#Katara and Ty Lee love little children

[zuko-always-lies]

List of Azula AU/fic ideas

Better parenting Ursa

Azula raises Katara AU (and continued) and more

Azula and Katara get friendly postwar and talk about their brothers.

Mai is significantly older than Azula and Ty Lee AU (Older "sister" Mai)

Jin works at Iroh's teashop but finds out about his past

Zuko tells Azula about the Spirit Water

Ursa and Ozai get along better, and it's not a good thing AU

Imperialist Lu Ten survives the war and tries to regain his throne afterwards

Zuko finds out more about his nation AU

Revolutionary Azula takes over Ba Sing Se AU

Three different AU ideas in one

Favoritism in the royal family is a little different

What if Zuko had a nonbending twin sister (who he doesn't get along with).

Zuko's daughter changes how he sees Azula

Zuko and Ursa try to isolate Azula ("for her own good")

Ozai gets exiled and the Gaang stupidly ally with him

Earth Kingdom ends up with custody of Azula postwar and support her bid for the Fire Nation throne when Zuko starts another war with them.

The Gaang tries to figure out why Zuko joined them.

Dangerous Ladies find Ursa in Book 2

Azula and Toph fake dating

Zuko/"world leaders" try to force Aang to take away Azula's bending and he's very much not OK with it.

Azula is thrown away to the NWT postwar as a trinket and Chief Arnook adopts her.

Comics! Ursa's letter about Zuko being a bastard gets out.

Zuko and Katara lie about what happened during the Agni Kai

An exiled Azula finds Fire Imperialist! Ursa postwar

Aang has to save Azula from being executed by Zuko

Zuko's defection during DoBS goes very badly for Mai

Zuko joins the Gaang at Ba Sing Se, but it ends poorly

Zuko killed Azula during the Agni Kai, and now he has to deal with the consequences.

AU idea where Zuko keeps Azula permanently imprisoned in bad and torturous conditions postwar, and Izumi finds out about when she’s relatively young, and draws exactly the sort of conclusions about her parents that you would expect. Not to mention being terrified that she might be treated the same way if she missteps…

Ozai never declares Zuko and Iroh traitors

Iroh-Azula roleswap au

Zuko asks Azula for help with his firebending

Zuko wants Azula to like him but doesn't get why she doesn't like him (postwar)

Katara has an arranged marriage with Zuko and Azula tries to get into the good graces of her sister in law

"Katara is supposed to have an arranged marriage with Zuko, but she falls in love with Azula instead."

Another take on Zvtara (arranged marriage) and Maizula.

Azula-Katara AU idea (or: Katara runs into an Azula who has changed a lot in some ways and not very much in others)

Zuko is actually Ikem's son

Firelord Azula ends her brother's exile

Azula raises Izumi (it's complicated)

"AU idea: Azula commits suicide out of despair, and just about everyone is convinced that Zuko had her murdered or at the very least “encouraged” her to do it."

Dangerous Ladies get banished/declared traitors and Azula basically gives up. Mai has to step up her place

I have to say, “Zuko has to deal with finding out that Ursa very much isn’t who he believed she was” remains excellent fanfic fodder.

"AU idea: Ursa is more aware of Ozai’s abuse and potential for abuse than in canon, so, right after her exile, she seeks out Iroh and charges him with protecting both of her children."

Firelord Iroh treats Azula in a really screwed up way.

"AU where Azula dies during the latter stages of the war or right after it, and Mai is the only person who ever morns her as a person, not as a politically convenient symbol (Ty Lee runs away from her complex feelings on Azula as much as she can)."

Dark idea

"Since so much of the fandom is convinced that Azula is Zuko’s older sister, I need an AU where this is true and Zuko is just as throne-obsessed as canon and spends all his time trying to usurp his older sister."

"AU where Ozai has a heart attack and dies right after the fire siblings return to the Fire Nation, and Zuko and Azula have to pick up the pieces. Meanwhile, the Gaang are plotting to overthrow them and bring the war to a close once and for all..."

King Kuai adopts Azula as his heir

Things get complicated, darkly (Azula exiled postwar AU)

What if Zuko tried to be a good brother

"I really need an AU where Lu Ten returns and is pissed over Ozai’s usurpation, so he kills Ozai, seizes the throne, and continues the war. Of course, Iroh ends up supporting his actual son in all of this, and the conflict in the Fire Nation ends up boiling down to Zuko and Azula vs. Lu Ten and Iroh as the situation spirals toward civil war, at the same time the 100 years war continues."

"Maizula AU where Mai married Zuko, but he died not long after Izumi was born, and Azula and Mai are secretly carrying out a relationship while raising Izumi and ruling the Fire Nation as her regents."

Azula joins the Gaang with a twist...

"The chaos which would result if Lu Ten showed up alive again in Book 1 and launched a rebellion against Ozai in pursuit of “his” throne."

Ursa opposes Firelord Zuko

Iroh tries to kill Azula during "The Chase"

Mai and Ty Lee on trial for "war crimes"" and Azula has to save them

This is very long list, and people are welcome to steal any ideas they want from it for their own use.

[lazyveran]

Heyyyy how is it going? I had a question about the political marriage au.

You talked about how jealous katara is of tylee, is it because tylee is azula’s ex (or even someone azula had intimate relationship with)? Or cause tylee is a tease and clingy to azula but azula is oblivious cause it’s tylee she had always been like this.

How is the relationship between tylee and azula in your au?

Thanksss for this amazing au I can’t wait to read the fic.

SO. i have many thoughts on this. my personal fun time hc characterisation for ty lee is that she's kind of (insanely incredibly) toxic when it comes to attention seeking and personal relationships. my idea of ty lee is that she endlessly chases attention - any attention, good or bad - and drops anything and everything once she thinks she's not getting enough/losing/getting bored of said attention. however she IS locked in for life to her childhood friendships with azula, mai and zuko because they afford her the only stability she's ever really had. essentially, shes co-dependant on the group and a toxic, flaky attention-seeker. i LOVE her and her insane brain.

NOW. the way that relates to the azutara au is that ty lee is highkey annoyed azula now has a wife that's taking up her time and emotional investment. very rude. she's grown up with azula and has this possessive attachment to her and to the INTENSE devotion and attention azula gives ty lee (yipeee emotional issues!!). azula is pretty much used to ty lee being like this, it's just one of her normal quirks like auras and whatnot, so she doesnt bat an eye at it. oh ty lee is hanging off her arm directly in front of her wife? that ty lee, she's so silly!

i think im leaning more on the idea they had this really super intense friendship as children (in love with each other and never realised it/said anything) and that kind of carried on/morphed into this strange, a-little-too-close-for-best-friends situation as adults.

katara has to watch in excrutiation as ty lee teases and goads (poking to get attention) while azula defends the damn woman because "this is just how ty lee is" as in she's EMOTIONALLY DUMB and can't see the very obvious weird ass dynamic they have. katara gains a fun new sixth sense called *detect when ty lee is being weirdly intimate with azula* as a result. its very effective

[zukkaart]

The original 3 of A:tla are genuinely the only ones who I can picture actually wanting to have children.

Katara might be “motherly” because she was forced into the roll, but she is also genuinely very caring and maternal. And I can see her being one of those people who has wanted kids since she was really little.

Aang obviously wants kids, if only for the reason that he feels the crushing obligation of rebuilding the air nation, but he also learns responsibility very quickly and was amazing with children from episode one

Sokka is just so dad. He was the “father figure” for the gaang pretty much until Zuko came along. It’s so obvious and cute how they all look up to him. He also tries to be authoritative with the water tribe children but he folds so easily around them. And let’s not forget how he was the one who was taking care of Mai’s little brother (seemingly willingly)

As for the others

Toph had kids in canon, but she obviously was never the type of person who ever thought about having kids. I won’t go as far as to say Lin and Su were “accidents”, but she never had a good role model for parenting. I feel like she’d try to base her parenting off of Aang and Katara, but that just isn’t who she is at her core. And she knows that because she’s self aware, but also can’t find it in herself to change.

Azula I feel like would want kids in theory, but be too terrified that she’d pass down trauma, or turn into an abusive perfection-demanding parent like her dad was, or neglectful like she perceived her mom to be.

Zuko is kind of the same. He knows he should carry on the royal bloodline. But with already being Fire Lord and at such a young age he is terrified of becoming his father. He constantly has to remind himself that he is not Ozai, and he has to do this his entire life.

Mai I feel like doesn’t want children for less personal reasons. She feels like she can’t be as emotionally available as she knows a child needs (bc that’s what she needed but didn’t receive), but even more than that. She refuses to bring a child in to a post war-torn world that is basically dangling on the precipice of falling back into chaos

Ty Lee I feel like is just genuinely the vodka aunt. She doesn’t want to be tied down by her own children but she loves everyone else’s. She travels the world and comes back every few months to feed them all too much sugar and shower them with gifts. She’s all of the kids favorite aunt, and by extension- the parents worst nightmare (they secretly love it though)

[the-genius-az]

Azula Beta and her three girlfriends!

@blorboazula I invoke you!

Ps: I made the list longer, I hope everything is perfect and understandable.

Azula had to investigate many times and even stay awake to have all the information possible about the Alphas and Omegas.

Azula didn't even realize that the three of them were courting her.

Azula has no idea why two beautiful Omegas and a beautiful Alpha are in love with her.

Azula doesn't smell anything except a little cherries and smoke, and the pheromones of her three girlfriends.

