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Diana— For me, you will be the only one in the world, and for you, I will be the only one in the world.

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The Best Zuko-Azula Sibling Moment?

“The Avatar and the Firelord”:

(The scene changes to show an amazing Fire Nation City, surrounded by walls that appear to have been made by waves of lava. Cut to a large and impressive hall, full of paintings of Fire Nation Royalty. Zuko stands before one of the portraits. Azula passes by Zuko, and makes a suggestion.) Azula: It’s never too early for a sitting with the court painter, Zuko. (sarcastically) Make sure he gets your good side. (Zuko, glints away from his sister, clearly upset with his sister’s off color comment. Suddenly his face changes. He turns to speak to her as she continues down the hall.) Zuko: Wait. I need to ask you something. What do you remember about our Great-Grandfather’s history? Azula: (sighs) Ah, Zuko. (The camera angle changes to an overhead view of the hall, the siblings, and the majestic paintings.) It’s so strange how your mind works. (The camera focuses on Sozin’s portrait. It slowly pans up from the bottom of the painting. It rest’s on Sozin’s face, a comet arching in flight over his head. Azula continues to tell Zuko Sozin’s history.) Fire Lord Sozin began the war, of course. He spent his early years secretly preparing for it, but he was as patient as he was clever. He famously waited for the comet, later renamed Sozin’s comet, and used its power to launch his full-scale invasion of the world. (The camera angle changes. The siblings are shown, standing side by side, looking up at the painting, Azula finishes the story.) In the end, he died a very old and successful man. Zuko: (confused) But how did he die? Azula: Didn’t you pay any attention in school, Zuko? (Azula begins to walk away. She walks off camera as she finishes her sentence.) He died peacefully, in his sleep. He was ancient.

I think this is a great exchange, for several reasons.  Azula makes a mean sibling comment, but Zuko just brushes it off and ignores it. Having everything he ever wanted and living together with her again has clearly made him less sensitive.  

Zuko then proceeds to straight up ask her for help and information. He doesn’t assume she’ll randomly lie to him or that she’ll refuse to help him and mock him for asking, he’s comfortable asking her for help.  Of course, Azula is a little confused by the question(since when did Zuko suddenly care about Fire Nation history and his own ancestors?), but she obliges him and gives her an answer.  The answer she gives is very interesting, too. I’m sure she knows many more details on Sozin’s life than she gives, but she correctly assumes that Zuko is only interested in the broadest details and the most general portrait of who Sozin is, since he probably doesn’t remember anything.

After that, Zuko launches a follow up question which leaves Azula confused and a little exasperated as to how he remembers absolutely nothing from his education, but she still provides him with the information he’s looking for and then gets on with her life.

What this all suggests is that there was a point in Zuko’s life where Zuko was comfortable asking Azula for help, where his natural instinct was to do so, and that Azula would usually help him without a second thought, even if she tended to be a bit smug while she was doing it.

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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

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What was Azula's actual truth/lie ratio with Zuko?

Of the meaningful things she said to him, how many were lies?:

The Avatar State:

Tells Zuko that Ozai has forgiven him and wants him home-lie

Tells Zuko that Ozai thinks he's worthless-truth but Zuko refuses to believe it.

Crossroads of Destiny:

Tells Zuko that she thinks he can redeem himself and earn back his honor and Ozai's love-truth

Tells Zuko that he's redeemed himself in her eyes-truth

The Awakening:

Tells Zuko that he has nothing to worry about if the Avatar is actually dead like he claims-truth

The bedroom scene is interesting and open to interpretation, but it's difficult to classify anything she says there as a lie-truth

The Headband:

Tells Zuko it would be dangerous if he gets caught visiting Iroh-Truth

The Beach:

As far as I can tell, just about everything she says to Zuko in this episode is entirely truthful.

"The Avatar and the Firelord":

Tells Zuko the truth about Sozin and his life, so far as she knows.

"Nightmeres and Daydreams":

Tells Zuko the truth, that he'll be welcome at the big warmeeting.

Overall, we're at nine truthful statements and one lie. Azula seems to generally tell Zuko the truth.

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my father is the worst man alive and i am his favorite daughter

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I love twilight sparkle.

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Why did they end Azula's story on a disturbing breakdown, crying and screaming, chained to the ground like an animal, while our main characters stand there and watch passively?

They could have shown us a scene during the celebrations where she was drinking tea and observing the crowd, to reassure the audience she was okay at least. Her last scene was traumatizing, and i hate how the show tried to make it seem like it was a satisfying close to her story.

Having a light-hearted ending where everyone is happy and smiling EXCEPT her, because she is straight up snubbed by the narrative, just seems mean-spirited to me.

"There was supposed to be a fourth season focusing on Azula." Okay, but it didn't come out. It would have been so easy to show Azula at the end of season 3, just having calmed down, just her being calm. Just take ten seconds to show her awful breakdown had passed and she was somewhere safe and somewhat at peace. That's it.

The more i think about it the angrier i get.

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One of the fascinating things about Azula is that not a single member of her family is ever shown giving her genuine love or affection, yet the fandom discourse around her centers on "whether she's capable of loving someone else."

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the crucial fact of zuko and azula's relationship that makes it so insanely compelling is not the tried and true facets of siblings on opposite sides of a war, sibling rivalry turned murderous, or siblings who are divided by their parents' favoritism; it's the fact that despite being the older sibling, zuko is the one who doesn't care about azula while azula cares about him even when it goes against her best interest to do so. i think this makes a lot of people who want to see zuko through the fanon lens of this awkward turtle duck who's just doing his best and isn't super angry and volatile deeply uncomfortable because it so directly contradicts that reading of him unless they completely strip azula of her sympathetic and human traits. but that reading is not only unsupported by canon, it's boring.

the truth is that azula cares about zuko (in a very distorted way given how her upbringing and trauma restrict her ability to express it in a way anywhere in the area code of healthy) to the extent that because she chooses him over herself in bringing him home (because it is an insane retcon that implies she is near omnipotent to say she knew for certain the avatar was not really dead and was just going to scapegoat zuko, not to mention it makes very little sense and is, again, boring), she loses everything. and zuko cares so little for azula that he only feels anything remotely close to grief about it all when he sees just how badly she's hurting.

as much as i think his redemption arc leaves to be desired in terms of the political implications of it, zuko does have a good heart. he does want to do the right thing. it's just that azula has always been his blind spot, and that makes their relationship so much more interesting.

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people’s mental image of azula is so fascinating and i’m only realizing this in the wake of the new live action. i’ve seen people comment “she’s not psycho enough” “she’s not scary enough” “she’s not menacing enough” under promotional pictures and scenes of her just existing. this makes me think, did you guys really believe she was shooting and killing someone every day? at every hour?

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I have thoughts on this.

Aside from the trend of hating on the live action for being an adaptation... when in Allah's name did Azula's unique ability to CONTROL her Qi and the temperature of her flame was shown to be something she always knew how to/did the from the moment she first bent?? We literally see her in Zuko Alone bending a regular orange flame..

Azula didn't just wake up one day and decided to raise the temperature and change the color of her fire because her dna guaranteed that she can and will.. it was because she practiced and pushed herself to be the best bender she can be. The blue fire was a collateral secondary result to her will and an evidence of her desire to be the best and most perfect she can be first.

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Tiny Angy Cousin Wrangler.

(Lu Ten is the only one brave enough to do this).

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lmao it was a hard one,jd my beloved

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Brief Poems, Vera Pavlova

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— Joseph Brodsky, "I Sit By The Window"

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me? shipping another rare pair wlw in a fandom i'm 16 yrs late to? just another tuesday