Does It Ever Drive You Crazy

does it ever drive you crazy

just how fast the night changes

then I'm gone

This one started as a screencap redraw and then this happened. 

why did no one talk about this?!

Can we just talk about how powerful this scene is? 

There are no words needed. Each panel shows us how their relationship was with each other. Silence often offers us a more powerful understanding than a thousand words ever could. Ursa knew she never showed her daughter how much she loved her. You can see the love and affection on her face for her high strung little girl… as well as regret and worry. Even in the last panel and the way she looks back…she was hesitant. She did not want to leave Azula, knowing how much Ozai influenced her at such a young age…she even chose to see her daughter first before Zuko. Maybe she had planned on saying something to Azula…but the words got lost on her tongue. What could she say? Instead she opted to give her a kiss on her cheek as a sign of love instead, praying she would be safe.

If only Azula knew…

I have a lot of Azula Feels now…excuse me while I go cry in a corner.

For some reason I just realized/noted another thing from Legacy of the Fire Nation book: the way Iroh speaks about Ozai in relation to both fire siblings. When he revealed that sometimes he sees Ozai in Zuko, he says so in a regrettable tone, about what could've been better and wished that was. Meanwhile, when he connected Ozai (and himself) to Azula, he only associated her to the traits he believed to be problematic and should be held accountable.

Furthermore, what he claimed to see in Zuko is surely his own view and opinion BUT what he sees in Azula is what he assumes how Ozai views her too. Iroh doesn't think that Ozai might liked Azula better because of her talent and intelligence but because of the "fury" or whatever that was.

He doesn't see or acknowledge the positive things about Azula and only assumed Ozai liked her better because she mirrors the worst part of himself.

P.S. the first full page here.

@oborofollower7 rq response, that's because it's doesn't matter how long you've known a person it's about how much they've benefited in your life and vise versa I'm responding to this because I've had multiple situations and "friendships" where literally not one of them understood or were even compassionate for me and STILL has a scar on me. also reading vigilantes or looking with your own eyes would show their clear friendship between all FOUR of them.

@ people who think that shirakumo means that aizawa and mic werent close as teenagers, I'd like to remind yall that what we saw was aizawas flashback about who made him the hero he was, shirakumo.

He was probably just as close with mic as he was with shirakumo, but he wasnt reminiscing on the fun times he had with his friends, he was remembering how his friend shaped his life before and after he passed. Of course the flashbacks weren't going to have a lot of mic moments, because the flashbacks werent about him.

They were about shirakumo, first and foremost, and how he continued to affect aizawas life.