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Azula as Rapunzel from Disneys Tangled.

In this AU Ozai is mother Gothel and Zuko is Eugene (no incest, he dresses as the blue spirit to go look for his long lost sister that was kidnapped by their father).

#avatar the last airbender #atla #my art #azula #princess azula #rapunzel #gonna redo this at some point #will also draw the other characters

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zuko and sokka redesigned! inspired by japanese samurai and inuit tribes 🔥💦

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The gaang + death glares

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The perfect siblings don’t exis-

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“They hate each other.” “No they don’t. Not really.”

@rllyaangrlly

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The development tho.

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TAANG WEEK 2021: DAY 4 “TEASING”

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One of the best things I love about them is Toph giving Aang a hard time. Just randomly punching him probably breaking some of his bones. Sky-rocketing him in the air. Pounding him into the ground for no reason. 
She really pushes him to his limits. He stands his ground because of her. But only against other people. He cannot stand his ground against her XD

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taang {headers}

like/reblog | @spearbinsung

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My dumb ass thinking for a second I got this because I have the whole chapter planned in my head, then look at the open document and realise I’ve only written 500 words:

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“You can’t ship them because they are just friends/don’t have chemistry/ hate each other/ have a partner”

Bitch, I have shipped two people that don’t even exist in the same universe because I thought they would look cute together.

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Taang + Zutara | Parallels

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Some ultra Azula stans say that they want Azula redeemed but then they excuse her from basically all of her horrible actions by saying that she wasn’t really “that bad”, and blame everyone else under the sun for her bad deeds. You’re one of the few Azula stans I’ve seen that has the most realistic view of her. You like her but you still don’t excuse her actions.

Hello anon!

I have seen what you’re talking about, and it is frustrating to me as well. I absolutely love Azula and want her to be happy but, I can still do that while admitting that she did do some pretty terrible things that the other characters are justified in being angry at her for. I think what happens is that some people feel that they need to justify what she did in order to be able to say that they love her, which just isn’t true at all.

Like one example of that is blaming Mai and Ty Lee for turning against Azula, and blaming Mai for telling her what she did at the Boiling Rock, when she absolutely had the right to say that. I felt for Azula because she really did care for her two friends and didn’t want to lose them but, she was toxic towards them in many ways and they had the right to turn against her.

I absolutely adore Azula and I find her so interesting and I want to see more of her, but yes, anon, I completely agree that some Azula stans do excuse her actions and fault other characters for being angry at her, which I don’t like.

Thanks for the ask!

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anyway can we PLEASE abandon the narrative that zuko is somehow horrible for not liking azula and (unrightfully) blaming her for certain things?

like besties… you DO realize abuse victims will sometimes place undeserved blame on others, right? that for victims with siblings, they oftentimes don’t recognize that their siblings may be going through the same thing, right? 

zuko and azula stans will completely villainize the opposite sibling for displaying trauma responses and it’s obvious that one, they themselves have never been in those kind of situations, and two, they’re just blinded by their hatred for the other fire nation sibling. zuko is completely justified for not liking azula. he’s perfectly justified in having a very confusing relationship with her, where he will say that she always lies but then sides with her to return to the fire nation. and that doesn’t make him a bad character! it’s literally called, “Our father favored you while we were children and constantly pitted us against each other, effectively ruining any and all positive interactions we can have, but I still want to connect with you but our past experiences have completely ruined that chance.” but people don’t seem the recognize that. it’s literally nuance to his character and the complexities that he has. 

was it wrong for zuko to associate azula with the abuse he suffered? OF FUCKING COURSE. but guess what! to zuko, azula was untouched from that abuse. she was the golden child, the one that ozai would treat with care. you can’t fault zuko for being unaware that azula was being abused too, because he was literally looking out for himself. that’s what abuse victims do. he’s going to protect himself before all else, and so he’s going to see azula – the one that has been praised time and time again by their father and everyone around them – as someone that’s safe in their household. he cannot speak out against his father without being hurt, and so he goes to the next best thing: azula. in his mind, she will never be subjected to what he endured, and to him, she was just like their father. people that say that zuko should have been compassionate to azula from the get-go do not understand that zuko didn’t even realize azula was being abused until THE FINAL AGNI KAI. and even then, he doesn’t understand what she went through! they suffered DIFFERENTLY and he cannot connect with that. 

ON THE OTHERHAND, azula was literally a child that did not understand the severity of their household. do you think azula, at the age of six or seven, genuinely thought their grandfather was being serious in ordering her older brother’s death? NO. it’s incredibly likely that she thought they were joking, that azulon and ozai were not being genuine. azula literally idolized ozai and copied his behavior, which was, y’know, ABUSIVE, but SHE DID NOT KNOW BETTER. she literally had no other adult to learn from like zuko did. all she had was their father – and yes, while she DID have lo and li, they were not there to parent her and simply fed her fire nation ideals and beliefs. azula, in my opinion, genuinely loves her brother but she is just unable to show it in a healthy manner. all she had to base her love and affection from was abusive behavior. 

azula is treated like literal dogshit by a good chunk of the fandom, unjustifiably so. zuko’s brash and rude personality gets excused but the moment azula shows ANY kind of behavior that may be rude to him, she gets dragged through the mud with at least twenty different hate posts. the only reason you should be hating on azula is because she’s an imperialist. you SHOULDN’T be hating on her for being an abuse victim that aligned her personality with her abuser to protect herself, that constantly pushed herself and actually lived up to the golden child status that zuko sees her with because she did so to SURVIVE. 

again, it all comes down to nuance of character and the fact that people just want to shit on both of these characters because they aren’t cookie-cutter perfect. 

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Thoughts on Taang?

very cute. 10/10 adorable. i feel like toph would be crushing on aang and she would be in denial about it. and whenever suki or katara teases her about it, she just pouts and tells them to shut up while blushing 😂

aang and zuko are oblivious to it all because men are blind 🙄😂

#whenever i watch the blind bandit episode i cannot stop shipping them #i wish the shop kept their dynamic from that episode through thr whole series #just so damn cute

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When the Ba Sing Se episode of Avatar first premiered, I remember my kid-self being ... well, being absolutely horrified ... but also being so sure that it was setting up an arc where the Dai Li were going to try to brainwash the Gaang and newly-introduced blind character, Toph, was the only one who could save them, since the hypnosis wouldn't have worked on her, since she couldn't see the spinning light. Still think they should have had an episode about that, tbh.

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embers zuko and maybe azula too if that’s okay, in modern (for the ask thing if you’re still doing it)

i’d like to formally apologize for forgetting that this was supposed to be modern😬😬 literally didn’t remember that until right now as i went to post oops

anyways here’s zuko helping lil azula with her schoolwork