#zuko the theater nerd

[themanedwolf]

I just saw a performance by Shen Yun and not only was it beautiful, it made my little fan theorist heart freak out over my new headcannon that Zuko is not JUST a theater nerd. He does not just read the scrolls and memorize monologues, oh no. This boy actually practices the performances, including the dance numbers. Some of the moves are similar enough to firebending katas that he gets away with practicing them more openly. (Those fancy breakdancing-looking moves he does in the show? Strikingly similar to some of the moves I saw the dance company do.) In his favorite play, Love Amongst the Dragons, the Dark Water Spirit has some fancy flips and tumbles that he had to watch Ty Lee practicing to get them down right. He still doesn't feel confident in them so he rarely uses them, even when sneaking around as the Blue Spirit.

#dont you just love when real life enriches your fandom experience? #zuko is an awkward turtleduck #zuko the theater nerd #classical chinese dance #Zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #fan theory #headcanon #i also tend to use muffinlance's version of zuko

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

zukka is simultaneously jock x jock, nerd x jock, AND nerd x nerd

#they have the range #the jock parts are self explanatory for both (like sorry but mister dual blades and mister boomerang? jocks #and zuko is a theater nerd i believe this full heartedly #and sokka is jsut hyper competent and such a logically minded guy #also he’s the plans guy need i say more #jae’s thoughts #atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka #zuko #sokka

[luzho]

TWO GRUMPY THEATER NERDS

after seeing this very important post by @picnicbitchsokka​, i was compelled to draw two theater nerd boyfriends absolutely disgusted with the ember island players latest adaptation of another classic... they like complaining together though:)

also, i didn’t really think about WHEN this is, but i suggest interpreting this as: contemporary tattoo artist zuko and skater boy sokka going to the theater, in cosplay of their favorite characters :D

[ID: This is a digital drawing of Sokka and Zuko in a theater box, drawn from their chests up and in warm colors. On the left, Zuko (wearing septum and snake bite piercings, earrings, a mullet, and a red cape) frowns with disgust as he watches the play; while Sokka (wearing matching earrings, his Water Tribe clothing and a moon and stars tattoo on his arm), reclines over him with an angry pout and a judging hand on his hip. While the stage shines and the audience laughs from below, Zuko says “ugh!!” and Sokka replies with “tch!!”. End ID]

#my art #zukka #HELL YEAH I LIKE DRAWING THEM GRUMPYYY I REALLY LIKED HOW THEIR FACES TURNED OUT #also: zuko definitely deserves piercings in every drawing #this turned out SOOO orange... tried mixing in some purples!!!! #zukka theater nerds #and ummm i should get a tag for the other au lets see... #tattoo artist and skater boy zukka #grumpy zukka #SO MANY QUALITIES EH! #zukka nation

[erisenyo]

For @zukki-week, the trials and travails of being in a love triangle only you know about. Featuring erotic sparring, suggestive fruit-eating, Toph enduring, Aang really leaning into his persona, and all that sexual tension getting to be just a little bit too much.

[“Sorry!” Zuko gasps, briefly closing his eyes against how heartfelt the word sounded before he forces himself to meet her gaze, “Sorry, sorry," he tries again, "Just—thinking too much. Wasn’t focusing on the right stuff.” To put it lightly. “Ah.” Suki gives him a look of rueful understanding and a sympathetic pat on the chest before rolling to her feet so fast he almost arches to chase after the sudden loss of her. “The wonders of trying out new moves in a live spar, right?” she says, holding out a hand. “…Right,” he agrees after a beat, reaching up and letting her haul him to his feet, letting her believe that’s all it was and desperately hoping that she doesn’t ask him which new move in particular he got so distracted thinking about.] OR, Zuko tries, he really tries, to be a good friend. A good friend, who does friend things and thinks friend thoughts and nothing more. Sokka and Suki make it hard.

#Also a little bit of Azula clocking the situation in about 10 seconds #And Zuko being a total theater nerd #my writing #fic writing #Zukki Week #Zuko #Suki #Sokka #Zukki #atla fic

[porcelana-r0ta]

Okay the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender is shit BUT one thing they got right was that Zuko is absolutely an angsty artist who journals

#i only watched to episode 3 before giving up but like i hope they also have him be a theater nerd #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender live action #atla netflix #atla live action #zuko #prince zuko

[ultfreakme]

Zuko and Sokka can do “I Don’t Dance” in High School Musical. Gay dramatic brother Zuko and Stick to the schedule status quo Sokka

#zukka #Zuko #sokka #Azula can do Fabulous #Zuko's gay theater nerd ass would have a blast

[stardust948]

Zuko: I'm not that much of a talker, but if someone mentions musicals then it's ONE DAY MORE TO REVOLUTION I THINK I'LL TRY DEFYING GRAVITY I'M WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW WELCOME TO MY CANDY STORE I'M WILLING TO WAIT FOR IT ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS SAY MY NAME THIS IS ME-

