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Sorry for stalking your blog! But I just finished reading Breath and I am OBSESSED. I was trying to look if there were post about the fic here cosbfosnxso.

I just have to say!! I LOVE how you write Zuko's inner world 😭 His conflict and pain and how you describe Sokka, Katara and Sang as the shards of the ship stuck in his lungs!!!

Ugh, SO GOOD.

Now I shall proceed to die in wait (': Thank you so much for writing this wonderful thing 🙏🏼

aaaaaaaaah thank you so much!! im so glad you like the fic! it means so much, you have no idea

also yeah i havent really posted anything about the fic on my tumblrs, sorry for the lack of sneak peaks and insider info,,, and sorry about the 2 day delay, i didnt see this ask aaaa. have a ch.6 wip snippet as compensation

There's no way to get out through the docks, not anymore. And there's no other way out of the city, unless—

He could steal the bison.

He should absolutely not do that. Is he a fucking idiot?

There's no way he'd get away with it. Not only does he have no idea how to steer the thing, Aang's bison is also incredibly loyal. It probably won't even get off the ground without its master's call. This doesn't even count as an idea with how stupid it is.

That doesn't stop him from thinking about it. Doesn't stop him from glancing at the worn reigns hung on the icy tack wall.

The bison watches him, giant brown eyes unreasonably soft for how intimidatingly large they are.

He can't win a fight with a ten ton animal. Even if he had his flames, he's pretty sure that if the beast wanted him dead, he would be. He doesn't intend to pick a fight, but...

Anger bubbles up in his throat, threatening to spill over. Zuko lets it.

"What are you looking at?!"

The bison just blinks at him.

thank you agaaain for the aaask, it's so nice to know that people still love this fic, despite the lack of updates. yall are so sweet

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Hi! I just read breath on ao3 and I hope u don’t mind me leaving my thoughts here! ok so. Holy shit

It’s so fucking good omg I binged this shit in like a day and oh my god I NEED it injected into my veins!!!! I have read other zuko joins the gaang early fics but they all seem to rush past zukos actual healing and struggles. I love how this fic takes its time w zuko and acknowledges how complex and contradictory he is and lets him work things out slowly, it feels much more realistic, and I’m a sucker for some good whump. The characters were also written so well it felt like I could hear their voices in my head!!! This fic made me want to laugh then cry then laugh again istg ur some kind of genius

I know that this is pretty old and might not b updated but just wanted u to know that I enjoyed it so so much

sending good vibes 💜

AAAAAAAAAAAAA HI I ABSOLUTELY DON'T MIND YOUR THOUGHTS! you are so sweet!! gonna make me cry aaaa

zuko's healing and struggles are my favorite part, i have to dig into that! and whump is my bread and butter, it is my method of delivering character development, so uhh, sorry zuko.

also i am absolutely devastated to hear that it's "pretty old," i have no concept of the passage of time, what do you meeean oTL i've been putting off an update for far too long uuaghfh

thank you again for the ask!! and thank you so much for reading!! im so excited that people enjoy my writing, even if it's chronically incomplete

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to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war

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avatar the last airbender x legend of zelda tears of the kingdom corssover les gooooooo

ive been working on this for far too long so im forcing myself to say it's done even though the background is just my color mock up. to draw fast, i must accept messiness

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Aang's world map makes me so unreasonably emotional

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remembering how to draw zuko

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What do you mean this wasn't them for most of Book 2?

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The Avatar and the Fire Lord

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seeby s1 dino gaang :)

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Thinking about Aang and The Awakening and just, the tragedy of his behavior in that episode. Like, when I watch it I just think back to season one, The Storm where, yeah, at first when he was just having nightmares he didn't want to talk about but he still eventually opened up and actually talked through his pain. That willingness is just completely gone by the Awakening.

He learns he's been in a coma for two weeks and grew hair, and then immediately accepts the distraction as Hakoda comes up and even asks after Katara. No mention again of the coma even though learning about it clearly horrified him a little bit (and of course it would, after also falling into basically a coma for 100 years and waking up to everyone he knew dead).

He has a literal flashback and just comments on Katara's healing. Apon having a second one, to which he remembers literally dying for a little bit, he turns around and makes it about Katara's healing again, supporting her when she tries to downplay what she did.

And the look of sheer horror on his face when Sokka says the world thinks he's dead, which just brings back the same problems he had during The Storm, undoing any progress he made in the self-forgiveness thing. He has a minor freak out but then focuses on the fact that they won't allow him to fight the other ship. (They won't allow him the distraction, the ability to use his job as the avatar to run from internal problems.)

And then the scene that really gets me, his talk with Katara. Here he actually does talk about it, he admits verbally the thoughts that are torturing him, but in direct contrast to The Storm, every attempt from Katara to console him is rejected, to the point where he literally asks her to just leave. Katara, the one he's always been the most open with, the one that tries to help the most, and he turns her away.

The end, where he admits defeat, all he does is acquiesce to Sokka's plan, you know, the thing that horrified him the most out of everything he learned. He burns the staff and says it's to hide his identity (as though they don't have a giant fucking bison and could just leave the staff with Appa) and sometimes I can't help but read that scene as self-punishment. He feels he's failed the world, and to attone for that, he needs to hide his identity, to essentially sacrifice it, so he burns the staff.

This episode hurts so much. My only boon is that the next episode is The Headband where he gets to be happy and careless for a bit.

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Aand here’s my artwork for postcard for crossroads zine ♥

There’s never such thing as too much content for those 2

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book 3 in a nutshell tbh

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More atla doodles!! Book 2 this time

Also book 2 has so many things I wanna draw so there will be a part 2

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Enough 'Lee from the tea shop' jokes in the fandom, I need more people considering 'Kuzon from school' jokes. Like the scenario is funny as hell. This kid shows up out of nowhere. Says he's from the colonies. Talks back to the teachers. He's super nice. The school bully tries to fight Kuzon and he effortlessly humiliates him. The school bully's girlfriend and a bunch of other girls like him and he doesn't even care. Kuzon then organizes an illegal party. He shows off some moves and teaches them how to dance. He dances with a very pretty girl they don't know. The school principal and some cops turn up to arrest him and bam, he's gone. All that in like, two days. I bet he became a legend in the school, so imagine if one day he sees one of the kids again and he's recognized and he's like 'Actually my name isn't Kuzon, I'm Avatar Aang 😄' and they're like 'damn Kuzon from the colonies is the Avatar?'

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The Gaang holding Momo like a baby

Plus Momo clinging to Zuko's leg

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been rewatching avatar I love my angsty emo son