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autisticzukka · 3 years

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what is this hakoda zuko arranged marriage you speak of? i am intrigued

okay so the long story short is that it’s a slight rebuttal of a popular post that is very fun but i find like... unrealistic in a really intriguing way like, how would this ACTUALLY play out. I’ve talked about it at length in my server a few times, and it’s one of those AU’s -- like the genderbend zukka ATLA rewrite or the zukki fic that starts with sokka failing to assassinate zuko -- that lives rent free in my head and I’ve written a couple thousand words for.

tw for like VERY unrequited zuko in love with hakoda and the inherent comedy of sokka being in love with his fire nation stepmom.

so here’s hakoda, chief of the southern water tribe, happily not-married to Bato. and here is a more balanced war, where the north and the south are actually allies, rather than whatever the fuck they were in ATLA. Yue already has a fiance and the Northern chief refuses to remarry. that leaves hakoda responsible for biting the bullet and doing a political marriage even though, as he points out at length, he is an elected official and if he stops being elected it’s no longer a marriage with the chief of the south pole. intelligently but mostly selfishly motivated (yue’s fiance is his nephew, after all) pakku points out that its not like the fire nation knows... that. the fire nation is dumb. ozai’s stupid.

faced with such inarguable points hakoda stiffens his upper lip, pre-emptively ends things with bato on the understanding that if this is another kya situation they’ll get back together and that he’s still the most important person to him but the tribe comes first yada yada, and deals with katara throwing the mother of all tantrums. it is slightly softened by the fact that in return for him marrying the fire nation noble, a thing everyone can agree isn’t traditional, the north has finally agreed to train katara. she heads out before the wedding, in protest but also so as to not cause an international incident.

(on her way, she’ll find aang. with the war less dire, katara will be sympathetic towards his desire to live without committing violence, even if she deeply can’t relate. they’ll have a hot girl romcom summer of self discovery and coming to terms with the dichotomy between duty and love as they become master benders. at some point they pick up toph. they ARE a throuple.)

sokka meanwhile is like.. not cool with it.. but ? kind of relieved? like. he’s the eldest kid. he’s 18, and he’s been a man of the tribe as far as legalities for several years. it would have been entirely understandable if his dad had asked HIM to do it. he had his emotionally crushing romance with yue, and as much as he was like ‘im kind of a prince’, he finds he doesn’t actually want some of the responsibilities and demands that would bring. yue’s life sucks.

back in the fire nation, zuko never demanded a quest and never went on it. he’s spent years hardening into something that, while brittle, can survive the pressures of the court around him. he still has his scar. he still wants his father to love him, but he knows by now that it’s not something he’s capable of earning. he watches his sister, never the most stable person, start to have complete breakdowns of sanity once she hits puberty, and helps her cover for it and receive medical treatment on the down low. he’s the heir, but he lives knowing that if he was ever in a position to inherit his choices are to abdicate or have the baby sister who he raised kill him and destroy herself and the country in the process.

when he realizes the plan is to marry azula off rather than someone more reasonable-- mai is RIGHT there, for fucks sake-- he doesn’t realize ozai’s true intent is to fuck this up through malicious compliance and false shows of good faith. he panics, and does the zuko thing: he blurts out that this is unacceptable and immoral and she’s only 16 and Ozai sees the true opportunity for two birds with one stone. send zuko, let him piss someone off so badly he gets killed or divorced, and he gets rid of zuko from the line of succession permanently. there are those who are incredibly attached to teh idea of a firstborn for firelord, and it’s been a constant thorn in unpopular ozai’s side to nto be able to name azula his heir apparent without costly rebellion. but if he can taint him in the mind of the fire nation so much that birthright is easy to supercede-- yeah. this’ll work PERFECTLY.

so zuko is sent to marry hakoda, chief of the water tribe.

literally NO ONE was expecting it to be a member of Ozai’s immediate family. besides the fact that his oldest child is half hakoda’s age and his brother has 20 years on hakoda, it would have been sus as fuck - the treaty is not favorable enough to grant that kind of secession of interests. it becomes quickly apparent that this young man -- hakoda reminds himself of that repeatedly. not kid. not kid. young man. don’t think of him like a kid, it’s hard enough on both of us already. -- is not a horrible threat. he’s scared shitless and shakes with what he thinks is bravado. he’s desperate to make the marriage work. he’s desperate to not go home. he’s got a giant fucking scar on his face from where the fire lord punished him for some grievous but unstated offense.

