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Ozai died, Azula became Firelord, ended Zuko's banishment, and welcomed him home as her heir, and now Zuko is endlessly pissed that his father died without ever recognizing him and that Azula ended up with "his throne," and he alternates between trying fulfill Ozai's expectations, even though Ozai is gone, and (badly) plotting to overthrow Azula and take back the throne.

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it's just.. it's such a uniquely asian woman experience to work your butt off to achieve things in a family where your biggest victories won't be as remembered as your brother's fuck ups, where you're reminded you're disposable every single day, where you don't feel even an ounce of genuine love and affection from your parents all the while you watch your brother be showered in it, where you're always at fault for everything yet every mistake your brother makes is forgiven and forgotten.

and they managed to put all that into azula, they made her an overachieving younger daughter with a mother who never loved her, they made her the monster to her family, they gave us a character we could relate to—and then they fucking humiliated her all the while giving her brother the most fleshed out and lovingly written redemption arc I've ever seen. lol.

that's so painful when you grow up in a sexist society and family where everyone loves your brother more, and then you finally find a character you can relate to and guess what? the writers love her brother more, too.

they don't even let her have her dignity in the end, let alone a lovingly crafted redemption.

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Just came back here for a bit just to say;

Does anyone else hate the new fans who just keep fatshaming the FN trio and yet praise the wasian casts even if their character wasn’t even cartoon accurate?

Like actually, it’s disgusting how the fandom is now. I remember being 15 and getting mocked just for being obsessed with the cartoon, and now it’s suddenly all cool to like Avatar, yet it’s literally for shallow reasons? Fuck off

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in addition, azula isn't even the only character in the show to have a "breakdown" or hallucinate. in "nightmares and daydreams", aang was stressed out and even hallucinated. the cure? support from his friends and sleep. yet no one goes around calling aang batshit crazy...

I'm sick and tired of having this conversation so I'll put my opinion out there and if you don't like it, there the door 🚪

Zuko was the one to cheat at the Agni Kai, not Azula

And I can already hear the antis coming at me so before you start yelling, read the whole thing carefully.

Zuko cheated because he had a teammate in a one on one duel. And plz don't say Katara wasn't his teammate because she walked into the arena to defend him, changing herself from an observer to a participant. To make it easier to understand, I decided to draw it out to y'all:

Those are some screenshots from the final Agni Kai. Do you notice those little tiles around the clean ground? Do you wanna know what they mean (at least from my point of view)?

Do you see it? Yes? Good! Let's do that again!

Do you see it it again? Great! Let's do this one last time, just to be safe shall we?

I know you see it this time! It's clear as day! Katara wasn't supposed to be standing there. She's is forfeiting and since if she were to fight she'd work with Zuko and against Azula, she is considered part of Zuko's team. So her cheating is Zuko's cheating too.

And don't try to pull any of that "she was already there" bullshit because...

...she was nowhere around Zuko before the forfeiting scene.

Now, I know some people are going to say stuff like "there wasn't an official arena so Katara could walk there" and here is what I have to say to you:

If you don't want to count the area as an arena then you can't count the fight as an Agni Kai since a designated dueling space is necessary.

And if it's not an Agni Kai then there weren't any rules to be broken, so why exactly are you attacking Azula for breaking a non-existent rule?

However, if you want to believe that the fight was an Agni Kai, you have to accept that the clear ground was the arena. To accept that is to also accept that Katara forfeited, causing Zuko to lose, either by tramming up and making her cheating his also or by needing him to save her from the lightning Azula was allowed to throw at her since she was participant.

In the end of the day, Zuko did get burned, Azula didn't, Katara cheated, Azula didn't. So how come people still believe Azula wasn't the winner?

To sum up, this is my opinion on the subject. I'm not posting it to cause an argument but to make people aware as to who they'll have to deal with if they interact with me. If you agree, good for you. If you don't, suck it up or leave cause I'm in no mood to talk about this again when I have already said everything I had to say. Now don't bother me about this ever again.

