>The Earth Kingdom is now the antagonist instead of the Fire Nation
>What would occur?
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>What would occur?
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Rocks fall everyone dies
Boring
I think they could do that with another Avatar in another time.
>I think they could do that with another Avatar in another time.
Nah
>the next Avatar series is a Earth bender avatar rebelling against his own country/city
Could be based especially if he were gay with big bara tiddies
nothing because the earth kingdom is white(adjacent) and not full of warmongering chinks
...it's China
So who are the whites?
There are no whites
That's why the world was able to live in harmony for so long :^)
That's Asians for ya. Probably the only ones who'd do that well.
You anons know Asians have killed millions right?
>You anons know Asians have killed billions right?
Unironically Guru Pathik and that one background indian looking character in Korra who was part of Varricks sycophants. Theyre indian so theyre genetically the closest to indo-europeans.
>Fire Nation
South East Asians
>Earth Kingdom
Mainlanders are Chinks
Kyoshi Islanders are Japanese
Foggy Swampers are Alabama/Louisiana folk
Si Wong People are Middle Eastern
> Polar Water Tribes
Eskimo
>Air Nomads
Mongolian/Himalayan
So, the closest ethnically to whites would be the airfolk and their adjacents like Pathik
>Fire Nation
These are japs bro
>Swampers
vietnamese and such
>Si Wong desert people
central asians/afghans
Not him but I found this after a 5 second google search. You're an uncultured swine.
They used all sorts of inspiration from a variety of irl cultures to make their show so what? I'm talking about their geopolitical role. Fire nation are the imperial japs, theyre on a volcanic island, have better tech and are expansionist and genocidal
>waahhh I was talking about geopolitical ideologies in a race/ethnicity discussion
Take the L like a man or just have a nice day homosexual
Chill
Can you name another Asian power that industrialized and started conquering its neighbors while at the same time being an island nation that’s hold things like honor and tradition above all else?
Japanese culture doesn't have a monopoly on valuing honour and tradition, that shit is just as baked into traditional Confucian beliefs as well.
Harping on one point while ignoring everything else isn’t going to prove what I said wrong. It just makes it look like you can’t read.
Cause nothing else you've said is worth responding to. It's obvious that no one ATLA nation has only one real world analog and they all have inspirations from multiple elements. The Earth Kingdom resembles Japan more closely than the Fire Nation on a cultural level and industrializing and annexing your neighbours isn't unique to Japan either.
>The Earth Kingdom resembles Japan more closely than the Fire Nation
It really doesn't in the slightest.
>Minor aesthetic inspirations
moron
Theyre all Finns
Silly anon havent you heard? Han are now honorary Aryans. You live under a rock.
The Earth kingdom is China, how did you miss that?
I thought the fire nation was asian?
Earth Kingdom = China
Fire Nation = Japan
Air Nomads = Tibet
Water Tribes = Various Arctic and Sub-Arctic Natives + Swamp Yokles
>The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai
>the fire foursome winds up spending the entire gap between seasons 2 & 3 on vacation at Lake Laogai
>Mai untouched
lel
Long Feng has some standards
The only safe spot on the planet is in a Water tribe ice city.
Concentration camps, pollution, organ harvesting, grinding up bending animals to make miracle cures, social credit, and all the other nations bending over backwards to make excuses not to interfere with the glorious socialist experiment at work!
On the bright side, Aang now has four friends.
Wind the clock back anon. Also finally an excuse to post this pic outside of Cinemaphile
>hideyoshi
Did frick all and lost to the point where he effectively ruined his ability to rule japan, now if it was Oda then that would be a definite rape
The Avatar has to deal with a civil war between a rising communism power and the royal loyalist in the Earth Kingdom.
Evil dictator Toph when?
I wonder if Toph can beat Aang and four sets of siblings.
Toph was probably the only one close to Azula in bending skill.
So a sadistic and lethal Toph would fill her roll decently enough.
I wish I could find art like that
>Imperial china
There should be multiple earth kingdoms both colonizing the world whilst also infighting, like great powers europe. So Ba Sing Se and Omashu would be the top rivals but also others.
>The Earth Kingdom is now the antagonist instead of the Fire Nation
>What would occur?
The Fire Nation is pretty much dead if the Earth Kingdom is a competent antagonist.
Everyone is fricked beside the Water Tribes BUT the Water Tribes also can't fight them effectively. If the Earth Kingdom gets a decent army of Metal Benders tho they could take the poles.
I think the Earth Kingdom should be several kingdoms trying to take over the world but prevented by moronic bureacracy and infighting. And they dont have full control over the people in their lands so sandbenders, swampbenders, enclaves of surviving airbenders, etc still roam around
>I think the Earth Kingdom should be several kingdoms trying to take over the world but prevented by moronic bureacracy and infighting. And they dont have full control over the people in their lands so sandbenders, swampbenders, enclaves of surviving airbenders, etc still roam around
Cool idea
>If the Earth Kingdom gets a decent army of Metal Benders tho they could take the poles
They would be surrounded by water tho
Metal gets brittle if it gets really cold so I think metal benders would be fricked at the poles
Yeah, only the water tribes would be safe
I wonder if Toph would turn out like Azula if she had evil parents
I don't think we ever saw the Earth Kingdom developing a strong Navy like the Fire Nation or Water Tribe
And even if they did, their benders would be fricked in most ship-to-ship battles. So they would need to develop their technology the way the Fire Nation did
They could potentially develop Airships since the Mechanist was one of their people, but still risky since its not like they can carry huge payloads of rocks to drop on people and travel very far without wasting a ton of fuel
So without boats or planes they are kinda stuck on their own continent
Their best bet would be to have Toph go evil, train a bunch of other Earthbenders with the Badger Moles and get an army of Earthbenders to pull a Team Magma and raise the ocean floor to create a new continent
>Toph go evil, train a bunch of other Earthbenders with the Badger Moles and get an army of Earthbenders to pull a Team Magma and raise the ocean floor to create a new continent
That would be so cool
>Their best bet would be to have Toph go evil, train a bunch of other Earthbenders with the Badger Moles and get an army of Earthbenders to pull a Team Magma and raise the ocean floor to create a new continent
>So without boats or planes they are kinda stuck on their own continent
>Their best bet would be to have Toph go evil, train a bunch of other Earthbenders with the Badger Moles and get an army of Earthbenders to pull a Team Magma and raise the ocean floor to create a new continent
Wouldn't that kind of large scale continental shift result in seismic activity and floods and a ton of natural disasters?
I feel like the Fire Nation would get wiped out if the Earthbenders tried that, maybe the Water Tribes too
All that would be left would be the Air Nomads
>I feel like the Fire Nation would get wiped out
Yeah, at least the Water Tribe would be somewhat safe
>Evil Toph leads an Earthbender Army that goes full Alexander the Great and turns various Islands into Peninsulas.
The 4 temples get demolished forcing the nomads to live up to their name. the fire nation capital falls into a sinkhole. the water tribes are ok because they are isolated as hell.
Firebenders finally get karma
''Realistically'' the fire nation wouldn't stand a chance. Imagine the worse aspects of the Vietnam war turned up to 11. the very geography would be turned against you as the earth benders redirect rivers or sink your fortress.
I wonder if it would humble Azula, being on the receiving end of her people being killed and being hunted
By that logic, the Earth Kingdom would be facing napalm bombing run without the forests to hide in.
The Fire Nation being an island is already an insta cuck to the earth kingdom because they can hit them without being hit back, which is exactly how Japan cucked China for millenias and from the show, your average Earth Kingdom soldier is weaker than your average Fire Nation soldiers AND the Fire Nation has more soldiers.
not a lot, the fire nation has water superiority and by obvious reasons they couldn't invade the water tribes in the poles
What about the characters?
I just can't see it happening. There's no way they could take out the Fire Nation or Water Tribe, because the Earth Kingdom has no naval force. Sure, they might ne able to take out the Western Air Temple, since it is in the ground. But the Southern Temple? Frick no. Only reason Sozin could take them out was mostly likely due to dragons. The Air Nomads could easily defend themselves or evacuate on sky bisons.
