someone sent me a link to this interview on instagram with ian ousley and we can’t stop laughing at how canon zukka this answer is. they were literally enemies at 15; did they go on a life changing field trip? i can hear the ‘zukka forced together in a training camp and share a bunk’ fics being written from here.
what i love for the live action ATLA is that the fandom is fully aware that sokka and zuko's actors are queerbaiting us, but every post is like "YESS!!!! TRICK US HARDER!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!"
Sokka:It's so unfair that you, Aang, and Toph have all gotten wanted posters, and I haven't
Zuko: I technically got 2, but why are you bothering over it now? We're no longer enemies of the fire nation
Sokka: It's the principle of it, and plus, I feel underappreciated. Wait what do you mean you had 2?
Zuko: That's unimportant, *thinks to himself for a moment*, what if I made one for you now, I'll even give you a bigger bounty than Aang with a cool nickname added on to it for you. Would that make you happy?
Sokka *tearing up*: You truly do care about me
Zuko: Great, when you leave the fire nation, I'll release it and have it circulate for a few weeks, then call it back so that you're not constantly being hounded and chased by bounty hunters.
Thinking today about how the only field trip Zuko took from which he had nothing to gain and would actually cost him everything if things went wrong was with Sokka.