headcanons for firebender!y/n?
ooh this is such a fun ask!! settle in because i have a lot to say <3
- i hate to say, but i think that if y/n was a firebender, she would not be the same y/n we know and love. she constitutes an entire alternative universe in itself because genuinely i can’t imagine her being able to interact with any of the characters in the same way. the whole story would be completely different
- firebender!y/n is beyond cocky about herself. she always knows how good she is but now it isn't about proving her worth it's all about showing off, saying look at me and how proficient i am
- she has a better relationship with her dad, but a worse one with her brothers because now they're her direct competition and i imagine, if she was a firebender, her dad would be a girldad. three boys and one girl? oh she spoiled spoiled
- y/n is a strong, precise bender, she works hard at making each move perfect. she's not a perfectionist like Azula, she admits when she's wrong about something and accepts help to correct it but she works and works and works until she gets it right and the hair is singed off of her arms.
- (star and I decided that if y/n were a firebender, she would hold back when fighting Azula, because she's good, really good, but never as good as Azula, and she sure as shit doesn't want to show Azula how good she really is. That's a secret for only her to know.)
- firebender!y/n doesn't join the gaang until Zuko does–and I can imagine it doesn’t go very well (i can’t justify changing aang’s firebending teacher from zuko to y/n, and have it be earlier in the story because that canon storyline is so integral to the whole of atla.)
- one of y/n's main motivations is understanding and empathizing with being different and she sees that in the gaang. firebender!y/n has never been oppressed a day in her life, she doesn't understand the hardships that the gaang goes through and frankly she probably wouldn't care at first.
- so Firebender!y/n doesn’t get along with the gaang nearly as well as she does as a non bender.
- she’s harder to trust, for one, because in this instance i don’t see katara speaking up for her so much. in the same way that katara blames all firebenders, including zuko for her mother’s death, i think y/n would also be on that list
- without katara speaking up for her, it would take longer for sokka and toph and aang to also trust her, katara’s trust in her really helped them along
- not to mention that if she were a firebender, she probably wouldn’t be a sword fighter and all of that time that sokka and her spent together wouldn’t have happened
- they wouldn’t have had anything in common to make them actually start talking and getting along and therefore they would have had to find other ways to interact
- and it’s also hard for me to find a reason for her to leave if she was a firebender, because i think firebender y/n has an even BETTER relationship with azula and i think that means she would have a worse one with zuko (they too wouldn’t have sword fighting to bond over)
- firebender y/n probably wouldn’t end up with sokka at least in the atla timeline. maybe, maybe i could seen a very slow burn fic during their mid twenties but… they just have nothing in common
- Tl;dr firebender!y/n is really exciting to think about but she makes me sad too















