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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Lu Ten is Firelord. What place does Ozai have in this Fire Nation?

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

"Welcome home, Firelord."

Lu Ten pauses inside the threshold of his throne room. No flames burn - the Firelord has not been in residence. In the darkness, he senses his uncle and the air is thick with heat. It's like walking into an oven, and he knows Uncle Ozai doesn't feel a touch of it.

Uncle needs to firebend more, he thinks. Then he snaps forward to ignite the Firelord's flames, and there is uncle sitting before the throne with the seneschal's staff across his knees.

He smiles to see Lu Ten, and Lu Ten smiles to see him, and some small part of him thinks Father would never have made Uncle his seneschal.

Father expected to have finished pacifying the world before he became Firelord, Lu Ten thinks bitterly. "Whatever it is, deal with it, Uncle."

His seneschal ducks his head to hide a smile. "There's a reason I waited for your return, Lu Ten. This requires the Firelord-"

"Did you not hear me, Seneschal? Deal with it."

"As the Firelord wishes."

It's only a year before the Comet arrives, he thinks tiredly as Uncle Ozai rises and moves to embrace him as a family-member ought. His uncle can continue to govern the Fire Nation in his name until then. He's done an excellent job for the past six years, and once the Comet is over and the world is at his feet, Lu Ten can take up the true reins of a Firelord.

He grips Uncle hard in their hug, and some part of him still whispers that Father would never have done this.

Re: Lu Ten is Firelord. What place does Ozai have in this Fire Nation?

[gigabomb.livejournal.com]

... Lu Ten seems kind of messed up here--why be willing to rule properly after the Comet but not before?--but I can't tell if it's Ozai's fault or not, or even if he really knows what is going on inside Lu Ten's head.

I mean, yes Lu Ten, Iroh would never have hugged Ozai, I suppose, but I'm really having trouble understanding Lu Ten's head space here. But then, again he seems kind of messed up, so maybe Lu Ten isn't understanding Lu Ten's head space right now. It's a very interesting dynamic between Ozai and Lu Ten here, in any case, and I cannot even tell where the power balance lies, truly, which makes it interesting. Thanks for writing this.

Re: Lu Ten is Firelord. What place does Ozai have in this Fire Nation?

[spyridona.livejournal.com]

It strikes me that Lu Ten is battle worn and following the tradition of his Grandfather and Great-grandfather as being a Firelord-Army-Officer. Unlike Azulon or Sozin, Lu Ten has someone he believes he can depend on for government matters.

The War has become more involved and it even suggests Iroh wasn't even considering taking the throne until the War was over. And Iroh would never trust his younger and envious brother to be his Seneschal in such matters if the War wasn't over when his father died.

I'm making a guess, but Lu Ten and Ozai are often close in Bex's work; and Lu Ten doesn't quite have Iroh's wisdom. He may not realize it, but loves his uncle more than he wants his title?