#redeemed azula au

[bunthebreadboy]

listen, as much as i love azutara where azula is the taller one, the pure comedy of short azula makes me giggle. i present two scenarios:

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1. katara is significantly taller than azula

azula, too lazy to search for a stool, jumping and trying to grab the book she wants in the library: whoever decided to build these shelves so high will face my wrath.

katara, materializing out of the blue: would you like some help?

azula: i am perfectly capable of retrieving my own book, thank you very much.

katara: i know you are, but it would be easier if you just let me-

azula: NO.

(she eventually gives in and lets katara get the book down for her.)

2. katara is BARELY taller than azula (and also a menace)

katara, healing azula after a fight: maybe if you weren’t so short you would have gotten a swollen lip instead of a broken nose…

azula: i am not short!

katara: you really are though.

azula: you are less than an inch taller than me.

katara: i still bet you wish you had that extra height when that guy punched you.

azula, leaning close: you’re insufferable.

katara: insulting me doesn’t change that you’re vertically challenged.

azula: would you shut up?

katara: make me ;)

(and she does)

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anyways in both these scenarios they’re rivals to friends(?) to actually friends (but won’t admit it) to lovers and no i will not be taking criticism.

[lazyartist16s]

MLB LoveBug AU MasterList:

All Comics will be displayed in correct order! First one would be at the top and will be moving down with each new comic being added.

QUEEN BEE ORIGINS (8 Part Comic)

Public Image

Friends(?)

Training Sessions

Fencing Classes

Change

Favourite Hero

Wing Grooming

Surprise!

Jealousy

OTP

Extras:

Queen Bee and Ladybug Design

Redeemed!Azula AU Masterlist:

Reunion

Reunion (2)

Reunion (3)

Living Arrangements

Surprise

Nightmares

Again

Dance your Heart Out

Switched

I'm sorry

Very Platonic Domesticity

I don't love you

[myimaginationplain]

AU where Katara & Toph both set up premier waterbending & earthbending academies in Republic City; the two schools are dedicated to teaching holistic, unified forms of their respective elements, bringing together previously disparate styles. Katara's school teaches Southern style, Northern style, & Foggy Swamp style waterbending, without any gender-based segregation between self-defense or healing classes (no, bloodbending wouldn't be taught because Katara don't like that shit). Toph's school teaches her personal seismic style of earthbending, metalbending, & more classical forms of earthbending. Katara's academy is on the coast of Yue Bay, in sight of both Aang's memorial statue & Air Temple Island; Toph's academy is far inland, to the east.

Rather than Toph, Suki is the one who establishes a police/security force. Suki's police academy could have a special program with Toph's, so you'd still get those cool metalbending officers. But the school prioritizes non-bending combat first & foremost. Ty Lee's chi-blocking technique is taught there as a required course.

[hyacinths-in-a-storm]

Crack AU where Ty Lee escapes Boiling Rock and retreats into the Earth Kingdom instead of joining the Kyoshi Warriors, and is completely off the grid, so that when she comes back to the Fire Nation and sees Azula out and about she thinks she’s gotten better and tries to reconnect with her. Shenanigans ensues.

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Sokka: This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them

Kiyi is the only addition from the comics that I'm willing to acknowledge, however, I will happily ignore everything else abt her story. Instead she is Ozai's daughter and protecting her was what kept Ursa in hiding, at least until a year after the war when Zuko and Katara show up for The Southern Raiders pt 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[boysborntodie]

One thing I'll forever be mad at ATLA for is Jet and Hama not getting closure.

[stupidlyqueer]

thinking how in my dragon AU, Zuko managed to be claimed by two of the most powerful dragons alive and then managed to make one want to kill him and the other very, very annoyed by him but having to keep him from being killed by the other dragon.

[tragedykery]

girl help the au I keep thinking of to comfort myself is getting out of hand

[quibbs126]

You know, it kind of sucks what happens with Azula

Like, she’s only 14, and we know that her life wasn’t that great. She had her father, but he’s a horrible person, and unlike her brother, who at least had their mother and uncle, it doesn’t seem like she had the best relationship with them. While yes, I’m sure Ursa loved Azula (I don’t know if that appearance of hers in the finale was real or just her imagination, so I can’t say for sure), it seems like Zuko was the favorite, and at least from Azula’s perspective, she thinks her mother didn’t love her, and as for Iroh, it seems like he just never really understood her that well. And she and Zuko have never really had a great relationship from what it seems. And later on she had Ty Lee and Mai, but they ended up betraying her. So again, the only person she had was Ozai.

