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He was very handsome, unfairly so. Part of her thought the Mother of Faces cruel for giving Li the face Zuko would've had, if not for his father's savagery. One swift act of brutality and a child's life had been forever altered, robbing him of both his innocence and beauty.

Though Zuko rarely spoke of it, she knew his scar bothered him. For years it'd been a mark of shame he couldn't escape, later a reminder of his father's malice.

In Li she saw the boy he could've been; the confident man he would've grown to become unmarred by fire.