko assumes that Aang once brainwashed him into joining team Avatar and turning against his Father. Zuko intends to be a much greater firelord than his father, and he and his army raid the air acolyte settlement in their airships in order to hunt down Aang once again, and end up burning down the settlement. Aang and the gang wonder why Zuko chose to hunt them down again. Aang eventually comes to the conclusion that Zuko backslid due to bad advice from his advisors and because he lost some of his memories. Aang then travels the nations and studies things like chakras in order to look for a cure to help restore Zuko’s memories.  

Azula is now alone and more vulnerable than ever because the fire warriors have deserted her, and Zuko sends bounty hunters after her to capture her. Azula tries to escape one of the bounty hunters, but she gets bitten by the bounty hunter's poisonous snake. The bounty hunter offers to give Azula the antidote for the poison if she'll give herself up, but Azula refuses. Azula finds help in the village of Jang Hui where she is healed by two waterbenders who are taking refuge there. Jang Hui is the village Katara helped in The Painted Lady. And the villagers aren’t on good terms with the firelord. The villagers accept her and assume that she’s on their side because she’s made an enemy of the Firelord. The villagers teach Azula how to heal people using firebending techniques inspired by water bending, and she ends up becoming a fisherwoman because it’s a fishing town.

She starts to warm up to the town, but one day she overhears the waterbenders talking about sneaking out to sabotage the smelting factory (which is currently undergoing reconstruction) in order to help the villagers. Azula offers to join their mission, and the three sneak out to destroy the factory, but she betrays the waterbenders over to the fire nation in hopes that she might bring glory to the fire nation. But now that the waterbenders are captured and eliminated, the town is defenseless. Zuko’s army burns the town down leaving few survivors. Zuko didn’t exactly authorize the attack, but he did give his generals permission to do whatever it takes to stop the villagers from trying to halt the rebuilding of the factory used for the war effort. A few survive and declare revenge on Azula for what she did.  

Azula starts to feel terrible about betraying the people who saved her life and indirectly causing the village to be destroyed, since she didn’t know it would be destroyed. And she holds Zuko partially responsible for destroying the village. Members of the army give her a head start before they start chasing her. After wandering around, Azula looks through a telescope and sees Aang try to save a fire nation village from a volcano, and she also sees Zuko. Zuko does nothing after his corrupt advisors tell him to leave the village, saying that Aang will probably die, so Zuko runs away. But Aang manages to save the village from the erupting volcano. Azula gets accepted into the gang when she uses her new healing abilities to heal Aang, who is wounded by the volcano.

Later, Aang uses his newly developed powers to find out the real cause of Zuko's memory loss and he discovers that it wasn't because of the head injury. Zuko's memory loss was due to a spirit possessing him. The spirit was trying to make Zuko succumb to his darkest impulses by fogging specific memories. The more Zuko succumbs to darkness, the more control the spirit has over Zuko. Once the spirit gains full control over Zuko's body, Zuko's spirit will cease to exist. The Spirit is really Azulon. Aang realizes that he needs to expel the spirit from Zuko, and he knows he can't expel the spirit from Zuko if he has a heart filled with anger.

The gang have to stop Zuko (who now uses chemical weapons in the war) from conquering the Northern Water tribe using chemical weapons launched from his airships and finishing what his forefathers started. Soon the spirit of Azulon seemingly has full control over Zuko. It's ambiguous how much of Zuko's actions is his fault and how much of Zuko's actions is the Spirit's fault. "Zuko" soon leads a fleet towards the Northern Water Tribe to destroy it, and he even shoots down and kills Appa while laughing. Driven by grief, Aang tries to kill "Zuko", thinking things will be easier this way, but Azula jumps in his way and gets seriously wounded. Aang then expels the spirit of Azulon out of Zuko causing Zuko to return to normal, and Azula manages to survive her wounds.

Anon this is INSANE

I love this idea because I genuinely don’t think Aang could forgive him for Appas death. But I think that this would probably end with Zuko unaliving himself from the guilt. I wish there was a way that this could have a happy ending but I don’t think there is. It’s so heartbreaking and if a:tla was a horror show then this would be AMAZING