#and azula is a manager

[atla-suki]

HELLO??????? AAAAAAAA

#atla #netflix atla #atla live action #zuko #ozai #iroh #zhao #azula #fire nation #IS THAT FUCKIN MAI AND TY LEE BEHIND AZULA???? #AAAAA #ALSO HOW DID THEY MANAGE TO PULL OFF ZUKO’S HAIRSTYLE WTF

[evilkitten3]

atla crack au where zuko and azula burn the palace down as kids (like 12 and 10, respectively, pre-banishment but post-grandpacide), run away to avoid consequences, and somehow end up "discreetly" living in the abandoned fire nation ship in the south pole ("discreetly" is a word which here means "all the adults know they're there bc they have massive arguments every other day, and when hakoda's nearby he "drops" things that might be useful")

ozai ends up blaming the palace fire on iroh and banishes him. he must capture the children to regain his honor (translator's note: this is adult speak for "get their asses back here so i can ground them for the rest of their lives")

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #fire siblings #somehow despite having lived isolated on a wrecked boat for four years they manage to still be spoiled brats when aang shows up #ozai is significantly less evil bc a) crack au and b) the burning zuko's face off never happened #like he still kinda sucks but he hasn't crossed the line from throne usurper to child mutilator just yet #azula spends half a minute trying to find a way to blame the fire on zuko before realizing that half the flames are blue #the plot twist is that they actually weren't (fully) responsible for the destruction #ursa did it #she chose terrorism ok #jet is her accomplice #like he hates that she's fire nation but damn if she's not good at what she does #jet: ok so how're we gonna get your children out before we- #ursa: fuck them kids #jet: ...dope let's do this

[toph-x-azula]

Azula and Toph are racing to scale a mountain and the people at the base of it are Not Having Fun.(there are boulders and fireballs raining from the sky)

#tophla #azutoph #tophzula #toph x azula #They manage to approach the peak from opposite sides and have the Worst Kiss Ever #*ran into eachother like looney tunes characters* #azula #toph #atla

[themadmanandhisbox]

Sokkla Mermaid/Siren AU

Sokkla Mermaid/Siren AU by Artcraawl

#Sokkla #sokka #azula #sokka x azula #artcraawl #never manages to disappoint #MerZula yeeting Boomerang is hilarious to me

[akiizayoi4869]

Take that I just found out exists: "If Azula kept a secret for once then Ursa wouldn't have to interfere and Ozai wouldn't have banished her."

To the people who actually believe this stupidity, you do realize that would mean Zuko would be dead in canon, right? RIGHT?

#atla #azula #zuko #ursa #Ozai #Seriously wtf is up with these horrible takes this fandom manages to come up with😭 #avatar the last airbender

[did-we-imagine]

I think that modern AUs miss out on Zuko's honor complex by not having him become a judge out of spite just so that he gets called "Your Honor." 🤡☠

I've read lots of cool fanfics, but never one that addresses this. I should probably write on myself to scratch that itch. OMG imagine the potential.

And we could even have a badass origin story like Zuko originally wanting to be a corporate lawyer like Ozai, but after witnessing how scummy smarmy corrupt he is, Zuko gets kicked out and/or the scar and he decides that he'd rather be a good lawyer and later on eventually becomes a judge while healing under Iroh's tutelage. Iroh could be anything from a retired seasoned General (and Ozai's complex of inferiority could be because he somehow failed to get into the army ?? ) To a formerly brilliant corp lawyer who was even more ruthless than Ozai before realizing after the loss of his son (not necessarily in a war, maybe just an epiphany as he finally empahizes with oppressed/poor people who lose their kids everyday be it through direct attacks, lack of access to basic services like healthcare, OR criminal rings) and quits to open a tea shop and chill.

He uncovers Ozai's smuggling rings or whatever crimes he has committed through the help of FBI-like (minus the overall bad rep IRL) agents as well as independent investigators with various motivations (i.e: Maybe Katara and Sokka's mom was tragically linked to a hate crime or was silenced as a witness or sth, but anyway cue the Gaang and Zuzu finally joining forces), and BAMF, team Ozai falls from grace (idk what we should do with Zhao? Have him killed by Ozai ?).

