Another Quick Fire Fam Parallel
Iroh: Constantly traveled the world on a violent, aggressive mission for glory, leaving his younger sibling behind to be vulnerable to his harsh, high standard father.
Zuko: Constantly traveled the world on a violent, aggressive mission for glory, leaving his younger sibling behind to be vulnerable to his harsh, high standard father.
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Zuko was forcefully pushed out, but the effects on himself and Azula were almost the same in their awfulness as they were on Iroh and Ozai.
Iroh has admitted before that Zuko reminds him of Ozai, I believe in-show and outside it. Iroh didn’t just turn Zuko into his ‘new and improved’ son, he also wanted to ‘undo’ his mistakes with his own sibling through Zuko. Of course he actually only continued the hex of violence and familial/self-destruction by pinning brother against sister, just as much if not more than Ozai did.
Zuko and Azula can be the end of not just Fire Imperialism, but Fire Royal Family Animosity. However, both of them need to realize this first. Azula already began to in-series (before being given evidence that being nice was futile), so when do you think Zuko will? Assuming he’s a changed boy/man by the end?
