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Rewatched the Avatar TLA series with my partner recently, and fell in love with the world and characters all over again. I especially love the journey Zuko goes through the show as a character.
Zuko, son of Fire Lord Ozai. He seems pretty by-the-books at first as this angry villain, but something that makes him immediately unique for this kind of setting is his young age. He's barely older than Aang, our child protagonist.
"You're just a child." "Well, you're just a teenager!"
Although early on you start getting the idea that there's more nuance to him than this villain trying to incapacitate our protag, he shows some depth in his character here and there, usually through his uncle Iroh, a wise warrior that's there to aid and comfort his nephew, joining his banished trip on his own accord. While he's on the villain's side, it's worth noting he never hurts or intimidates innocent people, only ever fighting those already attacking or threatening him.
Even so, Zuko made it blatantly clear what his intents were. "I must capture the avatar to regain my honor." And he barely changed his mind about this throughout the entire first season, even when the two helped each-other out of hopeless circumstances, hinting that they're not meant to be sworn enemies.
"If we knew each-other back then, do you think we could've been friends too?"
Knowing the show and how it transpires across all 3 seasons, it's interesting seeing the intent the writers and showrunners had for these characters, and their hidden depth, all the way back in this first season. One of the finest examples would be Iroh sharing Zuko's history with fellow soldiers. A history which helps said soldiers --and in turn, the audience-- empathize with him.
Behind Zuko's scarred face is a story about a boy already feeling lost and unsure of himself, stumbling into a tragedy where his father --in sheer arrogance-- abused his son to a high degree in front of all his subordinates, in a heinous act he would call punishment.
Ever since then, he was banished to travel across the world to search for the avatar, a task his father felt was worthless, but was the same as leaving him out to die. This isn't the origin of a villain, but a downtrodden individual who couldn't find his place in life.
What Zuko called "honor" over and over again wasn't that, but his father's love. He already lost his mother, and instead yearned for his father's approval and affection. This culminated to his ultimate betrayal, siding with his sister and turning his back on his uncle, which lead to his imprisonment. During a crossroad and moment of insecurity, he threw his uncle Iroh to the wolves because he thought he would regain his honor and earn his right to be a part of his family once again.
Zuko would be welcomed back into his family, he retrieved what he thought was his honor --and what he thought was genuine love from his father.
"You have redeemed yourself, my son."
But even then, he still felt lost, alone, and without a sense of direction. Nothing changed, his soul still felt incomplete.
"For so long, I thought that if my dad accepted me, I'd be happy. My dad talks to me, he even thinks I'm a hero! Everything should be perfect, right? I should be happy now, but I'm not! I'm angrier than ever, and I don't know why!"
It took him a long time (about 2 and a half seasons) to realize he didn't need this sense of "honor" and what he was chasing was just a farce. His father only showed Zuko "love" when he seemed useful, an asset that was helping his fascist conquering of multiple nations by killing the Avatar.
All of this drew to an enthralling, terrifying, heart-wrenching moment between him and his father during the day of the eclipse. He used the minutes they could not fire bend as an opportunity to let out the truth and his own epiphany. He admitted that he never killed Aang --didn't even try, for that matter-- and that he's going to help him defeat his father's regime. Ozai immediately despised Zuko for this, proving his 'love' was conditional and hollow. And at that moment, as soon as the eclipse ceased, he attempted to kill his own son right then and there in a moment that never fails to draw tears out of me as soon as it happens.
Zuko survived his father's lethal attack, only by sheer will, and a lighting-redirection technique his uncle happened to teach him a while back, emphasizing how important Iroh is to him. Iroh is the father figure that truly loved Zuko unconditionally. Ozai, his biological father, could only grant him death. His uncle Iroh, at that moment, inadvertently granted him life.
And Zuko's story (mostly) ends in the middle of the 4-part finale. With the help of his friends, he tracked down Iroh who escaped from prison. The moment he sees his uncle, he breaks down as he's horribly ashamed of his actions, expecting Iroh to shun him as he feels he does not deserve his uncle's love after what he did to him.
"I was never angry with you . . . I was sad, because I was afraid you lost your way."
But Iroh doesn't hesitate to embrace him. Like I said, his love is unconditional. He knew Zuko wasn't evil, he was only being manipulated by the likes of his father and sister. He knew Zuko would find the right path, restore his own honor, and come back to him. It's such a beautiful moment and the soul-piercing conclusion to Zuko's story, a story they were building up since the literal first episode.
Of course, there's also Azula, his sister. She was considered a prodigy with her amazing fire bending abilities, mastering the skill of bending lightning, something only her father and uncle were able to do before her.
She was a spitting image of her father; fierce, manipulative, wrathful, the only thing she shared with her brother Zuko was their sense of determination. But we don't learn what really drives Azula until the finale. It's similar to Zuko. He felt incomplete without his father's love. While this was implied before the finale, Azula felt she was missing her mother's love.
