Roku was right—it should not have been him.
This wasn’t the chapter ending I was expecting. The lead up felt like it would be more heartbreak but it turns into Sozin feeling like he should have been the Avatar instead? There were bits of that in the chapter, of course, but it didn’t feel like the prose was naturally culminating to this point. It wasn’t like Roku was showing a bunch of disloyalty to the Fire Nation or incompetence. So this final beat doesn’t quite land for me.
