So what if the Dai Li took a look at 'Lee' saw the very golden eyes and black hair and went; "Huh, that sure doesn't looke like someone from the earth kingdom, does it?" and decide to imprison him. Iroh goes free, since he has less of the identifying features (grey hair, brown-ish eyes).
Iroh lets it happen, as breaking Zuko out of prison is more feasible than fighting a whole team of Dai Li agents in broad day light.
Meanwhile the two idiots get trapped together, while Iroh figures out a plan to get them free. Iroh runs into the Gaang and they team up to rescue Zuko and Appa.
What the two guys get up to in prison... let's leave it up for free interpretation. Maybe they fight (highly likely), maybe they get their frustrations out in other ways. Who knows. Either way, Zuko keeps up the lie about being 'Lee'.
Eventually they are freed. Zuko almost bursts a blood vessel seeing the Avatar, Jet freaks out about Mushi firebending a whole lot to get them out.
Jet, screaming: "I told you he was a firebender!"
Zuko: "I know he's a firebender!" * trying to fight off Dai Li*
"And so am I!" 🔥🔥🔥
Jet: "You lied to me?! Again?" 😱💀😡
Jet hates his face. He can't stand to look at it. He always looks away from mirrors when he's in the bathroom or ignores his reflection completely whenever he walks past water.
He doesn't believe he's ugly, no far from it. Jet knows he's not from the way girls smile shyly whenever he talks to them. The way they giggle with flustered faces whenever they're in his presence. Smellerbee always rolls her eyes whenever he indulges a little in flirting with girls whenever they pass in a town.
No, Jet hates his face because he looks just like his mother.
His beautiful, caring mother. The one that would always kiss him goodnight after telling him stories of spirits or star-crossed lovers. She was a hopeless romantic jet remembers that. His mother who would coddle him and rock her in his lap after he came home crying, another one of the village boys picking on him for how small he was. Jet used to be quite scrawny and weak if his freedom fighters could believe that.
His mother, the one that protected him from the seething hot flames the best she could the day the fire nation came to their village. while his father did his best to hold the soldiers off. And when he failed to do so, held jet tight to her as she told him to run as far as he could and to never look back. Even promising him she'd be right behind him.
He didn't keep the promise of not looking back as Jet heard the wailing screams of his mother dying. Tears blurring his view of her as the last thing he saw of her was her eyes. Only to see her killer on a Komodo Rhino in front of him with a hatred he'd never seen before.
So now jet covers mirrors. And if he can't do that, he breaks them. Letting the glass shatter as his fist covers in blood. Not only does jet hate that he looks like his mother, but he has the same hatred in his eyes as her killer. Hatred for the fire nation and what it did to him, to his own people and others.
And the thought of the only reminisce jet has left of his mother being tarnished by seeing her face with hatred in her eyes, would kill him sooner than what was to become of him in ba sing se.
Okay, let's do this quickly. It's about 4:42 in the morning and I can't sleep because of a comic starring the main couple Jet/Zuko, it's an incredibly old fanbook and I'm OBSESSED. I accidentally found a page where someone released a translation from the scans and it looks like they bought this book, but did not translate it completely; the last update was 10 DAMN YEARS AGO. Anyway, this comic looks like this, and if anyone has this, or know where I can buy it, PLEASE SEND ME SOMETHING??
too many "Jet is the abusive ex 😔" fics not enough "Jet is the ONLY ex that Zuko is still on speaking terms with" fics like come on.... funnier, mind-opening, realistic (ignore he is dead), under-explored, confusing,
jetko is such a funny concept to me. they are loser4loser, freak4freak. the gaang seeing them would be hilarious in general but none more-so than katara. imagine being katara and seeing them together. how would it feel knowing you’re spit sisters with your nemesis? your nemesis who bagged the dude you liked and now serves in a tea shop while his bf beats up cops. she’d see them holding hands and spontaneously combust. breaking news: the two worst people you know are dating. if i were her i’d fall to the ground.
POV: you're Sokka and you're desperately trying to get to know the cute emo linecook from the restaurant next door but whenever he's on smokebreak his greasy stoner boyfriend is also there.