#slight sukka

[butterfish03]

been working on some zuko fanart :)

guys icl i have been obsessed with atla for ages but I HAVE NOT POSTED ANY ART OF MY OWN FOR A WHILLEEE so I thought to get myself into the groove of things I should post some fanart/WIPs .

its not much ikik the whole wip is down below :))

(slight sukka alert ig...) I hc that atleast once Zuko fire breathes to keep himself warm and someone from the gaang tries to harbour some heat he lets out LMAO (mainly sokka)

#atla zukka #atla zuko #atla sokka #atla fanart #prince zuko #atla gaang #avatar gaang #zukka fanart #zuko fanart #sokka fanart #atla brainrot

[badlucksav]

I'm fashionably late (as always) but today is Fanfic Writers Appreciation Day, so I need to gush about some very incredible, talented people, some of whom I'm very lucky to consider friends. This is probably going to be very lengthy, so if you don't want to see me scream about how amazing these lovely people are, I suggest you keep scrolling.

I've been in fandom for just over 2 years, and I've met some incredible people along the way. Here's what I love about them:

@neurologicaldamage as one of my oldest fandom friends, I have long enjoyed screaming excitedly at each other over new ideas or plot developments in existing fics. It was a thrilling ride waiting for each update of "These Scars of Ours". Your angst is the most exquisite type of pain I will gladly subject myself to over and over again.

@authorjoydragon JOY! My beloved multishipper. You are one of, if not the, biggest reason I have blossomed into the fully fledged multishipping trash that I am today. Your fics are like the sweetest, fluffiest piece of cake I can enjoy. I can't even remember the first fic I ever read from you. I definitely remember "Accidental Rendezvous" though, and I am forever honored you commissioned me for it! @orangepanic you took someone who wasn't even that into the LoK fandom and gave her a whole new OTP while she was on hiatus from Zutara. You are the captain of Irosami, and I am humbled to have become your first mate on this wonderful little ship. I have adored everything that I've read from you so far, but I am deeply enjoying "Hotman" and "Starvation Paradise", as well as your new gift for me, "There Was Only One Bed".

@homeagainrose Not only are you a talented writer, you are also an endless well of knowledge that has become invaluable to me (and many others, I'm sure). "Summer At the Swimming Dragon" is everything, and my excitement is palpable every time you update it. But of course, everything you write is superb (also a big fan of "Hello Sailor").

@asajjvxntress You were one of the first Zutara writers I stumbled across. It was "I've Got A Dark Alley" if memory serves, and definitely contributed to my love of modern AUs. I fell in love with "New Girl" and then watched the show, which is now one of my favorites and it's all because of you! Your output feeds our ship so well, and we are honored to have you.

@myargalargan O Captain, Our Captain of the lovely Sukka ship. Your writing is so darling. Sukka is so wholesome, but somehow it feels even more like that when you write them. You take a side pairing and make them a main pairing. "Our Little Remedy" was much anticipated, and I must thank you for introducing all of us to...you know *wink wink*.

@krastbannert My dude, the way you write is so...hauntingly captivating. Even on your happiest fics, there's always this slight air of melancholy that I just adore. The way you get into a character's head is so amazing, too. It feels like you've cracked them wide open and studied them to understand them as well as you do. "Brave Soldier Girl" captured my attention with just one chapter. @heavensenthearty you give 100% to everything you do with your writing. You have such a poetic way with words. It doesn't feel like first person works often with fanfic, but you always make it work perfectly. @its-sooz-again Where do I begin? The pairings, the topics, the characters you explore are sometimes things I never would have thought of, but when I read you writing (or look at your art) I think, wow, this just makes sense. I've always loved Jet, but you've given him such a profound sense of humanity for me that has deepened my love for our favorite traumatized orphan of war. "The Break in the Bend" lives rent free in my head.

@lone-star-ranger you write some of the best fluff! The way you seamlessly weave canon into AUs, AtLA with LoK, Azula with Star Wars, is incredible. You've gifted me so many wonderful fics and have truly become my first mate on the S.S. Yuten, for which I am always deeply indebted to you. "Perks of Matchmaking" is short and sweet, and I'm forever honored that my gift for you inspired a fic that you gifted to me. I've rambled on long enough, and thank you if you've made it this far. Here are some honorable mentions who deserve all of the praise, but I'll be here all night if I try: @siambre, @marijayne-writing, @barelyaware, @mycomfortblanket, @boomerangguy, @thatoneguy56fanfic, and so many others! Thank you for all that you do.

