#he just looks like ozai-

[hjonko]

Zuko doodle dump (featuring me tryna figure out how to draw Azula-)

#digital art #procreate #art #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla azula #zuko #atla zuko #autistic zuko #azula #azula deserved redemption #azula deserved better #fire hazard siblings #like a baby shirshu #also an azula-fied zuko #he just looks like ozai-

[evilkitten3]

was fucking around on google images and i ended up stumbling on a reddit post from three yrs ago with a picture of iroh grabbing azula during a fight scene...

this is the only time i can think of when azula seems completely terrified.

he grabs her and she's scared shitless

but he just redirects her lightning and she's just bewildered.

i wonder what she was thinking there

#atla #avatar the last airbender #azula #azulaposting #iroh #like my first instinct is to read into her relationship with iroh and/or ozai #but if we're being real it could just be a ''wtf is that allowed????'' moment #iroh may have fucked up ba sing se but like. he killed a dragon #or. pretended to have #people thought he did anyway #i just think it's interesting #trope-wise azula is ''the dragon'' of the cast #and iroh is a helluva lot kinder to the real dragons than he is to her #did she think he was going to kill her? or just seriously kick the shit out of her #idk it just looks like azula was expecting something significantly worse to happen

[multifandombullshitbabes]

have we ever thought abt the fact that zuko is literally azula's older brother. like she's his little sister. that's his little sister. throughout a big, big part of atla plot, he was actively running away, scared of his little sister killing him because he KNEW she would/could. can you imagine that? your little sibling, wanting more your father's approval than your companionship to the point of death? every time they fought, zuko was fighting his baby sister. azula was fighting her big brother. this is making me so sick. they were 16 and 14 years old.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #atla zuko #atla azula #zuko #azula #hey look i posted a thing #the absolute maddening grief of it all. like what do u mean??? thats his lil baby sister!!! what the fuck!!! #when she was a bby he was probably so protective and they were so small n they must have loved each other then #before the responsibilities ozai put on them. before all that. they were siblings. they loved each other. #until they were taught that did not matter. zuko learned that it did again #despite all the pain of it #azula actively ran away from learning it from feeling that pain #because she would rather be hated and feared and powerful than to ever be weak ever #this is so heartbreaking #i think this hits especially hard cuz me n my sis are like 2/3 years apart in age. like. i could not imagine having to fight her to the dea #i just couldnt. i rly rly couldnt

[the--firevenus]

God forbid when aang has emotions and act like his age, like seriously I can't with people. Like I'm sorry, a lot of you assume people that defend aang thought he's perfect that could never do anything wrong, like no bitch I love him DESPITE his flaw, because guess what?? When he act childish, and or do anything wrong in the show, his ACTION HAS CONSEQUENCES. and ya know what else?? DESPITE EVERYTHING HE'S STILL A VERY COMPASSIONATE CHARACTER WITH HEARTS AND LOVE SO BIG FOR THE WORLD THAT DONE NOTHING BUT GAVE HIM SO MUCH PAIN AND SUFFERING.

You people keep nick picking every single thing he had done as if it's the crime against humanity, it's not him who commit genocide and colonialism in the show now isn't!? I'm sick and tired many of y'all act like he's one dimensional as well. HE HAS DEPTH, WE LITERALLY WATCH THE SAME SHOW!?

Come on man, it's almost two decades of this same thing, I'm so tired, leave my boy alone for fuck sake oh my god

#like.. come on #I hate how every tears he shed and every emotions he show beside content is count as invalid and horrible #I hate how every mistake he made seem like something so wrong as if you didn't do so much worse when you're 12 #I hate how he has to be adult and FORCE to be from the get go because the weight of the world LITERALLY on his shoulder #I hate how everyone tells him to let go off his people teaching I hate how everyone looked down at his beliefs #Even to the bitter end ozai say him and his people doesn't deserve to be in the world like can y'all take a minute #And realize you sound like the main villain of the show like take a sec actually. #From the very first time he was born to the time he died in the series people still has shits to say and I'm fuming #venus rant #atla #aang #pro aang #Deadass just don't talk about him if you hate him actually #Save me from stress and save you from stress too

[kibutsulove]

autism wins again, teen ozai redesign

I can’t find the exact outfit I referenced, but it looked something like this? Just, a lighter blue and the shoulders looked like the one in the drawing.

