#the search
I’ve read “The Search” and liked it very much. It’s a story about Zuko looking for his mother (SPOILERS!) - You remember that cliffhanger at the end of the series? So, here we see the development of this. Here are two parallel stories: about the search and about Ursa’s youth and her early life as a wife of the Fire Lord. Both of them are interesting and of course, they are connected. In the search story, Azula is back, because Zuko wants her to help him in the quest, of course, she tries to run away or fight Zuko. And he tries to be a good brother, to be nice to her. Once, when he covers her during the cold night and finds a letter from his mother to her ex-boyfriend. It says that Zuko is their son. (actually (real SPOILERS!) it’s not true). Then Avatar team, Zuko and Azula find Ursa’s home village and a family of actors. And Zuko is very sweet in that scenes. Then we have a bunch of spirit stuff connected with faces (Remember that spirit from the end of the “Water” book? Like him, but here we have the Main Spirit of Faces.) and find out that actress from the village is actually Ursa. But she remembers nothing, and then Zuko comes back and Azula chases him. This woman, who doesn’t remember Azula, Zuko or anything felt sorry for Azula, who tries to kill her right now! But then she got her face and memories back and everybody is happy (well, except Azula).
This post wasn’t supposed to be so long, but it just happened… Sorry.
We’re gonna need a bigger abyss.
If you have felt a flood breaking the banks of a river
Then you have held my blood:
No, you could never.
If you have seen a fire burning the gorse and heather
Then you have known my love:
No, you would never.
From “August” Ronald Duncan
image: Fred Lyon
Snowfellow, tallfellow, bright beacon,
what has become of your mother?
Snowfellow, tallfellow, bright beacon,
Where have they buried your mother?
Velimir Khlebnikov
image: Everett Shinn
See we’ve all got somethin that we’ve trapped inside
That we try to suffocate you know hoping it dies
Try to hold it under water,
But it always survives
Then it comes up out of nowhere like an evil surprise
Then it hovers over you to tell you millions of lies
You don’t relate to that must not be as crazy i am
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Well then i guess we’re all crazy
The worst part of Iroh’s blame of Azula in LotFN is that the book takes The Search backstory of the family as canon; when Ozai rejected Zuko before Azula was even born and, in fact, wanted a second child. So he can’t really blame Azula for stealing Ozai’s attention.
