I need to know more about this Avatar fic and especially about Iroh's lady love!
Oh certainly, anon!
So here’s a WIP of her, because I found an old picture and now I’m re-doing it.
Her name is Heesook and she’s from a noble family in the Earth Kingdom and a member of the Order of the White Lotus. She’s an extremely skilled earthbender and can also utilize an extremely rare and difficult form of earthbending where one bends the minerals inside bone aka bonebending. The idea came about when a friend of mine and I had been brainstorming unique ways bending could be used and thought of an earthbending chiropractor. XD
She met Iroh before he became a general, and the two fell in love and she became pregnant. They both knew that Fire Lord Azulon would have their child murdered if he knew that Heesook was the mother, so Lu Ten grew up never knowing who his mother was. Heesook thought that if Iroh and Lu Ten became the Fire Lord and heir, then there was a chance that they could stop the 100 Year War and help broker peace, a plan she and the other members of the Order of the White Lotus agreed upon.
She was a General as well, and was at the battle of Ba Sing Se. Upon learning that Lu Ten was on the front lines she tried to reach him to “capture him” and keep him safe, but he was killed before she arrived.
For a very long while she was lost to her grief and anger. When she learned that Iroh did not become Fire Lord and did not fight for the title upon his return home she was furious with him; their son was dead, she had sacrificed everything for the chance at peace, and he had let it slip through his fingers without a fight. All of their plans had been for nothing. She shut out her family, resigned as a general, and left to become a hermit in the mountains.
Her anger eventually lessened, and she communicated to Iroh through letters and through other members of the White Lotus, but it was still too painful for her to see him in person.
Finally, after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai, she and Iroh met face to face and reconciled. After Iroh helped Zuko establish his rule, the two quietly retired to a small town in the Earth Kingdom, where they ran a tea shop.
Heesook visited the Fire Nation only once, to visit Lu Ten’s grave.