The Beta has to stay still for hours while her three girlfriends bite her to leave their marks and pheromones.

Azula's body is always marked, with anything from her three girlfriends, bites, hickeys, semen and other fluids, and etc.

She is proud to be a Beta, although there was a time where she felt like she was an experiment for Mai and Ty Lee because she is a beta and betas don't mate.

In the asylum, she didn't understand why the beautiful Omega from Avatar stayed to help her, much less did she understand when she kissed her.

He never realized about the silent fury between Mai and Ty Lee with Katara, and vice versa.

He thought that Katara was in love with Mai and Ty Lee, and that they were in love with Katara too.

She didn't know that in reality the three of them were angry and jealous, that there was a possible competition for her.

Mai, along with Ty Lee, made an alliance with Katara to have Azula, only the three of them were allowed to be with Azula, did anyone else want her? Well, he appeared dead on the hill later.

Azula thought that her citizens were afraid of her when she left the asylum and toured the capital, without realizing that it was because three girls followed her with their pheromones impregnating her.

Azula is tired because she has to mate with three people, sometimes she just runs away... in vain.

Betas have both genitals...something that Mai, Ty Lee and Katara took advantage of.

Sometimes Katara gets jealous and envious when she thinks about Azula's past with Mai and Ty Lee.

Sometimes Mai and Ty Lee are jealous and sad because Azula already has someone else just in case, and is no longer completely dependent on them.

When they have children it is the only time Azula envies her wifes because she cannot mark them as her puppies with pheromones.

Ironically, it is Azula who is in charge of making the nest for the three of them, because none of the three likes the nest that the other makes.

All three of his wives think that Azula would be a perfect Alpha or Omega, she meets almost all the stereotypes of both dynamics.

[animation-cartoon-fan-writings]

A Secret Darkness

Idea by Stardust948

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Princess Emi of the Fire Nation had always been a happy ball of sunshine. The first born child of Fire Lord Zuko and Fire Lady Katara, she radiated a different type of light than the world had been seen before her birth. A happy baby, Emi began smiling and giggling at two-months-old and rarely stopped since.

For her parents, their eldest child lived up perfectly to her name, meaning “blessing”. After losing so much to the One-Hundred-Year War, both mentally and physically, Emi was the light of their whole worlds right from the moment Katara found out she was pregnant.

Zuko in particular vowed to himself the moment his daughter was born that he would protect her from all of the darkness of the world. Whether it meant spoiling her beyond belief, indulging in Emi’s every whim and dropping whatever he was doing if she as much as called for him, or instinctively picking her up and taking her away from any place or situation that could be considered even the least bit dangerous. Zuko was a protective girl dad through and through.

This protective instinct was often extended to the people Zuko was cautious of letting into his child’s life, including his own family.

Azula hadn’t been a large part of Zuko’s life following the end of the war, having been put in a psychiatric facility almost immediately following her loss during Sozin’s Comet. During the entirety of Katara’s pregnancy with Emi, the Fire Lord assumed his kids would never meet their aunt. Thankfully, his sister had recovered enough to be discharged when Katara was five-months-pregnant.

It was a long process, but Azula’s weekly therapies and regular medication really helped stabilize her mind, they eventually got to a place where Zuko was more comfortable gradually letting her back into his life. Soon enough, when Emi was three-months-old, Zuko finally introduced his new bundle of sunshine to her aunt. Since then, Azula has accepted the title of “cool aunt” and was quite good at it. She loved her niece and prayed to Agni above that she never lost that light of innocence in her eyes.

Despite having been reunited with his own mother, finding her alive with a new husband and 10-year-old daughter, Zuko hesitated on introducing her to Emi until she was around a year old. Even so, Ursa barely had a relationship with Emi, too focused on her new life and her youngest daughter Kiyi. It was that, along with other things, that led Zuko to decide to go low contact with his mom. He refused to let his daughter go through what he did and would not trust anyone with her if they were not going to be a reliable presence.

Then, there was Ozai. Zuko had been adamant from the moment he and Katara started discussing the possibility of having children that his father would not have anything to do with his kids. This was one thing that the Fire Lady had no problem with, knowing just how evil Ozai was and would always be. So, Emi grew up for the most part believing Iroh was her paternal grandfather, calling him “Papa Iroh”.

As Emi grew older and started getting more curious about the world around her, Zuko’s protective levels started going into hyperdrive. This wasn’t helped by the fact that, since having her, he and Katara had expanded their family by two, with his wife giving birth to their second daughter Kya (named after Katara’s late mother) when Emi was two, followed by their third child and first-born son Kallik just a few years later. How was he supposed to keep his eye on a rambunctious little girl, a toddler, and a newborn while simultaneously keeping up with all his duties as Fire Lord?

Unlike the Fire Lords of the past, Zuko made it clear that he and Katara would not rely on an arsenal of nannies and servants to raise their children. This meant the royal couple did the majority of the childrearing themselves. While they did have Iroh, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee living at the palace to help on occasions where both he and Katara were super busy, it wasn’t like any of them could be at multiple places at once.

Plus, Emi was starting to get really good at sneaking away undetected for long periods of time. While she thankfully never went beyond the palace grounds, it was still a frightening experience as Zuko would be frantically searching every corner of the palace and beyond for his missing daughter, only to find her hiding in some small corner of the palace library with a smile on her face, eating a freshly-stolen box of cookies from the kitchen.

While it usually wasn’t any more than that, this habit of exploring places throughout the palace that she wasn’t allowed to be in often led to some close calls. Catching her before she got too close for comfort.

Unfortunately, on one fateful day, it happened.

Emi, now six-years-old, wanted to play with mommy and daddy, but unfortunately, they were too busy. At the moment, Katara was feeding the five-month-old Kallik and Zuko was stuck in a meeting with his council, leaving Aunt Azula to at least try to keep an eye on both her and four-year-old Kya.

After several hours, Azula thought she finally got the two young princesses down for their nap. But, the minute she left the room to fetch the girls some snacks and juice, Emi woke up and escaped her Aunt’s suite to once again start exploring the unchartered places of the large Fire Nation palace.

After a while, she found herself downstairs, below the grounds of her home, down in a place she had never seen before. It was mostly dark, except for the flickering of fire light from the torch flames that lines the walls. Emi knew she should go back upstairs before someone realized she was missing, but her naivety and strong sense of curiosity got the better of her. She kept slowly walking through the narrow hall, her big golden eyes looking all around her with such wonder.

Suddenly, the little princess stumbled upon a dark cave marked off by chains and a sign that read “High Risk Prisoner, Under Strict Lockdown, No One is Permitted to go Beyond this point without the presence of authorized staff”. While most people would read that and immediately turn back, Emi didn’t really know how to read anything beyond the level of her picture books and fairy tales.

She was completely oblivious to the darkness a person could possess. She grew up believing everyone and everything was all happy and bright. That even those that were bad at first would eventually become good with just the right help and encouragement. That just a bit of kindness and forgiveness would enough for people to change. She had no idea just what she would find when she got her little body past the chains to see what was on the other side of the cave.

Emi walked slowly down the path. As she approached the end, she saw an old man behind a wall of clear metal. Who is this man?, she thought. His hair was light grey, long and disheveled. His eyes were locked to the floor, devoid of any emotion. Sitting with his back against the wall, his body crouched over like an old hermit just passing the little time he had before death finally took him. Emi kept her distance from him, but her curiosity kept her from running in the other direction.

Suddenly, the man slowly turns his head, looking right at the young princess. Emi cautiously takes a few steps forward as the man’s eyes widen. “Azula?,” the man finally speaks. The child doesn’t answer. Instead, she cocks her brow, confused as to why the man just called her by her Aunt’s name.

Emi did resemble her father a lot. She had his ember-colored eyes and midnight black hair. But, her skin tone was only one shade lighter than her mother’s natural mocha shade. Her father, in comparison, had a light ivory skin tone, just like Aunt Azula. So, Emi didn’t know how this man she had never met before could confuse her with Azula or how he knew of her aunt in the first place.

The man speaks again, louder this time, “Azula! I’m so glad you came to visit. Have you heard what your brother has been doing?”. The man knew her father. Curiosity getting the best of her, Emi decides to play along and not reveal herself to the man. “No. What?,” she asks the man. He scowls as he begins ranting, “Your good-for-nothing brother has decided to completely destroy our bloodline. Not only did he marry that retched waterbender from the south pole, but now he has gotten her pregnant. Can you believe it? The heir to the throne, without the pure ivory skin of Fire Nation royalty. It is simply an abomination!”.

Emi didn’t know what to say to all that. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Clearly he was talking about her parents, and the “abomination” he was referring to could only be her. She had never in her life heard anything like this. “Wh-why is it an abomination? I mean, how would it reflect on him as a leader?,” she inquires, hoping to find out more.

The man cackles madly, “My child, Agni above has blessed our nation to be superior to all others. The Fire Nation is the greatest nation in the world and our bloodline is the purest in the land. Your brother tainting it with some tribal whore just proves that he doesn’t care about his country.”

Emi’s heart drops hearing those words. Did he just say Aunt Azula was his child? Is this man Dad and Aunt Azula’s dad?, her mind races. But, that’s impossible. Papa Iroh is dad’s dad. He’s my grandfather. Surely, daddy would never lie to me about something like that.

