Azula, stop it – I'm not abandoning you, all right?! I'm right here, aren't I?!
[ The accusation makes him bristle again. He's shortsighted and reactive and earnest, and these things can often play well on their own — but not together. Together, it just makes him angry and dismissive even while he's being affectionate and reassuring, or so he thinks he is. He knows it's not that simple for Azula and Iroh. But it's not like it was simple for him and Azula, either. Or for him and Iroh, for that matter. Theirs was not a simple family; but indeed a dynamic one, for better or worse, individually or... not; "together" is a word that'd stretch it a bit, after all. ]
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[ The accusation makes him bristle again. He's shortsighted and reactive and earnest, and these things can often play well on their own — but not together. Together, it just makes him angry and dismissive even while he's being affectionate and reassuring, or so he thinks he is. He knows it's not that simple for Azula and Iroh. But it's not like it was simple for him and Azula, either. Or for him and Iroh, for that matter. Theirs was not a simple family; but indeed a dynamic one, for better or worse, individually or... not; "together" is a word that'd stretch it a bit, after all. ]