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zuko-always-lies · 1 year

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Azula-Katara AU idea (or: Katara runs into an Azula who has changed a lot in some ways and not very much in others)

I don’t think I ever detailed this AU idea despite playing around with it for a long time, since I could never quite make it work, but here it is:

The idea is that Azula disappeared not that long after the war. It’s now several years later, and many think she’s dead(and it’s whispered in the Fire Nation that Zuko murdered her). Meanwhile, the Fire Nation is slowly descending into civil war due to unhappiness with Zuko’s policies, and some suspect that Azula is leading one of the factions attempting to overthrow him.

Katara is traveling via ship (to the NWT? to Caldera?), but her ship gets caught in an awful storm and driven into the breakers offshore of a remote part of the Fire Nation. It disintegrates in the power of the storm, and everyone but her is killed. She’s badly injured and knocked unconscious, but is unexpectively rescued as she’s driven toward shore. In fact, the rescue was exceptionally dangerous and required great physical and bending ability to pull it off, but it takes quite a while for Katara to find out what exactly happened.

When Katara comes too, she in a hut and her wounds have been bandaged, but her injuries badly restrict her movement. Soon, Azula returns to check on her. Katara is intensely hostile and suspicious, but her being incapacitated means she has to rely on Azula.

Azula, meanwhile, makes it clear that she strongly dislikes Katara(whose name she struggles to remember) for the traumatic experience she suffered at Katara’s hands, but says that, from Azula’s perspective, the fact that the Fire Nation and Water Tribes are no longer clearly at war means that Katara can be catagorized as an injured, shipwrecked foreigner, and she has a clear obligation and duty to aid people in that catagory. Azula makes it clear that she would love to dump the responsibility of nursing Katara back to health on literally anyone else, but they are stuck in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by difficult terrain. No one lives remotely close, and it will be a long time before Katara is well enough to hike out. Although Katara’s healing can help, she has several broken bones and other serious injuries, and those take a long to heal.

Thus, Azula is stuck taking care of Katara for the foreseable future, even though they both dislike each other and Katara has zero trust for Azula. What Katara doesn’t know (but might eventually pick up on) is that Azula is seriously depressed, along with being confused and broken by what has happened over the last several years. Losing the war and everything else made her doubt everything, and she’s struggled to make sense of everything as she tried to survive.* Azula came out here, into the wilderness, since the area is known to have ruins of one of ancient predecessors of the Fire Nation and is reputed to be a center of spiritual energy.* She wanted to mediate on the meaning of firebending and on the meaning of life. However, she just felt empty and was on the verge of giving up on everything, until Katara showed up.

I wasn’t quite sure where this fic would go after here, aside from Azula and Katara gradually warming up to each other; nothing I thought of for an ending ever quite worked.

Note that I always thought of this as an enemies to friends AU, not an enemies to lovers one. The reason I chose Katara as the shipwreck victim here is that: 1. I wasn’t interested in Aang or Sokka’s dynamics with Azula, and Aang would be too trusting and positive in any case.

2. I’m not sure that the Azula we see here would rescue Zuko or spend significant time nursing him back to health. She has massive beef with him, far more than she has with any other character, and the temptation to just let him die would be massive. In any case, the story would be taken over by Zuko-Azula dynamics.

3. I don’t think Toph or Suki really have that much beef with Azula, and Azula doesn’t really have beef with them. They might be a little distrustful, but that’s it.

4. Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee have a complex relationship with each other and a lot issues, but I don’t think either Mai or Ty Lee would be that surprised or shocked by Azula saving their lives and helping them. Moreover, the situation would become about her personal relationship with her friend, not about Azula’s sense of duty and responsibility.

5. Azula has serious beef with Katara, and Katara has serious beef with Azula. A lot of the fic is about Katara very much struggling to understand why Azula of all people would make significant sacrifices to help her.

*Azula really still feels that no cares about her or ever cared about her. That’s not necessarily true.

**Note that Azula has a significant quantity of money and supplies that she was able to purchase from money she had secretly stashed away before the end of the war.

Anyone who wants to write something inspired by this is, as always, welcome to do so. And anyone who wants to comment on this idea is also more than welcome to do so!

#Azula #Katara #AU idea #atla idea #azula redemption #it's complicated #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla au

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procrastinatingwriting · 1 year

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AU Concept idea:

The spirits Sister Swap!

Azula and Katara are born on the same day in the literal opposite sides of the world, and as so, both are the respective princesses of their nations. The spirits notice the similarity between them, and make a bet. Wich one would end the war, if correctly positioned? Agni gives Azula a gift for her bending, and gives Katara a blessing for her spirit's sake, being raised away from her culture. Tui (the moon one, ok? I don't remember right now) does the same thing, on opposite ends.

They swap the babies under the dead of night, and charm the adults with some kind of spiritual vision so to accept the child. Ursa instantly loves that blue eyed baby, but grieves her biological child. Kya is terrified, but Hakoda calms her, and they promise to raise the baby the best they could, and pray for Tui and La's blessing.

Katara is called Azula, for obvious reasons (blue eyes etc, but I'm thinking of some other name. Maybe Saphire?). Original Azula is named Angeni ("spirit angel", for what I searched. Please correct me if I'm wrong) (I chose it because spirit and because the word kinda resembles 'Agni'), or just have the name swaps.

Ozai isn't as charmed as Ursa, but he accepts the daughter because Azulon is pleased. He demands for Hama to be released and tutor the child in waterbending - it would be very useful to have one on their side.

