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* TraumaInducedAmnesia: As Katara wonders how Jet could forget he was a firebending, the older boy admits he ''didn't want'' to remember his father had burned his mother alive when she refused for their son to be indoctrinated as a child soldier.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Jet's recollections of his early childhood deeply upset him because he genuinely was a happy, energetic tyke with loving parents and a gift for firebending. Then his father murdered his mother, and Jet's mind utterly broke.
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* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Jet is terrified by his own bending and rejects any possibility of training, but he needs to be taught control in order to put a stop at his PowerIncontinence and it's also hinted it might help his mental health, as benders around him insist bending is something you ''have'' to do, not something you ''choose'' to do.
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** Of course, the story's main focus is on Jet coming to terms with his Fire ancestry and the fact his racism might be excessive -- Longshot and Smellerbee follow a parallel road to him as they struggle to accept Jet as a firebender instead of killing him.
** Zuko insists to watch over the volatile and self-loathing Jet, keeping him in close quarters with Team Avatar and making him re-evaluate his opinions about the war and what the world actually needs. [[spoiler:It culminates in him rejecting Azula when she offers him to join her party, as he feels Jet and the other teens need him.]]
** Katara has an internal monologue about how leaving the Southern Pole helped her to learn the world is ''not'' black and white -- sometimes, the enemy isn't wearing red, and someone you hate really needs help because they're in horrendous pain.
** Of course, the story's main focus is on Jet coming to terms with his Fire ancestry and the fact his racism might be excessive -- Longshot and Smellerbee follow a parallel road to him as they struggle to accept Jet as a firebender instead of killing him.
** Zuko insists to watch over the volatile and self-loathing Jet, keeping him in close quarters with Team Avatar and making him re-evaluate his opinions about the war and what the world actually needs. [[spoiler:It culminates in him rejecting Azula when she offers him to join her party, as he feels Jet and the other teens need him.]]
** Katara has an internal monologue about how leaving the Southern Pole helped her to learn the world is ''not'' black and white -- sometimes, the enemy isn't wearing red, and someone you hate really needs help because they're in horrendous pain.
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* CultureClash: Nonbender Sokka is alright with Jet receiving instruction enough to stop sparking and prevent accidental fires but not using his gift beyond that. Katara, Aang, Toph and Zuko are flat-out horror-struck at the prospect of a bender rejecting his own gift, even if Jet ''is'' a firebender.
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** Nonbender Sokka is alright with Jet receiving instruction enough to stop sparking and prevent accidental fires but not using his gift beyond that. Katara, Aang, Toph and Zuko are flat-out horror-struck at the prospect of a bender rejecting his own gift, even if Jet ''is'' afirebender.firebender.
** Bato explains to Zuko that Sokka isn't a Prince, he's merely the Southern Water Tribe Chief's son. Zuko obviously struggles with the concept, musing the Fire Nation would label Sokka as such.
** Nonbender Sokka is alright with Jet receiving instruction enough to stop sparking and prevent accidental fires but not using his gift beyond that. Katara, Aang, Toph and Zuko are flat-out horror-struck at the prospect of a bender rejecting his own gift, even if Jet ''is'' a
** Bato explains to Zuko that Sokka isn't a Prince, he's merely the Southern Water Tribe Chief's son. Zuko obviously struggles with the concept, musing the Fire Nation would label Sokka as such.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Why would Zuko insist to help Jet with his bending and mental issues? Jet is a firebender, and Zuko is the Fire Prince so he will take care of his people. Of course, Zuko considering Jet as ''his'' people is an unpopular move for Team Avatar and the Freedom Fighters.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: What the Freedom Fighters think of firebending, meaning Jet is tainted by association. Aang himself is distressed by the idea and insists people are bad because they have a rotten personality, not because of their element.
* ConflictingLoyalty: As usual with Zuko, the Fire Prince is torn between fulfilling his mission and coming back home with the Avatar, or helping someone who's much more vulnerable and obviously needs help. [[spoiler:When Azula offers him to help her to conquer Ba Sing Se, he ultimately picks Team Avatar.]]