Azula is a tricky one though. She could get redeemed, already be redeemed by the start of the story, or be a villain. My own little take would be that she'd act a little bit like Franziska von Karma. I don't recall if she directly addressed Manfred's monstrosity, but there were hints in the games I played (I didn't play all of them) that she didn't want to follow his footsteps.

She'd be very entertaining and chaotic regardless of which side she is on. 🤣

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #prince zuko #fire lord zuko #judge zuko #modern au #fanfic idea #zuko's honor #some light ace attorney inspo in the end for how to manage Azula's arc maybe ? #not too sure tho

[comradekatara]

a version of dream of the red chamber set in the world of atla - how would it even look like? the mere concept itself is fascinating

omfg lmfao are you reading my texts somehow bc I was literally saying this just the other day:

now obviously even though ba sing se is inspired by qing dynasty china, it’s also modeled off of beijing, whereas the jias live in nanjing (with the exception of yuanchun). and other regions in the earth kingdom obviously do not map onto qing dynasty china. gaoling/the beifong estate is distinctly tang dynasty, and other locations in the ek are inspired by korean, vietnamese, etc. cultures (no, the ek doesn’t just = imperial china lmfao). but mapping this novel thematically does not necessarily require mapping it geographically.

honglou meng pertains very specifically to its setting and how class factors into the nature of its world as well as the dynamics among its teeming ensemble. so even if you replicated it among the beifongs in their tang dynasty furnishings, or among the fn royal family in their…distinct cultural mishmash, it would still necessarily be located within an aristocratic mansion. the act of “leaving the garden” (to borrow andrew plak’s phrase) is a universal one (and I do intend to someday write a larger piece on the space of the garden as a site of illusion in hlm, paradise lost, and utena!), but the specific disillusionment and fall from grace that cao so painfully and personally describes implies a certain myopic, delusional grandeur to begin with. it is a novel fundamentally concerned with illusion and the hollow trappings of power, which is why there is something so distinctly shocking about when the lius come to visit (one of my favorite episodes), as well as, of course, the entire tragic denouement as each beauty of jinling fades. so to map it onto atla requires focalizing a class that is distinctly unheroic within atla’s ideological framework, whether it be the cloistered and excising upper ring, the shallow and stifling beifong mansion, or of course, the perfidious evil of the fire nation royal family.

i’ve said before that baby zuko is just kind of swagless baoyu. baoyu if he had no rizz and the only girls he knew were his sister’s friends. the relationship w his father is similar, although ursa doesn’t carry the same power and respect that his grandmother does, so his situation is obviously more dire. like, at one point baoyu’s father beats him so badly that he cannot walk for a not insignificant period of time, not to mention that time his brother literally poured hot wax on his eye lmfao. but obviously zuko was born with the opposite of a jade in his mouth, he was always dismissed as worthless from birth. he would write an elegy for his lost childhood though. he would.

i see azula as a sort of combination of xifeng and tanchun, who are of course both quite similar figures, but have enough distinct differences that it would feel somewhat reductive not to combine them. each is poised, subtle, sharp, devious, and exacting. however, while xifeng is overbold, azula is obedient to a fault. azula is, fundamentally, ruled by fear. and tanchun’s status as having to prove herself due to the circumstances of her birth as well as living up to xifeng’s skill managing the household makes her more poised and refined in her position of authority. xifeng, for all her brilliance, is illiterate. she is incredible, but her refusal to submit begets enemies. yes, azula’s hubris is also her downfall, but it is a hubris of ideology, not of ego. she is fiery yet subdued, ruthless yet obedient. she is mindful of the rules, and succeeds within them. even as she enjoys wielding power, she knows her limits. it is unclear whether xifeng, for all her ingratiating social savvy, ever truly does.

