Love it when people act like Zuko was always a 'fuck the rules' bad boy.Guys,he spent over half the show trying to please his dad and his attitude problems came from a mix of trauma responses and being spoiled-Zuko wasn't a 'rebel' until his redemption arc,he was just a jackass
Started off as a sweet,cheerful kid but then an event in his mid-teens happened that traumatized him more than anything else in his life which was made even worse thanks to him already having some trauma beforehand and led to him becoming evil✔
Hates his dad but seeks out his approval,has a super genius younger sibling who's black and red-coded like him and seen as 'better' than him who he's enemies with and is a total mama's boy✔
Has a strong sense of justice but didn't always know what's actually good or bad✔
Coping mechanisms are anger issues,bad social skills,off the charts snark and not knowing how to handle genuine intimacy/affection✔
Respects women and acts tough but is secretly also a big dork✔
Redemption arc was also a healing journey and about him earning it by working his ass off to be good again and he became a Team Dad thanks to it✔✔
Bi transmasc with his type being people who can stand up to him✔
Goth AutismTM✔✔✔
Edit since i keep getting these niggas on this for some tone deaf ass reason:
YALL LOOK AT MY BABIES! OZAIS ANGELS! AHHH! Also y’all look at Gordon (Aang) in the back omg 😭🤣 I love these babies so much! 😭 my little fire ladies 😭 I’m calling them all babies even tho lizzy (Azula) and I are the same age 🤣
Azula was not spoiled.Ozai did not favor her because he loved her but because she made the perfect child soldier.It's canon that he never gave her genuine affection,only praise for living up to his expectations and just because her abuse wasn't physical like Zuko's dosen't mean she didn't have it 'as bad him as him'.It's also canon she's as scared of him as he was because she knew the second she slipped up he'd hurt her too and he's the reason she was isolated from her peers except the two he raised her to deem 'worthy' in Ty Lee and Mai.Call Ozai's treatment of Azula what it was,because he might not have done that to her but the term is not exclusively sexual:Child grooming
I don’t know why but I kinda want a fic where Azula, Mai and Ty Lee (or just Azula) go into an Earth Kingdom town just to see what it’s like and the soldiers, not recognizing they’re Fire Nation, start asking these young teenagers where their parents are and why they’re out so late.
To all of the people who believe Azula is crazy/evil, and to all of those who think Eska is abusive or toxic. I just want to let you know from the bottom of my heart…that I actually could not care less.
(This isn’t a call out post and I’m not bashing on anyone I just need to say it)
I get it - Azula was a child and for that she is rightly granted leniency for the most part amongst the fandom. And Eska was definitely controlling but you can’t say she didn’t care
BUT HERES THE THING
I don’t care about the “excuses” or “reasons” like… at all. I am a firm believer in letting women be evil just for the sake of being evil.
Azula committed war crimes? Iconic
Eska told Bolin he shouldn’t touch other women? Literally queen behavior.
LET WOMEN BE EVIL, THEY DONT NEED DEFENDING. THEYRE TOXIC AND MORALLY CORRUPT AND ITS WHY I LOVE THEM
Azula's Team a.k.a Ozai's Angels, with the addition of my one & only ATLA OC, Shān🫢(You may check this post for brief information regarding Shān🤭)
Apparently, Shān invited himself to join Team Azula, because, according to him, if she EVER needed him, he would always be there for her, though he is well aware that Azula is more than capable of looking after herself😆 He did the reasoning by himself by the way!
Also, he just wants to be by her side as many times as possible and as permissible by Azula~ And he was glad when the entire Team Azula were more than welcoming him as part of the team, especially the enthusiastic Ty Lee🥰