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Aang: finally goes into Avatar state
Azula:
From that one meme
switch
water tribe
i tweaked my references as you can see.
other than that, this is actually pretty fun to
draw.
she's smitten
she's been thinking 🌨️
azula works herself to the bone in order to achieve perfection; she trains relentlessly, internalises the slightest criticism, practices deliberate caution, exercises strategic ambition (the infamous triple-pronged strike of zuko home, avatar dead, ba sing se conquered), toes the line between the two, learns her nation’s history, memorises battle tactics, is an impeccable orator, but is a ‘mary sue’.
zuko poorly handles his crew, fumbles in ozai’s court (see: war meeting), is consistently awful at firebending — but his being handed a sudden and totally-not-narratively-convenient firebending boost over the course of one day’s… work, if you can even call it that; a prowess that matches and arguably overpowers azula’s (her mind, of course, must immediately deteriorate as well if zuko is to be granted his victory), and subsequently being rewarded for it with the throne… does not make him a male mary sue? a gary stu, if you will? how doth that work.
So apparently some people seem to think this exchange is tragic as well as repulsive because (checks notes) "Azula doesn't want to be like Zuko because she sees him as nothing more than a victim! Being just like him is disgusting to her. She blames him for his abuse."
Another day, another stupid take.
That's not what this scene says at all. What it's saying is that Azula FEARS being seen like Zuko in her father's eyes. Because she's already seen once before what that means.
She saw her brother get burned by their father right in front of her. Being seen like Zuko means getting burned. It means getting banished. It means not having Ozai's love. She already felt unloved by her mother. She knows that Iroh doesn't care for her. So losing Ozai's love? It would destroy her. And as we can clearly see, that's exactly what happened.
Wait, do people not know that seeing your siblings being abused in front of you is still a form of abuse? It's not uncommon for abusive parents to hit one of their kids in front of the others, to use as an 'example' of what will happen if they misbehave or step out of the carefully traced lines their abusive parents set for them. I imagine it's very common, too. To the point it'd be rare to find a family where one of the kids wasn't hit in front of the others to make an example out of them.
Which is also horrible because it leads the siblings who weren't hit but only watched, to think that they didn't have it as bad, cause 'they weren't the ones who were hit at the end of the day'. That's not how it is. Being forced to watch your sib being hit in front of your eyes while being unable to do anything cause if you protest or stand in between you'll be hit too is abuse. The mental and psychological scars that leaves can't be understated. Even in cases where the siblings do not get along and hit each other too, seeing them being abused by their parent is still a terrifying experience.
So, yeah. No wonder Azula reacted like that. It's not her putting Zuko down or looking down on him. It's her being terrified that Ozai, the only still kinda stable bond she had at that point, after she lost everyone else, will abandon her too. And you'll never guess what happened after this. Yeah, people who truly believe Azula was pure evil, irredeemable, or a bad sister should do a re-watch, honestly.
People do not, in fact, realize any of this, which is why we say "fandumb" 🤣😭. Everything that you said here is sooo obvious, and yet...
Since the ATLA fandom always needs this reminder...
Characters which Azula captures over the course of the series:
1. Katara
2. Hakoda
3. Suki
4. Other Kyoshi Warriors
5. Ty Lee
6. Zuko
7. Bato
8. Tyro
9. Hui
10. Due
11. Tho
12. Mai
13. Tyro
14. The Mechanist
15. Pipsqueak
16. Iroh
17. King Kuei
18. Long Feng
19. Boso the Bear
20. Toph
Characters which Azula executes after capturing them:
None.
Maybe she’s not actually as ruthless or bloodthirsty as people make her out to be…
azula with zuko: miserable
azula without zuko: happiest version of herself
Tbh there needs to be more Azula/Zirin fanart
Mystery solved everyone;
I was re-reading this book;
And found this.
It was Azula. Azula was driving the tank.
She was 14 and she was driving this;
Embrace me, but please don’t touch me…
Kyoshi warriors becoming Zuko's bodyguards is genuinely one of the most offensive parts of the finale, he burned down their hometown not 8 months ago, they still have a whole village to protect from pirates, rogue fire nation soldiers, neighbouring earth kingdoms, what about their families?
