What went so wrong with their relationship?
Beats meGuess Mei was just an unhappy cunt
The comics
>>153995082Almos the entire crew of comic writers shipped zutaraThey couldnt break up aang and katara so they divorced mai and zuko instead
>>153995082I've also wondered the same. I don't care about comics and shit, in the cartoon they seemed fine, I don't see why it didn't work out.Did a little research, and it looks like it was some bs about Zuko going out in secret to consult his father for advice regarding politics, and she felt betrayed by that for some reason. What a lame reason.
His heart belonged to another
>>153995082What went wrong is obviously the entire 3rd act where Mai and Ty Lee disappear from Azula's arc.
>>153995082As always, the comics were a mistake
The comic writer said he broke Zuko and Mai so he could have ship teasing in the comic, and decided to do it with Suki, totally ignoring Sokka's existence.
>>153995082I saw a post somewhere that went into how Mei is basically the exact archetype of what Zuko needs to overcome to be the good person he truly is.Mei is a pretty heartless bitch who doesn't care about family or the war or really anything. She is a good example of Fire Nation privilege and apathy. So Zuko, who always truly cares about things, just wouldn't work with Mei.
>>153997351Well who would be his type?A child soldier with severe daddy issues who struggled with proving themselves until eventually having a redemption arc in their mid to late teens?Do you have any idea how absurdly specific that is? There's not a girl on the planet who meets those criteria.
>>153996358Ship-teasing Toph rather than Zuko would have been a way better choice. Toph is the only member of the crew who is single at the end of the series and people want to see who Lin and Suyin's dads are.[Spoiler]Zuko is Lin's dad.[/spoiler]
>>153997351Mai being a moody goth girl isn't bad. She even rebels against Azula. The problem is that Mai is boring and paired with the most popular male in the franchise. The only thing Zuko would have to overcome is being with a girl he has no chemistry with.
>>153995082The writer of the comics was a Zuki shipper and manufactured his desires in a contrived way.
>>153996358Wait, seriously? In the comics Zuko has ship tease with Suki?
>>153997855Passionate + Deadpan is a terrible combination.
>>153995082The comic writers are retards that needed artificial drama because they think drama=good storytelling
>>153997933What is a good pairing for a deadpan character, then? A Genki one?
I ship Zuko with Toph and Mai with Aang anyway.
>>153998881other deadpanstoicshy and quietgothIt's all math.positive * positive = positivenegative * negative = positivepositive * negative = negative
>>153997789based>>153997899Yeah, it was kind of out of nowhere. The reactions to it was pretty fucking funny though.
>>153997651You are describing Sokka
>>153998928My nigga
>>153995082toph was better
>>153995082>What went so wrong with their relationship?the show choosing to make them a thing in the last season, but never putting in the work to make the dynamic anything but an afterthought. the comics are largely a consequence of this.
>>153995082who cares it was never a good relationship
>>153995082His daughter is named after a fountain or something so in all likelihood they got back together. The recent movie just showed that the comic lore can and will be replaced by new material at will, while simultaneously being canon like Toph’s students.
>>153998928
You can tell how this place went total shit when nobody post firecest anymore
>>154001430cry about it incestfag
>>154001365Izumi isn't japanese for 'fountain', but of course most atlafags are dumb enough to think the larping kike creators were being clever here with that name.
>>154001430incest is disgusting you degenerate kinkfag
>Zuko got heartbroken and CUCΚED, he now sits in the cuck throne cause that's what a good fire lord does>Ozai became non-bender and lost it all>Iroh had to bow down and apologize to the bounty hunter with the mole and had to swear, like a humiliation ritual, that he'll never again joke around young women like a perv, for this ritual he became the truly good feminist wholesome old man and ascended to ghibli realm where everything's wholesome and free of patriarchal oppression >Mako lost his "fame and riches" ambitions, his hairstyle, his first gf, his scarf, his second gf (lost them both so bad they turned lesbo), his cool detective job and became le good bodyguard npc that'll always be there for the lesbos if they need helpCan you name a single firebender male who got a good end? I don't think so
>>154001641Jeong Jeong probably got to fuck off into the woods after feeing Ba Sing Se or whatever.
Zuko brought the Kiyoshi warriors in to be his harem.He's doing alright. Mai was kind of shit anyways. She always had that ugly face and stupid haircut. not to mention she always jobbed. Zuko's better off without her.
>>154001641out of all the firebenders Mako was the biggest example and a definition of a humiliation ritual he could never catch a break.
>>154002321Mai is an accurate representation of an Asian woman, and losing in fights is only fair when she’s facing benders and adults all the time.
>>154002553Zuko, Jet, and those archers all showed that beating benders with weapons can be done.The southern water tribe was literally fighting a war against the fire nation without any water benders. The liberation of the air temple was mostly nonbenders.Really Mai is the only one who's jobbing. Even Ty Lee does better and she's completely unarmed.
