thats-pretty-neato:

y’all I just came to a realization that is SENDING me rn I’m-

So we all know the whole thing with Aang using outdated slang in the fire nation and all that right? One of the things he says a lot is “flameo, hot man!” and all that. Well in lok after Korra like trashes the police station Lin goes “what the flameo happened here?” Which implies that flameo is a stand in for fuck because it’s a kids show. That’s means one of two things:

Either flameo somehow changed from a greeting a literal curse word over one hundred years and Aang had basically been greeting people by saying “fuck you!” OR Zuko got so viscerally upset by Aang constantly using flameo as a greeting that he somehow rewrote the fire nation lexicon to make flameo an offensive term just to spite him