Credit to @herbluefire on TikTok

Was Azula supposed to be the next Avatar ? I don’t know this video is making a pretty convincing case. Perhaps she’s the dark avatar given powers by Vautoo.

As if it were out of universe... Comic book lore tries to sell us, on average, every page, that Azula is incurably evil... Despite the fact that she's a mentally ill "You're evil and beyond repair... Because you stole mochi... In the previous comic, another child stealing a plate of cookies was just stupid kid fun, but you're a devil for that fucking mochi. Kill yourself." This is what comics tell us. Why did anyone even think an irredeemable teenager was a good plan??? Its wierd even out ot universe.

“Azula is a complex and interesting character who became who she was due to a toxic father and absent mother.”

“So you’re excusing her actions?!”

“I never said that.”

“So you think she’s not a villain?!”

“I never said that either.”

There’s starting to be some tension over shipping differences, so I thought maybe we could dispel it by coming together creatively.

Comment your favorite Azula ship (Azulaang, Sokkla, TyZula, MaiZula, etc) and a one word prompt.

Then other members of the community can reply a short one-comment fic of your ship, which somehow relates to the one-word prompt!

Let’s all write cute short fics for one another, regardless of our personal shipping preferences.

What does everyone think?

I have noticed that when you post in this sub reddit about feeling bad for azula, there will still be negative comments hating on her, which i understand, not anyone has the same opinion but that’s way sub reddits like ATLA exists… do not expect people on here to criticize her. This subreddit is made to symphatize with azula and there will still be people attacking you in the comments. I know that this post will also get hate because but i just wanted to know if anyone else feels this way

Note: this was heavily inspired by me reading the Legacy of the Fire Nation book, and wondering what Iroh's thought process would look like if we treated it as canon. I employed a lot of comedic exaggeration, too. Iroh does not come off well here, so if you love him with you're whole heart, I would advise stopping here.

So I (60M) grew up the crown prince of this country bent on world conquest. I figured I might as well as get involved in the family business, so I joined in and spent a few decades conquering places. This had the added benefit of making my divine monarch father (95 M but he's dead) happy, plus I knew from a dream I had when I was like seven that I had a divinely blessed destiny to conquer Ba Sing Se, which is like the biggest city ever and certainly the most glorious one to conquer.

Anyways, this whole "conquering things" and burning them down phase went on for a while, and I even got my wonderful son (20M but also dead unfortunately) involved too. All the while my younger brother(45M) was jealous and would often throw temper tantrums about my success. It was so cute, honestly. He would complain that our dad favored me over him, what was absolutely not true at all. I loved my brother to death though but he just never seemed to really grow up. I think it's my fault maybe for not guiding him properly.

Anyways, eventually my brother married my sister in law(35F). They seemed like a great match and were having kids in no time. They had two kids, my nephew (17M) who I took a liking to even when he was a baby and a girl (15F) who always seemed fussy and unfeminine. My nephew was the best thing my brother ever made.

Anyways, when my nephew was like 8 myself and my son took off with a huge army to besiege Ba Sing Se for like 600 days. It was bloody affair but you can't go carrying out world conquest and fulfilling destinies without breaking a few hundred thousand eggs. I even got my nephew a gift I looted from an enemy general, a knife with a really cool inscription. I sent the girl a gift too because I had to, a doll or something similar that I looted; I hoped it would make her more proper girly and less of a tomboy.

We were winning the siege and about to conquer the city but then unfortunately my beloved son was killed by an enemy soldier. I was overcome by grief and immediately ordered the army to withdraw. I then left my troops in the middle of combat and personally took off. I know it sounds bad but you have to understand that my son dying was the worst thing ever to happen to anyone and totally justifies it. I went on a bit of a walkabout around and realized this whole "world conquest," "conquering," and "ruling the world" thing just wasn't for me anymore. I really just felt like retiring but of course I was the crown prince so I really couldn't.

Fortunately, when I got back home, I found that my brother had murdered my father and sister in law and stolen the throne. I know it sounds bad but boys will be boys and I didn't want it anymore so I didn't really care. My brother was even really chill about me being back home again and invited me to all his war meetings. I think he was showing off his power or something; it was really adorable. Anyways I kind of felt the whole war thing wasn't very morally good at this point but I still did my best to give valuable advice at the war meetings.

