Been sitting on this for pretty much a month before turning it over to a few other people to look over. It's as ready as I'm going to make it and does everything I want it to do. So. Up it goes.
Title: Broken Promises
Characters: Jeong Jeong, Zhao, Torao (OC), Osamu (OC), Piandao, Iroh
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4900+
Summary: Jeong Jeong does not
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I like the insight on Jeong Jeong and Zhao relationship.
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Oh, what sort of insight? I'm always curious about how other people read my writing.
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Thank you so much for writing this. I actually found it on fanfiction.net, but wanted to comment here. This pretty much sums up everything I wanted to see about Jeong Jeong. He browbeats his students into fearing the fire. Honestly, I can't see what else they could do but fail. Anyway, this fic ended on a melancholy note, but I can see how the events of this would eventually set Jeong Jeong on the path to desertion. Great fic!
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In a lot of ways, Jeong Jeong is really not cut out to be a firebending teacher. He's got too many of his own issues with fire to effectively teach students. He did do rather well with teaching Zhao and Torao, but he failed with them in some key ways. Osamu... He honestly did more harm than good with Osamu, though he did do some good.
Of course, compared to the other people who try to teach teenagers firebending (Iroh), Jeong Jeong is actually pretty damn good.
I'm amazed the Fire Nation does as well as it does sometimes.
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I wouldn't say Osamu has difficulty firebending, at least not in any way comparable to Torao. (Because I'm a pedant.) Osamu has a whole bunch of JJ-induced issues, whereas Torao temporarily lost an internal source for his fire.
Flame in the void is a wonderful meditation for certain things, but for firebending or anything working with real fire? Way, way not so much there.
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I know I'm ridiculously late to this party, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed what you've done here. There's a special sense that accompanies the realization that you've been teaching someone the wrong lesson and you nailed it right on the head.
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Jeong Jeong has been teaching what he knows for a long time, but what he knows is rage and destruction. Now that he's finally pinging on that, it's screwing up his ability to teach firebending even more. It's going to be a long time before he can do any good as a teacher.
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