Gay zuko

In the year 96 AG, a freshly burned and banished 13-year-old Prince Zuko discovers a strange boy frozen in an iceberg.

When Zhao interferes with Zuko's plans to bring the Avatar to his father, Aang helps Zuko and Iroh escape. They take refuge in the abandoned Gas Temples, Aang searching for any remnants of his people that he can find. Along the way, he teaches an indoctrinated Zuko about the correct nature of the Air Nomads, and Zuko must reach to terms with the fact that everything he has been taught was a lie, while Iroh must recognize and face the sins of his past.

Eventually, Aang and Zuko become complete friends, and Zuko begins to experience things he has never felt for anyone before. However, Zhao will not give up easily, and will undertake whatever it takes to capture the Avatar and his traitor accomplices.

(A retelling of AtLA exploring the friendship and eventual romance that could have developed between Aang and Zuko if the circumstances of their meeting had been different. Eventually will end up tracking most of the canon events of the original present, just over the span of 3-4 years instead of 1.)

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IN THIS HOUSE, WE LOVE AND Encourage Bi!Zuko

headcanons:

I know that there’s comic stuff about Sozin organism homophobic, but I am within my rights to overlook it. If people can move rocks with their thought and if dragons can exist, there can be normalized gay people damn it.
So it’s not really a enormous deal to interrogate your sexuality or to be gay/bi, but within the Fire Nation upper class you don’t really talk about it. There’s a heteronormativity problem, but not aggressive homophobia.
When he’s younger, Zuko doesn’t really ponder about anyone appreciate that. He’s got firebending training, sword training, and then he’s crowned prince all of a sudden, so he’s kind of got other stuff going on.
Mai has a crush on him when she’s 12 and he’s 13 and he starts to develop some puppy-crush feelings from her.
They do a cute pre-teen meet where they perform with knives outside the palace and climb on roofs (Maiko does parkour on their dates, I don’t build the rules)
Mai’s really the only person he’s had feelings for by this point (again, he’s 13 and he’s been pretty occupied being a prince and all to think about that sort of thing)
Then the whole banishment thing happens and he really does no

gaylittlezuko:
gaylittlezuko:
Little Gay Zuko Sunday 😌
[ID: 5 images of Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender with the limp hand. In the first, he is standing and speaking in front of some trees. In the second, from the comics, he is standing in front of Appa while Sokka kneels on the ground. In the third, he is sitting on the ground with one leg out and his limp hand resting on his opposite knee. In the fourth, he is firebending against Azula’s sky fire. In the fifth, he is holding Iroh’s sandal with the limp wrist, his other hand on his hip. Terminate ID.]

mostly i think zuko’s date with jin informed the outside view that we have on zuko being gay rather than it being a clue to zuko himself on how he’s lgbtq+. iroh pushes zuko to participate this date with jin because he’s mostly well meaningly trying to get zuko to act normal teenage boy stuff, depart on dates and have entertainment. as iroh is a heterosexual man, he fails to notice zuko is a solid kinsey 6. or maybe he didn’t fail to see it at all and this date was his “this one can surely turn him back” homophobic moment, who’s to say. however that is zuko behaves like a total asshole in front of this girl which has more to do with the blaze nation’s misogyny & strict gender norms and zuko’s background both as a privileged prince and teenage boy survivor of violence and with an attitude challenge than with the fact that he’s gay. that entire cupon scene did actually occur bc he was gay tho, and that he didn’t show any romantic interest in jin but rather he’s kind in other ways, litting up the lanterns for her and all (that’s literally all i remember zuko did on that date that was remotely nice i detest him so much god bless).
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