Post by Zuko on May 2, 2010 3:22:55 GMT -7
First Name: Zuko
Last Name: n/a
Middle Name: n/a
Age: 18(he was 16 in the series but I'm aging him xD)
Height/Weight: 5"8 maybe?
Eyes: Golden
Hair: Black
Character description/personality: Fire lord Zuko has often shaggy black hair thats clean and shaved with the rest up in a ponytail, a sign of royalty where he comes from. A prominent red burn scar covers her left eye, which are colored golden, from his father. On his lower chest is another scar, this one from his sister after he redirected her lightening.
Personality; While initially the series' primary antagonist, over time, Zuko has shown that he is a complex young man, motivated to restore his honor and dignity, and not an evil character; he eventually forsakes his past goals and becomes a hero. Zuko's sole motivation for many years was catching Aang, so he could return home with honor as his father had proclaimed. Although, as his quest continues, he begins to doubt whether his father will ever welcome him home. However, his mistakes and struggles lead him to realize his destiny was to oppose his father and join the Avatar to help defeat the Fire Lord.
Zuko's bitterness and his personal circumstances make him believe himself victimized. However, he also believes that his struggles have made him a wiser and stronger human being. He is frequently impatient and arrogant. Both of these qualities vanish after his change of alliance. However, even before this change, the episode "Zuko Alone" shows a softer side of him. After his banishment, his experiences with those less fortunate change his mind, making him a kinder and more tolerant person.
His past mistakes still haunt him. Perhaps due to this, he is very intolerant of his own mistakes, expecting the best of himself and others. He also becomes extremely upset when he does not meet his own expectations or when he feels he has jeopardized his honor (something that he claims is the only thing he has left.) However, after he restores his honor by joining the Avatar, he becomes a much happier and laid-back person, although still retains some of his bitter personality at times. Although, he does claim in the Boiling Rock he is "never happy", but he might be exaggerating. His Uncle Iroh felt that Zuko was destined to restore the honor of the Fire Nation as its new Fire Lord, something Zuko took to mean his father would accept him back as crown prince. However, he eventually realizes his father's true character and turns against him to help the Avatar. This shows a desire for peace and for each nation to rule itself, putting him at odds with many members of the Fire Nation elite. Having earned the trust and friendship of Avatar Aang, Zuko is determined to help lead the Fire Nation and the world into an era of peace and kindness.
He is also shown as loving his family and being friendly to certain individuals who earn his trust. These include Iroh, his mother, Mai, and to a slightly less obvious extent; Aang, Toph, Sokka, Katara and Suki. He is deeply protective of those he loves, even going as far to help Katara track down her mother's killer to gain her trust. Although he rarely shows his feelings, he is unusually good at helping and dealing with the issues and problems of others when he is in a relaxed state of mind.
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: Firebender
Powers: Firebending; able to conjure and control fire in battle, and to a lesser extent he can use lightening and block lightening(as evident during his battle with Azula)
Weaknesses:
.injustice
.Mai
.his uncle Iroh
History: Season One
Six years prior to the start of the series, Prince Ozai, Zuko's father, makes a bid for the throne over his elder brother Iroh, due to the latter's having recently lost both his only son and his campaign against the city of Ba Sing Sa. Fire Lord Azulon, Iroh and Ozai's father, is furious that Ozai would try to cheat Iroh at such a low point in his life, and orders Ozai to kill his eldest son in order for him to realize the severity of his action. Ozai, considering Zuko a disappointment, was willing to kill Zuko to appease his father. However, in an effort to protect him, Ursa, Zuko's mother, does "terrible, treasonous and treacherous things" that result in Azulon's death, Ozai's ascension to the throne, and her own banishment.
A few years after, Zuko objects to a plan of attack that would have sacrificed many soldiers as bait, whereupon Ozai challenges his son to an Agni Kai for disrespecting him in his own war chamber. Unwilling to fight his father, Zuko begs forgiveness, only to be savagely burned across the left side of his face. Ozai banishes Zuko from the Fire Nation, ordering him not to return until he finds the Avatar, which was thought an impossible quest. After two years of searching on Zuko's part, Aang emerges from suspended animation, and Zuko begins the chase immediately. They encounter each other multiple times throughout the first season, but Zuko fails to capture Aang or Aang escapes. During Zuko's pursuit, another Fire Nation leader named Admiral Zhao also takes up chasing the Avatar. Zhao views Zuko as a failure and a traitor, and ultimately attempts to have him murdered by pirates. Zuko escapes this attempt on his life and stows away on Zhao's ship during his invasion of the Northern Water Tribe, where Aang is learning Waterbending. At the North Pole, Zuko is still unable to capture the Avatar while Zhao dies after being seized by an ocean spirit. Despite playing the role of antagonist throughout this season, Zuko's kinder side was glimpsed multiple times, such as when he went to great extents to save the life of his uncle, and later the lives of his crew, though he had a chance to pursue the avatar instead.