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now WHAT are the watsonian implications of azula, in yang’s comic, wearing lipstick in the asylum. we all know that, from a doylist perspective, she’s meant to have been essentially frozen in time; having ceased to exist outside of zuko’s line of sight, having been returned — as she looked on the night of the final agni kai — to our view at his behest, to be used up like a flesh currency with which to barter with ozai. it’s supposed to dredge up ugly feelings in us; the cruel temptress of villainy decked out with her manically-axed hair and her smirking, red mouth is not to be pitied. it plays on azula’s adultification (there are also some panels that depict her as?? seductive, kind of?? while she’s straitjacketed??
like, ok, lidded eyes, parted lips, suggestive tilt of the face — there was a tweet with nearly a thousand likes calling this look ‘attractive’; overall an extremely strange artistic choice, considering azula is, ahem, SIXTEEN and STRAPPED INTO A TORTURE DEVICE). BUT. the watsonian explanation is far more morbid. i’m supposed to believe that the girl they outright refuse to extract from her straitjacket, who is chi-blocked for the crime of sudden movement, who is probably muzzled too for fear of her fire-breath… is allowed personal a personal luxury like lipstick? no way. which leads us to the conclusion that somebody has been painting her lips. and it’s not an act of kindness; if it were, why couldn’t it extend to oh, you know, basic humane conditions such as free arms? no, it’s almost certainly an act of control. the narrative seeks to cleanse us of any latent sympathy we may hold for azula through sexualising her. but if somebody was doing that in-universe too, then there’s a real possibility that, on top of everything else. azula was sexually abused in the asylum.
actually, i got curious and looked up the theories on the in-universe explanation as to why, and reddit made the preposterous claim that it was to ‘allow her agency’ while she was ‘healing’. right. that would perhaps make sense if you OMITTED THE GLARINGLY OBVIOUS TORTURE DEVICE CONSTANTLY STRAPPED TO HER CHEST—
the fact is, 90% of people's ursa takes boil down to sheer speculation. the take that she loved azula is not supported in show canon. the take that she was afraid of azula is not supported in show canon. these takes are supported by azula's hallucination but, uh, what happened to the infamous 'azula always lies'? you guys don't think that the girl who passed the human lie detector can lie to herself? the take that ozai was keeping ursa from azula/driving a rift between ursa and azula is not supported in show canon. you guys all just have big madonna-whore complexes because you take zuko's perspective as gospel. what is supported by show canon is that zuko and azula and ursa were allowed to spend copious amounts of time in the gardens lacking ozai's interference, that azula was allowed to play with her school friends mai and ty lee lacking ozai's interference, that ursa was a fully realised parental figure for zuko while ozai was a mere shadow, that ursa attempts to teach zuko compassion and scolds azula for her treasonous tongue, that ursa wonders aloud and within earshot what is wrong with azula for a question and a tone, that ursa grabs azula's arm and forcibly drags her out of the room for an assumption of wrongdoing, that azula thinks there is something innately wrong with her, that ursa planted this idea.
is it really. really. such a stretch to conceptualise ursa as an abusive parent? and don't bring up the comics, those aren't canon here.
preach
so, in ‘the beach’, ty lee makes the claim that mai’s been an only child for fifteen years. tom-tom is likely over one year old, given the statistic on when an infant unlocks the ability to walk:
…which makes mai’s most likely age sixteen. azula’s canon age is fourteen, and ty lee does not (to my knowledge) have a canon age. but mai, azula and ty lee all went to the same school, and were therefore presumably all in the same class. which gives way to two possibilities: one, mai was held behind a grade or two. given mai’s reasonable intellectual capacity as well as her forced conformity at michi’s hand, it’s a bizarre possibility to conceptualise. two, azula was bumped up a grade or two. given azula’s prodigious claim to fame, this is eons more likely. this makes her the youngest of the group by one or two years, and makes the dynamic 10000x funnier:
Option three: Ty Lee was just a little off in terms of age, possibly because Tom-Tom was born after Ty Lee left.
possible, but not nearly as funny.
We shouldn't assume the academy grouped students strictly by age. Mai could have started later, Azula earlier, or the school might have organized classes by ability, status, or other factors rather than birth year alone. In that case, their being at the academy together wouldn't necessarily mean they were the same age. Still, your explanation works well ofc