(The third one is a bonus since i didnt get to use the spicer images and that was a shame lol)
This is my Lu Ten and boy am I in love with him.
His Mother got sick when he was around 14, leaving him to deal with three cunning, demanding and harsh men on his own. His Father became colder by the day, like preparing himself for the loss of his wife, and it was always better not to cross his uncle Ozai.
Then Aunt Ursa married in, and the Palace got warmer again. She kept his Mother company, and both of them would put on performances to lift her mood sometimes. Even his Father thawed bit by bit, enjoying the company of all three of them. Two months after the wedding, Ozai left, again, to search for the Avatar. Two months after that, the Royal Healers announced Princess Ursa was expecting.
Unfortunately, his Mother never got to meet his baby cousin. She passed away in the night six weeks before the birth. Ozai had still not come back and Father was a wreck, so Lu Ten and Ursa were left alone to deal with their grief and the preparations for the child's arrival.
(Rumours sparked even back then, but Lu Ten was just excited to get a little cousin and payed no mind to the whispers. That would come in later; after Grandfather had pardoned Zuko's life. He heard the healer's aides murmuring that it was completely expected from Prince Ozai to want to kill his wife's bastard as soon as it was born. Horrible, of course, but expected.)
The moment Zuko looked at him with those eyes of molten gold, Lu Ten lost his breath for the first time since he was five and still learning to breathe correctly. A feeling he did not know flooded throught his body, filling every crevice. His heart, for the first time since his Mother's last embrace, felt warm. And then Zuko giggled and Lu Ten cried.
This little boy, all two and a half kilograms of him, had just become the center of his world.
He would raize cities to the ground, face dozens of assassins, to keep him safe. He would remain by his side and make sure his days are filled with joy, and safety and love.