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[ID: A digitally drawn comic of Toph and Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender talking about Zuko’s scar.
It begins with Toph approaching Zuko, who is sitting near a campfire. “You have a scar?” she asks. Zuko replies,  "Oh! Uh, yeah… You didn’t…?“ Toph cuts him off and says, "Came up in passing with the other guys.” Toph casually makes herself a seat out of rock and sits down next to him. “Must be pretty badass if everyone assumes I know it’s there, too,” she continues. Zuko looks aside awkwardly and says, “… It’s on my face.” “Ah.” Toph replies.
Zuko says, “Maybe you could… feel it?” “Huh?” says Toph. “I guess, if I concentrate hard enough.” Zuko reaches for Toph’s hand. “Uhm, just with your hand, if you want,” he says. “I don’t think I can describe it.” “… Gotcha. Guide my hand then, boss,” Toph says. Zuko does so, and there’s a pause as Toph touches his scar. The fire reflects in her eyes.
As Toph pulls her hand away, Zuko says, “…. You know, my left eye is almost blind, too.” “Seriously?!” Toph exclaims. “Why aren’t we a tag team yet?! The blind bandit and the half-blind dweeb!” “Come on…!” Zuko moans. End ID]
id by @strawberrygiorno , thank you!
i’ve had this comic sketched out for months but only decided to finish it now, it’s based on something i drew a couple years back of toph and zuko….don’t think too hard on when or how this takes place because i don’t really know either! it’s just a concept i’ve always wanted to draw
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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I'm so sorry. I hope to pick up writing soon but ugh. I'm stressed 💔💔💔
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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I'm still here! In a stressful place rn, sorry 💔💔
Ready To Love P.6 [[Zuko]]
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Pairing: Zuko x Female!Reader
Warnings: The usuallll as well as mentions of death and darkish themes??
A/N: this is late and shitty im sorrryyyy
Pt.1,, Pt.5,, Masterlist
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“….”
“What were you expecting him to return and sweep you away? Foolish.”, her words cut deeper than they ever had. Hitting the rusted old nail directly on it’s head.
Azula never much cared to talk to you. Not when he was here and not even when he had been banished, as he was now. However when she did speak to you, it was always when she knew she would inflict the most pain.
When she knew she could gut you so deep, it would haunt you for years to come.
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Hi I'm alive. Work kills me. Uh.. more soon?? Idkk
Ready To Love P.6 [[Zuko]]
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Pairing: Zuko x Female!Reader
Warnings: The usuallll as well as mentions of death and darkish themes??
A/N: this is late and shitty im sorrryyyy
Pt.1,, Pt.5,, Masterlist
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“….”
“What were you expecting him to return and sweep you away? Foolish.”, her words cut deeper than they ever had. Hitting the rusted old nail directly on it’s head.
Azula never much cared to talk to you. Not when he was here and not even when he had been banished, as he was now. However when she did speak to you, it was always when she knew she would inflict the most pain.
When she knew she could gut you so deep, it would haunt you for years to come.
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Ready To Love P.6 [[Zuko]]
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Pairing: Zuko x Female!Reader
Warnings: The usuallll as well as mentions of death and darkish themes??
A/N: this is late and shitty im sorrryyyy
Pt.1,, Pt.5,, Masterlist
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“....”
“What were you expecting him to return and sweep you away? Foolish.”, her words cut deeper than they ever had. Hitting the rusted old nail directly on it’s head.
Azula never much cared to talk to you. Not when he was here and not even when he had been banished, as he was now. However when she did speak to you, it was always when she knew she would inflict the most pain.
When she knew she could gut you so deep, it would haunt you for years to come.
She laughed as she looked down upon you. It was not a happy sound. Nothing like her older sibling, who had always laughed with joy in his heart, when he had it. Hers was cruel- meant to make you seethe. She had the gall to laugh in your face after telling you the ‘news’. You were sadly hoping for good news. You knew Azula was like this- you had always known she was not good. You just didn’t know her well enough to really determine if it was fully true.
Lesson learned.
