#Azula Week

[moss-on-a-pebble]

Azula week August 2nd - Azula with a therapy phoenix

Event by @azulaweek

I was so excited when I read this prompt cuz I absolutely love anything that has to do with birds especially cool fictional ones so I got to work real fast. I found out static makes my drawings look 100x better (in my eyes at least) so I’ll be abusing that 👍

I was thinking of making the phoenix blue to reflect her blue fire but I preferred the red, orange and yellow colour palette.

I feel like Zuko would lose his shit after her bird dies forgetting it’ll just come back lol

I also made this cuz being a bird mom comes with its sacrifices and that sacrifice is sleep: (inspired after my cat who always kneads my mom’s hair before sleep)

Imagine she comes out of her room with the wildest hair imaginable lmao

My friend's rendition:

(He gave me permission to post)

[azulaweek]

Azula Week 2024 Themes

Most people wanted me to chose the themes this year so I hope that these will spark people's creativity. Feel free to interpret all of them as you'd like.

Oct 1st - Lost

Oct 2nd - Music

Oct 3rd - Sunlight

Oct 4th - Reflection

Oct 5th - Hurt

Oct 6th - Insecurity

Oct 7th - Comfort

I am a little worried about my ability to host this year as it has been a rough one. Usually I begin prep in April but something happened in my personal life that made that impossible to do. I still want to give hosting this event a shot. Thanks in advance for being patient with me.

[bellatrixobsessed1]

Azula Week 2024 Day 1: Lost

Summary: Azula is lost. Azula doesn't know that she is lost. But the fog knows.

The fog seems to hiss.

It swirls around her ankles.

The fog seems to live.

To breathe.

And she can only walk.

And walk.

And walk.

And walk…

Endlessly.

For how long?

She doesn’t remember.

She never knew.

But it has been for a very long time.

Long enough to forget her own name.

To forget that she has ever had a name.

Where is she?

At what point in time does she linger?

Does time exist here?

Here where the fog creeps and crawls and breathes.

Its wispy fingers stroke her cheeks.

Her cheeks are wet with tears.

But she can’t remember why she is crying.

Just that she is sad.

Something happened to her.

And now she is somewhere.

Somewhere.

Somewhere with the spirits.

Is she a spirit?

She remembers one thing.

Just one thing.

There was a temple.

[zuko-always-lies]

By @princessmotif

[stardust948]

"Why do you want to change everything about yourself?"

"Because when I act like myself, everyone runs away."

@azulaweek

Day 1: Loneliness or Crossover

Growing up as a dragon shifter, Azula often struggled fitting in with the other kids while keeping her dragon side a secret.

[soupdots]

azula week

[demaparbat-hp]

Dandadan Dandadan Dandadan!

[memopmiff]

Azutara Week day 3 Enemies to Lovers

[sillybillylulu]

Dec 20 death trope @tyzula-week

I cooked so hard it started burning (lame pun intended)

Jokes aside I think the saddest part of drawing this was not adding a highlight into ty lees eyes

[moss-on-a-pebble]

Azula week August 6th - Turtleducks

Even by @azulaweek

This one’s definitely my favourite of all Azula week art I’ve made

Bg is a little wonky but it’ll do lol

Friend's rendition:

[azulaweek]

Azula Week 2024

Hello everyone, dropping in to remind everyone that Azula week is going to be starting in just a few days. With the first prompt being 'Lost'.

Oct 1st - Lost

Oct 2nd - Music

Oct 3rd - Sunlight

Oct 4th - Reflection

Oct 5th - Hurt

Oct 6th - Insecurity

Oct 7th - Comfort

October 1st is the birthday of someone I know IRL so I will probably be reblogging entries for that day on the 2nd.

[bellatrixobsessed1]

Pull results are in. I'm going g to try to host the event in September. Feel free to submit prompts to @azulaweek, post theme in the comments of this post, or DM me on this blog.

When I get a chance I'll open up the poll to pick the dates.

[wileycap]

Two Siblings In A Room Talking About How Much Their Dad Sucks

a.k.a a non-comics compliant ficlet about Zuko and an in-therapy Azula talking about their dad. This ended up being weird angsty sibling fluff instead of a crackfic about how stupid Ozai is. G. ~1000 words.

“Did you know that Father could have won the war?”

Azula cracked an eye open, lazily. Sunlight streamed in through the narrow windows. It had caught Zuko’s good eye – Zuko was turned so that she couldn’t see his scar and he looked…

“Oh, Zuko, it’s so strange how your mind works,” she said, cutting off her own train of thought. “What prompted this?”

“I was reorganizing the Navy, and I had to read up on our old battle plans,” Zuko replied, turning to face her. “Did you know that we had a plan to invade Ba Sing Se?”

“I did,” Azula said, inspecting her nails. "More than one, in fact."

“A good plan? A plan that would have worked? A plan that wasn't a giant drill?”

Azula mm-hm’ed, trying to speed Zuko along.

“As soon as Omashu fell, we had our supply lines. Farms, water, land, even quarries. Uncle Iroh would have taken Ba Sing Se if cousin Lu Ten hadn’t died, you know that. And if he could have done it with just what we had at the time, Father could have done it any time he wanted.”

Zuko was picking up steam. Azula was mildly entertained.

“I never even thought about how stupid the drill was. A huge offensive… relying on an untested piece of technology that cost more than half our fleet. If I did that, my advisors would skin me alive!”

“If that happens, can I book tickets in advance?” Azula asked, smirking in the face of Zuko’s fuming.

“It’s not a joke!” Zuko snapped, getting up in one violent motion. He paced around the small sitting area. “I spent sixteen years terrified of him, hating him, wanting him to love and accept me, and…”

Zuko let himself drop down on the rug, burying his face in his hands.

