This can symbolize the shift Zuko will bring to the Fire Nation: re-associating fire with life, with passion, with light.
Metalbending is an entirely new style of earthbending, and it completely changes how people view earth. The-Hot-Zone, put it best:įor Zuko to also be associated with metal is… pretty fitting. In Chinese culture, the season of autumn is represented by the element of Metal. Which makes sense, since Zuko’s reign is defined by the dismantling of the Fire Nation empire the branches of their imperialism withering away. It’s all so very dramatic and pathetic and reeking of insecurity.Īnd if Azulon is spring, and Ozai is summer, then Zuko is autumn. Fire Lord, the most Fire Lord man to ever Fire Lord, coming through. He knows he isn’t a dragon like Azulon or Iroh, so he decides he’ll be be even better than that: A phoenix! The ruler of summer! He’s the embodiment of fire-Yup, Mr. Ozai has been Fire Lord for 5 years already and he’s still obsessed with proving that he deserves the throne. When Ozai declares himself “Phoenix”, he is basically calling himself the “natural” successor to the Azure Dragon. The Azure Dragon is associated with spring. The name of Ozai’s father is Azulon, which I mentioned in an earlier post means “Azure Dragon”. We all could’ve figured that out without the cultural context, but it goes much so much deeper. So, essentially, Ozai is declaring himself the king of fire and summer and Sozin’s Comet and all things Fire Nation-y. The Vermilion Bird also represents fire and the season of summer, the two most defining attributes of Sozin’s Comet. The Vermillion Bird is a mythological bird that is portrayed as bright red and perpetually on fire, basically the closest equivalent to a phoenix in Chinese culture. The “phoenix” that Ozai is referring to is the “Vermilion Bird” or Zhūquè ( 朱雀). However, once I realized what the phoenix in Avatar actually was, it all clicked.
FIRELORDS THE AVATAR SERIES
You know how in the series finale Ozai declares himself the Phoenix King? I’ve always found that odd, since dragon seems to be the prestige animal of the Fire Nation. Avatar Zuko.The Cycle of the Fire Lords AKA Generational Daddy Issues The banished prince, The royal firebender. Many believe that the cycle has ended, others believe that there was no Avatar.Ī new one would rise from the unlikeliest place possible, from the throne room of the firelord himself. and Zuko receives a letter from Iroh, they each learn about the relationship between Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin. Now the world has all but lost hope as a new Avatar has yet to be discovered anywhere in the world. On the battlefield, the firelord himself slew the avatar in vicious combat. The earth kingdom has been sacked for decades by an onslaught of firebenders. The southern water tribe had all of its benders taken and killed, along with the avatar of water. The airbenders were all wiped out and so went the air nomad avatar. With the disappearance of the avatar after the death of Avatar Roku, the world watched in horror as 3 more fell after him. This simple question throws the entire Avatar world for a spin. We all know and love the story of Avatar the last Airbender, but what if things were a little different?
0 kommentar(er)
