have courage and be kind

“by the summer of Zuko’s eleventh year, his beloved mother was on death’s doorstep. Zuko was there in her final moments, curled against her pale form as she drew her last few rattling breaths. He held her limp hand as tightly as he could, just like she had done for him all those years ago, and looked at her with tear-lined eyes as she uttered her last words to him. And when his father removed her body swiftly and without emotion, Zuko stayed in that room for hours afterward, staring at the indent in the mattress where his beloved mother had just rested, her final words echoing through his head:

‘Remember this Zuko--no matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are. Have courage, and be kind.’”

by day, zuko is the mistreated and indentured son of an exiled former ruler, and sokka is the charming prince of the kingdom. by night, they are the blue spirit and captain boomerang, stars of the kingdom’s underground fight club. cinderella shenanigans ensue.