#atla zhao

[wileycap]

Crackfic Idea:

30-year-old Zuko gets randomly flung back in time to his 16-year-old self. For a couple of hours at a time. At the most random times imaginable. Imagine the potential.

Zuko assumes that it's a dream or a vision, but definitely not real. He tries not to freak everybody out too badly, but he's also fully enjoying himself and seeing all of his friends as their young selves.

ZUKO, as he and Aang circle each other at the South Pole: I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training, meditating. You're just a [Spirit Shwoop Sound] ... baby Aang!

AANG, confused: Well, more like preteen Aang. How do you know my name?

ZUKO, looking around: Wait, where are we?

AANG: Um... this is the-

SOKKA: Don't answer him! He's trying to get information out of you. You can't give away our location!

KATARA: Sokka, he's standing in the middle of our village. I think he knows.

ZUKO: We're here? This is so weird. I was just here for the Annual Penguin Race.

AANG: THERE'S AN ANNUAL PENGUIN RACE?!

ZUKO: Well, yeah, it was your idea... you gave a whole speech about cross-cultural cooperation and friendship, but I know you just wanted to go penguin sledding with a bunch of people...

AANG: Well, I-

SOKKA: Stop giving him more information! He already knows about the penguins!

Everybody else is confused, bewildered and even befuddled except for Iroh, who assumes that it's Spirit Shenanigans™️ and just fully accepts that his nephew likes tea and hugs and Pai Sho sometimes while being his usual shouty surly traumaball self at others.

ZUKO, stepping into the cabin: Hi, Uncle. I brought you some ginseng. How about a game of Pai Sho?

IROH, tearing up a little: I would love that, my nephew.

ZUKO: I wish we could do this more often, but you live so far away...

IROH, mentally calculating that he lives exactly three doors away from Zuko, and nodding sagely: The rat-viper may never climb the mountain that a hog-monkey can, but the monkey does not know what lies underneath it.

ZUKO, sighing sadly: I know, Uncle. I do appreciate my position in life, even if it has disadvantages.

IROH: Hmm. Your move, nephew.

The crew of Zuko's ship is terrified by the fact that whenever it happens, Zuko is somehow even more hyper-competent, seems to be weirdly calm about everything, and most unnervingly of all, he's polite.

SOLDIER: Here is a report on the best teahouses within three days travel of our current location, Sir. And, uh, Commander Zhao sent a messenger hawk.

ZUKO: Excellent. Thank you very much, Sergeant. I think we can ignore whatever Zhao has to say. In reply, I want you to send him a list of the most famous officers in Fire Nation history, and point out that none of them had sideburns. I want to see if he shaves them.

SOLDIER, sweating nervously: O-of course, Sir.

As a matter of fact, the whole fic could just be Zuko trolling Zhao. It would be glorious.

#atla #atla spoilers #atla fic #avatar the last airbender #crack fic #time travel #atla zuko #atla iroh #avatar aang #sokka #katara #zuko #atla zhao #iroh

[blindbeholder]

Hey do you know how Admiral Zhao started off as this calm, intimidating genius then devolved into a machine of pure rage at the avatar until it broke him? You know how the exact same thing happened to Azula? You know how the opposite happened to Zuko?

#avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #atla zuko #atla azula #azula #atla zhao #admiral zhao #themes #motifs even

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

zhao cuz i miss og him. he was at least Entertaining

also oazi wearing his aahh gonna abuse my son Outfit

at least its cunty

#avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #zhao #ozai #atla zhao #natla zhao #natla ozai #avatar the last airbender live action #natla

[starspoodlemonkey]

Zhao was like 50 and beefing with a 16 year old

#atla #avatar the last airbender #atla zhao #zuko #embarrassing

[thena0315]

Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix Promo Photos

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #sokka #zuko #iroh #azula #ozai #fire lord ozai #zhao #atla aang #atla katara #atla sokka #atla zuko #atla azula #atla ozai #atla iroh #atla zhao #atla netflix

[attackfish]

To be perfectly honest, Ozai/Zhao isn't a crack ship, and in fact given Zhao's track record, it's one of the more plausible explanations for his career trajectory.

