This Scene Hits Different Now

This scene hits different now

My personal head canon is that Ilah and Azulon had several children in the 10-15 years between Iroh and Ozai. They just didn’t live past infancy or toddler age for one reason or another. Not to mention the numerous still births and miscarriages. Which is why they put their all into Iroh.

It probably took a toll on Ilah and her marriage. So when she was pregnant with Ozai it was probably nerve wracking for her, but he was born healthy and lived past infancy. I’m between whether his birth killed her or she died not too long after he was born though.

We need more information on this woman and I hate how the series disregards the women of this family.

Thought about this cause iroh looks around 60 while I'd put ozai at 45-48, and they dont have any siblings in between them and they dont have different mother's. Did azulon wait 10yra to try for another baby?

I do wonder if abuse is a strong word, and I think that’s what I keep coming back to. Idk if it’s abuse, and I don’t believe Ursa did it intentionally. The word abuse gets thrown around so flagrantly that anything and everything is abusive behavior. It’s a larger conversation of the dynamics in a family run by a narcissist.

What bothers me more is that the narrative doesn’t call out Ursa for failing her daughter. Or she doesn’t recognize how she wronged Azula and instead places the blame on the child and not the adults who failed her.

I do think Ursa has her own issues that caused her to coddle Zuko and ignore Azula (at least that’s how I write her). In all honesty, the comics with Ursa are a mess and I take them with a grain of salt.

Please reblog for larger sample size, I'd particularly like to see what people outside my circle think. Also @atla-polls if you'd be kind enough to reblog, I'd appreciate it.

Zhaozai vibe ngl—

please listen to this it is destroying me its so funny

— Arthur Miller, The Crucible