#zuko had the potential to be the smoothest operator in all the lands

[the-badger-mole]

"he'd be shockingly smooth"??? We saw him with Mai, he wasn't smooth. 🫤

I think basing that opinion on his relationship with Mai is selling him short. That relationship was bad because Mai didn't actually like him. She also didn't appreciate or reciprocate his small romantic gestures. That seashell thing? Absolute gold, and something that just came natuarally. But because Mai had a bug up her nose it went over like a lead balloon. That wasn't his fault. Like I said, Zuko in a relationship where his partner actually likes him would be smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy. I'm basing that on how well his date with Jin ended once he got out of his own head. Imagine if they'd been able to go out a couple more times. Jin would've melted over that lil' seashell. And that's exactly why I'm baffled by the amount of people who seem to think canon Maiko was the height of romance. She didn't seem to like the boy, and he felt it. And he acted accordingly. He was dating someone just like his father. Of course he was weird and awkward.

#atla #zuko #jinko #sorta #anti-maiko #anti mai #zuko had the potential to be the smoothest operator in all the lands #but look at who taught him about girls #would you expect less? #i DID say that this was an unpopular opinion #doesn't make me wrong tho #mai on the other hand would make don juan look like an awkward schoolboy #she didn't actually like zuko #i will fight and die on that hill #and the show provides plenty of evidence