#azula needs therapy

[because-its-so-sharp]

Zuko: I've had to work for everything. Everything always came easy to you.

Azula: *laughs in Ozai's bone-crushing standards*

#atla #atla avatar #azula #zuko could be a good brother and i wish he would be as they all mature #azula needs therapy #fire siblings #avatar meme

[aakiwa]

Yes I’m an Azula apologist—she deserved better; she deserved therapy and love and support and patience 🫶

#atla #azula #I love her very very much #projecting my bpd and bipd on to her like damn girl we both need therapy #I shud be working rn…anyways #fanart #art #illustration #avatar the last airbender #azula atla

[allthebestnamesweretaken]

Just thought about how the ATLA kids probably never got to be kids again, even though the war was over. Even if they wanted to be (which I don’t see them thinking they could just step back after everything) their circumstances and the people around them (not in a malicious way of course) just wouldn’t have let them and that thought hurts my soul

#atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #azula #katara #toph beifong #Zuko #suki #sokka #at the end of the day they’re just children #I can’t imagine the amount of therapy one would need to get past the horrors they experienced #I wonder how long it takes to get out of that fight it flight mode #I’m making myself cry at this point #THEY WERE JUST KIDS #One thing I really love about NATLA is they’re so obviously children #idk if that makes sense bc they were obviously kids in the original as well #I wonder if they’ll address this in their movie

[samtamdan]

Azula: Sometimes, I don’t realize an event was traumatic until I tell it as a funny story and notice everyone is staring at me weird.

#she needs a hug #and therapy #avatar the last airbender #azula #incorrect quotes #incorrect avatar quotes

[theultimategaebread]

This audio is so azula coded it's crazy.

pls don't steal

#atla azula #princess azula #azula deserved better #atla #avatar the last airbender #cw: implied abuse #cw implied violence #we love a girlboss #but you need to sleep #and get therapy #you'll thank me later #legae's art

[peony-pearl]

yeah I’ll say it again: there was no reason for Azula to be put in an asylum for a year and still be going through it that bad all for a breakdown that took, what, less than a month? If we take Zuko’s betrayal, then Mai and Ty Lee swapping sides(? we never really see them “turning good” they just prevent Azula from hurting Zuko and the Gaang but that’s a different discussion) and then her father’s denial of her joining him to the Earth Kingdom (then feeling like she’s being treated like Zuko - thus she’s suddenly lesser in his eyes) followed by Zuko defeating her (which, in her mind, is a whole new failure and she probably feels like she failed her Nation)... yeah that’s stuff that, if given proper therapy, she could have just stayed in a hospital, and within a year, possibly even be living back in the palace with a whole new outlook on life. The writers make it sound like Zuko just wanted her out of his hair which is not how you want to write your hero whose arc is based around growth and wanting acceptance and is forgiven by a family elder after he hurts him. Yes he’s a new Fire Lord and he’s got a lot on his plate, but to just handwave his sister away after he knows the pain of being denied by his family is... bleh (also you all know how much I hate Iroh's canonical endgame)

And I know that there were talks of a fourth season in which she got her healing arc (which would have been really great to see); but it’s such a mess that the comics just kind of decided ‘nahh let the teenager who’s been locked up for a year keep her antagonist role, that’s fresh right?’ Not the girl who was put on a pedestal until suddenly everything she did was wrong (which... yeah, she WAS doing wrong; but she’s been raised to believe everything she was doing was for a greater good for HER nation and the world. She believes she’s a hero because she’s doing what she was raised to do, and to them she IS a hero. She has daddy’s ‘love’ so long as she’s perfect and amazing - and then suddenly all of that gets absolutely obliterated right in front of her one at a time as she realizes everything she’s been doing to maintain her power is also driving people away. Being 'the good kid' until suddenly you aren'twill unravel you.). Zuko knows how that feels, to feel like everything he did was wrong. He knows how it feels to have to break away from realizing he’s been hurting people; to learn from that and how he needs to change his ways.

And not only that but the way they write Azula as a villain in The Search is just AWFUL like it’s boring af. They recycle the same beats over and over and no one gets the bright idea to stop the cycle it’s AWFUL everyone in that comic is a raging idiot.

idk I could keep going in circles and we already know the comics are awful but there’s my extra 2 cents on the matter. They took a character that was already entertaining and fascinating and denied her a really great potential arc to make her one of the best allies the Gaang could have (and Zuko could have some FAMILY) but nope. Let's retread the show but instead let's make it bad.