now, as for mai and ty lee, the parallels between daiyu and baochai should be evident. daiyu is certainly more outspoken than mai, but the similarities in their dynamic are nonetheless clear to us, especially in terms of how both ty lee and baochai navigate their social roles through a very deliberate performance of constant acquiescence and pleasantness. a lot of my friends find baochai quite loathsome, but in fact i think that she is one of the most underrated characters in the novel, her social savvy almost frightening at times. i suppose you could also claim that ty lee is quite like xiren, then, as a highly savvy social climber, but that also depends on how you read ty lee’s class background. regardless, i find their respective modes of self-expression and interplay as perceived opposites (especially wrt daiyu and baochai, who literally form a triangle with baoyu) fascinating. not to mention that if mai ever overheard baoyu’s elegy to his lost childhood, she would also ruthlessly lambast his word choices in the guise of being helpful.

toph is shi xiangyun. no explanation needed there. yue also has major daiyu energy. i can’t think of any other aristocrats. but even beyond devising these fun 1:1 (or 1:2) analogues, how the themes of illusion map across both texts is very interesting to consider. the greatest illusion in atla is the illusion of separation and domination, whereas the great illusion of hlm is that of an eternal, idealized state of grandeur, as well as the perfect innocence of childhood friendship and freedom from the solemn constraints of adult life. so while both texts do intentionally shatter these illusions, atla’s shattering is a victory against the logic of imperialism, whereas hlm’s shattering is a tragic elegy to an idealized past. hence why i position zuko as baoyu, as he is fundamentally motivated by a nostalgia to reclaim the life he has since lost. then again, aang (known swagful 12 year old babychad, in possession of much rizz) is similarly motivated by a (far more potent, imo) nostalgic desire for reclamation of the past, and with it, his place in the world, so he has equal, if not more, claim to functioning as a baoyu analogue. (and i guess you could also read katara as a sort of daiyu figure, although far more assertive and powerful.) the land of illusion is manifold and deep; it contains room for everyone.

also, i am now just realizing that you may have just been implying “what if the jia family had bending” instead of whatever this long, stream of consciousness, pointless ramble was. well in that case they’d obviously be earthbenders, although daiyu would be a firebender and baochai would be a nonbender (obviously). but like. swagever.

#10000dandelions #asks #synthesis #analysis #(of what? i don’t know) #zuko #azula #mai #ty lee #aang #i wanted to answer this in a really cool and intelligent way like i did with the utena ask #but unfortunately i just managed to produce this pointless ramble instead #i probably should’ve slept on it. but alas #feel free to ask me more on this topic tho #i am so hlmpilled 😭 #also yes that text was part of a longer list of my ideal atla episodes had i been allowed to rewrite it for netflix lmfao

[psychologeek]

elaborate:

The Most Dangerous Thing 

You are benched. "You are a kid", he says. "You nearly died. I can't let you do that anymore. You should focus on school and friends". (You weren't a kid for a long time. Not since the last time you saw your mom, broken limbs and breathless. Not since you watched your father bleed to death). (Trauma and healing are not linear, but it doesn't mean it won't get better.) alternative name: Raina Grayson's adventures [ft. trauma!]

Problem solving /Core Skills

Jason's doesn't want to disappoint his family (or worst, called out by his brothers). Jazz try getting costudy over Danny. I wonder where it all could go. (T for Jason's bad language (TM) ) (For YOTP: January - fake dating)

[unnamed01-JJTTAU] - post-JJ Tim, and psychological affects. include the titan's tower!

Witwat and the Jin

The urge to prove himself? claiming- not, INSISTING he is the only real son? where do you think it came from? or Dami had a brother (he's long gone)

Just short of a fairy tale (I told myself that I wouldn't be scared)

Jason Todd was born on August 15th, a minute before the clock changed, to a woman called Catrina. Crime alley attracts all sorts of beings. There is a kid in the backyard, that only Jason sees. He's pale, and so small. There are purple circles under his eyes. And he is so, so quiet. All of those are unrelated facts. [or are they?]

wishes are children (carefull) - still written. inspired by [What We Can Carry by Miss_Lazy_Tuesday] .

