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shrinkthisviolet · 3 years

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its saturday where i live, but feel free to tell me anything about your headcanons/wips

Gladly! Okay so:

Late bloomer firebender Izumi is just...I love her so much. Grappling with not feeling like a good enough heir to Zuko, as well as feeling like not a good enough princess for her citizens. Doesn’t help that the Fire Sages didn’t fully embrace her as a princess until she firebent at age 8, and even then, they wondered after she turned 13 if she’d ever marry well

Bumi is a POC, half-Air-Nomad, and half-Water-Tribe. This is canon ofc but like...canon ignores it. Not me though! I’m not mixed, but I do understand what it’s like to grow up as part of two worlds–born to parents from one country, and raised in an entirely different country. Bumi’s situation isn’t quite like mine, but he feels torn between his two heritages too. He lives in both, and isn’t ashamed of either, but often feels like he’s Water Tribe by default because of his facial similarities to his mother and nonbending status. Tho his parents and brother fiercely remind him AND Kya that they are as much Air Nomad as they are Water Tribe

Mizuki is named after Yue in my AU, since Mizuki means “moon” (in canon, I figure there’s just a “waterbending unity” reason). This is because Izumi and Yue are good friends in my AU–technically since birth (Izumi was born at the moon’s peak), but again in the past. Yue even tries to platonically matchmake Izumi and Zuko after what happens in Ba Sing Se, trying to get them together so they can talk to each other and work things out (but ofc Yue is still angry about what went down in the crystal catacombs, as she should be [that’s a spoiler tho 😉])

Izumi goes by Shui in Ba Sing Se because it means “water,” which is similar enough to her own name’s meaning (“fountain”) that she’s hoping to spark some kind of recognition in Zuko...even tho he has no clue who she is 🤦‍♀️

For her birthday, Bumi gets Izumi a package of origami paper. Izumi tries to fold 1000 paper cranes after Ba Sing Se, wishing to save Zuko, but she’s so emotional that she keeps burning the paper. Katara eventually discovers what she’s doing and this sparks an argument between them. Izumi ends up throwing the few folded cranes (and the paper) overboard

I’m toying with the idea of Hama joining the White Lotus in my AU, based loosely on @visit-ba-sing-se’s AU. It would give Izumi some closure with her (you can imagine how Hama would react to seeing a firebender traveling with a Southern waterbender), and it would also give Hama herself a chance to be more than the horror-esque figure she is in canon. Not that I think she’s totally redeemable (blaming an entire Nation for the war isn’t a good solution for anyone), but she deserves somewhat of a sympathetic lens. And how are you gonna vilify bloodbending totally when healing is likely very similar? Just CONNECT THE TWO BRYKE

Jet doesn’t die. I don’t believe does in canon, and it always felt reductive. Why kill him when he’s starting to make amends? When he’s moving on from his trauma and pain?

Aang and Katara love ALL THEIR KIDS EQUALLY and take them on vacations and teach them ALL about BOTH CULTURES (wtf do you mean “they were bored” Bryke?? Tf no they weren’t, you were just lazy). And the kids are VISIBLY AND BEHAVIORALLY MIXED

Toph is a foster mom, and Lin and Suyin are her two current foster kids (whom she adopted). She runs the foster home with Jet

Katara and Sokka are both chiefs of the SWT, but Sokka prefers to travel so he mostly handles the ambassadorial type stuff. Katara is also a waterbending teacher, the best in both tribes 😌

Mai may be “Firelady” in title, but everyone knows she’s as much in charge as Zuko is. Though mainly, she champions education reform (in which she works closely with Aang to reform the curriculum) and helps expand Toph’s foster home to the FN. She never wants any child to feel like a burden to their parents

Senna is Sokka and Suki’s daughter, and Korra is their granddaughter. This makes Korra’s birth very emotional, as you can imagine 😭

Ty Lee was part of the Kyoshi Warriors for about five years, while they were guarding Zuko. But since they spent more time on the Island than in the Palace, with Ty Lee usually left to guard Zuko along with one of the other girls, she had a suggestion. She became Zuko’s permanent guard, became a standby Kyoshi Warrior (not really one anymore, but willing to help out if necessary), and said that if they missed home, then that’s where they should be (not in a rude way ofc, it was just the most practical solution). Ty Lee adored being part of a group but still regarded as her own person, but she didn’t need that anymore. She knew she had them to lean on, but the past 5 years had taught her to trust herself, her own opinions, and her own skills (which is something she DESPERATELY NEEDED post-canon)

Some of these are exclusively part of my AU, but some are applicable to canon too 😂 I kinda just let my thoughts go nuts here. Hope you enjoyed it!

And if anyone wants to send an ask about a specific fandom or AU, feel free!

#avatar the last airbender #atla #atla crit #mainly because i disagreed with some of bryke’s decisions #bumizumi time travel au #atla headcanons

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