swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual:
Aang died with the air nomads.
The next two Avatars, from water and earth, live without ever knowing who they are.
Zuko still spoke out at the meeting, he still refused to fight his father in the Agni Kai.
Zuko was banished, and in his search to find the Avatar, earth bends.
He is the Avatar and doesn’t know what to do about it.
Okay but consider:
Zuko, punching the air: “I MUST FIND THE AVATAR!”
*rock goes flying*
Zuko, waving his arms for emphasis: “IT IS THE ONLY WAY”
*strong wind knocks over grunt in the background*
Zuko, stomping dramatically: “TO RESTORE MY HONOR!”
*deck behind zuko becomes covered in ice*
Iroh, stroking his beard: “…. hmmmmmm…”
And Iroh just decides to mess with him and just goes “Well, I suppose we should start searching” and Zuko doesn’t find out until later in the episode
Nah man, gimme a whole season of Zuko and Iroh’s hijinks as they search for the avatar and it’s Zuko the whole time. A whole season of Iroh waffling between goofy uncle and “here let me teach you about balance-” “I DON”T NEED BALANCE I NEED TO RESTORE MY HONOUR” “okay cool you do you kid i bet the avatar’s behind that rock please move it for me”
zuko saying he needs to find the avatar, when actually, he just needs to find himself is his original story arc
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I’d read this fic. Someone write it
Id pay for thay fic tbh
Ah, but you’re not thinking the two of them got exiled on their own from the Fire Nation, did you?
Prince Iroh and exiled Prince Zuko left with a contingent of sailors and military men. Said military personnel realize what is happening three days into their trip.
When wacky spirit shenanigans happen and Zuko solves it without knowing, the military lieutenant look at the commander like he’s in the office.
When Admiral Zhao takes Zuko’s ship and all his crew, and questions them, all of the crew say the same thing:
“No, Prince Zuko hasn’t found the Avatar yet.”
They say this with varying ability to keep a straight face. There’s one of them who just breaks down in helpless giggles.
“Nope,” he gets out between the giggles. “Not found. Definitely not found.”
Admiral Zhao’s men come to the conclusion that Zuko’s crew have cracked under the stress of being away from the Fire Nation so long, and especially on a mission that pretty much the whole Nation “knows” is impossible.
I love this, but I refuse to dismiss the other characters, so consider:
Aang, who is with this small reclusive group of the last airbenders (I refuse to believe they all died, humans are ridiculously notorious for surviving anything). They live someplace they call Turtle Island. They keep quiet, and secretive, and it hurts these Nomadic people, but Aang can feel the call of the wind in his soul. He hasn’t left, yet, but he dreams and he dreams.
Katara is one of the last waterbenders. Somehow, Zuko came to the South Pole anyways. He was going to take her brother, Sokka, for… insert reason, probably insubordination, or something. She offers herself as one of the last Waterbenders, to work on his ship. Iroh is against the whole thing, but she ends up on the ship. Iroh ends up helping teach her, too. Zuko is pissed, but “You brought her on here, but she’s not a prisoner like her brother would have been—you must treat her with respect until you kick her off the boat.” He keeps trying to kick her off the boat. Katara is stubborn. She’s not been kicked off the boat yet.
Sokka is torn between leaving to get his sister back and protecting his village. In the end, GranGran sends him after Katara. Coincidentally, he meets a bison that some little kid is calling Appa, right on the shore of one of the islands he’s managed to get to from his little boat.
Toph is the same because literally. No need to change hers. How she gets on the group, exactly, might vary a little though.
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