“I swear, the spirits are going to burn this nation to the ground and damn us all to the pits of hell for this disrespect to Agni… Either way, thar bastard child of his will always be half-water tribe. By that alone, our family tree will be tainted with impure blood. Agni help us all that child becomes fire lord. But, I suppose you already know that, Azula.”

Emi takes one step back, growing scared of this man. He continues to rant as the child slowly walks backwards, every word he says seeping into her brain and being internalized by the young, innocent soul.

“Don’t worry, soon enough you, my golden child, will take back the throne from your traitor of a brother and his snow-eating whore of a bride. I know you, Princess Azula. My little prodigy. You were born lucky, truly gifted in your abilities as a firebender. And once you finish the job from that Agni Kai, all other nations will fall and you and I will rule as supreme leaders of the world!”

The prisoner starts laughing like a mad man and that’s when Emi couldn’t bear to hear another word. She turns around and runs out of there as fast as she could. Thankfully, the man was so wrapped up in his own laughter and delusions that he didn’t notice. His deep, evil laughter echoing off the walls as she ran back through the narrow dirt pathway.

The princess felt an ache in her stomach as she began to run up the stairs. She felt the tears picking at the corner of her eyes, threatening to fall. She held it all in as she made it up to the top of the stairs and rushed over to the family wing of the palace. Even as servants called her name as she quickly passed, she didn’t answer. Finally, she made it back to her room, going in and slamming the door shut.

She takes a few deep breathes before her lips begins to quiver and her eyes water. Emi runs over to her bed and leaps forward, landing face-down onto the mattress. The now-terrified princess buries her face in her pillow as she begins to cry.

The Fire Nation’s innocent ray of sunshine had just seen the secret darkness of the world. And things would inevitably never be the same again.

Hope you guys liked this. If you want me to continue this and write a part 2, please let me know.

[mysticwolfshadows]

Taken - Zutara - Part 31

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Getting into Gao Ling is the easy part. Finding the Earth Rumble and the giggling girl is oh so very hard.

In the end, they find Earth Rumble 6 by asking (Threatening, really) a pair of annoying boys from the local Earthbending school.

Katara didn't quite see the appeal in watching over grown man children throw rocks at each other, but Sokka seemed into it, and her brother could use the reprieve. Zuko sighed, slouching next to her.

"Not your thing?" She asked.

"I'd rather be watching the Ember Island Players butcher Love Amongst the Dragons."

She snorted. She'd gone with them once, to Ember Island, a month after Lady Ilah passed. Ozai hadn't gone, and Azula had kept vanishing with Mai and Ty Lee, but Ursa had made sure she and Zuko came with her to see the Ember Island Players. She had loved the theater, not quite like her mother and father acting out folktales, but close enough. They had only gone the once, but it had been enough. For a moment, she had felt the comfort of something familiar, and that had been enough.

"You hated them," she said, smiling a bit. "You said they were... What was it? A disappointment to all of acting and fine arts?"

"They were! Are! They have no regard for the real message of the plays they do, no heart or soul, and-" He caught her growing grin, and blushed. Seemingly embarrassed, he slouched more in his seat. "I just don't like how they do things."

"You're passionate about the arts," Katara hummed. "Thats not a bad thing."

"Wait," Aang gasps, drawing her attention. "I think... I think that's her. The girl I saw in the swamp!"

Katara turned, blinking in surprise as she found a little girl in the ring. Her eyes were milky white, and didn't shift to follow sound. She couldn't be much older than ten.

"You're sure?" she asked, frowning.

"I'm positive."

Nodding, Katara focused on this fight. She wasn't all that familiar with earthbending forms, for obvious reasons, but she picked up on a few things. This Blind Bandit girl didn't move until her opponent did. The girl waited, listened, until her opponent moved. It was only then that she strikes, using her opponents movement and attacks against them.

When the girl won, so easily, the announcer called for challengers. Before she could stop him, Aang was up and jumping down into the ring. Sokka boos him, but Katara is a little more focused on this Blind Bandit. Each time Aang is launched into the air, the girl seems confused. It isn't until Aang touches the ground again that she goes for another attack.

"She's really blind," Katara mused, frowning.

"Really?" Zuko leans forward with her, equally intrigued. "How can you tell?"

"She's only reacting to Aang when he's on the ground, or when he talks. I think she's using her bending to sort of see where people are... Remember that meditation exorcise? Where you sit and breath, and feel your element around you? I was able to feel water that Pakku sent at me in the North. I think this Blind Bandit is doing something similar, but on a larger scale."

Zuko watched the fight carefully, as Aang knocked the girl out of the ring. She had been so confident before, but now...

Aang is named champion, and Sokka is all over that belt. Meanwhile, Katara and Zuko talk with Aang.

"You're sure that's here?" Katara asked. "She's the girl from the swamp?"

"I'm sure," Aang said, more certain than Katara had ever heard him. "She was in fancy clothes in my vision though."

"Then we should check the Beifong estate," Zuko said. When Katara looked at him in confusion, he added. "His vision had a flying boar. That's the symbol of the Beifong family. They practically own Goa Ling. They bought most of the snow crab supply when I was doing trade for the tribe. I don't remember them having any children though."

"The flying boar is good enough for me," Aang said. "Let's check it out!"

And, of course, their stealthy peeking isn't stealthy enough to fool someone that can see anything touching the ground. The Blind Bandit, dressed in formal clothes, glowers.

"What are you doing here, Twinkle Toes?!"

"How did you know it was me?"

"She see's through the earth," Katara said, pushing herself up. "With her bending."

Immediately, the girls eyes are on her, voice low and tense. "How did you know that?"

"I can do something similar with my waterbending."

"That still doesn't explain how you found me. Or why you're here."

Katara wasn't sure what possessed Aang to start by talking about the swamp, but she quickly cut in.

"What he means is, he's the Avatar, and we think you're meant to be his Earthbending master."

"I really don't care," the girl said, turning to walk away. "Now leave. Before I call the guards."

"Hey," Sokka cut in, at the worst possible time. "We all need to do our part to end this war, and yours is-"

"Guards!" the girl called, making her voice high and fearful. "Guards!"

Katara smacked her brother as they scrambled to flee back over the wall. As they pressed themselves back against the wall, Katara heard the guards leading the girl away.

"You know your father doesn't want you wandering the grounds without supervision, Toph."

"Oh," Katara breathed, her chest feeling tight. "Oh..."

"What?" Aang asked, but Zuko was staring at her.

She swallowed. "She's a prisoner here. Just like I was, back in the Fire Nation."

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“Honey! It’s okay. It’s okay.” Warm hands cupped his face. “Breathe. I got you.”

The world slowly dialed back in, centering on slitted golden eyes staring intensely at him.

“Ursa…” Ozai pulled her into a tight hug. “You’re alright…”

“Me?” Ursa let out a nervous laugh. “You’re the one who…” She leaned her forehead against his. “Don’t ever scare me like that again.”

“Forgive me.”

“No.”

Ozai laughed slightly. They leaned in for a kiss when the door flew open and two very worried dragon children pounced him.

“Daddy! You’re okay!”

‘We were so scared!’

“Careful! He’s still recovering!” Ursa scolded.

Ozai paid no mind to the sharp pain as he hugged his precious children, alive and well. Ursa hugged his back. Ozai shifted some and the two shared a kiss. He was so relieved the nightmare was just that. A nightmare.

By Agni, he was going to make sure it stayed that way.

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“Once you’re released from prison, do you want to…live together again?” she mumbled the last part.

“Want to what?” Zuko asked.

Katara flushed. “Nothing.”

“What?”

“Don’t worry about it. It’s our last night together. I don’t want to ruin it.”

“Nothing you can do will ruin it.”

He gently kissed her forehead. Katara closed her eyes as his lips lingered.

“Katara…” Zuko rasped.

“Yes?”

“Will you wait for me?”

She kissed his scar then pulled him close. “Yes.”

Zuko buried his face against her chest and wrapped around his arms around her. Warmth spread all across his body, igniting his inner flame.

“Will you stay with me?” Katara ran her cool fingers across his chest. “If only for a night?”

“Yes.”  

He kissed her neck, growing more excited as she shivered. The feeling from the strange dream was back but so much more intense. Raw. Alive.

“Zuko…”

“Katara…” Another kiss. “I love you.”

Hands wandered lower, inviting him closer. “Say it again…”

Zuko surrendered. To the feeling. To his body.

To her.

“I love you… I love you… I love you…”

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Summary: Through experiment with firebending moves, Katara learns how to summon thunderstorms. Where there’s thunder, there’s lightning. And lightning with no control is a danger to it all. After a terrible accident, Katara swears to never summon storms again unless they find someone who can control the lightning.

Someone who wasn’t Zuko that is.

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“My name is Lee and these are my children.”

He turned and only Zuko, Katara, and Sokka. Ozai’s stomach dropped. Where was Aang?! Of all the times to run off!

“Which are?” The soldier pressed.

Ozai’s mind went blank. “Lee Jr… Ty Lee and… Lee the third.”

Sokka’s face twisted in confusion but before he could say something sarcastic, Ozai spoke up.

“My youngest. Mute from birth, poor thing.”

Sokka’s jaw dropped.

“A bit slow too.” Zuko smirked.

“But we still love him!” Katara pinched his cheek. “Who could say no to that face?

Sokka gave them both the dirtiest look possible.

“Children, huh?” The soldier glared at Zuko’s scar and the Water Tribe siblings’ dark skin. “Aren’t you all a <em>colorful</em> bunch.”