“Oh, don’t cry now. Not when I haven’t gotten to have my fun yet! I’ve been absolutely dying for a chance to get rid of you! You see, you get in my dear friend Mai’s way!”, she gives you an eerie smile, “It’s only fitting that I, one of her dearest friends, takes care of the issue!”
She talks as if she’s doing some sort of favor. Like she’s doing something absolutely necessary. Your tears sliding down our face don’t stop her at all. She acts as if they aren’t there. She acts as if she hasn’t just told you your father was killed for his ‘crimes’.Killed for being an Earth Bender from the Earth Kingdoms. For being who he was.
For not being Fire Nation.
“You see, my Dad doesn’t care to do multiple executions in a day. Takes up too much time. You and your Mother are granted a sliver of mercy. You two are to leave immediately. Now, if you dare step foot in this land again, there will be no mercy, understand?”, she gives you a wide grin. “No more living here and no more Zuzu for you. See, I could have had you killed but since you’ve done nothing to me personally, I’ll be nice this once.”
That had made you snap, “Nice. Nice? You call that being nice?!”
Her face turns sour, “Excuse me?”
“You heard me! You just told me my father was killed- you made no attempt to try and stop it! You come in my home and you tease me and laugh like you didn’t have a hand in his death! How did you even know who he was!”, you can feel yourself shaking. Can feel your deepest secret threatening to rise up within you. He’d told you to hide it while you were here, to never use it. How would you escape if you did? So close to the heart of the royal grounds?
“Hah. Your dad was a fool. Using his bending on palace grounds. He put up a real fight, but he was clearly outnumbered and outmatched. As all Earth fools are.”
She wasn’t going to tell you. That much was clear.
You tried to hold back, you really did. Azula just had a knack for bringing out the worst in people. You’re not proud of what you did. Yet you don’t regret it. The look on her face was priceless.
Perhaps you hadn’t actually beaten her, but it was as close as you’d ever get. Still, she always had the last word.
“He’ll never like you. You’ll be sad all your miserable life! You’re a fake! A liar! You never belonged here! Useless Earth peasant!”
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So then what was this? You were certain she was right, despite how your heart had hoped. You were sure you’d see him with Mai- or with some other pretty Fire Nation girl. Someone other than you. You had especially believed this when he looked at you like that back underground in Ba Sing Se. He had finally seen you then. Who you were and where you came from. His actions at that time had you thinking he’d never see you as anything ever again.
Sure, you were wrong. He had wanted his friend back. You just didn’t know he’d want more. Much more.
Unfortunately, he took your stunned silence the wrong way. The hurt look in his face broke your heart for the split second he allowed you to see it.
“Right.”, he had said, “I’m sorry I- we should get ready to leave.”
He didn’t give you a chance to try to pull him back. Not that your mind gave you one either. You were still reeling, even now, sitting in Appa’s saddle, staring up at the passing clouds. Him? Love you? Since when?
How?
What was it that he loved about you- though couldn’t you ask yourself the same?
You had an answer though. Multiple answers, ranging from the way he smiled to the way he never saw you as just some lowly peasant. New ones being added like how he loved his Uncle and valued what he thought of him. How he’d proved his will and determination to change, to admit everything he was taught back in his own home was wrong. To make the choice himself to leave everything behind and do what was right, despite the massive hatred he had gained from his own flesh and blood.
His strength, no matter how it may have wavered.
Just him in general.
You should be on cloud nine right now- you should be feeling so light, so why weren’t you? What was holding you back?
“You think he’ll ever want you around anymore once he knows? It’s not your being an Earth Bender. It’s your lies. It’s you never telling him, or, oh.. not trusting him. Poor Zuzu..”
Her words still echoed to this day. Unfortunately, she still haunted you. From her smile as she shattered your life as you knew it, to the same one she wore when she saw Zuko react to you that day.
You couldn’t let her hold you back all your life, otherwise her lies would become truths. Zuko wouldn’t lie about something like that. He wasn’t Azula. You couldn’t compare the two.
The only comparison was the often bad timing. The difference was, Azula’s timing was bad because she was not on their side of things. She was an inconvenience. Zuko had no sense of time. A war was ahead of him. The world was on the verge of combusting as he knew it. There was no right time.
