And while I’m thinking Zuko thoughts, are there fic out there with Aang coming back…say a decade or so later? (Ignoring the whole comet thing, it’s also late) With the rest of the Gaang in their 20s-30s and Aang as this child that is technically more powerful than any of them but also a child. I would wager than after a decade of banishment Zuko’s loyalty to his father is not what it once was (since Iroh has had all this time to work on it) and Katara has probably invented her own new form of Southern Waterbending. Sokka has probably come up with some absolutely wild village defenses, if he’s not out raiding with his dad, and Toph…well, she’s either run away or has gone complete incognito-noble earthbender, with a full on secret identity.
Katara probably takes one look at this kid and goes “Finally all these Mom Instincts can go somewhere!” Sokka is like “I have to treat this kid as a threat but also: goofball. little brother acquired.”
Zuko (who has at this point almost completely resigned himself to never going home, to always running the narrow line between being part of the fire nation and shunned by it) finally finds the Avatar. He gets partway through the first fight with Aang and finds himself about to launch a fireball at this literal child’s face and he just…can’t do it. He doesn’t understand how his father ever could.
Some realizations are had. Zuko accepts that he’s a traitor, and maybe has been for a long time.
I think Toph’s dynamic with Aang would be basically unchanged. Toph is like that.
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