So there’s a lot of “citizens of Ba Sing Se freak out when Lee the tea servant turns out to be the Firelord,” but consider the alternative. What if Zuko is just chilling at the Jasmine Dragon one day and sees an old regular and addresses them by their name but said regular does not remember him at all and is just like “wait what the fuck why does the Firelord know my name?”
A citizen who frequents the tea shop rises in rank and ends up at the palace one day, and Zuko snaps his fingers in memory, points to them, and recites their order, and the citizen has a mild freak out wondering if the Fire Lord is psychic























