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Can we all agree that despite zuko being 16, he has proven himself more capable and effective in both diplomacy, bending, and hand to hand combat then soldiers that are in their late 20's or more with decades more experience and he just mops the floor with them? Why does no one appreciate this in fics or hell just in context?

Yes, Zuko is intelligent,

an eloquent and inspiring speaker, 

a capable leader,

a skilled firebender. 

and has the Fire Nation’s best interest at heart 

These things are all true. 

however... 

He’s also an awkward dork who practices his speeches by talking to frogs, 

spent a good portion of the show in Existential Crisis Mode, 

and has an unfortunate habit of making impulsive, dumbass decisions that often risk his personal safety. 

He has the range. 

does your mind ever start banging pots and pans and yelling about how Zuko knelt in front of his father and refused to fight him with tears in his eyes and Ozai’s response was to literally hold him down and burn his face and you just have to go lay down for a while because this small innocent child b e g g e d for mercy and his father tortured and disfigured him instead oh my heart help me

zuko, 13 years old: spoke his truth, ended up tortured and banished by his own father

zuko, 16 years old: said one (1) thing and accidentally gave his father the idea of burn the world to the ashes

zuko, at his first official meeting as the firelord:

consilman: .. sir... please... say something

zuko: I'm not sure it's safe

I love Iroh’s “You-should-get-some-sleep” exchange with Zuko in The Boy in the Iceberg. It cracks me up.

At first Iroh tries passive-aggressive hints.

Buuuuut it doesn’t work.

..so he takes the direct approach.

As Avatar has resurged I, like most everyone else with taste, began rewatching and from the first few episodes I have to point something out,

Zhao ridicules Zuko for not successfully capturing the Avatar and it is constantly expressed that Aang is only a child. But, Aang is an air bender and uses a fighting style that hasn’t been seen in one hundred fucking years. Of course Zuko didn’t beat him, of course Aang bested him and everyone on that ship. It’s because no one knows how to fight against an Air Bender.

It’s the same concept as a MOBA coming out with a new champion. For the first few days the character is usually ‘broken’ because of balancing issues and people get shredded because, just like Aang, no one knows how to fight against them.

But as the show goes on we watch Zuko adapt, he’s a hot head but he’s also a swift learner and has developed an impeccable ability to shift his style to accommodate his opponent. The next time they meet in battle the fight takes longer because Zuko knows what to expect now.

And basically, what I’m saying is, fuck any and everyone who has ever made fun of Zuko for being beaten by someone younger than him. Aang would have beaten your ass too.

Azula (before the final Agni Kai): My hair’s all messed up.

Zuko: It’s your morals that are messed up.

Azula: Oh, that’s just part of my charm.

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thinking abt how zuko is extremely sneaky and good at breaking into places, but since hes really good at it no one even knows he has those skill sets bc that would completely defeat the point of having them. king of appearing and disappearing at only the most inconvenient moments for the people who hate his guts

So do you think that the southern warriors kept hearing rumors about the Avatar and these two Water Tribe kids he’s traveling with? And do you think they keep cracking jokes about the northerners keeping the avatar safe by sending teenagers (because they must be from the north, right? There’s only women and kids down south, and even though Hakoda knows his kids are now two years older they can’t have grown that much, right?), and how much better southern tribe could do? And when Bato catches back up with the rest and says he met the Avatar, Hakoda goes, “Hey, did you meet the idiots he travels with?” 

And Bato just goes, “Hakoda. They’re your idiots.”

Zuko is the most powerful fighter in the ATLA universe. He defeats Zhao, Jet, Sokka, Ozai, and countless earth kingdom and fire nation soldiers, without ever using his bending. The kid can literally kick through iron shackles and kick people to hell and back without using his fire. Even then, his bending has unrecognized powerful potential. Which is why Iroh’s training is so important, and why he’s able to compete with some of the top-benders in the atla-verse. By the time he faces Azula in the third book he has mastered all four types of bending and incorporates their styles into his fighting. He’s literally the first recorded bender to recreate DRAGON FIRE. The only reasons he tends to lose battles is due to his inner conflict and personal connection. In this essay I will… 

Wait, so you’re telling me that a grown ass man held his thirteen (13!!!) year old son and lit his fucking face on fire, and nobody did anything??? It wasn’t mentioned ever again???? Nobody looked at this sixteen (16) year old kid with a years old scar and went, “wow, let’s get this kid some therapy. And a hug. And possibly a warm meal and a support group.” YOURE telling me that Every Adult he interacted with didn’t immediately try to bundle him up and have a friendly chat with his father and a double barrel shot gun????? Come on

Today’s interest: Firelord Zuko Headcannons

(With servants)

There’s only like half the staff that the palace should have because Ozai and Azusa fired/killed/mutilated/scared off/etc. the rest

So they’re all trying their hardest to do their jobs and their terrified of messing up in case he’s just like the rest of his family

They know he’s friends with the Avatar but you can never really be sure

At first they all stay out of his way

Then, a group of younger maids see Zuko and Aang feeding the turtle-ducks

Aang pushes Zuko into the pond and the maids are sure he’s going to set the boy on fire

