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What do you imagine it would be like if Zuko was the Avatar while Aang was a normal boy?

While I find in theory the Avatar Zuko concepts really appealing, I’m struggling quite a bit to formulate cohesive headcanons about it. 

Every time I think about, I always end up with terribly dark and angsty scenarios. I think if Zuko was the Avatar, it would manifest when he gets burnt by his father - just like Aang went in the Avatar state during the storm to protect him. He wouldn’t be able to control it, so he would cause a big destruction in the arena, giving more ammunition to the FN propaganda that the Avatar is an evil, destructive being. 

Zuko would freak out from the destruction he caused and he would fall into complete despair over what he’s done, what he is (a freak, a No 1 enemy of his own country). He asks to be killed, but Ozai doesn’t want to hear about it. It’s the perfect opportunity; they have the Avatar, if they kill him; he’ll only be reborn. 

At this point, Zuko gets imprisoned, like Aang was by Zhao - kept barely alive, cut off from all elements. He hallucinates, his past lives try to talk some sense into him, but he doesn’t want to listen to them. He gets very sick, and the doctors are sure that he will die if he’s not allowed to bend again. 

Then Ozai comes up with an even more sinister plan; Zuko can only regain his honour, if he masters all the elements so he can go into the Avatar State on purpose to be killed in that state, ridding the Fire Nation and the world of the Avatar spirit for once and all. Zuko - desperate to please his father and prove his loyalty - agrees. 

He sets out to the Air Temples, trying to master air-bending. Without a master, with all the scrolls destroyed, it’s a hopeless task. He lives there alone, meditating, arguing with his past lives who are angry at him and what he plans to do and refuse to help him. His only companion is a very persistent flying lemur. Then one day, unexpected visitors show up - two kids from the water tribe and the last airbender, who somehow survived a 100-year hibernation in ice and is now looking for his people. 

Suddenly, Zuko has a viable path to learn air-bending. And so a journey begins.

I Just Want Them To Be Happy

When Lex Foster was eight, Hannah was born. She had known that she would get a sibling soon, her ‘uncle’ Gerald had explained it to her a few weeks before he went back to his wife. She didn’t really care at the time. She was so busy with everything going on at home and school. There was nothing to make her care about a living potato that didn’t even exist yet.

Her mom brought her home from the hospital and left the baby on the couch to go and sleep. Lex had picked her up before she could fall. Hannah was her name apparently. Lex remembered that her grandma’s name was Hannah. Something felt right, holding her sister in her arms. She felt like Hannah was more than her sister. She had to be there for her, their mother certainly wouldn’t.

Hannah was so big in her arms, but Lex was small, even for her age. As she looked down upon her little sister, she knew that she would give the world for her. She had the same green eyes as Lex, the only thing Lex could ever thank her mother for.

She held Hannah for hours, not knowing what else to do. She wasn’t as tall as the crib, so she would have to leave Hannah alone to find something to climb on to put her little sister in. She never wanted to leave Hannah alone. She could see everything in the room that could possibly hurt her. Lex couldn’t let anything hurt her little sister, no matter what.

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Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide. 

At the end of everything Percy chooses to be on Luke's side, not Kronos's, not the gods' but Luke's. Luke, who was just a kid forced to grow up too soon, Luke, who has been angry his whole life, forced to protect people he cared about without any resources, forced to go on the run, forced to flee to a place that's supposed to be safe only to find out it reeks of generations of kids who were abused and mistreated by parents who didn't care, taught that love was transactional, taught that glory is everything and forced to reach for an impossible standard of glory to achieve that love.

I think ultimately Percy is the child of the prophecy because he was taught from a very young age that love should be unconditional, but he also learned from a young age that not all love is. He WAS Luke. The same anger towards the gods, the same desperate need for change, the same feelings of helplessness. Luke sees himself in Percy, and I think part of the reason Percy made the choice to give Luke the knife is because he sees himself in Luke. Everything Luke has ever said about the gods, about demigods, about the system, Percy has said those same things. Out loud.