It’s not exactly accurate, I will admit, it’s just that I wished to give his outfit more of a fire nation, martial culture tone

#atla #ozai #teen ozai #avatar the last airbender #he’s like… teenage girl to me #he’s so Abbey by Mitski #every artist/writer should have a mitski character amen #this boy is my azula #he needs more enrichment in his enclosure #that’s why he looks miserable #like all fire nation royal children #i want to adopt him #he’s literally just Azulon’s attack dog and I don’t think he knows that

[mugentakeda]

niche royal family hc to explain why zukos hair goes thru such a dramatic transformation in under a year is bc the royal family has absurdly fast growing hair that comes in THICK as hell. and thats not just limited to head hair- they get dark arm hair and leg hair, bushy eyebrows, and long, dark, full eyelashes. Just a hairy ass family

#iroh and lu ten dgaf ab having bushy brows so they just let theirs do whatever #ozai keeps his trimmed cus if he doesnt he will look like iroh and he cant let that stand #meanwhile azula and zuko simply believe the sharper the brow the cuntier the serve #but if they all just left their shit alone theyd all have thick eyebrows. #atla

[reineyday]

finished watching netflix atla! i think the hate is unjustified lol like all that hate seems a little too intense for what i think the show missed. it didn't hit all the same notes as the original show, yeah, so i'm not sure it quite succeeds as an adaptation, but as a standalone show it's pretty good. and i might have some gripes with the characterization, but there was love in the casting and in the costumes and the world, and that goes a long way for me.

#even tho the costumes DID look reallt new lol #rei rambles #natla #as a show i'd give it like a 7.5 or 8 out of 10 #as an adaptation... 5? 6? #the pacing was kinda weird and katara could be meaner but she wasnt terrible #sokka having a confirmed Thing with suki undermines the way his *first* girlfriend became the moon but that's also whatever #i actually LOVED the way they gave more to iroh and zuko about lu ten #and i heard ppl were mad abt azula which is like... why? she barely appears???? #as for ozai being more emotional--i GET the gripe i do. really. i just. i am not immune to daniel dae kim okay. #been weak for him since i saw him in hawaii five-o and lost okay #first big asian man crush. only handsome asian man on north american tv for a very long time. #im okay with them humanizing ozai if it means more daniel dae kim ngl #narratively sure yeah it sjpports the zuko's and azula's characters better if he unequivocally sucks #but if they're gonna give him more acting meat i'm not gonna mind in the SLIGHTEST #but anyways yeah they v clearly spotlighted iroh & zuko over some team avatar stuff and i'd be more about it if it wasnt done well #but i actually liked it so i dont mind at all #zuko and iroh were super great

[zukosdualdao]

i’m a second-half-of-book-three windswept swoopy swooshy l’oreal commercial zuko hair enthusiasts and apologist, i’m sorry to report

#i don’t HATE long hair zuko tbc i think it would suit him and some of the fanart is really lovely #(i know it’s canon by lok but i’ve only seen clips really) #— but what his book 3 hair represents to me just means a lot. also i like swoopy puppy boyish hair. #ALSO also i think it’d take him a long time to get over the anxiety of looking like ozai with that hair #not to say he couldn’t or wouldn’t i just. i like the swoopy hair. for more than one reason #atla #zuko

[avisisisis]

I love the soundtrack for the last Agni Kai because it's not epic, it's tragic. Most shows would make an epic soundtrack for one of the final battles that were the key for victory, but not ATLA. It shows that Zuko's victory isn't really something to be celebrated (though the characters would not be wrong to do so). It shows that Zuko and Azula's story is a tragedy. They're both just children forced to fight a war that wasn't even theirs, and they weren't even able to fight it together

#zuko and azula's story is a tragedy #since they were children their father manipulated them into being cruel and horrible #and like. they don't hate eachother #they care and love eachother so so much. but azula's version of love is sick and twisted #and even when zuko wins the agni kai (which if i might add; azula lost the moment she shot katara. she broke the rules) #he doesn't look angry or hateful. he doesn't celebrate that he's finally beaten one of his two main abusers #he just looks down at her in pity #and later he still doesn't hate her. he even tries to help her! #but azula's mind has been way too twisted by ozai for her to see the errors in her ways #i love them sm :( #atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #zuko and azula #azula and zuko #fire siblings #fire hazard #atla zuko #atla azula #the last agni kai #agni kai

[picnicbitchsokka]

does one ever individual that parents separated when you were young think about how when you were younger, if you looked more like the parent that was absent, the parent that you were left with would target you more than your other siblings?? like you’d get in trouble more and the consequences would just be more intense. and then when you got older, if you’d started looking less like the absent parent and more like the present parent, the consequences would get less and less frequent or intense???

so does one ever think about how zuko probably looked more like ursa when he was younger?? causing another reason why ozai burned half of his sons face off because not only did you speak out of turn at a war meeting but you also look like my wife that i hate deeply. let’s get rid of that pls. a lot of people say zuko looks like ozai (which is true) but what if ozai himself doesn’t see that and he only sees ursa when he looks at zuko because of the hatred he has for her. (not to mention ursa is a non-bender and zuko wasn’t very skilled in his firebending when he was younger) and vice versa for azula. ozai sees himself when he looks at azula. that’s another reason why azula (looking like ozai) is favored more than zuko (looking like ursa) in ozais eyes.

but plot twist! in reality zuko actually looks like ozai and azula looks like ursa. but again, ozai doesn’t see that nor wanna believe that zuko looks like him or resembles him in any way because he is not the strongest compared to azula. and for azula, because she is a prodigy and very very skilled, ozai wants to ignore the fact she looks like his ex, soo he gaslights himself to believe azula looks like him and zuko looks like ursa.

and in the end….zuko never stopped looking like ursa even with the scar in ozais perspective. when ozai first saw zuko when he returned back, he still saw ursa.

