#azula is straight
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I'm assuming this is because of me getting annoyed at Azutara shippers in my other blog and calling them and Tyzula fans the "Azula fandom's equivalent of Zutara and Zukka" XD
Anyways *grabs a megaphone and gets on a soap-box*
As a bisexual woman that would go crazy with joy if Azula was gay/bi, and that ships her with Ty Lee and Mai, and even Toph and Suki every now and then, let me make one thing very clear here: Azula DOES have a confirmed canon sexuality, and it's straight. Heterosexual. Likes guys and only guys. The idea that ANY gay ship was CANON in ATLA, a show made in 2005 by a kid's Network, is ridiculous.
Azula explicitly stated that she has tried to flirt with boys before and it never worked out because they are scared of her. She was jealous that boys were paying attention to Ty Lee - and while fanfic writers, and even I, like to say stuff like "Oh, you don't like them getting too close to your gilfriend, Azula?" it's VERY CLEAR that the show was going for the classic "Why do they like her and not ME?" aka she wanted attention from GUYS. She wanted to hook up with Chan, and immediately went for "Let's conquer the world together!" after one kiss. Even the up-coming Azula comic has her dreaming of a guy trying to flirt with her and calling her pretty.
For fuck's sake, Grey Delisle already admiting to voicing the scene between Azula and Zuko as if Azula was trying to seduce her own brother. Meanwhile, even though she likes Tyzula now, when asked about the ship her first reaction was the same as the one every actor, writer and/or showrunner had to hearing about popular gay ships: "I did not see that coming."
It might seem surreal nowadays that the Network let the show get away with incest bait but gay characters were out of question, but that's what happened because, surprise surprise, homophobia was still going strong. Hell, it's still going strong TODAY.
Lots of Nickelodeon shows from the 90's and early/mid 2000's tried to get away with implying or flat out saying "This character is gay" and it ALWAYS resulted in banned episodes, some of which became lost media because the Network was just that desperate to bury any evidence of it to avoid controversy. Even characters that never had any love interests ever were assumed to be straight - not as in "treat them as being straight unless we say otherwise" but in "They are straight because that's the only thing allowed to exist in kid's media." There was no "otherwise" to be heard of. Fitting for years that followed the policy literally called "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL."
THAT was the general sentiment around homosexuality at the time, especially on TV (KIDS TV, I remind you): pretend you don't know that's a thing.
Even The Legend Of Korra, that parts of the fandom still pretends did anything for gay representation, had the creators (the same who made ATLA) that they never even bothered to ask Nickelodeon if they could Korrasami happen, and thus kept the whole love triangle, with the girls fighting over a GUY, going. It wasn't until the very end that they had the guts to ask "Can we make them hold hands in the finale?" and Nick said "Sure, the final season will basically not be aired on TV anyways." Bryke even had to state ONLINE that "Yes, they are a couple." Only THEN, with the positive response from audiences, that neither the writers nor the Network had thought could ever gain any sympathy for the show, did they make Korra and Assami have an actual relationship in the Korra comics.
Do these guys sound like the type that would leave a character's sexuality up for debate or even try to write a gay couple into the show IN 2005, years before Korra was allowed to get away with a slight hint of gayness that to be explained on Twitter?
They didn't make Azula's attempts to win guys over fail to show she was a gay teen trying too hard to be something she was not, her envy that Ty Lee was getting a ton of attention from boys while she wasn't was meant to be taken as EXACTLY that, and no cutesy moment between her and her friends was meant to be taken as anything other just gals being pals.
We can, and should, point out that it is unfair that gay relationships were treated as "too adult" while straight romances weren't. We can change any character's sexuality in fanfics. We can ship whatever the hell we like. But claiming Azula was EVER meant to be seen as anything other than a 100% straight girl that just sucked at flirting and thus was struggling to get a boyfriend is just a flat out lie.
She's not bisexual. She's not a lesbian. Her sexuality was not "left up to debate" because THERE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE A DEBATE!