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* CultureClashCultureClash: Nonbender Sokka is alright with Jet receiving instruction enough to stop sparking and prevent accidental fires but not using his gift beyond that. Katara, Aang, Toph and Zuko are flat-out horror-struck at the prospect of a bender rejecting his own gift, even if Jet ''is'' a firebender.
* InternalizedCategorism: Jet spent over a decade hating the Fire Nation, so when he learns he's a firebender, he immediately loathes himself and grows suicidal and self-destructive.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Aang congratulates Zuko and Sokka on becoming friends when he sees them bickering after coming back from Chameleon Bay, to the older boys' utter disgust.
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* DeathSeeker: After learning he's a firebender, Jet isn't too bothered by the prospect of losing his life. He grows out of it in the last chapter, because his mother wanted for him to live.
** It's strongly implied that a bender not using their element will grow mentally unstable, and Jet utterly repressed his inner fire as he led the Freedom Fighters.
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* MommasBoyMommasBoy: Contrasting his sheer hatred towards his mercenary father, Jet has nothing but fond memories of the mother he lost, taking after her in his looks and affinity for swords, and ultimately regaining the will to live because she sacrificed herself to save her son and he won't waste that.
* PassFail: Jet takes a lot after his half-Earth mother, so nobody suspected him from being a firebender because his skin was on the darker side. After reawakening his abilities, however, Katara comments on his body temperature being hotter than usual, and Smellerbee remembers he never got cold or burned.
* PowerIncontinence: Jet won't stop throwing sparks because his breath control is shot to hell and his sanity is too frayed for him to focus on fixing that.
* PowerIncontinence: Jet won't stop throwing sparks because his breath control is shot to hell and his sanity is too frayed for him to focus on fixing that.
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* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakeningTraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Jet was already pretty unsettled by the reemergence of his childhood memories, but he completely ''lost it'' when he accidentally firebended solid rock and was forced to confront the reality that he was the very enemy he wanted to eradicate.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Longshot and Smellerbee are horror-struck by Jet's firebending, outright attempting to kill him, and even after he regains the will to live, Jet is aware their bond has been irremediably damaged.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Longshot and Smellerbee are horror-struck by Jet's firebending, outright attempting to kill him, and even after he regains the will to live, Jet is aware their bond has been irremediably damaged.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Katara and the Freedom Fighters stubbornly associate the Fire Nation with evil -- to Katara, learning of Jet's firebending comes as some relief because it validates his bad nature, and the Freedom Fighters decided Jet needs to die very soon or he's going to grow into a pyromaniac murderer.
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EveryoneHasStandards: Team Avatar doesn't like Jet very much, with [[AllLovingHero Aang]] bluntly calling him a bad person, but they nonetheless are unsettled by his sheer self-loathing and fraying sanity and try to encourage him to gain control over his bending.
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ForeignQueasine: Zuko and Jet's opinion of Water Tribe cooking.
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FreakOut: Jet's reaction after regaining his childhood memories and firebending is ''less'' than positive.
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FreudianExcuse: Jet's father was a mercenary who wanted for his son to join a military academy and become yet another soldier to die for Sozin's war. When the boy's mother disagreed and ran away with Jet, the man tracked her down to kill her in front of their child.
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HalfBreedDiscrimination: Everything related to the Fire Nation is evil, hence Jet having Fire blood is evil and dirty and needs for someone to kill him. At least, this is what the Freedom Fighters believe -- and yes, it includes Jet himself.
*MamaBearMamaBear: When she learned her lover wanted for her seven-year-old son to become yet another indoctrinated soldier to sacrifice in the war, Hotaru pulled a runner with Jet and taught him how to survive on his own until her lover found and killed her.
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MundaneUtility: Bato asking Zuko and Jet to help him with smoking the fish.
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RaceLift: Jet in the story is three-quarters Fire, with his maternal grandmother being a "war bride" from the Earth Kingdom.
