FIC: If Lu Ten Hadn't Died [Avatar, Fire Nation Royal Family]

Title: If Lu Ten Hadn’t Died
Author: Omnicat v''v
Rating: K / PG
Genre: Angst
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Preferably everything shown on air so far, but up until Day of Black Sun will do.
Warnings: None.
Pairings: None.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Simple as that.
Summary: In a way, everything Zuko did was because of Lu Ten.
Author’s Note: Lu Ten needs more love. Though this Zuko of mine doesn’t seem inclined to give it to him...
 

( If Lu Ten Hadn't Died )

PSAN: I suppose I owe you a bit of an explanation about this horribly plain and repetitive and blah piece of blegh. (This is the product of writer’s block, can you tell how much I hate everything that comes from my pen at the moment?) For all that Zuko is a scatterbrained klutz compared to the more prodigious prodigies and geniuses he’s surrounded with, he never struck me as particularly bitter about his (relative) lack of inborn abilities. Angry, angry, irritable and angry, yes, but his feelings seemed to go out to the world at large instead of focusing on anyone in particular. He prides himself on his stubborn refusal to yield to those without his perceived shortcomings. The only time he complained, that I can remember, was in Siege of the North, when he was stuck in a cave during a blizzard with glowy!Aang. (And given the all-around shitty month he’d had, that’s not much of a surprise, really.) Something must keep him from outright hating everyone with the luck he so sorely lacks, and I figured that that something is either an unshakable belief in ‘destiny’, or positive feelings towards the lucky ones he’s closest to, to balance out the negative sentiments. There’s no denying the former, and the junk-posing-as-fic above is one take on the latter.