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[ Arranged Marriage | Courtship Rituals | Cultural Misunderstandings | Yearning & Pining ] Fire Lord Zuko has negotiated treaties, survived assassination attempts, and ruled a nation for eight years. Surely, courting one woman can’t be that difficult. There’s just one small complication. He’s already married to her. Eighteen months into a perfectly pleasant diplomatic marriage, Zuko has made a rather inconvenient discovery: he’s hopelessly in love with his wife. So he does the respectable thing and begins courting her according to ancient Fire Nation traditions. Flowers. Ribbons. Lantern walks. Romantic gestures steeped in centuries of meaning. Unfortunately, his wife is from another nation. And she has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. The Fire Lord may have mastered diplomacy. Romance, apparently, is another matter entirely.