imagine atla but zukos a girl. THE POTENTial. shes a moody lil 16 year old. with a half shaved head. and a ponytail. she gets periods (these always fall during the worst times). shes still an amgsty little boi but shes just female. this means that zuko and azula are sisters. THEIR SISTERS. that lowkey just makes their relationship even better cause they can fight over clothes etc. they would get makeovers and spa treatments together. BUT THEIR SISTERS SO THEIR ARGUMENTS ARE TEN TIMES MORE EXPLOSIVE. idk why zuko wouldnt be as good friends with mai and ty lee but the actual potential. and imagine uncle trying to raise a grumpy teenage girl. bro went through it with lu ten pretty ok but zukos more angsty than lu ten was. also iroh probably had to deal with zukos first period like LMAO THATS HILARIOUS HE DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HIMSELF AND JUST BREWS A CUP OF TEA AND HOPES IT GOES AWAY. also if zuko was a girl everyone would 100% have shipped him (her?) with sokka cause atla came out in the 2000s and heteronormative things were m a j o r (said as someone who is younger than gordon cormier so thats basically an assumption based on my unhealthy amount of time spent on the internet)
inspired my this AWESOME AMAZING NEW FAV FIC: https://archiveofourown.org/works/25385173/chapters/61556134
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My Interpretation of The Last Agni Kai
(Disclaimer: This isn't critisism of Zuko as much as it a small breakdown of the tragedy of the royal family. This post was also editted and it may not appear in reblogs).
Do you hear this language? "The showdown that was always meant to be". It's somewhat true, but I'd argue that it's not because of who they are as people. It's because of Ozai.
It's because they're the golden child and the scapegoat. It's because they've been put against each other by their abuser.
I would argue that she is sorry. She does love her brother, and she didn't want it to end this way. Zuko cannot see that, and he isn't sorry.
In The Beach, Zuko burns a picture of them, as a family.
To him, the picture resresents the perfect past. Before everything went to shit. But he no longer fits there. Even though he's back. He's frustrated, he hates the world, and wants to burn it all.
Especially after he has redeemed himself, he is sure there is nothing for him. His mother is gone, his father is abusive, and Azula: the prodigy, the favored one, who belittled him from the day Ozai began to favor her. She left him in the dust while making it extra dirty. She's barely his sister anymore, she's the untouchable force making his life worse.
In Zuko Alone, Azula practically taunts him over his planned murder.
This is what Zuko sees. Not a human, not a sister, but a boogeyman. After all, Azula always lies. What he doesn't see is Azula's reaction when she realizes the situation is serious. She'll never let him see that.
Azula could have burned the bridge all those years ago, when he was banished. But she didn't. She is the reason he's back home, on that beach. Ozai was her God, she was disciplined to him and only him, even more than herself. And she lied to his face so Zuko could come back home. She's cunning, manipulative and dangerous, but she loved her brother.
Zuko can't see that. Even when "she's slipping", he can't see that. Of course he wouldn't, her love for him is overshadowed by the damage she caused him, and his envy of her. She's above him, the demon haunting him. As Ozai and their history led him to believe. And he sticks to this belief, until it's disproven.
(Author's note: Azula's face here makes me want to cry, props to the animator)
She's human, his sister. And she's trurly sorry it had to come to this.
The Last Agni Kai is a tragedy. It's the story of two siblings who grew up in an abusive household, with a dad who played favorites. One made all the wrong choices, while the other could not fathom the other's humanity. They don't reconcile, they put themselves against each other. Because it's the showdown that was always meant to be. And he only recognizes it wasn't, after it's over. Now, he too, is sorry.
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Zuko, crying: CARRY ON WITHOUT ME!
Azula, kneeling next to him, also crying: No! We can survive this together.
Zuko: There's no time Azula! Defend our honor. Don't let my death be in vain.
Azula, crying harder: I can't do this without you!
Zuko: Goodbye sister... *he stays still lying on the ground*
Ty Lee, whispering to Mai: They know it's just a game of dodgeball right?
Mai: This is a war, Ty Lee. Don't show mercy.
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I'm an Azula defender til the day I die. She deserved a redemption arc of some kind. She deserved canon acknowledgement of how fucked her childhood was. We deserved to see her grow and get better and develop healthy relationships with people.
It actually would've been so cool to see her get better and then not have every single person forgive her. Her learning that she is not owed forgiveness even if she changes actually would've been a really cool lesson to see in the comics.
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Someone asked for Zucest on a Dragon? No one? I did it anyway!
I love headcanons envisioning Azula healing or Azula and Zuko reconciliating thanks to dragons.
Fortunately enough, I love to draw dragons.
For @prodogg, for your birthday !
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