#atla meta #this is writing critique more than it is character critique #Azula #atla comics #fun fact! My breakdown spiral started in April and I was finally hospitalized in June #for a week #and then went through outpatient sessions for the rest of the summer #and then I went back to school and all I had was therapy after that #eventually found a psych too but I only saw her a few times #that whole post-hospitalization part of my life was........ a wreck #Fun! #but I am talking about a fictional little world here in this post and it's going to be much different than my own experiences but like #idk a kid with an already mentally warped point of view going through traumas (and yes #-being an antagonist that needed to be stopped) #still in mental conflict a whole year later???? #guys come on #long post

[waterfire1848]

Katara, talking about the two cats: Who are they?

Azula: Just strays.

Mai: They’re Azula and Zuko’s therapy cats.

Sokka: Finally! You two need therapy!

#incorrect quotes #source: puss in boots and the last wish #katara #azula #mai #zuko #sokka #they really need therapy

[spacedace]

Alright so I know a lot of peeps aren't going to like my take here, but the thing to remember about Azula smiling at the Agni Kai between Zuko and Ozai is that we're shown Azula smiling only because that's how Iroh imagined her reacting.

Thr flashback we see is from Iroh's perspective, everything we see is what Iroh saw. Except that Iroh looked away when Ozai burned Zuko. He told us this and we say it in his flashback. Specifically he turned away from where Azula is standing next to him, so there's no way he could have seen her smile.

But we did see her smile in his flashback which, to me, means that her smiling while her brother got burned was just what Iroh imagined her to be doing at the time.

Now, I want it on record that I don't hate Iroh (I love him and his tea so much yall, i just think he's a lot more complex and interestingwhen you acknowledgehis character flaws) and I'm not saying that he purposefully lied to make Azula look bad either. I think it's simply a matter of how Iroh sees Azula, which pretty consistently has been shown he doesn't seem to like her very much. He favors Zuko, but I think Iroh - much like a lot of other people - see Ozai favoring Azula and think that his brother does so because Azula is like Ozai, and holds that belief against her. So much so that he can't see the child beneath the image projected on her (by herself and others) like he can with Zuko.

TL;DR: we have no idea what expression Azula really had during thr Agni Kai and are only seeing Iroh's skewed ideas of what she looked like in the scene.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #azula #iroh #fire siblings #my personal belief is Azula dissociated out of her own body during the whole shit show #because holy fucking shit can you imagine how traumatizing that would be to see #this is not to down play Zuko's trauma (boy needs so much therapy) #but just to point out that witnessing horrific acts of violence committed by one family member on another is traumatizing #both these kids have ptsd and you can't change my mind about that #also one of these days i'm going to write my full manifesto on iroh #and how much more interesting a character he is when you acknowledge that he has flaws #as well as what those flaws are #shining beacon of tea pouring perfect father figure is fine #but complicated man haunted by war and loss and his place in causing/maintaining it while still wanting to be good and kind #IS SO FUCKING NEAT

[ionlylikemycat]

everyday i wake up and go about my business and worry about the live-action atla azula arc

#lemon speaks #atla #atla live action #atla netflix #avatar the last airbender #azula #atla azula #i love her ok #she is a deeply sad child #and needs love #and therapy #like a lot of therapy #and also love

[my-throwaway-tbh]

azula just like me fr rip she would’ve loved ultraviolence

#azula #azula kinnie #ultraviolence #lana del ray #azula moodboard #how the fuck do yall #make moodboards #coquette #female experience #female insanity #womanhood #misandry #misandrist #born to die #lizzy grant #insane women #<3 #i also need therapy #and mental help #shes so me #azula stan #azula>>>>>> #put me in a movie #how do i tag lmao

[because-its-so-sharp]

Zuko: You were born lucky. You had father's favor from the moment you were born.

Azula: *laughs in mental illness*

#atla #atla avatar #azula #azulas mental illness #zuko could be a good brother and I wish he would be as they all mature #fire siblings #azula needs therapy #avatar meme

[inamindfarfaraway]

For reasons I shouldn’t need to explain, one of the few things Harvey Dent and Two-Face agree on is that Fire Lord Zuko is the best character in anything ever.

For reasons I also shouldn’t need to explain, Bruce is Sokka’s biggest fan.

I now need fanart of him and reformed!Harvey in respective cosplay together. Complete with dual swords and a boomerang.