zuko “daddy issues” fire nation sees his husband to be and, despite being scared shitless, immediately begins to soften a little. like... he’s not nearly as scary as he thought he’d be. his face can be stern, but it just as easily breaks into huge smiles, and his eyes are crinkled with laughter. he’s incredibly handsome. and his biceps are. his biceps. are. his hands are...

like. zuko thinks. okay. maybe. maybe his marriage duties. won’t be so horrible as he thought. maybe he’s ready for this. and he knows what to expect, Uncle had discreetly provided him the means and the contacts to acquire an intimate education in the whirlwind of activity that was the two months before leaving. and like, once he’d gotten past the nerves, it was often even... good? or at least... not bad? he thinks that even if hakoda isn’t a professional expert, he has a certain.... je ne sais quoi, if you will.

((DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF DILF))

sokka sees his new stepfather and immediately falls in love because he’s that kind of dumb bitch. (the core of this au is that i cant breathe thinking about sokka falling in love with his hot young stepmom his age who his dad doesnt even want to fuck. like. i CANT. sokka masturbates to ‘hand caught in the washing tub’ fantasies which are even more absurd for requiring zuko to be DOING LAUNDRY. i find it so funny.)

bato watches them at the wedding feast while hakoda is very clearly trying to treat zuko as an Equal Adult Partner and mostly managing to seem like someone having a serious conversation with a seven year old about the game they’ve made up. zuko is clearly enamored with it, soaking up the attention, blushing and doing his best to Bravely Flirt, which at one point includes awkwardly attempting to feed Hakoda by hand. bato has to excuse himself to have a teary eyed giggle, hoping that Kya is in the spirit world looking down and laughing with him. he can’t resent the kid even a little bit, when hakoda is sitting there looking so incredibly fucking befuddled as to what he’s supposed to do with this star struck infant he’s legally wed to

anyways all of this... is very funny. their wedding night... is less so. zuko does not take the rejection from hakoda very well, especially because he’d been caught wanting. HE’S the one who should be rejecting hakoda. and he catastrophizes almost immediately about his potential value to the water tribe, his future treatment, that endless inescapable freezing cold loneliness is the good ending for him here... hakoda, meanwhile, drops zuko off at his home, reassuringly informs him that there’s NOTHING else expected of him and he will be well taken care of, and books it to bato’s. bato refuses to let him in on grounds of ‘you can’t sleep under the same shelter as me on your wedding night to that kid, have a fucking brain’, and he ends up crashing at sokka’s.

sokka, who had KNOWN that his dad wouldnt, but also upon seeing zuko and zuko’s awkward flirting was like... but how COULDNT he???? sokka is relieved.

the core of this fic is that i find it endlessly hilarious for zuko to try and seduce his husband while sokka simps around zuko and bato tries to be heartbroken or betrayed but mostly ends up with a giant case of hysterical schadenfreude. but the thing that CLINCHED it for me, like THE scene. several years after being married, settled into their life. they’re partners and they see each other as people. and zuko just fucking snaps one night

he just kisses him, desperate and clawing and climbing and maybe a little drunk. he knows hakoda is going to push him away, maybe even hit him, but he doesn’t care anymore, he doesn’t care. he can do anything he wants to him as long as he just-- finally does something. zuko is 21 and married to the surface of the sun and the surface of the sun jr is his best friend and clearly in love with him-- so clearly not even zuko can miss it-- and like. listen. listen. zuko is not a patient person. but he’s been patient for this. he waited and he matured and he is a fucking amazing husband and he wants this, he wants him. he wants to be wanted.

but hakoda doesn’t push him away. hakoda doesnt yell at him, or hit him. hakoda gentles the kiss into something soft and closed lipped. he pulls away slowly, and his eyes are so sad for zuko, so pitying. he strokes his cheek with the back of his hand so gently. he says, I’m sorry. I don’t want you.

and zuko daddy issues fire nation swallows

and he nods

and he leaves, even though its his own fucking house

and he knows he’s never going to be good enough

like FUUUCK i am OBSESSED WITH THAT

#long post #lmao i am NOT fucking main tagging this #op #asked and answered #i just want zuko to fall in love with hakoda and for hakoda to gently reject him #noncommittalhum

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sukirichi · 2 years

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HFHDHHDHHSHSH SUKIIIIIIIIIII I SAW THE ALTERNATIVE ENDING UPDATE AND I-

BCHDHDHHSSHSHHS also my friend wants to complain about his lost eardrums cause he said i might have made him deaf thank to the banshee scream i let out 😌✌️