“If we’re done here-“ Ozai started.

“Not quite. Lift your head.”

Ozai tensed. Before he could make a move, Aang jumped in front of him, large straw hat obscuring Ozai’s face.

“Lee where are your manners?! How could you forget to introduce your dear old dad?!” he spoke in a ridiculous old man voice.

“My apologies… <em>Dad.</em>” Ozai cringed on the inside. “This is-“

“Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis the Third!” He jabbed the soldier in the chest. “But that’s Mr. Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis the Third to you!”

“Uh…” The soldier balked.

“I apologize for my father. He can get a little high strung sometimes.”

“Oi, watch yer mouth!”

Aang smacked Ozai’s head with his staff.

“Ack!” he rubbed his head then shot daggers at a smug Aang while the others snickered.

Oh he was so going to get it later.

“Now what’s the hold up here?!” Aang twitched his bushy mustache. “Back in my day they respected elders with the highest regard! Ya bow ya head, say yes sir, please and thank you, and offered to carry their bags. Did I hear any offers yet? Youth these days! Back in my day-”

“Okay okay!” The soldier sighed and waved them off. “Just stay out of trouble.”

“Don’t tell me what to do, young spark.” Aang jabbed his chest again. Ozai ducked as Aang swung his staff again then hobbled off. “Come along now sonny. I need to treat my sweet grandbabies to mountains of candy apples and shaved ice!”

“Coming Grandfather!” Katara and Zuko ran after him followed by a pouting Sokka with his arms crossed.

“Let yer old grandpappy show you how it’s done!”

“Careful Dad.” Ozai forced a smile. “You know you can’t eat that stuff anymore.”

“Watch me!”

The soldier massaged his growing headache.

Mixed families were so weird.

Thanks for the asks!

[theowritesfiction]

As promised here’s my ask/revue of chapter 29. And to preface, the was amazing.

I read and enjoyed the last chapter. (29) Plus getting a glimpse into a conflicted Katara who is jealous but also doesn’t want her friend(s) ending up hurt was great to read. And have I mentioned that I love jealous Katara who wants Azula all to herself? Cause I love jealous Katara who wants Azula all to herself.

“Obviously, Katara felt terrible for even thinking about hooking up with Azula during this sensitive drama, but her heart had no way of denying what she wanted” - I admit I started smirking at this line. Odviosily I want best girls to get together, the road to get there (despite being bumpy at times) is also just so incredibly satisfying. I swear Azutara slow burn is one of the best things in this world. Though some times Azutara getting together quickly is also satisfying. Like in Juniperhill “The dievil you know”. Perhaps it’s a contradiction to like both, but I own to that. Azutara dynamics are just the gods gift to the world.

I also especially loved the moment were Zirin is complaining that Azula is talking Katara, Yue, and Suki a bit too much. And when Azula took her sarcastic remark as a good ahead to talk about the love (and lusts) of her life made me burst out laughing.

I laughter even harder when Zirin spells out what was wrong, accosted Azula about being too obsessed with Katara, Yue, and Suki (and Kya the budding Pai Sho Genius!) and stormed off. And Azula still didn’t know what the fuck she talking about!

Yes Azula do be honest with yourself. Katara is your preferred option every time. Please continue the introspection when Sober and hungover in the morning. Maybe you preferring Katara over anyone else has something to do with Zirin throwing wine in your face?

I smirked when exasperated Katara got out of bed to pick up drunk Azula.

Yue wanting to help Suki with her foster sister was really sweet. Kya wanting to burn the gifts is sad, but eerily reminiscent of Azula herself. It also reminds of the last chapter, which was amazing (as always) but also depressing. And I’m adult enough to admit that I was bawling in time with Kya and Azula in the last chapter.

Of course Azula found a bowling alley despite being drunk of her ass. Best girl is just that person ain’t she? Except when it comes to bowling itself, cause other best girls got her beat. Speaking of that I’m sure the tongue lashing that Katara gave was one for the history books. With Azula probably think of bowling alleys and how pretty Katara’s eyes are in the night, the whole time. Oh! And throwing up on her bowling ball.

Azutara adventure ending with peaceful walk in the night and violence against an unwanted pervert? Sign me up.

“Who knows," Katara laughed, looking like she was really enjoying herself”. My cheeks are starting to hurt after grinning so much this chapter.

Azula and Katara’s little conversation in the end was very sweet. Azula being determined to get Hakoda to the Fire Nation so that she could 1 see how her interacts with his children, and 2 see Katara’s smile as being reunited with the father she misses was adorable. As was Katara and Azula’s talk about having a “regular” sleep over. And the mental image of Katara tucking Azula in, or cuddling with her.

I’m glad Ty Lee wasn’t involved in the Blue spirits orgy. Sokka doesn’t deserve to be done like that. Though Mai being engaged to Roun Jan is bound to bring interesting happenings… also Mai is absolutely right. Zuko is a hypocrite that lacks introspection.

This chapter was awesome, and I loved all the sweet Azutara moments! I’m also glad for Suki/Yue. Both pairings deserve to be with someone who will love them wholly and utterly. Know we only need for Azula to get her out of ditch… easier said than done I bet! Can’t wait for the next update!

Hey, thank you so much for the review!

Indeed, we love jealous Katara. I think especially because Katara being such a sweet person, would feel very guilty for the way jealousy makes her feel, and I just love that kind of internal conflict for a character.

interesting that you would mention the Azutara dynamics and slow vs quick burn, because @juniperhillpatient and I were just talking about that recently, and coming away with the conclusion that it really depends on the circumstances in which we place our characters. sometimes driven by codependency they will come together very quickly, and sometimes when there's less pressure on them, slow burn makes a lot of sense. these girls are very versatile about their dynamics. <3

I always love it when a totally self-unaware Azula is gushing about her crushes. It's just something that fits her so well. :)

Yes, the drama with Azula, Yue and Kya was intended to be a bit of a tear-jerker, I'm afraid! Too bad for Kya, because she'll have to wait for another parental figure a little longer, but at least we're on the right track now that Suki and Yue are starting to bond more closely. Also, I'm sure she'll eventually have a lot of fun with all those expensive gifts.

I think with how tipsy Azula was, Katara yelling at her was pretty ineffective, so Katara probably didn't waste too much of her energy there. ;) But like... I just wanted them to spend some time together where their interactions weren't overwhelmingly dominated by lust. It felt important to show that they also work together very well on the level of friendship. Of course, the attraction is pretty obvious anyway. You can see that in how sweet they are with each other. ;)

Oh don't worry, Ty Lee might be a bit airheaded in this story, but she wouldn't cheat on Sokka. Also, I'm sure Mai is going to break off her engagement as soon as she slaps Ruon Jian awake XD and yup, I'm pretty sure Zuko will hypocritically throw a tantrum when he hears about the orgy

I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter, and seeing some of the building blocks for more serious Azutara and Yueki relationships further down the road :) but I'm enjoying taking my time with it, so the slowburns will continue for some time still!

[inkwardspots]

my path to destiny (leads to you)

Rating: Not Rated

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, Gen

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Katara/Zuko (Avatar), Iroh & Zuko (Avatar), The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar), Ursa & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Zuko (Avatar), Iroh & Ozai (Avatar), Azula & Sokka (Avatar), Hakoda/Kya (Avatar), Ozai/Ursa (Avatar)

Characters: Aang (Avatar), The Gaang (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Iroh (Avatar), Appa (Avatar), Ozai (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Azulon (Avatar), Kya (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Kanna (Avatar), Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar)

Additional Tags: Betrothal Necklace (Avatar), Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage, Marriage of Convenience, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Iroh is a Good Uncle (Avatar), Firelord Iroh (Avatar), Zuko-centric (Avatar), Katara/Zuko-centric (Avatar), Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, it starts with Lu Ten's death, Fluff and Angst, 100 Year War Ends Early (Avatar TV)

summary:

Uncle Iroh is kind and grieving. Firelord Iroh is tactical and peace-seeking.

Zuko, whose father still lives, is heir.

The ultimate snub, the palace maids had whispered, Lord Ozai's fall from grace.

Cousin Lu Ten is lost to war, Grandfather Azulon to illness, Father to power and Mother to forces unknown...and, in the end, all that is left is Zuko, clutching his domineering little sister's hand.

But, before all that, there is good: there is his friend Katara, bossy and kind. There is his friend Sokka, who always teases when Zuko falls during sword practice. There are summers in the Fire Nation with Sokka and Katara and the Earth Kingdom Ambassador's niece, Toph. There are winters in the South Pole, huddled under ancient blankets and kept warm by loving hands and soft-spoken words. There is political tension and plague and crisis. But there is also the promise of future.

Now, if only Zuko could find his own future, one separate from the Fire Nation's vision.

And to do it, he must do one thing:

Find the Avatar.

CHAPTER 2: Love and Loyalty

“Your Highness,” She rasps, sounding as if there is something blocking her throat, “It would be an honour to tell the fortune of the Fire Nation Royal Family.”

Mother eyes her warily, clutching Azula and Zuko’s hand tightly at the woman’s avid and beady gaze. “Well?” Mother hums, clutching their fingers tight, “What do you think, children? Zuko?” She says, turning to her son, “Azula?” She repeats, turning to her youngest child.

Azula bites the inside of her cheek, no doubt unwilling to believe in the nonsense-word of a half-blind crone. I shape my own path, she had told Zuko once, burning the overgrown hedge to ash on her way to the kitchen, there is no one who will stop me.

