#ikem

[waterfire1848]

AU - Azula is the one to fight Ozai during the Agni Kai but she actually fights. During the Agni Kai, Ozai is able to get in a good hit and kills Azula (although that was not his intention). When Azula wakes up, she’s looking at her mother and some random man she’s never seen before. They’re calling her Kiyi.

[beifong-brainrot]

Part of me wants to see Azula and Noren/Ikem interact more and maybe have him be a part of her recovery in at least some small way. While, yes, Azula's relationship with her mother is incredibly important and Azula has a lot of pain associated with that relationship.

But her relationship with Ozai and her skewed perception of what a father is one of her more insidious wounds. Azula had a positive relationship with Ozai, but he still abused her and was very responsible for the damaged teen she has become. And, frankly, I can't see Ursa, or Iroh being trustworthy adults in her eyes.

And while she would likely percieve Noren as "one of Ursas agents", he is a very good father to Kiyi, and an "outsider" in the Royal family, mostly undamaged by the machinations that transpired between them.

I do also find the (most likely unintentional) parallel of Ursa (who, in her benefit, is being coerced/in an incredibly difficult situation) "choosing" Ozai over Noren and Zuko over Azula compelling. As well as them both having ties to the dragon emperor character, but that feels surface level.

Idk, I think there's potential for them to find some common ground, and for Azula to realise that dads aren't supposed to act like Ozai did, which would probably give her a new light on her family and Ursa's behaviour.

It's also not a far stretch to rationalise Ikem helping in the search for Azula, as he is quite the survivalist and Azula originally went missing in the Forgetful Valley, a place he was well acquainted with.

Idk, I think Azula needs someone who isn't Zuko, Ursa, Iroh, Ty Lee or Mai, people who have betrayed her in the past, reaching out to her and a step dad wouldn't be the worst candidate for that.

Maybe one day I'll write that fic but honestly I doubt my ability to write Azula well lmao.

[jaydude1992]

Since I've recently come across two people wrongly claiming otherwise - including one of my followers - I'm just going to set the record straight here: Ikem NEVER encouraged Ursa to give up her memories of Zuko and Azula in The Search.

The only time the option to have memories erased is ever bought up is when Ursa's speaking with the Mother of Faces. And it's the Mother of Faces who brings it up, when she senses that Ursa's desire for a new face by itself isn't going to fix her trauma over her life in the Fire Nation Royal Palace. Ikem never says a word during this conversation, and prior to the appearance of the Mother of Faces, he actually suggests trying to abscond with Zuko and Azula so that they, him and Ursa can live like a family together, before Ursa points out that this would ultimately cause Ozai to come after the four of them as well as their hometown.

If you want to hate the plot point of a mother being so traumatized by her past that she feels she's got no choice but to forget the traumatic part of her life in order to have a chance at moving on, whatever. But do your damn research and get the facts right beforehand, would you?

[zuko-always-lies]

Thoughts on Ikem?

It's kind of weird and creepy how he was shacking up with memory-erased Ursa.

[shipping-all-ships]

Azulon never clocked that Lu Ten was gay but Ozai and Iroh knew the day Ikem showed up (again) to try and get Ursa back and Lu Ten, in all his blunt child glory, asked Ursa why she chose Uncle Ozai over THAT

[akiizayoi4869]

Thanks for blasting the stupid Zuko is not Ozai's kid plotline from the comics cause like Ozai's genes really said copy and paste with Zuko but we are supposed to sit over here and wonder if his Ikea's kid or whatever

You are very welcome🤣 that had to be one of the most dumbest things that was in the comic lmao. Also, thank you for calling Ikem "Ikea", that one never gets old😂😂😂

[ozais-lobotomist]

niche maybe agshdk

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Fire Lord Zuko’s struggle to reform the Fire Nation and maintain peace continues. Now he believes that to help his people, he must first set things right with his family. But the only way to do so is to team up with his lifelong enemy and occasional tenuous ally: his sister Azula.

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