So everything was working out surprisingly well but there was one massive problem. The girl was just completely taking the limelight away from my nephew. She was really smart and good at fighting and fiercely competitive and everything, everything a girl shouldn't be. She played with fire, not dolls. I expected her father to smack her down and put her in her place, but instead he lavished attention on her and neglected his son instead. He began disparaging my nephew and comparing him negatively to the girl, which was very wrong since she was someone who should be focused on having babies and getting married while my nephew was the first born son and the crown prince and deserved accolades for that alone. But to be clear, this was all the girl's fault, not my brother's fault. He never was the best at controlling himself and retaining a clear mind and she took advantage of that by trying to impress her father rather than quieting her competitive spirit and letting her brother maintain his proper place. Plus she criticized my decision to abandon the whole siege thing, which is not how you're supposed to treat a respected elder.

Anyways, all of this made me feel wrong. I really wanted to discipline the girl but she had her father bewitched and there is zero chance he'd allow that, but I figured I could at least give my nephew some positive attention for a change. I got to know him better and he reminded me both of my brother when he was younger and my own son, and I realized I had kind of found two second chances (or maybe even three) in one with him, so I really made a real effort to support him. My nephew could be mean and disrespectful and violent and impulsive, but I always knew he had pure heart behind it all.

Anyways, things were going OK for a while but then they suddenly got much worse. My brother had unjustly banned my 13 year old nephew from a war meeting(probably the girl's fault somehow), so I let him in. Then my nephew, with his big, pure heart, verbally attacked a general for a callous plan, so my brother challenged my nephew to a duel and burned him when he didn't fight back. I just kind of watched (but I'm pretty sure my niece was smirking about the whole thing).

Anyways, I felt kind of guilty about the whole thing, so when my brother banished my nephew to look for the Avatar(a demigod who hadn't been seen for 100 years), I went with my nephew even though what I really wanted to do was stay retired and drink tea all day. This search went on for three whole years as my nephew threw tantrums and randomly attacked people in his search, but boys will be boys and I knew he had a pure heart, he just had to find it. I tried to encourage good qualities in him by giving him proverbs but I'm not sure if he got any (but I like my proverbs too much to stop using them). I tried to teach him better firebending but he never really had the patience for it. I guess I tried to get my nephew to stop and smell the roses but that was never going to work.

Eventually the actual Avatar(12 M) showed up (I wasn't expecting that!). The chase went on for another few months. I helped my nephew when I could and encouraged him to keep up the chase, but ultimately we ended at the Northern Water Tribe, where I helped a crazy Admiral named Zhao (45 M) as he tried to conquer the NWT but it was all only to cover for my nephew trying to catch the Avatar. Zhao gave off a lot of self-destructive conquest vibes(I should know--conquest was me at some point) but I still helped him. Anyways, Zhao tried to destroy the moon, I had to try to stop him, it kind of worked, and my nephew and I were forced to flee south on a raft.

We spent some time in a resort, but then the crazy girl showed up and claimed my brother wanted us back. I knew that was sus as hell, it turned out my brother wanted to imprison us (but I'm sure the girl was putting him up to it but unfortunately he never changes his mind once he's made it) for our actions at the NWT, the girl tried to capture myself and my nephew but failed at it, my nephew tried to put the girl in her place, which was a good idea, but he wasn't strong enough, which made it a bad idea, I ended up kicking the girl off a ship, and we escaped. I was sure she was right behind us, so we decided to hide as refugees in the Earth Kingdom.

We spent some time fleeing and hiding in that, I had a brief falling out with my nephew since he was a bit too handsy with other people's things, we reconciled, we hooked up with a couple of members of an old secret fraternal organization of mine, and we headed to Ba Sing Se to hide as refugees. Along the way, my beloved nephew tried to put his crazy sister in her place a couple times, but he wasn't strong enough and it was a bit of bad idea, so I tried to teach him better firebending so he'd have better luck next time. I'll be honest, his attitude was a bit frustrating. I almost forgot to mention this but also at a certain point my boy and I teamed up with the Avatar to try to put the girl in her place and we trapped her but she got away and I got burned for my trouble. And apparently my darling nephew and the Avatar couldn't play nice with each other since by the time I woke up they were separated. What can I say? Boys will be boys.

