You should have feared me more
lynn wanted to see this happen so here you go
(it’s not exactly “you are the father” and i didnt have enough patience to animate the dance that one guy on maury did but it’s still SCANDALOUS)
OZAI ISN’T ZUKO’S FATHER WHICH COMPLETELY THROWS OUT ZUKO AS A LEGITIMATE HEIR TO THE THRONE AND THE ENTIRE ARC OF ZUKO HAVING TWO WARRING BLOODLINES INSIDE HIM TO HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO PULL “WELL OZAI RAISED HIM” WITH ME GETS THE DUNGEON FOR 3948758456 YEARS BECAUSE OZAI WAS AN ABUSIVE FUCK AND IROH WAS ZUKO’S REAL FATHER IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD THAT MATTERS AND MIKE AND BRYAN AND GENE YANG ARE IN A TIME OUT NOW THEY ARE GROUNDED FOREVER
THEY TRASHED ZUKO’S DEVELOPMENT AND HIS CHARACTER AND THE STRUGGLES HE WENT THROUGH BY MAKING HIM SOMEONE ELSE’S SON
LITERALLY HIS ENTIRE ARC WAS BASED OFF OF OZAI’S ABUSE AND NEGLECT TOWARDS HIM AND HIM BEING A CHILD WHO JUST WANTED HIS FATHER TO LOVE HIM
THIS IS THE WORST NARRATIVE BETRAYAL IN THE HISTORY OF BETRAYALS
THIS IS SHITTIER THAN THE ENTIRETY OF THE LAST AIRBENDER MOVIE WHICH AT LEAST MADE ME LAUGH AT ITS STUPIDITY
I AM IN A RAGE
THIS IS PROBABLY MADDER ABOUT FICTIONAL COMICS CHARACTERS THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN
HOW DARE THEY.
Yanno. Everyone keeps saying ‘oh well Ozai raised him he’s his dad’ as the argument FOR this, but I think that’s misguided.
But I also don’t agree with the part of the fandom ragefacing about this. >/
This doesn’t change Zuko, OR his story arc. Throughout his storyline, AND AZULAS, he was in complete conflict because he THOUGHT his father was Ozai. This actually puts into perspective a LOT of shit that Ozai did.
What father would allow their OWN father to order them to kill/maim their son in an Agni Kai? It puts into perspective that Ozai did this, because HE WANTED TO PUNISH URSA. He never gave a damn about Zuko. Obviously if he knows where Ursa is, and pointed him in the right direction in this comic, he KNOWS Zuko’s not his son.
Lets examine some things on how it does not change Zuko as a person, but rather puts into perspective how he was treated. Azula got away with a LOT of shit, her father NEVER punished her for it like Zuko would have been. This makes sense, because she’s his actual child. In a young Zuko’s eyes though, his father ‘favored’ Azula, thus breaking his confidence in himself and turning him to his Uncle and Mother for support and parental guidance.
Zuko KNEW he had been fully rejected the moment he’d been given the task to ‘find the avatar’. At the point they gave it to him, the avatar had been missing over 100 years. He KNEW it was a futile quest, until a stroke of dumb luck or fate brought about Aang. His Uncle/father figure was with him to show that he was not alone, that he had family that loved him still.
I still stand by that he WAS of two bloodlines. I don’t think the moral of changing this story is ‘Only bad people breed more bad people’ because Azula had JUST AS MUCH A CHANCE OF BEING LIKE URSA/ROKU AS ZUKO DID. But just as Zuko turned towards his Uncle and mother for guidance, Azula only HAD her father to turn to.
And lets just stop to think of Azula for a moment. I think, even though she ridiculed and was generally mean to him (but lets face it Azula is mean to everyone) PROBABLY because of her perception that Ursa favored him……she will also know now the reason WHY her mother hated her so much.
She was the product of a man Ursa did not love.
That’s a powerful thing to be blamed for. By your own mother. So there we go, that justifies Azula’s crazy.
