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Cutting well meaning toxic people out of your life like aang is a powermove.
we all know aang's refusal to give up his attachments to the people he loves in order to fulfill his duties as the avatar is a huge part of his character, but the parallel between him choosing katara over mastering the avatar state...
and him choosing zuko over avatar roku...
like?? he was so upset that roku would even suggest what he did that he cut that bitch off?? and aang believed in zuko that much that he'd put the safety of the world at risk for him? aang trusting zuko when zuko doesn't even trust himself?? aang choosing love over duty?????
Mai didn't break up with Zuko because their personality differences and their different wants and needs drove them apart. She didn't break up with him because she was so heartbroken by his visit with Ozai that she couldn't stand to be with him anymore. She broke up with him because Gene Yang wrote her out the story. She only appears twice in the entire trilogy, Zuko doesn't seem to remember she exists unless she's in the room, and Yang doesn't even let us hear her reasoning for the break up from her perspective. Yang admitted to being a Zutara shipper, and the only reason he didn't break up Kataang is because he wasn't allowed to. The writing did both of Zuko and Mai a huge disservice.
Maybe it's just me, but I really feel like Mai should have heard Zuko out in this scene:
Like I get being mad at him for not confiding in her about what was going on with him, but going as far as to break up with him over it? The Mai from the show would have at least asked him why he was going to visit Ozai in secret and listened to his reasons. Maybe even give him some advice of her own on the matter. Not...whatever the fuck this is.
And it's even more stupid when you have this scene from part 1 of The Promise:
Yang made Mai go from caring about Zuko's well-being (not to say that she still doesn't care, she quite obviously does since she doesn't want Zuko visiting Ozai, which comes from a place of love and care because she knows that Ozai can hurt him) to breaking up with him because he didn't tell her that he was going to see his father for advice on how to be the Firelord. I swear this man really loved including pointless drama into these comics.
Side note, I remember hearing that Yang is apparently a Zutara shipper. Is that true? Because if it is then it definitely explains how he wrote Mai and Maiko.