#avatar the last airbender #atla zhao #admiral zhao #ozai #posts i created #noodle lord ozai #zhao the moonslayer

[theduckeminence]

Y’all ever just think about how characters from atla would sound and be viewed as from a historical standpoint? Can you imagine how freaking hilarious yet interesting that would be?

Like imagine you’re reading a textbook and you get to the era of the 100 Year War and you read about notable figures from the dynasties between Firelord Sozin, to Azulon, and then to Ozai, only to see a photo in the textbook depicting the theatrical and hella dramatic armor Ozai wore when he attempted to burn down the Earth Kingdom?

Or the fact that King Bumi is probably known to be the most longest living and insane kings to ever rule in the world and the more you learn about this guy, the more crazier and out of pocket you can imagine him being?

How about the idea of how some of our beloved female characters being portrayed in history as being the most badass characters to exist—especially at a young age? Can you imagine what it would be like to read or watch a video on how Azula took over Ba Sing Sa? How Toph created metal bending? How Katara upstarted rebellions and movements in the name of justice and rights?

Yet can you imagine the idea of how some of these characters can be severely underrated and overlooked due to their lack of story? For instance, characters like Princess Yue, Jet, Hama—can you imagine how their stories would be told and framed? Yue being seen as a tragedy? Jet also being both a tragedy and a young war hero? Hama being seen as both a “bad guy” in history for hurting many, yet simultaneously sympathized for what she has gone through? Can y’all imagine that?

Can you also imagine how Zhao would be known as the biggest loser in Fire Nation history? So much so that chances are some schools in the FN may as well refuse to speak about him? That’s both sad and hilarious—

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #ozai #firelord ozai #bumi #king bumi #azula #toph #toph beifong #katara #yue #jet #atla jet #hama #zhao #atla zhao #admiral zhao

[clutchtramatic]

Random head-cannon time!!!!

For those of you who aren’t aware, one of the story board artists for ATLA made a sort of ‘what if?’ comic series called water tribe. ( @rufftoon her name’s johane matte seriously look her up!) Where-in Zhao lives, has his memory wiped by the moon and ocean spirits and lives in the northern water tribe. This particular episode of brain rot came to be when I was re-reading the series and came to when they were discussing when Zhao was first discovered to be alive, and how he’d been an empty shell and had to relearn everything. It got me thinking, Nauja and her family basically had to re-raise him he had to relearn how to do everything. What if that experience made him weirdly good deciphering non-verbal cues? Imagine it… toddler Payu trying to tell Nauja he wants something, grunting and crying because she doesn’t understand what he’s asking for and Zhao just walks up like “Hm? Oh yeah? Sure ok, got u.” And grabs whatever handing it to Payu. Who’s suddenly not crying? After being handed a thing he’s never asked for or shown any interest in whatsoever?! It would get so bad, Payu just straight up stops trying to talk and just goes to this ex-fire nation caveman for whatever he wants instead and Nauja’s PISSED.

“He needs to learn to talk dammit!!” - Nauja

“Y tho?” - Zhao probably

They never stopped wanting to keep a close eye on Zhao, Nauja just made her dad find him a house so Payu would actually try to learn to talk. I.E. - The really reason Zhao got his own place.

#avatar the last airbender #avatar Zhao #admiral zhao #atla zhao #water tribe #rufftoon #johane matte #zhaokoa #fan art #fanart #my art #don’t own the characters #obviously #Payu #Nauja #yus #firecaveman #he thicc

[giyuulatte]

the greatest suki to have ever sukied ever

she needs to come train me immediately

#this suki DEADASS #forget about sokka babes me n u (joke) #also saw zhao and almost punched my screen #hate that mf #AND MOMO!! #LOVE MOMO #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla live action #atla liveblog #atla suki #aang #katara #sokka #zuko #uncle iroh #atla zhao

[suzistan420]

Truing to resist the urge to ship Zuko with every dilf known to man. Failing.