Heaven

study :(

#poll #fanfiction #fanfics #writing #dc #dp x dc #dc x dp crossover #batman #tim drake #dick grayson #exams #Achilles AU #heaven #atla #azula #jason todd #jazz fenton #anger management #yotp 2023

[kigozula]

“It belonged right there, around your neck… and I can’t wait to ensure it gets there once again as soon as possible,” Sokka smiled, pressing a quick kiss to the stone before setting down the necklace, at a safe distance from the spark rocks he picked up next. - Gladiator Chapter 318

#sokkla #sokka #azula #gladiator #Gladiator quotes #seyaryminamoto #screencap:piandao #mine #I take notes with beautiful moments and quotes #not as good as years ago (I am a mess sometimes hehe) but I still manage to save some

[riverblujay]

there is no greater mourning than accepting after multiple hours that you will not be able to find a very good fic you suddenly had a hazy memory of. you can only hope it has not been deleted and that maybe, against all odds, it will return home to you someday

#😔 shout out to this one lance & pidge vld fic i suddenly had a memory of #and was SURE i still had in my bookmarks. but cannot find even after trawling through searches/tags/30+ pages of my ao3 history #u are dearly missed. rip #AND to a beautiful zukka fic i have not been able to find #(canon divergence s2e1 where azula manages to capture zuko and he gets put in a prison (NOT boiling rock) #and then post s2 finale sokka is captured and sent to the same prison. and they bond as they break out) #war prisoners zukka fic come home to me someday. pls #BUT ALSO THIS PIDGE & LANCE BONDING FIC. the only things i remember is that its pre-canon at the garrison #and that pidge apologizes to lance for being an asshole abt smth #and i THINK (???) they are both trans??????? #if anyone knows either of these and has read this far PLEASE enlighten me. these lost children haunt my brain rent free

[fuckyouozai]

The thing is. The thing is. Azula and Zuko DO get along when they get along. They clearly know each other backwards and forwards. They walk right into each others rooms and keep secrets from their parents and in The Beach azula goes and gets zuko when he’s in their family’s old house says come down to the beach with me. This place is depressing. They are not like…..irredeemably always hating each other since day 1. In an abusive family dynamic different kids not only react differently, but they’re treated differently. Zuko has always been the scapegoat, and Azula was encouraged by her father to treat him that way AND encouraged by her mother to resent him just by the fact that she has eyes and witnessed the way their parents treated each of them respectively. It’s just like. More azula and zuko sibling content! When she’s not trying to kill him they don’t NOT get along, they simply have a contentious sibling relationship which is in fact, a very normal type of sibling relationship to have!!!!!

#in my fic suki says to zuko well of course sokka doesn’t understand this #family was the only thing they had. you and azula had everything BUT a family who loved you #anyway. give azula a service dragon to help her stay present and manage hallucinations

[evilkitten3]

people on the fanon wiki will just straight up announce that they haven't actually watched the show huh