#atla #zuko #zuko is a theater nerd #source: tumblr #incorrect quotes #atla incorrect quotes

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i like the lore that piandao trained zuko but i don't think it was exactly the wholesome adoption that people like to do with zuko and any father figures. like in my mind piandao receives a letter from the fire lord like "the crown prince sucks at firebending and you're the best swordsman in the nation so we are sending him to be trained. this is non-optional" and piandao's legitimately contemplating committing treason rather than compromise his values and then the end of the the letter is like "we know you're usually selective we'll pay whatever" and piandao's like. okay FINE please pay me an absolutely ridiculous amount. and ozai agrees bc anything to get his failson out of his hair and piandao sends the money to the white lotus to fund a resistance group in the earth kingdom

and baby zuko, that turtleduck-loving mama's boy theater nerd, arrives on his doorstep and this is where most people would have him change his tune but piandao's just like "sure he seems cute now but he'll grow up to do imperialism". he teaches zuko the dual swords, a commoner's weapon, bc the ideal path for this kid who seems way too nice to be part of the royal family is to give it all up. but he doesn't think that's gonna happen. like iroh comes for a visit and he also seems nicer than the rest of the royal family but he did the siege of ba sing se so like. what does it matter that zuko likes theater and turtleducks and his mommy? he can still hate the earth kingdom and water tribes.

all of this is going on in his head, of course. in his actual interactions with zuko he's a very kind and patient teacher. he knows ozai's a bad dad and he wants to at least try to help this kid onto a better path. but it's not until he hears about the banishment and reports of a guy in a theater mask with dual swords committing treason that he's actually like "oh shit maybe there's some hope for this kid after all"

and he only really adopts him post-canon when iroh fucks off to ba sing se and SOMEBODY needs to help this poor kid navigate fire nation politics and i guess that's gonna be me. okay actually i like him now :) maybe i'll set him up with sokka

#sokka is still piandao's favorite but he loves his emo gay son #piandao's the first person zuko comes out to #nina's personal log #piandao #zuko

[zutaranation]

I love Zutara fanon becoming canon. Zuko theater nerd canon in the comics, and now Zuko being an artist in the live action— we keep winning. Now I need poet zuko confirmed

#zutara #zuko

[firelord-boomerang]

let's talk jetko. i believe that zuko is 100% the theater nerd between the two of them. he could be a wannabe director or producer. but! i think jet would be the one who auditions for a role for a laugh and does so well he gets cast for the lead in a musical.

so you've got jet who is taking his role probably only half seriously and zuko who is furious with him because he's still doing well and they are on each other's case all the time through the production.

then, they fall in love. of course.

#jetko

[stealthetrees]

I don’t think anyone has fully considered the potential of a feral zuko au.

Like, Ozai tries to kill him when he’s 10, but zuko escapes with a scar, Ozai claims he was killed by an assassin and Azula gets a redemption arc early.

Meanwhile zuko is off completely changing the corse of history by, in no particular order:

-Making Hama realize that not all fire benders are bad cause the child she just told about how she was in prison immediately his to instigate a jail break

-is emotionally adopted by hakoda along with most of the crew

-finds wan shi tong’s library

-befriends/is adopted by June the bounty hunter

-discovers a herd of flying bison

-joins a traveling acting troupe for a while cause he’s a theater nerd

-visits omashu and is forcibly befriended by bumi, who decides that zuko is now his grandson and no one can stop him

-discovers the white lotus, decides that they don’t do shit, and starts a hobby of breaking into their safe houses and wrecking them until they get off their asses and help with the war

-meets toph when some fire nation soldiers chase him to gaoling and she stops them, and her parents see her, but zuko does this little speech about how proud they must be of their daughter and how much they must trust and respect her since she’s such a powerful earth bender, and basically guilt trips them into letting toph continue to fight and practice bending

-gets a dragon tattoo 

-wanders into the swamp at some point

-drinks a bit more than he probably should, but he can hold it shockingly well

-figures out lightning bending in the middle of a thunderstorm 

-goes to ba sing se, gets arrested by the Dai li, breaks out, and starts a one man war with them, which basically is just zuko par core-ing around the city till he finds some Dai li, then rather beats the shit out of them, or just kill them. 

-He does it all with out fire bending though, just his swords. 

