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ZUKO/MAI
Oldest to Youngest with Age Differences (from oldest)

Zhi: meaning- "orchid" "love" "perfection(?)"
Kidnapped by the exiled Princess Azula when she was five, Zhi has spent a lifetime dealing with her parents' fear that she might turn out like Zuko's sister. As a result, she's made a concious effort to not be anything like her, often downplaying her own intelligence, being lazy about her bending and martial arts training, and spending entirely too much of her free time trying to seduce boys. She has feminist inclinations, though, which she usually brings up in the context of not wanting to be deferential to a man just because he's a man, and therefore finds her favorite prey to be men of lower or no rank, who have to kowtow to her. She is possibly in love with Bohai, who thinks she just wants him for his body.

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Dan Dan: meaning- "red"
Delivered to Zuko and Sokka while they hunted for Zhi by an irritated fox spirit who didn't appreciate Zuko's attitude. "Our daughter" appears to be exactly that, a magically manifested little girl who's half Water Tribe and half Fire Nation. She has the attention span of a kitsune (none to speak of), is a naturally gifted musician who plays a three stringed guitar (shamisen), dark skinned, golden eyed and a water bender, a fact she hides from everyone until she's old enough to be engaged to Tom Tom, who finds her gentleness, naivete, and generous bust irresistable. (He turned down an engagement to Zhi in favor of one to her.) Dan Dan is particularly close to Zhi, though they used to fight all the time when they were kids, usually over Dan Dan's insistence that Zuko is her "mama."

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Shaozu: meaning- "honoring the ancestors"
Zuko's heir is a lot like Zuko. His frustrations usually stem from working himself half to death to prove himself worthy of his father's legacy, and the absolute refusal of his sisters to respect his authority (except Dan Dan, who's kind of a pushover anyway.) Shaozu is an excellent bender, a has a strong sense of duty and justice, finds any kind of undignified behavior infuriating, and secretly runs crying to Mai whenever he gets angry to be petted and told how wonderful he is.

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Irana: meaning- not sure, similar to Iroh's,

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An unrepentant Daddy's Girl and literally a knife wielding fire breathing ninja baby, Irana has decided that her life's mission is to spread goodwill between the Fire Nation and the other nations of the world by repurposing the Navy, one ship at a time. Her mission is no less than the absolute eradication of crime on the sea, aka, PIRATE HUNTING. To this end, Zuko gives her (at 15) the fastest ship in the armada, a captain older than dirt and as wily as King Bumi (though very dignified and every inch a Fire Nation man), and his blessing. She spends most of her childhood years as a man hater (boys are yucky and they smell), promising her dad when she's 12 and her sisters are getting out of control that she won't care about boys at all until she's at least 18. Thanks to Zhi and Tom Tom, she also has a complex about being flat-chested. She maintains the idea that no boy will ever be good enough for her as her daddy is the best guy in the whole world until she's 15 and a few months into her mission- at which point her best friend, Avatar Aang's oldest son, Yun, confesses his feelings for her, and all hell breaks loose.

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Xi Feng: meaning- he was originally intended to be a girl, so it would have been "phoenix", but as it stands, "west wind"
By any Nation's standard, Xi Feng is a weird kid. A bit of a bending prodigy in the way of Ozai and Azula, but with a twist- Xi Feng's obsession is with controlling fires rather than starting them. Jeong Jeong would be proud! He thinks highly of all his siblings: Zhi is beautiful, Dan Dan is sweet but strange, Shaozu is wonderful, and Irana is strong. Almost freakishly intelligent, he spends a lot of time in the library and has been known to fall asleep with his face on a scroll or in a book. He also suffers from insomnia and a compulsion to extinguish things left burning, like the throne. Mai is convinced he may be the reincarnation of a legendary Fire Nation prince who helped a previous Avatar save the world by extinguishing massive fires, but this legend was suppressed during the war and most people are unfamiliar with it.

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Li: meaning- upright
We've got nothing but a name on this kid.

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Nameless Baby #7, because Mai and Zuko really like babies. A lot.