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And the Sams are just....✨

I will /definitely/ be addressing the whole "the Fire Nation thinks he's monster for what he did to Ozai" thing. That is the biggie, and slated for an upcoming arc. The previous scrapped scenes were just ones that didn't work out for one reason or another--for example, there ws a "Aang catches Appa and Zuko cuddling and they have a post-war heart-to-heart" that I wrote for chapter 10, and ended up trashing because the bison cuddles would mean more during Zuko's post-Agni-Kai recovery, and the convo Aang and Zuko had would be much better if they both had seen a working demonstration of "fire is life" to build their words around. So the scene got chopped up, and I'm sprinkling in pieces as appropriate to later chapters. In general, to get a POV a character needs to be showing something in their internals that couldn't be inferred from their externals while also being in one of the best positions to advance the plot. Aang is fairly straightforward right now; pretty much what you think he's feeling good and/or crappy about is exactly right, I guarantee it. Not much point giving him a whole chapter when readers won't learn anything substantially new from it. Later on, though... There are definitely some events in the broader outline that we're going to need an Aang voice on. Not that I'm going to help our dear monk grow, one worldview brainbreak at a time, or anything...