#sozin

[purple-astronaut]

NERD OZAI IS IN FULL EFFECT

Something that has just occured to me: Ozai didn't seem to have a military title - which is odd, considering that Iroh was a general of the glorious Fire Nation army. He was leading the siege of Ba Sing Se while Ozai... sat on his ass at the palace, sharing the space with his resentful father? Why? Was Ozai known as the loser prince that never brought the Fire Nation any glory? Especially compared to his remarkable brother and nephew? Was that it? Was Azulon against Ozai's military carreer? Why? Did he consider his second son this much of a fuckup? Did he hate him? Did Ozai secretly itch to kill the old bastard for years? Did Azulon? Did Zuko ever have a chance of being accepted by his father, or was he doomed by the circle of abuse the second he was born a boy, destined to be hated by his father the same way he had once been hated himself?

[theoneandonlylobster]

Fire Nation + text memes (by me)

[akiizayoi4869]

Also, the complete erasure of Azulon in this comic is sending me🤣 you're really saying that Sozin and Ozai made contributions to the academy, making sure that the children were being taught the "correct way" and Azulon was like "fuck them kids"? Lmao ok

[queen-morgana91]

Sozin is the worst, i hate him with a burning passion

The fact that the Fire Nation used Sacred Air Nomad sites and temples as lures and traps to kill any surviving Air Nomads makes this whole topic even darker.

This is horrifying. All because they wanted to kill a kid.

And the ending?

Ugh.

Aang whole story is so tragic. A lot of people constantly shit on him for no reason but this kid carried this loneliness through into his adult years and bottled so much up.

Aang never really accepted the end of his culture.

This comic broke me.

[trylvieuno]

[yourhighness6]

ATLA The Older Generations Textposts

[zuko-always-lies]

Normalize admitting that the Fire Nation royal family is a collection of the worst people on the planet, who have collectively spent the last 100 years setting the entire planet on fire.

[azulaang-chakras]

Friendships aren't the only thing strong enough to transcend lifetimes.

[mesapies]

the royal family of the fire nation from avatar: the last airbender: legacy of the firenation. They did azula so dirty with that pic

Also how did ursa come out so light?

[seasideoranges]

Oh I am READY!!! ( artist here! )

[kibutsulove]

A sozin holding an infant azulon that I will eventually color

[theoneandonlylobster]

Sigh. This is not in line with any canon Azula out there except I guess the self-loathing monster version of herself that Azula sees that's clearly a distorted reality because she's 1) an abuse victim and 2) mentally ill. Azula? Is that you honey? Were you helping with this comic? Get therapy, babe. The one salvageable bit is maybe the line about her not liking how the stuffie looked at her just for the interpretation that maybe whatever she's got going on (my guess is schizoaffective disorder) goes this far back. But Hicks probably isn't that clever and Bryke certainly aren't. And childhood schizophrenia-type illnesses are pretty rare. The more likely intended takeaway is blah blah born evil such a monster blah. And even if it is supposed to be a nod to nascent mental illness, why are we off demonizing the mentally ill? Especially one who's FIVE YEARS OLD? Christ!

Oh come off it, Mai. You love Azula. Like, that's canon as well. There's a post floating around and I am sorry but I'm not going to go find it but it analyzes Mai’s Big Damn Line, "I love Zuko more than I fear you," and why she said specifically that. And I won't reanalyze something that's already been done very well, but there are some very good reasons why she chose that specific wording. I think if you're here reading this post, you're aware of what those reasons are. But why not, "I love Zuko more than I love you?" Aside from the fact that Azula wouldn't be able to grasp such a statement, it's also false. She loves both siblings and she might be the only person alive who has ever loved them equally. But okay, Faith Hicks, please destroy that.

There's this weird erasure of Azulon going on? He's never mentioned once? It's all Sozin and Ozai. Like, dude was Firelord for 3/4 of the war. He's responsible for most of the shit you guys are supposedly up in arms about. Why won't you say his name? Fuck's sake. Canon failing to exist yet again.

I swear Mai if you ever make this face again--! She's crying out for help, she knows she's been body snatched and this is her plea to us, her signal to get her the fuck out of this terrible comic

I mean we can all appreciate this though.

Jesus Christ, who gave knives to a kindergartener?! Hicks, you know she has time to develop that skill later down the road, right? Like, why does she know how to do this already?! Make it make sense! This goes beyond bad or irresponsible parenting and veers completely into negligent. I'm impressed, Faith Hicks, you managed to take the Worst Parenting Award in the ATLA-verse away from Ozai and Ursa and hand it soundly to Ukano and Michi in one panel of a comic. Fuck.

