ATLA: The Search Part Three

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"In 2008, I watched the very last episode of Avatar:The Last Airbender with the eagerness of a true fan. Zuko asks Ozai what happened to his mom... and then the screen cuts. I yelled curse words at my TV.

Three years later,I'm working with Mike Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko on the story that explains what happened to Zuko's mom.

Sometime, life is weird. Weird in a good way"

Gene Yang


(24 pages out of 72)
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But the fight is interrupted by the arrival of the Mother of Faces.
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In the present Zuko is willing to let Misu ask the spirit to heal her brother when...
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Azula runs off to Norens house with, Zuko and Sokka going after her. The others stay behind to try coax the spirit back.

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He went to Forgetful Valley to try and escape his past,eventually meeting the Mother of Faces. He was able to get a new face and identity. He thinks they should try the same with Ursa, so they can be together again.

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Aang tries to get the Mother of Faces to come back and help them.

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She summons the forest's creatures to drive them away.

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Finally the Mother of Faces appears.

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Zuko and Sokka reach Noren's house. They seem to have made it there before Azula. Zuko goes inside to be with his family, while Sokka keeps watch.

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Back at the forest, the group are fighting off the animals.

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Suddenly their interrupted by sounds on the roof, when suddenly it breaks with Sokka and Azula falling into the house.


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Sokka is able to get Noren and Kiyi to safety while Zuko and Azula fight.

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With that Azula flees, dropping Ursa's letter.

Then the Mother of Faces appears. She offers to return Ursa's face and memories to her. Zuko tells her she doesn't have to, and she shouldn't leave her life here. Still Ursa accepts.

The next day. Azula has escaped, Team Avatar wonders if she left the letter behind deliberately or accidentally.

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Ursa admits that the letter is a lie.

She wrote it to see if to see if Ozai was monitoring her letters, and as a bit of wishful thinking on her part. Ozai was never fooled and chides her for think he'd believe such an obvious lie (they don't say it outright as its a kid comic, but the reason is that Ursa was a virgin when she married Ozai).

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Ursa always wanted to tell her children about her life, but was never able to before now.
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The closing dialogue loops into the opening narration, as we learn that the flashbacks were Ursa explaining her past to Zuko.