The Konggodzuko Show

*goes to japan to visit all the parking lots they fight in in kamen rider and then leaves*

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

something that's so important to me during the southern raiders is that, after his moment's surprise at Katara's bloodbending, Zuko's eyes narrow and he unflinchingly presses forward. because in that moment, even if he doesn't recognize what it is that Katara is doing, he recognizes the rage and anguish driving her actions—he can see what she's feeling and it doesn't perturb him because he understands. it's an ineffable state of mind, not something she can explain to someone else with words, but in Zuko's case, she doesn't need to. that implicit understanding is so important to me.

It also seems like a statement designed to market more content to us. "The story isn't over yet, guys! Promise! We definitely aren't trying to milk the rotten, dried corpse of this franchise!"

It wouldn't work for a number of reasons but there is potentially a really funny Zutara fanfic in the idea of Katara-as-the-Painted-Lady asking her mysterious new ally and vigilante partner the Blue Spirit for help finding the enterence to the Library. Zuko agrees because he thinks it'll give him a good chance to snatch Aang (or so he tells himself) he ends up going into the Library too for... reasons. There he talks to Roku, learns about his bloodline, Sozin's Comet, and that his father really is THAT CRAZY. And that (plus other things) is enough to convince Zuko to disavow his father completely and join the Team Avatar. Unfortunately, his mask gets knocked off while they're all trying to escape but at that point they have a giant owl trying to eat them so they agree to table the discussion of Zuko's new moral alignment.

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