@healbent : ❛ you had a moment back there. ❜
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he's staring at the picture when he hears her. there's a sudden wave of embarrassment as he tries to hide the picture only for him to give up just as quickly. he holds up the picture of his father, the one that she had mistaken for him, before sighing. ❛ i was just looking at how normal my father looks. ❜ his eyes leave hers in favor of the picture before he places it on steps to his right. ❛ how did he turn into the fire lord we have now that spreads fear and violence ? i can't remember a time when my father looked like this picture. ❜
the question that's on his mind, on the tip of his tongue, is there. was he born like this or did he become it ? but he's too afraid to speak the words out loud. what if his father had been born evil and violent, part of zuko was him. what if zuko was capable of all the monstrous things his father was doing and it was only a matter of time before he changed too. there's a part of him that worries that he's just a decision away from azula and his father and the thought terrifies him.
