#this earns her a very stern talking to on the risks of vigilantism.

[maaaxx]

After Zuko becomes the fire lord he never publicizes the identity of the blue spirit. Like the gaang knows who it was and theres a small section in the textbooks about him but it never becomes common knowledge or is officially recorded that Zuko was a masked vigilante during his banishment.

When Izumi starts learning about the 100 year war she learns the minimal amount of information they have about the Blue Spirit and she fixates on this.

She has shrines and tracks down testimonies and reports that were made about it. She puts together the inconsistencies in height (because Zuko's a growing boy and I hc that the stronghold wasn't his first time as the blue spirit). She has all the information she needs through the stories her dads and aunts and uncles and Iroh have told her about the war to know the sightings follow Zuko but she just doesn't put it together.

She is appalled that Zuko hasn't designated more resources into finding out the identity of this faceless hero. After all without him Aang could have been killed or captured right? He should be honored with more than a footnote in a textbook.

The gaang finds this hilarious and Zuko at this point is too embarrassed to say anything because how could he have predicted that his daughter would become obsessed with his alter ego?

This craze dies down and eventually Izumi goes to stay with Iroh (who was completely unaware of this phase she went through) and when telling Izumi embarrassing stories about her dad he makes a backhanded comment about it and Izumi looses her mind the next time she sees Zuko.

#Izumi then goes on to take inspiration from Zukos shenanigans and becomes a vigilante herself to fuck with zuko and sokka #nothing major but just enough to get their attention #this earns her a very stern talking to on the risks of vigilantism. #Is that a word? #Idk #max thinks shes relevant #zuko #zukka #izumi #idk what else to tag this with #atla #that'll suffice #zukos teenage angst directly leads to izumis teenage rebellions