>amogus
Already kind of happened with Chin. He conquered the entire Earth Kingdom, with the exception of Ba Sing Se and the tiny patch of land that would become Kyoshi Island, before getting put down by the avatar.
The next avatar after korra should be a tall white albino male.
>Airbenders gangs who commit crimes in Republic City and have a distorted version of the beliefs and values of the original Airbenders.
What would it be like?
I think they would take the whole "element of freedom" and zen nature-loving thing a bit too far.
Stuff like not respecting ownership. So they'd just live and exist wherever, even if that means breaking into houses and shops that aren't theirs. Also stealing food, releasing pets and livestock, and generally just being soft anarchists.
That kind of antagonist would be pretty interesting because without a central hierarchy, you'd need to reform them on an individual level to make the problem go away. Or introduce a central hierarchy to follow.
I imagine the next avatar (in my happy-place headcanon where Korra didn't frick everything up by getting all previous avatars erased) calls upon the spirit of Avatar Aang the same way Aang did for Kyoshi at his trial. Aang could explain the important things these Air-Ruffians are missing about being a proper Air Nomad, and how they were before the genocide.
>What if the Airbenders attacked the firebenders?
I know they’re peaceful, but let’s imagine
unironically who are you quoting?
seriously, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
I think they’re asking what if the Air benders were the aggressors instead of the Fire benders
>Stuff like not respecting ownership. So they'd just live and exist wherever, even if that means breaking into houses and shops that aren't theirs. Also stealing food, releasing pets and livestock, and generally just being soft anarchists.
Literally the gypsies.
So Korra Books 3 and 4?
That doesn't count
SUS SUSI SUSS
They would constantly use earth bending to just pull people into the ground when they try to run.
>There’s no escaping the earth you’re standing on it stupid.
The next avatar should be a villain.
No.
An interesting point of view where that stupid evil avatar came into play. Have reborn person be the next protagonist and it’s “Korra” guiding them but it’s really Unalaq pretending to be Korra using Spirit bending So the new protag isn’t the real avatar but has no idea of this and is manipulated into learning all four elements creating a second Avatar. Why trickery well if Unalaq said you’re destined to be evil would you listen to anything else he would say but now, it’s possible for a new avatar a better one. End the first season there with the realization new Avatar is the dark Avatar. Second season is about the actual Avatar and there point of view. Make them completely insecure and hoping they don’t have to be the avatar since there already is one. They see Korra they ignore Korra and try to block her out thinking they’re crazy. Eventually listens to Korra realizes there’s a fake Avatar an Antitar. So they reluctantly train to deal with them. Season ends with them feeling ready to deal with the new Evil after mastering the elements. Third season go back and forth between the two protags with each episode, new actual avatar can't find any faults with the Anti they seem to he doing actual good, Korea rejects the notion and keeps telling them not to fall for the tricks. Anti episodes are about them trying to surpress Unalaq‘s presence, tryinfn to ignore him as he no longer being coy or nice. Season ends with Anti on a rampage in the woods but they're fighting virtual nothing people think the Avatar snapped the real Avatar sees what’s happening and tries to help the two stare at each other confused and Korra Spirit and Unalaq Spirt glare at each other. 4th season it's the two Avatars butting heads buds into a romance the two end uonhbinf a passage of time and have a baby the Baby opens it's eyes and there's both A glimmer of Vaatu and Ravaa in each eye implying the spirits are one again and true balance he been restored.
HOLY
Yeah I know it's pretty terrible, but trying to work with what's there.
Is being extremely stupid about trying to help people 'evil'?
Because that defines Korra for most of the show.
They massacred the fire bender a by using Sand benders.
>When we fire bended all we did was creat glass flying at us.
>>When we fire bended all we did was creat glass flying at us.
Fire from fire bending is more like an explosion, it would send glass flying at the sand benders.
>Earth Kingdom uses its strength established in Ba Sing Se and how important it was in remaining impenetrable for so long
>Disenfranchised, weary, scared, and beaten victims of the Fire Nation treat it as an influential place with almost religious zealotry
>Whoever takes King Boomie's place grows up learning to hate and be discriminatory about Fire Nation folks
>New ruler uses Dai Li as both peacekeepers and all-seeing surveillance on every corner
>Instead of an overt and flash-and-fire kind of invasion, the Earth kingdom builds an oppressive and secretive empire
>They're right under your feet, they're the ground you're standing on, and you won't notice it until you're already buried.
This works both as a replacement for Avatar's story and also as an immediate followup to the original story.
The Earth symbol looks vaguely like Goatse.
Darn, beat me to the punch
Get your mind out of the gutter
We need a Energybenders Nation.
Earth-girls pegging the other nations with rock
Literally
>Chao Ling takes power
>49 million perish
>Chin the Conqueror takes power
>49 million perish
>Chin is randomly killed by the fricking messiah while trying to subjugate a tiny peninsula
>The Chin-ese empire collapses into bloody anarchy
>another 49 million die
>the messiah and the king of Ba Sing Se create a new earth empire
>another 49 million die
>the blood of the dead leak into the spirit world, tainting it
>in his wooden prison, Vaatu grows in power
I still can't believe the 'dark avatar' was even a plot point, the whole thing felt like a much lamer version of a speech against devil worship by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The Avatar should have just kept on being the spirit of the planet in human form
Where's he from? Why's he the only Indian coded character?
There is another indian looking character in Korra, a background character in S2 I think. He's seen as part of the gaggle of people talking to Vaatu
In the Korra comics there's the leader of the Creeping Crystal Triad
An Earthbender who specializes in using Jennamite
considering pic related is a member of the Fire Nation army, I always figured the India-parallel was somewhere in the Fire Nation. Ty Lee's fighting style reminds me a bit of Indian martial arts too.
Yeah
It's a minor distinction but Guru Pathik is the only one with an Indian accent. Accents are very cultural, most people in Avatar speak with American or east Asian accents. It makes him seem very out of place.
>The Earth Kingdom is now the antagonist instead of the Fire Nation
assuming that you don't want to simply rehash the same plot points?
well ba sing se is already kind of evil with how dai li run things, but this time the earth king would be in on it:
>the earth king is a hedonistic degenerate that cares only about his harem of girls kidnapped from all over the world and his gladiatorial arena where men and beats kill each other
>he also uses human sacrifices to keep himself young
>earth kingdom armies are massive, relaying on quantity rather than quality of troops from mass mobilizations that inevitably lead to starvation in whole regions when all the fighting age men are drafted and provisions confiscated
>while lands around ba sing se are fairly peaceful under the iron fist of the secret police and the royal guard, the earth king doesn't care about the state of his realm as long as his greed and gluttony are satisfied - so the outer reaches of the earth kingdoms fell pray to strife between local nobles
>of course if any one rises too high, and either doesn't bend the knee or starts to defy the royal administration, he and his whole house and killed off
>the Fire Nation in this version is a land ravaged by constant war between great clans that rise and fall, as various warlords strive for glory and power
>the Fire Lord is more of a religious figure, than an administrative title, still hereditary a with a power base of its own - but playing the role of a pope rather than emperor
>needles to say that it is perceived as the homeland of savages and barbarians offering nothing much of mercantile value, except for its people who readily hire themselves out as mercenaries or strike out on their own as adventurers or pirates
>which is how Zuko finds himself on a ship sailing around, although this time he is hunting for the biggest monsters he can find instead of the avatar, the rest of his backstory can be left practically the same
cont.
