This need to be turned into a full story with several chapters! I would totally read it. I love the concept of your story.

This is really cool

Thank you for writing! :)

This is very interesting and feels... fulfilling. I think this will cling to my brain for a while yet.

I cannot say how much I love this! It's well thought out, flows, and adds so much to Zuko's character without taking anything away (to me at least :D). Awesome AU. Appreciate you posting this!

I like this. I think I read this years ago and happened across it again today, and I like it still. It's a very good short story, encapsulating in just a thousand words the tension of years of character development coming to a head. Thanks for sharing your writing. It's been years, I hope you've continued to practice and enjoy writing.

Ahhh I love this concept so much! Zuko is such an interesting character, and it is always fun to consider how things might have change OR stayed the same if one detail was different. I honestly love this AU so thanks for writing it! Hope you have a lovely day :)

Great fic!

It's so short, and yet, I can see it so clearly... it's incredible. What an awesome concept. Great job!

I would love to see how this played out a little farther, but it was great as is. Thanks for posting!

I love this! I would read a 100 chapter story about this! Great story!

YAAAS!

Oh man. This is beautiful. Zuko's characterization is so perfect. Zuko is extremely loyal, so when that loyalty is pointed towards his people and not his father...
Jeez. I'm in love with this. It's so wonderful.
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Wow. Just... wow. One chapter and I'm already hooked! (To be honest, I came here a bit biased bcause I'd just finished reading your other AtLA fic "The Dragon King's Temple" -and man if that isn't a good analogy!- but you really blew my mind with this one.) I feel that the other, more in-reserve parts of the Fire Nation army don't get enough appreciation most of the time, like how the Yu Yan showed up for all of one episode and as good as vanished for the rest of the show. And even the Fire Nation has to have had healing units, right? So why don't we ever get to hear about them? Personally, I think this would've been a great idea for showing the pre-Zuko Gaang about how even the Fire Nation cared about each other. Would've been great plot development too... *sigh*. Anyways, I absolutely love this story already. In my mind, there just aren't enough fics out there about if Zuko's punishment had been even the slightest bit different. I mean, the what-ifs of Ozai's decision that day are positively endless! And yeah, if Zuko had ended up in a place where all his heroic tendencies were encouraged rather than disapproved, he really would have progressed much farther and much faster as a character even before interacting with Team Avatar. I hope you find the time to continue this story one day; best of luck! ;-)

This is truly, truly excellent. I love the details and the reactions to each other.

Thank you for writing this.