#atla #azulaposting #''she wanted to steal the throne from him'' girl WHEN #when he got banished? which she had nothing to do with? #when she actively chose to give up the role of crown prince(ss) by bringing him back? #when he decided WITH NO INVOLVEMENT ON HER PART to commit treason and be a good guy? #he's the one who plotted to steal the throne from HER #y'know that whole ''let's go beat the shit outta my sister'' thing? #like azula didn't manipulate him into giving the throne to her he literally gave it up when he COMMITTED TREASON #AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS COMMITTING TREASON TO HIS FATHER'S FACE #you think he wasn't disowned as fuck? he threw LIGHTNING (back) at the fire lord! #azula had literally nothing to do with anything concerning zuko's place in line for the throne except for when she brought him back #and then again when he decided he was going to be fire lord despite DEFINITELY no longer being eligible (bc. y'know. TREASON) #at no point did azula ever even imply she wanted to take the throne from zuko #she EXPECTED it would be hers bc HE LITERALLY WAS NOT THERE #first he got banished and then he fucked off of his own free will #neither time had anything to do with anything azula did #hell azula is the only living member of the royal family we meet in the series outside of flashbacks who DIDN'T conspire for the throne #iroh managed to conspire for the throne despite debatably having the most right to it out of everyone #granted it was on zuko's behalf but STILL #hell even in the character assassinations i mean the comics no i don't she's not conspiring for the throne #she's trying to push zuko back towards what she thinks is the ''right'' path #but she's not trying to take it for herself #the only time azula even seems to want the throne is when her dad tells her it's hers now and even then she'd clearly rather he keep it #bc that'd mean he'd be sticking around and she was kinda sick of getting abandoned by then #azula: *getting crowned as per the previous fire lord's orders* #and no the argument that ozai wasn't a legitimate fire lord is entirely invalidated by how unwilling iroh was to do shit about fuck #which ended up proving ozai right come to think of it #he WAS a better fire lord than iroh. bc he. y'know. actually did stuff #gah

[stupidlyqueer]

thinking how in my dragon AU, Zuko managed to be claimed by two of the most powerful dragons alive and then managed to make one want to kill him and the other very, very annoyed by him but having to keep him from being killed by the other dragon.

#dragon!azula au #the ciano dragon series #congrats to ozai to for being claimed by two dragons and also managing to piss them off #zuko's situation is just funnier because he eventually gets redeemed #dragons don't like the male members of the royal family

[zuko-always-lies]

“Undeserved Kindness” and ATLA

There are many characters in ATLA who show kindness to others who have done nothing to “deserve” or “show they earned it,” to even their own deadly enemies. Sometimes this kindness has great personal costs.  Often this kindness fails to achieve its objectives, and it rarely leads to the “undeserving” recipient changing their behavior for the better. However, it always serves to illuminate the character of the giver of kindness, to demonstrate what kind of person they are.

Let us take Aang’s treatment of Zuko, for example.  Aang saves Zuko in “The Blue Spirit,” even though Zuko has spent the past half-season trying to capture him. This doesn't earn Aang any rewards. In the short term, what this gets Aang is Zuko trying to burn his face off, and it unclears how much, if at all, this episode of kindness plays in Zuko eventually switching sides. But do you what? Even if this action had brought no long-term rewards, even if Zuko had never switched sides or if he had died somewhere in a ditch in the Earth Kingdom, Aang saving Zuko would still demonstrate Aang’s kindness and compassion.

Let’s turn to Aang saving Zuko in “The Siege of the North.” This doesn’t lead to Zuko changing his behavior. As far as we see, he never even acknowledges the Gaang had saved him, and he not only attempts to capture Aang at least once after this but straight up tries to kill the entire Gaang in Book 3.  But again, Aang demanding that they save Zuko, despite everything Zuko has done to him, demonstrates what sort of person Aang is.

We can turn to Zuko offering to save Zhao in the same episode, which I think might be Zuko’s most compassionate moment in the show. Zhao is an awful person and just tried to kill Zuko, and likely would again if given the chance.  He doesn’t take Zuko’s hand, and it’s doubtful that Zuko could have saved him anyways. Yet Zuko offering and Zuko trying to save even a mortal enemy says something fundamental about Zuko, just like Zhao refusing Zuko’s offer says something about Zhao.

We can say much the same about Katara offering to heal Zuko’s scar.  Zuko has done nothing to deserve this kindness and has repeatedly done awful things to Katara and her friends, but Katara still feels empathy for him and acts compassionately toward him. Does this lead to any sort of positive result for her? No, and I don’t think scene played any real role in Zuko switching sides. Does this scene still say volumes about Katara? Hell yes.

We can turn to Azula apologizing to Ty Lee in “The Beach.” Azula manages to accomplish her short term objective of making Ty Lee feel better, but this doesn't fix her relationship with her friend or solve the toxic dynamics underlying it. Nor does this net Azula any long-term benefit. Still, this scene says a lot about who Azula is.

