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Can we consider how many people Toph caused internal bleeding and broken bones?

oh honey they are fully dead

No but Toph was a professional earthbending wrestler with the power to feel the whole human body at once through vibrations with enough accuracy to tell lies. She knows exactly how much pressure the human body can take before important things start breaking or I’ll go buy a hat for the sole purpose of eating it.

oh, sure. she doesn't care though. she's 12 and she's thriving and she loves to murder

We forgetting about that time Katara cut through an air balloon, and sent a bunch of dudes plummeting to their deaths?

She almost cut Azula's face in half too

Casual reminder that this show was absolutely brutal.

Read The Rise of Kyoshi book to have graphic descriptions of people being impaled, burned, crushed, buried, sliced and so on.

Remember that time when Sokka blew up a side of a mountain which was swarming with Fire Nation troops? Or when Aang sank the invasion fleet at the Northern Water Tribe? Or Sokka/Toph/Suki’s “airship slice?” Yeah, the Gaang definitely took lives

And then Aang goes: “Oh I’m a pacifistic I can’t kill Ozai! It goes against everything I stand for.”

I’ve always wanted Zuko just to be like: “But all of you have killed literal tens of thousands of my countrymen and women. Why does my father, the one who burned my face and is going to obliterate another people get to live?”

And fun fact. Zuko, despite all the negative things everyone says he did. Never actually took lives nor did all that pillaging. Any damage that happened was because people instigated fights with him. He always took extra care to disarm and disable when everyone else in the show just straight up tried to murder him any chance they had.

Casual Avatar - Sokka

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During the northern water tribe arc, imagine if none of the gaang try to take zuko with them who is a fire bender unconscious in the snow during a blizzard?

So most things go as normal but iroh and fire nation learns that the avatar and his companions left and most likely left the prince (sure he is a banished and exiled prince, but still a prince) and after aang lets the ocean spirit kill the entire fleet that they cant defend themselves against? They would be angry if they were defeated by humans but a spirit? That is plain cheating. And shows that the avatar and spirits are being used against the fire nation and the others are glad.

(Spoilers but zuko did live and manage to live incognito or traveling in the earth kingdom under an alias... He is tired and didn't have enough time to tell uncle or anyone else given the posters)

So after everything the gaang and the world think they killed the fire nation prince. And set the ocean spirit on the fire nation navy.

Iroh also thinks that. He lasts long enough to get to earth kingdom but now 'lost' the last thing, his second son. And he did so to the water tribe and the avatar with his companions. The avatar is the bridge but he also bridged and set the ocean spirit on the fire nation.

So the fire lord is happy (inside) that his son can be used for propaganda. His son was so close to getting rid of the threat the avatar represents and he was to bring alive to him. However, the avatar killed the crown prince and next in line as well as setting loose the spirits against the fire nation, which is what the fire lords and zuko died trying to prevent.

Azula is now given all the resources needed to capture or KILL avatar and friends before they bring the evil to the capital.

All of fire nation will hear of what they did and now will be on a war path. You thought before was a war path? Haven't seen a real one. Their prince is dead, killed trying to prevent what happened. The avatar, bridge between spirits and humans set a spirit, the very ocean itself, and destroyed and killed a large navy. They see the princess as the next ruler in line and going to stop the avatar.

Also the water tribes. Hakoda and the southern water tribe men are fighting but they prob weren't a high priority. Now they are. And guess who is just women and children in their home? Now they have hostages. While the northern water tribe will try to go and help, they have to go near fire nation ocean territory. And given what just happened, they are going to be pissed. The avatar is gone to earth kingdom... Fight the northern water tribe on the new moon while he is gone.

Then they can focus on earth kingdom. Well, azula is with her resources that arent fighting and destroying water tribe.

She meets the avatar and group and starts the fight by talking about zuko. Her older brother, crown prince who couldn't go home unless he captured and presented the avatar to their father. But the avatar killed him. While pretending (and getting unnecessary feels that almost make it true) to care, she suddenly stops and thanks them. She pronounces that since zuko isnt alive or unbanished, she is now crown princess and next in line for the throne. She wishes she was there while zuko breathed his last and also sad that she or father couldnt be the ones to kill him.