#fanfic writer appreciation #fanfic writer #fanfic writers #zutara #jetko #atla #lok #azula #seriously check out these folks and their stuff #you will not be disappointed

[sukka-week]

Prompt Voting is Now Open!

We gotta go, it’s time to vote!

Before we get started, a couple quick notes...

After tallying the submissions yesterday, we ended up with over 100 prompts!

To make voting more manageable, I’ve pared the list down to 74 by combining similarly-themed prompts together. This means it’s possible you won’t see a prompt you submitted exactly the way you worded it.

I did my best to match prompts that felt like they had the same spirit, but if you feel I’ve slighted one of your submissions, you may send comments and complaints to my ask box.

Now for the voting!

We got lots of great submissions and I’m super excited about these prompts!

Vote for up to 7 using the 🌟 Sukka Week 2022 Prompt Voting Form 🌟

Voting will be open until 10pm EDT on Saturday, September 17th!

#sukka #sokka x suki #suki x sokka #sukkaweek #sukkaweek2022 #sukka week #sukka week 2022 #prompt voting #mod post

[thebrotherskaramazovs]

HELLO SUKKA CENTRIC ZUKKI FIC??????

YEAH okay wait i gotta be real i’ll probably finish it like . next year so here is a long snippet <33

“Hey,” she said when Sokka was applying the Kyoshi Warrior face paint, “you’re actually pretty good at that.”

Suki was awarded with a soft smile, slow and sweet and flabbergasted all together, like this boy didn’t know how to accept a compliment. The smile found its way deep into Suki’s heart, making its home there. She didn’t know what that meant. Had never felt that way about a boy before. It was different. Not like stealing her first kiss with Fasha behind the rose bushes, not like looking at girls and knowing how she felt. Suki didn’t know how she felt when looking at Sokka; only that he made her heart hammer, only that the way he smiled meant everything to her.

((Later, she would understand her feelings on this, later she would look at him and understand, and look at other girls and understand the complex feelings she felt, like different colours of thread woven into a tapestry.))

“Thank you,” he said, voice quiet. The red-tipped brush held between his fingers quivered as his hand shook. “My dad taught me how to do this.” His eyes met hers, and something in Suki softened. “Not this exactly, but, like, a different kind of warrior face paint.”

Suki grinned, raising an eyebrow. “A different kind of warrior face paint,” she repeated, her tone veering to the course of teasing.

“Mean,” Sokka said, rolling his eyes.

He looked good in the warrior’s clothes. The deep green suited his skin, making him look softer. He was her age, maybe a few months older, and in some ways he looked relaxed, in some ways he looked closed off. Suki felt the overwhelming urge to want to understand him. She thought maybe she did understand him a little.

Suki got up, walking over to him. He had finished the rest of the face paint but left the lips. Suki took the brush from his hands, sat down on the arm of his chair. She dipped the brush into the red paint, willing her fingers not to shake. Really, this was embarrassing for her, nervous in front of some silly boy. She couldn’t remember the last time she was nervous in front of a boy. Couldn’t remember it happening, well, ever.

“Stay still,” she muttered, and Sokka instantly started squirming. Suki hid her laugh in her shoulder which resulted in Sokka muttering something about betrayal. She grinned, carefully placing two gloved fingers on his cheek. Sokka’s eyes fluttered closed of their own volition, and it made Suki feel suddenly very warm. She wished, for a moment, that she was not wearing gloves so that she could feel Sokka’s skin.

She started on the top lip, carefully moving the brush along the bow at the top of his lip, mesmerized by the way the red looked on him, then came the bottom lip, which she did in one fell swoop from years of practice. Her two fingers placed against his cheek slowly slipped away.

