This is sad and lovely

Thank you! Though I hope to write something not-sad soon. (I think things are funny--really!) But I seem to have a thing for Everyone Being Gone right now in relationship to Avatar, for some reason.

And the parallel between Zuko and Aang in terms of defining facial markings is one of my favourite of the tricks the series used

Some of my favorite parallels between them (though they don't have to do with facial markings specifically) are in Some Early Episode where the battles Aang, Sokka and Katara are having blend visually into the separate battles Zuko is having. This is where I first noticed that Zuko and Aang were connected in some way. Despite this being a big deal for me, I forgot which episode it is and don't remember if Iroh was involved.

And also mini!Zuko, though I have to say you give your Zuko a lot more credit at that age than I do, I think.

Now that I think about it, I probably gave him more credit than he deserves. *g* I was probably too inspired by esmenet's Academic!Zuko. I liked the idea of even mini!Zuko thinking a lot about honor..which the slightly-less mini canon version of him does, I think. At least, I read the knife-play as playing at dying honorably (if melodramatically). But even then, his idea of honor is very centered on himself. So an even mini-er Zuko thinking about honor as it relates to other people is probably...unlikely.