Season Two
The second season opens with Zuko and Iroh still chasing the Avatar, only to be confronted by Azula, Zuko's sister. They escape and realize they have been branded traitors to the Fire Nation. Now on the run from Azula, Iroh and Zuko travel the Earth Kingdom like ordinary refugees, much to Zuko's frustration. Eventually Zuko splits away from Iroh, feeling he could no longer learn from his uncle. However, Iroh follows Zuko out of concern, and the two reconnect after Azula injures Iroh. Zuko begins his transformation, no longer driven by hunting the Avatar, and is allowed to begin to establish an identity free of pursuit. Their travels take them to Ba Sing Se, where Zuko follows his uncle's advice and tries to make a new life for himself. Both prosper; but when Azula launches her plan to capture Ba Sing Se, Zuko is faced with the opportunity to return home and chooses to side with his sister. After being betrayed by Zuko, Iroh is thrown in jail, and his nephew begins regretting his choice. Zuko has to challenge his sister in order to survive.
Season Three
The final season begins with Zuko and Azula's return to the Fire Nation after conquering Ba Sing Se. Both are praised as heroes by the Fire Nation for capturing Ba Sing Se and for killing the Avatar. Zuko is shocked to discover that his father, who he is now on speaking terms with, believes him to have killed the Avatar. Further inspection reveals that Azula suspects Aang survived her attack, and has transferred the glory to Zuko to protect herself from blame in the event that the Avatar resurfaces.
Zuko begins to visit his uncle often in prison, who eventually tells him that he is the descendent of Avatar Roku and it is his destiny to bring balance to the world. Hearing this, he was distressed because to do this, he would lose the love of his father, the one thing he had worked so hard for. Soon after though, in a war meeting held in preparation for Day of Black Sun, he unintentionally helped Ozai invent a plan by which to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground. His father seemed genuinely half-proud, but because of this Zuko realized that to have the love of his father, he had to be cruel and ruthless, willingly submitting to foul deeds. He realized that this would make his father's love useless, because he would have to sacrifice his own conscience, and what was left of the identity that he'd started to build for himself. Knowing this, that the strongest tie he had to the Fire Nation was pointless, he takes his uncle's earlier advice and begins planning to train the Avatar in firebending.
Soon after this meeting, he fully resolves to help Aang defeat his father. He confronts his father, places himself firmly on the Avatar's side, and leaves, later to discover that Iroh has escaped from prison. Zuko then finds Aang and his friends and expresses his desire to join their team and teach Aang firebending. Although the team rejects him at first, Aang and company gradually come to accept Zuko, and eventually befriend him. When Zuko's lack of a motive (his previous motive being anger and his need to capture the Avatar) weakens his firebending power, he and Aang travel to discover the long-forgotten source of firebending. The people of sun reveal there is a test of worthyness, and ultimately to learn it from their world's last two dragons.
Later, Zuko helps Sokka free Sokka's father, Hakoda, and Sokka's girlfriend Suki, from the Fire Nation's maximum security prison, the Boiling Rock. He also helps Katara find her mother's killer in order to make amends for both his betrayal of her in Ba Sing Se and to attempt to clear up bad feelings towards him due to his nation having been who killed her mother. Through these actions, he earns full trust from the group at last.
During the finale, Aang disappears shortly before Sozin's Comet arrives and Zuko is put in charge of finding him. When Zuko is unable to find Aang, he searches for and finds Iroh, who reveals that he never intended to hold a grudge against Zuko and immediately forgives him for his betrayal. (This confirms Iroh's status as Zuko's true parental figure.) Iroh then tells Zuko that he must face Azula for the crown and Zuko chooses Katara to assist him. At the Fire Nation capital, Azula challenges Zuko to single combat, to which Zuko accepts. During the duel, Zuko clearly has the advantage due to his enduring calm, his ability to redirect lightning, and Azula's deteriorating sanity. In a desperate attempt, Azula attempts to strike Katara down with lightning. Zuko jumps in front of the lightning and, barely able to redirect the energy with his instinctive move, is badly injured. Katara then defeats Azula and heals Zuko. Afterwards, Zuko is crowned Fire Lord. He also makes up with Mai and gets back together with her (on the condition that he never breaks up with her again). Later, Zuko visits his father asking the whereabouts of his mother which brings into question whether or not his mother is still alive. An ending clip shows Zuko in the Jasmine Dragon, in which he is finally happy and at peace with himself.
Canon or Original?: Canon
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Avatar the Legend of Aang(or in the States; The Last Airbender)
Note: Personality and history came from Wiki! Not from me!