You could agree with him. Tomorrow was not guaranteed. A future was not promised, only hoped for.
So, as you moved your gaze to the back of his head in front of you, you made up your mind.
Words were not wasted in asking him to follow you that night. You didn’t care that you had just grabbed him from his conversation with Aang. Didn't think to respond to the look of shock on either of their faces as you took him by the arm and dragged him away. You also didn’t think of how it might be perceived on his end.
Zuko was sure you were going to chew him out. He followed you, matching your urgency with dread in the pit of his stomach. Had he crossed a line that night? Were you mad now? He hadn’t meant to upset you- he wasn’t lying. He had thought about it over and over and over again. He came to that conclusion after asking himself hundreds upon thousands of questions.
Why had he missed you so much? What was it about your laughter that he craved? Why did he enjoy clasping your hand in his? What was the reason for him always thinking of you when he was welcomed back home? Thinking of where he would take you and what he would show you? Now that you were both older and he had more freedom?
How come his heart cried for you when you told him the loss of your beloved father? What made his heart ache at you having to harbor a life threatening secret all on your own- being unable to tell him even when your life was once secure?
What was it about you?
The answer was not being his childhood friend. It was just being you. Being the best escape from his life at home. Being his definition of home. He’d been lost without you. Sad and hurt and unable to grasp why aside from his banishment and the brutal punishment from his own father. You were in his very bones and soul. He could live with you just as his friend if that’s what you wanted. He just couldn’t live with not telling you. Couldn’t go on thinking he might die and never get to tell you how he felt and how horribly sorry he was for everything.
Sorry you had to meet him and be hurt by him. Sorry his own Nation was the way it was. So very sorry he loved you so deeply despite being so young and new to such feelings.
“Do you truly mean what you said?”, you say after some fast marching into a quiet and far off area of the beach. 
A few waves crashed here and there as he stared into your eyes, searching for something, anything to make sense of this.The salty air filled his lungs, mingling in with your own soft scent.
“Answer me.”, you say, impatient.
“Wh- of course I- why are you asking? I apologized- I shouldn’t have-”
“I’m not asking for an apology. I want a serious straight answer. Did you mean that?”
You looked determined and he’s not sure what for. Regardless, he braces himself for a smack to the face, “I did.”
You stare at him, unmoving for a few long beats of silence. “Okay.”
“...Okay?”
You nod, “Okay.”
Zuko is thoroughly confused. Okay what? What was this all about? Were you mad or not- he sees you raise your hands up quickly. He wonders if you’re going to hit him or bend at him- maybe shake the hell out of him. He probably deserved it, but you didn’t do that.
You reached up, held his face so softly in his face. The softest caress he’d ever felt in his life. Your small smile matched it perfectly.
“You just don’t learn do you?”
He couldn’t even question what you meant. He wasn’t given the time or even a chance. In a split second you had him swirling. Quicker than he could see, your lips were on his. Gentle as ever, capturing his in the sweetest way..
“ Yᴏᴜ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴏɴᴇʟʏ ᴡᴀs ᴀ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ ᴍᴇ..”
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Will def try to do this maybe tomorrow??? Thanks 😁
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rules:  google your name + your favorite color + “aesthetic” and the first four (noncollage) photos make up your moodboard
I’ve seen this going around and I thought I’d start one of my own!!
Also this really does fit my aesthetic WOW
No pressure nominations: @beifongsss @your-royal-momoness @myexgirlfriendisthemoon @iknowrocknroll567 @bucky-blogs
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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just wanted to drop in and say i love your zuko fic so much, it’s so well written and rly tugging at my heartstrings🥺 can’t wait for the next update💕💕
Thanks I'm trying to work on it today but hrghh pokemansss 🥺 I'm so glad it's liked though. Thanks for the ask I love getting them!!💕💕
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Soooo I forgot to set time aside smh. Too int pokemansss today. Soon!
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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I'm still alivvee. Next part Sun???
