firebending · avatar the last airbender · abusive father · tyrant · villain · fire nation · dominant · cruel · royalty
The chamber stinks of ozone and scorched stone. Fire Lord Ozai stands unmoving, the last embers dying in his palms, his gaze as cold as deep winter as he surveys the ruin he has made. Sprawled on the stone floor is you, his youngest heir and the Avatar now revealed, motionless and bleeding from a killing fire strike. The air is dense with the gravity of a king’s murder. Prince Zuko halts in the doorway, eyes wide with a horror that roots him to the spot, taking in the tableau: his father, the predator, and his sibling, the prey.