From this angle, she was so close to him, their faces inches apart. From this angle, Suki could see his freckles through the white paint, the slight flush to his skin peeking through as well. From this angle, the sun was casting an orange glow through the window, the summer slipping away just like her fingers, hidden in tattered gloves. Suki could see a glimpse of outside from the half-open window; the apples had already begun to fall from the branches of the thin trees on the island. They covered the pathways, the wind rolling them around. Suki spared a moment to feel something like grief for summer days past. It was late September, the first day of autumn approaching fast, but when Suki looked at Sokka she could pretend it was still summer, it was still hot and bright and aching, because looking at Sokka was August.

“Done,” Suki whispered, and Sokka opened his eyes.

“Thanks,” he said cheerfully, though his voice was slightly strained. Suki smiled at him anyway.

#put it under a readmore cause it’s pretty long but yeah !!!!!!!! #my writing #sukka #asks #anon

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Book 1: Intertwined Destinies

Chapter 2

Fandom: Avatar the Last Air Bender

Summary: Music night washes over Iroh. The crew’s attention  on each other means no one notices  their allegedly ill prince slipping over the side of the Wani and onto the dock.

Zuko, as The Blue Spirit, is leaving to meet another White Lotus Bud agent to exchange information on the Earth Armies for similar details on Fire Nation troops.

The White Lotus Buds are more successful than Iroh expected. Sometimes he thinks the war would end in days if they left the operatives in charge.

The White Lotus Buds were inspired by Zuko himself. It wasn't difficult to connect The Blue Spirit’s earlier escapades with Zuko. Not once one realized there were connections to make.

Iroh does not know when the sneaking began, though he has his suspicions. Ten year old princes don’t go missing for days on end easily. And there's the  ambiguity surrounding  Azulon’s death and Ursa’s sudden flight. When it started doesn’t truly matter when Zuko will not speak of it.

Shaking off his wandering curiosity, Iroh lets himself be drawn into the singing of an old sea shanty. It helps keep an old man awake, which he will need if he wants to be alert for his nephew’s return later that night.

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Violence, Strong Language, References to Child Abuse, Aftermath of Genocide, War

Characters:   Zuko, Katara, Blue Spirit, Painted Lady, Sokka, Aang, Toph, Suki, Iroh, Kanna, Bumi, Ty Lee, Azula, Jet, Paku, Haru, Tyro, The Boulder, Smeller Bee, Jeong Jeong, Teo, Yue, Yugoda, The Wani Crew, Hei Bai, Arnook, Lieutenant Jee, Other Cast, Original Characters, Zhao  

Pairings: Zutara, Taang, maybe Tyzula, maybe Sukka

Other Tags:   Cannon Divergent, Cannon Re-Write, Zuko Joins the Gaang Early, Zuko is in the White Lotus, Nearly everyone is in the White Lotus,  There’s like 80 Percent More Lotus Members in this, You get to be a Lotus Member and You get to be a Lotus Member, Spirit Shenanigans, Identity Shenanigans, Spies, Ninjas, Secret Organization actually effecting change for once, Mentions of Jet/Katara, Kanna loves her grandkids, Ozai’s Terrible Parenting, Azula Redemption, You can take the General out of the war…, Zuko is an Awkward Turtle Duck, Protective Katara, Toph Beifong is a Menace, Sokka is the real MVP, Aang is Trying y’all, Jet being an Asshole, Aged-Up Characters, Enemies to Lovers, Love Square - Kinda, No Beta We Die Like Jet, Multiple POV  

Chapter PreviewKanna's Grandson was doing a terrible job of hiding his displeasure with his sweet old Gran-Gran. Which was fine by her, let the youth pout and grumble. Kanna was also displeased, but with The Blue Spirit for letting Sokka know that she hadn't informed The White Lotus of The Southern Water Tribe's situation. It simply wasn’t their business.

Sokka refused to understand that telling the organization how close to the brink they were would only have put The Tribe and The Lotus in peril. The Lotus would insist on giving aid, and if the Fire Nation noticed it would be the death of them all. 

For his part Sokka had refused to see it her way and had stormed out of the family tent to make Katara join him on a fishing expedition without so much as a good morning. As if the slight would get her to see that his way was superior. 