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Iroh from ATLA

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How do you think the Gaang would react if Iroh was forced to face a war crimes tribunal for his actions during the war?

firstly, i won't straight up say iroh has committed war crimes, because we have no real evidence regarding his actions in the war. we can speculate, but we don't know for sure because the show is intentionally vague when it comes to his actions during the war. the use of starvation as a weapon of war is a crime to my knowledge? however people argue that iroh's siege of ba sing se (somehow) didn't involve starving civilians, and it's never shown in universe anyway. the ATLA universe doesn't even have a code for war or a geneva convention, to our knowledge. that being said, i believe it was a plot of one of the episodes of book one where earth kingdom soldiers were hunting iroh down to imprison him and put him on trial (unless it was just a "let's capture the enemy type thing"), so we can assume there's some basis to put him on trial here.

now, onto the question at hand, i think initially they'd be shocked, especially toph. but i think katara and sokka are smart enough to know that he did commit wrongs he needs to be held accountable for. sokka in particular would be more pragmatic about it - the generals responsible for the fire nation aggression need to be held accountable, or at least there needs to be an example for the world...so, iroh. i think katara might not understand the full extent of his actions initially, but soon will understand why the earth kingdom needs justice, though she will urge for them not to be consumed by vengeance.

aang may also be ignorant to iroh's crimes at first, but will ultimately believe justice needs to be served for peace but also that iroh has taken actions to atone. i think the main thing is that aang would want to ensure the tribunal isn't unfair and that the death penalty isn't offered. after all, he was against killing ozai, who never doubted his nation's genocidal intentions, so aang definitely would be against any sort of death penalty toward iroh, who did ultimately see his nation's wrongs and (arguably) worked to right them. i can imagine him testifying in favor of iroh due to how iroh helped them in ba sing se and helped "liberate" ba sing se (however misguided the latter action was).

suki would probably support the tribunal, even if the death penalty was offered as punishment. after all, she's never been opposed to murder those she sees as criminal or as a threat to her island (via the unagi that she feeds 'em too). kyoshi island is a trading hub, she probably grew up hearing horror stories from earth kingdomers about the "dragon of the west" . she was eventually inspired to join the war effort by sokka, so we know she stands strictly against injustice, and may see iroh going free with no legal consequences as a crime in itself. she also never developed a bond with iroh in the first place.

i think toph and zuko, on the other hand, would be very opposed to this tribunal. toph bonded with iroh, and up until her joining with the gang, she was largely untouched by the war. she isn't ignorant to his actions in the war (when told no one has ever breached ba sing se's walls in one episode, she replied "what about the dragon of the west?"), but may not care or that it doesn't matter because he's changed. she'd side with zuko on this one.

zuko, of course, does everything he can after his redemption to make iroh happy. he is very close to his uncle, as we're all aware. he still has a bit of a temper, too. and in that episode we've spoken about in book one, he actively worked to prevent iroh being captured by earth kingdom forces. i think he'd be completely outraged at iroh being called a war criminal, or a tribunal being held for his uncle. he'd argue his uncle made some mistakes in the past, but that he ultimately helped win the war and should be absolved, or that any actions he took weren't that bad anyway. he'd try to push the blame onto ozai, or azulon, or perhaps he'd even offer to put his sister on trial (if we're talking comics zuko), but never his uncle. this issue may even provoke tensions, leading many to fear another war.

that being said, this is (mostly) assuming the gaang are their rational show counterparts, and not the comics.

and of course this is just my interpretation, it's up for debate.

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I think this panel is one of the most interesting ones in the entire comic.

It confirms the long time theory that the asylum was never about treatment of its patients. But rather a convenient place to make daughters of nobles disappear so they can’t cause a fuss.

Azula needed help after the Agni Kai. But they did not send her to a place that would give it to her. Even if they had good intentions at the asylum they probably had little to no experience with treating actual patients. So they restrained her and locked her up and abused her because they didn’t know what else to do.

It also hints at why Azula was there. Not to treat her mental health issues. But to turn her into a proper sister and niece for Zuko and Iroh. A place to make her subservient to her family as they see fit. And the other girls were in there for the same reason.