HCHDHDHHDBDBS NOW WHERE DO O EVEN START?? BRO I- WHILE THE OTHER ENDINF HAD ME IN TEARS THIS ONCE JUST MADE ME SMILE SO HARD MY CHEEKS STARTED TO LEGITIMATELY HURT?? HDHDHHDHSHHS LIKE OMFG I DIDNT REALIZE HOW MUCH I MISSED THESE TWO DORKS BXHDHHDHDHHS I COULDNT HELP OT BUT START AIR KICKING ONCE THEY FINALLY SAW EACH OTHER AFTER 8 YEARS FHCHHDHDHSJ AAAAAAAAAA

Ayoo but mt heart kinda clenched when suna notice y/n wasn't wearing her seatbelt so he reached over to buckle it himself... It kinda made me feel like in a way he was making sure that he wouldnt lose y/n in the same way mary died and oh boy..... Even if he doesnt check it willingly, he really got scarred from it....

But omfg when they were just talking while staring at the stars like they used to AND AND SUNA WAS JUST FHDHGDHDGSGHAHS FUCKKKKKK SUKI I LOVE YOUR SUNA SO MUCH JESUS WOMAN HES JUST SO GENTLE AND DEVOTED AND LOYAL I CANT 😭😭😭😭

And thank FUCK she asked him to go with him cause if she didnt I WOULD RIOT FHDHSHHSH

:))))

Suna wasnt given the chance of asking y/n for marriage after they graduated cause she left him

Suna wasnt given the chance of asking mary to marry him cause she 'left to london' 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Can you imagine how happy i was when i finally saw him asking y/n marry me...... OMFG I WANTED TO CRY I- I WANT TO HUG HIM SO BAD OMFG

And girl 👀👀👀 i saw hos you sneaked kita in fhdhhdhdhsh i laughed especially hard when suna went like: even i feel like i'd be happy id i ended up with him' Pls suna shut up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

'but id love it even more if you could sit on top of my face. I want to kiss a different pair of lips tonight'

No but we already talked about this and as much as i still see the original ending the canon one i truly felt like i was in a happy dream in this one. I cant put in words how happy and nostalgic i felt while reading this, it truly made me miss the times i was waiting for an update of this series dhdhdhhshs br for sure is my fav fic and will keep on being for a long long time. Thank you so much for accepting our commissions and for always feeding us good food *huggles* you really are an amazing and talented writer and fuck as i felt like y/n was more distant and mature in the original ending here i felt like albeit more mature she still kept the childish shine in her yeah? And that made me so so happy

Thank you again for this suki 💕💕💕

HFHFHHDHDHDHJS i missed ranting like this

Also they named their daughter semi BRUH MY MIND GLITCHED CAUSE I THOUGHT ABOUT SEMI EITA FHDHHDHDHSH

YOOOO KYA IM SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONSE

ALSO BANSHEE SCREAM OMG AHSJKAA. no omg i also missed them a lot when i was writing it, like i ALMOST forgot these two were best friends and partners in crime for EVERYTHING like no matter what happened, they tried to be there for each other but in the original ending, they had to say goodby eventually and that shit reallly hurts like it HURTS so writing the alt ending was very healing for me lol. and the seatbelt scene, yeah !! he was watching out for her because i dont think suna can handle losing one more person he cares about.

NAUUURR BCOS BROKEN RECORDS SUNA... lowkey my dream guy with the mari thing aside, i would really fall in love with br! suna. he is a super gentle person and hes always patient + EXTREMELY DEVOTED SO ??? yeah come here. (self insert a random thought but it would honestly be easier to break up with suna if he had been a bad person, but instead he was someone who loved and cared with his whole heart - MAN IS JUST A LITTLE CONFUSED SOMETIMES but cmon hes human - and yeah idk, i honestly cant even imagine what it feels like to be in rintaro's shoes.)

THE SCENE WHERE SUNA ALSO LOWKEY CRUSHED ON KITA LMFAOOOO no bcos kita is too perfect to be real.

and omg thank you so much i'm happy to know this'll be your favorite fic YOURE GONNA MAKE ME CRY LOL. and yeah you're right about that - YN in the original ending felt "distant" but that's mostly bcos she and Rintaro aren't on the same... wavelength anymore, if that makes sense. like she grew up and matured faster than him, SHE was able to move on easier than he did, and Suna was still stuck in the past with her as said from his lines that, "i dont love you anymore" even though he does and he always will. YN really has no feelings for him anymore other than platonic, but in the alt ending, i feel like they were more aligned to how they had been in the series from ch1-9. like you said, their playfulness and youth was still there !!

