Ozai Mini-Meme

[beckyh2112]

I am in a mood to write Ozai. One request per person, two requests for my usual people. If I'm not interested in your request, I'm just going to ignore it.

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Ozai and Zuko, trying to be his father's son

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His son was never good enough. He was of average talent with firebending, he could not keep his mouth shut and his heart concealed, he didn't have the fortitude to stand against Ozai. Then he betrayed his country for something as worthless as a spirit.

He couldn't even capture a twelve-year-old boy.

But he could kill an Avatar, and that made Ozai smile. Maybe Zuko wasn't good enough before, but some fires took longer to catch than others.

Ursa had foreseen this day, he thought as the Prince of the Fire Nation knelt before him. This was why she was willing to kill Firelord Azulon. She knew her son would help end the war, would help bring about the glorious victory they all so desperately craved.

The last threat to the end of a hundred years of fighting was dead by his son's hand.

Azula was cleverer still, turning Zuko's victory into a greater victory with the capture of Ba Sing Se. She would be a great general, a great force for the Fire Nation.

Yet his son cared for such small and unlikely things - young rookie soldiers, spirit-fish, half-blood girls in green. Zuko had more of his mother in him, and like Ursa had balanced him before he found his own footing, Azula would need Zuko to balance her.

They would rebuild the world, he thought as he acknowledged Zuko as his son. He would end the war, and they would rebuild the world.