#big brother zuko

[blueamphibians]

More art from my ATLA fic!

first one is from the first chapter, second is from the second chapter, and the last pic is just some sketches from stuff that hasn't happened yet :D

#my art #ATLA #Fire Hazard Siblings #Zuko #Azula #Big-brother-itis

[ilikepjo24]

Headcannon - Azula loves Sundays because they have the word "sun" in them and when she was little she'd cry if it rained on a Sunday. And little Zuko would have attempted to fistfight the weather multiple times for being bad on his little sister's favorite day of the week.

#atla #azula #zuko #fire siblings #atla headcanons #good big brother Zuko

[comradekatara]

ok so the thing about sokka is. if he didn’t have a little sister, i don’t think he would’ve spared azula’s life (twice!), since he justified wanting to let zuko die because zuko was “constantly trying to kill them,” and azula came much closer to achieving that goal. but also, if sokka did not have a little sister, he would simply not be sokka.

#and maybe also because game recognize game #whereas sokka thinks zuko is a schmuck. a loser. an idiot #but yeah i think it’s actually about the little sisterism of it all #ppl talk abt zuko collecting little sisters (and he does) but he is a SHITE big brother (not his fault tbh) #whereas sokka is the most big brother to ever big brother #i think he would treat azula exactly like he treats katara except he would also explicitly make digs at her intelligence when he wants #to annoy her #he’d invent rubiks cubes just to watch her struggle to solve them #zuko would solve it by sheer luck and it would ruin azulas whole week #anyway. #sokka #azula&katara #katara&sokka #sokkaxzuko #<- it counts

[what-is-merlin-so-gay-for]

there’s just something about characters that are the older brother that i love SO much

they don’t have much in common, but they have a VIBE i cannot resist

(there are so many fire bros tho??? i didn’t even add tanjiro lol)

#there is no rhyme or reason to this #big brothers #portgas d ace #rengoku kyojuro #itachi uchiha #uchiha madara #shi wudu #killua zoldyck #dabi #ichigo kurosaki #i love them all for different reasons #relate so much to their younger siblings lmaooooo #zuko #sokka #mine

[mugentakeda]

lu ten and zuko... idk...

OFHSNDBSBSBSNWNSNSNSNXBXBZ

#i like to think that zuko uses lu ten as reference when handling yhe younger members of the gaang #like he cant just be himself because the only big brother experience he has is with AZULA #asks

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

Tadashi Hamada, Tensei Iida and Lu Ten are the same person.

#the greatest big brothers #big hero 6 #big hero six #tadashi hamada #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #tensei iida #avatar the last airbender #atla #lu ten atla #lu ten #big brother #hiro hamada #iida tenya #zuko #zuko atla

[beansterpie]

rewatching LoK, i'm being reminded how much I dislike the.... the brothers, mako and bolin, yanno? they're such underwhelming characters on basically every level. it'd almost be impressive if they weren't in every episode and didn't annoy me so much ugh

#bean talking into the void #also this show in general is very flawed lol #cool things about it but the choice to structure it more like a #prestige tv show #as in each season follows One Story #is... i wouldn't say it was a bad choice but i feel like you can see the growing pains #switching over from the episodic structure of ATLA #s1 while flawed is solid #it knows what it's trying to do even if it doesn't always stick the landing #season two feels like a season-long filler episode LMFAO #which is hilarious because a lot of world-building stuff happens #but tonally it's all over the place #serious political plots interspersed with the B Plot following Tenzin and his family #on vacation??? #so fucking random #but anyway back to roasting the brothers #i find bolin just annoying in general his brand of comedy totally doesn't work for me #but at least he has like #a personality that's consistent #mako is sooooooo blah #the writers have no idea what to do with him and he comes across as having a strikingly boring personality #with no defining traits other than being wishy washy (and a boot licker) #it FEELS like he was meant to remind viewers of Zuko #at least in appearance if nothing else #another broody pretty boy to latch onto #but he has literally nothing interesting to actually get invested in #sure he's got his tragic backstory and he's the 'older brother who took care of his younger brother after their parents died' boo hoo #but that's all just exposition and it's barely shown in a way that feels illustrative or emotional in any way that matters #(other than him comforting bolin in s1 after he KISSES THE GIRL HE KNEW BOLIN HAD A CRUSH ON lmfaoooooo) #(what a good big brother lmfao)

[lphoenixspiritl]

A Brother's Grief

"Aang, we need to talk." a shadow moved across the tent floor blocking the flood of warm afternoon sunlight.