Like, I watch her breakdown in the finale, and honestly it just sucks to watch. Honestly I kind of wish she could have had some sort of redemption arc, because I feel like she’s still got time in her life to change, I mean she’s barely a teenager. Not like, a full one or anything like Zuko, her turning on her father in the end would have made no sense, she should still be the villain, but like, just something to say that things will turn for the better for her, like someone in her family at least realizing the fact that she’s kind of just been messed up by her upbringing and trying to do something about it. Sure she would have rejected it, but still. Or heck, I’d take an appearance of her in Korra, where like, maybe we’d see her and initially see her as a threat like she was in the original show, only to reveal that she’s on the good guy side now. Actually you know what, I kind of like that idea. I mean, it’s been like, 70 years, the idea that she’s had the chance to change her ways in that span of time isn’t that unreasonable. And it would be interesting to see what her relationship with the other surviving original ATLA members is like, particularly Zuko

But getting back to canon, again, I’m aware that she is a villain in the show, but I do still wish she could have had at least something for her. I’m sorry, I don’t really know how to describe what I’m trying to say, I think I’m explaining it poorly, but basically I want her to have something like Strawberry Crepe Cookie did, where she ends up with a better group and with time, she changes for the better. Because as it is, it just kind of sucks for her, you know?

[zukkaonthebrain]

I need to see an atla au where zuko and azula just randomly decide to be loyal to each other at the tender age of 0 and 2 years, respectively… like, azula came out the womb and zuko was like “yeah i’m gonna be w u forever ur never getting rid of me” and theyre together until their dying days, theyre evil together, they’re good together, they win together, they lose together, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s together!! they’re evil together then they both become good together and they get redeemed together! boom, all of atla fixed

[garfield-milk]

pspspsps. transfem zuko headcanons? im all ears please tell me

you have no idea how much I've waited for the day someone asks me about this...

ok so I want to start about how I think her childhood was like. pretty much everything happened the same as in canon but!!! ursa realized that there was something going on with zuko (she was showing her feminity) she didn't know exactly what, but she neither wanted to dig too deep. she just went "oh wow my kid is a queer, I personally don't care but I don't want to see him get hurt" so she let zuko try some jewelry and do femenine things with her but letting her know that it was seen as something "bad". HC that zuko secretly loves (both in canon and in this au) when azula calls her zuzu bc it's not a masculine nickname. anyways stuff happen, zuko started hiding that part of herself and then Ursa leaves and the agni Kai happens and she had to cut her hair (ouch). she didn't let it grow back or have it united bc she felt ashamed about everything about her !!!!! (I know I'm making this up myself but IM GOING TO CRY UGHHHH). there's more under the cut, I just don't want to make this too long lmao

ok so 3 years go by she gets really depressed and angry and blah blah blah your average zuko angry but with more flavour. then she a iroh have to flee from de FN and she cuts her hair!!!!! and lets it grow longer (it grows really fast ok?) which feels great for her and when they get to BBS and trans stuff start to happen. I have this idea (idk if this works well with canon but idc) that, meanwhile in the FN lee is a masc name in the EK the only name similar is Li (a femenine name) so one time iroh is talking to a costumer and calls "lee" to help him and the consumer just says something like "oh I didn't know you had a daughter" and iroh doesn't correct them (old man suspects a few things) and neither does zuko so iroh looks at her with that knowing smile but let's it be hehehehehe.

also I have a feeling that in BBS they arent really lgbt friendly but they let queer people live their lifes freely bc they want everyone to be "happy", so there's a ton of LGBT paces. zuko just happens to stumble in one and there's a lot of queer people and when zuko tells them that her name is Li they share a look and go "li girl come here, let us give you a makeover" and they dress her and put make up and jewelry on her. zuko starts coming over and meets a bunch of trans people and realizes that there's nothing wrong with her (after this is by the time she catches that 'im becoming good' fever, because she's also redeeming herself). she doesn't tell iron but!! she start wearing a bit more femenine clothes and some jewelry and pretty much everyone in the tea shop calls her iroh's niece/daughter so...