I would just like to note that, despite Ty Lee (I assume it's Ty Lee and not one of her sisters! Because God forbid anyone on the comics team remember her sisters even exist and put them in logical places!) standing around in a few of these flashback panels, like this one, no attempt is made to explain why Azula is friends with her whatsoever.

Also why is everyone in uniform except Azula? Why is Azula exempt? That's not how this type of school works, I don't care who your grandfather is. And the kids are in the same uniform from The Headband which also doesn't make sense on several levels seeing as that was a mixed-gender school for kids of more or less average background on an outlying island and this is a school for young female nobility in the capital itself with a brother school presumably quite nearby. Like, school uniforms aren't the same between any two nonrelated schools anywhere. What gives? Like, I'm obviously giving this too much thought and yet--

Okay, so, in The Day of Black Sun, we see Azula flipping around acrobatically (we see her perform acrobatic stunts a few other times as well, particularly in The Drill). Not to the same degree as Ty Lee but I mean, Ty Lee is just on a whole other level. We also see that Azula carries knives up her sleeves in DoBS, although she doesn't deploy them. Presumably, she's not as accurate as Mai is, given that she's not as acrobatic as Ty Lee. So that's always been one of my favorite little things the show kinda just drops about the Dangerous Ladies and leaves for you to pick up on. That they're all kind of tutoring each other in their unique skill sets. And so I like this panel here for existing and confirming that. I can picture Azula teaching them the motions and philosophies of firebending, despite the other two not being benders. Firebending is all about moving and redirecting the flow of qi throughout one's body, after all, and what is Ty Lee if not an expert in qi?

By the way, this panel existing and the whole paragraph I just typed completely undermines any interpretation of Mai and Ty Lee being fake friends. They were not. This comic makes no sense.

Okay, so, this comic came out less than 24 hours ago and enough has already been said about these panels that I don't need to rehash. I'll just agree with every that that top Mai line sounds like a Ty Lee line (in fact, Mai and Ty Lee feel at parts like they've been squashed into one character in this comic, which is quite a feat considering how wildly different they are, but it probably explains the lack of explanation for why Ty Lee became friends with Azula). Mai's "Yeah, I remember that." made me facepalm. "Ha! Oh yeah, we did write that. Lol." And then at the end they're just like, "And we have no idea why, tbh." Haaaaaaaaaate these comics.

I can legitimately see Mai sneaking off to the attic to read. Girl probably still does this, if we're being honest.

That's ten more. We have plenty more to go, folks, stay tuned!

My Big Damn Ashes of the Academy Thoughts

Okay so honestly I just need to take this panel by panel because frankly my overall impression of the comic is that everyone got replaced Invasion of the Body Snatchers style with people that look the same as they do and have the same name, but have zero idea of the backgrounds or motivations of said characters, and so they were just making shit up as they went along. Like, I write fanfic, I read fanfic. I have, in general, a pretty high regard for fanfic. And of course one of the more common Dangerous Ladies childhood type fics is how did they meet, why are these three very different individuals friends, etc etc.

And this was not even approaching the worst, crappiest, least coherent of that type of fiction I've read over the last nearly two decades.

Ashes of the Academy is a giant nothing burger comic, a fart in an elevator you're trapped with until you can make your escape.

So, without further ado, let's begin:

So right here on the second page of the comic, and the first page with dialogue, we have Ursa letting us know that, apparently, contrary to what we know, the Academy made Azula a bad person. Not her parents, definitely definitely not Ursa. You got that? It was all the Academy's fault. And we will continue beating that ostrich horse the entire rest of the comic, make no mistake!

Ah yes, Ursa, noted Not Ever An Imperialist At All, Not Even Once, Nuh-Uh.

Skipping several pages that would be me saying these two things multiple times...

Credit where credit is due, I like these two panels. I like this tiny glimpse into the friendship of Kiyi and Lihua or whatever here. One, because I imagine this is more like how Azula probably actually was, based on what we see in Zuko Alone. And two, that means Kiyi is unconsciously mirroring her sister and I like that interpretation of her character. It seems that Hicks does too, on a subconscious level. Look at that devious little look on her face! Little shit. Yeah, you cause a ruckus! Adorable.

I'd be lying if I said this didn't get a chuckle out of me. Is Katara on Zuko's Ministry of Education? Lol wtf. Still funny though.

More Kiyi being a little shit that I can get behind. This time in a Little Miss Know-It-All superiority complex sense that I'm sure would get real old real fast for anyone around her.

