#ty anon! this may have rambled a bit oops

[origami-butterfly]

Uhhh headcanons about Oscar?

YAY AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT MY BELOVED!!! Uhhh... some of this has potential to be triggering? Maybe? Uh.. mentions of religious trauma and mentions of intrusive thoughts, so I'm putting it under a cut (also people are probably not that interested in my thoughts about this gayass priest)

- He's greyromantic and ace (and in love with Arthur, obviously)

- The way he shows his love is very similar to worship, because it's what he's been taught by priests growing up

- Adding onto that, his wires are crossed, meaning he mixes fear and love because the Catholic Church teaches that to love God is to fear him. (Also based on what he says in 36, I think the priests would be like that as well)

- Sometimes priests double as organists! I think Oscar would have some basic musical training, enough to play chords and a melody during worship (him and Arthur should duet...)

- Re: the previous one, I think he would've hated lessons, and hates playing in services because there's people around, but loved playing pieces he liked, by himself.

- He has coeliac disease. I don't know where I got this hc, it came to me in a vision. (My church solely uses gluten free bread so perhaps it cane from there)

- He wears glasses. Square frame ones specifically.

- The worst churches always tell young people right from the start, that they are imperfect and therefore unworthy of God's love, the only person who could be is Jesus, and given what we know about Father McKenna, I'm think Oscar would be raised that way, so he's constantly striving for perfection to the point of obsession.

- HOWEVER, he does not preach the same thing in his church! I think he's the type to try and fix the system from the inside, and teaches the young at his church that they are good enough for God, that he loves them even though they sin.

- He gets bad intrusive thoughts. Because Christianity (and Catholicism especially) is deeply obsessed with purity, he'd try to repress them more and it would only get worse. Maybe taking a hammer to father mckenna was the catalyst for them. (When he falls for Arthur, he's convinced it's an "evil thought" and believes repressing it would make it stop, he's convinced he's condemned to hell.)

- Oscar fiddles with his rosary beads when he thinks about Arthur, so to an outsider it looks like he's praying, but actually he's thinking about someone else... there's a link to the commandment "have no other gods but me" to be made here, but it's late and I can't think of it.

- He's soooo huggable, he loves physical contact.

[the--descension]

ooh here have some more ideas for the au. whether or not you use them, i hope they help. zuko does not do social media. uncle made him get accounts and spent a week making sure he made at least one post a day. "you need to interact with people your age, nephew, even if it's not in person". once uncle stopped this, zuko stopped using social media. maybe he kept lurking a little though. he probably mostly follows conspiracy-theory type blogs about the avatar's return. -chaotic good

zuko not using social media is extremely frustrating for Azula, she created these secret social media accounts specifically so she could keep an eye on him and make sure he was okay. now she is reduced to following his crewpeople's social media! she even follows one of uncle's accounts! she is never going to forgive zuko for this. (she also uses those secret accounts for anything she doesn't want father to know about.) -chaotic good

ozai uses social media for propaganda. iroh uses it for white lotus stuff (secret society undercover with virtual pai sho). ty lee is on social media all the time. she uses it to promote the circus, keep in touch with her friends and her sisters, and make new friends. mai mostly lurks and pms ty lee and Azula. possibly ursa follows the official royal family accounts so she knows even just a bit about her children. -chaotic good

These are so big-brained?? I bow to you, my favorite anon. My (incoherent) rambling got pretty long, so it's under the cut.

Thinking of Zuko following conspiracy theory blogs is sending me— I mean, imagine Jet running a conspiracy theory blog where he talks about the Dai Li and firebenders hiding in plain sight (if it’s a modern AU with bending), and then Zuko starts following Jet’s blog and the two of them hit it off?? And cue Jetko! Part 1 of make Jet the common Zutara ex succesful. 

Also, screaming about Azula having fake accounts, omg. While in an ideal fluffy AU, I’d want Ozai out of the picture entirely, if he was there, Azula would definitely have burner accounts so that he couldn’t track her. I’m also very 👀 about you mentioning one of uncle’s accounts. Does that mean Iroh has multiple accounts? Perhaps one as Mushi? One as the Grand Lotus? 👀

Which brings me to my next point about how much I love the idea of a secret society with virtual Pai Sho!!! It’s perfect, holy shit. Just imagine Iroh and Bumi (conveniently ignoring Pakku, oops) and their video calls. They’d initially have no idea how to hold their phones and would start off with holding them at very... erm, strange angles. 

Everything you have said about Ozai, Ty Lee, Mai, and Ursa 10/10 brilliant perfect. I do have plans to write royalty!modern AUs in the future, and everything that you’ve said really, really helps! Thank you for sharing these wonderful headcanons! I hope you’re doing well 💖