HELPPP NOT SEMI EITA AHSJAKA ALTHO HES HOT TOO, HE REALLY IS

#series ( broken records )#long ask #💌.lovelies #asks with naoya's trophy wife

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evienyx · 4 years

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"I’m quite sure that I’m not bringing Jet back, and if I do he’ll barely even be there, but who knows, I might. Just don’t count on it if you really like Jet." - Evie, Queen of the Plot twists. On that note, I can't wait for Jet to get there, and suddenly Kya's yelling in his face, and he's just sitting there like, "Katara?" Jet looks at Hakoda and is like, "What happened to you guys?" Also *glances around nervously* I honestly like Fractures better than MuffinLance's work, which is still great.

One of the beauties of Avatar being (technically) a children’s show is that all of the deaths are rather ambiguous, making it very easy for me to swoop in and be like ‘naw they lived.’

The mental image of Jet arriving at the Fire Nation to Kya and Hakoda and thinking they’re Katara and Sokka is amazing, by the way.

Kya, hitting Jet with a stick: Stop! Trying! To! Kill! The! Fire! Lord!

Hakoda, standing to the side, watching: Try an uppercut, honey.

Jet, sobbing in confusion: When did you guys get so old? How long was I on that boat???

And that final statement, too. I have some things to say on that, and none of this is gonna be coherent but here you go, anyway.

I’ve found myself being compared to @muffinlance a lot, lately.

It makes sense, of course. We’re both modern ATLA fic writers with constant updates, active tumblrs, and a focus on Zuko (primarily in angst and hurt/comfort, with some found family on the side and a dab of very odd scenarios). And while Muffin has a relatively larger following than me and more fics out (for now hehehhehe), I can completely see the similarities.

And, adding onto that, we both have fics with quite a bit of popularity. Muffin’s Salvage is currently the second most-Kudos’d fic in the fandom on Ao3. Out of over 11000. Fractures, too, just reached number 10 in terms of Kudos as of, like, last night.

(which, by the way, is insane, like, omg, we hit 5000 kudos and got #10 all at once i cant breathe)

I admire Muffin as a writer. I think we all do. She’s an incredible writer, and dedicated, and creative, and so many other things.

And that’s probably why I feel so weird every time I get someone who says that they like my work as much as hers, or that they like mine more. I have multiple people say stuff like that in the comments every time I update, I’ve had people message me and say that, I’ve had people put it in asks, and it always messes with my head.

For a long time, I’ve used writing as a way to let go, to escape from the utter emptiness that life sadly often seems to give. I fix things in stories and I change them around to see what could have happened. And yet, for a long time, I never wrote any fics other than like, little ones that I didn’t care for, or an x Reader (i know ugh) that I was honestly annoyed with before the story could even really start.

I read fics for the same reason, to escape. Muffin’s fics were some of the first I read in the fandom that I actually latched onto, and found myself interested in. Muffin’s overall attitude on Tumblr was so enjoyable. Her stories were original and funny and they helped bring the community back to life. Muffin was the one who inspired me to start writing again, in the way that I wanted. Muffin gave me the inspiration to stop writing for other people and to start writing for myself. All of her stories felt so raw and spoke to me in a way that a fic never really had before.

I can even remember the specific day when things suddenly became oddly... clear. It was the first of August. It was blisteringly hot and I was camping. I had my old laptop out on top of a towel on the picnic table, hooked up to a hotspot from my phone to get internet, and I was reading Little Zuko v the World. I was at the end of one of the chapters when I felt something just shift.

Google Drive was open in another window, because I had been working on an assignment earlier. I went to it, dived into my fanfic folder, and read through the outline for a story I had sketched out a while back, maybe a month before, as well as the first chapter. I looked back at Ao3, open in the other window, with Muffin’s fic just... shining back at me, and I broke.

Half an hour later, the first chapter of Fractures was published on Ao3.

I started this whole thing as a writer in this fandom (a serious writer in this fandom) with Muffin. If I’m being honest with myself, I never would have published Fractures if I hadn’t read her work.

So, every time someone compares me to her, it’s weird, because I know that comparison would have never even happened if she hadn’t published her work first, and I can’t help but wonder, every time I read one of those comments, how anyone could ever possibly think I was as good as she is.

That was probably nonsensical, but I think I also needed to get it out of me.

#fractures atla #ask #ask away #this ask started out so simple where did we go wrong #if you read to the end though #congrats!#you made it through one rendition of some of evie's inner thoughts #hooray!#tune in next week where we tackle her confidence issues #*jingle plays*

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