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little sketch of wednesday as I picture her in the fic "the past tense of know" by retrieveire :3 she has a little black cat named E.D. in there, hehe 🐈‍⬛

Because that all begs the question - why do the play writers think zuko and katara are together?? Like literally lmao was it just for the Drama of it all? Or do enough people in the avatar universe perceive Zuko and Katara to be a couple for it to be a far spread rumor?? Is June gossiping in taverns like "oh the fire nation prince? yeah he hired me to find his girlfriend. he had her betrothal necklace and everything"??

And how did the play writers (or anyone for that matter) even know that Zuko and Katara had shared a Moment with one another in the crystal caverns? Were there like, Dai Li Agents spying on them from afar? Watching katara huff and stalk around and yell at zuko then like five seconds later they see her cradling Zuko's face and they're just like "bro" "bro" "no way" "there's no war in ba sing se but we've got to tell people about that."

Playwright: We've been making some updates to our recent productions and we were hoping you could fill in some gaps for us, Firelord to avoid the spreading of misinformation.

Zuko: Great.

Playwright: So, after you had defeated the princess-

Zuko: Oh I didn't defeat Azula, Master Katara did.

Playwright:... You defeated her together?

Zuko: No I was shot with lightning by then.

Playwright:.... You survived being shot by lightning?

Zuko: Oh yeah, but it's fine, Katara healed me.

Playwright: Interesting, and she put her hands on your bare chest to do this?

Zuko: Hold on, I know what this is and you can stop right now, it was a purely medical process of one friend helping another and I would prefer if it weren't made into some kind of ridiculous, romantic drama which it absolutely wasn't!

Playwright: I understand, although I might have to do something to engage my audience since I can't really sell 'the firelord got hit by lightning and was out for the count for most of the fight'

Zuko: Hey, I was only hit by lightning because otherwise it would have hit Katara-

Playwright:

Zuko:

playwright: so it was... just the two of you

zuko: i mean yeah but like after i helped her cope with her mother's death and she helped me face my uncle it just seemed right to have her there

playwright: you did what now?

zuko: yeah after i got her father out of prison

“They went on one revenge mission for her mom!” Imagine the person who betrayed you once wants to make it right and prove to you how much you matter to him because he sees how much you’re hurting so he takes you on a cathartic journey to help you heal from the deepest trauma you’ve ever experienced and checks in with you the entire time to make sure you’re doing okay mentally yet he doesn’t expect your forgiveness in return, he just wants you to heal in whatever way you can and to know that he supports you no matter what and some freak is in your ear flippantly calling it a revenge mission that doesn’t really have a bearing on the trajectory of your relationship with him while also downplaying the growth you personally experienced from it.