Angeni absolutely adores her big brother Sokka and to play in the snow. She is quick minded and they often agree on how to get the best solution to the village's problems. She loves to have her hair combed by Gran-gran. The first time she firebends it's an accident and she burns a child, so she wails in despair because her family would think she was a monster. Kya and Hakoda deffend her against the villagers and decide to find a way for Angeni to learn firebending. But how, if the world is against them? To their luck, she is a natural, and feels the fire as if it was her own life. She rises with the sun, meditates, does her chores, plays with Sokka, sleep time. Since they don't have a waterbender, nobody goes after one. It'd be cool if her death was related to Angeni, though.

I found this draft and decided to post it. You can use it if you want I don't think I can manage this AND the au I am currently working on.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #fire siblings #atla au #atla sister swap!au #sister swap au #atla au idea #atla idea #katara #sokka #hakoda #kya #water siblings

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mountainshroom · 21 days

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Felt like drawing some silly cats :)

#playing with/braiding someones hair is ultimate sign of trust for me #and i like the idea that katara likes doing peoples hair so 🥹 i dont knoww #bit of a modern au for them #and cats ofc #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #toph #toph beifong #art #my art #fanart #digital art

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dranktwocoffees · 8 months

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im so late to this trend

#atla #avatar the last airbender #atla katara #atla aang #kataang #the first idea was to draw zukka at the boiling rock #but ive been wanting to draw some kataang

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gascreates · 3 months

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when teenaged rebellion goes too far

#iroh has no idea where he went wrong #zuko drinking coffee as a statement #no he doesnt want any fucking TEA #and iroh trying to support the one thing his nephew has expressed any interest in in the past 3 years that isnt the avatar #but fuck he hates that damn bean water #atla #zuko #iroh

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fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma · 16 days

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expanding on my au idc x

#atla #zukka #zuko x sokka #zukka fanart #atla fanart #blue spirit zuko #moon spirit sokka #moon spirit sokka x blue spirit zuko #moon spirit sokka x blue spirit zuko fanart #it’s finiiiisssheeddd #ngl i was giggling drawing these #I love this au so much (so the fact that my first post did so well makes me so happy!!! you guys are insane!!!)#aaaanyyyway if u have any hcs or ideas don’t be shy I will LITERALLY devour them

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io-lu-art · 1 month

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me.

rn.

at 2 am.

#those random ideas you get at midnight #the Zuko I identify with the most #i think #art wip #wip #art #illustration #sketch #lineart #it's cooking #hopefully i won't forget it on the stove #zuko #iroh #proud as ever #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender

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tossawary · 2 months

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Listening to someone else watch the original ATLA again, just starting season 3, and there's this line where Aang suggests that it didn't just look like he died, but he DID actually die and Katara brought him back. And look, I don't know much about the lore introduced by TLOK, but this sounds like a really fun place to start an AU inspired by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s take on the temporary death and resurrection of a cyclical chosen one: Aang is brought back to life and is STILL the Avatar, but his temporary death still also causes another Avatar to be born into the Southern Water Tribe (or Swamp People or refugees on some southern island, whatever).

Like, I know the Avatar is a reincarnation thing, but weird things can happen with spirits! Maybe this glitch in the cycle causes the spiritual equivalent of mitosis to happen to the Avatar and the spirit attached to them, so there's just two of them now! Maybe having two Avatars has some spiritual downsides, maybe not, it's up to whatever path you choose to explore in this AU.

I just think it would be really funny for post-canon 21yo Aang (and the Gaang and the White Lotus and all the spiritual / religious orders on the planet) to suddenly be confronted with a 10yo water tribe kid who is ALSO the Avatar.

A water tribe couple shuffle awkwardly up to Sokka, like, "Sooooo... we think our 10 year old daughter might be the Avatar...? She can, uh, bend all the elements and all that. Look at this shit." And Sokka is like, "Fuck, Aang is dead?!" Before he's like, "Wait, I saw Aang last week, this kid is way too old?!" And he has to hastily contact Aang like, "Hey, buddy, you're still alive, right?" And Aang can only reply, "Uhhh, last I checked, yes?!?!"

It's probably Sokka and Katara who put the pieces of the timeline together and figure out what caused this, because all of the other Avatars are probably initially like, "Yeah, I have no idea what's happening here. I'm you and you're me, but I'm also her and she's also me, and you and her are kind of the same person, but you're obviously different people now? Wow! Good luck figuring all that out, kid! You're really going places none of us have gone before! A real groundbreaker!"

Aang, through gritted teeth, "I am really not TRYING to do that, thank you!"

#tossawary atla #fic ideas #spoilers #aang #korra #sokka #katara #character death

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crispyliza · 1 month

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I've got you all figured out fanartists

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seasideoranges · 6 months

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the blue spirit spotted with a kyoshi warrior! i wonder what they're up to? (part 1?)

#this was suppose to just be a quick sketch but i lost control #will in continue this? maybe!!#i have some fun ideas with this plus if ppl are interested ill make this into a mini comic thingie!!#sokka #sokka atla #zuko #zuko atla #atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka

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captainkirkk · 1 year

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Concept: Fire Lords traditionally dress like the stages of the sun to match their reign.

When Zuko is first crowned, he dresses in the colours of dawn. Bright yellows and pinks and even purples. He starts to wear more traditional crimson-and-gold robes after a few years, the colours of midday when Agni is at his strongest. And towards the end of his reign, when he's getting ready to pass the crown onto Izumi, he starts dressing like the setting sun.

#i haven't been able to stop thinking about this for DAYS please free me #avatar #atla #i imagine this was something that went out of style with sozin's era #because fire lords refused to wear anything but the colours of midday #because they believed that was the only way to signify that they are strong #anyway i'm just losing my mind at teenage fire lord zuko dressed like the rising sun #my posts #atla headcanons #au ideas

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feeplings · 17 days

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zutara academic rivals so real ✏️