oh!!!! and zuko and jet have a thing bc jet didn't realize that she was a firebender until after the ferry. so one time zuko takes the courage to tell him that she's a girl (first person she actually came out to) and jet is completely fine with it bc why wouldn't he?? and then he finds out she's a firebender and tries to kill her (jet is a dumbass, he doesn't die and 5 years later they find each other and jet sees her and is like wow I shouldn't have tried to kill her but Zuko doesn't want to know anything about jet bc #girl boss). also the blue spirit is believed to be a girl and when zuko first heard someone say "oh wow do you not know about the blue spirit? she's like the coolest folk hero ever..." she got really fucking happy but attached it to the fact that that way people wouldn't associate the blue spirit with her (lie).

and this is without going too much into what would happen after she joins the gang (not really sure when that would happen, if in the bbs catacombs or like in canon after going to the FN) but she and Katara would be absolutely besties after the firsts weeks and Katara would be GLAD, even if she tries to not show it, to finally have someone to be girls with (no, she insists that toph doesn't count because she's just as nasty, if not more, as the boys) and Katara would say stuff like omg im going to teach you how to be the perfect girl, and even though it might sound weird bc katara wtym perfect girl, but they are both excited asf and loving the concept so it doesn't matter (they are doing each others hair while shit talking about people)

i would love to know your opinions about what would she change her name to bc, yeah she prefers li over zuko but it's still very much a masculine name to her fire nation ears. so I have a few opinion but in not really sure witch one I like the best: suzume, sao, sakda or kuniko. but I'm open to hear any suggestions tho! and about head canons too, and pretty much anything related to transfem zuko!!!!!

[bunthebreadboy]

redeemed!azula au where she and katara are absolutely fed up by their brothers when they’re all staying at the fire nation palace

zuko & sokka: *literally just holding hands*

katara: spirits, they’re disgusting

azula: absolutely vile

katara: so much pda

azula: they need to get a room

katara: you’re so right

azula: besides, we’d be cuter than them anyways and we could destroy the world

katara: i hope you mean that hypothetically

azula: us being cuter than them?

katara: no, destroying the world

azula: …oh, yeah, that was a joke

katara: good! so…wanna go prove we can be cuter than them

azula: don’t have to ask me twice

katara & azula: *making out somewhere*

toph, seeing them via earth vibrations despite being half way across the palace, looking straight into the camera like she’s on an episode of the office: yknow, i didn’t think it was possible to be more dramatic than zuko and sokka. i was WRONG.

[biconickyoshi]

Sorry to bother you. But in your answer to my question you wrote that Azula will receive redemption. And will May and Tyle Lee forgive her as part of that redemption? It would just be interesting to see Azulie try to be nice to her friends, like Zuko did in the second half of season three. And it would be cool if at the end they started a threesome relationship.

I definitely always thought that Mai and Ty Lee would forgive her, especially if she genuinely apologized! Unfortunately even 15+ years later, Azula has yet to be redeemed in canon, so I really want to try and give it a shot. Maybe she’ll end up following a similar arc that Zuko does in canon book 3, and will end up joining the Gaang after the Day of Black Sun. Still not sure exactly where I’ll go with that - we’ll see once we get closer to that part of the story!

I have definitely also given thought to making Mai x Ty Lee x Azula canon, because they would be so cute! Especially since Azula will be redeemed in this AU. I had already planned on making Mai x Ty Lee canon anyway. Once again, we’ll see what happens as I keep writing :)

[stardust948]

Urzai adopts the Gaang AU

More ideas for this AU because the thread was getting too long.

The main story takes place over 3 years; 1 year for each season.

Urzai didn't really know how to relate to the Fire sibling in their care bc they didn't spend much time with them. For example, Ursa gets Azula a Fire Nation doll thinking she just hated the EK one but Azula still burns it. And Ozai gets Zuko some firebending scrolls because that the only thing he saw Zuko reading at the palace. But Zuko thinks Ozai’s telling him that his bending still sucks and gets even more depressed. Likewise Zuko and Azula kept asking about the other parent the first couple of months. Things were pretty rough but they eventually work it out. Azula and Ursa bond over sparing and herbology and Ozai and Zuko over criticizing reviewing street plays.

