me, your friendly neighborhood villain apologist: zuko was never evil he was just 16
like yeah i know he gets a bonkers good redemption arc but like. he didn’t actually need one because if you give a teenage boy a ship and tell the people on it to listen to him the least you can expect is some attempted murder. that’s not on him at that point
I’m honestly dumbstruck because I can tell you at 16 if you gave me a ship, a crew, a wise old man, and a mission to kidnap someone I gotta tell you.
I’d be down for it. I’d probably have gone further.
Wait, this originally happened when he was 13 and I’ll tell you that 13 year old me would have committed atrocities.
13yo me would’ve taken the free boat and straight up become a pirate and the fact that Zuko didn’t is really the biggest plot twist in avatar
AU where Zuko just becomes a pirate.
He still sees the light blast and goes to the South Pole but instead of trying to capture aang he rolls up in his free boat like ‘get in losers we’re going to kill my dad’
Yes, this. I like this.
he keeps a turtleduck on his shoulder as a pet and the ships mascot
Man, between Among Us, HLVRAI, and the 17776 sequel, the first convention after it’s safe to be in large groups again is going to look like a young child’s imagining of what NASA looks like. Just all robots, astronauts, and people in lab coats.
a sphinx girl who’s absolute balls at riddles but fucking loves terrible puns
a traveler is blocked by a sphinx suddenly while going along a path. “what do bees brush their hair with?” she asks, and he’s FREAKING OUT, he’s going to get fucking eaten, didn’t the sphinx DIE, oh god what was the riddle, he knows this one oh shit he knows this one what was it, oh fuck, what the fuck
“m…man?”
the sphinx narrows her eyes and bares her teeth a little. oh shit, the traveler thinks, oh shit he’s fucking dead.
the sphinx grins like a goddamn doofus and struggles to hold back laughter as she answers “a honeycomb”
it’s still funny to me that the justification for taking away link’s iconic hat in botw was “to make him look cool.” okay why’d you put him in khakis then
i think the problem is that link is just uncool. you can’t make him cool. its not in his nature. he’s weird. he’s a weirdo. he doesn’t fit in, and he doesn’t WANT to fit in. have you ever seen him without his stupid hat on? that’s weird
