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The Best Revenge [A: tLA, Ozai, G]
Title: The Best Revenge
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: G
Genre: Vignette
Words: 100
Notes/Warnings: Post-series spoilers, done for Theme #60: 'Revenge' for avatar_contest
Summary: Even in his prison cell, Ozai is not cut off from his former domain.
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender copyright Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko/Nickelodeon and this derivative work was created without permission.


Even from his cell, Ozai hears the news of the nation. He doesn't ask questions because it galls him that he has to ask, but he has ears to listen.

He doesn't like the peace, or the new people and ideas coming in freely, rather than subjugated. And, yet, the nation is prosperous. Neither the nobles within nor the barbarians without seize on this new weakness.

The most galling thing is that the boy doesn't even realize this was a subtle form of the revenge of the unfavored child -- to have surpassed his father.