#across a hilly flower field and to the docks

[ultfreakme]

I hope the Zuko movie opens with Mai and Zuko getting married, but you can just tell something is wrong. They’re smiling and greeting guests but there’s this distance between them. Cut to Mai, and she’s thinking about right before the wedding and Ty Lee is helping her get into her wedding clothes.

And Ty Lee’s like “I bet married life’s going to look great on you.” Mai just gives her a look, initially it seems cold, impassive, but then she frowns and Ty Lee giggles and says “You make a beautiful bride.” Mai’s brows furrow and all that, “You don’t have to lie.” Ty Lee; “I’m not lying, you’re beautiful, always were”. And then they lean closer and closer, eyes hooded and right when you think their lips are about to brush the door of the dressing room opens and Mai’s mom comes in and she fixes up Mai’s clothes and checks on everything. She’s like “Don’t mess this up.” Mai says “I won’t, obviously, what’s there to mess up?” AND SHE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT TY LEE.

The wedding’s done, but the Fire Lady is in love with a Kyoshi Warrior who is her personal guard and the entire thing is about them realizing no fuck this we’re done(Zuko knows okay he knows, or he eventually finds out but his ain’t about him).

(eventual divorce, mailee elope, Zuko’s like ‘I should’ve seen this coming’. Gaang, everyone in the FN court and Azula who saw this coming miles away: ‘I’m not gonna say anything’)

#mailee #mai x ty lee #I am a SUCKER for when women think they're trapped in the patriarchal fate thrust upon them but they escape through sapphic love #'Marriage?' yeah that's not enough to stop LOVE #I hope y'all know I am making a MOVIE PRODUCTION out of this in my head #I am imagining Mai in the final scene getting rid of her crown the jewels the everything- scattered everywhere #and she opens her extremely organised and precise weapons drawer and adorns the knives with care #and Ty Lee is waiting at the door in her pink clothes like 'ready to go?' and mai says yeah and leaves a letter behind and they RUN #across a hilly flower field and to the docks #and the palace is in uproar over where the fuck the Fire Lady is #but Zuko's like 'nah call off the search' and he's watching the docks #then we see mai and ty lee at the deck watching the ocean with the sunset and they're standing super close #like a parallel to the opening #and THE END