I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that there were hundreds of people in attendance when Ozai burned Zuko. Like... they were watching a grown man mutilate his 13-year-old son. They were practically witnessing a murder attempt. And I just can't help but wonder what they thought and felt at that moment...
This always got to me. Zuko’s trauma runs so deep. People just kind of see it as this one incident, but it was so severe. Ozai took a little, wide-eyed, optimistic, loving, kind boy– his own son, and mutilated him in public. He intentionally humiliated him. He brought him out in front of all of the noble people to add humiliation, watched him grovel and sob and beg in front of hundreds. He mutilated him, caused him unfathomable physical pain that would have any human hospitalized for months– months. A burn like that can kill you. It was so serious.
The emotional trauma from that would haunt anyone for their entire lives. That would give so many PTSD, even, I’m sure. That was so targeted and calculated and fucked up, and it’s so disgusting and sick how that was only the tip of the iceberg of what Ozai did to Zuko. He groomed him to think he was worthless. It was all so disgusting. Zuko deserves so much love omfg. Katara would hate him so much.
Mai only directly supports him, though. She calls Zuko a traitor in Boiling Rock for standing against him in DOBS and she indirectly helps Ozai try to reclaim the throne in the comics.
Disgusting.
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when you’re having a mental breakdown because of a forced marriage, being forced to cut off your pals, with your parental figure in harm’s way and your childhood trauma having revealed itself back to you all in one day.
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