Ozai feels guilty for Zuko scar since Zuko took the hit meant for him. Also because Ozai didn't know how to treat it properly so he thinks the scarring could have been prevented. Of course, Ozai has no idea how to express this to Zuko so he thinks Ozai’s ashamed of his weakness. This doesn't get resolved until after The Boiling Rock when they finally have a heart to heart.

The family unlearn the FN propaganda while hiding amongst the villages. Witness and experience first hand that the FN is not spreading prosperity through the nations. Just the opposite actually.

Azula's 1st friend (who wasn't required to play with her like Mai and Ty Lee) was Suki. While Ursa was in Kyoshi Warrior training, the two would rough house. Suki wasn't afraid to shove the young ex-princess back. Azula was annoyed at first but grew to enjoy the rivalry. (Sokka and Suki never hears the end of it when Azula finds out they like each other)

Iroh gives Lu Ten a cushy job to keep him safe but Lu Ten wants to redeem himself. Sets off on a self appointed mission to track down his ex-family and recuse his cousins. Jee goes with him and reteaches him firebending for battle.

Ozai and Ursa keep barely missing each other during Book 2. What's even more aggravating is they have no idea.

The Fire Family being back together after 6 years apart was awkward at first. Not until the Gaang each found an excuse to leave them alone did they finally hash things out and get back into the swing of things.

Ursa and Katara get into a big fight when Katara trains with Hama. Ursa doesn't trust her but Katara really wants to learn SWT waterbending and thinks Ursa’s holding her back. Katara yells at Ursa to stop telling her what to do and she's not actually her mom. Which was very traumatic for both of them but they make up at end after Katara stops Hama from trying to kill Ursa.

Urzai stay behind with the other adults during DOTBS. Ursa is taken to FN palace dungeon and Ozai and Hakoda to The Boiling Rock. Meanwhile Lu Ten talks to Ursa in the dungeons and learns the truth about the coup. He confronts Iroh but Iroh tries to arrest him for "his own protection". Lu Ten escapes and sets off to find the Gaang.

Iroh plans to execute Ursa and use Sozin’s Comet to wipe out BSS. Reference to "If we don't burn it down first" in his letter. The gaang go to stop Iroh and free Ursa. Ozai fights Iroh as they waited for Aang’s return.

Fun ideas:

Katara, Azula, and Toph’s girls night out as they rob from rich FN ppl and blow up factories.

Many "that's not what they did 100 years ago Aang we think your friend was messing with you" conversations

Appa has final authority over everyone.

A family that fights together stays together TM

The Gaang out voted Urzai for Aang’s secret dance party. Urzai has to wear disguises bc they can't leave the kids alone after the incident (accidently got high off cactus juice)

Ozai: Why did you shove your boomerang into the beard???

Sokka: To give it character.

Ursa: At least you don't have a pillow stuffed down your shirt.

Ozai and Hakoda bond in The Boiling Rock. (Nothing says fun bonding experience like doing time in a cruel abusive prison full of ppl who want to kill you)

Suki assumes Sokka's from a community compound like Kyoshi Island and doesn't question the multiple parents arrangement. (The more the merrier! It takes a community after all)

Lu Ten is very confused. He thought he had 2 little cousins not 6.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Do you think Zuko and Katara would work as a couple?

The last time I spoke about Zutara in relation to fandoms at large.

It'd have to be AU.

It's not impossible, I've seen great fics, and the characters do have traits they admire in one another and a lot of screentime alone in canon.

However, given canon, I'm not shocked it didn't work out for a number of reasons.

Canon

In season 1, Zuko's very clearly an antagonist and Katara meets him when he terrorizes her defenseless village in search of the Avatar who is in fact a child himself. He then hounds them across the globe, representing the Evil Empire, trying to snuff out the one last hope for the world for reasons Katara simply cannot understand. Add onto this that he kidnaps her one time, fights her in the North Pole where he kidnaps Aang when he's helpless and takes him into the tundra (where Aang may uh die), and they're not getting off on a good foot.