#noooo i’m not projecting stooopppp #my parents divorced when i was like a baby bro #and when i was younger i looked exactly like me dad and he was the one who was absent so my mom would punish me more and i’d just get in #trouble a lot but when j got older i started looking more like my mom and less like my dad and my mom got like…nicer and more less strict?? #anyway take this #atla #zuko #azula #ozai #ursa atla

[littlegayteaboy]

i know i'm going to be mad at the live action atla when it comes out because zuko's scar looks like they just slapped some red eyeshadow on there and called it a day

#and the agni kai scene they've teased is ozai BLASTING fire everywhere #the fandom already knows it was just ozai's hand held to his eye #fireblasting him would make the scar like 10x bigger right??? but the live action one looks way smaller than the animated one. explain #WHY DOES HE HAVE AN EYEBROW #atla la #atla live action

[water-beats-earthbender]

Oh I'm sure there's some reason aang can't just energybend Willy-nilly. It's draining, there's some sort of consequence, etc, etc, I DONT CARE it wasn't established in cannon and despite what we're supposed to think aang is still very much an immature kid and would probably try energybending some airbenders into existence

#atla #atla aang #aang #this isnt #aang critical #but tagging that just in case #i mean it kinda is #look aang hasnt really proven himself a mature avatar yet #and hes 12 so theres time before lok #but also like the show ended and his forst reaction to being faced with what he would have to do to ozai was to run away #so like #kid has room for growth #and im not gonna lie #the problem is really the writing not aang #they really should have addressed this earlier #i love atla but like i can acknowledge its flaws #lionturtles among those

[irefy]

Ok so like…I’ve always been a sucker for time travel fics. Entire Gaang goes back? Great! Just Zuko? The angst is immaculate and I love it every time. Aang? Always a trip. Couples going back? The SHIPPING. The point is, time travel is the best (when done right) and I’m not ashamed to admit I’ll eat it up every time.

So I was browsing through ATLA time travel fics as you do, and I had an Idea.

We’ve all seen the Gaang time travel/dimension travel (and sometimes Azula, which is pretty fun in and of itself) but Ive never seen this done with Ozai (not to say there’s none, I just might not have found it)

Now wait. Hear me out. I hate Ozai as much as the next guy. Canon Ozai is a shit person who doesn’t deserve good things.

But.

Imagine an alternate universe Ozai who’s not such a shit person.

This Ozai makes mistakes and does more than questionable things, but at the end of the day he loves his kids and his nation. So he is VERY CONFUSED when he one day wakes up/dies and is transported to canon universe. IMAGINE. The confusion. THE ANGST. On BOTH SIDES.

No one will talk about his wife, who is apparently gone and has been for years (?????) Zuko looks…honestly terrified anytime he’s in the same room as Ozai (which is more than a little disturbing!) and Azula is…well. He doesn’t know what to think about Azula. This alternate Azula is so different from his Azula it nearly gives him whiplash the first time they interact.

So Ozai’s just shrugging and doing the same things he usually does with his kids (because even if they’re not from the same universe, they are still versions of his kids) and Zuko and Azula are just like. Extremely confused.

The day of black sun comes, and with it Zukos confrontation.

So Zukos just like, letting loose on him, yelling about years worth of pain and suffering caused by the man in front of him.

And this, of course, extremely hurts and confuses Ozai (what did alternate him do?????)

He can’t even say anything back, because these alternate versions of his children are very obviously hurt and in pain and Ozai is having a sneaking suspicion it might be alternate hims fault. So when Zuko finally lets out years worth of anger and pain on him, Ozai just sits there and takes it, numb with shock. He can’t believe a version of him could hurt family, but here they are. Zuko gets to the part about his scar and.

Ozai just can’t even respond. He’s just…extremely disturbed and horrified. By this entire conversation, actually…

So when Zuko goes to leave, Ozai doesn’t stop him. Zuko doesn’t feel safe here, and Ozai…really can’t blame him. He’s honestly very horrified and a lot disgusted by what Canon him did to both his children, and knows there’s no erasing that. The best he can do is try to mend burned bridges and salvage something out of this mess canon him made.

