Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON
Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????
Zuko: *speaks*
Katara: nevermind I hate him
How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.
Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer
Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.
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Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.
Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.
I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies
My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:
Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*
Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?
And then it hit me.
Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender. Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.
About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang – and by extension Zuko – get away.
Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.
AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)
And you know he would do an exaggerated old man voice, despite being 112 years old and every time, Zuko would get yell “You don’t need to pretend to be old! You are old!” and Aang would wag a finger and call him a cheeky whippersnapper 😀
i got my copy of the korrasami zine (hosted by @catstealers-zines) in the mail today!! this is my piece for it – im pretty much a sucker for hogwarts AUs!! hope you enjoy the piece even if you disagree with my house choices
my favorite thing is how post-redemption Zuko is so wryly sarcastic ok like omg
Firebending Masters: My great-grandfather Sozin happened. Firebending Masters when Aang makes them dance: This better teach us some really good fire bending. When they’re stuck: Think about our place in the universe?
The Boiling Rock: How are you gonna get there? On Appa? Last time I checked, prisons don’t have Bison Daycares.
The Southern Raiders: If you really want it to feel like old times, I could, uh … chase you around a while and try to capture you.
To Aang when he dismisses Katara’s anger: That’s cute, but this isn’t air temple preschool. It’s the real world.
The best of all:
“I know! We can show him all his baby pictures, and all the happy memories will make him good again!”
And, there’s more omfg– no wonder him and Sokka clicked, once Zuko loosened up he’s just as savagely sarcastic as Sokka, except Zuko’s is a lot more wry and Sokka’s is really jesting, but still. That’s why the two of them are #bros4lyfe on the Old Friends Poster.
“Okay, we’ll be sure to do that, Guru Goody-Goody.”
IM SCREAMIN THATS MY FAVORITE ONE HOW COULD I FORGET THAT ONE LMAO
Honestly? They’re the ship I ship most in this show. I love them as brothers. Sometimes I like to imagine that their friendship is the reason the South accepts Zuko. Then they regret it, because if they thought Sokka was a handful before, now he’s got a partner in crime.
EVEN BETTER: Know how Sokka gets his sense of humor from his dad? Can you imagine the three of them on sarcasm and hunting trips? Of course, the point is never really to catch anything. They just want to hang out and enjoy themselves.
OR imagine exchanges like this:
Katara (so done with their shenanigans): Why don’t you two just get married already.
Zuko: Ugh, have you met your brother?
Sokka: I’d be a great wife. Look here’s your dinner.
Zuko: This is the worst dinner I’ve ever had.
Sokka: Maybe if you brought something decent home once in a while.
Zuko: Why? So you can ruin that, too?
Sokka: You don’t appreciate me.
Every time this happens, Katara thinks it’s impossible to be more done with these two, but secretly she loves it.
Summary: "It was an accident.“ That was what Zuko had said to his crew when he used an element he hadn’t been meant to. He wasn’t the Avatar. The Avatar was supposed to be in the Earth Kingdom, hidden by its walls. Unless the old Avatar had died long ago … and had already been replaced sixteen years ago. AU.
Summary: Less than eighty years after Roku’s death, the Avatar has returned to the Fire Nation, born to Prince Ozai. Everything seems poised for the Fire Nation to take over the world, except for a few minor details, namely that Ozai has unknowingly banished and alienated his son, the Avatar. A retelling of the events of A:tLA, in which Zuko is the Avatar, Azula is his twin, and Aang is still the last Airbender.
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