#fuck you ozai

[peppermint-fruitfly]

Rewatching Avatar and trying not to cry over Zuko it's only the third episode and I'm already devastated

#my father wants me home #avatar #avatar the last airbender #zuko #no he doesnt :( #fuck you ozai

[longing-for-rain]

I’m rewatching and it breaks my heart how terrified Zuko looks in this scene

#fuck you ozai #zuko #atla #ozai

[allgremlinart]

whatever. collection of Ursa for whom it may concern (part 1)

#Ursa jpegs for those of you who couldnt be fucked to read the comics (I understand) #Ursa atla #sorry you have to get married to Ozai queen but like. you DID serve at your wedding #I think they chose this direction because Ta Min in the show had a Korean wedding dress... is so lovely #also yay. lore consistency from atla??? unheard of #atla #The Search

[dunnowho180125]

yes again

OK OK ok so

Zukka AU where Zuko has a tiny bit more common sense and realizes his father is batshit insane a few months after the start of his banishment so he ends up being a menace for the fire nation (especially Zhao) and NOBODY can catch him and his crew (which are loyal to him cause Iroh tells them the story of his scar earlier) and one day he has to go to Kyoshi Island to restock and also to catch up with a friend (Suki) he made while talking shit about the Firelord but when he arrives everything is on fire because Zhao, who was tasked with the mission of retrieving the Avatar after informants report the Big Avatar Beacon, is an ass so Zuko goes to help and almost gets killed by Sokka, who does not know who he is, and they all end up with very awkward presentations to do but the Gaang doesn’t rly trust Zuko at first and then Suki (who know about the scar) makes a joke about “the Firelord burning Zuko’s other eye because it worked so well the first time” and they are all like yk what after much reflection we are adopting you and Sokka is like “Aang if you don’t kill the Firelord i will” and-

#atla zuko #atla sokka #atla katara #atla aang #atla au #prince zuko #zuko #sokka #katara #aang #atla iroh #atla ozai #ozai #uncle iroh #atla zukka #zukka #zukka au #i wish there was a fanfic like that #Also zukko punch his dad in the face at least once #Theres an azula redemption arc somewhere #Zuko’s crew is like “fuck it lets overthrow the government cause it can’t get worst rn #Sokka has conflicted feelings for the fire prince cause hes hot but hes also from the hot nation #Zuko met Hakoda somewhere in there before meeting the gaang and Sokka and Katara are like Dad can you not replace us by the vigilante princ

[comradekatara]

I don't understand people that claim Aang is weak or a coward because he didn't kill Ozai. In fact, I think I that him deciding not to commit murder would make him the exact opposite. As someone who does consider themselves weak and cowardly, I would have agreed to kill Ozai had I been pressured to do so.

exactly !!! fucking SAY THAT. aang choosing the values of his people over a world that insists that his people were weak and deserved to die, that their values have no place here, in a world that seemingly necessitates a "kill or be killed" mindset, IS his strength. he faces down his closest friends, his past lives (including an air nomad!), and does eventually agree that he has no choice, that he must kill the firelord, there is no other way to end the war. but then, the lion turtle, who rose out of the depths of the ocean, summoned from an ancient time before the avatar even existed, because it heard aang's call to the spirits for guidance, agrees with him, that there is another way, that aang's people were right to value spirits over dangerous, destructive power. and when he faces down ozai, when he sees the man who wants to exterminate him, a child, for his supposed "weakness," he does not let his own infinite power get the better of him. he controls the full force of the avatar, of his past lives who tell him otherwise. "even with all the power in the world, you're still weak," ozai tells him, but that level of self-control is what makes him strong. the fact that he would rather stay true to himself and represent the people who had no place in ozai's world is what true power looks like. he is the purifying light to ozai's cruel destruction. if he had killed ozai, he might have made ozai a martyr to the fire nation, but instead he simply sheds ozai of his weapon of mass destruction, and proves to him, on the hundred year anniversary of the day the fire nation committed genocide against his people, that his cultural values matter, that he still has a place in this world and the spirits have a place in this world. with all the power at his disposal at the avatar, killing ozai would have been the easy thing to do. but he uses meditation and pacifism to come to his own conclusion. he is strong enough to break the cycle of violence.

