No, Zuko, the book failed YOU! *Again*

[terajk]

Okay. So I don't expect anything I read on sibling relationships and mental illness to be like: "So, you're 16 and head of state, have to help rebuild the world and also, your sister could kill you and take your job at any time (okay, well, she won't, but she doesn't want you to know that)."

But can I read one thing--just one thing--that doesn't assume a family structure where the parents are the heads of the family? And that the siblings' relationship isn't through this prism of the parents, with problems over who gets more attention from the parents (in the present, not in their childhood) and whatnot? Something that assumes siblings can be the closest thing to a primary caregiver--or at least, you know, that the parents aren't involved at all? (The last I knew, local Iroh was unhappy with Zuko for not putting Azula in prison--even though his reasons were complicated and also some of them were mine, to make writing easier for me.)

I should probably just stop reading books to Zuko--not least of all because, while his sister can't resist a "The reason(s) this book sucks" speech, unhelpful books make him shut down entirely.