Drabbles: Defining Honor (PG; AtLA)
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jedibuttercupPG; Avatar: the Last Airbender. Reaction drabbles #8. Through 3.2 "The Headband".
Taking Responsibility
Aang knew Sokka and the others were right. The rumors of his death were a serious advantage. And he was kind of risking that, enrolling in a Fire Nation school, however temporarily.
But-- he'd felt bad enough before, just not being there when his people died. Now-- he's failed another people who were depending on him. However much he'd never wanted the role, he's finally started to adjust to it; the world needs the Avatar, and he feels like he's failing them again by remaining in hiding.
He has to do something, even if only opening a few kids' minds.
Owning Up To It
Zuko's not sure why he didn't tell his sister about the oasis water when he had the chance. Not that it would have made much difference; Azula would probably still have shared the glory as some kind of contingency measure. But if the Avatar has survived--
Strange, that hunting the airbender again has settled Zuko's nerves in ways that coming home had not. He's redeemed himself; his father says so, at last. So why does the itch persist under his skin? Why do Uncle's silences fill his heart with ash?
Zuko understands less and less as the days pass by.
Taking Responsibility
Aang knew Sokka and the others were right. The rumors of his death were a serious advantage. And he was kind of risking that, enrolling in a Fire Nation school, however temporarily.
But-- he'd felt bad enough before, just not being there when his people died. Now-- he's failed another people who were depending on him. However much he'd never wanted the role, he's finally started to adjust to it; the world needs the Avatar, and he feels like he's failing them again by remaining in hiding.
He has to do something, even if only opening a few kids' minds.
Owning Up To It
Zuko's not sure why he didn't tell his sister about the oasis water when he had the chance. Not that it would have made much difference; Azula would probably still have shared the glory as some kind of contingency measure. But if the Avatar has survived--
Strange, that hunting the airbender again has settled Zuko's nerves in ways that coming home had not. He's redeemed himself; his father says so, at last. So why does the itch persist under his skin? Why do Uncle's silences fill his heart with ash?
Zuko understands less and less as the days pass by.
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Date: 2011-09-15 12:49 am (UTC)Aang was so opposite. He understood others just fine. It was himself he didn't get. Why he had run away, why he had that power. He was liquid and wind and change. Earth was his most difficult element, the one that would have him standing stubbornly for something (the way Zuko naturally is). I completely understood why Toph and Zuko could identify with each other quicker than anyone else.
And Katara, too. I think she saw bits of herself in Zuko that she never saw in Aang. She was stubborn, too.