Embers Zuko And Maybe Azula Too If That’s Okay, In Modern (for The Ask Thing If You’re Still Doing

zuko: sorry for sending that assassin

sokka: you’re the one who sent combustion man?!?!?!

zuko:

zuko: thats not his name 🤨

Good ol’ amnesia fic. Joel wakes up from a bad concussion and doesn’t remember Ellie. He initially feels apathy vs mild hostility bc how dare his past self think he could replace Sarah with any random fourteen-year-old girl? But something hits him deep in his gut when he catches a clearly upset Ellie with a bag of her stuff trying to sneak past him down the stairs. growls at her that there’s no need for her to move out. Softens his voice a little as he offers to move out, if that would make her more comfortable.

Tommy comforting her, arms around her shoulders as she clings to his chest and sobs

gah this would be sooo hard for Ellie. She will deserve so many cuddles once Joel comes to his senses

Fire Lord Zuko Headcanons

The servants are just so terrified by him at the beginning?? Because here is this obviously powerful fire bender, the avatars fire bending teacher, and their fire lord and he is literally the most unpredictable person ever in their eyes

Every other fire lord was at least a little predictable bc staff knew what fire lords and fire nation royalty acted like but here is this guy over here who never yells at them?? Who never hurts them?? Who never banishes or fires them??

The first time they ever saw him angry/disappointed at staff was when he was telling the cooks to never make roast turtleduckling ever again he doesn’t care how tender they are thank you very much

When he has to deal with a particularly condescending or war mongering general or politician that day, he’ll sneak off to the kitchens and just make rage tea

If someone doesn’t remind him to eat he just forgets?? So the Head Cook, a woman everyone can agree on is the meanest, toughest, strictest person around, sends food to him every few hours no matter how many times he’s told her in person she doesn’t need to

Zuko will just casually let slip some really horrifying fact and the staf will just be very disturbed bc your grANDFATHER ORDERED YOUR DEATH

“Oh yeah, but my mom killed him so it’s okay”

*distressed noises from background staff*

They are slowly beginning to piece together everything that happened to their fire lord during his exile using their combined knowledge from off hand comments they heard Zuko make

my favorite ship dynamic is betrayal. not when they betray each other but when one or both of them turn against their cause, their principles and/or loved ones for the other. bonus points if the person they're abandoning everything for didn't remotely expect it. ultimate declaration of love. "you mean more to me than everything i ever believed in. i am more loyal to you than my conscience. i love you more than the thing i would die for."

i have. such a soft spot. for the idea of dyslexic ellie. 

kiddo who tried SO FUCKING HARD in school but like. even in modern non-apocalyptic day it’s an issue, and it’s a government orphanage. there are just. not accomodations. 

ellie who has grown up fucking struggling and not really knowing why and just feeling like she’s not as smart as everyone else. and having teachers who just. are not paid enough to either notice or take steps to help her. one of the reasons she LOVES her pun book so much is that it’s split up into easy-to-read little chunks, so she doesn’t struggle as much as she does with books with big paragraphs and a lot of text together. 

also dyslexia can cause problems with orientation/navigation/directions (if i’ve mispoken on this, please do correct me! i’m speaking from having a roommate with dyslexia and googling), which also makes her frustration with the map in the kansas city episode hurt. bb is trying SO FUCKING HARD and her brain literally just CANNOT. and now there’s an adult getting frustrated and irritated with her and boy isn’t THAT familiar. 

and she’s SO fucking nervous about starting school in jackson bc she has such a good thing with joel, but she knows how school is gonna go. she’s gonna go, the teacher will realize she’s stupid, then they’ll tell joel, then joel will know she’s stupid. she pitches a FIT not wanting to go but ends up going anyway bc it’s a hard line for joel. 

and she goes in expecting to get made fun of or written off like fedra and instead her teacher takes her aside after class and gives her a WORD?? for what her brain does?? it’s not?? just her?? and she’s still SO fucking nervous to tell joel later bc great one more way she’s a problem for him to solve. 

and instead joel just fucking goes to talk to her teacher and helps her do some research in the library to find accomodations for her?? what?? joel sitting down with her for her to practice reading with? and not even? getting frustrated with her? 

lil bean just FINALLY getting the acceptance and support she needs to thrive 

i’ve been waiting for you

All 12. I just need time to do the actual calendar bit but it’s almost done and will be up on my ko-fi shop as soon as I’m done.

This is Zuko's first sword fighting lesson, change my mind!

Aka tiny "let me be good at something Azula isn't" Zuzu making his Mom proud and driving Master Piandao crazy.

happy pride :) 

All of the Jackson parents being super jealous of Joel because his kid actually seems to LIKE him and will like walk with him and sit next to him and go in for hugs and stuff