It's enough to make you think that Azula's brains came from Mom, and that Zuko, well. "Hi, Ozai here!"
AHAHA. SO TRUE, MAN. That practically is what he says to Azulon!
Zuko tries! He thinks he has agency! But. Not really. Not really.
Oh, god. The only time, he sometimes thinks, that he's not being told what would be in the Nation's best interests, being instructed in how to address fawning dignitaries or expected to preside for hours over ceremonies, returning to find policies have shifted, that even the court gossip is different - the only time that is his own is the hours he spends sitting on the throne, nervous petitioners making their cases before him. Then he looks down at the wall of flames in front of him. They burn blue at the root.
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AHAHA. SO TRUE, MAN. That practically is what he says to Azulon!
Zuko tries! He thinks he has agency! But. Not really. Not really.
Oh, god. The only time, he sometimes thinks, that he's not being told what would be in the Nation's best interests, being instructed in how to address fawning dignitaries or expected to preside for hours over ceremonies, returning to find policies have shifted, that even the court gossip is different - the only time that is his own is the hours he spends sitting on the throne, nervous petitioners making their cases before him. Then he looks down at the wall of flames in front of him. They burn blue at the root.