Last Name: n/a
Middle Name: n/a
Age: 18(he was 16 in the series but I'm aging him xD)
Height/Weight: 5"8 maybe?
Eyes: Golden
Hair: Black
Character description/personality: Fire lord Zuko has often shaggy black hair thats clean and shaved with the rest up in a ponytail, a sign of royalty where he comes from. A prominent red burn scar covers her left eye, which are colored golden, from his father. On his lower chest is another scar, this one from his sister after he redirected her lightening.
Personality; While initially the series' primary antagonist, over time, Zuko has shown that he is a complex young man, motivated to restore his honor and dignity, and not an evil character; he eventually forsakes his past goals and becomes a hero. Zuko's sole motivation for many years was catching Aang, so he could return home with honor as his father had proclaimed. Although, as his quest continues, he begins to doubt whether his father will ever welcome him home. However, his mistakes and struggles lead him to realize his destiny was to oppose his father and join the Avatar to help defeat the Fire Lord.
Zuko's bitterness and his personal circumstances make him believe himself victimized. However, he also believes that his struggles have made him a wiser and stronger human being. He is frequently impatient and arrogant. Both of these qualities vanish after his change of alliance. However, even before this change, the episode "Zuko Alone" shows a softer side of him. After his banishment, his experiences with those less fortunate change his mind, making him a kinder and more tolerant person.
His past mistakes still haunt him. Perhaps due to this, he is very intolerant of his own mistakes, expecting the best of himself and others. He also becomes extremely upset when he does not meet his own expectations or when he feels he has jeopardized his honor (something that he claims is the only thing he has left.) However, after he restores his honor by joining the Avatar, he becomes a much happier and laid-back person, although still retains some of his bitter personality at times. Although, he does claim in the Boiling Rock he is "never happy", but he might be exaggerating. His Uncle Iroh felt that Zuko was destined to restore the honor of the Fire Nation as its new Fire Lord, something Zuko took to mean his father would accept him back as crown prince. However, he eventually realizes his father's true character and turns against him to help the Avatar. This shows a desire for peace and for each nation to rule itself, putting him at odds with many members of the Fire Nation elite. Having earned the trust and friendship of Avatar Aang, Zuko is determined to help lead the Fire Nation and the world into an era of peace and kindness.
He is also shown as loving his family and being friendly to certain individuals who earn his trust. These include Iroh, his mother, Mai, and to a slightly less obvious extent; Aang, Toph, Sokka, Katara and Suki. He is deeply protective of those he loves, even going as far to help Katara track down her mother's killer to gain her trust. Although he rarely shows his feelings, he is unusually good at helping and dealing with the issues and problems of others when he is in a relaxed state of mind.
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: Firebender
Powers: Firebending; able to conjure and control fire in battle, and to a lesser extent he can use lightening and block lightening(as evident during his battle with Azula)
Weaknesses:
.injustice
.Mai
.his uncle Iroh
History: Season One
Six years prior to the start of the series, Prince Ozai, Zuko's father, makes a bid for the throne over his elder brother Iroh, due to the latter's having recently lost both his only son and his campaign against the city of Ba Sing Sa. Fire Lord Azulon, Iroh and Ozai's father, is furious that Ozai would try to cheat Iroh at such a low point in his life, and orders Ozai to kill his eldest son in order for him to realize the severity of his action. Ozai, considering Zuko a disappointment, was willing to kill Zuko to appease his father. However, in an effort to protect him, Ursa, Zuko's mother, does "terrible, treasonous and treacherous things" that result in Azulon's death, Ozai's ascension to the throne, and her own banishment.
A few years after, Zuko objects to a plan of attack that would have sacrificed many soldiers as bait, whereupon Ozai challenges his son to an Agni Kai for disrespecting him in his own war chamber. Unwilling to fight his father, Zuko begs forgiveness, only to be savagely burned across the left side of his face. Ozai banishes Zuko from the Fire Nation, ordering him not to return until he finds the Avatar, which was thought an impossible quest. After two years of searching on Zuko's part, Aang emerges from suspended animation, and Zuko begins the chase immediately. They encounter each other multiple times throughout the first season, but Zuko fails to capture Aang or Aang escapes. During Zuko's pursuit, another Fire Nation leader named Admiral Zhao also takes up chasing the Avatar. Zhao views Zuko as a failure and a traitor, and ultimately attempts to have him murdered by pirates. Zuko escapes this attempt on his life and stows away on Zhao's ship during his invasion of the Northern Water Tribe, where Aang is learning Waterbending. At the North Pole, Zuko is still unable to capture the Avatar while Zhao dies after being seized by an ocean spirit. Despite playing the role of antagonist throughout this season, Zuko's kinder side was glimpsed multiple times, such as when he went to great extents to save the life of his uncle, and later the lives of his crew, though he had a chance to pursue the avatar instead.