"What's up Sokka? Borrowing Momo for a week not going as planned?"

Sokka glanced over his shoulder where the small lemur rifled through his things and procured one of his socks as a hat.

He turned back to his friend and took a seat on a small stump, "No that's fine, it's about Katara."

A sudden nervousness twisted Aang's stomach.

Had Sokka found out about his crush on his sister? 

Would he be mad?

"Uh, sure. You know I like Katara." Aang's hands shot up, "I-I- mean care about her! Like you do! like a brother!" the boy's cheeks warmed at the fumble.

Sokka stared at him oddly, "Uh, sure."

"So what about Katara?" Aang's voice softened, "Is it what she said about your Mom before she left? It sounded like it hurt."

Sokka could only blink in response, he expected that kind of bluntness from Toph, but coming from Aang, it blindsided him. Suddenly the weight of his emotions were too much, his shoulders collapsed and his chin dropped to his chest.

"It did," he admitted.

"I'm sorry Sokka, maybe you two should talk about it when she gets back." Aang paused his face souring, "That is if you don't have other things to talk about.

The watertribesman stared at his hands, "There's nothing to talk about."

"You have to." Aang pushed, "If that's how you feel then leaving it will just make things worse!"

"There's nothing to talk about because she's right." Sokka blurted.

"What?"

"She's right." Sokka's shoulders slumped even further, like wax melting to the floor, "I always wanted to be a great leader and warrior, just like my dad."

"But you're already a great warrior and a really good leader."

Sokka put up a hand halting Aang, hearing anything resembling praise right then would have made his stomach sick.

"You don't understand. I idolized our Dad, but Katara? She wanted to be like our mom, kind and caring and able to do almost anything - she definitely got some of dad's warrior side though." Sokka's half smile disappeared as quickly as it came, giving way to something grimmer, "But after what happened, Katara had to become what our mom was. She filled that role and in a way, I think that made her closer to Mom even though she was gone."

"It sounds like you loved your mom a lot."

"I did, but Katara's right, not in the way she does." Sokka looked up, anguish breaking across his features, "If I did, I'd be right there with her, looking for the man that took our mother from us."

"Sokka no!" A gust of air ruffled the sides of the tent, Aang propelled himself up from his seat on the floor, "Revenge isn't the way! You forgave him and Katara hasn't."

"No, I didn't," Sokka ground out, standing to meet the younger boy, "I grieved our mother and I might have accepted that she's gone but I never, ever forgave them for what they did our family. I never will." Sokka forced himself to unwind his clenched fists, he took in a breath of calm and let it out in a deflated stream that dropped him back on his seat on the stump, "If I'm being honest I don't think I would have ever moved on if Katara hadn't been there to fill the hole Mom left."

"But-"

"No buts," Sokka's eyes shone as that old pain lodged in his chest, "you had no right to tell Katara to forgive. You have no idea what we went through, what she went through."

"I lost my entire people!"

"And?" a hardness crept into Sokka's voice "This isn't some kind of competition Aang. If you can forgive the Fire Nation for wiping out your entire people, great. Katara and I don't have to do the same."

"But forgiveness is the only way to let go!"

"You had no right to ask that of her! You can't force people to forgive because you think it's the only way to let go. Newsflash kid, it's not." he had, had enough, this was a mistake.

Sokka got up to leave pausing at the open tent flap, "I never forgave the man who killed my mother and I never will. I learned to let go in my own way, now Katara has to find hers."

"By running around the Fire Nation with Zuko?"

"If that's what she needs."

"It's not safe." Aang refuted.

"And you flying out in the middle of a storm and almost blowing our cover was?" Sokka shot back.

Aang froze guilt weighing on his brow.

Sokka reigned himself in with a sigh, "Katara is safe with Zuko, I wouldn't have let them go if I didn't think he could take care of her."

"Do you trust me to take care of Katara?"

"You're just a little kid."

"You trust Zuko but not me?" Aang asked incredulously, "I'm the Avatar!"