Again, I would love a bisexual Azula (provided that wasn't handled by people like Yang and Bryke, who see her as nothing more than an ableist stereotype), but let's not kid ourselves here.
Nickelodeon is not our "ally", they're a company that wants your money. Bryke, by their own admission, were not revolutionaries who pushed for gay representation and were ready to give up on the idea of same-sex relationship with no resistence if the Network told them "no, only straight romances allowed". Korra was no Steven Universe or even Adventure Time, it was basically Disney with it's 50th "first" gay character that gets five seconds of screentime. Azula's sexuality absolutely WAS confirmed and it is (sadly for me) heterosexual.
And to the people that claim to love headcanons for bisexual Azula, but still insist I should only ship her with women, or make her strongly prefer women, or only have had bad experiences with men and positive ones with women, otherwise she'll be "basically straight": your biphobia is showing, stop hating on bi women everytime they shatter your ilusion that we're just confused/in denial and will eventually realize we're actually lesbians.
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various doodles of cousin lu ten with his babies
#i was originally gonna keep the last one separate but since i drew the one of baby zuko i thought id just throw them all together#i thought it was SO funny that baby zuko had a tiny little ponytail. i love when babies have tiny ponytails that stick straight up...#baby zuko was stressing everyone out by dragged off by palace pygmy pumas and baby azula was stressing everyone out by biting everyone#(mostly her uncle though)#she didnt get her rabies shot thats why she acts like that :/#lu ten#azula#zuko#atla#avatar the last airbender#alicias art
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Their relationship is extremely important . To me
#atla#ozai#azula#avatar the last airbender#hey can we have more Azula and Ozai content that isn’t straight incest. kay thank yuuu#my little pitbull princess who is no higher than two apples tall…#and her father who can reach the top shelf#I imagine she used to follow him around while he did adult things. like taxes or whatever#we making it out of the father issues with this one!!
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oh what about jin/azula. obv jin is most likely straight and definitely could do way better but she has in fact been shown to be so patient. and i think azula having a crush on a super normal girl could be so important
okay well @kyoshi-lesbians has in fact persuaded me already so yeah im here for it. mostly because jin is in fact completely fucking insane but also very normie passing and so they could be really funny together. like she would put up with so much shit from azula with a smile on her face but also she’d be so forward and confident and azula really needs someone who will help her navigate romance without judgement bc the poor girl is. so awkward. also i like that jin is working class and from the city azula literally occupied, bc then them being together signifies growth in more ways than one. obviously if at any point azula is like “yes i did perform the perfect silent coup on your city” she’d obviously have to follow it up with “but im a completely different person now and ive since dedicated my life to running a daycare for sky bison rescues & healing the sick and elderly.” but like. you know how it is
#food#asks#‘you have…. quite an appetite for a girl’#‘oh! common misconception but actually this is normal :)’#‘oh…. okay……… WAIT WHAT’#azula#jin#azulaxjin#also i know ive said in the past that jin is probably straight but also her being bi and having godawful taste in men tracks actually.#in my experience#(and women too apparently)
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I'm a NATLA defender now, tbh. I think more people will grow to appreciate its good parts more as time goes on. I'm of course waiting to see how they wrap everything up and I'm not immune to its flaws, but I think people are so blinded by everything not being The Exact Same as the original cartoon than they're not appreciating its good parts. It's an adaptation, a companion, it's not a replacement to the original.
#atla#natla#natla positivity#i just started straight up crying when aang saw gyatso so i cannot saw i do not like this show#i also do not agree on the take I've seen saying this is avatar paw patrol?#like have you seen this show? have you seen them burning people ALIVE in the first episode?#did you see the scene of bumi who has gone crazy over the years for having to make horrible decisions about how to save his city#and being angry at aang for it?#did you see ozai playing zuko and azula against each other?#katara blaming herself for her mother's death?#like these topics are not dumbed down at all sorry#they're complex topics that we're being shown head on#that's not to say that original atla dumbed stuff down obviously it's an incredibly intelligent and mature show#but this show also shows the mature themes of the consequences of war in its own way
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I think Azula and Zuko should've fought on the Day of the Black Sun, just because it would be funny.
