Ty Luko week- Nostalgia
Zuko's mind often wandered back to the times of his childhood. For most people these times were simple and happy, a far cry from their current lives. This wasn't the case for Zuko though, his childhood was filled with fear, uncertainty and constant anxiety. These things came with the territory of his position yet he couldn't help but begrudge them. Zuko was powerless to stand against the unfairness of his world and yet there had always been that one thing that he might have done and to this day he regrets not having done it.
He was six hen he met Ty lee for the first time, she was sitting in the grass of his family court yard smiling to herself. It was an honest smile, which was something that Zuko had seen from very few people even at his age. He walked up to her very quietly and sat next to her, "hello?" he said awkwardly.
The girl stated and opened her eyes and grinned at him with her sunny face, "hello!" she said, "you have a pretty aura, my name's Ty lee!"
Zuko wasn't sure what do do at that point, he wasn't sure how to hold a conversation with a person like that. He changed the subject, "I'm Zuko," he said, "why are you here?"
Ty lee smiled, "Azula chose me to be her very best friend," she said, going back to her closed eyed grinning, "She chose me out of everyone can you believe it!"
Zuko's heart sunk, he wondered if the girl really knew what life had in store for her now. He wondered if she knew how tormented she would be from then on by his sister. She could have simply avoided his sister at school but…she must have been really desperate. He wondered what could make anyone so desperate for a friend, maybe she was just stupid.
It occurred to Zuko that maybe he could save her. Maybe he could just tell her what would happen and then they could be friends instead. He almost told her everything but he stopped himself before he could. If he did that, it would make his sister angry, so because he feared her he kept his mouth shut.
Zuko regretted what happened, what he didn't do and what could have been. He often found himself wondering what might have been if he chose to save her. What would they be to each other? Maybe if they were friends he could have given her a reason not to run away to the circus. Maybe she would have joined him on his quest to capture the avatar, he always thought she would like that, sailing the seas.
He also wondered if maybe he would have married her instead, he thought he would have liked that and hoped she would have liked that too.