While I think the argument could be made that this was just her own projection, it's important that this shows how --despite her more respected place in their family and nation-- she was just as broken and spiritually lost as Zuko. While Ozai showered his daughter with praise for all of her life, Azula felt her mother didn't love her, which ate away at her, deep inside. Much like Zuko, who felt he was fighting to earn his father's love.
Azula, to me, represents Zuko's future if he let his father manipulate him, just like Azula did to him. Would he have become this tyrannical fire lord if he just listened to his father, abandoned his inhibitions, and ensured his nation's regime? Maybe. But like Azula's interrupted crowning, it would have been shallow, lonely, and without any real sense of self-worth. Nothing to show for it but a broken mind.
Instead, Zuko became the fire lord on his own terms, and with the entire world in support of him, as he helped this quest for peace and balance across the nations. He earned his place in life through his own will, his own actions, and his amazing uncle who only wanted the best for him. He restored his honor himself, with his lifelong friends by his side.
That's it, that's all I wanted to write about. This show rules.
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Voltron oc yippie! His name is Ez’re Taylung
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Girls
#voltron fanart#voltron romelle#voltron Shay#allura x romelle x shay#romelle#romelle x Shay#Shay x romelle#Shay#rarepair#voltron rare pair#voltron legendary defender
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Lucy, Kiyo, and Rantaro! Kiyo’s sister is not pleased
#danganronpa korekiyo#danganronpa#danganronpa headcanons#danganronpa fanart#rantaro amami#korekiyo shinguji#miyadera shinguji#sister shinguji
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I like girls
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disclaimer: these are results from google. there were loads so i just picked at random from "most watched anime" lists
please reblog and put your answers in the tags <3
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Pushing an agenda
Based off of my head cannon that they hang out and talk about their studies
#danganronpa headcanons#danganronpa korekiyo#korekiyo shinguji#gonta gokuhara#gundham tanaka#korekiyo art
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! Danganronpa head Canon: I don't know much about Cannon because I get confused easily so take this with a grain of salt!
* Gundham, Gonta, and Korekiyo hang out relatively often to talk about their studies.
Korekiyo has a strong dislike for insects, but he is relatively able to ignore it if it means he gets to observe these two.
Gundam certainly prefers animals to insects, but he does find the creatures interesting and loves to discuss them with Gonta. They discuss the 'Dark Powers' the creatures hold.
Korekiyo uses that time to study Gundham's dark lord persona, while Gonta just loves hearing stories about animals and the strange way Gundham tells said stories.
Gonta is also very fond of Korekiyo's stories even though when he tells them he tends to get a little too passionate and ends up talking for much longer than anticipated. Neither Gonta nor Gundham mind it.
Gundham helps give Korekiyo advice as he has recently come in possession of a pet snake. Gonta named it Lucy, short for Lucifer as it's most recent story with a snake that he remembers Kiyo telling them.
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! I don’t know much about Danganronpa, so take these head cannons with the grain of salt!
*Korekiyo does not like spiders. In fact, he hates them. Not the itty-bitty ones smaller than a fingernail, but the big ones. He doesn’t like any bugs, he thinks they’re cool and doesn’t mind learning about them, but he cannot stand the thought of coming in contact with them.
*Gundham has a very difficult time, making friends and is actually very lonely. When he was younger, he genuinely wanted to befriend Kazuichi, but was quickly turned down because he was already close to Sonia and Kazuichi saw that as competition.
*Everyone thinks Gundam and Sonia are dating. They’re always very close, and very frequently touching each other. They have such casual displays of affection, everyone kind of just assumes there together. They’re not, and they genuinely have no idea people think this about them.
*Celestia and Korekiyo our relatively close friends. They regularly have tea parties. Kirumi joins in often as well.
*Korekiyo has really good posture. In a rather confusing conversation Rantaro pointed out, leaving Kiyo and a stunned silence.
*Kiyo’s sister acts as a coping mechanism for him. He doesn’t know how to deal with his emotions without her. He wants to move on from that. He wants to be better but as of now he doesn’t know how to.
*This isn’t necessarily a head cannon I just wanted to bring it up, Gonta is very smart. Yes he speaks in third person and is a bit naïve but all things considered. He’s a very intelligent person. Again, I don’t actually know a whole lot about the canon because it got very confusing very quickly, but he was raised in the wild? When you meet him in game, he talks perfectly well and understands human concepts just fine. Again, I could be entirely wrong, but if that is the case studies have shown that it’s near impossible for people who are born in those conditions to learn to speak. So I just wanted to acknowledge that about him because even if I’m wrong, I still think it’s pretty cool
#danganronpa#headcanons#korekiyo#korekiyo shinguji#danganronpa korekiyo#gundham tanaka#celestia ludenberg#gonta gokuhara#drv3 kirumi#sonia nevermind
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I’m about to be so annoying.
I have had cannons for a bunch of things a lot of which I don’t know much about Canon or care about Canon so….. sorry
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ive been listening to the encounter table for approximately one day and god i want dex and scott to kiss so bad
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