Katara may have been into Jet, resident bad boy, but she liked him when he was a bad boy for her cause and giving the Fire Nation what for. She was horrified when it turned out he was a tad bit unhinged and planning to massacre civilians.

On Zuko's end, Katara and Sokka are the annoying water tribe peasants who hang around the Avatar. They're useful in that the Avatar clearly cares about them and they're weaker benders/non-benders (making them easier to kidnap and things) but he has his Avatar blinders on so doesn't really care much beyond that.

Season 2, the Gaang is confused when it seems they have a new and more terrifying hunter (Azula) and Zuko and his uncle seem to uh not be on her side maybe. However, Zuko's still fighting Aang at this point which means a big old no from Katara. We then get to Ba Sing Se, when both are kidnapped, and here we have our shining moment. Katara offers to heal Zuko's scar, they talk about their past and Zuko about how he's given up and is redeemed and a fugitive of the Fire Nation, and Katara wants to believe in him.

However, he immediately stabs her in the back, helping his sister to nearly kill Aang, betraying his uncle in front of them, all for the chance to go home and be redeemed.

After that, Katara canonically is very clearly done with this man. She vaguely tolerates him when Aang takes him on as a teacher but very clearly doesn't trust him and only slightly thaws after their murder adventure together.

Zuko, for his own part, seems to feel awkward around Katara and then terrified after the murder adventure as uh... he knows he did bad and there isn't an easy way to make them believe he's super good for real this time. Last time didn't count, guys. He's mostly trying to get in her good books and not in a way that will lead to a realtionship.

(And add onto that that Zuko has his thing with Mai, Mai ends up imprisoned because of him, and that Katara has her thing with Aang and it gets very messy).

But it Could Happen

If you diverge early, or have a very AU world, then it might work out. Granted, part of Zuko's character is focusing on restoring his honor, which is mutually exclusive to all of Katara's ideals. It would feel--weird and cheap if Zuko defected early and I think it was a key part of his character that he did get a chance to get his honor restored and realized that it wasn't what he wanted and his family is terrible.

Similarly, if Katara's more understanding of Zuko's position... Well, that's not who she is as a character and from her perspective what's there to be understanding of. Zuko is literally trying to murder the Avatar or else imprison him for life and doom the world: where is the good in that?

So, I can't tell you where, when, and how would be a good point of divergence. However, I don't think as personalities they're unshippable, I think there is a lot there, it's just not inclined to happen given who they are and where they come from.

[did-we-imagine]

I think that modern AUs miss out on Zuko's honor complex by not having him become a judge out of spite just so that he gets called "Your Honor." 🤡☠

I've read lots of cool fanfics, but never one that addresses this. I should probably write on myself to scratch that itch. OMG imagine the potential.

And we could even have a badass origin story like Zuko originally wanting to be a corporate lawyer like Ozai, but after witnessing how scummy smarmy corrupt he is, Zuko gets kicked out and/or the scar and he decides that he'd rather be a good lawyer and later on eventually becomes a judge while healing under Iroh's tutelage. Iroh could be anything from a retired seasoned General (and Ozai's complex of inferiority could be because he somehow failed to get into the army ?? ) To a formerly brilliant corp lawyer who was even more ruthless than Ozai before realizing after the loss of his son (not necessarily in a war, maybe just an epiphany as he finally empahizes with oppressed/poor people who lose their kids everyday be it through direct attacks, lack of access to basic services like healthcare, OR criminal rings) and quits to open a tea shop and chill.

He uncovers Ozai's smuggling rings or whatever crimes he has committed through the help of FBI-like (minus the overall bad rep IRL) agents as well as independent investigators with various motivations (i.e: Maybe Katara and Sokka's mom was tragically linked to a hate crime or was silenced as a witness or sth, but anyway cue the Gaang and Zuzu finally joining forces), and BAMF, team Ozai falls from grace (idk what we should do with Zhao? Have him killed by Ozai ?).

Azula is a tricky one though. She could get redeemed, already be redeemed by the start of the story, or be a villain. My own little take would be that she'd act a little bit like Franziska von Karma. I don't recall if she directly addressed Manfred's monstrosity, but there were hints in the games I played (I didn't play all of them) that she didn't want to follow his footsteps.

She'd be very entertaining and chaotic regardless of which side she is on. 🤣