y’all ever just think about how cool it would be if zuko was the avatar instead? like what if the reason zuko didn’t have that spark BECAUSE he was the avatar. what if during the agni kai he went into the avatar state and his father shipped him off to learn all the elements so+

he could end the avatar cycle for good. and zuko does it and he thinks what he’s doing is for duty and honor and it hasn’t really sunk in that his father’s going to k word him. or none of them would know that zuko’s the avatar (including zuko) and everything happens like in +

canon and zuko and iroh don’t find out that zuko’s the avatar after they’ve traveled for three years searching for...himself. so the go back to the fire nation and ozai wants zuko to go into the avatar state so he can k word him but zuko says he doesn’t know how to so ozai sends+

him off (again) and now his new task is to learn all the elements and master the avatar state (forget i said three years above^^ he learns in like his first year of banishment). on top of that, he has to find the last airbender (aang) so he searches for him for two years until +

katara breaks him out of the iceberg. the rest kinda goes like in canon except aang’s not the avatar. he still betrays katara in ba sing se because azula promises him that he can go back home without learning all the elements and the avatar state. zuko confronts ozai on the DoBS+

he joins the gaang, he learns the elements and sozin’s comet is like over half a year later so zuko has time to prepare. attheendzkiscanon. thank you for reading this thread !! ik it’s kinda scattered so maybe i’ll write one up that’s more organized.