Azula Is What Iroh Warned Us About

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  @Rekuzan · 1 month ago

  Zuko &quot;I know what yer going to say uncle. She&apos;s my family and I should try to get along with her...&quot;<br>Iroh &quot;No. I was going to say she is crazy and she needs to go down!&quot;<br>For Uncle Iroh of all people to say that truly means something.

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• BL

  @bloomingflower123 · 1 month ago (edited)

  People keep forgetting that Iroh met Ran and Shaw and the Sun warriors well before Ba Sing Se ever happened, and chose to learn from them instead of trying to slay them like the Fire Nation honor tradition expected of him, and then told everyone he killed the last dragons just so they’d be left alone. <br><br>We know this because he already has the “Dragon” title that the Fire Nation gave to royals who were known to have killed a dragon. It also tells us that he had the Sun Warrior philosophy of firebending (Fire is life and warmth) instead of the corrupted “violence and domination” philosophy Sozin had pushed.<br><br>Iroh may have not officially abandoned the imperial project until Lu Ten died, but his rejection and quiet rebellion against his Nation’s philosophy and expectations of him started well before that. He probably thought he could “change the system from the inside” if he played their game, and didn’t realize the human cost of the game till his own son became the human cost so young. And then suddenly he realized that he’d led his son to give his life to a cause he didn’t even fully believe in, just to protect his status quo.

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• BL

  @bloomingflower123 · 1 month ago

  The “who are YOU, and what do YOU want?” speech honestly makes me think of Iroh regretting not following his own heart sooner, <b>before</b> his son died. <br><br>He probably went down the same path of following his dad’s wishes and expectations of him as the “heir”, keeping his own opinions and wants to himself… until Lu Ten died, and he realizes that he lost his son because he went along with someone else’s idea of “his destiny”, <b>even though he knew better</b> . <br><br>I don’t think Iroh was ever like Ozai or even Azula. I think he was like Zuko from the start. Except he’d done a better job of hiding his true feelings earlier on because he was more diplomatic than Zuko.

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• GO

  @goblinwizard735 · 1 month ago

  yeah Iroh is telling Zuko how to heal from a childhood of trauma and low threshold parenting, in language a 12. year old can absorb.<br>respect to this show for that,.

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• DR

  @dreamthyf · 1 month ago

  When Zuko questioned the pointless death of soldiers as a kid, leading to hus scar, he proved he was already wirthy of Iroh training him.

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• SC

  @Scyclo · 1 month ago

  The moment Mei and Tai Lee betrayed her, is the day her mental breakdown and spiral happened

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• TO

  @Tomouryu · 1 month ago

  Later Aang said this to Korra: &quot;Sometimes when you are at your lowest, you are open to the greatest change&quot;.

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• AN

  @angelhurtado55 · 1 month ago (edited)

  She actually killed Aang <br>Katara brought him back<br>Iroh was never like Ozai. He might have believed the cause was right as he was raised for it, but he was always a more honorable man than Ozai, he wasn&apos;t obsessed with harming and domination, their dad saw it, Ozai is a menace. In fact, his punishment was something other frowned upon.

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• OS

  @osricen · 1 month ago

  Man, these 3 seasons are a masterclass of everything: character development, multi genre storytelling, animation, cinematography, music...<br>Also, teenager us: &quot;I can fix her...&quot;

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• GA

  @GabrielMichaelDels · 1 month ago

  Bro Iroh is truly 110% the coolest uncle ever.

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• ZE

  @zen4realfightman426 · 1 month ago (edited)

  The best moment about iroh Is when zuko comes back. I was never angry with you. I was sad Because I was afraid you lost your way

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• KE

  @keyoteamendelbar8742 · 1 month ago

  There is a Film Theory that says that Iroh was honorable even before his son&apos;s death. &nbsp;After losing the throne to his brother, he saw more clearly how corrupt the fire nation has become.

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