#anyway that’s my simping ahdhdjsjaka

[boomerang109]

okay im gonna be a little self-centered and lazy with this one and ask if you have read this ask i sent hella a while ago. do you have any thoughts on it? i know kanut is your favorite so i just wanna hear your opinion and see if you have anything to add!!

i vividly remember the first time i saw that ask and going into the replies to try to type something — anything — to communicate how feral it was making me. and i couldn’t find words

because it’s so perfect and it’s something i hadn’t put together specifically and i love it.

i feel like you covered the parallels pretty amazingly, so im gonna let myself go on a tangent cause it’s not like i can really improve on your thoughts anyway. so basically, you just barely touched on it when you said something about how zuko was angry before fong and that !!!

i think that a very important part of zuko’s journey is going to be learning (probably from kanut) that it’s okay to be mad at ozai. cause anger at a parent is so—it just feels fundamentally wrong, like you’re betraying the one person you’re always supposed to love, who you have always loved. it’s very different from any other sort of toxic/abusive relationship where you have lived without it (which isn’t to say those aren’t terribly difficult to leave as well), but parents have spent your whole life telling you that you should be grateful to them and you’ve believed they loved you and were doing their best. (and i know the parent’s bond to a child is supposed to be the most special one in the world, but i personally think people discount the love of a child for their parent. that’s literally their whole world, of course the child loves their parent with their whole heart). so you make excuses when they make mistakes or you “deserve” punishments, especially cause they’re the firelord, so you can’t question them

but as much as zuko needs to learn to accept his anger and let himself feel it, he also needs to let it go. he needs to let go of fong and ozai (and ursa and his past relationship with azula) so that he isn’t drowning in that negativity. so that he can fully commit to loving zi se and sokka and his friends and uncles and family. and he really hides it, but i think kanut is really emotionally mature. because he doesn’t have to use up any brain space on romance, so he knows all about dedicating your brain to your family—for better or worse.

i don’t know if that made sense exactly, but i guess im trying to get at the fact that zuko needs to start directing his anger outwards (cause, as much as i was team ‘don’t kill fong cause he deserves to suffer more and also murder will weigh on your conscience,’ it was actually a big step to blaming someone other than himself for his struggles) but then he needs to just let it out and let it go so he can move on

#I really meant to give you a normal sized answer but nope I can never talk a normal amount I am verbose #I didn’t have much to add to your actual ask cause it was just so gorgeous #also!! #in her tags hella talked about how #even though torture and murder isn’t relatable (i hope) #people have been relating a lot to Zuko’s rage cause it’s a human emotion #and i just think that’s what gets to me so much about taob is just the raw emotion #(and I’ve always been a sucker for fantasy because it’s easier to connect to emotions when it’s absolutely nothing like your life) #but idk I just know some people are like ‘i don’t get too upset cause taob isn’t something that would happen irl’ #and I’m kinda like. isn’t it tho? #aren’t there people making families out of enemies rn? isn’t their violence and fear and healing? #idk. I’m a sucker for the most extreme world so that the emotion can be the main focus. but that’s just me #anyway that’s my simping ahdhdjsjaka #hannah tag #ask a boomerang #boom fills in for hiatus hella #if you’ve read this far then you should send me more taob asks cause I enjoy answering them!!!