>except this time Ozai isn't 143% evil so despite the fact that he burned Zuko's face for making him look bad in front of his drinking mates, he had done so because the alternative to defacement and banishment would have to be death, that some of the warlords actually called for
>also since their parents did not hate each other so much, neither do the fire siblings, so Azula joins him on his journey
>plus this time we are going to be running with fem!Aang (pic related) so we still need the handsome and brooding violent young man, that the female audience can dream of fixing
>why fem!Aang? because as we have established the earth king likes exotic girls and there is nothing more exotic than the last air bender
>since this time around, Zuko is accompanied by Azula instead of neeting with his hippie uncle living in the trailer park, already by the time when the show starts it becomes apparent that he is definitely the stronger between the >two of them, setting Azula up to learn that the brain is her strongest muscle
>in this version the northern water tribe is the one pounded into the dark age, since it is closer to Ba Sing Se
>the souther tribals meanwhile scramble around trying to catch exotic beasts and slaves to be shipped to Ba Sing Se as tribute, since the villages that fail to deliver become prey themselves
>they are competing in this against the princess of Kyoshi and her fleet
>and of course after Zuko and Azula stumble onto fem!Aang and her massive flying bison news about them spreads like wildfire the moment they enter a port to resupply starting the hunt
>when the news reaches the earth king, he sends Long Feng, alongside Toph, his favourite gladiator (who is pretanding to be a boy), to bring him fem!Aang and the bison - later they are joined by Suki, after her own plan fails
>zuko stronger than azula
Already ruined from the start.
The dynamic between them works best when Azula is objectively OP but unstable.
Doesn't matter since Zuko equals / surpass her in canon anyway.
Zuko never gets as good at bending as Azula. That was obviously clear even at the end.
He heads in at his absolute best form against her when she is at her worst ever, and barely keeps up.
The entire point is that Azula is stronger, perhaps the strongest Fire Bender outside Roku we ever see, but her insanity made her weak in the end because it saps her spirit and stamina.
If you think that Zuko is ever meant to be as strong as Azula 1v1, you're just wanking him off and missing the point.
He is the weak brother that has the support of others to prop him up, while she is the strong sister left alone who collapses from lack of support.
>Zuko never gets as good at bending as Azula.
He does tho, he match her once or twice in a straight fight and proceed to beat her in the Final Agni Kai.
>when she is at her worst ever,
Azula was literally at her strongest ever.
> barely keeps up.
Zuko didn't even breath slightly hard during that whole fight.
>The entire point is that Azula is stronger, perhaps the strongest Fire Bender outside Roku we ever see
The fact you think Azula is stronger than fricking Ozai alone show you're delusional and not worth talking to.
>If you think that Zuko is ever meant to be as strong as Azula 1v1
You mean the thing that was objectively shown in the show?
>He is so moronic he think the moral of ATLA was 'Ozai is right, Zuko is weak'
Funniest shit I've ever seen.
He does better than immediately losing to her once or twice, but never matches her.
The lead up to the final Agni Kai has her literally hallucinating and falling apart at the seams.
She is never positioned as being anywhere near top form. Just the opposite. That is what gives Katara and Zuko a chance in the first place. Azula was at her most 'dangerous' because she was unstable and unpredictable and had the Comet's boost, not because she was at her most powerful, relatively speaking.
Azula is shown to have great amounts of stamina when calm throughout the series. Even without her bending, she is shown to be able to hold off Aang and Toph for like 15 minutes. Her exhaustion during the Agni Kai was mental exhaustion. Her weakness was mental weakness.
The series is very clear about the connection between mental state and bending strength. And being deranged and hallucinatory is not conducive to bending strength. That is the point.
The moral isn't, "Ozai is right, Zuko is weak".
The moral is that, "you can uplift and complete yourself with the help of others". Ozai never respected the abilities or support of other people. And in Azula that lack of support led to madness. Zuko got support and it helped him.
you mean Zuko who is basically alone in his pursuit up to the end of the last season is meant to be the one "with friends"
while Azula, accompanied by Mai and Ty Lee and with access to full FN military arsenal and Ozai's backing is mean to be the one "alone" ?
homie u serious?
Yeah.
Zuko finds actual friends. He literally goes on an 'adventure' with most of them, each.
He makes true bonds with others, and it works him through his darkest hours. Iroh, Aang, Katara, Sokka, etc.
Azula had two pseudo-hostages.
Azula never truly saw Mai nor Ty Lee as real friends. They were tools for her to wield as the (future) Fire Lord. Whatever care she had for them in her heart it was outweighed by her selfish treatment of them.
And she learned the hard way the cost of that when they abandon her for her mistreatment of them. Two she never really opened her heart for and never cared for the hearts of, herself.
Afterwards, and after Ozai leaves her behind to house-sit as he chases personal glory, she collapses when she finds herself totally isolated. Never having made any real bonds or connections to anyone else.
boy what a cope
This is a kids show, dude.
It is very obvious. Azula literally banishes most of the people around her in the palace. At the same time as that Zuko is shown at his closest to Aang and the rest. Mai and Ty Lee even disable her in their fleeing of her side.
How much more clear can the writers have been about, "Azula is isolated and that is a bad thing that is making her a weaker person".
kek
the one time Zuko decides to take a friend along she almost gets him killed
also in your example the obvious interpretation is: by this point Zuko was already stronger, but Azula could have won with support, that she was too proud to ask for
>but never matches her.
>What is the boiling rock
>What is the Air Temple battle
>What is the Final Agni Kai
Hell, forgot about all those, what about when Katara stomped Azula's ass, Zuko saved her and then proceeded to beat / stalemate Katara?
>The lead up to the final Agni Kai has her literally hallucinating and falling apart at the seams.
Doesn't matter to her bending, her going apeshit made her fire stronger if anything else.
>She is never positioned as being anywhere near top form.
Yeah, instead she's clearly shown and said to be stronger than she ever could be otherwise. Both thanks to more rage than ever AND the comet.
>She was at her most dangerous AND powerful but that doesn't count because I said so
Cope.
>And being deranged and hallucinatory is not conducive to bending strength
It actually is since modern fire bending is all about going apeshit.
>The moral is that, "you can uplift and complete yourself with the help of others".
Yeah so uplifted himself to be stronger than Azula, which is exactly what everyone is telling you.
What about the Air Temple Battle?
The one where they throw 3 fireballs at each other, then blow up the balloon so the fight ends immediately?
Where she saves herself with a hair pin? Are you really going to try and pull that in a "Zuko is actually stronger", competition?
What about the Boiling Rock?
When she was fighting Sokka and Zuko in a 2v1 and winning?
Which Katara moment are you referring to?
I'm going to need something more specific than that, I'm afraid.
Consistently, Azula is shown to be stronger than Zuko, that is the point.
Her going apeshit made her weaker than ever before.
The entire point of Azula was her cold hearted malice and strength from it. It is how she mastered Lightning as a child. Because she was able to shut down her emotions and anger when it came time to fight.
Her being an unhinged screaming lunatic is the exact opposite of what made Azula so strong.
This is a basic aspect of her character. That a raging and insane Azula, is a weak Azula compared to her being calm and collected.
Fire Bending being just applied anger is explicitly shown to be not the case. Zuko learns first hand that anger isn't the real source of Fire Bending. And the existence of Lightning as an ability that comes from Fire Bending with a perfectly clear mind and spirit demonstrates that even further.
The show goes as out of its way as it can to tell you that purely rage filled Fire Bending is weak Fire Bending. Hell, if you look at her Lightning in the Final Agni Kai it is deliberately drawn to be more unstable than normal. Even that was falling apart on her.
Uplifted from total collapse, more like. Zuko was raised up to his best, while Azula fell to her worst instead.
>If I just insist and repeat my point despite what is said in the show about bending, I'll be right
Bruh. Funny how you completely failed to address that the idea that Azula is stronger than Ozai is moronic.
She most likely is. Zuko too.
We never see Ozai really do anything prior to the Comet, and at that point basically all fire benders look powerful.
Iroh is probably stronger than Ozai as well and says as much. But he isn't anywhere far above Azula or Zuko.
Prior to the finale, the most impressive thing Ozai did was torch a 13 year old boy's face and fail at zapping Zuko. I wouldn't call him a chump, but he is only relatively strong.
I don't need to insist on anything. I just need to state the basic points and statements of the show.
scrappy my man, how have you been?
why didn't you put up the trip code dude
I have no idea what you're referring to.
yeah yeah, what ever you say captain of azula defence force
anyway how's life?
