Talk:Ikem/@comment-49.0.147.42-20130322144612/@comment-67.77.82.116-20130323222014

They actually do have a whole night before Ozai and Azulon arrive on the island. So it might be possible. They do seem to have been extremely in love with each other. And as for Zuko looking like Ozai, sort of. He actually has dark brown hair though versus the black hair of the rest of his family. Ikem has brown hair. It is possible for Zuko to have gotten it from an ancestor on either side of hish family though.

I myself am torn between wanting Ikem to be Zuko's father and not. It wouldn't surprise me if it's actually a ploy by Azula and Ozai. Still, there is the letter in the flashback that got Ozai riled up  and how it apparently got on that beach or how Azula knew to look for it and why she believed it would dethrone Zuko and allow her to take the throne. I also agree with the fact that the letter was in too obvious a place for Azula. Though it was apparently written by Ursa, to quote Zuko "Azula always lies." There is the problem that if Azula had faked the letter, wouldn't Zuko recognize her handwriting?

Agh...so many questions. I hate that we have to wait until June to get some of the answers. Oh, well. I'll wait to see if it's a red herring or not. Either way it is certainly an interesting plot twist and promises very dramatic moments when they finally meet Ikem, which they most likely will. It also promises more torment for Zuko who has believed hes an unworthy son all his life, 'hoping for his father's praise. To believe that all the torment he's suffered is not because he was unworthy but because he wasn't Ozai's son and that he technically doesn't have any right to the throne is earth-shattering. Add to that that he doesn't even know all the details, just what he read in the letter, well...I see another Ember Island moment occuring soon.

There is the whole good vs. evil legacy that would be disrupted. I do agree with the previous response that Ozai might have simply believed the letter. Even if Iken is Zuko's biologial father, that ditll doesn't change the years Zuko believed he was and had to suffer torment from him or that he believed he was a descendant of Sozin and that the struggle between good and evil is part of who he is.