"I trust Zuko to look after Katara because he's been the only one of us to put her first," Sokka admitted, guilt hanging from his words, he left not waiting for an answer.

The flap fell behind him with a soft rustle and Aang found himself alone in the dim tent.

…

"How did it go?" Suki's appriaching footsteps were muted by the wet sand.

"Not great." Sokka replied staring out at the crashing waves, "I'm a terrible big brother."

"No you're not, you're a good big brother," she brushed her knuckles gently along his cheek, "I've seen it myself."

Suki took a seat on the thin blanket next to Sokka and he turned to look at her, "I don't feel like it."

"You've taken care of her this long."

"Not as well as I should have. It should have been me with her, instead, Zuko is doing what I couldn't."

Suki shook her head, "I think Zuko is who she needs to be with right now." she took one of Sokka's tanned hands in hers, "but when she comes back? She's going to need you. She's going to need to know you still love her no matter what might have happened."

"I will."

"Good."

Suki leaned her head against Sokka's shoulder and quietly, they watched the sun descend to kiss the waves.

#the southern raiders #zutara #big brother Sokka #ficlet #katara x zuko #zuko x katara #atla sokka

[blueamphibians]

Art for my ATLA fic :D

Edit: help, I was flipping my canvas when I was drawing and I drew his scar on the wrong side 😭😭 absolute kings; the people that pointed it out—myb it’s supposed to be the same as canon :D

#atla #zuko #katara #sokka #my art #Big-brother-itis

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

Azulaang - secrecy

Zuko: “So, you and Aang seem very close. Anything fun happen I should know about?”

Azula: “Not much, I just played around with his long stiff staff last night.”

Zuko: “You. did! WHAT?!”

Azula: “At ease dear brother, he showed me his air bender glider thingy and how it works. He wanted to see if I could fly around with it, but I advised against it since it’s not fireproof. What did you think I meant when I said that?”

Zuko squinted his eyes with suspicion and backed off slowly, Azula was weirded out by this. Aang showed up behind her.

Aang: “Everything ok between you two?”

Azula: “Yeah, it’s just my brother being a clingy psychopath as usual.”

Azula then began to cuddle on Aang, placing her pointy-nailed hand at the scar on his back.

Azula: “I’m still in awe on your skills last night. I never expected a monk to be knowledgeable with such regards.”

Aang: “Well, half of my past lives are women and some other past lives of mine married and had children. So, I guess some of those experiences snuck out and helped me.”

#azaang #azulaang #aangzula #zuko as azula's iroh #zuko being the overprotective big brother finally

[comradekatara]

I've recently been thinking about how Zuko went on a field trip with 3/4 gaang members; do you think we were all robbed of a Toph and Zuko field trip? How do you think it would've gone?

no i don’t think we were “robbed” of a toph and zuko field trip, and the show even lampshades this fact in “sozin’s comet.” while toph and zuko do have a lot in common wrt their respective abusive upbringings, struggles with disability and gender identity/inhabitation, and accepting help from others/their own vulnerability as a product of that parental/systemic abuse, the fact of the matter is that zuko does not owe toph reparations, whether material or emotional. the most harm zuko ever causes toph is purely by accident, which is a fact they both immediately acknowledge. when zuko bonds with aang over their respective issues with firebending stemming from its use as a weapon/tool of imperialist conquest, with sokka over their respective daddy issues, or with katara over their respective mommy issues (if you’ll allow me to be reductive in both cases, considering i’ve already discussed both of these relationships at length in the past), zuko is specifically addressing what is not only a point of commonality that connects these characters, but a matter that zuko must directly make amends for (he was the first person to showcase to aang the destructive power of firebending, he burned down suki’s village and forsook his own father figure in ba sing se, he exploited katara’s grief regarding her mother on multiple occasions). while it would certainly be nice to see toph and zuko bond more and connect over their shared traumas, there is no thematic impetus demanding a plot-relevant episode dedicated to their escapades. i do actually have many ideas regarding toph and zuko’s developing friendship, but it is a pet peeve of mine that people act like seeing our favorite characters be put in adorable situations is in fact necessary to a narrative even if it is thematically irrelevant. i also think that a lot of people clamor for a toph & zuko friendship when similar dynamics with far more basis in canon, such as katara & zuko, aang & zuko, or toph & sokka, which are all richly textured relationships that bear deep thematic significance within the text, are overlooked. toph & zuko do admittedly have an interesting dynamic, but there arrives a certain point where it’s just like. what do you want me to say about this relationship that is not said better by other, deeper relationships within the text.