But instead he just laughs and checks to made sure none of the turtle-ducks are hurt

A few days later, the cook walks into the meal hall to see how everyone’s meal is going

Instead he sees the Firelord in a heated debate about theatre with Suki while Aang, Katara, Toph and Sokka are in the middle of a food-fight

The cook makes the mistake of squeaking indignantly at the sight of his hard work all over thirteen year-old faces

When Zuko notices him he quiets the other teenagers down and apologises for the mess, the others quickly following his lead

Over time, the sergeants come to realise that the new Firelord is just a regular child

An eccentric child who owns a third of the entire world, but a child

By the time Zuko turns seventeen, the entire staff has warmed to him, even the new employees who had heard rumours about what Zuko’s predecessers did

He’s genuinely kind to them and interested in their lives in a way that they’d never experienced before, especially not from a noble

Eventually it became normal for Zuko to be found in the kitchen teaching servants how to make good quality tea

Zuko also offered hugs to them

Many of them had lost people to the war, and at first he did it as a way to comfort them

He was stiff and had obviously never done it before but the servants loved that he cared about them enough to step out of his comfort zone

He was also warm and very comfortable once he relaxed

The younger, bolder servants took advantage of this by hugging him whenever they could

At first it was when Zuko was alone, then one servant accidentally hugged him when he was in front of the Gaang

Sokka and Toph thought it was hilarious

Katara and Aang joined the hug

Suki comforted the servant after she freaked out and started crying

When Zuko adopted Druk, the entire staff helped raise him

just thinking about how Zuko had a bandage over his eye and therefore had no depth perception when he went to visit all of the air temples in his search. No depth perception. At an air temple. How the fuck did he not die.

headcanon that Uncle Iroh always made sure to stand in between Zuko and the edge so that he could make sure his nephew didn’t fall. 🥺

Consider: Fire Lord Zuko quietly putting all the Order of the White Lotus guys on his board of councilors because he’s tired of arguing with the Fire Nation elite who served under his father and if he’s gonna overturn a century-old fascist regime he’s gonna need some Agents of Chaos on his advisory board

- Iroh doesn’t come to meetings very often because his tea shop and customers come first and frankly, he’s done enough time trying to convince the nobles to do stuff, thanks. He has had enough of it by this point. When he does show up it’s mostly for moral support and when he thinks things are going to get heated (pun intended)

- Piandao is probably the single most consistent and valuable member and is extremely good at coming up with progressive and tactful ideas. He’s extremely bad at convincing the council, however. He also can’t seem to get through a meeting without challenging someone to an agni kai. Mostly as a joke. Partly as a power move. Like he WILL bring a sword to a fire fight DO NOT test him on that

- Jeong Jeong has never been on time for a meeting and probably never will. He shows up like a half hour late with tea and doesn’t say anything. His presence alone just freaks everyone out. There’s barely a councilor in there who hasn’t fought with him, been trained by him, or dated him at SOME point in their lives. He knows it. They know it. Zuko doesn’t know it but he appreciates how much gossip he gets to hear from Jeong Jeong when the meetings are over

- Pakku has only showed up like twice and dragged everyone so hard that they haven’t allowed him back. 

- Bumi shows up consistently just for the hell of it. He has a few straight-up brilliant strategies but mostly he’s just there to chill. He outclasses everyone with his outfits. He brings Flopsie to each meeting and no one is allowed to say anything because it would be rude and they are not aware that Flopsie will, in fact, not eat them. Zuko publicly does not acknowledge the 10 foot tall goat-gorilla that’s napping in the throne room. He is looking away. He does not see it

i like how literally everyone in the gaang is so good at coming up with convincing alter egos except for zuko and sokka.

katara and toph can come up with identities that are completely fitting for the situation, while aang just acts so outrageously that no one even suspects that he’s going undercover. (”there’s no way that this kuzon kid has anything to hide. it’s like he’s begging to be noticed.”)

zuko and sokka on the other hand…are complete ass at it. they discover this when the gaang tell zuko about the dumb shit they got themselves into in the fire nation.

zuko: wang fire? you named yourself wang fire? that’s like if i infiltrated the southern water tribe under the name mr. ice water.

sokka: oh yeah? if you’re so good at going undercover, then what was your alias in the earth kingdom?

zuko: lee

sokka: go on…

zuko: just…lee…

sokka: oh. so you decided to create an earth kingdom identity using literally the most common name in the fire nation. how clever. you should have just named yourself ZUKO WITH A C AND IT WOULD HAVE HAD THE SAME EFFECT

zuko: I WAS PANICKING OKAY?

aang, katara, and toph see sokka and zuko being potential liabilities if they ever need to go undercover again. they make it a game to randomly give sokka and zuko scenarios to which they have to create an alter ego on the spot. sometimes sokka and zuko will just be chilling at the western air temple, cloud watching or some dumb shit like that, and suddenly it’ll be like…

aang: QUICK YOU WERE SPOTTED TRYING TO GAIN ACCESS TO AN EXCLUSIVE COUNCIL MEETING AT THE NORTHERN WATER TRIBE. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE THERE?

