One of the best things about the Avatar universe is that one of our first introductions to the rules governing the world is "It's not magic, it's water bending," and then throughout the series it's revealed that actual ass magic also exists alongside the totally not magic bending.
feeling sorry for roku rn bc kyoshi would have been his guide the way roku was for aang and I think kyoshi had ZERO TOLERANCE for self-doubt and she 100% took a tough love approach
Anyone else like to imagine Ozai having to go through all the small planning details of his whole Pheonix King rebranding?
Like still his same general intensity but all of it is focused on picking out his new design, selecting his color scheme, waffling over which mantle and crown design he should go with etc.
All while having to deal with some Ben Schwartz type character that is reviewing focus group tests, discussing the roll out, having Ozai go over his marks for where he needs to stand during the coronation. Just really trivial stuff that someone like Ozai has to suffer through because he just HAD to be extra