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zutara #blutatra #zuko #katara #Blue Spirit #Painted Lady #Sokka #Aang #Toph #Suki #Ty Lee #Azula #Mai #fanfic #the muse writes #white lotus buds au #book 1: Intertwined Destinies

[zelzenik]

A (Completely Accidental) Sokka Setup - Pt 2

prompt 18 of @zutaramonth: flirt

part 1: sokka helps (prompt 16) - Sokka manages to get Zuko an appointment for a pentapox vaccine when his sister's clinic has extras available. Though he doesn't know it, Katara and Zuko really hit it off.

part 2: sokka's shocked (prompt 18) - Sokka discovers that Katara and Zuko have begun dating after Zuko gets his second dose of the pentapox vaccine. He's not thrilled with the notion. At all.

#zutara #zutara fic #zutara month #zutara month 2021 #there's probably gonna be a sokka-centric third part #bc first part is z's pov and second is k's pov #it j seems fitting #for there to be a third part from sokka's pov #but we'll see #zuko #katara #sokka #suki #toph #aang #slight sukka #slight taang #zel writes

[perfectlypanda]

AU where AtLA ended on a shot that captured the themes of friendship, found family, and the 4 nations coming together in peace... instead of a shoehorned kiss (and everyone wearing Earth Kingdom outfits..?).

I’ve been a diehard Zutara shipper since forever, but I maintain that the show should have ended without any canon ships except Sokka/ Suki. This “alternate ending” shot is one I’ve wanted to do basically since the finale first premiered, so I’m pleased to have finally drawn it (only 13 years late...).

♥ Please do not repost. If you like it and want to show people, share a link to this page instead. Thank you! | Background from AtLA, but otherwise it’s mine. That’s right folks we have progressed from manips to original art like a pokemon evolving.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #anti-bryke #zutara #sukka #anti kataang #I guess? #the gaang #but actually why did they put everyone in EK clothes for the last scene I get that they're in Ba Sing Se but weird choice #I never tag my art with the general ATLA tag because people are not so nice about Zutara on main so tbh I'm a little hesitant about it #trying to mimic the slight graininess of screencaps from the show is always an interesting challenge #look I made a thing

[overlordneon]

My art for #atlaprom today!  ~Everyone’s all dressed up~ Vote for your prom kings/queens/royalty in the replies!

#atla #atlaprom #zutara #teoaang #sukka #mailee #toph #azula #zuko #katara #aang #teo #suki #sokka #mai #ty lee #avatar the last airbender #made some slight edits whoop

[the-badger-mole]

Summer Bloom

Toph is growing up. Fortunately, she doesn't have to do it alone

#atla #toph #Katara #Suki #coming of age #friendship #sukka #slight zutara #VERY slight

[sherascatra]

ATLA MASTERPOST

ZUKO X READER

Apologies my Prince (slight nsfw)

Zuko x Sokka x Reader (angst)

Empty (reader dies)

Reasurring Zuko

The Boiling Rock

Cuddling HCs

Thunder (ANGST/FLUFF)

This Must Be Love (FireLord Zuko)

Jealous Mai

Zuko as a dad

ZUTARA

Kiss

Angsty Zutara Fics

Long Distance

Zutara Moments

Nightmare

Zutara Hurt/Comfort Comic

When Zuko Realized He Loved Katara

ATLA

Gaang Fire Nation Outfits

Atla pfps

Teashop worker Firelord Zuko

Azula, Mai, Ty Lee Gif

Zuko Icons Part 2

Comic Kataang

Comic Zuko Icons

Comic Katara pfps

Comic Suki Icons

Sukka Camping

Zuko Gifs

Pride Halloween

[justanotherghostwriter]

The Festival: Part One

Because of how my life likes to play me, I only got to start this at 10pm my time on the 8th of August. That is to say: it is rushed. It is largely un-edited. It is not as seamless as I planned it to be in my head. And it is one of the shortest things I’ve ever written (a celebration erupts at the news). But, despite all that, I am absolutely determined to partake in Zutara week, even if it kills me. So here is my meagre contribution: part one of a two-part drabble-ish series I’ve very creatively titled The Festival.

