au where jet doesn’t find out that zuko and iroh are fire nation and when he runs into the gaang he goes ‘oh by the way this is my new friend lee. we met on the ferry ride over here!’ and the gaang and zuko just like awkwardly stare at each other for a really long time
I love it
*in everyone’s minds*
Zuko: Maybe if I just keep up my persona, they’ll believe I’m someone else… Okay, that’s stupid, but what choice do I have?
Aang: …Maybe if we just pretend we’ve never met before he’ll stay nice and we can all keep the peace.
Katara: If he lifts one hand against us, I will freeze them both.
Sokka: Please be a coincidence. Please be a coincidence. Please be a coincidence. Please be a coinci-
Toph: Why is he so scared? Is he shy? Why is Katara so upset? Why is Aang freaking out? Why is Sokka so irritated? And now Jet’s freaking out.
Jet: Do- do they not like him? Do they not like him because he’s my friend? Do they still hate me? Do they hate him because of me? Lee looks like he’s about to pass out? Is he okay?
This needs to be a fic
ACTUALLY SCREAMING
Toph to Iroh: oh hey, you’re that really old guy who gave me tea once
extremely missed opportunity to not show katara and sokka reacting to seeing a field for the first time. katara like “holy fuck!!!!! green!!!!! everywhere green!!!!!!!!!” and sokka being like “now hang on, the Everywhere Green might be dangerous. proceed with caution.” meanwhile katara and aang are already rolling like twin barrels down a hill shrieking with utter glee. eventually sokka concedes that the everywhere green is kind of beautiful, actually. and that is the exact moment he steps in a patch of poison ivy
when that tiny friend in your friend group carries you, the tall friend in your friend group, so you just panic a bit because no one had carried you like that in a long time-
Zuko finding out about the gaang’s shenanigans after joining them and vice versa is still the funniest thing to me and I think about it all the time
Zuko: where did you even find toph?
Sokka: oh we ran into her while she was a pro wrestling champion
Zuko: .. that twelve yr old blind girl was a what now??
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Zuko: you said you tried firebending before? Who taught you?
Aang: this strange guy called jeong jeong who lived in a forest
Zuko, who grew up in the firenation and probably heard all about this man: THE DESERTER??
Aang: ya how’d you know??
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Aang: you know what’s strange? Zhao seemed to just disappear after the north pole… I wonder what happened?
Zuko: oh he’s dead
Aang: w-what?
Zuko: yea. Watched him drown too. A big grabby hand got him and dragged him into the ocean
Aang: …. *crying*
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Zuko: so what did you guys do while hiding in the fire nation?
Aang: oh not much tbh, I went to school for like two days, Katara and I blew up a factory, we cleaned a river, Toph scammed a whole town, Katara learned bloodbending and I went to therapy
Zuko:
Aang: did I forget anything? Oh right Sokka got a sword
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