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hold up- did izumi have a daughter? why wasn't she talked about in tlok? she was mentioned in the comics right? was she older or younger? what was she up to this whole time? who was she??
From the search part 2 …When Ozai and Ursa make a deal.
I drew my fav scene from Legacy of the Fire Nation =)
arguing over which Avatar had the worst “failures” just shows that you do not understand the story whatsoever. the whole point of the Avatar being reborn over and over is that the work of keeping balance in the world is never done and the world needs different things at different times, and no matter what good you do there are unintended consequences which is WHY the Avatar always comes back. There is no end-all-be-all fix. I’m really so over this nonsense arguing over “who’s the worst Avatar.” every Avatar has to adapt to their time and every Avatar has successes and failures and every single Avatar leaves consequences for their successors! That’s the whole point!!!! Being the Avatar is a never-ending job because the world is always changing. What was right for one time won’t be right forever, THAT’S WHY THE AVATAR ALWAYS COMES BACK
why did no one talk about this?!
Can we just talk about how powerful this scene is?
There are no words needed. Each panel shows us how their relationship was with each other. Silence often offers us a more powerful understanding than a thousand words ever could. Ursa knew she never showed her daughter how much she loved her. You can see the love and affection on her face for her high strung little girl… as well as regret and worry. Even in the last panel and the way she looks back…she was hesitant. She did not want to leave Azula, knowing how much Ozai influenced her at such a young age…she even chose to see her daughter first before Zuko. Maybe she had planned on saying something to Azula…but the words got lost on her tongue. What could she say? Instead she opted to give her a kiss on her cheek as a sign of love instead, praying she would be safe.
If only Azula knew…
I have a lot of Azula Feels now…excuse me while I go cry in a corner.
one of the things about Avatar the Last Airbender is it came out when I was a kid and I still enjoy just the same. <33
lol everytime you just sit back and actually RELAX things just come naturally ig.
milfs…,, milves,
I feel like ozai doesn’t get enough credit as a character because a) people see him as an individual actor as opposed to the product of a system designed to produce someone exactly like himself and ensure that they have utmost power within said system and b) his children are, by design, given more narrative space and depth than he is, making them much more compelling and sympathetic characters. but just because his limited screentime and lack of nuance makes him static and unsympathetic doesn’t make him a bad character. his narrative role is to represent the ideology of the fire nation, and he executes that role perfectly.
this one has a little kick !!!!
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?
azula's strange charisma is genuinely hysterical to me. she's a genius constantly cracking witty one-liners. she has the verbal intelligence to run circles around you. she has an innate personal charm that demands you look at her.
she also cannot interact with people on a person-to-person basis at all. she has no idea about normal social cues outside of court. cannot hold a regular conversation without somehow insulting and/or playing a mind game. has not one clue about speaking to people her age. she's a literal walking contradiction. incredible
I still have this cap from the official Avatar site and it’s no longer updated so you can find a lot old concepts. I find it pretty strange how different the two Ursas are.
In the original animated canon (discontinued and overridden):
Ursa was originally written as a Fire Nation noblewoman who got along very well with Ozai when they were younger. She loved him dearly and her proper lady upbringing made her an ideal future princess. Fire Lord Azulon and the Fire Sages arranged a marriage between Ozai and Ursa due to their strong compatibility. Zuko recalls times his family was “actually happy” before Ozai became mad and abusive. Ursa was supposed to appear in Book Four but the entire season ended up being scrapped after Paramount bought the rights to create a three-season trilogy. They later decided to have her return in the Avatar finale but she was cut out at the request of Bryan Konietzko. Ozai’s thirst for power and control itself probably stemmed from his feelings of inadequacy when compared to his prodigious elder brother and favored son of Azulon, Iroh. This is why Zuko sparing Azula’s life and wanting to help her despite their twisted relationship was seen as a major catalyst in creating an era of peace.
In the new comics canon (considered to be official):
The new Avatar comics have changed Ursa into a lower-class theater actress who hated Ozai and was forced to marry him as a part of a eugenics experiment the Fire Sages believed in. Their relationship is never shown to be happy and is like absolutely nothing you could call a “perfect match”. Ozai was always power hungry and abusive. He never cared for his family members unless they were of any use to him. Ursa has remained in love with her childhood friend Ikem for years and marries him after she runs away from the Fire National Capital. She asks for help from a spirit known as the Mother of Faces to erase her memories, change her face, and give her the name “Noriko”. She later has a daughter called Kiyi with Ikem (who likewise was given a new face and the name “Noren”). Zuko meets Noriko and she decides she must confront her past and became Ursa again. Her youngest daughter, Kiyi despises this change as she has only known Noriko and not Ursa all her life. Azula is grief-stricken with the fact that Ursa had a good relationship with her half-sister and never with her.
