#also dad sokka being like i dont need bending! ill invent my own magic!

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I like the idea of Zuko and Sokka taking turns holding the chaotic parent card

Like Sokka will just turn up at Izumi’s school and be like, “hey, wanna play hookie?” They go to temples and matinees and to the zoo (and sometimes they just go shopping or out for lunch). And a completely unaware Zuko gets a notice from the school that the princess has once again not come back to class after lunch break. Little does he know that Sokka is teaching her lessons about spirituality/history/the arts/biology (and how to match a belt with a bag/the perfect amount of chili oil to put on sea prunes) while they’re out. He knows that Sokka misses her while she’s away, though, so he never mentions it.

I’m also imagining Zuko and Izumi looking for Sokka and thinking he’d most likely be in his office (aka his invention room which is basically just full of half-baked ideas and potential disaster/injury if you don’t know what you’re messing with) so they first try finding him there. Sokka has explicitly told both Izumi and Zuko to not mess with anything in his office for this reason. They soon realize that Sokka isn’t there and they’re just leaving to look for him elsewhere when Izumi spots a little gold sphere on his desk with a button on the side and a note beside it that says “priority.” Naturally, she starts reaching out for it but then looks up at her dad, expecting him to tell her not to touch it. Zuko, however, is equally intrigued. “Don’t tell daddy I said this, but sometimes it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission.” Turns out that Sokka was trying to make a glitter smoke bomb to use at Izumi’s birthday party so he could make a fun disappearing act for her and all her friends, but it was still very much in development. Zuko and Izumi were covered in glittery black soot for days.

#zukka dads are something that can actually be so personal #sokka takes her out of school to hang out #and zuko cant help but be impulsive around her #they share the parenting braincell #atla #sokka #zuko #zukka #izumi #also the ‘better to adk forgiveness than permission’ is something my dad said to me at one point lmao #and yes sokka had to explicitly tell his husband to not go rifling through his office cause he knew something like this would happen #also dad sokka being like i dont need bending! ill invent my own magic!