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imagine if zuko’s fire turned rainbow after seeing the dragons,,,

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The first training of Zuko we see, Iroh shoots a fireball right into Zuko’s face - while Zuko just stands there unflinching. It’s the very first episode, and Zuko & Iroh are the obvious villains, and it just seems like some macho bs they do. And then comes the duel with Zhao, and Zuko is down, but when he sees that flaming fist to his face, something lets loose inside him that helps him turn the fight around…But it’s not until we learn Zuko’s backstory that all this gets a whole new meaning.

Why would Zuko still be on basics if not because he suffered a huge setback after his agni kai? Imagine how much hard work, patience it was to build Zuko back up again, so he would not freeze in blind panic (or curl up in a ball) when fire gets close to his face. I think Iroh practiced this with him all the time until he could stand there unflinching (knowing that Iroh is in full control of his bending and trusting that his uncle would never hurt him). And when it came to the duel with Zhao, Zuko could react in a RL situation instead of freezing up, and turn all the negative feelings (rage, anger, pain, whatever) into fuel to win the fight against a bender who is much more skilled than he is.

And Iroh obviously drilled him with control and restraint, because no matter how much he lets his rage loose, he has enough control not to hurt Zhao and enough self-restraint not to burn him at the end. I definitely think it was a deliberate choice on Iroh’s part to hold back on teaching offensive forms to Zuko beyond the basics (knowing that combining those with his unprocessed anger could result in him being out of control and hurt people). Instead, it seems he concentrated on teaching him defensive forms, fire breath, heat control, and so on…

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Ok so I was rewatching episode 1 of Avatar and I saw the scene where Iroh is teaching Zuko about fire bending.

And I’m sure people have pointed it out before but I couldn’t help but notice it.

Every other time we see someone shoot fire at Zuko’s face, he dodges or goes to protect himself (his fight with Zhao, the dragons, Azula, etc). It’s a fairly expected response given what happened between him and his father, but also because I’d assume no one wants fire to be shot at their face.

But when Iroh does it, Zuko doesn’t move. And we know he can feel it because the force of the blast moves his ponytail, but he just stands there and listens and personally, I choose to believe it’s because he KNOWS that Iroh would never do anything to hurt him.

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Zuko being a dramatic bitch and waiting in the same spot for hours on end just to surprise the Water Tribe siblings

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sokka: wait so how many of your family members have tried to kill you??

zuko:

zuko: give me a sec

dreamsequencer

Okay so can we talk about how amazing the worldbuilding is in ATLA, particularly concerning how the bending works?

It acknowledges both the limitations and the possibilities of bending. There's no self-immunity, something that's established from the first introduction of Zuko, a firebender with a very obvious burn scar. There are specialized subsets of benders, abilities that only certain people within that element have - bloodbending, metalbending and lightningbending (and later lavabending in LOK). Accommodations are made in prisons that are meant to hold benders - a metal rig for earthbenders, a dry place for waterbenders. Waterbenders can heal, because water can heal. And they can bend things by bending the water in them, first seen in the swamp with the plantbender guy, and later Hama the bloodbender. They all learned their abilities from something, usually an animal of some sort. Temperature changes can be done through bending, seen mostly with waterbenders using ice, but also with earthbenders using lava. It's just so well thought out and I love it.