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#anyway. am constantly overwhelmed by the strength of that bond & by zuko’s emotional growth as always
daforged · 3 years
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once again parent-child dynamics in fiction will b the death of me <3
#im . im watching avatar again#as always i am obsessed w iroh & zuko#but specifically ive been rly. interested in the idea of parental sacrifice. not like life or death sacrifice#but like ... emotional sacrifice. letting kids lash out and hurt you repeatedly & slowly trying to teach them better ways to handle emotion#like ... its smth i noticed in the sabrina netflix series as well (but i think its much less intentional there :/)#but like ... the whole concept that as a parent u will be treated unfairly by a child that has little emotional control and only u#to use as an outlet ... and its ur responsibility not only to take that without returning it but to also teach them kindness and coping#skills ... idk. idk it makes me very Something#its. i think its an incredible display of love to take ur child’s immature emotional outbursts and give them nothing but support & kindness#it just . the selflessness blows me away a little. like thats unconditional love. there is so much power there#anyway. am thinking abt the repeated instances of iroh putting himself between zuko & someone who’s abt to hurt him#(esp after looking away during That Agni Kai)#& the way he literally never gives up on or gets angry w zuko or Anything . nothing but support & love#like. the amount of love and emotional control that sort of thing requires is. immense.#(& like im not saying zuko deserves ppl getting angry w him i just. its a human emotion yknow)#anyway. am constantly overwhelmed by the strength of that bond & by zuko’s emotional growth as always#the depth & unconditional nature of it just. is something else to me. esp i think because my brain is The Strange Way That It Is . idk#freewheeling bitextual
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