The Festival: Part One (ZK Week day 1: Hair) || Part Two (ZK Week day 3: Glowing)

Fic ingredients: Copious amounts of the author’s extensive headcanons on Fire Nation culture surrounding hair; slightly less intense headcanons about SWT traditions; Zutara mutually pining “““in secret”””; made-up festivals and festival traditions; background Sukka being obnoxiously adorable; ambiguous Kataang breakup; love for the entire gaang and their found family dynamics; an unimportant OC who has speaking lines.

~~~~

In order to ensure that the Fire Lord’s arrival in Ba Sing Se at the invitation of King Kuei happened without any risk to him, his personal guard or any innocent bystanders, a decoy party was sent to the official welcoming near the palace. Suki and some of the other Kyoshi Warriors were part of the crew that disembarked there with a man of similar build and height to Zuko, wearing a Fire Nation army helmet to disguise that he was, in fact, simply Admiral Tomoya, doing his last job before he went on a well-deserved vacation in the Earth Kingdom with his wife for two weeks. The actual Fire Lord would arrive a few hours later on a quiet little fishing vessel that docked in the now-flourishing and wall-less Full Moon Bay, on which half the crew had been paid to be replaced with Fire Nation soldiers and another group of Kyoshi Warriors.

And the docks were where Aang, Sokka, Suki, Katara and Iroh had managed to sneak to, so that they could be the first to really welcome Zuko to the first open-door, multi-ringed celebration Ba Sing Se had had in years. Katara and Aang had shared their thoughts that Suki’s slight frown and tense posture despite Sokka’s arm around her waist was due to the fact that she had not stuck close to Zuko’s side, and her uncharacteristic lack of faith in her Warriors made Katara nervous, too, enough for her to pace by the shoreline and cause the waves to do silly little tricks to take her mind off of what could be happening to Zuko out there where he couldn’t be seen or reached. Aang stayed by Iroh’s side and tried to exude the same kind of calm as the older man slightly humming under his breath, hand clasped around his glider and the desire to just fly out to reach the ship just to check growing larger by the minute.

“Fen,” Suki’s voice suddenly called, quietly, and Aang instinctively turned to look.

A Kyoshi Warrior trotted gracefully and near-silently closer to Suki’s side, and Sokka let go of her waist and instead lightly took her hand, staying a behind when Suki took a step forward to meet her Warrior.

“You wanted to see me? Is everything okay?” the young woman asked, sounding concerned.

“That’s what I want to know from you,” Suki said, and Aang gripped his glider harder as he walked closer to the conversation, nervous trepidation skittering under his skin. “The rest of the girls said that something happened during the transfer from the air balloon to the fishing vessel that I wasn’t around to see. You and Ty Lee were named as the two at the heart of it, and she’s on that ship with the Fire Lord. If something was amiss, you should have told me, so we could have ensured – ”

“Oh! Oh, no, Suki, no.” Fen waved both her hands wildly. “No, that had nothing to do with the mission at all. Everything was entirely as planned, and I did a personal sweep of the ship to ensure it was safe before I got back on the balloon.”

Suki’s entire body relaxed about four degrees, even as a delicate frown crossed her face. “Then what were the others going on about you and Ty Lee being tense?”

Fen shifted from one foot to the other, eyes flickering away from Suki before resolutely turning back. “We had a… fight. I think. It was a personal thing. I’m sorry; I thought we’d made sure it didn’t bleed into the mission.”

Suki exhaled only a little louder than usual, returning to Sokka’s side. “You did a good job,” she reassured her Warrior. “But it may be necessary to go back and explain to the others that there isn’t anything wrong with the mission.”

Fen nodded. “I’m sorry about any confusion,” she said. “I just… it came out of nowhere so I – ” She broke off, pressing her lips together. “Thank you. I’ll see you later at the suites.”

“You and Ty Lee are best friends,” Aang felt compelled to interject over the woman’s clear distress. He reached out and lightly touched her elbow, giving her a reassuring grin. “I’m sure you’ll sort out whatever happened.” Fen nodded again, but it was stiff and clearly disbelieving. “I know Ty Lee, and she’ll be happy to talk out any argument that happened,” Aang pressed, gently.

