>>115801066Thats my issue - everyone says he's a redemption arc, but the reality is that Zuko is just as much a kid as Aang - he's not meant to be an example of 'yay evil can be redeemed' but the point is that Zuko was a kid with a shit family - He's a kid who got fucked over by shit adults in his life and even with the help of the most helpful adult in his life, Iroh, he's still just a teenager praying he can get back into the good graces of his family again - and he doesn't even know that the reason why Ozai was so cruel to him was something out of his control.
His mistakes aren't villainous - again, dudes just a kid and had to navigate shit way out of his field that he never had control over
