Iroh knows Lu Ten fell, but whatever clusterfuck went down meant it was impossible to recover the body. He just knows it's there, somewhere by that particular section of wall.
In my head, good people run terrible risks, and some die, to bring Lu Ten back to his father. Iroh is loved and respected and yes, the soldiers stayed through six hundred days of a siege for the glory of the Fire Nation and the Fire Lord, but also because of Iroh and Lu Ten. It's the story of how a father and a son should be, and it ends on a hill, with the Dragon of the West alone, weeping and weeping and weeping.
Although, yeah. Iroh. Not knowing. I could get behind that. And just somewhere out there is Lu Ten's body, and the consolation is that it probably turned into ash anyways because the Fire Nation did retreat, but they also left seven days worth of flame behind them.
However content Iroh is in his tea shop, however much of a life he makes for himself in the Earth Kingdom, he's living half a world away from his surrogate son in the place where Lu Ten died. The scene of the Dragon of the West's greatest defeat. IROH.
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Date: 2010-09-21 08:07 pm (UTC)In my head, good people run terrible risks, and some die, to bring Lu Ten back to his father. Iroh is loved and respected and yes, the soldiers stayed through six hundred days of a siege for the glory of the Fire Nation and the Fire Lord, but also because of Iroh and Lu Ten. It's the story of how a father and a son should be, and it ends on a hill, with the Dragon of the West alone, weeping and weeping and weeping.
Although, yeah. Iroh. Not knowing. I could get behind that. And just somewhere out there is Lu Ten's body, and the consolation is that it probably turned into ash anyways because the Fire Nation did retreat, but they also left seven days worth of flame behind them.
However content Iroh is in his tea shop, however much of a life he makes for himself in the Earth Kingdom, he's living half a world away from his surrogate son in the place where Lu Ten died. The scene of the Dragon of the West's greatest defeat. IROH.
Those scars, man. Those scars run deep.