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.JDJSHJABDBFJSH
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 Iroh thoughts for this
– Zuko is angry, he’s still him
– he finds Iron’s diaries, there’s a quest, maybe they were in that big Library and Zuko has to make a choice
– ‘Young Avatar, you can take knowledge with you or you can take understanding’
– Zuko doesn’t understand the nature of the choice really and takes Iroh’s diaries because Azula ended up taking over the Fire Nation and things progressed as they had before but
– Iroh became one of the chief Firebenders rebelling against her rule
– so Zuko figures Iroh’s diaries would have the info they need
– because maybe the whole ‘eclipse equals less fire-bendiness’ was something Zuko didn’t know?
– yeah, let’s go with that
– instead, Zuko gets Iroh’s thoughts
– Iroh’s grief, his worry, his hopes that his beloved nephew is okay, where ever he is
– Zuko reads the passages where Iroh talks about how much he loved Zuko and how much he worried about Zuko’s anger poisoning him and how much he hoped for him
-and how much Iroh believed that Zuko, if he overcame his anger, would be the very best of them, the best representative of all that was good about the Fire Nation– Zuko never knew
– he never had anyone tell him that they were proud of him
– and here’s Iroh, reaching out from a hundred years in the past, saying ‘I believe in you. I’m proud of you. I love you.’
– and just like in canon, Iroh gives Zuko the love and support he needs to become the best, most socially awkward, version of himself
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