I've pointed this out on another post but Kiyi isn't a princess? Wtf? Come on, Hicks. Like it's not hard to figure this shit out. I think giving her a character trait of literally running to her big brother the Firelord anytime she feels slighted is pretty good, but of course it's never explored, because that's not a heroic trait and Kiyi has to be a hero for some reason unlike that irredeemable monster Azula who was born bad.

So nice of you to ask her first Zuko! Fuck's sake! Being Firelord has really gotten to this boy's head, like I know he has absolute power and all that shit but damn, if I was Mai, I would be wanting to get back with him less after this, not more, regardless of whether or not I liked the job in the end. Fucking consent, bro! (Previous page has him telling the headmistress she'll do it.) Unfortunately, this is actually not ooc for what we've seen of Zuko, honestly, imo. Mai, you can do so much better. Like, I ship Maiko. I love their dynamic etc etc. But girl. Respect yourself. This boy is NOT it at this point.

This is our continuing indication that they'll be rewriting the past in this comic, and we'd all better get on board. Zuko certainly thinks Azula treated him badly and has a very, "Zuko did nothing wrong!" approach to it all, but Mai was there for the vast majority of it, witnessed it with her own two eyes, so she would not react to that sentence with, "True." She just wouldn't. At least not the Mai we know. So let the assassination of Mai’s character commence!

Like, was this comic so half-assed nobody could be bothered to look up the spelling of Ukano's name? Yes. Yes it was.

Can I be made to believe Ukano said this to Mai when she was smol? Absolutely, yes. He's portrayed as a social climber and willing to utilize basically any route he can access to gain clout and influence. That's a man who is not above using his daughter in this way. I think it's somewhat implied by Mai’s dialogue in The Beach, even. Dude was a shitty father, Caldera was rife with them. Do I believe for one second Mai became friends with Azula because of this counsel? Absolutely not. The Mai we know thinks for herself 100% of the time, it's basically her thing.

Oh, cool, there's a 10 image per post limit. Well. I'll keep going in reblogs and indicate when I'm done. Bear with me, friends.

[aangarchy]

Alright now this does not make sense here

Sozin is supposed to be 16-17 in this book, bc this is only a few months after Roku left the Fire Nation to train at the Southern Airtemple. The comet is said to pass every hundred years. Sozin comitted the airnomad genocide twelve years after Roku died (hence Aang being twelve). If we do the math according to this book tho, the great comet passes when Sozin is 60-61. Meaning Roku is also 60-61 bc they share their birthday and -year. And it's known that Roku died when he was in his late seventies early eighties. So HOW is this possible?

Either they're retconning how often the comet passes by earth OR they're retconning how old Roku was when he died (meaning he would have died at age 50, which would mess the story up so badly I don't think this is what they did). I'm so lost rn and maybe it gets explained further in the book (calculations being wrong? Idk) but man it's not fun to see them either change stuff about things that are already canon or just get canon wrong.

Idk why they're doing this. It would be much more satisfying if this novel actually followed the show's canon, that we witness Sozin learning at which exact date the comet will pass, not that he finds an estimate and discovers the calculations in Wan Shi Tong's library were wrong (which I highly doubt considering that celestial calendar he has).

[queen-morgana91]

There are many theories that atla fans think are canon, but I don't understand why do people believe that the Fire Nation began to abduct the waterbenders from the Southern Water Tribe because they were searching for the next Avatar

The series disagree

Sozin was well aware that Aang survived the genocide:

But somehow, the new Avatar eluded me. I wasted the remainder of my life searching in vain. I know he's hiding out there somewhere. The Fire Nation's greatest threat ... the last airbender.

That’s a big part of the reason why Ozai banishing Zuko was so cruel. He was told that he could only come home if he had captured the Avatar, who had been missing for a hundred years at that point. Ozai was just trying to get rid of Zuko by sending him on a goose chase he had no hope of succeeding in, that could only be possible if Aang’s disappearance and having never been reincarnated into either of the Water Tribes was common knowledge, which it was. When Zuko showed up at the Southern Water Tribe looking for Aang, he assumed he’d be an old man. Katara had even asked Aang if he ever knew the Avatar not realizing it was him.

Even Zhao, the sages, Iroh etc were certain that the Avatar was an airbender

Btw the Fire Nation attacked the Southern Water Tribe because they were an imperialist nation who wanted to conquer the whole world and the South was an easy target, unlike the North and the earth kingdom. Also the waterbenders are a great THREAT to the firebenders and they wanted them gone for obvious reasons

[waterfire1848]

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[atlathoughts]

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