Have you watched Avatar The Last Airbender? I watched the live action adaptation with my mother (and making her listen to commentary about what changes I liked or disliked) and that brought back my atla obsession. But since I am an Alastor fan first and a person with do verse interests and hobbies second, my mind keeps trying to imagine how I could fit Alastor in that universe. I've considered some ideas, like him being Sokka and Katara's third sibling, but what I liked the most was the idea of Alastor transmigrating as Ursa. I think he would be the parent Azula needs, since he wouldn't be found of the idea that the Fire Nation is better and thus has the right to opress the other nations, but he would be able to understand Azula in a way Ursa never could
I have! In high school, lol.
I love this! I think Alastor would absolutely do WONDERFULLY with Azula, not least because he's her but better.
Azula: You beat me at my own game
Alastor!Ursa: please, you were never even a player. Now come eat dinner and I'll tell you what you did wrong and how to improve.
I'd say Alastor!Ursa would've killed Ozai for the Agni Kai Incident with Zuko, possibly mid-attempted burn in front of the council, if I didn't have my doubts that Alastor would allow Ozai's abuse to even get that far.
I propose two possibilities:
Alastor murders Ozai discreetly years earlier! Possibly alongside Azulon when he demands that Ozai kill Zuko in recompense for demanding the throne.
Alasor is such a badass that he manages to tame Ozai! Canon!Ozai is obsessed with power and thinks Zuko is a failure for not being as talented in Fire Bending as his younger sister. That would change if Alastor managed to thoroughly kick Ozai's ass when they first met, multiple times, despite not being a bender and to top it off, the illegitimate child of an Earth Kingdom mother and Fire Nation father. Imagine him laying on the ground thoroughly humiliated with him glaring up at Alastor!Ursa, only to feel his heart skip a beat and his face burn when he sees her bloodstained, smiling face.
I am conflicted which I want more but I can see Ozai being Vox 2.0 and being such a simp for Ursa!Alastor.
Rather than wanting to be the Fire Lord himself, he’d try to make Ursa!Alastor the first ever Phoenix Empress, elevating her above a regular Fire Lord(like his Canon self tried to do to himself).
Maybe even making a cult to worship his wife.
I am just imagining Zuko and Azula being raised around this version of their parents who are basically Addams Family 2.0.
I'm imagining them meeting while their around the same age as Aang (minus his time in the ice) at the beginning of the series, maybe younger. And Ozai starts out in denial, not sure why his heart is racing but determined to beat that smug smile off her face and restore his honour, and failing every time. He gets desperate enough to go to Iroh (this is before they started to drift apart) for advice and he starts teasing him for having a crush.
I think since they were both so young and he got fed several fistfuls of Humble Pie, his philosophy starts to change. Starting from when Alastor!Ursa telling why she is not impressed with his fire bending or status or wealth.
Alastor!Ursa raises an eyebrow, "Do you truly think terrorising those weaker than yourself makes you look impressive? No. It makes you look like a coward."