The difference is that Luke consistently chose anger over love. From the very beginning of his story, he compromised the safety of those he was supposed to protect by picking fights, and he turned to a darker force to combat the helplessness of his existence, maybe he still cared about Annabeth and about family at the beginning but it didn't take much time for that to change. He discards Annbeth's life; the one person he promised to stand by and protect, he's careless with the lives of other half-bloods, he's cruel.

I love the effort that they are making in the show to portray Percy as a mirror to Luke from the very beginning, way before new viewers even know what's going to happen at the end. Percy is saying, "The gods have done nothing for me, they have done nothing but hurt the people I care about, we would be better off without them". Luke is undoubtedly the villain and the choices he made were his own, but at the same time, he was just a kid who felt helpless and alone. Because of that, he chose the anger he felt towards the gods over the love he had for his family, and that's where Percy is different.

Athena once said to Percy that he would let the world burn just to save a friend. His love and his loyalty are so strong that he couldn't sacrifice anyone he cared about if it meant saving the world. Unrealistic or not, there is something beautiful about the idea of someone who cares enough about you to think that a world without you in it isn't a world worth saving at all.

Kronos tries to paint loyalty, family ties and love as a weakness, when we all know that it was the only thing that had any power against him. Luke allows himself to be corrupted to the point where he sees those things as weaknesses as well until Kronos loses everything because of one little girl and what she represents. Annabeth's reminder of Luke's promise was the one thing that gave him enough strength to take control. The reminder that he loved someone and that he promised to be her family has the power to break him from the control of the most powerful evil.

It's the reminder of the love he had before he chose anger that gives him the strength to defeat that anger. And it's the love he always had for the demigods seeping back in that gives him the strength to stay alive long enough for Percy to promise to protect them.

I don't know that he would have had the strength to destroy Kronos without the knowledge that Percy would be there to finish the fight that he had lost sight of. He spent years fighting Percy, and he watched him choose the half-bloods over and over again, Luke saw how much anger he had, and saw him choose love instead. Luke knew that Percy would be able to do something that he had never been able to do, choose to protect the people he loves before hurting the people he hates. Everything Luke did, he did to punish the gods for the way they treated their kids, and everything Percy did, he did to protect those kids. Luke couldn't have destroyed Kronos if he didn't know that someone who cared about those kids as much as he did would be there to protect them the way he tried and failed to.

So has anyone mentioned that Grace’s embroidery project she’s working on when Diego shuts her off looks like a moon with a chunk detaching from it? I can’t get a screenshot because Netflix seems to be able to block them, but I just noticed this on my third (3rd) rewatch last night.

Oh my god you’re right!

Did Grace know?

i love taking the idea of “the serum gave steve better muscles and better senses” and just pushing it just that little bit into uncanny valley territory. he can see very slightly into the ultravioliet and infared spectra, moves/thinks quicker than normal people (hes conciously slowing himself down a LOT bc he knows it freaks people out) and is just. really strong. all of him is very strong. he can open a can of beans with a fingernail. 

A few Wangxian Fic Recs

I've been reading some good Wangxian stories lately; here are some fic recs for y'all.

Unstrictly Ballroom by Ariaste - Emotional story of pining and heartbreak with a backdrop of ballroom dance.

Straight Boy Wei Ying universe by raitala - Sweet, angsty story featuring ‘straight’ Wei Ying, pining Lan Zhan.

speeding up my heartbeat by plonk - Loved the characterization in this hilarious story of Wei Ying and Lan Zhan meeting at the gym. Gay AF.

The Arrangement by WriterGirlAR - Lan Zhan arranges to marry Wei Ying, and they fall in love.

mountains, we met by fruitys - A sweet, emotionally intense thriller where Wei Ying poses as a servant to help Meng Yao bilk Lan Zhan out of his inheritance.

The rest of my WangXian fic recs can be found here.

My GGDD fic recs can be found here.

I came across this and ... Wow!

They really look awesome!!

#not this time bitch

chasing the ocean pt. 3

author’s note: this is kinda where things start to pick up between them and shows their interactions

word count: 1398

WARNINGS: light swearing, tension, anger ig 

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