#catastrophe908 #asks #toph&zuko #toph #zuko #hot takes #I see a lot of ppl talk abt zuko being tophs ‘big brother’ when it’s like. sokka’s right there #being toph’s favorite person in the world. carrying her physically & emotionally #or toph being zuko’s ‘little sister’ and it’s like aang is right there. katara is right there even #serving richly textured narrative cohesion on a silver platter #im not saying toph & zuko friendship is BAD #but a lot of what people WANT out of a toph & zuko friendship they already HAVE #but with characters they like less bc their trauma isn’t as compelling to the western bourgeoisie lmao #that said gay disabled solidarity does mean a lot to me personally. but that’s a different thing lol

[inkperch]

I'll never understand Azula-Zuko roleswaps obsession with having her be the one in that Agni Kai, like. If Zuko's the one their father favours, I can think of three different scenes that would've gotten her banished and permanently scarred off the top of my head, and that's just the ones we know about-

Yeah, she'd probably be a bit smarter about it if Zuko was Ozai's favourite, but if anything her typical sibling assholery would be elevated to outright hatred of Zuko-

(especially if Ursa's being mishandled and so Zuko is both their parents obvious favourite, Azula would overhear that murder conversation and go do it herself lmao-)

#atla #azula atla #zuko atla #I'm being facetious I know it's bc they're less roleswaps more excuses for Zuko to be a good big brother- #but still

[ultfreakme]

Mako  🤝 Sokka

Dating extremely high profile people, and extremely high profile people only.

#Sokka's got Yue Suki and hc Zuko #Mako's got Korra Asami and hc Wu #big brothers who are the responsible ones #UNTIL it comes to love in which case they become extrmely stupid #atla #tlok #mako #sokka #gaang #krew #the legend of korra #Avatar The Last Airbender #avatar

[fuckyouozai]

i have always said this, aang brings out the latent Big Brother energy in zuko. every ep after zuko joins the group their dynamic is so extremely siblinglike in a way that aang doesn't even have with sokka

#like. sokka is aang's best friend #zuko is aang's big brother #zuko is both constantly annoyed by him and also genuinely sees what he's capable of

[bimyself06]

Don't know if I've done an ATLA prompt yet but here I go.

Before her banishment Ursa asks Zuko to try and protect Azula to best of his abilities, then asks Iroh to protect both Zuko and Azula. Azula hears both conversations and this changes the way she persieves her brother and uncle making a less psychotic person when compared to canon but we'll she still has ✨trauma✨.

When Zuko is banished, Iroh still chooses to go with him but this time they ask Azula to with them(it's been a while since I last the show so I don't remember if they did ask her to join them in canon) she turns them down pointing out that with the current situation they need someone who will actually tell them what's going on in the Fire Nation when it happens.

Fast forward to book one and while Zuko is hunting down the avatar he's a lot more mellowed out and it's less so that he regains his honor and more so that he can return to his little sister and maybe take over as Fire Lord and kill his father, that's still up for debate.

However, once he meets Aanng he realises that the avatar is literally younger then his own sister, which may or may not cause him to throw his plan of capturing the avatar out the window and deciding that full on rebellion against his sperm donor it is. Azula is fully on board and Iroh will forever support his chaotic niece and nephew cough_children_cough. So Aanng now has both a two fire teachers and two older siblings, although he has yet to meet his new sister, and a father figure in the form of Iroh.

#atla prompt #zukka is a most #aanng can have love interest or he can just be an overpowered kid with two over protective siblings and a baddass dad #Azula is more chaotic neutral than evil in this #her mai and ty lee have a better friendship than in cannon too #the whole fic would basically be zuko being the tired big brother to two powerfull kids and flirting with water tribe boy while overthrowing #his father

[m3nt3lly-1ll69]

My brother drew Zuko (he's the GOAT at drawing /j)

#big brother #brother #art #bro #artist #artists on tumblr #masterpiece #perfection #atla #avatar #avatar: the last airbender #avatar: tla #zuko #prince zuko #zuko x katara #atla zuko