[He gets points from Rin for trying. Rin has been there himself, stuck in an awful mental space, lacking help and support from those around him, convinced that all that waited for him in the future was more of the same...

Thankfully, as painful what caused it had been, change came to him and he was able to forge a new life with people around him who actually cared.

He genuinely believed Zuko could get there too, someday.

To the question he shakes his head.]

Nah, I was just a student. I did have a little cheap lunch place outta the school's kitchen for like a day but the headmaster got pissed I did it without permission so it got shut down.

[Damn Mephisto, let your poorer students eat cheaply! Fucking miser.]

But I've been cookin' since I was little. Only thing I ever really got good at.