Fairytale Plotting
So I've got Ozai/Maleficent in my head and they need a fairytale.
Ozai goes on whatever sort of trip young princes go on, and gets taken off to Maleficent's castle, where she teaches him the secrets of dragon-skin and makes him one, trying to strip off his humanity and give him a coat of scales and a heart of iron. He leaves or escapes, goes home and weds his betrothed, Ursa.
Maleficent shows up for the naming/whatever ceremonies for their children, with mixed blessings in hand. For Zuko- "He will be strong, and valiant, and he'll need it." Azula- "She will be everything that you want of her."
Meanwhile, Ozai's got a dragon-skin locked away, sort of a Hans-my-Hedgehog/werewolf thing/selkie thing, where it's slowly drawing him away every time he puts it on, whether for need or for joy. Ursa doesn't like this, and there's going to be something along the lines of a May-Margaret in the Ballad of Tam Lin, wherein she has to hold fast to him and/or give him a new shape/cover him with her mantle rather than the dragonskin. Her early attempts to cleanse him of its influence, perhaps by burning it, may be the catalyst for driving Ozai to Maleficent again briefly. Oh, and she gets to kill Maleficent in a swords-n-fire catfight, too.
Ozai goes on whatever sort of trip young princes go on, and gets taken off to Maleficent's castle, where she teaches him the secrets of dragon-skin and makes him one, trying to strip off his humanity and give him a coat of scales and a heart of iron. He leaves or escapes, goes home and weds his betrothed, Ursa.
Maleficent shows up for the naming/whatever ceremonies for their children, with mixed blessings in hand. For Zuko- "He will be strong, and valiant, and he'll need it." Azula- "She will be everything that you want of her."
Meanwhile, Ozai's got a dragon-skin locked away, sort of a Hans-my-Hedgehog/werewolf thing/selkie thing, where it's slowly drawing him away every time he puts it on, whether for need or for joy. Ursa doesn't like this, and there's going to be something along the lines of a May-Margaret in the Ballad of Tam Lin, wherein she has to hold fast to him and/or give him a new shape/cover him with her mantle rather than the dragonskin. Her early attempts to cleanse him of its influence, perhaps by burning it, may be the catalyst for driving Ozai to Maleficent again briefly. Oh, and she gets to kill Maleficent in a swords-n-fire catfight, too.