But, where Azula is determined to shape her fate, so brilliant and ambitious, Zuko is willing to believe there is a greater fate.

That the strings of destiny have strung a destiny for him that he doesn’t know just yet.

[agentsassy005]

I was rewatching the cartoon of avatar last airbender and realized how much story and canon stuff they fucked up on with legend of korra. They could’ve done a whole different category for korra like mastering the four elements by exploring the subcategories in elements. Metal, blood, steam, magma, healing, lightning, mud. That aang might’ve accidentally unlocked when he sealed ozais bending away in an enlightened avatar state that he was the only one who done so. And korra must relearn an ancient bending known as spiritual bending that was even lost by the avatars that aang was working on but died before finishing.

More under read more.

Also toph as the next king bumi au will always be my headcanon i seriously thought they butchered her as a cop. She will always be my con artist fav or at least in the white lotus to prevent corruption happening that fast.

Also the whole group is in like their early 50’s late 40’s when korra is a older teen kill aang a little sooner because he enlightened too early he killed his lifespan at probably 30 due to overworking himself trying to rebuild airbenders but instead of his kids he found benders that were descended from those who escaped due to gyatsu. So aang was training a new generation including the scientists family as living in the temple granted some to be born due to environment. He brought the sky bison variants bringing them back from extinction and found momos species the boy would not rest. He did have a kid with katara and traveled with them teaching them the nomad life

Korra is a southern water tribe still, keep polardog in katara was away grieving and looking for signs of the avatar, when sokka discovers korra is the avatar, she hit him with fire out of anger when he told her she can’t keep naga . Sokka loves the kid a warrior and even if a reincarnation he knows its not aang but still some quirks remain. He remembers what aang told him and is gonna help make sure korra gets her childhood first unlike most of the gang. But he takes her on lots of travels. Toph is her favorite aunt and toph recgonized that the way aang walked reincarnated calls korra twinkle toes always. And toph loves that the kid is a wild child and not a hippy like aang

Zuko is still fireking but he did divorce mei it was mutual, after they had a kid. Mei still lives in palace and acts as an advisor they both love their kid very well. Zuko and katara found each other after aangs death and married and had a child uniting water and fire tribes. Zuko also makes sure aang and kataras child know they are loved even though they won’t have their biological father with them. The three bending children cause a lot of trouble as they have to deal with all but earth elements. Mei laughs on the sideline.

Azula does get redeemed sometime inbetween. By forcing her to travel with sokka. The only one she seemed to respect see as an ally and sokka didn’t run away at her. They do have a kid surprising and pissing everyone off the kid is born around about same time as korra. So those two are best friends.

Suki and ty lee are lovers, sokka a third wheel also a donor. Both got a kid from sokka they act like twins even if only born a day apart master of chi blocking and unblocking.

Toph has a kid, nobody knows whose the father is toph is not telling. (Its sokka after a drunk night stand bad decisions made but toph did want to have a heir for her craziness) toph and suki also have a relationship ty lee doesn’t mind. All three girls are best friends

Sokka can’t have any sons it is a curse. Meanwhile katara has a son. Salty brother sokka. All the kids but suki’s and ty lees are benders. Korra feels like they’re all one big family.

The main villains would be spirits especially wan shi tong. Trying to close the bridge permanently to the spirit world as they see humans are not fit to have bending even though it is not their choice it is the lionturtle spirits choice. And wan shi tong starts trying to collect the avatars head for the past reincarnation aggression. Face stealer is helpful info and states it is a past life he needs to learn to move on. So it is a war in spirit world and real world.

Iroh still helps as a guide for korra as due to aangs enlightenment avatar state he unlocked it for the next avatar to be more spiritual, does not help korra was close to death from freezing as a kid. Aang helps teach korra killing is not always the answer. And that their are many angry spirits that are around after the war, and balance between humans and spirits must be found again now that the war is over. To learn from spirits whose rivers and forests destroyed, so we see humans and spirits recovering together. And we see yui as an ally as well.

All of this would help as world building as korra’s world building seem to forgot that some spirits gave up the immortal form and had NO WAY OF GETTING BACK TO THE SPIRIT WORLD. IM LOOKING AT YOU SEA AND MOON AND NORTHERN WATER TRIBE AS WELL AS MERGING THE TWO WORLDS PERMANENTLY WHEN THAT DIDNT NEED TO HAPPEN AS SPIRITS ARE TECHNICALLY DEAD YOUR ALLOWING PEOPLE TO CHEAT DEATH AND COME BACK TO LIFE. Also i want to see the people and spirits slowly recovering from a war that traumatized them. Begin to heal together.

[zuko-always-lies]

A Brief Guide to All the Tragic Childhoods of ATLA Children

Zuko: You know what happened to him.

Azula: You should know what happened to her; I’m not going to elaborate here.

Ty Lee: Grew up neglected and ignored by her parents/family, and felt like she had no identity of her own due to having six identical sisters.

Mai: Treated as a political tool by her parents; was repressed and shut down by them whenever she tried to express herself.

Aang: Ostracized by the other air nomad children once they figured out he was the Avatar. Treated like a weapon by some of the monks, who tried to separate him from his father figure. Then had his entire people genocided in a way that led him to think it was his fault, leaving him as the lone survivor of his people. Was frozen for a hundred years and woke up in a changed world with nearly all his friends dead.

Suki: Nothing is known other than having her village burned down by Zuko when she was ~15 or ~16. However, she did start training for combat at 8!

Katara: Her society was the victim of a long genocide. Had her mother murdered in front of her when she was very young.  Carried the burden of being the last Southern Waterbender.  Had to take take over many of her mother’s responsibilities as the oldest daughter from a very young age. Separated from her father for two plus years.

Sokka: His society was the victim of a long genocide.  Had his mother murdered by firebenders when he was very young. Begged to go off to war with his father but was left behind. Carried the emotional burden of protecting his tribe from when he was around 12.

Toph: Repressed and controlled by her parents, who kept her confined, treated her like she fragile, never let her do anything, and generally didn’t treat her like a person.

Yue: Likely lost her mother at some point in her childhood.  Had to base her life around the good of the tribe, to the extent of getting an arranged marriage to someone she didn’t love and who was a bit of a jerk. Sacrificed herself to save the world.

Jet: Orphaned at 8; had to take over the responsibility of keeping his fellow children alive and of fighting the Fire Nation from a young age.

Longshot: Had his town burned down by the Fire Nation, leaving him homeless.

Smellerbee: “Ran away from home when the Fire Nation seized her parents’ land. “

The Duke: Orphaned by the Fire Nation.

Hahn: Died at 17 trying to defeat a Fire Nation invasion of his homeland.

Teo: disabled, lost his mother and left homeless by a “terrible flood” when he was an infant.

Haru: Father was imprisoned years ago, can’t bend his native element without risking imprisonment, briefly imprisoned by the Fire Nation.

Song: had her village raided by the Fire Nation when she was young, had her father captured and disappeared then. Had to become a refugee. Burned by Fire Nation forces.

Jin: Parents were refugees from the Fire Nation.

Ghashiun: Lost his mother to skin cancer.

Lee(from the family in “Zuko Alone”): Brother had to go off to war and was eventually captured by the Fire Nation.

Little Boy(”The Painted Lady”): Has to beg for food, his mother is badly sick, lives in a suffering town.

On Ji, other Fire Nation children: went through the hellscape which is the Fire Nation education system.

Zuko is very much not the only child who has suffered, or who has a very tragic and emotional story!

[atla-suki]

nose animation in atla: a long ramble with no actual point.

before i go further, i KNOW that atla has anime-inspired animation/art style. i am aware that the characters are not white and the animation reflects this. i have no issues with the atla art style (i actually love it it’s so iconic), only some of the continuity. i’m just nitpicking because it’s fun and i’m never satisfied.

i’ve also done NO research at all on this topic. idk anything about the animation or character designs or inspiration, etc. and if i’m wrong on any points i apologise in advance.

ANYWAYS one thing about atla that has, for some reason, stood out to me is the way the characters’ side profiles are drawn. i’ll give you an example.

characters such as aang, toph, katara, and even ty lee are drawn like this:

their noses, mouths and chins jut out from the rest of their heads at a quite sudden point on the face. what i mean, is that their noses are very rounded and soft. this is usually used to depict innocence and youth, which makes absolute sense considering all of these characters are children. they’re little. they’re immature. they have faces that reflect this.

on the other hand, characters such as hakoda, iroh, zhao, and any other older character have much more defined noses - like this:

now see how zuko, mai, jet and azula also have this feature? the sharp, defined nose? this never sat right with me. i’ll explain why.

you could argue that it’s a fire nation trait. that they just happen to have sharper features. and i wouldn’t disagree - they DO typically have sharper features. however there’s people like ty lee who don’t fit into this. and with the continuity of soft features for the rest of the young characters, it seems strange to have these few YOUNG characters have such adult features.

one guess is that they’re designed to be more menacing. they are, after all, antagonists in the story (ik jet isn’t a proper antagonist ok but he’s an antagonist for the purpose of this post). this explains the sharp features, the maturity and higher level of knowledge that comes with characters who are trained to be lethal and who have less distinct morals.

visual storytelling is just as important as actual storytelling. we, as an audience, see sharp features and we connect this to danger, to someone who’s probably AGAINST the protagonists. similarly, soft features welcome a sense of security, a sense of trust. aang wouldn’t be nearly as loveable of a protagonist if he had sharp features and a permanently serious expression.

