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a-todd-illustration · 4 months

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I love little Sokka being an ass to Zuko. He's such a lovable little turd and unintentionally makes Zukos life so much harder

#myart #fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #zuko #sokka #aang #katara #toph #zuko alone #avatar au #dadko #deaged gaang #caregiver zuko

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zuko-always-lies · 1 year

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I remember you mentioning that Lu ten is often idealised in fanfiction and it reminded me of all the lu ten lives aus.

Majority of them make him fanon iroh 2.0. He already knows the fire nation is wrong and is trying to fix it or he's just a chill nice guy. Azula rarely has any relationship with him and he seemed to exclusively help Zuko.

The one fic i remember that did not do this was called Juxtapose. That fic had the best Lu Ten for me because he was a racist imperialist as well as a spoiled brat. You know, like a fire nation crown prince would probably be. His character development is slow but never once does the author justify his behaviour and the unrelliable narration is great because of the tonal disconnect (the second chapter was horrifying in the best ways possible). Zuko and Azula are deaged in this au so they have less agency here which makes sense since Lu Ten is the Gaang's age this au.

But this is the only fic i found that represented him this way while also treating Azula and Zuko with some semblance of respect.

I cannot tell you how fustrated i am when i find Lu Ten lives aus and they make him iroh 2.0. If Lu Ten never died Iroh shoudl also be an imperialist but people make it so that his injuries somehow make Iroh reconsider or that he was held captive by the Dai Li.

Even more so im annoyed wiht the whole dynamics in fics with the fire siblings. Most of the time it focuses on only Zuko and usually either gets rid of Azula or villiases her further. Either Azula's is Ozai's spawn exclusivley or she's Zuko's mean sister. Lu Ten rarely has any relation to her outside of that.

Then again, most fics with the fire siblings either focuses entirely on one or the other or just skip past all the complicated sibling stuff by making them close already. Which i dont mind all the time, but with i wish people considered that when writing Lu Ten instead of making him the perfect cousin(tm)

I agree. Lu Ten grew up an imperialist environment, and died trying to complete the imperial conquest of the Earth Kingdom. He's not a good person, and him becoming one would probably require an extensive arc. He also grew up in the interrelation toxic dumpster fire which is the royal family, and probably was negatively affected by it significantly. He was also raised by Iroh, and Iroh's flaws as a parent are readily apparent in the series, after he already had significant experience with Lu Ten. So, yes, Lu Ten was also probably poorly adjusted, in addition to being high on toxic Fire Imperial ideology.

And even though it's possible that Lu Ten might have been "nice," like the fandom likes writing him as, it's also worth pointing out that most of the people who grew up in the royal family are pretty personally mean(Sozin, Azulon, Ozai, Zuko, Azula), so it's fairly like that Lu Ten was a bit of an asshole in person.

#Lu Ten #iroh critical #I guess?

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captainkirkk · 5 years

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Hey I was wondering if you had any recommendations on good time travel/deaging fics... In any fandom really, I just love the trope

Anon, this is so broad omg?? Two fairly popular tropes I read consistently… I can’t even begin to remember all of them, but here are a few. If anyone has recs for these tropes, please send them my way

(My time travel fics / my age regression fics)

My Hero Academia

These Days Past by nivo

He’s had some weird dreams in his life thanks to what his mom calls a ‘highly creative mind’ — known to the rest of the world, courtesy of Kacchan, as his ‘freaky nerdiness’ — but this one is totally kicking his ass.

they’ll call me freedom by SkyGem

After a run-in with a villain with a de-aging quirk, number one hero and Symbol of Peace, Midoriya “Deku” Izuku finds himself 14-years-old again, with memories only of a time before he had ever met All Might, before his life had changed forever.

As he slowly returns to his proper age over the course of the next two weeks, Izuku rediscovers parts of himself he never knew he’d lost, has a couple of conversations long overdue, and causes hell for his friends and family alike with his lack of self-preservation instincts.

Harry Potter

Away Childish Things by lettered

Harry gets de-aged. Malfoy has to help him.

face death in the hope by LullabyKnell

Harry looks vaguely nervous, scratching the back of his neck. “It’s a really long story,” he says finally, almost apologetically, “and it’s really hard to believe.”

“Try me,” Regulus says, more than a little daringly.

Doctor Who

Scenes That Never Were by Basser

The Master de-ages the Doctor to the body of a child during the Year That Never Was.

(Note: I think there are quite a few fics that tackle the ‘what if the Master aged the Doctor down instead of up?’ question, but this is the only one I remember. Normal warnings that come with the Master apply.)

ATLA

A Second Hello by redrobin-detective

The Gaang fawns over a de-aged Zuko.

#ask #anon #fic recs #Anonymous #atla recs #dw recs #hp recs #bnha recs

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a-todd-illustration · 6 months

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Morning routine in Ba Sing Se

#myart #fanart #avatar the last airbender #avatar #atla #zuko #avatar au #deaged #deaged gaang #caregiver zuko #good zuko #dadko #katara #sokka #toph #aang

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a-todd-illustration · 2 months

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Zuko is still feeling weird about them remembering. Toph is feeling weird about experiencing a caring parental figure. And trying to come to terms with it being a grumpy teen who is now kind of part of their group. Both of them (but also everyone else) kind of misses how things were.

#myart #fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #avatar au #zuko #toph #sokka #aang #katara #dadko #deaged gaang #caregiver zuko

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a-todd-illustration · 2 months

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"And then the Blue Spirit ate them all up!"

Zuko tells a bedtime story to the kiddos, with plenty of funny voices and theatrics

#myart #fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #avatar au #zuko #dadko #aang #sokka #katara #toph #baby gaang #deaged gaang #caregiver zuko

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