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He was a banished Prince, cursed to hunt the Avatar forever, he was given a ship and a crew, on his endless search for what seemed like an impossible feat.

Later on, he did find the Avatar only to have Commander Zhao try to rob him of his opportunity to get his honor back AND also tried to kill him. His own prince. Who tf does that?

Later, he was declared as a fugitive of the Fire Nation after the loss at the North Pole. He and his uncle, General Iroh, floated on driftwood for 3 weeks with no food and water.

3 weeks? With no food and water??? Can you imagine?

Finally, they hit land, only to be hunted down by his own sister.

It was actually said that Zuko really trimmed down if you compare from Book 1 to Book 2, and yet, all he could think about that day was the anniversary of his banishment.

He had to hunt for his own food and sleep on the dirty, hard ground.

Then, he traveled to Ba Sing Se with his uncle and ended up working at a local tea shop in the Middle Ring of the Earth Kingdom, full of low-middle class citizens.

He was a frickin prince; he was BORN to have people worship him and do whatever he liked; he was destined to be of royalty; to have love and respect wherever he went; He was never meant to be a fugitive. He was meant to have everything served at his feet! And yet he had to carry everything himself, he had to dress up as the Blue Spirit to steal food, he had to work, serving people tea in order to live, when he could have easily bought the whole place with his riches?

If that isn’t humbling, idk what is.

“I’ve been through a lot in the past few years. It’s been hard. But I’m realizing, that I had to go through all those things, to learn the truth.”