#which is why hed easily see that they bet on zuko taking the throne from the moment aang emerged from the iceberg

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sorry for atla posting (it will happen again) but i was thinking about the yukka/zukka parallels and that post saying "what if sokka held resentment to iroh because he thinks maybe yue wouldnt have thought to sacrifice herself if iroh hadnt said anything abt her connection to the moon" and then how zuko hadnt even considered being the one to take the firelord title until iroh said it was a swell idea and then zuko just went with it because zukos mental state at that moment was if iroh told him to jump hed say how high

sokka watches zuko struggle to not deteriorate under the pressure of the crown and taking care of his sister and his dad rotting away in his basement and assassinations and revolts and paying for his forefathers mistakes and his uncles mistakes and that same uncle fucked off to ba sing se and is just living it up there while zuko does all the dirty work. sokka watches him spend hours going through passing big laws about big important things and then he watches zuko spend hours going through unimportant petty bills that his advisors toss at him just because they dont like him and zuko just keeps trudging through it, despite it all.

sokka is watching zuko dissolve into ashes right before his eyes the same way he watched yue dissolve into mist right before his eyes. and the fact that both times it was caused by love for a country that, in sokkas opinion, they truly owe nothing to (yue wouldve been miserable her whole life stuck with a loser like hahn, unable to ever voice her true feelings about what happened around her because shes always seen at the council meetings but never heard, trapped by her countrys traditions. zuko works like a dog day and night in the same place that burned him inside out for all to see and mock, trapped until he dies by his countrys mistakes.), and obligation. and on top of that, both times it came about because of a suggestion iroh made.

#sokka is so observant and logical too its why he was invited to join the white lotus #which is why hed easily see that they bet on zuko taking the throne from the moment aang emerged from the iceberg #zuko wouldnt see it because hes a nephew that loves his uncle and he swears up and down everything irohs ever done was to better him #but sokka spent all of book 1 with two kids who couldnt see the forest for the trees #and hed be damned if he lost anyone else he loves to irohs shoddy suggestions #NONE OF THIS MIGHT EVEN MAKE SENSE. i just think the idea of sokka hating iroh is hilarious #atla