Their wedding has been planned for 3 years and it's finally happening! General Iroh is there to witness the union, with Commander Zhao and his fleet as protection. Sokka knows something is up, but no one believes him. But what is Zhao doing sneaking away?
someone please take sokka’s phone away
Zuko
he's very good at masking about 90% of the time
struggles with social cues sometimes?
he walks a very odd line between missing social cues because autism and being hyperaware of social cues because abuse victim
positive attention is a little foreign to him - people flirt with him all the time and he just barrels right on through
he scripts things out everything. practices random conversations with turtleducks. has entire scrolls of "what to say if..." laying around his room.
unrelated but his customer service voice is ever-present in Official Political Meetings
a fascinating special interest in tea
can and will infodump at the drop of a hat
lots of finger stims (they're small and easy to hide)
facial expressions mean nothing folks
super smooth fabrics bother him
he doesn't really like how fire feels - his own is pretty nice, and aang's is usually okay, but everyone else's is sketchy
hates hates hates the texture of his scar
listen zuko just infodumps a lot
this meme + ATLA ships
Whenever they have the chance, Ellie and Joel get matching clothes, usually sweatshirts.
The best places to find new ones are remote gift shops that haven't been picked over yet, but they will take anything they can get their hands on, starting a small collection. It's not clear who had the idea first, but they both love it more than they're willing to admit for exactly the same reason - it makes them look like a family, and, more specifically, the package deal they are. They don't actively coordinate their outfits, but if one of them wears a shirt they both have, the other one races to change as soon as they see it.
Everyone else finds it fucking adorable, not that anyone except Tommy would actually be brave enough to say it to their faces, but the people in Jackson like Joel and Ellie more than they know; it's the way they look at each other, really, the bubble of fondness surrounding them wherever they go.
Identical shirts pose one problem though, mostly for Joel. When they're scattered around their house, left on the couch or in his bed, slung over a kitchen chair, it's hard to see what size it is. Ellie loves wearing Joel's shirts, glowing with something adorably childlike whenever she does, but Joel cannot wear hers, and he has gotten stuck in them while trying to pull them on in a hurry more than once.
He complains to Tommy about it (with the biggest fucking smile, and his brother cannot for the life of him take his annoyance seriously), but he still comes up with a solution. After collecting all of their matching shirts, he commandeers their living room and stitches their initials where the clothing tag should be (Ellie hates them, they're itchy, so she cut them off). His embroidery is great, he even makes sure to use the right color schemes, and numb fingertips are worth the crushing hug Ellie gives him afterwards.
(She still steals Joel's shirts, just because she can.)
What if zuko has body dysmorphia. Like along with the hearing and sight loss he just hates the scar so much. He can stand to see it, cringes anytime his hand brushes against it. It triggers him when people mention it.
I want zuko clawing at his face, growing out his hair just to hide it at much as possible, immediately tenses when he hears 's', the gaang is super protective of him and defends his honour anytime someone goes for a low blow, uncle tries to help zuko accept that part of himself, and the scar is like the only thing azula avoids because she's never seen zuko react like that.
I read a HC that there were gaang + mai + ty lee dolls and action figures after the war. Cause they were famous, and heroes.
Now I CA t stop thinking about Mai despising doll-Mai, and Zuko absolutely loving it. Cause, you know, it’s Mai! He can’t not love mai!
HC accepted
Bow before Chieftess Yue and her consort Chief-King Zuko.
Zukos rank is directly below Yue, which was decided by them. Arnook and the council didn't like the idea, since that goes against their culture, but Zuko was raised in a society where gender doesn't determine role. He loves his wonderful, intelligent, determined wife. She's a great leader and Zuko is a good support.
WARNING very graphic visual of Lu-Tens last moments. the footage shows, how prince Lu-Ten son of Iroh second in line. has to fight off on his own, two small hatchlings, both enraged by their pray being stolen. and you can clearly see, how his father, the general, dragon of the west crown prince Iroh, JUST SITS ON THE SIDELINES SIPPING HIS TEA AND LAUGHING HIS BELLY OF!