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was gonna say something about allura’s flaws and how she could’ve been given an arc about bettering herself in a way that wasn’t racist but then i remembered there are people who genuinely think she’s galraphobic and therefore irredeemable. so actually she has no flaws and if anyone says anything bad about her i’ll kill them to death
Say what you want about Ursa, but when it was time for Azulas corronation guess which parent showed up despite changing her face, erasing her memories and being a hallucination and which one was having a wee little bonfire on a whole other continent
above all i hope my analyses come off as fair.
Why did Mai, a rebellious noble girl who loathes the politics of noble life, just sit back and allow the asylum that Azula was sent to, which is known for taking in rebellious noble girls who's family's don't want to deal with them to abuse them 24/7, exist? Even if she didn't know about it before the Search, Azula's been out, she's got to know about it.
Like I get that Mai isn't gonna be some rehabilitationist given how much she loves her uncle who runs the fucking torture prison but you'd think 'asylum that abuses noble women that don't conform to societal expectations' would be a little personal for her
Mai quite literally is a bad break up away from going into that Asylum right next to Azula. Who's to say she wouldn't have gone to that Asylum if she didn't have the social capital of being friends with Azula. Her parents have a male heir as of the beginning of the show, she's as useful to them as she is politically viable and in the beginning of the show she openly detests everything about being politically viable.
'azula tried to kill zuko' unlike zuko, who famously never attempted to kill azula.
“the parallels between Zuko and Sokka-” hey HEY. I am grabbing you. The parallels between Katara and Azula. Both the younger, gifted bender. Each one being the inverse of the other: a living, breathing what if. Katara being horrified at what her bending can do when pushed to its limits vs Azula always trying to push hers further. Katara instinctively trusting everyone so easily, even though it burns her sometimes, and Azula saying trust is for fools, fear is the only reliable way but still losing everyone she cares about in the end. Katara yelling at her dad and being hugged in return vs Azula doing everything possible to please her father still being harshly reprimanded, so you know exactly why they both turned out the way that they did. Katara’s trauma being connected to losing a mother vs Azula’s being connected to having a mother. Katara ultimately being the one to take down Azula and standing over her, staring pitifully because that’s who she could have been, in another life. is this thing on
azula probably traumatised the fuck out of katara.
hello it looks like i’m being ratio’d to hell and back can we get more likes here people
i honestly think zuko was the most mischaracterised in the aang movie; rather than, as popular opinion would have it, sokka.
Spoilers for the movie
I guess for me it would be, from most to least mischaracterized:
Sokka
Zuko? He isn't given very much but what he is given doesn't seem particularly like Zuko. Like "I fight for the peace of all nations"? That's not something Zuko would say.
Katara. Her mischaracterization comes from less contradictions with her character and more vital parts of her character (like being a genocide victim) being completely ignored.
Toph. Not given very much, but 90% of the show she was reduced to being the blind snarky earthbender anyways.
Aang.
this was the list i made while live-reacting 😭
i can’t really recall much of the movie’s key Character Moments, it was a very bland, generic piece of cinema overall, but here were my justifications at the time of my watch:
the only thing i got out of the aang movie was this cracky brainworm tbh:
logically it makes NO sense. but i am willing to entertain it solely because it would be funny as fuck.
i honestly think zuko was the most mischaracterised in the aang movie; rather than, as popular opinion would have it, sokka.
zuko's madonna-whore complex.
Madonna's: Ursa, Katara (maybe?), Azula half the time, Mai two-thirds of the time.
Whores: Ty Lee, Azula the other half of time, Mai one-third of the time.
Not recognized as women: Toph, Suki
hmm, i don't think zuko has ever really considered azula a madonna. the only times their interactions are lacking the friction of this complex is when azula plays on zuko's attachment to ozai (ie, 'the avatar state', 'the crossroads of destiny'). agree with ursa, ty lee and mai; katara is complicated because by virtue of her being water tribe she, like toph and suki, is also (at least at first) not-quite woman to zuko but 'other'.
The reason I'm saying that Azula is Madonna to Zuko half the time time is not does Zuko seem to expect Azula to act as an emotional caretaker for him in Book 3, and not only does Azula step into that role, but Zuko seems to flip between essentially infinite trust and vulnerability toward Azula and massive distrust, with no state-between. Essentially he either treats her like she's an Ursa replacement or like she's an evil demon created to bring upon his downfall, and he flips between those two states.
my analysis (https://www.tumblr.com/scamthescalpel/817966808654053377/ok-fine-lets-talk-about-it-first-to-define-a) figures that zuko conceptualises azula as a ‘whore’ precisely because she attempts to fit ursa’s motherly mould but falls short for… obvious reasons.
the avatar franchise is unfortunately terrible at political worldbuilding
azula probably traumatised the fuck out of katara.
And Katara definitely traumatized the fuck out of Azula.
It must be so surreal to only have been near a person, seen their face, when they're fighting against you for survival in a war. You may not even really remember their voice, but their grunts and screams fill your nightmares. The strange sensation of knowing the cumulative ten minutes you've shared space with that person, you've left each other with scars that you'll carry for the rest of your lives.
I have said this before but the only time in the series it's possible that Azula and Katara had any sort of conversation was after Azula captured Katara at Ba Sing Se.
Yeah! It's so weird! They're like full on foils that...just barely talk to each other? But also see each other at their lowest moments. I think I've only seen a few fics add a little conversation between azula and katara in ba sing se when she's captured, but even then, they use it to cause a different plot point or as a little snippet before azula goes and plans her coup with her besties.
‘atla fails to write azula’s character beyond the glaring limit titled zuko’ phenomenon strikes again unfortunately
azula probably traumatised the fuck out of katara.
And Katara definitely traumatized the fuck out of Azula.
It must be so surreal to only have been near a person, seen their face, when they're fighting against you for survival in a war. You may not even really remember their voice, but their grunts and screams fill your nightmares. The strange sensation of knowing the cumulative ten minutes you've shared space with that person, you've left each other with scars that you'll carry for the rest of your lives.
I have said this before but the only time in the series it's possible that Azula and Katara had any sort of conversation was after Azula captured Katara at Ba Sing Se.
WAIT IVE BEEN SAYING THIS TOO. zutara trauma-sharing in the catacombs of ba sing se ought to have been azutara trauma-sharing in the catacombs of ba sing se.
azula probably traumatised the fuck out of katara.
And Katara definitely traumatized the fuck out of Azula.
aquaphobic azula is so close to my heart <33
mai and azula are my favourite misogynists
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.