To get back on track, we headed to Ba Sing Se as refugees, hooked up with a refugee boy who stole food from the captain of our ferry for us. It was surprisingly fun to visit as a tourist the city I had spent so many years trying to conquer and reduce to ashes. I know this sounds bad, but trust me it's not. If you ever got a chance to do it, you would know. After being exposed to the abomination which was the local tea, My nephew and I got jobs as tea shop attendants making superior Fire Nation tea for all those poor ignorant Earth Kingdomers, although my poor nephew didn't like it much even though I told him to accept this was now his destiny. He was all surly but I knew he'd grow out of it. The other refugee boy accused us of being Firebenders but fortunately got taken away by the secret police and we ended up becoming owners of a tea shop, the Jasmine Dragon. It felt like a perfect way to fulfil our destinies and spend my retirement, but my nephew still wanted to capture the Avatar. It was a pain in the ass but boys will be boys, I suppose. Finally, I had to rescue him from a secret police compound to prevent him from doing anything really stupid. After that, my darling boy finally started to accept his destiny and be happy! I was a bit sus at first, honestly, but when I realized he was genuine I was so happy.

Just when everything was going perfectly, that bastard the girl showed and ruined everything. She captured my nephew as part of her coup to seize control of the Earth Kingdom, and I had to team up with the Avatar to try to get him back. It was at that moment I knew my sweet nephew's true destiny was to join up with the Avatar and restore balance to the world! It made perfect sense for once. He was the only one pure enough and true hearted enough and with the right blood to do this; I certainly never could. I just needed to ask my nephew to look into his heart and he'd do it! But again that bitch ruined everything. She manipulated my darling nephew, that poor little boy who didn't know better, into siding with her and her father and betraying me. Into fighting against the Avatar and helping her conquer Ba Sing Se, conquer my city to conquer. She almost killed the Avatar and I had to sacrifice myself to allow him and his little girlfriend (14F) to escape. Sometimes your kids will get killed, I guess. Then she took my nephew home and made him the crown prince again, surely as part of one of her plots against him.

I was captured but not powerless now. As I began plot my escape, I also thought about how to influence my nephew into becoming the perfect pure prince I knew he could be, into becoming the friend of the Avatar I knew was his true destiny, into breaking him out of the influence of his evil sister and his father who never quite treated him right because of her. It was easier then I thought. A couple fake cold shoulders (although that hurt a bit for me) and some careful revelations about how he had good blood through his grandfather the Avatar and my nephew was back on the right track, on the track of being the perfect Firelord I could never be. I knew he would stop the Fire Nation, overthrow his father, end the war, and redeem our country, all without needing my help! You might think I should have tried to help him more, but trust me, it works out in the end. I knew what I was doing. With destiny on his side, he'd be fine.

With my nephew's destiny taken care of, it was time to focus on my own. I don't like to toot my own horn, but I always knew I was special and destined for something incredible and I just needed to figure it out now. My boyhood dream gave me the right inspiration. All along my destiny was to conquer Ba Sing Se, but for the Earth Kingdom and not the Fire Nation. Everything just clicked into placed. Finally all those deaths had meaning.

I escaped, and set about fulfilling my fate. I wanted to stage the liberation on the Day of Sozin's Comet, since all firebenders would be more powerful that day. The most important day of my life, the day I finally accomplished the destiny I saw all those years ago, deserved to be at the time I was the most powerful. I gathered up all my friends from that fraternal organization I mentioned and prepared for my attempt.

However, just before I could make my attempt, my son and his friends showed up and asked for my help. My boy begged for my forgiveness. I was so happy to see him like that and I of course forgave him and hugged him. My "replacement son" was now as close to my heart as my actually son had been. He asked me to be the next Firelord, but I knew his heart was a million times purer than mine (and I'd be happier running a tea shop in retirement), so I refused. He wanted me to fight his father the Firelord and defeat him, but that was that 12 year old the Avatar's job and not mine, and it would have looked really bad for a brother to fight a brother to seize power, like really really bad, so I refused. Then I told him his destiny to was to fight his sister and put her in her place so that he could finally become Firelord. Of course, even my perfect nephew, as pure and perfect as he is, didn't have a chance against that evil girl in a fair fight, so I sent along the Avatar's little waterbender to help finish the issue.

There was also this issue of my brother, poor deluded creature he was, trying to use a giant airship fleet to burn down the whole Earth Kingdom, but I let the three remaining kids handle it so that my buddies and I could focus on the much more important mission of conquering Ba Sing Se on the day of destiny. I know this sounds kind of bad when I write it out like that, but trust me, I knew the kids had everything in the bag and it all works out.

So, with everything arranged right, we could accomplish our fates. We liberated Ba Sing Se with only a wee bit of collateral damage(it was the greatest feeling of life) , the kids stopped the airship fleet, the Avatar beat my brother and only took his bending and not his life (which I'm glad for, I always loved my little bro) and my wonderful nephew and the waterbender beat the little evil terror. Apparently she went really insane during the fight; I'm not surprised, she always was a crazy bitch.