That would explain the seething at Zucest earlier.
>She most likely is. Zuko too.
....Bro, Ozai is straight said to be the strongest firebender ever.
They outright tell Aang, SEVERAL times that he can't beat Ozai without being a fully realized Avatar. Meanwhile he dunked on both Zuko and Azula several times.
Ozai is never called the strongest ever. He isn't even treated as being stronger than previous Fire Lords. Azulon was probably better than him by all we're told.
Hell, we have Iroh say that he could take Ozai down but won't because it would leave the wrong message.
On the day of the Comet, yeah you'd need true mastery to take him down. But that goes for any strong fire bender.
You think Aang could have beaten either Azula or Zuko that day without full mastery? They themselves were beyond any power level seen before. Or Jeong Jeong and Iroh? Just the same.
>On the day of the Comet
No, even before the comet was even introduced, everyone, Aang included directly said 'I can't even try to approach him before I'm a fully realized Avatar'. Did you even watch ATLA?
>Ozai is never called the strongest ever.
Bryke directly and outright said he was the strongest firebender ever / yet.
I can't believe I legit met someone who doesn't get that the villain being the strongest is a narrative necessity.
Go back to plebbit or Tumblr please, you're embarrassing yourself.
cope more azulagay
Zuko has to save her ass from Katara, then matches her at Boiling Rock and almost gets her at the Air Temple
and only after that does he get his fire bending training montage on Ember Island
it's clear that Azula was always meant to be weaker than Zuko at the end, same with Luke and Vader in SW, to show that being a nazi wizard might be a path to a quick power up, but that's all - in both cases the point is to beat the might makes right villain an the reject his/hers ideology from the position of strength
>He is the weak brother that has the support of others to prop him up
You realize that ATLA would NEVER validate Ozai's world view to that extent by making Zuko a weakling who just use his friends as crutch, right? The whole point was that Zuko having friends and morals made a better and stronger person by himself, not that it allowed him to gang up on people and thus declare 'victory'.
Avatar, like the shonen anime it borrowed heavily from, has no issue letting the 'bad guys' be stronger than the good guys. Sokka is objectively very weak in the world of Avatar, but that wasn't a problem because he was able to work with others and contribute more than the sum of his strengths.
The lesson isn't, "the bad guys will always be weaker than you", the lesson is, "with the help of others you can become stronger together". And on the other hand, "those that separate themselves from others and reject them, will become weaker".
Zuko gains support and it sharpens him up more than he ever had been.
But at the same time, Azula's lack of support drives her down much further.
That is the point of spending significant amounts of time showing her mentally collapsing. That she is losing her strength and abilities and being brought down for it.
Zuko doesn't have to be stronger than peak Azula to beat her, when she's already lost before the fight ever began because of how deranged and mentally unstable she became.
He found friends and allies that supported him through his worst moments. She drove hers away. That made her frail and beatable, regardless of how strong she was once.
That is the entire lesson of the end.
>Avatar, like the shonen anime it borrowed heavily from, has no issue letting the 'bad guys' be stronger than the good guys
Yeah, until the final confrontation where the bad guy get his shit rocked, like Goku vs Cell, Ozai vs Aang and Zuko vs Azula.
>Stronger together
>In a 1 on 1 duel
Unless Katara was literally giving Zuko energy Genkidama style, you're being moronic and reaching really hard.
>That she is losing her strength and abilities and being brought down for it.
That wasn't the point in the slightest, strength had nothing to do with that. The point was to show that even the Fire Nation is suffering from the war.
>Zuko doesn't have to be stronger than peak Azula to beat her,
But he was, which is what matter because the discussion is about what actually happened.
Goku vs Cell? Where he literally lost the fight and Gohan won with the actual spirit of his father giving him assistance? That '1v1'?
Stronger together is a euphemism. Spiritually, Zuko was healed by the closeness he had with Aang and Katara and Sokka and Iroh. They supported him and healed his heart.
Contrarily, Azula drove away the closest thing she had to friends. And then was abandoned by her father. She never got that same help and only became worse in isolation.
Zuko never became stronger than the peak of Azula's abilities.
That is clear throughout the ending. With her swaying on her feet and stumbling around and barely having control over her bending. While Zuko looks the sharpest he ever did.
>uses style power up by negative emotions and being evil
>is full of negative emotions and evil to a point she acts as if she was possessed by satan
>her magic is stronger than ever before and she goes all out
>still can't win against her brother that doesn't even want to kill her
I know it's the current year and boys being stronger than girl is haram in the west, but get a grip dude, admitting you are wrong is not going to tank your social credit score because it's not out yet
>show tells you that anger powered fire bending is weaker
>show tells you that a certain character uses a type of fire bending where you can't be angry
>show has a character that is extremely controlled and emotionally locked down act unhinged and erratic and sloppy
>you put this together and tell yourself that it is saying she is at max power
Brilliant media literacy.
Every fire bender got access to the boost from Sozin's Comet. Her fire bending being stronger doesn't mean anything when in a relative sense it is weaker than ever before.
Compared to an 'ideal Azula' in that scenario, she was far below par in the actual Agni Kai. I don't know what about the presentation of, just about everything, you can't get about that.
listen your waifu isn't real, and even if she was she wouldn't frick you
now go shit some other thread
>show tells you that a certain character uses a type of fire bending where you can't be angry
You mean the character that wasn't Azula? Cause Azula always used the same firebending as everyone else outside of Zuko and Iroh, the anger one.
> tell yourself that it is saying she is at max power
No, the show is the one telling us that because that's the truth, Azula never fricking learned dragon firebending outside the fanfic in your head.
The ability to use Lightning is explicitly shown to require being able to separate yourself from emotions like anger or rage.
You cannot both have rage powered fire bending and also have the ability to fire bend without emotion or feelings compromising your actions.
Dragon Firebending wasn't a necessity to learn to bend without rage. It was a way for Zuko and Aang to learn it themselves, but Jeong Jeong tried to teach Aang that way before the mini-arc with Zuko. The show had already been long building up to that point.
The series had long set up that it wasn't a necessity. And someone like Azula who is shown to be extremely emotionally closed down is a part of that. Her strength, the ability to have 'cold fire', was because of how controlled and calm she was at all times. It was what gave her power. Her being shown in an extremely deranged light is demonstrating that she lost that power.
What kind of autistic person are you that you think I want to frick some cartoon character from >10 years ago?
>The ability to use Lightning is explicitly shown to require being able to separate yourself from emotions like anger or rage.
It wasn't, Iroh just said you needed to not be at war with yourself / have be torn between two things.
Once again, did you fricking watch ATLA?
>You cannot both have rage powered fire bending and also have the ability to fire bend without emotion or feelings compromising your actions.
Which is why Azula only has the rage bending.
>Dragon Firebending wasn't a necessity to learn to bend without rage
It was, the whole point is that non-rage / true firebending IS dragon firebending.
>but Jeong Jeong tried to teach Aang that way before the mini-arc with Zuko
He didn't, Jeong Jeong's whole point was that firebending was awful, inherently destructive and he hated it and was teaching Aang to essentially contain it and restrict it, which was a complet failure.
>demonstrating that she lost that power.
By having her use the exact power you just said she 'lost' perfectly? Now I know you didn't watch ATLA.
Don't bother, dude doesn't even realize he argued himself into a corner because now either Azula was calm enough to use 'cold fire' and thus her fanfic 'evil calm bending' wasn't weakened at all or she was using anger fire bending and thus power boosted by losing her shit.
Did you ever watch Avatar?
It requires peace of mind and a separation of one's self from their emotions and bending.
Azula's lightning in that Agni Kai is clearly demonstrated to be unstable and far more 'ragged' than any of her or Ozai's previous usage. It is animated to appear choppy and erratic and unable to hold its form the same as it once did. It is meant to appear to be collapsing on her as her mind does the same.
Zuko can't get rid of that emotion because he cannot let go of his internal war, you have the reasoning entirely backwards. Zuko specifically couldn't lightning bend because of that war. But that was secondary to the need to remove emotion from the act of fire bending.
