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“It’s not a plan,” he emphasizes again. “It’s never been -- I mean . . . It’s just a thought. Something to . . . I don’t know, entertain myself, I guess.”
They both know what this is about now. There’s no pretending it’s something else. Still, Sokka can’t help how his eyes widen and his tone comes out incredulous. As much as he wants to be calm and supportive, he almost can’t believe what he’s hearing.
In the silence that follows, Sokka stares up at the clear sky and swears on Tui and La both -- and Yue, fuck it, as blasphemous as it feels -- that Zuko is gonna get therapy after all this, even if Sokka has to drag him there himself.
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Or: Zuko has a lot of demons and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Sokka stumbles across him and decides he's going to help.
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Aang and Zuko bond while on a tour around the Western Air Temple. Featuring two animal lovers, fruit pies and lullabies.
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Mai still gave it all up to save Zuko... but Ty Lee was just a little too slow to save her, and she's going to have to live with the consequences.
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- Part 21 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Zuko spent three years yearning for these halls. Maybe he had forgotten how oppressive they had felt. He’d realized, eventually, that he had been willing to forget a lot about life at the palace when he was banished. He hadn’t even realized that he’d been playing memories of his mother when he allowed himself to miss home. He hadn’t realized that he’d been missing a home that no longer existed.
A year after the end of the 100 Year War, Zuko is still struggling to cope with his past. The stress of being Fire Lord weighs heavily on him until he reaches a breaking point and realizes that he can't heal the world while his own wounds are still bleeding.
(or, my take on the Search, because I really do not care for the comics.)
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[Zuko wonders if he’s doing things out of order. He’s done it before, while getting his motivations and life goals in order, completely muddling up the steps in between and generally making a mess before actually committing to the right (or best) choice. He wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what he did, again. This time, though, it doesn’t feel like he’s doing things out of order – not that he has any frame of reference, but he’s happy so it probably shouldn’t matter, right?
He has to admit, though, Jin’s the one who says it best when he visits Uncle in Ba Sing Se with a baby in his arms:
“And what sort of sequence of events in your so-called life-changing field trip leads you to adopting a child?”]
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Or, the one where Zuko tries to play matchmaker and accidentally adopts a child along the way.
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- Part 4 of Blow Us All Away