Summary: Zuko's been keeping the true magnitude of the damage to his face from everyone, but he can't hold it in much longer after Toph catches him in the deception. Set at Iroh's tea shop after the series ends.
Warnings:
Contains some ableist language and attitudes due to most of the characters in it being teenagers who keep stumbling over their words, and because of being written with the assumption that 100 years of war-making would have changed how the Fire Nation viewed disabilities that could affect performance on a battlefield.
Contains non-graphic references to past child abuse; these are constrained to how Zuko got his scar and to the events leading to his mother's disappearance.
Also contains 16-year-olds kissing, along with a teenage head of state simultaneously wondering if his girlfriend will accept him for who he is and if she would make a good
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Date: 2010-07-17 10:15 pm (UTC)A Matter Of Secrets
Summary: Zuko's been keeping the true magnitude of the damage to his face from everyone, but he can't hold it in much longer after Toph catches him in the deception. Set at Iroh's tea shop after the series ends.
Warnings:
Contains some ableist language and attitudes due to most of the characters in it being teenagers who keep stumbling over their words, and because of being written with the assumption that 100 years of war-making would have changed how the Fire Nation viewed disabilities that could affect performance on a battlefield.
Contains non-graphic references to past child abuse; these are constrained to how Zuko got his scar and to the events leading to his mother's disappearance.
Also contains 16-year-olds kissing, along with a teenage head of state simultaneously wondering if his girlfriend will accept him for who he is and if she would make a good