Man do you ever think about how many places Zuko has broken into? Like
- The Western Air Temple (twice), which was canonically built so that it could only be reached with airbending
- (It’s also implied he broke into the other three too)
- The Northern Water Tribe, whose defenses hadn’t been breeched in 100 years and was also currently under siege
- Pohuai stronghold, which was on high red alert after capturing the fucking Avatar
- Avatar Roku’s temple, mostly notable because he broke through a naval blockade to get there (dude wtf)
- Lake Laogi, the secret underground headquarters of Ba Sing Se’s evil secret police that is also crawling with Earth benders
- (Ba Sing Se at large doesn’t count since they forged their papers)
- The Fire Nation capital’s prison, where the main threat to the Fire Lord’s rule (Iroh) was imprisoned for months
- His own family’s vacation home (this isn’t an achievement I just thought it was funny)
- A thousand+ year old sacred site dedicated the first firebenders that was also full of booby traps, Indiana Jones style, because why not
- The Boiling Rock, the highest security prison in the Fire Nation
- The headquarters of the Southern Raiders, an elite naval force on an island in the middle of nowhere
- The Fire Nation’s royal palace, which was admittedly mostly empty at the time but still had Azula in it
- His own family’s vacation home (again) after getting banished (again)
he’s…a rogue. How did I not realize that he’s a rogue. Who happens to firebend.
One of my favorite things about zuko is he thinks of himself as a failure for not being a firebending prodigy, but is actually INCREDIBLY competent (even prodigious!) At almost everything else