#atla zuko #zuko #piandao #hakoda #atla jee #atla zhao #kuruk??? look man I'm just starving for content #and kuruk is the most underrated avatar #give me my depressed baby boy #avatar kuruk #pianko #zhaoko #zukoda #jeeko #zuko is the atla bike

[scripted-downfall]

It's very funny that Zhao spends so much of his time scoffing at Zuko's lack of success at catching Aang given that "he's just a child, you failure" because he clearly underestimates the difficulty of wrangling any twelve-year-old in any context whatsoever, much less a hyper one with a hundred year's worth of pent-up energy and magical air powers

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #atla aang #the avatar #admiral zhao #commander zhao #atla zhao

[wileycap]

The Stupidest Things In Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender: A List

a.k.a.

a whiny rant from someone who has dedicated far too many of their already limited number of braincells to atla i know it's just a tv show but come on this is what tumblr is for let me whine

For your consideration, with many spoilers:

5. Katara Being Smug After Kicking Jet's Ass

In the original, Katara is betrayed by Jet. You can feel the raw emotion in the words "I trusted you! You're sick, and I trusted you!" immediately followed by her concern for the innocent people Jet has seemingly murdered. It's not a triumph, it's a wound, and the next time she sees Jet, her first reaction is "kill on sight".

This is great. It's heartwrenching, it's humanizing, and Katara using violence against Jet isn't a victory for her. It's just pain.

In the live action, Katara very mildly chastises Jet for trying to kill innocent people, which is... an interesting characterization for her, to say the least. Jet then tries to grab her, immediately followed by Katara throwing him and freezing him. She then just tells him goodbye. Her tone is placid, almost unaffected.

And then Jet says "Look at the power you have. That's because of me!"

Katara: "That wasn't you. That was me."

And then she strides off with a small smile, and that's the end of that. Sokka and Aang are not present. It's an incredibly hokey moment that's meant to emulate the style of feminine empowerment, but it has none of the substance. It glosses over any human feelings of hurt and betrayal. All that the it ends up doing is removing a story beat for Katara.

4. The Badgermoles

"They're blind! They sense feelings and react to them! Anger, fear... but mostly love."

Katara and Sokka hold hands in a cave and it makes the badgermole stop attacking them.

The blind badgermoles. Navigate by... love.

Yeah.

Do I need to say anything? Can we all see (pun intended) how stupid that is?

3. Bumi Makes Aang Choose Between Killing Him Or Letting Himself Die To Make The Dumbest Point Imaginable

Remember Bumi? Aang's old friend, a fun, kooky king? Well, here he's an actual fucking psychopath.

He collapses part of the roof onto Aang, and Aang holds it up with airbending. Another part of the roof collapses on Bumi, and Bumi just... shrugs his shoulders, fully intending to die. Aang holds that one up as well, and Bumi, instead of helping, makes the dumbest fucking point I've ever heard about "making tough choices", and urges Aang to let the boulder crush him.

Again. Bumi, the fun, wise king, wants Aang to kill him.

The situation is defused by Katara freezing a little strip on the floor so that Sokka can very slowly slide on it and tackle Bumi to safety. I can not emphasize how slow his slide is. Running would have been faster. Bumi has time to look at him and say "Huh?" as Sokka slowly slides across the floor. Oh, yeah, they were led onto the scene by the love-sensing badgermoles.

Then it's Aang's turn to be dumb. He says "you CAN rely on your friends" and hands Bumi a friendship rock. Bumi is pacified for now, but there is no telling when his next Saw trap will activate.

This made me actually feel bad. I just. I kept expecting for it to turn into a secret lesson, like Bumi in the original show, but it never did. Bumi's just a spiteful psychopath who is easily swayed by the gifting of rocks.

2. Koh The Face-Stealer Has A Backstory Now

Why? Mother of Faces? What? No.

No.

Iroh Is Intimidated By Zhao, And Then He Kills Zhao

Ah, Live Action Iroh. The most ineffectual man on the planet.

So, Zhao has the Moon Koi in a bag, and is ready to stab it with his special stabbing implement. Iroh is standing right behind him. RIGHT BEHIND HIM. Iroh has been there the whole time. Iroh does not want Zhao to kill the fish.

Iroh says: "Whatever you do to that spirit, I'll unleash on you tenfold!"

Remember how in the original, where that was like a big, shocking moment that he got angry? And how Zhao immediately let go of the fish, only to then have his anger get the best of him? How Zhao attacked the spirit by surprise?

