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[cattoonxd]

Child of war

[poodpoopsie]

Some days, I think you're right. (2/3)

[avyc02]

On our way to break some hearts and tear up a beach~🔥

[nightwinfg]

i saw a tiktok that said “zuko, who stays awake at night softly caressing your cheek, wondering if you and azula would have gotten along had things been different” and i’ve been thinking about it all day … tug at the heart strings a little bit please ☹️💞

-–—•

The palace was always quietest at night.

No council meetings. No guards announcing arrivals. No heavy expectations pressing against his shoulders for a few fleeting hours. Just the candlelight mixed with the moonlight, and you beside him.

Zuko should have been asleep.

Instead, he lay awake with his head resting against the pillow, watching you breathe softly beside him while his fingers traced absentminded patterns along your cheek. Gentle. Careful. Like touching something sacred.

You stirred slightly at the touch but didn’t wake, only leaning unconsciously closer into his warmth. His chest tightened. Because all he could think about was her. Azula.

Not the version the world feared. Not FireLord Ozai’s perfect daughter. Not the girl sharpened into something cruel and dangerous before she even had the chance to become a child.

Just his little sister… he wondered; painfully, endlessly - if things had been different… would she have loved you too? The same way Sokka loves Aang as his own brother?

Would she have sat with you during dinners, making dry comments that only you seemed able to answer without fear? Would you have made her laugh? Real laughter, not the sharp-edged kind she used like a weapon. Would she have trusted you enough to let her guard down? Would she have seen you as a sister?

Zuko’s thumb brushed beneath your eye softly. You were everything warm in his life now. Everything patient, kind, safe. Sometimes he mourned the fact that Azula never got the chance to know softness without suspecting weakness. That she couldn’t have the growth he had with his real friends.

“She would’ve liked you,” he whispered quietly into the darkness, almost like a confession. “I think… maybe she would’ve hated how much she liked you.”

You shifted slightly in your sleep, your hand finding his instinctively beneath the blankets. Zuko looked down at your intertwined fingers and swallowed hard.

In another life, maybe the three of you could’ve sat together beneath the palace gardens without fear or politics or cruelty poisoning every moment.

Maybe Azula would’ve teased him for the way he looked at you. Maybe she would’ve rolled her eyes every time you defended him during arguments. Maybe she would’ve called the two of you disgustingly affectionate before secretly lingering nearby anyway. She’d know became a third wheel yet refused to change anything about that.

Maybe she could’ve been happy. The thought hurt too much to hold for long.

Zuko leaned forward, pressing a lingering kiss against your forehead before closing his eyes beside you.

Somewhere deep inside him, the little boy who once chased after his sister despite everything still hoped that one day, somehow, she’d come home too.

-–—•

[uio590]

Adult Azula! And old art under the cut for comparison 🙂‍↕️

These are from 2020

[memopmiff]

Leaving the fandom for a bit. โดนเจ็บหลายวันติดกันเกิน

[soulsticee]

[Firelady Ursa with her two children, Princess Azula and Prince Zuko☀️🔥]

AU: Fire Hazard Siblings as twins! (So does Sokka and Katara in this AU but that's for the next post.)

First time drawing something like this... Did i did good?

[Their attires are inspired by precolonial Philippine clothing. I referenced Ursa's clothes from Amaya, Zuko and Azula's clothes from the Boxer codex]

[transmasc-toph]

Transmasc Azula and her Father's Rewards

I think one of the most interesting things about my transmasc azula au/hc is the way it changes her relationship with her father and mother.

As a princess, Azula has a lot of expectations put upon her. She's either going to be a bargaining chip like Yue - or a weapon. In my AU, one of the reasons why Azula becomes as obsessed with being a perfect weapon as he does, is because its his only way to gain exemption from traditional patriarchal expectations.

Ursa trying to take Azula away from his duelling/excessive training, ends up becoming a villain in Azula's eyes. Because Ursa means well when she says that 'girls shouldn't spend so much time training', Ursa means well when she suggests taking Ursa out for shopping or getting manicures together. Ursa means well when she praises Azula for his 'beauty' instead of his achievements

But Azula hates it all. He doesn't know why yet, he just knows that Ursa makes him feel somehow worse. He knows that when he trains hard, Ozai lets him wear his hair in a traditional men's topknot for 'practical purposes'. He knows that when he's training, Ursa can't drag him into 'girl's days'. He knows that as long as he performs, Ozai will allow him to swap his dresses for armour.

It gets so much juicier if Ozai sort of suspects. He hates it of course, viewing it as a sign of his daughter's inane fantasies, but also sees it as something he can use to his advantage (much like he does with Azula's psychosis and desire for love). Ursa doesn't know, but that doesn't matter when all she does is make Azula's experience in an extremely traditional and queerphobic household that much worse.