So Zuko and the Unagi: Do the Kyoshi know that they're, like, buddies, or is Suki very emphatically turning away and closing her eyes because nope nope nope? And I'm waiting for a Sokka-Zuko moment where Sokka is like "I am the Wolf" and Zuko just gives him A Look and glows and the Wolf is like Oh shit
I mean, they didn’t see Zuko cuddling with the fish. That bit sort of came before they were alerted to the situation. But Zuko definitely did cuddle with the big murder fish and Iroh definitely had to drink a lot of calming tea while that happened. The Kyoshi Warriors showed up when the Unagi did its job of acting as town herald for weird shit by just screaming until somebody came to see what it was screaming about. Then there’s just this kid and his entourage on the beach, and they ask a few questions, take no for an answer and go back to their ship. And then as the wooden ship what the fuck goes back out to sea, the Unagi is very obviously stalking them (that dorsal fin is not great for stealth) but in the protective patterns that it usually uses around the Island instead of the hunting patterns it uses around large schools of fish. And then they all go and reevaluate their own security protocols and get very much into their training and definitely don’t freak out when they get rumors from the mainland about the Bandit Prince. Everything’s fine. Everything is absolutely fine. They didn’t hallucinate it, they swear, but everything’s fine, and they have nothing to worry about, and everyone needs to learn how to use really sharp fans right now.
Sokka: *does his angry wolf snarl*
Zuko: you are like little baby. watch this. *starts glowing and, boy, his teeth seem like their bigger and fuck fuck fuck run every single instinct says do not fuck with this*
Homeboy was already raised by the Dragon of the West. He knows how to bare his teeth.