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i've talked a lot of the cons of the recent comic, but i definitely believe there's good parts too.

heavy spoilers for newest comic below

azula describing her mother when azula first firebends as "afraid for me. afraid of me." was poignant n broke my heart

the admission by azula and the narrative that ursa didn't do all she could to protect azula and that azula was, or felt, forced to become a weapon for her father is especially important for her character.

azula does somewhat show growth by deciding to leave her previous warriors alone at the end, and shows off her trademark adaptability by saying she'd just find some other people to rule.

and those are just a few good things from the comic :) it's not perfect, as i said it doesn't commit either way to her being irredeemable or her being redeemable. are we supposed to treat the spirit's word as fact? but the comic does explore her character fairly well and has good parts, as well as most importantly, more azula!

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She clearly has a PTSD because of how she was kept in the Asylum. At least they are addressing it for once, it seems.

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i'm not angry azula wasn't fully redeemed in a 70-page comic. in fact, i'm not that angry at all. i'm more so unimpressed that the comic seems to not commit to either idea of azula being irredeemable or of azula being redeemable. yes, the comic is meant to be open-ended, but the idea that the monster/"spirit" in the story is giving azula her chance at redemption and she squanders it is ridiculous. the "chance" the spirit gives her is the equivalent of her living in a lie. and i have to wonder whether this was intentional on the writer's part or not. though, ultimately i am open to more azula stories by faith erin hicks.

#azula #azula in the spirit temple spoilers #avatar #my thoughts #spoilers #azula in the spirit temple #atla #avatar the last airbender

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I thought of them.

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some good parts, some not so good...

azula's plans of attacking granaries and spreading chaos make no sense. like she just wouldn't do that?

the way she keeps others in line is in character.

spoilers below.

the end makes me uneasy. hc the spirit is just a liar, because what a stupid way to offer "redemption and forgiveness". giving someone what they want in a dream is supposed to redeem them? please.

and azula is owed apologies from certain individuals, despite the comics seemingly claiming otherwise? she deserve an apology such as her mom, li and lo, even iroh. they didn't do all they could for her. her dad should apologize too, but we all know he'd never do that. as for zuko, mai and ty lee...zuko and azula both should apologize to each other, but azula did truly wrong mai and ty lee.

i agree with azula for ending that spirit, tbh. azula gets iroh and she gets...that. really fair, huh!

it does seem that they may be changing her character directory though, with her claiming to be the rightful fire lord while attacking the fire spirit. honestly, i prefer her trying to win the throne back rather than trying to "shape zuzu into the proper leader" through random acts of chaos. however, i fear now they aren't going to give this character a redemption arc, since she "had her chance."

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people calling the throne zuko's birthright and his destiny is really bold considering when he was born, he was fourth in line (fifth if you count ursa as a possible heir)

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I love that that made azula look young. Idk why rpople are complaining 🙄

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tumblr was a mistake, because years and years of postage breaking down why not every victim is going to react to their abuse the “right” way, why it’s problematic to insist that there is a “right” way to react to abuse, has apparently led to… zuko (and his shiny Redemption Arc™) being put up on a pedestal and azula being demonized and made out to be every bit the monster that ozai is? i’m disappointed. i seriously thought y’all had more empathy than that.

lest we forget, azula is:

a fourteen-year-old child

also subjected to abuse from ozai: while zuko was physically abused, azula was given an example of what exactly could happen to her if she failed to meet their father’s expectations — hence the line: “no, you can’t treat me like zuko!” and the takeaway here is: it’s still abuse, even if ozai may have never physically touched azula. it’s still abuse when a parent sets such an example that a child expects violence in return for personal failure.

unlike zuko, let down by every adult in her life, including iroh. (no, iroh, an adult, really shouldn’t be saying, “she’s crazy and she needs to go down” about a child that he willingly abandoned to the mercy of an abusive parent.)

and none of this is to say that azula has no agency in this story, or that she should not be held accountable for her actions — but it’s disingenuous to suggest that she isn’t also a product of the worst of the fire nation’s toxicity — that part of the tragedy of her end, as she goes down screaming and sobbing, lies in the fact that she had no one to pull her out of the toxic web of ozai’s abusive parenting, like zuko had iroh.