sokka: uh uH…oh oh! i know! i’m the ghost of the 33rd chief of the northern water tribe, chief tunriq, here to preserve the spiritual sanctity of my—

aang: okay i’m gonna stop you right there. zuko, your turn.

zuko: can’t i just fight them and get it over with?

aang: no!

sokka and zuko get pretty decent at it when they have to infiltrate the fire nation again, and they all continue playing this game long after the war is over. even though they don’t need to go into hiding anymore, it’s still a useful skill to have whenever they wanna disguise themselves as regular people to hang out. in a few month’s time, sokka and zuko are able to whip up pretty elaborate back stories on the spot, and the gaang feels like they’re finally ready to put their skills to use in public. but oh god. does it backfire.

random civilian: hey! you look a lot like the avatar’s friend. sokka from the southern water tribe.

sokka: i get that all the time. my name’s lee. i run a tea shop with my uncle in the earth kingdom.

random civilian: you mean like firelord zuko’s alter ego…? now that i think about it your friend looks a lot like him. who are you?

zuko: i am but a humble servant to firelord zuko, here to escort these earth kingdom civilians around the fire nation as part of the firelord’s campaign to make our country more hospitable to the other nations.

aang, katara, and toph: *whispers* oh my god he did it

zuko: my name is…wang fire

aang, katara, and toph: *commence internal sobbing*

from that point on, aang, katara, and toph decide that they should do the talking for them.

The gaang plays a stupid game which basically tests how good zuko is at finding shit.

It starts off with aang trying to make zuko more likeable by showing how good he is at finding things. He hides their supplies in a weird part of the western air temple and is like “don’t worry. I’m sure zuko can find it by the end of the day.” He finds it in ten minutes.

The game gets more ridiculous. Aang hides their supply bag in secret rooms that not even he knew existed up until now. Katara freezes it in a block of ice and submerges it in a nearby lake. Sokka trains Appa to keep it in his mouth for long periods of time without swallowing it. Zuko finds it every damn time.

They’re impressed and somewhat unsettled by how good he is at this game. But they absolutely lose their shit when it comes to toph’s turn. She hides the supply bag deep underground and assures them that zuko can’t possibly find it unless he magically became an earth bender and learned seismic sense overnight.

Zuko kinda struggles with this one until he walks over the patch of dirt where toph buried the bag. It looks normal but he feels...different somehow?

Everyone’s thinking “oh god. Oh no. He can’t possibly do it. Don’t tell me he’s gonna do it.” Zuko silently points below his feet and the rest of the gaang have a collective breakdown.

Zuko’s like, “does this mean you guys think I’m cool now?” They’re all too terrified to say anything but “y-yeah sure.” And poor zuko is too socially inept to hear the fear in their voices. He just smiles and thinks his friends are liking him more now.

Same energy and no I do not take criticism

The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

dumb atla fanfic idea: ozai is thrown back in time—to the time when firelord azulon still sat on the throne. when ursa had not disappeared into the arms of her lover, ikem. when he still had his bending. when the avatar had not reappeared.

when all was right with the world.

ozai’s ready to conquer the world—nine years earlier than planned, nine years before sozin’s comet was set to arrive.

…

what he did not expect was that the one thing standing in his way of success was his eldest son—in the body of a five-year old.

((where ozai and zuko travel back in time and try to thwart each other in every way possible while everyone’s confused by second prince ozai’s great amount of disdain for his only son and said son’s pettiness towards his father))

Writer: There Was Only One Bed…

Smut fans: *gasp!!!!!*

Writer: So They Spooned All Night And The Brooding One Allowed Themselves To Feel Vulnerable For The First Time In Years And The Chirpy One Got Some Quality Snuggles

Fluff fans: *GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

AU where Zuko realises very early into his banishment that he’s been sent on a hopeless goose chase and, actually, he doesn’t want to return to the oppressive Fire Nation and his abusive father. And he sticks with this decision even after Aang wakes up from the iceberg

Except then Aang meets Zuko - probably when Zuko jumps in to save someone, because his sense of justice is too strong to just sit back while someone is hurt, even if he is trying to remain apolitical - and his brain goes “!!!!” Because that’s a good firebender. They do exist. And now Aang knows someone who can teach him firebending without trying to kill him

Except Zuko wants nothing to do with the Avatar. He especially doesn’t want to get entangled with his father’s war. So the rest of the season is about Zuko running from the Avatar, and Aang and co trying to capture the reluctant ex-Prince of the Fire Nation so he can be Aang’s firebending teacher

I saw this tiktok on twitter and I just had to 😂

This man (thatgreygentleman) is one of my favorite creators and his hot take on Zuko’s coronation is amazing

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Gullfoss. South Iceland.

anyone please ask your crush out like this

I’ve finally managed to make a vine compilation short enough that Tumblr will let me post it!

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

I like how everybody is paired off haha

most tumblr jokes are utterly embarassing to say in public but today i said to someone “bold of you to assume i have dignity” and i won’t lie it was the most powerful I’ve felt in years