#Yes I know they have weapons#but for the sake of the plot let's say they didn't#and they're just straight up cat-fighting#punching scratching kicking yelling the whole nine-yards#aang and toph are kind of just standing there not sure what to do#sokka is standing there with understanding because he has a sister who he has fought bone and tooth for a toy he didn't even want#they still don't take down the firelord because they're too busy watching Zuko and Azula fighting to the death#azula#zuko#sokka#aang#toph#atla#avatar the last airbender
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Something I love about ATLA is that it doesn't force the "forgive the villain" on all the characters. It's been left clear that Ozai is a bad person, and there's no chance of redemption; the only reason he's not dead yet is because Aang is a pacifist
The one episode where a character is supposed to forgive someone who has hurt them in the past is the one where Katara is off to kill a man (which, fair) and Zuko helps. In that episode, even if Aang is telling her to let go, she doesn't forgive him. She never will. But she spares him. Not because she thinks he doesn't deserve death (he does), but because she's not willing to continue the cycle of violence
Killing someone can have a very important impact in your entire being, mostly depending on who you are as a person. Aang would've never recovered from killing Ozai. Katara wouldn't be who she is now, had she taken her revenge on the man that killed her mother
And the best part of it is that Ozai doesn't deserve to die. Not in a "I'm defending him" way (ew), but in a "he deserves worse that than" way
Taking away his bending was the perfect punishment for him. He believed bending made you superior and he never cared enough to train something besides his bending. What a loser. Zuko and Azula wouldn't be restrained by something like that
He's alive. Nobody has forgiven him. Nobody ever will
#on a “ozai deserves smth worse than death” mood#which is. my everyday mood but we're not talking about that#read a fic where ppl were mad ozai was still alive#zuko clarified that he's still alive not only bc that's what aang wanted but bc death would be a mercy for him#that's the man who ruined everybody's life(s). you can't tell me we can just let him die like that#and they're not even torturing him. he's just in prison#but he's so fucking weak that not having his bending = torture#pathetic#honestly what did he even do? his entire family was better than him#zuko was better at any kind of fighting and he learned firebending from the fucking dragons#azula is. azula! she bends blue fire and is the best at lighting n stuff#iroh created a whole new bending technique and broke out of prison w no bending#ursa killed the fucking fire lord#i mean sure ozai can shoot lighting out of his hands. but so can iroh! so can azula!#his 14 year old daughter is better than him#she could kick his ass if she wanted#but that's her dad right there and the obssession she has w pleasing him is straight up unhealthy#man. poor azula#anyways back to the point: ozai is pathetic#loserlord indeed#atla#avatar the last airbender#fire lord ozai#zuko#aang#katara#azula#uncle iroh#avis' post#avis talks
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Broke: Mai is masculine, Ty Lee is feminine
Woke: Mai is dark feminine and Ty Lee is light feminine
#honestly#toph's the one who's not much girly#otherwise all of atla girls are girly#they're all girly and badass and i love it#usually the strong female character is masculine and they do it in a way that derides femininity#atla subverts it by having toph who's the tomboy#and all the other girls who are feminine#another piece of media that did the tomboy right#without deriding girly girls while writing a tomboy#is arcane#with vi#no one points out that she's masculine#her femininity is never questioned#and you have mel and caitlyn being girly and badass#and vi herself never looks down on women who're feminine#ty lee is obviously is girly#but mai and azula are too#i hate that that fandom thinks mai in particular is masculine#like damn y'all haven't seen masc presenting women have ya? (doesn't matter straight or queer)#atla#avatar the last airbender#arcane
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Noble: Princess Azula is once again showing her peasant around.