-After like a week the Dai li are basically gone, and the earth king finds out about the war, and makes zuko a part of the army, some fancy title and a medal or something, zuko is officially recognized as the dragon of the east, and proceeds to duck off to the North Pole to try and convince them to help in the war

-they don’t want to, but he befriends yue and they talk about politics and zuko helps her get out of the arranged marriage 

-zuko called Paku a sexist bitch and is surprised yet delighted to inform him that blood bending was invented by a woman

-invents lightning redirection

-the north joins the war thanks to yue 

-zuko meets the mechanist at the northern air temple at some point

-meets and joins the freedom fighters, makes out with jet, uses fire bending to save jets like, then jet tries to kill him

-the other kids understand that zuko is still good even though he’s a fire bender, but zuko leaves, even though every single kid adopted zuko as their older brother

-becomes known as the greatest swords man to ever live

-it’s actually true, and when piandao, who has Ali adopted zuko, hears that he is very proud and brags about it to everyone he meets

-basically zuko gets adopted by almost every adult he meets

-gets really good at cooking, hunting, reading maps, finding water, pick pocketing, stowing away on beats, sewing, and pretty much every other skill you would need to live on your own. 

-hears that Zhao has captured the avatar and casually breaks Aang out of prison

-refuses to be his firebending teacher and leaves

-stops at a village to tell them that the volcano next to them is about to explode, and he knows this cause he grew up in the fire nation which has a lot of volcanos

-they don’t believe him cause the fortune teller never said anything about it, zuko gets pissed and starts yelling at them

-this is the exact moment Aang Katara and sokka show up

-zuko thinks Aang is following him and tries to leave, but sokka recognizes him as the dragon of the east from a wanted poster

-they basically follow zuko around trying to convince him to help them, and he is this close to just beating them up when Katara mentions they are going to the northern water tribe to learn bending

-zuko agrees to go with them just so he can see Katara kick paku’s ass 

-obviously zuko and sokka get together at some point

-when the gaang finds joung joung zuko makes fun of him cause zuko was there when he broke up with piandao cause he was afraid of being found out (cause being gay was illegal) and piandao kicked his ass even though he’s a non bender

Meanwhile Azula thinks she could have prevented zukos death somehow, maybe helped him with his fire bending or hadn’t bullied him so much or something. 

Ozai kind of focused on her more and started to look down on her a lot more cause he couldn’t compare her to zuko. He put a lot more pressure on her and it drove her away from him, she started seeking his approval less and less, instead growing closer to her mom and uncle. Her mom was constantly worried she would screw up and Azula would die too, but she was Ali scared of making her think she was trying to replace zuko. But by being rather open with Azula about that it never really became an issue. 

Azula took up sword fighting and trained with piandao and she got a lot of character growth from that, cause she wasn’t naturally good at it and really had to work hard. Piandao was not someone she could bully or manipulate, so she had to struggle with earning someone’s approval. 

Piandao told her at some point that sword fighting was not something that came naturally to anyone, and you had to work hard your whole life to be really good. He also said zuko was the fastest learner and best student he had ever taught. Piandao believed that zuko could have easily surpassed piandao himself within a few years.

Azula gets to go to the war meeting that zuko got banished at in the show, she also says the plan is wrong, but in a much more eloquent way that doesn’t dishonor the fire lord but does dishonor the general. She fights an Agni Kai against the general and wins.

The plan is done anyway, (zuko finds that message and is able to warn both the earth kingdom troops and the squad of fire nation soldiers that where going to die, it starts the rumor that the dragon of the east is actually prince zuko and it spreads, some solders start to rebel against their commanders in the name of the prince) Azula finds out about it much later and raises all kinds of hell over it, calling Ozai an “honorless coward who betrays his people, unworthy of the throne” to his face in front of a bunch of people.

Azula gets banished for it, Iroh comes with her and she’s now basically zuko from the show, but tasked with finding and capturing the dragon of the east to prove her loyalty instead of the avatar. At this point she does not know that it’s zuko.

She finds zuko didn’t recognize him and fights him, but he’s better than her, and then she sees the knife that Iroh have zuko just before he “died” and puts two and two together and comes up with seven. She thinks the dragon of the east is the assassin that killed her brother.  It kind of makes sense, if the assassination was his first act of rebellion, cause a string of jail breaks followed. 

I’m not really sure where the story could go after that but there’s a lot of potential for an invasion, since zuko knows so many people. Imagine them all showing up to help and they’re all like “oh hey zuko” and the gaang turns to zuko and ask how he knows them and he’s just like “that’s my mom/dad” and it just makes them more confused.