“That’s just it,” Fen blurted, fingers twisting together nervously. “We didn’t… We were talking about the festival. And how amazing it is that there are all these different flowers to represent different nations, you know? And I was just telling her that me and some of the others would love it if she braided our hair, because her braiding skills are so great, and then we’d help her put the different flowers in her hair and she just… I don’t know. I don’t understand what went wrong.”

Aang frowned, and saw Suki do the same out of the corner of his eye, but before either could say anything, Iroh meandered up and, as he often did, solved the problem for them. “Ah, I see the problem here.” He gave Fen a warm smile. “Some parts of Fire Nation culture were drilled into children more than others. And, I have a feeling that Ty Lee had the lesson about the importance of hair drilled into her even more strongly than most, given her background and her personality. I would presume she’s simply struggling to reconcile those many years of lessons with her new position in a non-Fire Nation group of friends.”

“Wait, hair’s that big a deal in the Fire Nation?” Sokka raised both eyebrows. “I mean, I’ve heard stuff, sure, but that sounds a lot more…” He made a vague hand gesture to mean something between intense and weird. “Than in the Water Tribe.”

Iroh hummed in agreement. “In the Fire Nation, only close family or your romantic significant other is permitted to touch your hair, because of the status of honour and dignity it carries not only for the individual, but for your entire household and lineage. I am sure Ty Lee sees the Kyoshi Warriors as family – in fact, she has expressed as much to me before. But it may still be a point of deep uncertainty in her, especially if she was not expecting the request.”

“I didn’t know,” Fen said, quietly, and then bowed. “Thank you, General Iroh, for your help. It will help to know how to address this when I next see her.”

“Huh,” Sokka said, as Fen and Suki bid each other goodbye. “So we could have ended the whole war without the weird bending if we’d just made a powder that turned Ozai bald? You should have cashed in on that, Aang.”

“I did grab him by the hair and beard a few times,” Aang offered, a little sheepish to be saying so in front of Iroh, who would also have been raised under the implications of hair and lack thereof. Honestly, Aang shouldn’t have been very surprised, given that detachment to worldly understandings of honour, wealth and prestige was one of the reasons that the Air Nomads shaved their heads, but it was still a little disconcerting to learn something that big about a culture even after having been close friends with people from the Fire Nation for over a hundred years, technically.

“That’s my guy,” Sokka grinned approvingly.

From then, it was an uneventful wait for the ship to appear on the horizon and slowly chug closer. The group gravitated toward where she moored, conscious not to get in the crew’s way as people streamed out. It wasn’t too difficult to pick apart the fishermen from the Fire Nation soldiers, even though the latter were in fishermen garb, simply because they were pretty obviously unsure of what to do, while the fishermen worked in seamless harmony with one another. Tensions started rising, and Zuko appeared on the dock with some of the Kyoshi Warriors, seemingly to try and direct his soldiers a bit better. Sokka started sniggering as Zuko grew more and more obviously irate, and, by the time the ship was offloaded and the Fire Nation soldiers were meekly or angrily making their way off the ship, Zuko looked like he had only a fingertip grasp on his temper. For a moment, the scowl and the lack of the usual-of-late formal robes made Aang remember the first gangplank he’d seen Zuko stride down at the Southern Water Tribe, and his heart twisted fondly for how far they’d all come together.

“You know,” Katara called, the first to saunter all the way closer, arms crossed and eyebrow raised, “maybe it would have gone smoother if you weren’t yelling at your poor, overworked men.”

Zuko whirled on her at once, fists clenching. “I wasn’t yelling,” he yelled, and Sokka and Suki both started laughing quietly again. “I was being perfectly calm and perfectly clear. They’re soldiers!” He flung his hands up in utter exasperation, and Katara’s mask cracked as she had to press her lips together to stop from laughing. “How hard can it be to just – You weren’t even there!” he snapped at her, and she finally couldn’t hold her laugh in any longer.

As it started, she leapt forward, uncrossed her arms and instead flung them around Zuko’s shoulders. He grumbled some more unintelligible things, still scowling deeply, but his arms wrapped around Katara in a hug almost instinctively. And, maybe it was because of the conversation that they’d just had about Ty Lee, but Aang couldn’t help but notice that, just before they broke apart and Zuko was engulfed by the rest of them, his fingers curled lightly into Katara’s hair as he held her.

