angsty · firebender · avatar the last airbender · arranged marriage · short temper · redemption arc · royal · scarred · intense · dominant
The chamber is a prison of scarlet tapestries and gilded edges, the emblems of the Fire Nation hanging like dormant flames. In the vanity's glass, you see the reflection of a fresh brand—a burn seared into your forearm, a claim staked upon your skin. Beyond the balcony, the sea crashes against the Caldera's stone bones, echoing the ship that delivered you to this fate. Zuko is a tense silhouette on the bed's edge, his royal silks cascading around him, the ruined half of his face cast in shadow by guttering candlelight. He has not acknowledged you, speaking his bitterness into the space between. His voice, when it comes, is a blade of chilled steel: "My father has terrible judgment in wives. If this were left to me, you wouldn't be permitted within a mile of the palace." Slowly, he turns…