Noble 2: It seems so, my Lady. I cannot believe the Fire Lord would allow such a union to take place. Especially between two women. It's disgraceful, really.
Noble: Truly. And while their marriage did secure our alliance with the Northern Peasants, the least they could do is keep it hidden.
Noble 2: I completely agre-
Yue kissing Azula in the middle of a crowded room.
Noble: ...
Noble 2: ...
Noble: You know that doesn't look half bad. Maybe I should find a Water Tribe wife for myself as well.
Noble 2: Uh-huh
#lesbian azula#azula#yue#yuezula#nobles#realising you are not as straight as you thoght#Azula and Yue#beung unapologetic#atla#atla azula#atla yue
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For 5 ask game: how about an au where zuko and aang are both the avatar
1- "how does that happen" well, Aang half died in the ice burg. The subsequent water and earth benders were noticably weaker than previous ones, though this helped the water bender hide from the fire nation, and led to the earth bender one being killed by them... Just as Ursa goes into labor for the first time. Unfortunately, Ozai wants to use his avatar son and is very disappointed when Zuko turns thirteen without a sign of airbending- the sages promised this boy was the avatar!
2- Zuko is invited to war meetings, but when he tries to speak he is silenced- when he is actually the avatar, master of elements, he will be allowed to advice, trusted, but not yet. He can sit in silence for only so long, and finally breaks to say they cannot sacrifice the children of the fire nation like that- and he is sent away to the sages, who suggest investigating the Air Temples and seeing if anything there sparks bending in him.
3- it does, the barest bit exploding when he gasped at the sight of the bodies, when he caught the glimpses of spirits in the corner of his eyes. Zuko can't stay here and orders the ship to take him to the southern water tribe instead, so he can unlock water bending. That doesn't work, (and the village says there's no water benders left) but it's marginally easier to practice fire and air bending outside of the graveyard the temple had become. He trains for years, knowing there is no point in returning home unless it's as the avatar.
4- and then one day, Katara wakes Aang up. Zuko gets close hoping the light are spirits that will help him learn water bending, and then we get to the first real problem of them both being the avatar: only one of them can be it at a time. So, when Aang starts bending, Zuko suddenly can't, unless he can overpower Aang and leave him unable to bend as well. (Which he only manages with the highest levels of anger) um, the avatar state is the opposite - if one of them goes into it, the other is dragged along.
5- Zuko is now chasing them because he wants an airbender and waterbender teacher, and also see if he can figure out from the spirits why his bending keeps vanishing. Iroh keeps asking him how he's going to actually convince them to teach him after he captures them, and Zuko says he'll just figure it out then. Katara thinks Aang is proof that awful firebending prince was only ever a mock Avatar and the bending vanishing is just a side effect of being in an ice burg for a century. Sokka thinks they're all crazy. And Aang actually figures out what's happening very early but no one believes it because "that's not how the avatar works" even though as 50% of the avatar, he should be considered an expert!
#i think they come into contact way more#like. at the air temple#and every time it's just a lot of yelling back and forth about who's the real avatar#but also at that avatar day village uh. the statue is not of aang but zuko instead since the royal family made it well known#at the very latest when Zuko turned sixteen even if he was 'secluded for training'#oh man. he wouldn't have a burn#that's weird.#also never would have been crown prince#that passed straight to azula since zuko has other dutirs#but yeah I'm imagining double avatar shenanigans now. very fun#pocket talks to people#anon#ask game
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#atla#zukka#atla zukka#Zuko#Azula#zuko x sokka#zukka my beloved#if Zutara wins I will personally fight every straight person I see
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Why is Azula fandom so uncomfortable with idea of Azula being bisexual or heterosexual?
