5 True Things

[sophiap]

I'm stealing this idea from holli:

Name a character, and I'll tell you five true things about him/her/it:

Fandoms include: Avatar: the Last Airbender, Bleach, BtVS/Angel, Discworld, Doctor Who, Firefly, Hunger Games trilogy, Narnia (bookverse), Neverwhere, Sailor Moon, Sandman, Sherlock (BBC), Supernatural

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[cofax7]

Oh, oh. Hmmm.

Iroh or Peter Pevensie, I think.

[sophiap]

1. The thing Iroh misses most about his wife was her sense of humor. More than anyone else he ever met, she knew how to make him laugh.

2. Sometimes, he thinks Zuko is so like Lu Ten it's painful. Sometimes, all he can see are the differences.

3. He still wonders if things would have ended up worse or better if he had decided in favor of trying to take the throne from his brother. It was concern over Zuko and Azula that had stopped him, in the end.

4. A few years after Ursa disappeared, Iroh tried to find her. He kept trying to find her, but until Ozai was gone, he could only risk so much in his searches. When Zuko became Fire Lord, one of the first things Iroh did was present his nephew with a list of every lead he'd followed and every clue he had found.

5. The pain of losing his son is just as strong now as it was then. Learning to live with the pain has done nothing to lessen it.

[cofax7]

Oh, that's all quite wonderful. And I'd always wondered about #3...

[sophiap]

Thank you! I could so see Iroh playing through the potential aftermath of a coup and realizing it would be a horrible, horrible idea. Doing what he could to teach Zuko to be a better man than his father was probably his slow, stealthy approach to fixing the problem.