And the same can be said for Ty Lee’s decision to of her own volition volunteer to help Azula learn how to flirt. Does this fix her relationship with her friend? No. Does it even end up netting Azula a boyfriend in the short term? No. But it still says a lot about who Ty Lee is as a person.

Finally, we can turn to Azula generally being kind to Zuko in “The Beach”(although there are moments when she’s a bit of a jerk to him, she’s generally pretty nice). Does this fix Azula’s relationship with her brother? No. Does it lead to Zuko showing the slightest shed of kindness to her? No.  Does this prevent Zuko from taking actions which have strong negative impacts on her? No. Does it say volumes on who Azula is as a person, her relationship with her brother, and how she wants her relationship with her brother to be? Yes.

And now we turn to Iroh’s treatment of Azula. Many people claim that he was totally justified to hate her because she was a threat to Zuko, or claim that he couldn’t have “saved her” anyways. That misses the point. Iroh not demonstrating the slightest shed of empathy or compassion toward (and it would have been so easy for the writers to imply that he did) his abused child soldier 14 year old niece says volumes about him. Iroh not demonstrating any regret about what had happened to her says volumes about him(and the show very clearly showed that he felt a lot of regret on how bad his relationship with Ozai had gotten).

#Aang #Zhao #Katara #Zuko #Azula #Ty Lee #Iroh #anti-Iroh #Aang managed to show kindness and compassion even to mortal enemies #Iroh doesn't manage to show the slightest hint of empathy toward his own niece

[seyaryminamoto]

Fic-to-Art #24: Sokka holds Azula before the destroyed Bloodlust Spear

As some of you may have noticed, my patrons are a little bit wild and they just thrive in angst :'D This month's prompt for the artwork was "cliffhanger", and the winning option in the poll was the cliffhanger from chapter 226: Azula had taken the most dangerous wound she'd sustained in the entire story. Even then, she managed to destroy the Bloodlust Spear. The corruption of the spear affected her once the weapon was broken... and the consequences were almost deadly.

Things have certainly been really hard for our girl ever since that day... but at least she has recovered to a degree from this very serious wound. The specific cliffhanger for that chapter, though, is the moment when Sokka holds Azula in desperation, not knowing what to do and how to save her in the middle of this life-or-death situation she's in.

This artwork isn't a 1:1 depiction of what I saw in my mind when I wrote that scene, but honestly? It's surprisingly close to that. And I don't say that lightly x'D things just fell into place, and as much as it hurts to draw my girl hurting, and to draw my boy suffering for her fate, I really hope I conveyed both how fragileAzula she was in these circumstances, and how anguished Sokka was, too. Expressiveness in art is difficult, it really is...

If you want to be part of the creative process behind these pieces, a $1 pledge on Patreon will allow you to participate in it by suggesting prompts and voting on the monthly poll, as well as reading early snippets for each upcoming chapter!

#sokkla #sokka #azula #gladiator #gladiator chapter 226 #this is dark #and it's really fucked up that it happened on a perfectly sunny day #totally was going to mess with my composition #but I hope I managed to dim the intensity appropriately #do excuse me for the cliffs and the sand I am so not used to backgrounds like these #gotta level up in that area #and the nasty smoke was my best idea of how to depict the corruption but I don't know if it was great #anyway! #hope you enjoyed it #I did not enjoy making this boy cry for the millionth time #but I hope he looks good (definitely looks better if it's slightly more zoomed in I think? I don't even know...)

[juniperhillpatient]

Maybe my next fic should have influencer Azula lol

#i can see her as an influencer #I mean. i made her mai & ty Lee’s social media manager in the YouTuber au so clearly I guess haha #we’ve already done hollywood star azula. next up. Instagram model azula #yes I thought of this cause of that cool art I just reblogged no I’ve never had an original idea in my life #atla au ideas #competing influencer who’s more about charities & genuineness Katara…. #they have a feud…. #a homoerotic feud……