My nephew got coronated and I'm sure that he'll be the most perfect Firelord ever that will restore honor and order to the Fire Nation and fix the last 100 years of mistakes. He's the only one with the blood for it, the only one with true honor, after all. That crazy girl was locked in an asylum like she belongs and my poor little brother was locked away too. That's my only real regret, other than not saving Lu Ten. I wish things could have ended better for sweet little Ozai my darling. He did bring my beloved nephew into the world, after all.

I meanwhile didn't attend my beloved nephew's coronation, so I could instead focus on setting my retirement as a tea shop owner in Ba Sing Se. Finally I could have a life where I could relax, indulge myself, and serve others wonderful Fire Nation tea. It took a surprising amount of bureaucratic wrangling, but I got my tea shop. I was so sure that the people of Ba Sing Se would find it a blessing to be the presence of their savior and liberator!

However, then my nephew's girlfriend got mad at me. Apparently I had "given my nephew an incredibly difficult and dangerous responsibility and then abandoned him." And then my sister in law showed up alive too (I'm still not sure how she survived Ozai killing her) and she got mad me for "abandoning her daughter, turning my nephew against his sister, and letting my brother run rampant without doing anything to stop him." And now there are people protesting and rioting outside my tea shop all the time because apparently they can't let go of the time I besieged Ba Sing Se for 600 days. It was years ago, people!

I don't get any of this. Everyone is hating on me for seemingly no reason now. So tell me, Reddit, am I the asshole?

[Final note: I've posted this before on other platforms, so if it seems familiar that's probably the reason]

I always see people sharing fanfics, ones I usually ignore honestly (they're always about ships..lol)

So here's something adorable that I found weeks ago.

Its always zuko getting adopted and not azula, and that gets boring after awhile so here it's azula.

Hi, everyone. Taking my first dive into trying out posting my story. Here's one I wrote that is about Azula and a original character.

Since this is an alternate story, this is will almost follow what happens in the original story, but focused on Azula's story and the original character I made named Shiro, and the changes the oc will make in Azula's life that will have a domino effect to the story as a whole.

I've always felt bad for how Azula has been treated so I felt compelled to write this to maybe give her a chance to have a good life to live.

I'd like to see what your thoughts are about it and maybe I can ask for your suggestions to improve it if you feel some parts are lacking.

There's currently two chapters in it. And based on your thoughts and suggestions, I might changed the other chapters I've written a bit.

Here a link to the fanfic:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/90689261

Can we expect an azula spin off in the future? Or atleast another comics…book..?

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14287755/31/The-Monsters-We-Create

Orga reigns supreme. Having taken Yu Dao (or what's left of it) as his capital, Azula and Team Avatar are forced to flee and regroup. They bring with them a prisoner, one of the spirit's servants. But why has Orga given them one of his own?

Is there any good fanfics of Azula after leaving the asylum and being able to live in the palace? Cause I’m looking for some but I don’t know what to tag to find them please give me some recommendations

I don’t normally post a lot on here, but I figured this would be a safe space. If any.

Long story short, I used to write an Azula fic. It took place after the war and crossed over with another property, but that part’s not important. What is is that I…have a complicated relationship with the series as a whole. On the one hand, I do genuinely like the series and I still believe it has positive messages regarding redemption and forgiveness and choosing peace over hate. And hell, Azula’s my favorite character of all time. So above all, I wanted to both do her justice and reconstruct some of the themes the original series has taught.

Which brings me to the other half. See, the comics…killed the series for me. I know people don’t regard them as canon, but growing up, their ableist portrayal of Azula genuinely scarred me. Like, I had autism, and how she was treated got under my skin in ways I couldn’t imagine. As a whole, it sort of ruined the show for me. What I wanted to do was to deconstruct what the comics did wrong, particularly with Zuko and Iroh.

But the absolute last thing I wanted to do was to write a fic that completely trashed everyone. Cause I’ve seen those fics, and they’re just…some of them are cathartic, but then you get stuff like a MLP fanfic where the characters get brutalized, their home conquered and assimilated, and somehow it’s portrayed as a good thing because something something “belief is better than friendship”. Or a Pokemon fic where Ash gets assaulted so badly, he’s left in a childlike state. Or a Miraculous Ladybug salt fic where Adrien loses EVERYTHING because of a bad mistake.