i just don’t think this is the case with atla, though. atla does a great job at reminding audiences that both the protagonists and antagonists are still YOUNG. they are CHILDREN. they aren’t painted to be adults or leaders (well… sorta. this doesn’t fully apply to azula but i’ll psychoanalyse that another day). and that’s what makes the idea of these characters fighting a war so tragic - they are children. they act like children, so naturally they should look like children too, no?

so my question stands thus: why, when all of our main characters (on both sides of the story) are children, are certain characters given soft features and others sharp?

like, sokka is the eldest of the gaang (excluding zuko), so why is he drawn to be so immature when he ISN’T? or, why is azula drawn to be so mature when SHE isn’t? are we meant to forget shes only 14? she’s the same age as katara and yet they’re drawn so differently.

simple answer: characterisation.

i’m gonna use sokka as an example because he’s the best his nose animation changes significantly more than any other character’s. sokka is notably portrayed as the goofy, comic relief, older brother. i personally don’t agree with this description of sokka but there’s no denying it’s true. anyways sokka is ALSO portrayed as the intelligent, paranoid, organised to a fault, mother of the group from time to time. with this description, you’d expect him to be drawn with more mature features. however, he is most often drawn with soft features, as such:

it’s only in scenes where he is being very serious, or acting as an adult, or in the middle of a dramatic fight, that he is drawn with sharper features, as such:

so, like i was saying about the visual storytelling, the way sokka is animated reflects the story that is being told and his place in it (actually i’ve noticed sokka looks way too goofy and lanky sometimes omg justice for sokka). aang has soft features to reflect his gentle nature, his morals, his kind heart. similarly (oppositely), azula’s features are always sharp and distinct, and so is her character and her place in the story as an antagonist. zuko as well. mai is always in a mood, and so her features and expression reflect this. the list goes on.

anyways i just. i know this is so long and so pointless. but i think if zuko can be given sharp, defined, adult features, so can sokka (and so can suki, now that i think about it. they are the eldest of the gaang, and yet…)

something doesn’t sit right with me in terms of the lack of continuity in the characters’ noses/side profiles and the way they are designed to express age, personality, etc.

BUT, as usual, i’m just being picky for the sake of it and i love this show to bits and everything i say is said out of love.

[kataraslove]

Would you say Azula is beautiful? There's very little discussion about her looks in comparison to other girls in the show who show up more than once. I saw some meta that Katara was over sexualized and Azula was desexualized and it just made me wonder.

if anyone is claiming that katara was oversexualized and azula was desexualized, then they’re straight up watching a different show lol. or they have no idea what those words mean. not once was katara ever hypersexualized by any of the characters, especially not the male ones and especially not by her canon love interest. if they’re referring to katara’s actress in the ember island players, then yeah, that’s the point. the play is meant to be imperialist propaganda, specifically designed by the fire nation to degrade the protagonists. it’s not a commentary by the writers on how they secretly view the characters (but maybe it is a commentary on how the fandom tends to stereotype and objectify these children).

also i’m quite interested to know what part of the fandom you’re referring to, because i see so much discussion about her looks. primarily how her full face of makeup starkly contrasts the appearance of other girls her age, especially her friends growing up in or around fire nation nobility (mai and ty lee). azula is provided a full face of makeup in her character design because like many other female antagonists, she is meant to look older than she actually is. i also think the makeup helps to solidify her character traits; when we see azula, we see someone who is conniving, cunning, a perfectionist, someone with status and power, who will do whatever it takes to keep that status and power because from a very young age, she was conditioned to believe that her worth came from all of the things that she could achieve for her father.

i also want to compare her character features to other nobility, such as yue:

yue’s makeup and overall appearance, in contrast, is meant to highlight her innocence as a princess in the northern water tribe royalty, a nation with much more patriarchal values than the fire nation (that’s not to say that the fire nation is #feminist and #girlboss, because they’re not lmao). at first glance, you would think that yue would be younger than azula, wouldn’t she? but that’s definitely not the case at all. so the argument that azula looks older than she is due to her status in nobility (as a fire nation princess and daughter to firelord ozai) doesn’t quite hold when we see cases of royalty from other nations - in addition to nobility within the fire nation - demonstrating youthfulness and innocence in their appearance.

so to answer your question, azula is very beautiful, anon! I’m not sure if desexualized is the right word at all for her. especially when so much of her beauty is meant to emphasize her maturity and role as 1) the daughter of the primary antagonist and 2) as an antagonist herself.

also, fun fact - azula’s appearance + character is based off of lady eboshi from princess mononoke.

[incorrectzukka]

A:TLA Soulmarks AU 5

- zuko is a tapestry of gray marks. everyone he has ever loved has betrayed him.

- he has a dragon mask for his mother on his right shoulder, and a flame for his father on his left. he doesn’t know how he got them. most parents fondly cherish their memories of their marks appearing on their children, but zuko wonders if his parents even know he has them.

- the one mark he remembers from his childhood is a bolt of lighting surrounded by blue flames: at the centre of his small torso. he feels it burn when his little sister, three weeks old, bubbling in the royal nanny’s arms, sneezes when he touches her nose.

- zuko, who has so much love to give. zuko, who loves so deeply even his marks form a triangle around his heart. zuko, who is ten years old and has no idea what his mark looks like because not one of them have shown it to him.

- his father burns half his face off. his father sends him on what his uncle calls a hopeless quest. the mark doesn’t fade, because his father hasn’t betrayed him. zuko knows this. his father has taught him a lesson. he knows this. the mark is not gray.

- his mother leaves him, but the mark isn’t gray. she is coming back. it isn’t a betrayal, because she loves him and she will come back. the mark will not go gray.

- eventually, they do. zuko doesn’t know when they go gray, because he refuses to look at his marks anymore. he’s practicing his bending (never good enough) in the higher temperatures of some Earth Kingdom port they’re docked at, when his uncle points it out.

- he huffs and moves into his next stance with ease, but the fire at the end of his fist burns a little hotter. he searches for something in himself: anger, apathy, sadness, acceptance. all he feels is shame.

- he spares a moment to wonder why azula’s mark is as blue as ever, and he thinks of his sister, poisoned by their father. he wonders if he has a mark on azula, and if it went gray when he left Caldera.

- his uncle is the one who shows him what his mark looks like. they’re standing on the deck of the ship and iroh lifts his sleeve to show him a patch of angry skin, shot through with a gold slit. it looks like his left eye.

- he laughs, but nothing is funny. his mark of love is the ugliest part of him, because loving zuko is not a gift: it’s a curse. the laugh sounds wet, even to his own ears.

- “it means those who love you... they love you even knowing what you think are your deepest flaws,” his wise uncle says and zuko thinks it sounds overly valorous even for him. zuko doesn’t have flaws. his father made it abundantly clear that zuko was the flaw.

- he feels the burn of a mark at the meeting point of his two collarbones. when he pulls his collar down, it shows a jasmine plant growing out of flames. he doesn’t need his uncle’s wisdom to know what it means: inner peace. strength through chaos.

- after he betrays his uncle, he has nightmares of the scar on his face turning an ashen gray. he wonders if he has ruined the only mark that belongs to him in the world with his selfishness.

- the mark is not gray. his scar looks almost a part of iroh’s skin. he cannot take his eyes off it, scared that it is a dream. his uncle never lost faith in him.

- zuko has resigned himself to carrying his uncle’s mark on himself as the only proof of his love. he only wonders why azula’s mark hasn’t faded yet: she tried to kill him enough. never would he have expected five other people to carry it.

- his mark fits like a puzzle on each one of them. after their experience with the dragons, aang lifts his right arm, streaked with colour over his arrows: katara’s droplet on the back of his hand, toph’s ring around the wrist, suki’s fan on his bicep, sokka’s weapons on the back of his arm, and zuko’s scar. zuko’s horrible, ugly, scar, the reminder that he was never wanted. zuko’s scar on his forearm, fitting in the middle of all those other beautiful marks. he blinks the tears away.

- he takes off his shirt to find a blue arrow swiping from under his left armpit and pointing to his heart.

- toph asks him to spar the next day, and she seems to be winning. she sends out a rock that catches him in the right side, but the pain is punctuated by a cold burn. he knows there will be light green seismic rings surrounding that bruise for a while.

- what he couldn’t have bet on knowing was toph’s hand pushing him up onto his knees, or the way she lifted the hem of her pant and demanded to know what the complete band of five marks around her ankle looked like. his scar almost blends in with aang’s arrow, and he has never been more glad that toph is blind except then.

- after they break in and out of a goddamn prison, sokka sits next to him in the airship. he takes zuko’s hand and places it on his left bicep, where his scar wraps around it, horrifyingly disfigured. he wants to apologize for it, but he looks at sokka’s smile and he doesn’t.

- instead, he asks how he completed sokka’s set, and listens to him explain the zig zag of marks across both his arms: suki’s fan on his left wrist, toph’s rings on his right forearm, zuko’s scar on his left bicep and aang’s arrow on his right shoulder. katara’s mark is the apex of the pattern- high up on his collarbone.

- zuko lifts his shirt to show sokka the crossed sword and boomerang he felt form on his right pectoral, above toph’s rings.

- sokka gasps at suki’s golden fan, framed under aang’s arrow on his other side. he calls suki over, and zuko is infinitely glad no one mentions how odd his marks are: not on arms or backs as most are. no, all on his torso, like a freak.

