Personally, if I was Zuko in ATLA, if Jet was to accuse me of being a firebender (which would be true) in front of a tea shop full of people, I would IMMEDIATELY go the misinformation route. No questions, I would just start lying. “What do you mean, ‘I’m a fire bender’? I have a burn scar. Firebenders are immune to fire.” Straight up lying. Untruths would spill out of my mouth like a fountain. The best thing is none of the citizens of Ba Sing Se would know any better. They’ve never met a firebender before (unless they were a refugee, but even then, probably not common to see a firebender be burnt, so point still stands), so how would they know I’m lying? Jet would be seething.














