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Sokka!! It isn't just a coupon!!! 😭📢

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Azula Respected Mai The Most

I just saw another Reddit comment saying Azula wasn’t friends with Mai and mostly only cared about Ty Lee. And I just gotta say…

I respectfully disagree.

The Boiling Rock proves Mai meant a lot to Azula.

First, Mai publicly commits treason and betrays the Fire Nation and Azula.

What does Azula do? Order the guards away and gives Mai a chance to explain herself. She even says “I never expected this from you” and “you of all people know the consequences”. Put a pin in that for a moment.

Giving a traitor who just publicly and flagrantly betrayed you and your nation to help an even worse traitor to your nation (Zuko, who on a personal level hurt both Mai and Azula by doing so) a chance to explain themselves is already significant. But even moreso is the fact that Azula doesn’t make a single move to harm Mai until Mai purposely and effectively hits Azula’s trauma weak point like the master marksman she is.

When Mai says “I guess you don’t know people as well as you think you do” this is already an insult. She’s putting down Azula’s intelligence and manipulation skills, things Azula clearly takes pride in. And yet despite how insulting that is, Azula still waits for Mai to explain herself. Even as Mai throws that barb at her, Azula wants to hear her out. Until Mai throws the even worse insult right at Azula’s weak point.

“I love Zuko more than I fear you” isn’t a statement of Mai being afraid really. It’s Mai throwing a powerful dig at Azula’s biggest fear and trauma, the one Azula tried to dismiss during The Beach with a joke to avoid showing her own vulnerability: Azula fears that Ursa hated and feared her but loved Zuko. It’s why during the mirror scene, a grief stricken and emotionally volatile Azula bitterly says to the hallucination of Ursa “even you fear me”.

Only then does Azula get triggered enough to lash out in return. Mai was only capable of hurting her so much precisely because Azula loves and trusts Mai so much, and precisely because Mai knew what to say to hurt her.

Even so, Azula does the forms for fire, not lightning. And after she is chi-blocked, Azula orders both Ty Lee and Mai jailed, not executed or banished despite having every right to do so since they just publicly committed treason against the Fire Nation.

See the quick strike? It’s more like when she attacks Iroh in The Chase with blue fire:

Lightning, by comparison, always has a wind up for her. Even when comet-boosted or otherwise.

Remember Azula’s line we put a pin in? Let’s go back to it now. Why does Azula say “I never expected this from you” and “you of all people”. What is the significance here?

We know Azula is a perfectionist. She can’t stand a single hair out of place. This informs her frustration with Zuko and Ty Lee, both whom she adores, but whom are constantly failing to stay in their place and play their role. Zuko messes up, gets himself banished. Ty Lee runs away and joins the circus. What does Azula do? Endeavor to use any means necessary to bring them back into the fold. It sounds crazy, but from her perspective, she’s helping them shape up.

But Mai? She’s different. Mai knows her place. She knows what’s expected of her. She says herself that she learned to be quiet and still so as not to risk her dad’s political career. She hates it and searches for any excuse to leave her stifling expectations at home, but she only does this in an acceptable way: when ordered by the princess to join her on a mission for the Fire Nation.

This is why Azula is especially shocked. Because of all people, Azula thought Mai was the only one of her friends who understood their duty to the nation and wasn’t a colossal fuck up.

Azula may be more affectionate with Ty Lee, but she definitely respected Mai more.

And I think the fandom doesn’t give their fascinating relationship or how it breaks down enough credit.

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Hakoda: Sokka, I’d like to give you this carving knife. It was given to me by my father when I was to propose to your mother to make her necklace.

Gran gran: As first born of the village elder, you certainly have fine tastes. 😉

Katara: ugh just get a fucking room already you dorks.

hmmmmm enjoying the thought that zuko visits sokka in the southern water tribe shortly after they get together, and he's just so, so happy to see his boyfriend again that he can't help but immediately pull him in for a long, deep kiss as soon as he gets off the boat

except he doesn't realize that hakoda was standing only a few feet behind his son and so this is how he finds out they're dating

#listen I have no idea how to write Hakoda so I’m just shitposting rn #I mean like I normally shit post anyways #but this is the shittiest of shitposts

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Sokka: Katara, you can’t just challenge Zuko to a Tui-la Kai like that

Zuko: I’m asking for permission to date your brother

Katara: what is this? The dark ages? You know what, since you asked, no, you can’t. Beat me in a duel.

#I’m trying to make a pun on Agni Kai but like make it water tribe

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atla modern au where suki & zuko are life guards for the summer and sokka just keeps drowning

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CANON I AM ZUKO'S MISSING EYEBROW

#zuko #atla zuko

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I like to think my style is modern day emo Zuko (circa book 2-3) but make it Latino

#sorry my room is a mess lmao #also not super obvious but yes I do have scars #one on my wrist from an accident from 7th grade #and then one on my lower lip due to a friend’s dog biting me in college #inb4 anyone says anything no I won’t be straightening my hair #I used to years back due to societal pressure back in the early 2000’s since straight hair was The Style #but I’m embracing my wavy hair #Zuko #atla zuko #ATLA #avatar the last airbender #prince zuko

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Amazing

don't even care if zukka doesn't become canon. this is such a fucking win for zukka nation. this isn't queerbaiting it's just good ol' fashioned gay

#zukka #zukka nation #natla #atla #avatar the last airbender #sokka #avatar the last airbender sokka #avatar the last airbender zuko #fire lord zuko #prince zuko

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It’s funny when American authors come up with a new European nation so their main character can be a secret royal without the pain of researching a real nation. We should all start doing that with North America, just make up a new state. My protagonist lives in New Utahioshington which is the 51st state and located between Delaware and Maryland

#as someone who’s lived in Maryland for literally my entire 31 years of existence I take offense to this #get your crusty ass Utah away from us lmao

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I love how I haven’t been on tumblr in a minute and yet when I get back on, the posts gaining the most traction are about my emo ass being like “yes, ATLA fanbase, fall in love with the same bands I’ve been listening to since 2006”

#this isn’t my original account from when I first joined tumblr back in like 2010 #I abandoned it for a variety of reasons #I might go back to that one eventually #but this account will be for me to generally shitpost and shitpost about ATLA #and I guess also spam about my love for emo/emo punk/skate punk/post grunge/etc music from the 2000’s #I mean like #I listened to a lot of this type of music while concurrently watching ATLA when it was on air #so like almost 20 years of being an emo kid lmao

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@psychedelicxsocks I know I’ve said this in another post but this is what Zuko’s listening to on his way to Sokka’s house

ugh

#Youtube

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old atla fanart from 2020 hihi

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in my head all of them got a house after the war and here are sokka and zuko just chilling 🌱

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my girl toph chilling on appa

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azula would electrocute a man if she thought it would help her plans go forward, but she also curses using “dang” and “frick” because she’s 14 and was raised in a palace

zuko, on the other hand, says “fuck” every other sentence

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What they’re listening to

ugh

#fire lord zuko #prince zuko #sokka x zuko #zukka