- suki regards him calmly, before turning he right wrist to show him his scar. “this doesn’t mean i forgive you for burning my village,” she says, but sits down with them and jokes about how all the boys were on her right side, and all the girls were on her left.

- zuko knows where katara’s mark will turn up. by know the pattern is crystal clear: the space on his midriff, just above azula’s mark and caught between toph’s rings and suki’s fan. it forms as soon as he decides that he will help her avenge her mother.

- after it is all done, katara regards him with cool eyes and pulls away from the hug. she twists to her right, showing the entirety of shoulder covered in his scar. he sees the symmetry it forms, sokka’s mark on the back of her neck, aang’s arrow on her forehead, toph’s rings around her neck, suki’s fan on her other shoulder.

- he wonders if they all felt as unbalanced as he did without the set of five, and he decides he doesn’t care. six people. six people in the world love him, and that is enough.

- he never worries about azula’s mark going gray because she burns it off him herself with her lightening. he does worry about the small remorse he feels looking at his scarred skin after the battle.

Other parts: 1: Sokka and Katara | 2: Aang | 3: Suki | 4: Toph | 5: Zuko Extras: Ty Lee, Mai and Azula | Ozai

[concernedbrownbread]

Roleswap AU

Warning: Referenced Child Abuse

Across the battlefield, Zuko stood, his eyes blank and any spirit he had ever had burned away with the skin around the left side of his face. He stood like he used to when they were children, his stance relaxed and just confident enough to make people hesitate. Despite Azula’s prodigal skills, Zuko had always been better.

Easier, as well, to mold. Azula remembered now, as she saw the scar, why she had left that night. The night Father held down her brother and taught him resilience, and Zuko had sat there and taken it. He hadn’t even screamed.

Azula used to think she was a monster, until she saw Zuko that night.

“Azula?” Katara asked, “What now?”

She glanced at the other girl and then suddenly remembered the firmness of her friends' voices reminding her you’re not a monster.

She wouldn’t kill Zuko today.

(Basically my take on "what if Zuko was a prodigy as well, and was much easier to influence." ) Words: 1395

Warnings: Child abuse, Zuko being messed up, unhealthy coping mechanisms

Notes: My excuse to write a badass!Zuko and a good!Azula went dark after I refused to stop writing. Completely unedited because I got too excited and wanted to post. Also, I continue to be bad at writing action, to no one's surprise Also on Ao3

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Perhaps I should kill him, Azula thought, cold and meticulous and ultimately merciful. There was something cruel about keeping a human alive, when their eyes were so empty.

Across the battlefield, Zuko stood, his eyes blank and any spirit he had ever had burned away with the skin around the left side of his face. He stood like he used to when they were children, his stance relaxed and just confident enough to make people hesitate. Despite Azula’s prodigal skills, Zuko had always been better.

Easier, as well, to mold. Azula remembered now, as she saw the scar, why she had left that night. The night Father held down her brother and taught him resilience, and Zuko had sat there and taken it. He hadn’t even screamed.

Azula used to think she was a monster, until she saw Zuko that night.

“Azula?” Katara asked, “What now?”

She glanced at the other girl and then suddenly remembered the firmness of her friend’s voices reminding her you’re not a monster.

She wouldn’t kill Zuko today.

To be fair, seeing the flickers of white curling against the blue in his flames, Azula wondered if she even could. She herself had only managed to turn her flames purple.

“Where’s Toph and Sokka?” Azula asked as she returned her mind to the fight before her, blasting away a Dai Li agent with ease.

She glanced at her brother. She just stood there, unflinching.

“No idea,” Mai said, managing to drawl even now, “But Ty Lee was with Aang. They’re headed this way.”

As much as Azula loved her current friends, she’d certainly missed the flat disinterest of her old friend that made this situation a little bit more amusing.

“Why is he just standing there?” Katara hissed as she ducked below a flying boulder.

Azula moved sideways to dodge the same boulder before sending a flame after the agent that has sent it. She huffed, glancing over to her brother, who still hadn’t moved, even as his flames started spreading enough to become an obstacle for them.

“He’s waiting,” Azula said quietly.

(She remembered, now, suddenly, how he had waited patiently, as she complained about the palenquines that were arriving late, and then, still impassive, told her she could ride his shoulders all the way back home.

How he had been stoic, even then, blank and unmoving, but his eyes had been so bright.)

“Azula!” Katara yelled, her water smashing against earth that would have broken her skull. Azula gave her a grateful smile, ignoring the look Mai sent her way.

There was a loud crashing somewhere to Azula’s right, behind the wall of white flames now blocking her view.

“Help has arrived!” they heard, and Azula had never been quite so happy hear Sokka.

A blast of wind blew past them, taking the Dai Li down. Aang was here too. Shit.

Ty Lee cartwheeled over to them, avoiding flying stones with ease. Toph grinned her little gremlin grin and sent bigger rocks flying back. Aang flew over to them.

“Hey!” he said, “Let’s go - Appa’s just out - “

A burst of flame, singing Aang’s clothes. Wildly, Azula looked to where Zuko was standing - only to see he had moved.

He was fast - of course he was, what wasn’t he good at - and Azula found herself flying off to the side before she could even react. She would never roll her eyes at Sokka when he complained about how much being blasted bu fire sucked.

“Aang,” she tried to yell, “Get - “

A stone wall slammed into her, pinning her down to the ground. Disoriented, she looked up, to see the Dai Li moving aside as Zuko glided across the room, eyes set on Aang as he and the Dai Li batted past Katara’s water with ease.

“Oi!” Toph said, punching her rock-encased fists together, “I don’t care if you’re Azula’s bro, I’m beating the shit out of you.”

Zuko stared at her flatly. Azula struggled against her bounds.

Toph fought through the Dai Li with ease, but Zuko only stood by and watched. Calculating.

“Need help?” Sokka grinned.

Azula glared, “Just do it.”

“Ah, the great Fire Bender is at my mercy,” he smiled, even as he broke her restraints with his boomerang.

Any witty comeback Azula would have come up with was lost when she hurt Toph scream.

Her feet were burning.

Her feet were burning.

Katara moved out of her shock and put out the fire, kneeling beside Toph to try and heal it, but the damage was done. Azula looked at Zuko - remembering the boy who used to feed turtleducks, even as Azula tried to burn them - and saw no remorse.

He was gone. Her brother was gone.

Even now, as she watched Zuko take down her friends one by one, she could see Ozai’s hands gripping him. Whispering into his ears and cradling his hand, so gentle and soft in a way that he knew would never fool Azula but would always make Zuko weak.

Death is a mercy, Zuko once said, and Azula had been so young then, too young to understand.

The thought came back to her, the nagging thought of ending it here, but Azula knew that this wasn’t the time.

The situation seemed all too desolate. Even with them all, they didn’t stand a chance against the Dai Li in their home ground. Katara was trying to protect and heal Toph at the same time. Ty Lee and Mai were back to back, cornered. And Sokka was nowhere to be found. Across the battlefield, her eyes made contact with Aang, and she knew he was thinking the same.

“I’m sorry, Katara,” he said.

The Avatar State. So his training had been fruitful, at least, But then she saw Zuko, saw his fingers pressed together and his stance became firmer.

Azula didn’t know why she moved. Why she reacted the way she did. Why she even cared about this stupid monk kid and his (Azula’s) little friends. She didn’t know what she was doing, really, until she was in front of Aang, ready to take lightning for him.

Somewhere, she thought she heard Ty Lee scream. But when she opened her eyes, there was nothing.

For a moment, the world was quiet. For a moment, Azula looked into her Zuko's dead eyes and saw … fire.

“Azula,” he whispered.

The single word sent a shiver down her spine, and for a moment, she thought she saw -

But the moment broke as the ground shook. She craned her neck up to see Sokka had arrived.

Zuko took up his stance again but the momentary distraction had been enough. Toph was back - not on her feet, but that wasn’t going to stop her - and sent a wave of earth crashing straight into Zuko’s side.

“You bitch!” she spat, and Azula could very well understand that sentiment.

“Get on!” Sokka yelled, as Appa rumbled loudly, his experience with the Dai Li making the sky bison angrier than Azula had ever seen him.

She got on, shoving Aang along who was still dazed from his near death.

“I didn’t know you could stop lightning,” he said.

“I can’t.”

Azula looked back, to where Zuko was already getting back on his feet. Their eyes connected again.

For a moment, she thought she saw her brother. Still in there. Still alive.

But his eyes had gone cold again, and he signaled for the Dai Li to surround them. They got out in the nick of time, just as the ground rose to meet them, trying to bind them to place.

“You’re brother is creepy as hell, Azula,” Sokka managed to say as they all struggled to catch their breaths and slow their hearts.

Azula remembered a boy who held her hand as she realised that neither of her parents loved her. She remembered a child who held her and said, I’ll love you for the both of them.

She remembered Zuko burning, and she knew that her brother had died that day.

“Next time,” she said, careful to let her voice be steady, “We should kill him before he kills us.”

There are no complaints there. Not vocally, anyway. But the part of her mind - the part of her that had given in to her friend’s persistent kindness, and the part of her that remembered Zuko’s warm hands on cold nights - was screaming.

[thevictorianghost]

If you could rewrite legend of korra and make it your own(or just in general better) how would you do it? The villains would stay the same and korra and crew are the same(personalities you can definitely tweak a bit. I would definitely not have any love triangles and make korra and asami happen in the beginning) how would you do it with your ships being canon as well?

