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love how we only see the fire lord's face when he 'forgives' zuko and stops considering a failure. like, the instant he becomes reachable to his son he becomes available to us as an audience too

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Zuko never wanted to be bad. He was always chasing honor. He just got the definition of that from an evil person he was born trusting like every child does. He was dressed up as a soldier, made to be the villain. He became adept at killing while horrible at conversation or social cues. And it took everyone around him, enemies and heroes the longest time to realize they were looking at a kid. Only Iroh always saw him that way. Zuko always wanted to be good. He just had to choose between being good and his father's love. Iroh lost both his sons in Ba Sing Se, but one of his little soldier boys came marching home. The fact that he actually lost his son gets lost a little since we see him with Zuko. But it's hard to imagine that he lost a boy he loved like Zuko before. Wow. What an unbelievable amount of pain he felt. And he still has the courage to do it all again, raising another child.

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I love them so much. 💖

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The song Eternity is about a child morning their parent, but with this immortal elf and human child, all I can think about is how someday Fern will be an old lady while Frieren looks the same. 😭😭 Eisen and Heiter must have been so impacted by Frieren crying at Himmel's funeral to send their children her way years later when they needed a mentor because they knew that while naturally Frieren journeyed alone, she needed a party more than she knew.

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Zuko's journey begins in the exact opposite of where it will end. Ironic since he believes he's at the end of his long and painful exile when he finds Aang in the first episode. Years spent obsessing over his enemy, only to find that his journey was just beginning that day. Starting when he found the boy enemy who would grow to become his best friend. Desperate for his abusive father's love, he even thinks of getting him a gift. He believes his arc will end as a beloved son. That earning his approval is the only way his story can go. What child doesn't think thay way? A parent's love is a given. What else could a child want more? Many child victims have to come to terms with the fact that what they want is the exact opposite of what they need. Iroh is what he needs even if Zuko hasn't grown to want him the way he wants his own father yet. But we can see glimmers of it when Zuko takes comfort from Iroh, scared and needing love even while he's scared of the father he wants so badly. Iroh knows what he needs & will wait for him to realize it for as long as Zuko needs him to. His microexpression when Iroh called him honorable shows how much Iroh's approval really means to him. 3 years isn't enough for Zuko to stop wanting his father's love, but his heart grows fonder of the new father he's finding. Iroh tried to keep Zuko out of the Fire Nation, not only to protect him from the soldiers but also from his abusive brother. He feared not just his brother rejecting Zuko but also his influence on Zuko if he DID welcome him home. Even though Zuko is this hyped up, intimidating villain to the world, to Iroh, he never stops being a sullen, fatherless little kid who needs to be shown what love is. It takes Zuko so long to fully turn because the light is blinding when you've lived alone in the darkness for so many years. Besides that, he doesn't want his pain to have been useless. If he suffered for years to earn his father's love. If he switches sides, then he accepts he was never going to win that love. The price of healing and being good is recognizing that his father hates him.

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I love how opposites and enemies to besties they are!

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My thoughts on Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search parts 1 through 3! Spoilers ahead!

Azulon intentionally sought out Avatar Roku's descendants to force into his bloodline... what a horrifying concept that Aang didn't even know to fear. The safety of his children from other lives was taken away because of his power. That poor girl was forced to wed such an evil, disgusting man for his own power. Poor Zuko loved his father, having no idea how much of a slave his mother was. She always kept her true love's play masks... For his secret mission, Zuko wore the mask of the man who might have been a kinder father to him in a happier life. A better mask to wear than the one his father etched permanently onto his face.

Iroh, being so happy to see his lonely, broken-hearted little boy finally have friends, was so nice to see! It was so odd and wonderful to see the royal Fire Nation family love and trust each other. Iroh instantly letting the power go to his head and making a National Tea Appreciation Day as the temporary Fire Lord was so perfectly in character. I absolutely loved learning what a theater nerd Zuko is like his mom, lol.

Zuko is such a little sweetheart, bringing tea to his sister and father. Even after they blasted him with deadly lightning and melted half of his face, he still loves them both. Azula peaking her out from curtains to stare at people like an evil freak was honestly hilarious. Zuko has all the angst and emotions in the world over being a monster's child. She embraces it like a boss. No matter how cool and competent and truly, deeply insane she acts, Zuko is always trying to protect her the way he couldn't as a child. But Zuko isn't sure how. So he studies how Sokka acts like a good brother, trying to learn normal human behaviors to emulate for Azula.