Dragon Firebending was a revelation for Zuko and Aang, not for everyone alive.
Zuko was the failure of the royal family and had been trained poorly and couldn't undo it himself. And Aang was a novice.
Contrast that to Azula, who is called a prodigy and likely trained herself for the most part, given that her 'tutors' were nonbenders.
Jeong Jeong's hatred of his own bending doesn't mean that he was shown to also be cursed to power it with anger.
He didn't see the constructive potential of fire bending, but that doesn't change that he was also shown to be a peaceful man who'd let go of his rage and anger at the world and maintained his great power with the element. Hell, his place within the White Lotus demonstrates that, you'd think they'd allow someone in if they were a 'rage monster'?
>No U attempt
Boring and moronic
Sorry that you didn't internalize the show very well.
Say the guy who convinced the whole thread he was wrong.
I don't know why you are so reticent to accept that Azula was forever meant to be stronger than Zuko in terms of pure power and ability.
Zuko was never meant to be the strongest fire bender. That was never his arc. His storyline was self-actualization and learning to accept his strengths and flaws and desires. He was the failson of the family that learned to become hardy and emotionally tough and open through struggles.
Azula's was to be the prodigal golden child who was unknowingly corrupted into a fragile, isolated china doll that shattered the moment her world started slipping. She contorted herself to be daddy's perfect girl, and it left her a shambling mess of a woman that was too brittle to handle any real loss.
Zuko's parity, and lack thereof, of power with her was secondary. It didn't matter if he couldn't burn as hot or bend lighting or do all the tricks we see Azula pull, like making explosive fireballs or cutting torches.
He didn't need her talent and power, he gained strength from others, mental and spiritual strength. She lost all of her mental fortitude and spiritual strength as consequence of her personality and upbringing.
That was the divergence between them. That was the lesson of their arcs progressing alongside each other.
>So many words just to cope
Mental Illness
Hey bud, your fault for being unable to understand a kids show.
Is Zuko your favorite character or self-insert or something? Lol.
It's funny because you're just repeating what you heard when the whole thread started laughing at you for not watching ATLA and trying way too hard to stan Azula, who's too busy getting fricked by Zuko anyway.
The only people, 'laughing', are people that didn't understand the basic presentation of the show and all got shot down for it.
Azula isn't even my favorite character from the show, I prefer Toph and Bumi. But the basic lack of comprehension on the fairly obvious character writing of the show is ridiculous.
I can only assume it either comes from having not watched the show for too long, or having deliberately overlooked most of its actual writing in service of loving a character.
In this case Zuko, and dreaming of him becoming the strongest because he 'earned it'. Or something along those lines.
The reference to him fricking Azula seems to indicate that latter probably is true.
>More wall of cope
It keep getting funnier. You're really not taking that humiliation well.
Why are you that dedicated to shitting up the thread?
>Goku vs Cell?
I mean Goku vs Frieza but yeah, Gohan vs Cell is also an exemple.
>Stronger together is a euphemism
Nah, it's just part of your meaningless word salad.
>Zuko never became stronger than the peak of Azula's abilities
The Final Agni Kai say and show otherwise. You know, the one where according to her own school of firebending and worldview, she'd be at her strongest thanks to losing her shit and reaching the peak of her fighting style in addition to the comet?
>That is clear throughout the ending
The one where he has beaten her after she fought her best and she's cornered and out of breath because she totally broke her teeth on Zuko's defense while he also overpowered or matched all her offensives?
>With her swaying on her feet and stumbling around and barely having control over her bending.
The part where she use her lightning bending which was explicitly there to tell you her bending wasn't hindered in the slightest?
Dude, your whole point is basically 'if her special move didn't cost half her HP, she'd have won the fight so it doesn't count as Azula at her strongest despite Azula NEVER performing that without it consuming HP', it make no damn sense and you're arguing for a version of Azula who somehow just has all the advantages of her martial art and worldview without any of the drawback, which only exist in your head and not the show.
have you even watched the show, or are you a r*ddit tourist that came here after celebrating that time when Katar kicked Paku's ass, which totally happened
How do Azula and Zuko turn out?
with Ozai being stern rather than outright evil, he would have paid more attention to his children, meaning Zuko couldn't just neet his way through life in the palace
different parenting style would have also left Azula less insecure about her own position and more focused on making sure that her brother lives up to the expectations
plus as opposed to Iroh, Azula would not let Zuko waste his time during his exile, so his power level would have improved noticeably as the time went on
all of that would have ultimately led to increased tension between the siblings as Azula would have to find a way to cope with the fact that Zuko becomes better than her at fire bending
except this time Zuko and Azula have much more healthy relationship, so instead of trying to kill each other they would work through it with a bit of shouting a lot of talking and realizing that they need each other
Zuko has the power and the will, but he needs Azula's autistic insight to help him plot the course that would allow him to avoid needles trouble
on the other hand Azula's gift is both her power and a curse, making her struggle with normal human interactions
so from time to time Zuko would do something stupid out of a feeling of moral obligation and Azula would have to figure out how to deal with the fallout
or Azula's clever plan would crumble around her due to some variables changing or her pride blinding her to some potential outside interference and Zuko would have to swoop in and save her
either way they would best work together and their main goal throughout the story would be...
...escorting the avatar to the four avatar temples that themselves move around:
>one is a flying city that hovers somewhere above a mountain range
>the other is located on the back of a massive sea turtle
>third is buried somewhere under the sands of a desert
>and the last one is located in inside the spirit world but shows up from time to time inside the mouth of active volcano
They would be basically Sokka and Katara, speaking of which, what's happening with them?
>at the beginning of the show, there is a conflict between the coalition of the souther water tribe villages and Kyoshi Island
>a powerful petty-king Bumi the Old ruling over the League of Omashu, scheming to overthrow Kuei, wants to present the Earth King with a magnificent gift as a part of his plan
>and he had chosen either Suki the princess of Kyoshi, descendant of the earth avatar, or Katara the last water bender of the south
>neither the tribals nor the islanders stand a chance against his massive navy so they are forced to fight until one of them agrees to hand their woman over
>Kyoshi has military advantage but Hakoda with the help of Sokka is able to outwit them
>in fact this is the reason Zuko and Azula with their metal warship are in the area, Sokka convinced his father to hire out some Fire Nation hunters to get rid of the great sea wyrm guarding the island which would allow them to strike at it directly
>after successfully completing the contract, it's found out that fem!Aang and her bison squat on the fire sibling's ship, the water tribals try to capture her, but fail, then follow them to Kyoshi island
>Suki tricks the siblings into believing that she is helping and lures them into the trap, but then catches a bad case of a crush on Zuko and slips up partially reviling to him her frick up situation
>Azula figures out they have to bail, but Zuko wants to help Suki - then the water tribe warriors arrive and soon after one of Bumi's generals shows up
>in the shit show the avatar gaang manages to escape, Zuko tries to convince Suki to go with them, but she can't abandon her people
>earth!Zhao blames their escape on Sokka and sends his troops to grab Katara before giving chaise to a fleeing air bender whom he wants to capture for his own gain
>Sokka obviously gathers what remains of his own crew choses the fastest ship and follows
>later on Long Feng arrives with Toph and picks up Suki to also join in on the hunt
Oooo, you're a good story teller.
So what happens next?
one moment, I will get some grub
>So what happens next?