Also maybe iroh is with them, giving information. He would have liked to help the avatar but that was before they killed his nephew. His second son. Also the dragon of the west came out of retirement to burn down ba sing se.

Stuff happens but the water tribes and earth kingdom get to know how it feels when the fire nation is literally breathing down your throat and trying to conquer. Fire nation was doing so without interference of spirits or avatar but then water tribe called the avatar and ocean spirit to do their work for them because they would have lost and the fire nation cant fight fairly against that. Well now they dont have to fight or win fair because if the others do that, then so can the fire nation.

Stuff happens but then zuko happens. Look, he has been hiding and resting from the world and didnt know he was dead. So he goes to fire nation and hey, prince made it! He survived the avatar and his companions killing him! Along with the cold as well as the ocean spirit.

Don't know where this is going but its a 'consequences if zuko "died", but not really' and also because I dont want him actually dead and he has survived worse.

i’m rewatching atla and: let zuko say fuck

#Yuyan Raise Zuko#Commander Shinu adamantly does not#you are house breaking this one on your own#and PLEASE teach him to stop growling at me#no do NOT teach him all our secret hand signs#…it’s too late isn’t it#ugggh worst elite archers ever#GET THAT BOW AWAY FROM HIM BEFORE HE SHOTS OUT HIS EYE#Shinu (Very Actively) Does Not Parent Zuko (But Can’t Trust His Archers Alone With A Child For Five Minutes)

Imagine an au where Zuko actually does fight his father during the battle instead of try to plead with him and not only doesn’t get scarred but actually wins because his heartbreak at the injustice makes him stronger in that moment.

Good idea

A Kidnapping

An AU where Lu Ten didn’t die at the Wall in Ba Sing Se and returned home with his father after secretly taking the city. Everyone thinks they’ve lost, when Iroh is controlling every aspect of the Dai Li.

At home, Fire Lord Azulon is still alive and kicking and Ursa is still home and Azula’s a little brat and Zuko is just… trying to keep it together.

Life goes on as normal, Iroh as the Crown Prince that never hits rock bottom, never travels to the spirit world to find enlightenment, and remains the same warmongering heir that he’s always been, setting the example for his son to follow in his footsteps.

At thirteen, Zuko begs to enter the war meeting. It goes very similarly in canon. Except since it’s Azulon’s meeting, he is the one disrespected.

He orders Ozai to face his son.

When Zuko is burned and sick with fever, Ursa begs Iroh to change his father’s mind about the banishment. Iroh uses his favor to ensure that his young nephew is allowed to stay at home, he is a child, he’s learned his lesson, he’s loyal to our nation he was only confused as to how best to keep Her good and strong.

Zuko goes quiet. Eventually it’s been years since anyone has heard his voice.

When there is news that the Avatar is alive, Azulon sends Zhao to capture him. Zhao takes Zuko’s place here since Zuko is in disgrace at home.

When Zhao dies in the North Pole, it’s Lu Ten and Azula who are sent to capture the Avatar. It becomes a competition between them. A future Fire Lord versus the second born of the second born, destined for mediocrity.

The thing is, we all know that our darling princess will never settle for anything but the best.

So now life is harder than ever for the gaang, running from two Fire Nation Royals, benders more powerful than any they have ever encountered (sans Toph, because come on). Azula is insane, her little girl group incomprehensibly terrifying. Lu Ten is calm, cool, charming and is actually really nice (a lot like Iroh was in the series, except more murder-y). He takes his father’s place in the scene where he talks with Toph, not knowing she was with the Avatar because she’s such a new addition to the group. He still talks about little cousin Zu Zu, about how sweet and kind-hearted he is and how he can be stubborn as a cat-mule when he wanted to be. How he feels guilty about not being able to save him from his family’s harsh ways and would sometimes dream about taking his Zu Zu - and his cousin Zula, even if she was so incredibly frustrating and cruel to everyone she interacts with - and just disappearing. How he loves his father, but after the things he’s seen in war… he wasn’t sure if he could agree with him anymore.

Azula fires at Sokka instead of Iroh.

