"I don't know! I was the one who told her not to tell me anything, she just listened to me — am I supposed to be mad at her?! She technically didn't do anything... This was all years ago for her! But I'm furious! Of course I'd wanna know that, she should have known I'd want to know that, I just didn't know it was— ugh! I don't know what to do, Uncle!"
His latent tenderness is conflicted by this budding friendship with Azula he'd tenuously built over the past half year... In order to preserve the peace they've designed together, the trust they've redefined, Zuko's come to have blurry eyes trying to differentiate between empathy and forgiveness, and justification and rationalization. Is he seeing things from a new, kinder perspective; or is he being manipulated into not 'abandoning' his sister, as she put it, when he probably should? This question has bothered him before, but now with Aang's big reveal, it's even more seering. His face feels hot and he feels the lump returning to his throat, so he just shakes his head and drags his hands down his face with some pressure, and returns to his pacing.
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Date: 2021-06-07 03:58 pm (UTC)His latent tenderness is conflicted by this budding friendship with Azula he'd tenuously built over the past half year... In order to preserve the peace they've designed together, the trust they've redefined, Zuko's come to have blurry eyes trying to differentiate between empathy and forgiveness, and justification and rationalization. Is he seeing things from a new, kinder perspective; or is he being manipulated into not 'abandoning' his sister, as she put it, when he probably should? This question has bothered him before, but now with Aang's big reveal, it's even more seering. His face feels hot and he feels the lump returning to his throat, so he just shakes his head and drags his hands down his face with some pressure, and returns to his pacing.