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SuicideByCop: Jet is ready to let Smellerbee slit his throat because he cannot bear the idea of living as a firebender. Toph strongly objects.
*SuspectIsHatlessSuspectIsHatless: Long Feng tells Azula that an "angry boy wielding matched swords" has been brainwashed by the Dai Li, leading her to use a trigger password on Zuko only for it to fail.
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* YouAreWhatYouHateYouAreWhatYouHate: Jet the virulently opponent to the Fire Nation is a firebender. It causes him a FreakOut of epic proportions, and the whole story is him struggling to come to terms with his ancestry.
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AbandonedWarChild: Longshot muses it's impossible to not know someone with a drop of Fire blood after a century of war, and Iroh alludes to "war brides". The Earth Kingdom doesn't like very much the mixed-blood offspring and it's hinted the Fire Nation are looking down on them for their tainted blood.
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AdultAdoptee: By bending Jet's fire, Zuko claimed responsability over the other teen and as such has to acknowledge him as part of his clan. Toph wonders if it means Zuko is now a dad to the slightly older Jet, but Zuko clarifies it's more like another sibling or cousin.
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ChildByRape: Iroh and Team Avatar assume Jet is one because this tends to be how mixed-blood children are conceived, but it's subverted with the prequel revealing it was a consensual affair between his parents.
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ChildProdigy: Jet at seven years old was good enough at Firebending to master training targeting ''twelve-years-old'' and his father wanted to enlist him in a military academy to nurture his potential. Iroh outright compares Jet to Azula and muses the teen's power likely helped him to survive in spite of his stubborn refusal to bend his element.
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** When Zuko gets to see how familiar Team Avatar is with Jet, he assumes they recruited the teen as Aang's firebending teacher -- causing him to accidentally out Jet's abilities to them.
** Iroh considers the possibility of Jet being some kind of spy for Azula when he doesn't even know the Fire Nation has a princess.
** Jet believing Iroh is Zuko's dad is pretty justified because he's not aware of the fine details regarding the Fire Nation royal family and is currently a mite busy having a breakdown to pay attention.
** When Zuko gets to see how familiar Team Avatar is with Jet, he assumes they recruited the teen as Aang's firebending teacher -- causing him to accidentally out Jet's abilities to them.
** Iroh considers the possibility of Jet being some kind of spy for Azula when he doesn't even know the Fire Nation has a princess.
** Jet believing Iroh is Zuko's dad is pretty justified because he's not aware of the fine details regarding the Fire Nation royal family and is currently a mite busy having a breakdown to pay attention.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19040134/chapters/45223030 there is a fire in me]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic, written by suzukiblu on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. It's completed at 25 chapters.
When Katara heals Jet's memory, he doesn't merely remember Lake Laogai but also something he very much tried to erase from himself.
Then he's fighting for his life, and accidentally firebends when Long Feng tried to crush him under a rock.
It has consequences.
!Contains the following tropes
* AbandonedWarChild
* AdultAdoptee
* ChildProdigy
* ColorCodedCharacters
* CripplingOverspecialization
* CultureClash
* EveryoneHasStandards
* FantasticRacism
* ForeignQueasine
* FreakOut
* FreudianExcuse
* MamaBear
* MommasBoy
* MundaneUtility
* RaceLift
* SuicideByCop
* SuspectIsHatless
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening
* YouAreWhatYouHate
When Katara heals Jet's memory, he doesn't merely remember Lake Laogai but also something he very much tried to erase from himself.
Then he's fighting for his life, and accidentally firebends when Long Feng tried to crush him under a rock.
It has consequences.
!Contains the following tropes
* AbandonedWarChild
* AdultAdoptee
* ChildProdigy
* ColorCodedCharacters
* CripplingOverspecialization
* CultureClash
* EveryoneHasStandards
* FantasticRacism
* ForeignQueasine
* FreakOut
* FreudianExcuse
* MamaBear
* MommasBoy
* MundaneUtility
* RaceLift
* SuicideByCop
* SuspectIsHatless
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening
* YouAreWhatYouHate