#avatar the last airbender #atla fanfic #atla #zuko atla #atla zuko #sokka avatar #sokka atla #zuko x sokka #the gaang #zukka fanfic #atla au #zuko and azula #Azula #feral zuko au #zuko gets adopted #piandao #white lotus #iroh #uncle iroh #azula redemption

[calliopieces]

hmmm... thinking, thinking...

maiko modern highschool AU where the royal fire academy for girls is doing a production of love amongst the dragons

Azula's the director, Ty Lee's in charge of stunts and costumes, but at the same time they're hatching a plot to get Mai and Zuko together because they're sick of seeing them pine for each other since childhood

so Director Azula gets her theater nerd big brother onboard as a consultant and arranges meetings for him and art committee head Mai

#just throwing ideas to the void #may or may not get back to this #atla mai #atla zuko #atla maiko #maiko fanfiction

[chiptrillino]

your outfits are always so beautifully designed in your atla art, how do you think of making them so intricate?

thank you anon. this is gonna be an awful reply probably but i just do? i personally prefere it this way otherwise i have the feeling that something is missing or is to similar to someone else.

the end goal is of course to emphasize the character and their quirks and habits. also how they change throughout the story. i have the luxury that animators don't have, which is time. (well not really with a fulltime job on the side and family that drains me...) so i can my time to think about designs and details depending on the scene or mood i want to portray.

something i appreciate about the atla fandom is that most of us put in the time to do more research and try to reflect more the real live cultures on which the nation were based on. all of us have different interpretation on what specific shapes reminds us off. but if you spend time with different source materials learning you can't help but get influenced and it will reflect in the design and artwork.

i just think its fun. make sokkas kuspuk or clothes pale blue to withe because he goes hunting and he needs the color to blend in better to not be spotted to soon. it changed obviously to a darker blue once they begin to travel through. the EK jet scribbles on the scraped FN armor peaces to make them more his own. katara suddenly has a splash of purple in her clothing during season 2 because she outgrew her kuspuk but doesn't want to part from it. so she replaced the hem with a longer purple fabric. zuko has robes that look fancy and elaborate but actually depict the blue spirit fighting the dragon emperor because he simply is a theater nerd. aang has more then only one outfit and he has a cape to keep warm and cozy fight me!

i am not a writer, i am bad in describing characters with all their quirks and history i like to give them, with words. so i try to add that in the drawings with my designs.

#chip!ask #also tho the anon that asked about... how would i draw sukis free time outfits or #how do i draw my thumbnails #listen i know the asks are old by now and i do know how to draw these things but... i couldn'T find the time to like... #sit down and do it sorry

[muffinlance]

I had A THOUGHT and I'm unlikely to ever use it, and I would like your take. If every nation has a different art form for passing on history (the water tribe have an oral tradition, the earth kingdom write history down, the air nation writes epic songs, and the firenation has story dances is my mental breakdown of this) what would this mean for the theater industry at large and what implications does Zuko's drama nerd tennencies have? What form would you assign to each nation?-selenaquana

Okay, but then the banning of dancing in the Fire Nation was the intentional destruction of their history, I am losing my mind over the implications here

#perfectly on brand for the Fire Lords #but so help me there better be theatre troops and old grandparents secretly still passing those dances down #because the permanent erasure of that kind of cultural tie is #A) a tragic real world occurrence #and therefore B) Too Real #avatar the last airbender #atla

[gotticalavera]

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Aang/Zuko (Avatar)

Characters: Aang (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Bending (Avatar TV), Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - High School, Pansexual Aang (Avatar), Bisexual Disaster Zuko (Avatar), School Festivals, Theater Nerd Zuko (Avatar), Aang is a Ray of Sunshine (Avatar), Dancer Aang (Avatar), Dancing, wlw ZukAang, ZukAang Bingo 2024, Not Beta Read, ... No hay beta readers en Ba Sing Se, Female Zuko, Female Aang - Freeform

Series: Part 1 of ZukAang Bingo 2024

Summary:

Zuko blinked in confusion. “What are you doing?”

"I'll get you a prince," despite the softness of her smile, it doesn't give her a good feeling. Answered on the other line and Mai spoke, “Ty Lee, I need you to lend me your star."

Oh, no.

Not her.

Anyone but not her

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

Zuko and Aang dance in a play.

#zukaang #fire lord zuko #avatar aang #wlw zukaang #zukaang bingo april 2024 #zukaang bingo 2024 #spanish fanfic #gotti fanfic #I finally wrote something about wlw zukaang #fem!aang #fem!zuko #ZukaangBingo2024 #ZukaangBingoApril2024 #Zukaang server

[akiizayoi4869]

Do you have any Azula headcanons?

Let's see...

She absolutely has a sweet tooth

Her and Lu Ten were close (I just want her to have at least one good relationship with someone from her family, ok?)

Her relationship with Ursa was fine up until she began to firebend and Ozai took an interest in her

She's a theater nerd

Likes to have strategical matches against herself

Gets lost in the library for hours thanks to all of the books that she can read

Enjoyed playing games with her brother when they were really little, like tag or hide and seek

She's a protective older sibling towards Kiyi

Post war, her and Zuko play pai sho as a way to bond. Azula always wins, which frustrates Zuko to no end

I suppose that's it. Might revisit this at some point and make a post if I can think of anything else.

#asks #anon #azula #atla #azula headcanons #aki answers things