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jujuberii · 6 days

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hey did y'all know i write.

sokka casually writing haikus in his spare time as zukos swt ambassador. he's kind of embarrassed abt it so he keeps them in a secret drawer in his nightstand but eventually zuko finds them (for the sake of plot) and tells him that they're rlly good without realizing they're ABOUT HIM! so he convinces sokka to publish them and the gaang reads them as well. and bc they aren't blind (even toph) they see that they're abt zuko and totally tease sokka abt it lmao

sokka, who's entirely fed up with hopelessly pining over zuko and him not getting the hint, eventually writes one that's pretty explicitly abt the fire lord, and sticks it under zukos door one night. but since nothing can ever go right for sokka (aunt wu, why must you be right all the time!?, he laments to the gaang) he forgets to sign it!

zuko, who can't deal with the thought that it might actually be from sokka, convinces himself that one of his staff members is his secret admirer and sokka helped them write it! he goes through the list of potential secret admirers, and confronts each one. all of them - because they have eyes - realize that sokka was the one who wrote it, and silently laugh to themselves because they're working for a idiot (/aff) who can't accept that his crush might like him back.

eventually, zuko asks sokka who he helped write the haiku, and sokka just. Stares at him. picks up the haiku, signs it with his name, and crosses his arms and stares. zuko, whose mind is going a mile a minute, goes completely red in the cheeks and says "Oh." after like 10 seconds of internally freaking out, zuko grabs sokkas stupid face and kisses him.

the gaang and zukos staff let out a collective sigh of relief at never having to watch them pine ever again

#zukka #atla #fanfic #atla fanfic #writing #writing ideas #may or may not be inspired by this one aziracrow fic ive read #the gaang #fire lord zuko #ambassador sokka #atla zuko #atla sokka #ao3 #post canon atla #sokka #zuko #writers on tumblr

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aimlacely-sapphic · 1 year

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🔥Fire Lord Zuko Headcanons🔥

My semi-canon compliant headcanons of Zuko after the war with a side of Zukka

Zuko's first few months as firelord are a bit of a mess. He's desperately trying to put together some semblance of functional governance in place of the corruption left in his fathers wake, while simultaneously trying to negotiate peace treaties and settlement agreements with nations his predecessors attempted to destroy.

He's overworking himself, not sleeping enough, forgetting to eat and overall just not doing a great job taking care of himself, convinced if he doesn't take care of things instantly then he's not doing enough.

It all comes to a head once the assassination attempts start getting out of hand. At that point Zuko is simply not sleeping so Sokka, Mai, Tylee and Iroh stage an intervention (you cannot convince me Iroh would stay in Ba Sing Se once things start getting out of hand)

His security get upgraded, Toph gets brought in to vet the staff (she can tell when people are lying!! why wouldn't she get to kick people out of the palace?)

And finally things start to settle down

Once the peace talks and negotiations are done he starts transforming the Fire Nation itself

A lot of people have written about this but I am absolutely convinced that Zuko spends the first year trying to get the palace staff to trust him not to hurt them

By the second or third year they are willing to speak to him and have more than small talk

He goes about making a lot of changes in policy but first he disappears for 2 days only Sokka and his head guard knowing in advance

He goes incognito through dozens of towns and villages

He visits schools (putting his blue spirit skills to use)

He goes to orphanages and homeless shelters

He goes back to the Sun Warriors to tell them about the end of the war and seek advice on how to reshape the way firebending is taught to everyone (and maybe he ends up adopting a dragon egg in the process...)

When he returns to the palace he is ready to transform the nation

He makes it a crime to use corporeal punishment

He brings back old traditions and rule for Agni Kais where they can only be fought by adults against adults provided they both agree to the fight. The Agni Kai stops when a person surrenders or at first burn.

He wanted to completely end the practice of Agni Kais but tradition could not constantly be broken by his reign (according to his advisors) so the changes just make them less common or harmful until they go obsolete

He puts in place programs for veterans to get the treatment and support they need.

He creates a fostering program where children who have been left behind can find love with parents who have lost children or veterans who want to bring love and hope to the world

He works with Aang and Sokka and Master Piandao to create new curriculum for the schools which is historically accurate, brings back culture and joy and teaches students to think for themselves

He includes some of the wisdom from the sun warriors in the new curriculum so that firebending, and really all fighting forms can be taught with their duality in mind. Fire burns but it is also life. Martial Arts can be use to kill, but they are also an art form.

Making the curriculum stick is a longer process but with help from people on the inside, slowly but surely schools start to teach in a better. kinder way

Its around the time of Zuko's 20th birthday when advisors start to bother him about marrying.