Ready To Love Pt.5 [[Zuko]]
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Pairing: Zuko x Female!Reader
Warnings: Nonsenseeeee
A/N: Sooooo closeeee, and no im not sorry <3 links later
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“   “
At this very moment, Zuko didn’t want to be away from you. He didn’t want to go anywhere, not after finally getting you to talk- to finally open. He just wanted to be near you now, get close and comfortable, just like before but better. However, as of course, nothing really ever worked out in his favor. One moment he was hiding out with you and the next Katara was exploding on him over something he had not done.
Yet it did nothing to stop him from helping. He didn’t want her to hate him forever. Zuko was tired of being hated, especially over something he hadn’t done. He wanted nothing more than to just be accepted.
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Once Ready To Love is done I'm thinking of making another either one shot or mini series with a plus sized reader. Why? Cause there isn't enough and the ones I've seen don't tackle the appearance much. So. MY TURN
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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OZAI CHALLENGED HIS 14 YEAR OLD SON TO A WHAT
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Happy birthday! Enjoy your day and wishing you more blessings to come! ✨✨
Thank you! You're literally so sweet! 💕💕💕
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happy birthday b!
Thanks bb! 💕
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Hey, I might be spotty today n probably won't write much. I'm gonna be out for my bday or just chilling ♥️♥️
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YOUR STORY IS SO GOOD OMGGGG WHATTTT
THANKS AHHHH ♥️♥️♥️
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Ready To Love Pt.5 [[Zuko]]
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Pairing: Zuko x Female!Reader
Warnings: Nonsenseeeee
A/N: Sooooo closeeee, and no im not sorry <3 links later
Pt.1,, Pt.4
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“   “
At this very moment, Zuko didn’t want to be away from you. He didn’t want to go anywhere, not after finally getting you to talk- to finally open. He just wanted to be near you now, get close and comfortable, just like before but better. However, as of course, nothing really ever worked out in his favor. One moment he was hiding out with you and the next Katara was exploding on him over something he had not done.
Yet it did nothing to stop him from helping. He didn’t want her to hate him forever. Zuko was tired of being hated, especially over something he hadn’t done. He wanted nothing more than to just be accepted.
So he’d gone on a long trip, one he was sure would end violently but it didn’t. Katara got her closure, and they were now on their way back to everyone else. To you. The trip was pretty much silent but then oddly, Katara broke it. Shattering it to pieces with a question.
“So how long have you really known her?”
Zuko can feel his heart hammer away nervously, “Who?”
“___”, she says. Confidently, “Who else?”
He’s not sure how much you’ve told them, and they’re your friends first so he’s not sure what to say. “Didn’t she already tell you?”
“No. Not really. Whenever we mentioned this crazy firenation prince that was after us, she went quiet.”
His hammering heart then sank. How shameful it must have been to know him then during those times. A good friend turned sour, “Mhmm. Well it’s not my place to answer for her.”
He could feel Katara’s eyes on him, but he didn’t move to look back. Even though you were on speaking terms with him, it didn’t mean that you were going to tell everyone everything. It’s not like you had to anyway, so much of everything was very personal. You had told-
“That long huh?”
Zuko just remains silent. All his past regret suddenly coming out to drown him at sea. Yes, that long. Long enough to go from friends to nothing to whatever this was. Adoring you for the entire ride, even if he denied it to himself for some time. So many bad choices- where would he be now if he had stayed with you? Would you two be... something? Would-
“Lucky you. Anyone else would have left a long time ago. That’s  a lot to be put through, s-”
“I know. I know she should have left- but she didn’t, and I’m gonna do everything I can to make it a good choice for her.”, and he means it. He won’t make you regret it ever again, even if it kills him.
Katara is the one silent now, and he can’t see it but she’s smiling. He’d confirmed her suspicions. he was the boy you’d mentioned liking. The one that hurt you without meaning to at first and then betraying you altogether. She knew it was him but she needed proof, and he gave it. He gave it and he proved he’d be better. He’d do what was right- you clearly looked a bit happier than before..
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No one had noticed you two had snuck off that night. No one knew what you’d spoken of or how you’d about cried. Zuko assumed you’d said everything you wanted to say, but you hadn’t. You couldn’t tell him the whole truth about your father yet or your feelings for him. Zuko already had much on his plate with his father, the last thing you needed to do was top it off with your father’s death. Yes, the Firelord had a hand in his death and your running away. Your Mother was spared only by banishment, and you were a wanted person. You wondered if Zuko saw the warrant on you.