#catastrophe908 #asks #aang #ozai #analysis #people who think that ending is bad bc the lion turtle is a deus ex machina #are so dumb #first of all it is the entire point of the show #like the literal TITLE #but also how is the lion turtle a deus ex machina when we have already established that spirits will help the avatar in a time of need #like in the siege of the north #is that also a deus ex machina then??? #fucking idiots. #also im sorry to hear that you consider yourself weak and cowardly??????? :((

[trashfactorysstuff]

Ｄｏｃｔｏｒ ｍｅｍｅ！！

I was a bit bored yesterday and thinking on Ikem and Ursa as same with Ozai. Urzai, even though I love it, I hate it and I think that’s great so we have this angsty.

#ozai #ursa #ikem #I was not gonna originally post it here but fuck it #you guys deserve it🐛💘 #idk what type of genre is this but I love these creepy happy style #and Jack Stauber contributes very well.

[inthegloomglow]

What a great day to continue to refuse to accept the AtLA comics as canon

#atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #zuko #oh zuko isn't descended from that family he's descended from that random guy his mom banged #that we never heard about or met in the show #which you know makes ozai's hatred seem like it has a ''reason'' beyond him being terrible #not that that justifies his actions but still #also what a fucking moron zuko's mom was to be sleeping around when married to ozai #not to mention how it treated azula

[mad-tears]

She used to get bullied in school for being too pretty. The kids would chase her around yelling "pretty face pretty face"

#face card never declines #thank u ursa you served your country #ozai is fucking ugly i don't care if you like that man #this is all ursa's job #azula #azula in the spirit temple #atla comics #melietpost #atla

[depressed-teacup-inc]

I don’t know why but I need a scene in Zukka fics where Zuko goes through his redemption arc earlier because of Sokka, but because of that Sokka has a very big target on his back from from the royal family?

Like imagine in the day of the black sun Sokka actually gets kidnapped in the middle of the battle to be brought in front of Fire Lord Ozai (as a method of basically luring Zuko over and also a means of demoralizing the rebellion and humiliating the guy that causes Zuko to defect)

And rather than have Sokka have this epic action-hero moment where he backflips and stabs Ozai he just??? Talks???

Like Ozai keeps trying to demean and humiliate the guy, but Sokka just verbally destroys Ozai, showing just how resilient he (and by extension the rebellion) is

I think it would be such a good moment highlighting Ozai’s pettiness and how he would actually try to destroy anything that gives Zuko joy, and just how powerful Sokka’s ability to speak is, and how he’s been able to convince and inspire people without a show of physical power but skill and intellect

(Imagined the scene to this song:)

#avatar the last airbender #zukka #fuck Ozai all me and my homies hate Ozai #I just think the scene would make sense #bonus points if Ozai initially broadcasts the interaction via fire nation intercoms as a means of humiliation #but that shit backfires so quickly #for a musical version of this scene listen to the old therebefore from TBOSAS #atla sokka #atla ozai #atla zuko #side note you know Zuko is fucking running to kick his dad’s ass over this #Spotify

[kibutsulove]

Rip fire lord ozai you would’ve loved the atomic bomb (kuvira’s spirit cannon)

#sulove speaks #ozai #my brain is melting #kuvira’s fuck you laser

[avisisisis]

Something I love about ATLA is that it doesn't force the "forgive the villain" on all the characters. It's been left clear that Ozai is a bad person, and there's no chance of redemption; the only reason he's not dead yet is because Aang is a pacifist

The one episode where a character is supposed to forgive someone who has hurt them in the past is the one where Katara is off to kill a man (which, fair) and Zuko helps. In that episode, even if Aang is telling her to let go, she doesn't forgive him. She never will. But she spares him. Not because she thinks he doesn't deserve death (he does), but because she's not willing to continue the cycle of violence

Killing someone can have a very important impact in your entire being, mostly depending on who you are as a person. Aang would've never recovered from killing Ozai. Katara wouldn't be who she is now, had she taken her revenge on the man that killed her mother

And the best part of it is that Ozai doesn't deserve to die. Not in a "I'm defending him" way (ew), but in a "he deserves worse that than" way

Taking away his bending was the perfect punishment for him. He believed bending made you superior and he never cared enough to train something besides his bending. What a loser. Zuko and Azula wouldn't be restrained by something like that