Well, here it's a little different. For one, like I already said, Iroh doesn't come in suddenly, he sort of gets bullied into looking for the spirit by Zhao. Then he looks for the spirit, and after Zhao finds it, then he decides that he really has a problem with killing the spirit. He did protest before, but then he kind of just caved and helped anyways.

He threatens Zhao, and Zhao just... brushes him off. "Spare me your empty threats." Then the firebenders next to Iroh sort of... glower at him menacingly, and Iroh looks worried.

Zhao offers Iroh a place at his side once he becomes Fire Lord, which, uh? Okay. Fine. I actually don't have a problem with Zhao wanting to be Fire Lord, that seems to be entirely on brand for him, but everything he does to get to that goal is just stupid.

Aang arrives, they talk, Aang says "I don't matter", and then Iroh, who has sidled past the Glowering Firebenders Who Do Nothing Else, shoots the fish out of Zhao's hands. And then, as Zhao is on the ground, reaching for the fish with his special stabbing implement, Iroh forgets that he can shoot fire out of his hands, and lets Zhao stab the fish.

AND THEN Iroh, who literally stood by two different times and let Zhao kill the fish, decides to kick everyone's ass. And the Glowering Firebenders do nothing. One of them just stands in the background. Iroh doesn't even attack that guy.

In the original, Iroh immediately leaps into action after Zhao kills the spirit by means of surprise attack, takes out Zhao's guards in about a second, and Zhao escapes.

Here, he doesn't do anything at first except help Zhao find the spirit he doesn't want to see killed, then back down, then do something, then back down again, then do something again, then forget that he can do anything, and then he does something again.

It's just... so dumb. (So dumb it's brilliant!) No! It's just dumb!

And then, fifteen minutes later, after Zuko has dueled Zhao, Iroh kills him. Iroh just barbecues him by striking him from behind. Gee, Iroh, if you were willing to do that, why not just do it when Zhao was holding the fish?

Dishonorable mentions:

The fact that all of the actors fit their characters so well and have some great moments, but the show just doesn't support their performances at all. I feel so bad for all of them, being robbed of a chance to shine by some truly awful writing, editing and direction

The Ocean Spirit making Godzilla noises

June flirting with Iroh (didn't they say that they wanted to remove iffy stuff from the original? Well, that whole thing was iffy in the original. Why didn't you cut it entirely?)

Zuko doing the jazz hands to charge an attack

All the clunky and unnecessary exposition (for example: after Aang turns into the Ocean Spirit, Yue immediately turns to Sokka and narrates that Aang has turned into the Ocean Spirit, for almost 30 seconds)

The fact that Aang can only communicate with each Avatar at their shrines

The Ice Moon

The Cabbage Man literally turning to shout his line to the heavens while fire rages around him

The Secret Tunnel song being shoehorned in for no reason

Iroh's entire backstory being shoehorned in for no reason

Ozai being a caring dad actually

Zuko being shocked that Ozai prefers Azula

Gran Gran's speech

The fact that they showed Gyatso being killed by Sozin (literally nobody needed a big action scene, because that's what it was, predicated entirely on the genocide of the Air Nomads)

And finally, the fact that Sokka and Yue's reason for going to the Spirit Oasis is that Momo was fatally injured.

#avatar the last airbender #atla netflix #netflix atla #netflix avatar #aang #zuko #iroh #katara #jet #sokka #atla spoilers #atla zhao #fire lord ozai

[ihavea-natural-curiosity]

okay but like zhao is such a creep and i feel like it's not talked about enough

like literally every interaction he had with zuko makes me so uncomfy

like there's something called "taking a step back", you should try it sometime bc that is a 16 YEAR OLD you don’t need to be that close to him, i PROMISE your point will still be made more than 5 inches away from him

he's so icky

#atla #he’s so ew #like all i see is a red flag #take a step BACK #that is a CHILD #atla zuko #atla zhao #zhao bashing #how is that not a tag

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

updated version of my Background 💥

#avatar the last airbender #jet #zuko #natla zuko #dallas liu #lizzy yu #atla zhao #natla jet #blue eye Samurai

[zukkoxo]

Momo did what we all wanted — to pull his sideburns

#atla #avatar the legend of aang #avatar the last airbender #admiral zhao #atla zhao #general zhao #atla meme

[thena0315]

New ATLA Solo Posters

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