Back to Zuko. This revelation doesn’t chage what he’s been through. It doesn’t make him feel LESS like he cares for Ozai or Iroh. If anything? It’ll shake him because now his mother’s love for him will seem very skewed. Many of the choices he made/turns he took were because of Iroh and Ursa’s kind influence. His mother’s intentions are going to shake him now, because he’ll know he was the favorite because she DID love his father. Not only that, but he’ll now know that his mother made a CONSCIOUS CHOICE to leave her son with a man she most likely KNEW was aware of his parentage, and would take out his anger at Ursa on the boy.
I think everyone’s missing the point of the theme here in the comics. It’s not to discount everything Zuko has felt/been through, because lets remember the two dragons in Zuko’s heart weren’t REALLY the spirits. They were his own psyche quantifying an inner turmoil in a way his brain could comprehend without breaking. And like it or not ya’ll, he WAS raised around Ozai, if not directly by him all the time, and WAS imbued with many of the Royal Family’s prejudices and mentality.
I don’t think this is taking AWAY or negating anything Zuko did/felt. Those were relevant thoughts/ways of thinking at the time, and without this new information, Zuko had no reason NOT to think he was conflicting two bloodlines. Obviously Ozai and Azula cared enough about him NOT TO TAKE HIM OFF THE THRONE, since Republic City/LoK mentions him being Royal still. The REAL theme of this comic, I think, is to add MORE layers to Zuko, not take away.
Think about it. With one letter, HIS ENTIRE MORAL COMPASS has been shifted/skewed. Everything he knew about his life as truth, was a very craftily fabricated and covered up lie. I think this is just another hurdle to make Zuko get over, and officially become ‘the most well rounded, developed character in cartoon history’. Think about it. He’s no longer ‘real’ royalty, and is allowed that title only through formality/the graciousness of Ozai and Azula at this point. I think this entire thing is to show him how humble his beginnings really are, and to help him understand that just because he is a ruler does not mean he can use the people to serve HIS ends. I think this is one huge lesson to teach him that HE is there to serve the PEOPLE instead. Azula would never be able to serve/do what is best for her people. Zuko was starting to go that way without Aang to reign him in and smack his hands at the beginning of the comic. I think this entire point is to teach Zuko to be his OWN moral compass, instead of using the Avatar as a crutch/safety net, and make him feel responsibility for his OWN actions in order to become a better ruler.
OZAI ISN’T ZUKO’S FATHER WHICH COMPLETELY THROWS OUT ZUKO AS A LEGITIMATE HEIR TO THE THRONE AND THE ENTIRE ARC OF ZUKO HAVING TWO WARRING BLOODLINES INSIDE HIM TO HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO PULL “WELL OZAI RAISED HIM” WITH ME GETS THE DUNGEON FOR 3948758456 YEARS BECAUSE OZAI WAS AN ABUSIVE FUCK AND IROH WAS ZUKO’S REAL FATHER IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD THAT MATTERS AND MIKE AND BRYAN AND GENE YANG ARE IN A TIME OUT NOW THEY ARE GROUNDED FOREVER
THEY TRASHED ZUKO’S DEVELOPMENT AND HIS CHARACTER AND THE STRUGGLES HE WENT THROUGH BY MAKING HIM SOMEONE ELSE’S SON
LITERALLY HIS ENTIRE ARC WAS BASED OFF OF OZAI’S ABUSE AND NEGLECT TOWARDS HIM AND HIM BEING A CHILD WHO JUST WANTED HIS FATHER TO LOVE HIM
THIS IS THE WORST NARRATIVE BETRAYAL IN THE HISTORY OF BETRAYALS
THIS IS SHITTIER THAN THE ENTIRETY OF THE LAST AIRBENDER MOVIE WHICH AT LEAST MADE ME LAUGH AT ITS STUPIDITY
I AM IN A RAGE
THIS IS PROBABLY MADDER ABOUT FICTIONAL COMICS CHARACTERS THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN
HOW DARE THEY.
FUCKING
FUUUUUUUUC<KINGNNGNNGGGGG
ARE YOU SHITTING ME