Idk. Just a thought.

#like seriously #IMAGINE THE ANGST #and #Zuko #just like finally getting his fathers love and it looks NOTHING LIKE HE THOUGHT #he thought Ozai loved him before #but now he wants to like #spend TIME with him #and DO STUFF TOGETHER #And says he’s PROUD of him #Ozai: Azula #I love you #Azula: bombastic side eye #SERIOUSLY NEITHER OF THEM WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR FATHERS LOVE #Zuko’d voice like an opinion in front of his father and he WOULDNT HURT HIM #Ozai just has a mental breakdown in the corner because Zuko just THANKED HIM FOR NOT HURTING HIM FOR TALKING TO HIM #Azula #Ozai #time travel #AU #a:tla #ATLA #avatar the last airbender #fire hazard siblings #fire nation royal family #Zuko joins the Gaang and they like gear up to fight Ozai and he’s like #I just wanna talk #and Aang is like #yes. talking. #fanfic

[hella1975]

hmmm consumption as the ultimate form of devotion but ‘am I making you feel sick?’ the fact that it could be about dying and her only consideration is if she tasted good OR she’s dead and it’s the only act of revenge she can get. she’s dead now she has nothing but she made him ill. that’s it that’s her legacy: a polaroid in evidence and making isaiah sick. the emotion in her voice when she asks ‘am I no good?’ because after all this, 76 minutes and 13 songs, after being drugged and murdered and eaten, that’s what her story is down to: the human desire to be good. and it killed her. she tried to be good and she died for it. anyway tell me about this tragic villain failed by his family hella

oh he's just some guy that was born with the sole purpose of fulfilling his father's wish of becoming the number 1 hero and beating his dad's nemesis and his dad spent his formative years instilling that idea into his head and 'training' (abusing) him to be a fighter and a hero and never once letting him be a kid but he didn't have the right ability for it because he burned on his own flames so when his younger brother was born with the perfect ability he was just thrown aside and his father never bothered with him again like all of that pain and false love never meant a thing and it drove him to the brink of burning himself alive and coming back with his skin barely held together by staples some atrophied, monsterous villain and he made it his life's wish to kill his father for turning him into something so ugly and in his own hatred he destroyed himself enough that even his siblings became subject to his fury despite also being victims of their father and he's one of the main villains of the entire show but he was literally just a child who wanted to be good

#or whatever #not that i care #like imagine zuko if the writers consciously didn't give him any sort of redemption and more still ACTIVELY made out that he was evil #and not just a fucked up kid responding to severe abuse and an entire childhood of indoctrination #just to go on to redeem ozai and villainise zuko until the end. IMAGINE that. imagine the hypothetical media where that existed #sucks right. hahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha #like even during his peak villainy dabi is 24. he's literally just some guy #touya was 14 when he 'died'. what. WHAT. and someone looked at that and with their whole chest went 'yeah endeavor needs redemption :(' #SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPP IM TAKING US BOTH OUT RN #ask #mha #touya todoroki #dabi

[aether-link]

Once again I have to wait another month for my Ursa and Ozai imps. Second batch had one male but his firebreather was grey 😭

Plz I’m begging you two imps to have a good batch. Y’all did for Azula dammit.

#ALL MY LUCK WAS THAT FIRST BATCH HAVING A PERFECT AZULA IMP. BUT NO. FINALLY BLESSED TO HAVE A MALE BUT HE WAS UGLY #HE HAD THE FIREBREATHER THING BUT IT WASNT THE RIGHT COLOUR. SADGE #that male imp literally looked like my Ozai imp but oooof #squints at them. i swear ya 3rd batch better be good… I just want my Zuko and Kiyi imps… #flight rising #YES I know I’m barking. this fire nation project is gonna be a while 🙃

[hauntingblue]

Unless they were AN IDIOT.

#I'll have to do it myself... AS ALWAYS..... #ozai with azula.. oof..... #i was gonna say why would he flatter zuko and then i remember that he just pits them against each other like this #maybe its bc i am watching it in low quality but the spirit gaang look kinda funny #your dad is kinda cute ajdhakajsl #iroh!!! iroh get up!!!! #i fear azula has been woobified...... #the fucking gender roles of the water tribe being sidelined because they dont want to do a sokka mysoginist to ally arc makes me so mad!!! #like i know were not yet on the northern water tribe and thats where it gets important but still!!! they're gonna make girlboss katara #amd thats it!!! i can smell it #and oh sokka relying on the gender roles bc every man is born to protect and whatever to compensate the fact that he is not good at it.... #koh is nasty..... #iroh is right looking for friends for zuko.... look at him all alone on his boat.... he should be at the club #talking tag #watching natla