Azula observed, uncaring.

They sat in silence for a while.

“It was better when he was this… invincible monster,” Zuko finally said, gesturing vaguely with his arms.

“Yes, I imagine it was. Better than getting half your face burned off by an idiot who doesn’t even know how to read,” Azula shrugged.

Zuko’s incredulous look was an entirely predictable reaction. “I’m pretty sure he knows how to read.”

“I’m not.”

“Azula, come on. Father reads.”

“Are you sure? Can you remember one time he read something, or wrote something, instead of having it read to him or dictating?” Azula paused to let Zuko think. By the blank look on her brother’s face, Azula decided that no answer was forthcoming. “See? Father doesn’t know how to read.”

Zuko gaped. Azula raised an eyebrow, radiating smug superiority.

“Wait,” Zuko said, pointing a finger. “At his coronation, he read the Greeting to Agni!”

“Memorized it,” Azula waved it off. “And he made a mistake. He said Agni’s radiance instead of Agni’s light.”

“Why would he replace an easier word with a harder one?” Zuko asked. There was just the slightest smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. “Wouldn’t it make more sense the other way around?”

“Easy. Bigger words are better, if you’re an idiot who can’t read and doesn’t want all the nobles and the ministers and the sages to know about it.”

Zuko snorted, toppling over to lay on his back. “I thought he didn’t read my letters because I was a failure, but now it turns out he just couldn’t.”

“No, he had those read out for the court to laugh at,” Azula said, her face serious. “’I remain your dutiful son’ always got big laugh.”

“I bet it did.”

They sat in silence for a while. The beam of sunlight dragged across the floor.

“Do you ever think about him?” Zuko said, staring at the ceiling.

“No,” Azula said, staring at Zuko because she wasn’t a coward.

“Never?”

“No,” Azula said, rolling her eyes. “I already had one mental breakdown. I’m not going to have another one just so you can have company on your little pity-me-my-dad’s-terrible trip.”

Zuko didn’t say anything. He just turned his head so that his scarred eye was looking at Azula.

Azula sighed.

“Look, do you want to know what’s going on in dear old Daddy’s head right now?” At Zuko’s nod-shrug, she continued. “He’s written the both of us off as losses. Oh, if I break out of here and go release him, he’ll take me back – just like he took you back after Ba Sing Se – but until then, I’m crazy and you’re a traitor.

“That leaves him in his cell, and without his bending. By now, he’s probably convinced himself that either his bending will return on its own and he’ll conquer the world again, or his loyalists, his good friends from court, will depose you and probably capture the Avatar to boot. Then they’ll force the Avatar to give him back his Firebending, and Father will reign supreme forever.

“Neither of the two options is going to happen. Even if his Firebending comes back naturally, the Avatar will just defeat him again – hopefully before he makes your eyes match. And his loyalists? He probably doesn’t have any. And if he does, they’re as incompetent as he is. You’re right, Father’s an idiot. He alienated half his court with his insane schemes and promoting crackpots like Qin. The other half he terrified or bribed into submission. I wouldn’t be surprised if even his actual supporters, the few that there are, are happier with you in power.”

Zuko was looking at her with undisguised interest. “So, what’s your point?”

“My point, little Zuzu, is that there’s no need to worry about him anymore,” Azula said, laying down on her bed. “It’s over. He’s not coming back, idiot or not.”

“Huh,” Zuko said. “That’s like a proverb, except it makes sense.”

Azula huffed, caught by surprise. “Dum-dum.”

“… what if I captured Aang and took him to Father? Do you think he’d let me be the prince again?”

“Try it,” Azula shrugged. “But I definitely want tickets.”

[ofswordsandpens]

I rewatched Zuko and Azula's Agni Kai recently and it's left me wondering – when Zuko begins to goad Azula into striking him with lightning, was he making the decision to kill her?

Because had Azula shot lightning directly at him like he planned and not at Katara, the most forthright implication to me is that he was intending to strike Azula with her own lightning. And Azula, for all her mastery, would not have been able to counter that.

On the other hand, maybe he wasn't planning to kill her at all and was simply planning to redirect it elsewhere (similar to what he did with Ozai). But given the tone of tragedy throughout the Agni Kai, the fact that they both acknowledge that this fight will be "the end" to them, I don't think it's inaccurate to read Zuko's actions as him preparing to kill Azula, even though an Agni Kai doesn't have to end with death (and in canon it didn't). Also, why goad her into striking him with lightning if he wasn't planning on doing something intentional with it? If anything, it adds another layer to the tragedy to me, because I don't believe Zuko wants to kill her. And it stands in such contrast to the way that Azula desperately wants to kill him.

I also think that there would have even been something sadly poetic in that sort of demise for Azula should the Agni Kai had gone this direction: Azula, struck down by her preferred sub-skill. Azula, struck down by the very bolt of lightning that she intended to kill her brother with. Azula, struck down by her own power.

[solibrie]

the facts:

katara was born in the southern hemisphere (SWT)

azula was born in the northern hemisphere (FN)

in a few of the ATLA supplementary materials, they claim that benders tend to be born during the season associated with their element

if the season is important for avatar-world spirituality, then it follows that being born on an auspicious or otherwise spiritual day could foretell a bender's potential for being especially prodigious

summer in the fire nation would be at the same time as winter in the southern water tribe

conclusion:

azula and katara could (and should!) share a birthday (the solstice)

[jn3m0]

Day 1 for @tyzula-week

Theme: Role Reversal / Pet Names

Ty Lee, the 7th princess of the Fire Nation and Azula, her caretaker, handler, guard.

"C'mon!! just say we're friends!!"

"... understood."

Ty Lee, the 7th princess of the Fire Nation and her best friend Azula.

"Hehehe... best friend??"

"..."