Short, simple, and too the point. I like it!

Nice

I love the fics where Zuko tells the Gaang about his past, especially when everyone reacts like this.

So awesome

So sad, so sweet.

OMG this is perfect! I 3 u!

Nicely done. Like the script and you captured the shock at the idea that a father would burn his son's face well.

This makes it much more poignant seeing as I literally watched the end of the series not five minutes before reading this.

awesomness

Yeah, I can see Zuko saying it like that. You did a great job on this story.

Nicely done!

Love it. There aren't enough stories out there where Zuko shares his story, which makes it ALL THE BETTER. One little complaint is that in the beginning they're talking about how they're glad Ozai's dead, but he never did die. He got put in jail

Do any of them have normal, functional families? I mean, Sokka and Katara come close, buut their mum was murdered, and their dad's never there He has a good reason, but still). Toph's parents are control freaks who don't understand her, maybe they can recover, maybe not. I believe that Suki's parents were killed. We don't know much about Aang's family, but the closest person to a parent he had died 100 years ago. Zuko's family is just a mess. I think that's most everyone.

Cool story.

-Dyslexic Nerd

This is a really nice one-shot. As far as I can tell the characters are really IC, even though the Gaang's reactions seem to me just a tad bit melodramatic. (*Although* they really would react with dismay at a story like that, I think. Maybe it's the medium of words that make it sound a little cheesy?)

What I like most is how nonchalant Zuko is: you can tell he doesn't *like* talking about and relieving the agni kai, because his voice is really quiet and he refuses to make eye-contact. But at the same time he's made his peace with his past - he's quiet, yes, but he isn't crying his eyes out or - I don't know - being dramatic and soap opera-y about it. He's grown up and has let go; he even *smirks* at the end - and like the gaang notices: the kid begging for forgiveness isn't the proud man sitting with them now and the *change* Zuko has gone through is really well executed here. Congrats :)

And it's nice that you've touched upon the contrast between Katara's father/family and Zuko's. The two are so alike in their characters (and I don't mean that in a romantic sense; I'm not a Zutara-shipper) - head-strong, forceful, standing up to the last for what they believe is right - that it's *really* startling if you think about their respective backgrounds. The only thing alike in there is their missing/dead moms. *Everything else* is opposite: loving, proud father against abusive, unpleasable megalomaniac; a healthy sibling realtionship between Katara and Sokka against Azula hunting Zuko, actually wanting him *dead*, and bullying him from early childhood; being regarded as the last hope of the SWT against being regarded as an embarassing failure; and so on...

So, to conclude that: I like how Katara only *now* realises just *how* different hers and Zuko's family is, apart from the obvious, and how it's still implied that their friendship is secure enough that she (and the others) don't radically change their opinion of Zuko now - meaning they don't flow over with pity and compassion all at once. Which Zuko probably wouldn't accept anyway :)

But apart from the praise I've got some small complaints. Bear with me, okay? :)

You've got a minor typo: Sokka says "(...) his gone." Probably only an oversight, but it's in the first sentence and something like that doesn't fill me with optimism that the rest has any better grammar, and usually I stop reading before I get too frustrated. (Thankfully you're one of the exceptions to the rule. I'm glad I stuck with your story:D) Reading carefully again before posting helps in this regard.

Also: "Katara and Suki gasped softly, and everyone looked sad." The first part of the sentence is perfectly acceptable, but the second is a bit lacking. It's a sentence a rookie in writing would use, and the rest of this one-shot is above that level, so it's a bit jarring. You don't *tell* what the characters feel, you have to *describe* it. Otherwise it's just ... there, and pretty shallow. You don't feel with the characters and it's really hard to understand them and why they've reacted like that when all the reader's got is just a dry statement. (There *are* writing styles that use scarcity pretty successfully, but they're different from what you've been using in here and the sentence still feels out of place and unsatisfying - and I'm gonna stop now before I become even more of a know-it-all and use up all of my space)

It was a nice one-shot. Quiet and full of friendship and just a scene out of every-day life - my favourite among one-shots :) Keep this up, you're good :)

sincerly

What a great sappy one-shot.

it's complete so you should mark it as such.

but it is relay good.