It is while trying to avoid their matchmaking that he start realizing that he likes Sokka (he's an oblivious biromantic asexual, why would anyone expect it to take less time)

Not much changes when they get together, they still spar and go to the gardens to feed the turtleducks together, Sokka still makes silly faces behind ambassadors backs, Zuko still goes down to the kitchens to make them a pot of tea to have together witting in his room (the kitchen staff are used to this by now)

But they start sharing more intimacies, finding what feels comfortable for them in the form of hugs that last just a bit longer and chaste kisses on shoulders and cheeks and foreheads.

And when the egg from the sun warriors hatches and a tiny dragon comes tumbling out, they name him Druk and take care of him together

Zuko continues to go on trips incognito a few times a year and it is on one of these trips what he finds a young child alone on the side of the road. When he learns that she has know family he tries to taker her to the orphanage in the town near by. She runs away and there is nothing Zuko is willing to do to get her to go.

She has a grittiness and fighting spirit that reminds Zuko of his younger self, an independent streak and impulsiveness that border on dangerous. And even though Zuko has to leave her that day he can't stop thinking about her as he returns to the palace.

Sokka notices right away and they talk about her, and adoption, and the fact that Zuko needs an heir and end up figuring out that they want a child of their own to raise now that Druk is all grown up

When Zuko next returns to the town he brings Sokka, a legal witness and adoption papers with him.

He introduces her to Druk and when she pets him and falls in love they start to talk to her. She begins to trust them, telling them her name is Izumi and that she doesn't like the orphanage because it reminds her too much of her past.

They stay for a few days getting to know her and when they ask if she wants to live with them she does say yes.

Over time Zuko comes to find balance and love in the peace he created in the Fire Nation<3

Note: I cannot take credit for all of these ideas, some of them come from a bunch of fanfictions I've read over the years and especially Post-Canon Fire Lord Zuko (and his staff) by RejectsCanon

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #fire lord zuko #zukka #post canon atla #atla fanfic #dragon dad zuko #druk (avatar)#izumi avatar #the fire nation #peace time and healing #i'm biro ace #and definitely not projecting /s

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elfantasmadejanis · 23 days

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Firelord zuko's wildest fantasy is running away into the woods and becoming exactly like the herbalist from the blue spirit episode

#zuko hates being the firelord this is a well known fact #sitting on his throne he daydreams of a cozy little cabin in the forest where he can live with a spoiled beautiful cat & be rude to children #firelord zuko #the herbalist #miyuki the cat #post canon atla

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i-always-eat · 1 month

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REVELATION

i just realised that all the fics I want to read about characters have like one key thing in common. GUILT. LIKE ARG IT IS SO GOOO

#THE #POST CANON ATLA #POST CANON MHA #GUILTY JASON TODD.#???#ITS SO YES #raaaaaaah

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zukkaart · 5 months

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Mai: Zuko asked me to pretend to be his girlfriend because his father is homophobic but he ended up hating me so much that he was relieved when he found out Zuko was actually gay

Ty Lee: task failed successfully

Sokka: congrats on being so awful a girlfriend that you destroyed homophobia

#avatar the last airbender #sokka #atla #sokka avatar the last airbender #zuko #zukka nation #zuko x sokka #zukka au #adult zukka #zukka #Ty Lee #Mai #firelord ozai #incorrect zukka #the gaang incorrect quotes #atla incorrect quotes #incorrect atla #post canon

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isawiitch · 8 months

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trying to therapize/fix ur ex-nemesis/narrative foil with meditation and rituals and the power of friendship but u both just get worse...

#atla #katara #azula #post canon #anyway...

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myimaginationplain · 6 months

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On one hand, I think that Kiyi is actually a wonderful idea for a character; you can get a lot of interesting stories out of inserting this innocent, guiless little girl into such a fraught & complex pre-existing family dynamic.

However, some mind-numbingly bad storytelling decisions surround Kiyi's existence in canon. Ursa's magical amnesia chief among them; it is so goddamm boring to take a character with as much baggage to chew on as Ursa has, only to make it so she has to grapple with literally none of it.

No Ursa looking at baby Kiyi & mourning for the two babies she was forced to leave behind, grieving children who are still alive. No Ursa looking at Kiyi grow up & seeing Zuko & Azula in her, equally as happy as she is afraid for her. No Ursa trying to give Kiyi as normal & happy a childhood as she can, while constantly looking over her own shoulder, praying that she won't be recognized. No Ursa hearing wild rumors about her older children's whereabouts & actions, not knowing what to believe.

No, instead of any of that, we just get Ursa becoming a blank slate who can now go off & live a blissfully ignorant happily ever after with her (equally blank) high school sweetheart, forgetting the very children whom she risked everything for in the first place. And that sucks.

Also, if I were writing Kiyi, I'd just say fuck it & make her Ozai's kid. That's a thousand times more interesting.