Lu Ten disappears with her.

They move forward, Lu Ten and Azula have teamed up again at the outer wall. They fail, but not before that hilarious slipping scene when Aang gets smacked between Azula and the wall and Azula gets smushed between Aang and Lu Ten.

It’s a mess, honestly.

So now, it’s after Ba Sing Se and the gaang convenes at the Western Air Temple. It’s a few days in, they have people coming in and out going over plans for the Invasion, and they go exploring in the woods across the chasm.

There’s swooshing and crackling and everyone present has the sound of firebending carved into their brains in a way they’ll never forget. Everyone ducks and peers through the foliage.

There’s a boy who couldn’t be much older than Sokka all alone, practicing firebending. His hair is dark and shaggy and his skin is pale and his red Fire Nation garb matches the brutal scar encapsulating a good third of his face and drawing one eye into a permanent glare.

“How did he find us?” Sokka whispers.

(Spoiler: the boy hears him)

The firebender whips around defensively and the youngest of the Avatar’s group steps forward boldly. “Who are y-”

He lashes out.

Toph is yelling on the ground, clutching her feet, and Katara is already fighting, Sokka takes the little earthbender and runs, and Aang is trying to calm everyone down.

The boy doesn’t move like the firebenders they’ve faced before. He’s fluid, extending his fire like it were a part of him, almost dancing.

Aang is awed.

Katara is furious.

Eventually the boy wins and leaves the two of them puffing on the ground, unable to rise and fight.

He halts his final blow, staring.

The Avatar stares back.

It’s a strange connection that Aang can’t even begin to describe. Like he’s a total stranger and yet has known him for a thousand years. Familiar in a way he couldn’t place. Kindred spirits.

The boy disappears.

Back at camp, Aang thinks back to something Jeong Jeong told him.

“I cannot teach you the practice of fire. To me, it is a curse. A curse that only death can free me of. You, young Avatar, need a master who has seen the extent of fire’s evils. Who has personally suffered these hurts and injustices, yet breathes in the embers and roars his flames bright enough to encircle the earth a million and one times.”

They talk about the firebender that night.

“I’m telling you, it was an accident,” Toph groaned out for what felt like the hundredth time. “He was surprised. I got too close and I got burned. Literally.”

Aang snorted into his bowl.

Katara shot him a sharp look and shook her head in disgust. “He’s a firebender. They’re all the same. He probably wanted to try and scare us or something.”

“Kill us,” Sokka snapped. “I don’t think it’s safe here. We need to move out before he comes back or sends reinforcements.”

“Aang?” Toph asked. “You haven’t said anything.”

All eyes turned to Aang. He looked up, only the sigh and set down his half finished food.

“I think that guy’s supposed to be my firebending teacher.”

That morning, Sparky Sparky Boom Man appears.

The boy saves them.

Before he can disappear again, Aang flies up to the cliff and follows him. When he finally catches up, the boy turned to him, angry and scowling worse than his burned eyes. “What?”

“Thank you,” Aang blurted. “For… you know, saving us.”

The boy grunted. “Sure. Whatever. Don’t follow me.”

Aang gaped at his back before running up and planting himself in front of the firebender. “No, wait! Please, just come meet my friends! I’m sure they want to thank you too!”

The boy stared at Aang blankly before picking him up under the arms and placing him down next to him. He continuing stomping walking away.

Aang groaned and ran back up to grab his arm. “PleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassseeeeeEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!”

The boy gaped as Aang failed miserably to back the boy budge, pulling and pushing his chest and even jumping on his back at one point trying to fall backwards.

“What are- no don’t- what- stop!”

Aang jumped down and stared up pleadingly.

“Please come have breakfast with us.”

The boy clenched his jaw glaring at the small boy before he let out a long suffering sigh, looking heavenward. “If I do this, will you leave me alone?”

Aang nodded vigorously, even if he did feel a little guilty since he knew that he would bother this guy nonstop until he agreed to teach him firebending.

“Fine.”

Aang cheered, grabbing the boy’s arm and dragging him back to camp much too enthusiastically, laughing and blabbing and in general because

he just kidnapped his new firebending teacher.