Oddly Specific TLOU AU Idea:

This is so funny to me I’m sorry💀💀

Little Izumi painting her face to look like the one she admires the most

"Look daddy, i I have a mark like you"

"oh..."

Somebody give Ellie a camera rn

ellie finds a polaroid camera

Oh no Hunter so baby boy 😭😭😭

Zuko: Once when I was 8, I had a crush on a girl in my class and I didn't know how to deal with it, so I wrote her a note that said "Get out of my school"

Katara:

Katara: That was you?!

Tfw your kid goes to the human realm and comes back with 80% more scars and 100% more trauma…

ellie would 100% love playing with all of the little kids in jackson when she first gets there

after her and joel actually adjust to living there a little, I think she would befriend all of the kids under the age of like 9 and when she’s not hanging out with joel she’s pretending to be a dinosaur with the local toddlers

joel is a little confused because “ellie, when I said you needed to make more friends that are kids I meant…your age. not the little kids. the teenagers.” but also he loves watching ellie interact with the little ones because she always looks so happy and excited giving them piggyback rides and telling them funny stories (plus, seeing her play around with the little kids is adorable, okay?).

ellie will definitely drag him into some of the games they play and since joel is a big softie and being a dad is practically in his blood he has to agree, and so a lot of the time “joel watching ellie play with the kids” turns into “tommy watching his brother get used as a jungle gym by ten 8 year olds and a teenager” and everyone in jackson who sees it thinks it’s the cutest thing ever

new parents of young children will come up to ellie and joel just to ask if they can watch their kids for a little bit while they take a break bc of how good they are with them. more often than not ellie and joel are being followed around by lines of little kids like ducklings following their mothers. joel complains about all of them to tommy but he secretly loves every second of it (and he also loves that him and ellie both seem to share a passion for taking care of the little shits) (he calls it a family trait at one point and ellie is delighted)

Zuko and some of my most prominent stims,, enjoye :]

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my pet peeve is azula fanart that draws her sexy af. short schoolgirl skirts and cleavage out and bold lipstick 24/7. and like. i get it. her color is red. she’s intimidating to u. she’s #meangirl #darkacademia #trustfundkid to u. she’s an east asian girl and you’re having some trouble w metacognition right now, to say the least.

but this is a 14yo girl who is TERRIFIED of displeasing her father in any way or any amount. ozai is tyrannical, prone to violence, w black-and-white vision where you’re loyally in or you’re permanently out of his in-group, and prone to taking any actions of his children as personal attacks, statements, embarrassments, and injuries. he is a narcissist who nearly killed her older brother in front of her, then tossed him out to sea for an entirely age-appropriate social mis-step, who inhabited a world of domination and violence, likely displayed some level of domestic and spousal violence in front of and possibly against azula when she was younger. ozai regularly treats and respects azula as a possession of his.

all that and you think 14yo azula is dressing sexy?? azula is wearing dad-approved jeans and plain solid-color t shirts. azula is begging to get her ears pierced. canon azula is dressed, advised, served, and socialized by adults. she has no comprehension of how to do makeup or her own hair. she lives in a massively, toxically radically masculine world of logic, violence, dominated/dominator duality, career-focused, emotionless, loveless lives, and u think that this girl, raised by her violent and possessive father, without a mother or single older woman around, can do anything for her hair besides a ponytail?

azula uses st. ives apricot facial scrub and neutrogena grandma lotion her elderly housekeepers buy for her, she wears ponytails and buns she learned exclusively from youtube tutorials that she watched in secret, she wears practical polo shirts and dark wash jeans that ozai approves of his daughter wearing outside, and for occasions she has a stylist that puts her into designer blazers and adult black dresses. on those occasions she looks so 14 trying to be a real adult, like the soulless and joyless ones that surround her. she’s intimidating in spite of/with her non-sexiness. not because of it.

and i do see azula going high femme as an adult. and i do think when she wants to rebel against ozai, in scenarios where she’s taken in by iroh as well, she goes for daring teenage tiktok looks (“one positive side to my first guardian being put in jail is that apparently my new guardian is willing to let me download social medias, so I have a tiktok now. he even fired the intern in charge of my official instagram and let me be the one to delete it.”)

but like. cmon guys. azula, as we know her in canon, will not rebel an inch. she is safely, terrifiedly sitting in her approved corner, and that’s not where sexy is. where’s that post abt how zuko is an iroh-advised grandpa sweater polo shirt prep kid. real after-school kumon/mathnasium core. that’s azula too. she’s wearing lots of gold jewelry and a halter top in the beach episode but don’t let that fool you. that’s her first time dressing up “to be a normal teen” and she coats herself in the equivalent of head-to-toe gucci because that’s how other #teenz dress, right??

and like. how come the nerdy dorky sheltered traumatized brother is often acknowledged as the grandpa sweater polo shirt prep he is, w thirst traps, as is his human right, but some ppl view azula, who shares most of those traits, as constantly seductive? how come it’s this character, an east asian teen girl, who wears the miniskirt and the red lipstick of the gaang to some of u? let’s think abt it for 2 seconds

okay rant done i have a capri sun now :)

zuko's type is terrorists with good hearts and I think that's beautiful

my loser boy gets his notebook back and immediately gets back to work 🌊