#however i also see two-face specifically relating a lot to azula and getting upset about azula hate and vilification #‘cause compared to harvey he was the ‘bad’ abused child who ‘just like his father’ #two-face: i have a heart of stone #i can’t have empathy or sympathy if i’m going to deliver true justice #bruce: #…​‘i was never angry with you zuko -’ #two-face: (instantly crying) FUCK YOU #bruce: my first girlfriend turned out to be an assassin loyal to her megalomaniacal cult leader father #harvey: that’s rough buddy #harvey manages to recover by making the deal with his alter that #they can watch one episode of atla for every therapy session at least one of them actually engages in #so two-face stops sabotaging both his own and harvey’s recoveries to stay a villain #and by the end of the show the therapy’s worked enough that he just keeps at it #two face: come on i need to get back to crime #harvey: criminal success is like ozai’s approval you think you want it but it when you have it you feel even worse #you’ve done ‘the beach’ like five times by now #can we get to ‘nightmares and daydreams’ this time? please? #harvey dent #two-face #bruce wayne #batman #bruce and harvey #dc comics #dc #avatar the last airbender #atla #prince zuko #fire lord zuko #sokka

[thatdamnokie]

i have complicated feelings about “villains” (because what even makes a villain if not trauma which deserves treatment and soothing) but if anyone looks at azula, ty lee or mai the wrong way i’m going to cause a Problem

#villains is used loosely because NO i don't think they are actually villains! #these are kiddos that needed help! #can you imagine how powerful this trio would be if azula had been able to go to therapy #endless love of modern versions of them as a girl gang tbh though #avatar #atla #avatar: the last airbender #personal #azula #ty lee #mai #they are some of my absolute favorite avatar characters like i wanna be in their squad so bad

[justignitestuff]

there is a direct pipeline between people who loved azula from atla as a kid and people who love wanda now and that pipeline is lesbianism 

#my girls did nothing wrong leave them alone #shout out to red-themed op women who need to go to therapy I love you all #atla #azula avatar #wanda maximoff #the scarlet witch #multiverse of madness

[ssreeder]

heyy ssreedyy

soo this is my first time on tumblr so i have no idea how to use this buuut I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR FICS AHHHH!!!! and i LOOVE long chapters!!! Don't you dare cut anything out when I'm absolutely obsessed with and living of of every single word of the new chapters for the 2 to 3 weeks of wating for the next chapter.

byebye love your writing!!

eventhough you`re a little cruel

and also are you going to write anything about azula? I reaally fcking need a redemption arc for her shes my favourite character and doesnt deserve what happened to her;(

You are beautiful for stopping by to tell me to keep writing long ass chapters!! I appreciate it because the next one is 18.3k HA HA HA…. Oops.

As for Azula, she will be introduced on the last chapter of this book we are in right now. I love her character & I think she is incredibly intelligent & very complex… but I also try to keep the characters as canon as I can unless I serve them up some trauma or changed events influence them.

I can’t say that Zuko’s death would or would not make her change her canon course… so I guess we will have to see.

But I will always love Azula, no matter what she chooses <3

#azula redemption #??? #don’t hold your breath #she is an incredible character #but one of my favorite things about her is that she picked her side and never swayed from it #I guess her possible redemption would be if you think she would care that Zuko was executed #because he kind of was a traitor lol #& he sort of did do a little treason #so was his execution justified?? #I mean….. yeah #so would azula change her course because her traitor failure brother got what he deserved? #iddkkkk….. probably not #but it doesn’t mean she isn’t an amazing character #but azula needs some long term therapy to work through her many many many issues #love you anon #thanks for stopping by!! #liab #ria #ask

[chubbs-the-fish]

For character bingo, how about Azula from ATLA?

Alright, starting with the big guns I see

Azula is an incredibly interesting character with one of the best depicted character arcs I have ever seen. Her third act breakdown is inevitable, drawn out in such a way that it is the logical, terrible, foreshadowed conclusion. She's the dragon to Ozai's villain, and by far the most interesting reoccurring antagonist in the whole series.

ATLA's themes are all about having support, relationships, and connections that help to make an individual stronger. Azula has been stripped of her connections, one by one, until there's no one left for her to turn to and she crumbles, making her a much more tragic and dynamic figure than necessary.

She actively scared me as a child watching the show.

#atla #azula #character bingo #she needs therapy