Okay so I’ve never actually watched LOK. I’ve heard A LOT about it through watching countless video essays on Youtube and reading Tumblr posts about it. I know the who, the what and the how, I just haven’t wanted to watch it because, even though it looks cinematically gorgeous, the story was written by Bry/ke and there’s a LOT of it, worldbuilding and storywise, that I just can’t bare to watch.

So here goes. This got long. Enjoy!

1) Remove the Decopunk world. 

A Decopunk world is a world where technology is 1920s-ish, but very advanced. We have cars, tanks, radio, bobs and faux bobs, cloche hats, short skirts, nice suits, etc. I adore Decopunk. The 1920s are one of my favourite eras. An optimistic way of looking at the world, partying, illegal alcohol, the remnants of the Great War... I love it. I really do. But it doesn’t work in the pre-established world of Avatar. It brings elements that are far too imperialistic and colonial in nature (which prompted the comics to be imperialistic and colonial in nature, with the Northern and Southern Water Tribe, you can find many posts about that), which came along hand in hand with the Industrial Revolution, as this article puts it so well. Please read it, it’s awesome.

Why did they feel they had to denature Avatar’s world? They already had everything they could possibly want. 

The Fire Nation could be more Steampunk, which is a little less advanced than Decopunk (First Industrial Revolution vs Second Industrial Revolution) because there were elements of Steampunk in the Fire Nation Army (such as the tanks, the navy and the dirigibles). But it could be for them only. It could show us how Zuko transformed the Fire Nation from a war industry to a steam-powered country. This could be the new way to channel firebending (and please, no more “anyone can do lightning bending”, you don’t need lightning bending to get electricity and it makes  Zuko, Iroh, Ozai and Azula weak in the show!). 

We’ve seen waterbending used in clever ways in the Northern Water Tribe. How could Katara’s waterbending and Sokka’s engineering influence the Southern Water Tribe to make them use waterbending more? Canals, waterfalls, waterways, etc.? In new and different ways? Could the Southern Water Tribe use hydroelectricity, but in a clean, sustainable way? Why does the Southern Water Tribe port look so... mundane? 

The Earth Kingdom already had a working train system in Ba Sing Se. And the postal system in Omashu. Toph could have taught earthbenders how to follow the Badgermoles way and dug tunnels throughout a nation in peace. Then boom. Subways. But instead of machines pushing the people along, you can have benders do it. Instead of messenger hawks, the postal system could run through the entire kingdom instead of just Omashu and be much more efficient. The Earth Kingdom could be praised for its fast postal system that could, maybe, work as telegrams.

I’ll come back to the Air Nomads.

Those are just examples from the top of my head. I don’t mean “never allow technology to “””progress””” (I use that word veeeeery loosely because it has huge imperialistic undertones). I mean instead of trashing the fun parts of bending to make way for Decopunk technology that doesn’t need bending, work with it! Get creative! This worldbuilding feels... too easy. When Avatar: The Last Airbender was praised for its worldbuilding.

I adore Decopunk. I enjoy it far more than Dieselpunk and it’s much less known that Steampunk. But it has no place in the Avatar world.

2) That doesn’t mean “remove Republic City”.

First of all, it should honestly have a better name. It’s kind of like naming a city “Democracy City”. Which is way too on the nose. Harmony City sounds better, and that’s the first thing that came to mind. Anyway.

I really like the idea of a city being built in the spirit of Iroh and the White Lotus. To allow the Four Nations to live together in harmony in one city. But why is Republic City literally New York City with an “““Asian””” flair? What is up with that? I know New York is the MOST Decopunk city ever (you can’t encounter anything Decopunk without seeing New York, with its Art Deco buildings, the Harlem Renaissance, the Prohibition, etc.). But they do NOTHING with it! They just take New York, change some names, add some Asian flair, and call it a day. 

I don’t want 1920s New York for Republic City. I want Zootopia.

What happens in a city where all the Four Nations are represented? How does Water, Earth, Fire and Air work together? Big cities tend to be quartered in neighborhoods, so each neighborhood could be a smaller version of their nation. We could have a Northern Water Tribe next to an Earth Kingdom next to... you know what I mean? Each neighborhood could be a small-scale introduction to the nation for Korra first, then you can send her to that nation afterwards!

Which leads us to this.

3) Have Korra follow a traditional Avatar’s journey. 

I really don’t know why they decided that Korra would learn three elements before the age of sixteen (when that’s the age Avatars usually START their journeys) and then only have her learn Airbending during the entire show. Wasn’t the structure of each Book being about Aang learning one element at a time a good structure? Why go out of their way to NOT do that? Why was it the White Lotus’ prerogative to train the Avatar in the first place, too?  

So let’s have Korra know waterbending first (and show Katara teaching her, please!), then she can learn Earth, Fire and Air. By going to the Earth Kingdom, to the Fire Nation, and to the Air Temples. This could help develop each nation and show us how they have grown through the years. And it could lead Korra and the audience to figure out that there’s not only Aang who has had children to represent the Air Nomads, but there were other Air Nomads who survived the genocide and we can actually see the Air Nomads as a thriving culture.

So about Republic City. As I said, we could keep it. But now that Korra is going on a traditional Avatar journey, you could have, say, one episode at the beginning and one episode at the end of each season taking place in Republic City. To show us how each Nation’s neighborhood works and as an introduction to Korra before she actually takes the plunge to travel to that nation. 

Please! Build upon the Avatar world at large more! Come on!

4) Stop it with the love triangles. 

Many have talked about the Mako, Korra, Bolin and Asami love triangles. I’ve read once that they don’t exactly feel like friends, they’re only colleagues who share the fact they all dated Korra at one point. Which is sad. Knowing that the Gaang is so beloved because they’re such GOOD FRIENDS first!

So work to build strong, healthy friendships first, THEN start thinking about romance if you have to. And please, if you want a ship to be endgame, don’t have it so you have to confirm it on Twitter. 

Don’t.

Oh! And also. Bolin and Eska’s relationship was unhealthy as all hell and treated as “funny” and “comic relief” because a woman was being emotionally abusive to a man. That’s terrible. Please don’t do that.

5) Don’t let Katara fall to the side like she did. 

Many, MANY before me have talked about how Katara got the short end of the stick in LOK. Where’s her statue? Where’s her recognition as the Greatest Waterbender in the World? Why is she day in and day out in the healing hut, when she said “I don’t want to heal, I want to FIGHT”? Does she even have a waterbending school? Or is that completely fanon? Why does she allow Aang to take one of their children on life-changing field trips while leaving their other kids behind? Aren’t they also Air Nomads by birth??

It’s okay to worship the old Gaang because, well, we all love them! I do love Aang, even if I give him a hard time a lot, but I love the character. I just don’t like the way Book 3 Aang was written. But some characters shouldn’t have everything while others have nothing. Aang is LITERALLY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. But where was Katara’s statue? And also, what happened to Suki?? What happened to Mai or Ty Lee, too?? Or even Sokka?? He died some time ago and... that’s it??

Which brings us to this.

6) Zutara, Taang, Sukka and Mailee.

I’ve seen that picture of Toph, Aang, Sokka and Katara being edited with Zuko and Katara next to each other, Toph and Aang next to each other, and a (suddenly alive!) Suki next to Sokka. I think that’s so good! It feels so healthy!

Not all relationships that started when people were kids work out. Sokka and Suki seem the strongest relationship at the end of the show and they’re probably the only ones I could see working out in the end. Sokka could become the Southern Water Tribe Chief and Suki could become his Queen when she’s retired from the Kyoshi Warriors.

Katara and Aang would be lifelong friends, of course they would be, but I don’t really see them lasting. Aang was twelve when they started dating. They’d date a few years, then they’d decide they want other things. That’s a good thing to show kids!

I’ve written many metas about Zutara, but Ambassador then Fire Lady Katara would show a changing world, where the Fire Nation, now no longer a war industry but a Steampunk country, is moving forward, with Zuko literally marrying a woman the Fire Nation tried to wipe out. They would be equals and leave an equal mark upon the world. Together.

Toph and Aang would be amazing together. They’d be a great team, working in the Earth Kindom, helping rebuild the old Temples when the Air Nomads came out of hiding, and bringing peace around the world. I don’t think they’d be a conventional relationship. They’d do their own thing for a while, find each other for a while, work together on some projects, then continue doing their own thing. Aang being the Avatar who travels the world and Toph teaching metalbenders and working with the King in Ba Sing Se and Bumi in Omashu and wherever she’s needed. I think Toph would be much more fulfilled than what we’ve seen of elderly Katara. She doesn’t have Katara’s abandonment issues (I’ve talked about them here) and she’s more independent, I believe.

I know I haven’t talked about them much yet, but I want Mai and Ty Lee together in the end. Badass ladies challenging their respective stereotypes and create a new world for themselves. Mai could find herself away from the Fire Nation court (I don’t know what she’d do, but circuses love people who throw knives, don’t they? She could be a circus performer for a while), and I think Ty Lee, in this version, could work at the circus and with Aang to rebuild the Air Nomads. I love the idea of Ty Lee being a descendant of the Air Nomads.

All of them should be shown creating Zootopia-like Republic City. Because of course they should be! They’re the Gaang!

So yeah, that’s how I would see the world of Avatar grow beyond the borders of the original show! :)