He's alive. Nobody has forgiven him. Nobody ever will

#on a “ozai deserves smth worse than death” mood #which is. my everyday mood but we're not talking about that #read a fic where ppl were mad ozai was still alive #zuko clarified that he's still alive not only bc that's what aang wanted but bc death would be a mercy for him #that's the man who ruined everybody's life(s). you can't tell me we can just let him die like that #and they're not even torturing him. he's just in prison #but he's so fucking weak that not having his bending = torture #pathetic #honestly what did he even do? his entire family was better than him #zuko was better at any kind of fighting and he learned firebending from the fucking dragons #azula is. azula! she bends blue fire and is the best at lighting n stuff #iroh created a whole new bending technique and broke out of prison w no bending #ursa killed the fucking fire lord #i mean sure ozai can shoot lighting out of his hands. but so can iroh! so can azula! #his 14 year old daughter is better than him #she could kick his ass if she wanted #but that's her dad right there and the obssession she has w pleasing him is straight up unhealthy #man. poor azula #anyways back to the point: ozai is pathetic #loserlord indeed #atla #avatar the last airbender #fire lord ozai #zuko #aang #katara #azula #uncle iroh #avis' post #avis talks

[mumblesplash]

do you ever end up accidentally getting super attached to a trope so specific and rare you don't even know how to look for it? 'space aliens failing to understand that a human showing teeth usually isn't a threat display' isn't even an ao3 tag. finding that shit in published fiction or tv shows is next to impossible

#<- guy who searches ao3 by the 'misunderstandings' tag without even specifying a fandom #mumbling #if you've been following me for a while you may remember my introduction to mcyt was when i started scraping the bottom of the barrel #looking for 'humans are space orcs' stories #but what you may not know is that was already a ways down a rabbit hole that began with *avatar the last airbender* #it basically went #'holy shit salvage is a good story' -> read every existing version of hakoda being a good dad to zuko -> #'shinsou hitoshi getting adopted by aizawa has the same vibes fuck it i'll read that too' -> 'why are they aliens in so many of these' -> #get addicted to the 'humans are space orcs' trope -> find a whole collection of fics about that exact thing -> #for some reason the collection is 80% dsmp fics -> i am not picky -> 'oh no they've got a crow-coded father figure' -> #still not rly interested in the dsmp source material -> minecraft kinda interesting tho -> wait what's hermitcraft -> and now here we are #all bc 3 years ago i wanted zuko to have a decent father figure #firelord ozai made me draw pinup art of goodtimeswithscar: the true and harrowing tale of my descent into madness #flameo hotguy or whatever the kids are saying these days

[hella1975]

what is happening

#im on episode 3. correct me if im wrong but that’s azula #why is there even a plot against ozai why is this necessary #in fact WHY IS AZULA IN SEASON 1. LOVE YOU GIRL BUT IT’S NOT YOUR TIME YET #ozai is so good tho i want him dead #‘do not speak to me of loss’ literally what is he even on about #OH THEYRE BURNING #AZULA W THE FIRE IN HER EYES REALLLLLL AS FUCK #I love her but I rlly do hope this is just a one off scene it’ll fuck everything up if she has stakes in s1 #‘your brother has done the impossible just as I asked’ killing my damn self #atla live action

[ursa-majora]

Do you think Zukos voice is gravely like that because he permanently damaged his vocal chords from screaming

#I know he has it when hes in the war room #but they hadnt casted a young zuko #So this my hc you cant take away #firelord zuko #zuko #avatar the last airbender #atla #man fuck ozai #ozai is a bad father

[beanghostprincess]

Niji: Well, yes, I guess you're right. I don't have sob stories like all of you. I could sit here and complain how our mom liked Sanji more than me, but I don't really care. My own mother thought I was a monster... She was right, of course, but it still hurt.

#i've been watching atla (i'm on s3) #and i'm going a bit insane #azula my beloved she's so fucked up and i hate her father #ozai when i catch you when i catch you- #JUDGE WHEN I CATCH YOU WHEN I CATCH YOU- #no but seriously i think niji is so jealous of sanji for this #all of them really but. i think he's the one specifically holding this grudge #idkidk i am very sad abt them sometimes #i hate them but they make me sad bu- #one piece #vinsmoke niji

[ljesaw]

one of my favorite zuko traits is his bravery. too many people mischaracterize him as a coward. literally the only thing he’s afraid of is his dad. this is the same dude that jumped onto aang’s glider no fucks given in season 1 because he was that desperate to catch him.

#even with his dad he confronted ozai #you can point out all the bad traits about zuko and there are plenty (and we’re talking about a child in the context of canon mind you) #but you can’t call him a coward #i will start biting ankles every time i see someone call him a coward #he’s so much so NOT a coward that you could even go so far as to say he’s brave to a fault and to the detriment of his own wellbeing #leave my bald son alone!!!!!! he’s brave!!!!!!! fuck around and find out is his second title!!!!