>Long Feng and earth!Zhao want to keep the fact that they have spotted something that the Earth King would pay handsomely for on down low, which of course means that a variety of bounty hunters and pirates learn about it very quickly
>which is a pressing concern, because for the time being the main method of transportation for the gaang will be the metal warship, since appa is not well and they have no idea how to help him
>but this also creates a chance to explore differences between the cultures of various elements
>the FN propels their metal warships with steampunk engines that have fire spirits imprisoned inside of them, which fem!Aang is appalled by, and despite Zuko's explanation that the spirit would rip her limb from limb if it ever got free, she tries to befriend it
>water tribes use shamanistic rituals to bind spirits to their ships to make them go faster
>and the land of human rights violations simply grows very big trees to build very big ships, with very big masts and very big oars that are operated by slaves and captured beats
>first target of our merry band is the massive sea turtle, since Zuko and Azula have learned quite a bit about it while searching for monsters for Zuko to hunt, it's mostly legends and hearsay but it's a start
>also they hope that they will be able to find some allies there, as according to fem!Aang that temple was supposed to be quite big
>they will be sailing through a new Oceania inspired part of the world, that is controlled by Earth King's vassal states as well as offshoots of the water tribes that populate its myriad islands with a couple of FN war bands poking around
>and pirates, a lot of pirates
>it's a great opportunity to have a closer look at the way that this version of earth kingdom handles its mercantile style colonialism that drains locals off their resources with little direct military involvement
>water tribes use shamanistic rituals to bind spirits to their ships to make them go faster
Cool idea, but won't the spirits fight back?
>Cool idea, but won't the spirits fight back?
it's a give and take set up the rituals are performed to appease and please the spirits and in return they take care of the ship and her crew, which is different to how the FN captures and imprisons fire spirits in their war machines
>have you written a story before?
yeah, I've written a couple
Care to continue? I really enjoy your work 😀
Good job, have you written a story before?
>for now the gaang doesn't know that they are bing chased by Long Fend and earth!Zhao, and more importantly, Zuko's past decisions made during their previous job left them with very little supplies and they weren't exactly paid by the water tribe either - they even had to fed a huge chunk of Unagi to the engine to keep the spirit from exploding out of anger
>they dock in a port city, Zuko becomes fem!Aang's tardwrangler while Azula sets them up with a simple job from a local merchant association:
>something is attacking lumberjacks working on a nearby island, and they have to make it stop
>Azula is able to get the payment up front, by figuring out that the merchants are already in debt and they really need someone to fix their problem, but is also concerned by the fact that no one else seemed to be up for the job
>meanwhile fem!Aang learns that due to decades of overfishing grain and rice imported from Earth Kingdom proper became the lifeline keeping most of the settlements afloat, which is a problem, because there is never enough of it and the prices keep going up
>she brings it up to Zuko, who goes on a rant about the last avatar disappearing and not doing her job
>later on when they finally get to the lumberjack island, they start with confiscating a huge chunk of their lumber, Zuko is visibly unhappy and fem!Aang is almost able to convince him to stop, but then Azula arrives with a chart showing how much fuel they will need if they want to search the whole archipelago
>for now fem!Aang clearly favoured Zuko over Azula, since he'd always seemed more warm-hearted, so she is horrified seeing the professional coldness with which he approaches the hunt and when Zuko sets out with the warband to follow the tracks of what ever was attacking the settlement fem!Aang decides to stay on the ship
>but she doesnt have time to skulk around, since Azula immediately conscripts her into helping with preparations of medical supplies
>for now fem!Aang clearly favoured Zuko over Azula, since he'd always seemed more warm-hearted, so she is horrified seeing the professional coldness
Poor aang, but the world is harsh.
Keep up the good work
>fem!Aang tries to make small talk, but Azula cuts her off and starts to explain what she will need to help with once wounded start pouring in
>seeing the air bender getting more agitated Azula tries to explain, that they suffer less loses on average then they used to and in terms of deaths they lose hardly anyone which is a massive improvement compared to their first hunt that only her and Zuko had survived
>this whole discussion causes fem!Aang's guilt to boil over and she rushes out to join Zuko
>trying to ask around the port town about which way the warband went she is accosted by the families of wounded men who, due to her uniform, take her for one of Zuko's soldiers
>they hug her and praise her, exclaiming that they were afraid of starvation if the attacks would keep them from full filling their quotas
>she catches up to Zuko in the forest examining the site of the attack, turns out that there was a complication
>some of the damage was clearly done by human hand and the banished prince found tracks leading deeper inland that were left by a sizable group of troops
>fem!Aang is confused but Zuko shrugs it off, explaining that those tracks must had been left by someone send by a rival merchant guild or something and that it doesn't change anything and they move on
>except things aren't that simple, pushing their way through the thicket they stumble onto a wide open area dotted with fields and straw houses
>conscience catches up with Zuko and he wants to retreat, but it's too late! they have been spotted by the village lookouts
>since they have came here expecting to hunt big game, Zuko's men carry javelin, nets and ropes - only some of them have hacking swords or bows
>with no time to think and militia forming ranks in front of them, Zuko leaves fem!Aang behind at the edge of the forest, alone and confused - and charges forth
Is Zuko x fem!aang endgame?
>first everything goes surprisingly well
>seeing a bunch of armed men, spearheaded by fire benders and led personally by Zuko, shouting or throwing flames around - the militia broke ranks and fled, giving Zuko time for an approximately half of the conciliatory speech he had prepared before it's drown by an inhuman roar
>cloud of smoke forms in the middle of the clearing and slowly takes the form of a monster, that is a cross-over between a monkey and praying mantis
>but before Zuko can charge it or vice versa, fem!Aang rushes pass him shouting at the monster to calm down
>thinking she must have gone mad, Zuko starts bending fire at the monster to get it's attention which works out a little too well
>in the middle of the chaos that follows most of the village is set on fire, people are screaming, and some shaman guy shows up shouting about foreigners bring the wrath of land against them
>figuring that he must be the one behind this madness Zuko shouts to fem!Aang to take him out, who jumps to do just that, but when the shaman hits the dirt, knocked out, the monster does not disappear
>instead it runs away from fire and into the forest
>Zuko and fem!Aang pursue it
>as they go fem!Aang explains that this is the guardian spirit of this island and that it's mad about the lumberjacks
>Zuko counters with "but they have to eat" but fem!Aang pleads with him, saying that if they are able to calm it down, she will find a way to make it leave in peace
>moments later the beast is stop dead in its tracks by an explosion of blue fire
>pinned down by Zuko and Azula the guardian spirit cant run away from fem!Aang anymor, which gives her a chance to communicate with it and calm it down
>but the problem of lumberjacks vs islanders remains
>in the end Azula is able to convince the first ones to not go too deep into the forest, and fem!Aang explains to the spirit that it has too make sure that the there is lumber to jack if it wants to keep the village safe
Nice art, did you make it?
I wish, it's something I've saved from one of the Toph threads
of course, see
>Is Zuko x fem!aang endgame?
actually I was planning for fem!Aang x Sokka, at one point he catches her in a trap, they travel together for a while and talk - then comes a point when he is supposed to exchange her for his sister, but he just can't
for Zuko I was thinking of Toph and Azula
>for Zuko I was thinking of Toph and Azula
Oh so you're just a homosexual.
Go back to Alabama
>fictional incest is the same as rednecks humping their first cousins in some swampish hellhole
No.
Piss off degenerates
Know your place and go back to twitter, homosexual.
Why don’t you stick your dick in a anthill you wastes of oxygen
Because it's funnier to stay here and laugh at your impotent rage while Zucest reign supreme.
>P-p-p-piss-*starts crying*
Outcest gays are so sad and pathetic.
Incest is the stuff of royalty and is objectively one of the best ways to generate and conserve generational wealth, the whole 'muh rednecks' is just an economic psyop.
It's also objectively one of the best ways to generate genetic aberrations, especially if practised over multiple generations like Euro royalty did (read: still does).
>It's also objectively one of the best ways to generate genetic aberrations
It isn't, it has actually the exact opposite effect.
>especially if practised over multiple generations like Euro royalty did
You mean the guys who were on average healthier and smarter than everyone else and conquered the world.
