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• Zuko from the Unsympathetic Perspective by F11Supertiger

  Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  26 Apr 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Mai/Zuko (Avatar)
  • Zuko (Avatar)
  • Azula (Avatar)
  • Ozai (Avatar)
  • Mai (Avatar)
  • Iroh (Avatar)
  • Katara (Avatar)
  • Aang (Avatar)
  • Ursa (Avatar)
  • not Zuko friendly
  • really pay attention to what it says on the tin
  • kind of a summary instead of a story
  • about how people might perceive Zuko's story if things were presented slightly differently
  • kind of an exercise of how easy it would be to strip the sympathy from Zuko's story
  • Canon-Compliant
  • but I do kind of deliberately gloss over some stuff
  • again if you are a really hardcore Zuko fan with a thin skin
  • you are probably not going to enjoy reading this
  • since I present him and his story in an unfair and sometimes quite disingenuous manner
  • but again no other villain has their sympathetic reasons for trying to murder a 12 year old who had saved their life multiple times
  • carefully explained by the narrative

  Summary

  Zuko has an intensely sympathetic story and is a very sympathetic character. However, he also received far more grace from the narrative and the writers than any other villain and antagonist in ATLA or LoK. They took pains to present almost everything about him in about the most sympathetic possible way. This summary of Zuko's canon story is an effort to illustrate how people might imagine Zuko as a character if he, like Azula or the other antagonists, did not receive this grace and this sympathetic framing.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,323

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  17

  Kudos:

  51

  Bookmarks:

  10

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  604

• AITA, Reddit? by F11Supertiger

  Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  20 Oct 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Mai/Zuko (Avatar)
  • Iroh (Avatar)
  • Zuko
  • Azulon
  • Lu Ten
  • Azula
  • Aang
  • Katara
  • Ursa
  • Ozai
  • Mai (Avatar)
  • Iroh Critical
  • Satire
  • not iroh friendly
  • Don't Take This Too Seriously
  • Joke Fic
  • Iroh is Not a Good Uncle
  • Zuko is not a good sibling
  • reddit style
  • AITA - Freeform
  • the show from Iroh's perspective
  • Not Compliant with Avatar Comics
  • Iroh Being a Bad Uncle (Avatar)
  • Morally Ambiguous Iroh (Avatar)
  • Iroh is not a good uncle to Azula but he's also not a good uncle to Zuko

  Summary

  Iroh posts his perspective on what happened during the series on r/AITA (reddit: Am I the Asshole? for those unfamiliar with the trope).

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,121

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  30

  Kudos:

  118

  Bookmarks:

  15

  Hits:

  1,737