@kigozula tags <----
my ooc description of this fucked up relationship
based on legacy and atla
more legend of korra texts 🫡
‘Just because you are a better person today does not mean you are entitled to my presence in your life.’
- What Lin said to Suyin in my imagination to help me cope with the fact that the writers allowed this tasteless and inconsiderate reconciliation to take place.
Do you think Iroh is overhyped as a character? It feels strange that people adore a character who comitted wartime atrocities.
you are aware that the point of his character was to show people that anyone is capable of changing and being a better person right?
hell, the show even showed you glimpses of his time in the military to contrast who he became later on. iroh also serves to show zuko who he would become if he chooses the right path.
possibly the most powerful part of his character arc was freeing ba sing se, the nation he besieged in the past. it completed his arc beautifully.
so no, he is not over-hyped. he is a reminder that we are all capable of change no matter our circumstances. he shows that being a good person is a decision you make every single day.
"Well it's not like you can just TELL the non-Water Tribe characters are poc too,you'd have to pay extra attention!"Aang is a buddhist monk,Ty Lee is named Ty Lee and Zuko literally has monolids
my very first was dragon ball if I can remember, now it's atla again lol
Hey!! Autistic folks reblog this with the first special interest you remember having and ur current dominant special interest, in the tags !!
kataang hurt/comfort fluff head pats running hand over buzzcut cafuné naps tired fic ao3 search
when we're y'all gonna tell me the live action got rid of jeong jeong?? 😭 who else did they take away? isn't that how aang learned to control his friebending? wtf is going on
there are a lot of bad takes in the atla fandom (like, atla fandom may as well be a bad take generator) but something that has really been pissing me off lately is the assumption that you can categorize the fire nation royal family into good guys and bad guys. first of all, obviously, they're all bad guys. they are imperialists. but the idea that "sozin ozai azula bad" and "iroh lu ten ursa zuko azulon(?!) good" is actually insane.
lu ten died attempting to conquer the earth kingdom. lu ten was there because his father, iroh, was leading the siege. ursa laughed when iroh joked about burning ba sing se to the ground. zuko laughed too, mirroring his dear mother who taught him about the wonders of imperialism. and the fact that some people think that azulon was a good guy because he favored iroh is crazy. he favored iroh because iroh was the better imperialist, was more charming and tactically savvy as he bent the world to his will. people who think that azulon didn't like ozai because ozai was cruel literally have it backwards. ozai was cruel because azulon didn't like him. sozin shaped azulon, and azulon shaped iroh and ozai. azulon reigned for most of the war, and he was responsible for decimating the southern water tribe and colonizing the earth kingdom.
iroh only realizes the error of his ways well into middle age, after spending a majority of his life colonizing the world. he only stops to reconsider once he experiences the adverse effects of war for himself through the loss of his son. likewise, zuko can only gain empathy for the victims of the war by being one himself, as a refugee in the earth kingdom, and bonding with people who have been hurt by the fire nation. azula doesn't get that chance. ozai doesn't get that chance. azulon, lu ten, and ursa are dead, so they will never get that chance. but it's not like there is some ontological moral divide separating azula from zuko. zuko was a sensitive child whereas azula was better at embodying fire nation values of power and cunning. zuko was punished for his outbursts whereas azula knew how to keep her mouth shut. therefore, zuko experienced circumstances that led him to disavow fire nation imperialism.
but that doesn't mean that azula is ontologically evil. azula was the iroh of her generation to zuko's ozai, and iroh (eventually) disavowed conquest as well. there is no inherent divide between good and bad, monster and human. ursa was a warm and loving mother to zuko, just as iroh was a warm and loving father to lu ten, but they both laughed at others' suffering. their values were shaped by their circumstances and experiences. their ideologies do not make them less human, or less capable of change, just as their interpersonal behaviors do not negate their abhorrent ideologies.
i hope everyone who sees this remembers that Lu Ten was an imperialist pig who died trying to capture Ba Sing Se and if you think he was someone likeable may i remind you iroh was just like his family and so was his son and before his own death the fire lord throne would have passed to him frm iroh so he was a pig. this is also to say that iroh was also a pig(and still highkey is) but thats a conversation you guys are too weak for!
tldr: if you even think lu ten was a good person block me.
what was the reason for having the airbenders fly on their OWN and not with the gliders?? i haven't even got into the live action but that's definitely a weird choice.