The runaway Earth Bender, hidden within Fire Nation walls.
You hoped your mother could learn to cope- you know you hadn’t and probably wouldn’t.
You also hoped one day you could tell Zuko how you felt- even if it’s not what he felt. Why bother to hope?
Yet your heart still dared to beat harder the very moment you saw him return, suffocating the urge to run at him like you once used to.Things were so different now. You didn’t know what ground you stood on with him. What was he to you, and you to him?
What now? Now that he spoke all his regrets and truths- now that he admitted to having something with Mai? Real or not, it was a thing that happened. How could you be sure it was fake, why did you care? What did it matter when clearly, he was here. Although, it wasn’t just for you. He was teaching Aang all he knew. There was a war not too far off- life or death of thousands upon thousands of lives. Cultures and homes-people and families.
Why bother think-
“___”
You turned, looking straight into golden eyes. “Hm?”
“I- can we talk? Again? I just- it’s important. Really important.”
You’re not sure how to react- nervous? Scared? Nothing at all? “Okay.”
So this time he drags you off, his hand burning in yours. He holds your hand for a long while- even once he’s stopped in the middle of a grassy clearing. One that outlooks the vast ocean, waves crashing into rocks some ways off. The wind blows his hair to and fro. Creating a messy look, which unknown to you, was a perfect replica of how he felt inside.
“___, I.. well..”, he begins, rubbing his thumb over your knuckles, the softest caress you’d ever felt. “I just... I’m sorry..”
“Sorry?”, you ask, staring his your hand in his.
“I hurt you so much and you should hate me- you should hate me as much as Uncle does! I’ve done worse to you and him- you both knew me and believed in me and I-”
“Zuko.”
“I never should have done that-I sh-”
“Zuko!”
“Should have done better by-”
“Zuko!”, you use your free hand to cover his mouth, effectively shutting him up. “Stop beating yourself up. I forgive you, and I know your Uncle will too. Look at where you are- look at the friends you’re making.”
He’s just quiet, listening to you intently. Hanging on every last syllable.
“You’re here with us- with me. You’re teaching the Avatar firebending. You’re out fighting this war- you’re on the right side of history. You have defied all odds. You’re doing good and you’re getting better okay? Don’t sell yourself short, Zuko.”
He nods, removing his hand from you to pull your other hand away from his mouth. He takes it in his and gives it a squeeze. He’s quiet as he lets your words linger in the breeze. They float around him and soothe him. He feels content and okay- he feels confident, and so he throws caution into this soothing breeze you’ve surrounded him in. It’s now or never. The war can be damned- all proper timing can be damned.
“___”, he says again, softer now. His words an even softer caress than his hand in yours.
“What now, Zuko?”, you respond, laughter beginning to bubble within you.
He just gives you a small smile. The tiniest grain of who he once was, so carefree and happy. “I...”, he starts, pulling your hand close to his heart, “...I think I love you..”
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zuzu-hotman · 4 years
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Update Thurs night maybe, on a mini vacay 🤭🤪
Ready To Love Pt.4 [[Zuko]]
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Pairing: Zuko x Female!Reader
Warnings: The usual (;
A/N: Ahh, part four! So so close..also more word vomit. I know, I know, it’s taking long but listen, I do enjoy slow burning and world building <3 I promise, much more to come next part!
Pt.1,, Pt.3
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“ Aɴᴅ ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ..”
Your hand felt so warm clasping his- he hadn’t realized how much he’d missed the feeling. The last time he’d gotten to was in Ba Sing Se, sometime before he’d made the bad choices he made. Honestly he felt like it was going to be the last time. He was aware he’d hurt you, but he never realized to what degree. He hadn’t known how you had suffered in his absence. Adding his betrayal to it was another- and how he looked at you when you began to bend? He never meant to look hurt. It wasn’t because you didn’t firebend. It was because you didn’t tell him- because he had made it so you were unable to do so.
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