What ATLA take make you like this?

[u/JustAPerson_YesOrNo]

Posting here bc mods are (not) mean

[u/Leftover_Bees]

I see a lot of people who just seem to assume that Katara’s mother being killed and Jet’s village being destroyed were acts that only happened after Ozai became Fire Lord, as if he has to be uniquely evil compared to the rest of his family except for Sozin. Iroh joked about burning down Ba Sing Se in that letter, it’s like people are desperate to pretend he could never have done anything too bad while he was an active general conquering the Earth Kingdom. I think if they’d gone into more detail about whatever Iroh did in his youth that he “wasn’t proud of” it might have made it harder for the target audience to see him as the mentor figure he was meant to be.