☄20. [locked from Azula]

[honorregained]

How can she just do that?!

I don't get it. Everyone here makes family so easily... And she always picks the worst possible way to take what I'm saying. I'm not the enemy she makes me out to be.

Comments

[hoboheim]

...It's not always so easy, you know? Even for those who are related by blood.

[honorregained]

I never said it was easy! Nothing in my life ever is! But I didn't do anything to her - I took the throne of the Fire Nation because the war needed to end, not because I wanted to ruin her life!

[hoboheim]

You've led a hard life, haven't you? Just like those boys...

What's to stop you from having a family of your own, just like her?

[honorregained]

Like I said, it wasn't easy. What boys?

Because it's-- it's not the same. I have my mother and my uncle, so I'm not alone. Family is the people you were born to; I don't understand how someone could change that.

[autophoenix]

That's the thing about family, Zuko. It's not supposed to be easy. They're the ones who get to make your life Hell, knowing you have to love them for it anyway.

[honorregained]

Look, I don't expect anything to be easy. I'm just sick of being the one who cares and my family wanting me to drop off the face of the continent. There wasn't even a point to posting this - I couldn't keep it to myself anymore.

[autophoenix]

Trust me. I know how you feel -- well, not so much on the loathing, but being the only sane member of your family. The only one who wants what's best for them when they're busy being lunatics. It's a pain, it's tiring, but ... we do it because we love them and that's just a part of loving them.

I'm still not entirely convinced that Azula doesn't need some kind of serious psychiatric help, though.

[honorregained]

I don't know how you can take it so easily. The whole thing is impossible.

What's exactly does psychiatric help entail?