Why? It's a new start, Azula. Uncle and I both believe in second chances — so should you.
[ Indeed, an inseparable pair again. Even in the times they'd been separated, inside Zuko was eating himself. It was hard to believe her when she tried to convince him Iroh had betrayed Zuko, not the other way around; he felt so conflicted then, and she knew how tortured he was. His reunion with their uncle long after the fact had impacted him so deeply, so permanently, and having never made it to his fateful Agni Kai with Azula, that touching renunion was Zuko's very last memory from home — something he'd never told Azula about. For it, too, would fall on deaf ears, he felt. But just as Zuko and Azula had nothing to fight about with the absence of war and competition, he's bothered and confused why neither Azula nor Iroh seem willing to bury the hatchet. Iroh had already expressed earlier this same night his skepticism about trusting Azula. It hurt Zuko to hear it, always trusting his uncle's wisdom somewhere inside. But he tried tooth and nail to convince Iroh that Azula had changed, that peace was an option. But clearly, it's only an option Zuko wants — if only for himself, even if he can claim it's for family's sake. ]
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[ Indeed, an inseparable pair again. Even in the times they'd been separated, inside Zuko was eating himself. It was hard to believe her when she tried to convince him Iroh had betrayed Zuko, not the other way around; he felt so conflicted then, and she knew how tortured he was. His reunion with their uncle long after the fact had impacted him so deeply, so permanently, and having never made it to his fateful Agni Kai with Azula, that touching renunion was Zuko's very last memory from home — something he'd never told Azula about. For it, too, would fall on deaf ears, he felt. But just as Zuko and Azula had nothing to fight about with the absence of war and competition, he's bothered and confused why neither Azula nor Iroh seem willing to bury the hatchet. Iroh had already expressed earlier this same night his skepticism about trusting Azula. It hurt Zuko to hear it, always trusting his uncle's wisdom somewhere inside. But he tried tooth and nail to convince Iroh that Azula had changed, that peace was an option. But clearly, it's only an option Zuko wants — if only for himself, even if he can claim it's for family's sake. ]