Yes, Zukos Hair Development Is Great, But Lets Take A Second To Appreciate Irohs Hair/beard Development

Yes, Zuko’s hair development is great, but let’s take a second to appreciate Iroh’s hair/beard development as well.

All of season one, same style. Clean and pointy in the front, half up in the top-knot, the rest loose. traditional Fire nation military style.

Immediately post-exile, obviously he’s homeless, so no equipment to shave.

Just let’s it go wild, cause, ya know, what choice does he have?

Once they get into Ba Sing Se, he does seem to at least be styling and brushing, making it much more presentable, but still no trimming it seems like.

Once they get into the upper ring and are doing pretty well for themselves, Iroh starts styling his beard as well as wearing his hair in an earth kingdom-typical braid.

He does seem to start trimming and reshaping in the tail end of season two, though this could simply be due to animation inconsistency.

Prison era, back to unkempt, but this time is on purpose. Gotta put on peak crazy old man performance of course.

Now this is what I find interesting. He’s with his gang, Iroh and the old guys. He is going full traitor mode, actively fighting against the Fire Nation instead of being complacent or sidedly resigned, and what does he decide to do? Shave it back to the proper military cut. His lineage proudly on display, despite actively defying that lineage. Here, I believe Iroh is wearing this cut, not for the current, corrupted Fire nation, but for its future, and the nation he hopes it will become under Zuko’s rule. ‘I am Fire nation, and I will fight to return my country to is former glory.’

It could also be for the people of Ba Sing Se, saying ‘I am the man who laid siege to your city, and I am not hiding that fact. I am here again, now, to liberate it, and make up for my past misdeeds.’

It may also be for the occupying military members already there, as a sort of final ‘fuck you’ to the military he once served. ‘Look at me, the great dragon of the west, I’m a trendsetter when it comes to attacking this city, and I am also the trend-killer. I’m going to kill you now.’

After the events of the show, he seems to maintain it in such a way that keeps the pointy-ness of the traditional cut, while also blending it with the softer ‘T’ shape that he styled it to when he first entered the upper ring. We can only assume that he kept it more or less this way for the rest of life, and finally let it exist in its full ‘wise old man w/sagely long white beard’ Gandalf style when he departed to the spirit world. Zuko in his old age also wears his beard in a similar, albeit much shorter, soft ‘T’ shape that Iroh always favored.

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the reason why izumi is an only child

pov: the jasmine dragon, ba-sing-se, like 15 years post atla

izumi, aged 5, cutely sipping at a cup of tea: papa, why don’t i have any siblings? i’d love a little baby brother or sister! it’d be fun!!!!

iroh and zuko:

tengen gets fed up and calls out the hashira

Can you do an art of teenage Azula and Zuko in some fancy outfits doing mirror selfies together?

Of course!! I actually made a drawing for this request before I just struggled so much with zuko so this took 3 tries I hope you like it!

Plus the picture Azula actually took:

ah christ it's bongo oh no bongo they got you