idk I just don't know

He’s alone in the Earth Kingdom. Barely able to stand with his mind fuzzy from trying to recover and fight off infection at the same time.

He’s so out of it that he barely even notices when he collapses. In his mind’s eye, he’s still moving because he can’t afford to waste a moment. Get healed. Find the Avatar. Go home. He has to.

He couldn’t hear anything other than soft muffles. Gentle hands prodding and examining him. He could feel something soft underneath his head and he realized that there wasn’t dirt in his mouth anymore. Someone had placed him on his back on some soft surface. Not as soft as his bed in his room, so he must’ve messed up during training and lost his bed privileges again.

The smell of flowers. 

He wonders who it is. Father hated flowers, called them frivolous nonsense that would stop themselves from catching on fire if they were worth anything. Azula only liked flowers when they were in the oils the servants put in her hair. Aside from that, she only liked them for target practice.

Only one person smelled like flowers in the palace and that was- 

“Mom?”

The soft hands stroking his hair jerked back and he let out a soft whine. Apologies fell out of his mouth. He’s sorry, he didn’t mean to mess up. He’ll practice his tsungi horn, he’ll play along with Azula’s games. Just please don’t leave again, Mom.

The soft hands returns and an unconcious soft noise left his lips. He would be good so that Mom would stay this time. 

“That’s it, sweetheart. Get some rest.”

“Lily? Did he wake up?”

“Shh, Chong, you’ll wake him. Get some more hot water for me?”

–

Like we all know that Gyatso was already planning on not letting the monks take Aang away from him. Maybe when he sees Aang preparing to run away, with a storm brewing on the horizon, he goes with him.

They get frozen together and Sokka and Katara are really confused because what could possibly have happened to this 12 year old and old man to get them frozen in an iceberg?

Everyone will think Gyatso is the Avatar and he’s pretty okay with letting them believe that. 

Partially because Aang is still young and needs to be trained, partially because this is the same guy who baked fruit pies just to throw at other monks. Of course he’s gonna love being able to mess with people every time they go somewhere new.

We can tell from the room they found Gyatso’s skeleton that he was able to take out tons of firebenders, powered by Sozin’s comet. So obviously Gyatso can kick ass and take names. So how does Zuko trying to capture the Gaang work?

The real question is if Gyatso thinks he should properly fight this teenager.

And the answer is probably not. 

idk how well the Order of the White Lotus keeps track of past members (it might be implied Gyatso was part of it because in a flashback he is seen using the white lotus tile), but let’s say that after Zuko takes Gyatso from the Southern Water Tribe, Iroh keeps an eye on their prisoner and invites him to a friendly game of pai sho. 

While they play, Iroh talks of the task that his nephew needs to complete before he’s allowed to go home. Of what’s been happening in the world, the changes in the fire nation since the war has started.

Gyatso thinks about his son in all but blood, the child that he tried to give a happy childhood before being thrown into a war, and considers the angry grieving child who put him in chains to try and win a father’s non-existent love.

It’s a good thing that the air nomads were used to communally raising their children because Gyatso now wants to share custody of Zuko with Iroh. 

Just Gyatso trying to parent Book 1 Zuko from the sidelines while Zuko is trying to capture him. Calmly telling him of airbending philosophies and stories while Zuko is wildly throwing fire at him. Lecturing him on the importance of various nutrients that vegetables give a growing bender’s body while Zuko is screaming at him.

Zhao: *Threatens Aang, tries to kill the rest of the gaang*

Like we all know that Gyatso was already planning on not letting the monks take Aang away from him. Maybe when he sees Aang preparing to run away, with a storm brewing on the horizon, he goes with him.

They get frozen together and Sokka and Katara are really confused because what could possibly have happened to this 12 year old and old man to get them frozen in an iceberg?

Everyone will think Gyatso is the Avatar and he’s pretty okay with letting them believe that. 

Partially because Aang is still young and needs to be trained, partially because this is the same guy who baked fruit pies just to throw at other monks. Of course he’s gonna love being able to mess with people every time they go somewhere new.

We can tell from the room they found Gyatso’s skeleton that he was able to take out tons of firebenders, powered by Sozin’s comet. So obviously Gyatso can kick ass and take names. So how does Zuko trying to capture the Gaang work?

The real question is if Gyatso thinks he should properly fight this teenager.

And the answer is probably not. 

idk how well the Order of the White Lotus keeps track of past members (it might be implied Gyatso was part of it because in a flashback he is seen using the white lotus tile), but let’s say that after Zuko takes Gyatso from the Southern Water Tribe, Iroh keeps an eye on their prisoner and invites him to a friendly game of pai sho. 

While they play, Iroh talks of the task that his nephew needs to complete before he’s allowed to go home. Of what’s been happening in the world, the changes in the fire nation since the war has started.

Gyatso thinks about his son in all but blood, the child that he tried to give a happy childhood before being thrown into a war, and considers the angry grieving child who put him in chains to try and win a father’s non-existent love.

It’s a good thing that the air nomads were used to communally raising their children because Gyatso now wants to share custody of Zuko with Iroh. 

Just Gyatso trying to parent Book 1 Zuko from the sidelines while Zuko is trying to capture him. Calmly telling him of airbending philosophies and stories while Zuko is wildly throwing fire at him. Lecturing him on the importance of various nutrients that vegetables give a growing bender’s body while Zuko is screaming at him.

Grace is programmed to care for her children and to obey Reginald Hargreeves, but every day they spend in that house she can see them slowly breaking. 

She is programmed to believe that their training is meant for the children’s benefit. They have powers, they must learn to control them or risk hurting themselves and each other.  Her protection sensor keeps going off around her children, cataloging symptoms of abuse but what can she do when she has no power to protect them?

Luther’s love and loyalty becoming warped against his siblings and all she can do is watch as his father but I’m his mother that has to mean something tries to mold her boy into a puppet drill sergeant speaking Mr. Hargreeves’ abuse orders to his siblings. 

She doesn’t like to think is she allowed to even think? To question what he does to lights of her life? Her reasons for existing? about what he does to her Diego. 

The special training that makes Allison lock herself away in her room, quietly sobbing and refusing to speak no matter how much Grace asks to be let in to comfort her. Her daughter is wonderful and loud and headstrong and Grace loves her for it even though she knows Mr. Hargreeves wishes to destroy the fire in her daughter for more control over those qualities.

The mausoleum trips that cause Klaus to scream for weeks afterwards. If she could get away with it, she would tear down that place with her own hands. Anything to make sure her son would never have to go there again. She tried to stay with him once, support him and ease his terror as he shook through his nightmares. But Mr. Hargreeves is not a man that allows comfort in his home no matter how much she tries to explain that it’s good for the childrens’ not his children never his they are my children health.

Five’s rare smiles becoming more rare and less genuine. Her proud and brilliant son chafing under the shackles, metaphorical and literal, placed on him. He’s a smart boy, finding his ways around the rules and she wonders if it’s terror that she feels when he insists on time travel.

Ben, her sweet Ben, coming home after missions, covered in blood after being forced to use his power. Hours spent sobbing as he clutches his stomach and her skirt, terrified of one day not being able to control the Horror.

Gentle, soft Vanya retreating into herself as he isolates her from her siblings encourages her to focus on her music studies and nothing Grace can do to bridge that gap because it’s what Mr. Hargreeves demands. Nothing she can do to repair her daughter’s self-esteem while he hammers in that she is nothing, useless.

They are her children and she is their mother. She was built to care for her children and obey Mr. Hargreeves. She cannot do both and without question she chooses her children. They are heroes to everyone else, but they need her to rescue them from the monster they are forced to call a father.

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