Season Two
The second season opens with Zuko and Iroh still chasing the Avatar, only to be confronted by Azula, Zuko's sister. They escape and realize they have been branded traitors to the Fire Nation. Now on the run from Azula, Iroh and Zuko travel the Earth Kingdom like ordinary refugees, much to Zuko's frustration. Eventually Zuko splits away from Iroh, feeling he could no longer learn from his uncle. However, Iroh follows Zuko out of concern, and the two reconnect after Azula injures Iroh. Zuko begins his transformation, no longer driven by hunting the Avatar, and is allowed to begin to establish an identity free of pursuit. Their travels take them to Ba Sing Se, where Zuko follows his uncle's advice and tries to make a new life for himself. Both prosper; but when Azula launches her plan to capture Ba Sing Se, Zuko is faced with the opportunity to return home and chooses to side with his sister. After being betrayed by Zuko, Iroh is thrown in jail, and his nephew begins regretting his choice. Zuko has to challenge his sister in order to survive.
Season Three
The final season begins with Zuko and Azula's return to the Fire Nation after conquering Ba Sing Se. Both are praised as heroes by the Fire Nation for capturing Ba Sing Se and for killing the Avatar. Zuko is shocked to discover that his father, who he is now on speaking terms with, believes him to have killed the Avatar. Further inspection reveals that Azula suspects Aang survived her attack, and has transferred the glory to Zuko to protect herself from blame in the event that the Avatar resurfaces.
Zuko begins to visit his uncle often in prison, who eventually tells him that he is the descendent of Avatar Roku and it is his destiny to bring balance to the world. Hearing this, he was distressed because to do this, he would lose the love of his father, the one thing he had worked so hard for. Soon after though, in a war meeting held in preparation for Day of Black Sun, he unintentionally helped Ozai invent a plan by which to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground. His father seemed genuinely half-proud, but because of this Zuko realized that to have the love of his father, he had to be cruel and ruthless, willingly submitting to foul deeds. He realized that this would make his father's love useless, because he would have to sacrifice his own conscience, and what was left of the identity that he'd started to build for himself. Knowing this, that the strongest tie he had to the Fire Nation was pointless, he takes his uncle's earlier advice and begins planning to train the Avatar in firebending.
Soon after this meeting, he fully resolves to help Aang defeat his father. He confronts his father, places himself firmly on the Avatar's side, and leaves, later to discover that Iroh has escaped from prison. Zuko then finds Aang and his friends and expresses his desire to join their team and teach Aang firebending. Although the team rejects him at first, Aang and company gradually come to accept Zuko, and eventually befriend him. When Zuko's lack of a motive (his previous motive being anger and his need to capture the Avatar) weakens his firebending power, he and Aang travel to discover the long-forgotten source of firebending. The people of sun reveal there is a test of worthyness, and ultimately to learn it from their world's last two dragons.
Later, Zuko helps Sokka free Sokka's father, Hakoda, and Sokka's girlfriend Suki, from the Fire Nation's maximum security prison, the Boiling Rock. He also helps Katara find her mother's killer in order to make amends for both his betrayal of her in Ba Sing Se and to attempt to clear up bad feelings towards him due to his nation having been who killed her mother. Through these actions, he earns full trust from the group at last.
During the finale, Aang disappears shortly before Sozin's Comet arrives and Zuko is put in charge of finding him. When Zuko is unable to find Aang, he searches for and finds Iroh, who reveals that he never intended to hold a grudge against Zuko and immediately forgives him for his betrayal. (This confirms Iroh's status as Zuko's true parental figure.) Iroh then tells Zuko that he must face Azula for the crown and Zuko chooses Katara to assist him. At the Fire Nation capital, Azula challenges Zuko to single combat, to which Zuko accepts. During the duel, Zuko clearly has the advantage due to his enduring calm, his ability to redirect lightning, and Azula's deteriorating sanity. In a desperate attempt, Azula attempts to strike Katara down with lightning. Zuko jumps in front of the lightning and, barely able to redirect the energy with his instinctive move, is badly injured. Katara then defeats Azula and heals Zuko. Afterwards, Zuko is crowned Fire Lord. He also makes up with Mai and gets back together with her (on the condition that he never breaks up with her again). Later, Zuko visits his father asking the whereabouts of his mother which brings into question whether or not his mother is still alive. An ending clip shows Zuko in the Jasmine Dragon, in which he is finally happy and at peace with himself.
Canon or Original?: Canon
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Avatar the Legend of Aang(or in the States; The Last Airbender)
Note: Personality and history came from Wiki! Not from me!