>(read:cope)
Fixed it for you. Friendly reminder you're a wage slave to some dude who's fricking his cousin like the last 20 generations of his family.
why the hate, Toph is all grown up now and pent up for a boy that will make her feel like a lady
>and Azula
I was talking about the incest
>mission, technically successful, the gaang moves on, but the whole encounter left a bad taste in fem!Aangs mouth
>she is more and more realizing how bad things had gotten due to her not being around
>she tries to talk about it with Zuko but the conversation goes nowhere
>by this point, people simply assumed that fem!Aang is just the last air bender, and she did not correct them
>so for now their goal in reaching one of the avatar temples is to hopefully find some other air benders, or at least to learn why did they do like a dwemer and got lost
>but fem!Aang feels like she is not able to meander around her responsibilities any more, so she announces herself as the avatar, to Zuko and Azula for now, and demands that they find her a water bender trainer
>the siblings don't believe her at all, Zuko just walks out of the room and goes back to his duties, while Azula laughs out loud, but the little air bender persists and so they decide to hire a water bender on their next stop, preferably a useful one, like a healer, to make fem!Aang shut up
>it won't get in the way much since they wear already sailing towards a big port town to buy a bunch of maps
>it turns out that finding a water bender might be much easier then anyone had thought, since the port city of Turutanga happens to have market specializing in a particular kind of merchandise:
>people that wern't able to pay up their debt
>or the ones who's worth was less than their weight in grain
>fem!Aang wants to immediately stage an uprising, but mom and dad say: no!
>still, fed up with their useful advice and worldly wisdom, she tries to do it anyway resulting in her getting captured in a trap containing drool of poisonous snails
>it takes a couple of days for her to regains her motor functions as she slowly realizes that since no help has came so far, she might be on her own for good
>not losing heart, she decides to at leats try to free the rest of the slaves
>fem!Aang wants to immediately stage an uprising, but mom and dad say: no!
Heh
>fem!Aang wants to immediately stage an uprising, but mom and dad say: no!
Grumpy and tired bounty hunter parents AzulaxZuko is probably my favourite new fan reimagining lmao
Also good job at making Aang realise just how South shit went during his (her) absence (Qzula and her harshness + autism kinda make her the best teacher for this), in the show he kinda just stayed the same till the end thanks to the turtle and sheer dumb luck.
>Grumpy and tired bounty hunter parents AzulaxZuko is probably my favourite new fan reimagining lmao
yeah, I sat on this idea for a while now, feels great to finally come up with something I can incorporate it in
>in the show he kinda just stayed the same till the end thanks to the turtle and sheer dumb luck.
yeah Aang really needed some more development in that respect
>since the shackles designed for ordinary people could not hold her, the first on the order of business was getting to know her fellow prisoners and gathering a crew ready to stage the escape!
>but to her horror fem!Aang quickly realized that the tired and starving slaves werent interested in rebellion, many of them sold themselves for nothing more than a promise of some food
>there was, however, one exception, a young woman around Azula's age, that according to herself was locked up due to a misunderstanding, tried to break free numerous times but failed every time
>so fem!Aang and, self identifying, best water bender on her island got down to planning the great escape
>Mazu (obv not!Korra) promised fem!Aang to crack open some skulls as soon as the air bender gets her actual water, instead of the grape juice they had for drinking
>what the two of them did not know was that during those last couple of days the slave merchant guild suffered a number of accidents amongst its leadership, courtesy of Zuko's masked alter ego, that completely crippled its operations
>at the same time, Azula secured all the necessary maps and provisions and soon the fire siblings would be ready to get fem!Aang out and sail off into the sea
>BUT what the two of them did not know was that a full squadron of pirate ships was heading right for them, planning to grab fem!Aang claim the bounty on her head
>fem!Aang and Mazu broke out of their holding cell at midnight and made their way towards the back door exit, that Mazu knew about for some reason
>their escape had been made easier by Zuko, who was breaking into the prison to get fem!Aang out, clearing out the guards on the walls
>soon two women were out, with the water bender clearly unhappy with the lack of combat, since apparently she was looking forward to meeting a particular bastard
>about at the same time Zuko reached their cell, and finding it empty, decided to pay an unpleasant visit to the guard commander
>a very corrupted, and thus very well paid, port official lowered the chain blocking the entrance to the bay letting the trio of black sailed gallions in
>in the docks, Azula, on high alert alongside the rest of the crew, realized that something was off, since it was way too soon for the time at which the chain was supposed to be lowered, for which she had paid with a hefty bribe
>what ever was happening, she could do little until Zuko returned
>still she had the ballista raised, the fire catapult broke long ago, and ordered the crew to prepare for combat
>meanwhile Zuko finished spilling cheap win all over the desk of now ex-guard commander and looked through the open window across the city, somewhere out there was fem!Aang, doing spirits only knew what
>at the same time the air bender in question and her new friend were making their way down the streets of the sleeping city towards the docks fem!Aang hoping that her friends did not actually abandon her
>it was at that moment that a blue ball of fire sailed up from above the harbour and exploded into a flair of light - Azula was calling for aid
>or more accurately, Azula was calling them to hurry the frick up, the pirates did their best but assaulting a fire nation iron ship has never been an easy task
>still it was hard to say how many scallywags exactly were there inside the city's walls especially since some of the pirates decided to take advantage of the situation and started looting
>fem!Aang and Mazu run into a couple of them breaking into a store, a barrel of water standing nearby finally gave the water bender a chance to show off - scavengers never stood a chance
>the two of them made their way to docks and fell on the pirates besieging Azula from behind breaking their ranks
>now only Zuko was missing, and that realization caused Azula to momentarily lose composure - but moments later the pirate gallion blocking their way out of the port caught fire and started tilting
>Azula was calling for aid
>or more accurately, Azula was calling them to hurry the frick up
in-character for her kek
How incestuous would Zuko and Azula be?
>their ship leaving the port city behind with all the mess, Zuko decided that it was a good time to give fem!Aang a good talking down
>feeling guilty and embarrassed the air bender was unable to look him in the eyes, the fumes of steam coming off him making Zuko look like an angry ancestral spirit, did not help
>Mazu couldn't care less, placing herself between the two, she stretched out testing the limits of her lief attire
>"wanna blow off some steam, hot stuff..."
>was all she got to say before Azula grabbed her and dragged her away
>now both awkward, fem!Aang apologised quickly before darting under the deck to reunite with appa
>for the next couple of days, Azula and Zuko were comparing and contrasting all the maps of the archipelago they had, as well as all the trailing journals that Azula was able to get from the libraries in the last couple >of ports they visited - the theory was: if no one knows which of the islands is the moving one, it would be marked on some maps and not on others
>meanwhile fem!Aang and Mazu spent their time trying to get fem!Aang to water bend
>this was making Zuko think about possible implication of their duty to the world if fem!Aang really turns out to be the avatar
>Azula on the other hand encouraged him to focus on what's in front of them
>it took time, but finally together they were able to pin down a general area where the moving island should be
>around the same time earth!Zhao arrived to the main Earth Kingdom aligned city state in the area, with coffers full of gold for bribes and mercenaries
>for everyone it was obvious that while still technically in service to Bumi, catching the last air bender and delivering her to the Earth King would grand him a title and a state of his own
>not wasting any time, he killed the local ruler, replacing him with his more guidable brother, then in exchange for troops and ships split his land between his neighbours, all in the name of the Earth King of course
What happened to Sokka and Katara?