#I've been toying with the thought of sitting down & writing a non canon compliant post-atla fic #about where ursa was during the show & what she was doing #& honestly I think I'm gonna do it. because the potential was so wasted #atla #avatar the last airbender #kiyi #ursa #the search #atla comics critical #is that a tag people use? idk

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19silvermirrors · 11 months

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Reaching 💙❤️

#zutara #zuko #katara #avatar the last airbender #atla #romance #tenderness #excerpt #post canon

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the-badger-mole · 2 months

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Fic Snippet!

“Are you out of your mind?” Zuko rushed across the courtyard and bore down on Aang with an intense, almost palpable fury. “Do you know how badly you could’ve hurt her?”

“I was just…I didn’t mean to-“ Aang stammered.

“Fire is not a toy!” Zuko bellowed at him. He turned to Katara, examining her for injuries. “Are you okay?”

“I’m alright,” she assured him, her voice shaking. “I’m fine.” She was trembling visibly, and there were singe marks on her clothes, but she otherwise seemed unharmed. Zuko turned back to Aang, how was looking down at his feet in shame.

“What were you thinking?” Zuko demanded.

“I don’t know,” Aang mumbled, kicking at the ground. “I was…mad.”

“About what?” Zuko was absolutely bewildered. “What could Katara possibly have done that you thought it was a good idea to do that?”

“Nothing,” Aang admitted sullenly. He didn’t say anything after that. Zuko glowered at him, took a few deep breaths to quell his own anger.

“You’re going to clean this mess up,” he said gesturing to the torn up stones, dirt and cooling lava. “Then you’re going to do 100 fire squats. Then you’re going to work on your forms for an hour. And I don’t want to see so much as a curl of smoke out of you. You’re not responsible enough for fire. Understood?”

“What? That’s not-“ Aang’s protests died on his lips when he saw Zuko’s expression. He huffed, kicked at stone, and finally nodded.

“Get started,” Zuko ordered through clenched teeth. He turned back to Katara, who was watching the exchange. She was still shaking a bit. Zuko draped his arm protectively around her back and guided her away. He glanced back once more at Aang, and almost rolled his eyes when he saw the younger boy still moping at the ground. It was hard sometimes to reconcile the awesome might and eminence of the Avatar with the reality of Aang, the child.

“I’ll be back,” he warned Aang. “Have this mess cleaned up. And don’t even think about asking Toph to help.”

I know canonically, the Lava Fissure Incident takes place while Zuko and Sokka are rescuing Hakoda, but I wanted to have Zuko see and react to it. Personally, I think it was another accidentally accurate depiction of how unready Aang is to be the Avatar. And it is also another incident that the narrative decides not to call Aang out for, so the chances of him growing from it are...well, we all know how things turned out in LoK.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang #zutara #dadko is dadding #aang is a trash avatar #it would make for an interesting story if bryke would just admit he's a bad avatar and steered into it #aang by the end of atla could either have a growth arc #or a villain origin #i think villain origin is the more interesteing choice #especially with how they wrote aang in the post series canon #but growth would still make a good story

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ultfreakme · 2 months

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Man of The House(Katara) and Eldest Daughter(Sokka)

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #sokka #katara #this isn't a genderbending post #this is just them canon dynamics #atla sokka #atla katara #gaang #water tribe #water tribe siblings

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thebxghag · 1 year

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done thesis hell and now in the middle of portfolio hell, but have some fancy post canon Azulaang doodles I've been collecting in this file between other work HAHAHA

Azula is worried about being back in the Fire Nation for the first time in a long time and with short hair to boot. Aang is a supportive partner. LOL

#my art #fanart #atla #avatar the last airbender #azulaang #azula #aang #post canon au #au #post canon #illustrators of tumblr #fancy fancy fancy uhu

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aimlacely-sapphic · 1 year

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Currently absolutely obsessed with Zuko raising a baby dragon (Druk)! Can you imagine!! the comedic potential for everyone else, the complete cuteness overload of Zuko just casually having a baby dragon in his hair while he goes about his firelord duties, druk puffing smoke at people who are mean to zuko, the gaang all trying to get druk to love them, the possibilities are endless!!

(But mostly the idea of zuko being showing his soft caring side raising a dragon and bringing in a new era of peace is something so special to me)

For more Druk content do yourself a favour and go through the Druk (Avatar) tag on AO3 it does not fail to deliver.

#zuko #fire lord zuko #dragon dad zuko #druk (avatar)#avatar the last airbender #atla #post canon atla #zuko & druk

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hanadoesstuffwrong · 2 months

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Thinking abt the air nomads:

What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.

Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.

So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.

At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.

So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.

Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.

The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.

Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...

Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...

All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.