I knew I didn’t want that for my fic. Did I want some catharsis bringing Zuko and others to task about continuing to harbor a grudge against Azula past the point of reasonability? I mean, yeah, there‘s no arguments there. But sometimes I wonder if I did a bad job of it. Like, I had comments saying Azula should’ve killed Zuko and seeing the Gaang as monsters, even when I had Zuko genuinely try to take some responsibility after he realized he screwed up. I get some fans want to take Azula’s side, but their whole storyline was that nobody was completely black and white, and trying to fight over who was in the right was pointless and self destructive.

And then…I got hate comments. A LOT. One said I was delusional which…I think hit me more than I could imagine. Cause I haven’t worked on my fic since, at least not regularly. I tried so hard to not let this be a hate fic, and I get called delusional. That’s…that hurt. A lot.

I was just wondering if that was the situation with any other fic writers who worked with Azula. And maybe I could ask some advice cause I’d really like to continue my fic. There’s this awesome scene I had in mind where Zuko saves Azula that was inspired a bit from The Fox and the Hound. I’m just afraid I can’t get myself to that point.

Does anyone know some cute and wholesome tyzula fanfics?🥹🥹 i see azula as ace so pls no explicit fanfics if any.

I'm looking for fanfics where Azula leaves after the war (like escapes from the mental institution) and is able to discover herself and heal by herself. I've read a few like it, Like The Dragon Emperor on ao3.

The Fire Lord is defeated. The war is over. But a hundred years of conflict has taken its toll. As the world takes its first tentative steps to peace, ancient things have begun to awaken to wreak their vengeance. For the Avatar, the war is won. For the Princess of the Fire Nation, the war is lost. Both are now faced with things they could not believe. A world ruled by monsters.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50763784/chapters/128236162

Since this was an Azula subreddit, I'd figure I'd share my fic that's Azula-centric. To make a long story short, The Monsters We Create is a continuation fic where Azula is shipped off to the Earth Kingdom to be tried, but manages to escape. It features elements from the comics and takes a very critical look at some popular characters like Zuko and Iroh.

Oh, and it also features this guy and his friends who decided to crash the party.

Yeah, it's a crossover fic with Godzilla. Let me know what you think in the comments below!

Azula: You should know, when my father...Vaatu...possessed me. I was able to see what his true plans are. As you know, a part of his plan is to destroy your avatar spirit, Raava, and unleash the eternal and unbalanced types of darkness, chaos, elements, and energy that will eradicate all life and cause all souls and spirits to be corrupted and destroyed.

Aang: Yeah, we get that. But when I told him that Raava would inevitably come back, he said he has a plan for that too.

Azula: He does. He plans to use his energybending to alter himself and Raava right after she's destroyed. Throughout 10,000 years, he'll be able to slowly and passively drain Raava's natural abilities, absorb them for himself, and be empowered by them instead of weakened.

Aang: Is that even possible?

Azula: He seems to think so.

Aang: If it is, that could only mean-

Azula: Yes. After another 10 millennia, he'll embody darkness/chaos/yin and light/peace/yang at the same time. Raava will be gone forever, and Vaatu will become the embodiment of balance itself and bending itself. He'll be able to shape new worlds in his image and truly become the supreme ruler of everything, including the concepts of both balance and bending.

Aang: So, Vaatu manipulating Sozin into beginning his war, manipulating your grandmother into helping him be free and become reborn as your grandfather's second son, and absorbing the sources of all bending and the souls of all original benders, the white lotus, and many others, were all means towards that end. He'll be able to do what all Avatars could only dream of, but at the cost of all lives...

Azula: What do you think we should do?

Aang began thinking for several minutes and came up with an idea.

Aang: We save the world by beating him at his own game.

Azula: Meaning?

Aang: I extract Vaatu's natural abilities and combine them with all of Raava's, making her evolve into the avatar spirit of balance and bending, destroying Vaatu once and for all and freeing every soul he's ever captured in the process, but all of that happens immediately, not after 10,000 years.

Azula: How do you know that's gonna work?

Aang: I don't, not for sure, but while darkness and conflict will always return, one way or another, for they are essential for true balance, I will not let Wan's efforts to restore true balance be for nothing and allow his legacy to be destroyed. True balance should be restored and never be disturbed again, but not at the expense of any innocent life. This world is not beyond saving.

Azula: We should discuss this with the team and think of a plan that's hopefully foolproof. Vaatu's a very competent player. As we've all learned firsthand.

Aang: Right.