(Disclaimer: I am literally a bisexual woman, so if anyone complains I'm being "homophobic", I'm gonna punch them)
For a few reasons:
1 - The Avatar fandom in general has the bad habit of thinking their personal preferences are not just the only valid fanon content, they are the only valid interpretations of canon even when actively contradicting it. To the ones that already decided, for whatever reason, that Azula is a lesbian and is dating Ty Lee, Katara or whoever, pointing out that other people are allowed to disagree with that headcanon, and that there's zero chance Nickelodeon was genuinely hinting at a non-straight character existing in a kids show in 2005, is the same as saying they're not allowed to like that headcanon/ship anymore.
2 - Some lesbians relate to Azula to the point of hardcore projecting onto her, so they take someone pointing that she only ever canonically shows interest in boys makes them feel like their sexuality is being questioned. Because some of these people are also VERY biphobic, they also tend to get mad when "Bisexual Azula" is presented as her actually being bisexual instead of just having her prefer women and have a lot disdain for men/only having bad experiences in relationships with guys and thus only dating girls.
3 - Some people think that insisting an obviously straight fictional character is actually gay is the same as fighting for gay rights in real life.
4 - Radfems/TERFs unfortunatelly exist and their whole thing is "Women are inherently good while men are inherently evil, all on the base of gender", so they latched onto the tragic female villain that is messed up in the head because of her abusive father and decided to project their bullshit onto her to make her their "lesbian radical feminist icon" even though Azula's life canonically revolves around Ozai and ocasionally Zuko because, even though she loves her two female friends, she loves her male relatives A LOT more.
5 - Not everyone is as chill with incest ships as I am, and, like I said, the only two characters that are not related to Azula and that she actually has a meaningful relationship with are her two female friends, so they're the only logical shipping options, so Azula HAS to be into women for that to work.
6 - Her attempts of flirting with Chan were so bad and he is cringe himself, so some people thought she HAD to be a lesbian trying and failing to hide her true sexuality to screw up that badly AND go for a guy no girl in her right mind would like, but I can assure you: sometimes girls just have awful taste in men AND are social disasters.
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azula was probably one of those sassy little babies that would yell gibberish with passionate purpose and grab your nose with strength too big for her teensy little toddler self (Aka her mortal flesh cage)
#you know the vids of toddlers where they stand their babbling like theyre having a whole conversation with you#that was def baby azula. Stood on her business from day 1 u heard!!!!!#and then zuko was one of those quiet and easily pleased babies but also really expressive in the face#u could give that baby a sock and hed be occupied for 5 hrs straight
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Funny how the best non-bender in atla is Azula without her bending in the day of black sun.
#azula#atla#she'll be doing fine without it I swear#her without bending is a straight up menace#so her with it is just on a different level of threat
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Can we just talk about this scene here.
I've been thinking about this for a long time now and finally decided to make a post about it. It's so damn weird how Azula's role in saving Zuko's life gets downplayed by both the narrative and the fandom. Without her going to taunt/warn Zuko about what she overheard, he would have been dead come sunrise. And yet this is almost never acknowledged. All credit for it goes to Ursa. I don't know if it's because Azula taunts him about this that just makes people not see that she's the main reason as to why he's still alive or what, but it definitely needs to be discussed more.
#atla#azula#zuko#ursa#seriously the fact that Azula never gets any credit for this is so bizarre#like yes she taunts him about it but in her own fucked up way she still WARNS HIM#had she really wanted him dead like a lot of the fandom claims she wouldn't have said anything and just went straight to bed#and yet that's not what she does#akiizayoi4869 meta
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Azula: *had a canonical crush on a boy*
The fandom: is this a lesbian? she's a lesbian and anyone who thinks anything else is nothing short of homophobic no further questions
The ATLA fandom is incredibly delusional, especially when it come to stuff like that, it's almost comical.
But what else would you expect? It's the same fandom who has members who are convinced that LOK was good and Korrasami wasn't a joke of a ship.
Thanks for the ask ^^
#atla#avatar the last airbender#lok#azula#azula meta#Azula is canonically straight#until proven otherwise in
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