>but earth!zhao isn't the only one chasing the gaang
>it seems that pirates shadow them every step of the way
>and although they are never able to catch up, despite Zuko's and Azula's best efforts the gaang is never able to lose them - which becomes a mjor problem, since they do not know what exactly will they find on the moving island
>plus fem!Aang is adamant about not letting bad people find it in general
>around the same time news reaches them about earth!Zhao and his fleet - this gives Zuko and idea of luring both problems into a battle with themselves as bait
>but Azula rejects that and instead proposes to gather the FN mercenary warbands scattered in the area, since they are honour bound to help Zuko when ever he calls upon them
>her brother is sceptical, but despite having a bad feeling about this, decides to trust her in the end
>Azula sends a call out for warbands to gather and they continue on
>news about that reaches the pirates almost immediately and her is when we learn that Sokka was the one behind their movement all along
>he had arrived to the archipelago soon after the gaang, but with no resources of his own he set out to convince the pirates to help him selling him on a story about how Zuko had pillaged his village stole all their wealth and also his bride to be
>first he had to prove himself useful to couple of local captains, helping plan their raids, but after those ended up with spectacular successes the local sea wolves decided to help him, in exchange for everything on fire siblings' ship, bad fem!Aang
>knowing that fem!Aang is an air bender and having heard of the legendary floating temple, Sokka figured out what Azula and Zuko were trying to do
>and decides to set a trap of his own
>he is going to lure earth!Zhao to the fight and in the confusion grab fem!Aang and bail
>what he doesn't know is that earth!Zhao is actually hoping to lure them all and destroy them
>in a stroke of genius fem!Aang asks Mazu if she knows something about the floating island, and turns out that she in fact does, apparently some of the fisherman from her island saw what they believed to be an island floating alongside the horizon
>this helps them further narrow down the area they need to search
?meanwhile they arrive at the meeting spot and spot other iron ships already waiting, Zuko notices that the way they are anchored if they sail towards the lead vessel other ships will have the surrounded
>he doesn't like this one bit
>Azula refuses to accept that any true sons and daughters of the FN would break their ancient rites and defy the Fire Lord but she concedes that they should move towards the edge of the formation and wait with hoisting up the royal banner
>soon after they drop the anchor a scarf approaches them
>the men in the boat hail them in the name of their captain and ask to confirm that they too are here because of the royal summon
>to appease Zuko, Azula agrees that they should play along for now and instructs him on how to respond to the questions
>turns out that it was a trap set for them and the time is ticking, soon other FN ships will realize who they might be
>there is a moment of rising tension as the whole crew meets under the deck where appa is staying to discuss the matters at hand
>couple of sailors volunteer to board on of the other vessels, take over and buy the sibling time to escape
>Zuko refuses, but Azula pulls him back, explain that there might not be another option
>Mazu chips in saying that they should just try to run, which for a moment seems like their only option
>but then the pirates arrive and, unsure which of the similar ships is the one they are looking for, simply aim what looks like the most important - the one is the middle of the formation
>the battle is joined, and while Zuko leads the crew on the deck, Azula carefully steers the ship away from the melee
>running away from the battle they are spotted by Sokka, who's ship quickly falls behind them in pursuit
>and not a moment too soon, as earth!Zhao's fleet appears over the horizon
>observing the two ships with his spyglass earth!Zhao orders the main bulk of his force to proceed towards the battle then follow the gaang and Sokka with his personal squadron
>no point risking the air bender getting caught by someone else after all
>speed becomes the only thing that matters now, every fire bender is called to the engine to power it up with their fire, this includes Azula
>seeing the princess unsure to whom pass the helm, Mazu steps up and assures her that she will get them to where they are going
>and with coordinated efforts of all the fire benders the gaang is able to keep the lead
>on the bridge, fem!Aang asks Mazu how she could be so sure, to which she replies
>"soon you will see"
>while this is going on Sokka is pacing back and forth on the deck of his own ship
>best warriors of his tribe gathered around him and ready to fight
>they all know that they have to get the air bender, and that many of them will die in the attempt
>earth!Zhao is the most relaxed
>he expects a long chase, but one that will surely end with his victory, even if some of the dozen ships he commands end up sinking
>he already wonders out loud what kind of title the Earth King will bestow upon him
>they pass a cluster of small islands and push towards the open ocean, when suddenly a massive land mass to their right begins to move
>seeing that Mazu pushes fem!Aang towards the wheel and runs towards the balcony overlooking the deck
>she breaths deeply in and starts singing
>for a moment nothing happens
>then the moving island changes directions
>it is now heading straight for them
>Mazu, now back at the helm and laughing maniacally, pulls their ship hard to starboard, right as a gargantuan head surfaces in front of them
>the wave it creates pushes Sokka's ship in the opposite direction
>but the earth!Zhao and his squadron don't have as much luck, all they can do is scream in terror as the turtles mouth opens and sucks them all in
>sounds of breaking wood and cries of the dying are cut abruptly as the jaws close above them
>Zuko, Azula and the rest of the crew rush back to their stations
>when the fire siblings get to the bridge is quickly becomes obvious that they will not be able to slow down in time to avoid crashing, into the island sized turtle
>suddenly the beast lifts its head up again, and they can all see a massive eye gazing upon them, then with a flick of its gigantic flipper the turtle pushes up a wave that lifts the ship and carries it onto its tree covered back
>the gaang had arrived at the first temple, mostly unharmed
>but so did Sokka
hopefully the anons, not you scrapper, have enjoyed this little story
It was cool but I can't take Sokka seriously as a threat or pursuer.
yeah, I kind of went with him being a schemer more than a physical threat
also that's why fem!Aang is supposed to have hots for him, since there is no why he could catch her otherwise
Fair enough.
Honestly, I'd have went for fem!Sokka instead of fem!Aang personally.
fem!Sokka would be too strong
also here is the whole thing in one file
>fem!Sokka would be too strong
If you had both fem!Sokka and fem!Aang, you could easily turn it into a porn fic where Zuko has a perfect cast of Waifus to conquer.
>also here is the whole thing in one file
That's convenient, thanks anon!
Where the frick did IconicPants go?
His Mai and fem!Sokka stuff was so hot.
It's especially a shame that he disappeared because almost all Maiko fics are boring and vanilla to a crazy extent.
Even Zucest isn't getting much fics and fanart anymore
either be the change you want to see in the world
or leave more comments uder fanfics you like
>either be the change you want to see in the world
Too busy making an ATLA porn game.
>or leave more comments uder fanfics you like
I already do. I left comments on almost every single Zucest fanfics since Torment was released
yeah I've been poking around an idea for a story that would be an exercise in showing how much Katar's character was lacking and also to showcase how imo Korra should have been written - achived by replacing Sokka and giving Katara a tomboy sister
I think you should really go for it, it seems fun.
>now I don't have to make my own collage while on the phone
Cool, thanks for the entertaining story anon!
Any hope you continue it some other time?
if so, don't forget that Sokka tends to blunder his first impressions due to his big mouth *cough cough fem!Aang cough*
>with all the tales I've expected the air bags to be bigg... BENDERS! Air BENDERS stop hitting me! Besides it's not like you have anything to worry about, they are a perfect hand...
>*slap* pervert!
>I was trying to be polite! And also this is MY bathroom!
Nice.
here is hoping part 2 will have sex
Swamporra was some good shit, shame we never got a sequel thread
I mean the Earth Kingdom WERE the antagonists half the time.
Korra society is an earthbending dictatorship. They're like the most important people in that world
That is just Kyoshi's story innit.
Qin was like Sozen 0.5
The Fire Nation curbstomp the Earth Kingdom without needing the Avatar.
Something I don't like about the 'nation swap AU' things, like the Water Tribe or Earth Kingdom being evil instead of the Fire Nation
is that they never do anything to explain HOW those nations are suddenly threats just because they are evil now.
Because with how stuff is set up in the show, the water tribe or earth kingdom going evil kinda just end with them getting their asses kicked before Aang even shows up
Why was the Fire Nation 'evil' in the first place?
Sozin's propaganda machine was just that effective at convincing the FN inhabitants that it was their birthright to "share their superiority" via conquest.
It doesn't take a lot to spin up the same kind of supremacy culture in any given nation.
But the only ones that can really do it well are the Fire Nation, because of its industrialization, and the Earth Nation, because of its population size.
The Water Tribes couldn't really do it because they seem both fairly small and not particularly technologically advanced. Same with the Air Nomads.
>It doesn't take a lot to spin up the same kind of supremacy culture in any given nation.
Sure but it's not really my problem here.
> the Earth Nation, because of its population size.
Nothing say it has a huge population tho, it's more of a Fire Nation thing.
The Earth Kingdom has the biggest landmass but it doesn't seem all that unified or densely population.
That's a shit premise, here's a better one, Aang is the last Fire Bender.
RockBlack folk never figure out sailing and everyone lives
The goatse symbol would be infinitely more prevalent.
>sus op
Never seen avatard so idk. If it was actually made into a show then it would be the exact same thing as the original except some characters have slightly different powers.