~~~~~

These days, most invitations to anything came with a necessary, and usually rather boring, formal aspect to them. King Kuei and the other Ba Sing Se nobles were trying so hard to please all the important delegates, which included Hakoda, Kanna and the Bei Fongs, that they pushed the stiffness of the official welcoming dinner into something painfully awkward. Sokka and Aang made a bet within the first ten minutes whether Toph would make it through the whole night, dressed to the nines, between her parents and other Earth Kingdom nobles, or whether she’d snap and simply wreck the entire dining hall before the evening came to an end. Perhaps she heard about their bet – Suki had spent a suspiciously long time chatting quietly to her in between starter courses three and four – or perhaps she was simply committed to playing her part in the reconciliation between her and her parents, as tentative as it was, because Toph held it together until they all made it to the suites that had been set aside for them. And then she dragged Aang into the little courtyard that joined the various small rooms they’d taken over in their entirety, and she soundly beat his ass, still wearing her pretty dress.

Her parents disappeared into their room rather than watch, but Sokka had to give them points for not actively protesting. A small step, but a step nonetheless. Even when Aang Airbended out of the way and firmly declared the sparring over, there was still a restless sort of energy emanating off of her. And Sokka couldn’t blame her; between the memories of the last time they’d been in Ba Sing Se, the rocky relationship with her parents and how hard it was turning out to be putting the world back together, there was a disquiet that never really seemed to leave his bones. And so he did what had worked while they’d tensely existed on Ember Island, and hyped up the original Team Avatar for some fun and games at the beach. Or, in this case, the closest they could get, which was going to Lake Laogai and changing it from a bad memory into a good one.

He managed to also convince his dad and Gran-Gran to come along, which meant that Pakku tagged with and Iroh came just for the conversation and a game of Pai Sho that Pakku had been making excuses not to play. The Kyoshi Warriors, now officially on holiday until the festival was over in two days’ time, opted to stay behind, and it was therefore a more intimate crew that went swimming in the lake. Slowly but surely, people started losing the tense, guarded pull to their shoulders and, after only two hours, they’d lost almost all their inhibition. Toph and Aang went off to do some Earthbending-Waterbending experiments with the rocky outcrops of the lake, while Sokka and Katara suckered Suki and Zuko into playing shoulder wars with them.

“We should warn you that we’re exceptionally good at this,” Sokka said, gleefully, haunching down in the water so Katara could climb on his shoulders.

“And you think we’re not?” Suki challenged. Zuko pulled a face as he helped her onto his shoulders before standing up, and, as though sensing it, Suki amended, “I’ve won many the game on Kyoshi Island. Reigning champion, you might say.”

“Reigning champion, meet my reigning sister,” Sokka scoffed.

“No Waterbending,” Suki warned, pointing accusingly at Katara, who placed a hand on her chest in exaggerated offense.

Suki and Zuko fought bravely but, as Sokka had predicted, they were just no match for his and Katara’s combined skill and experience working together in a team. They won the first round, best out of three and best out of five, and Sokka would worry about the way Suki was scowling if he didn’t know how much she loved him.

“Admit it, both of you. I’m just too good,” he sing-songed.

“Uh, excuse me. I’m the one up here wrestling Suki. You just have to stand around and make sure I don’t fall off.”

“Katara. Dear Katara.” He patted her knee condescendingly. Both Suki and Zuko seemed to zero in on the touch, and Zuko actually took a step back. “Without me being the absolute best solid base, you wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

“And even with a solid base, you need solid skills up here to do the actual wrestling.”

“Do you two need a minute?” Suki asked, looking a lot more amused than before, as Sokka and Katara broke into a squabble. “’Cause we can give you a minute.”

“No, no, you know what?” Sokka squawked as Katara wrenched herself off his shoulders without warning, catching herself with Waterbending. “I’ll prove it to you, dunderhead. Suki, switch with me. And then we’ll see who really has the skills.”

“Fine!” Sokka spluttered back. “But you can’t get mad when Suki and me still win.”

Suki and Zuko exchanged an amused look as he slipped down onto his haunches so Suki could slip off and Katara could climb on his shoulders. Sokka chose to ignore said look with much dignity, and instead just helped Suki onto his shoulders.

“No magic water,” he threatened his sister.

Katara glared murderously at him. “If you really think I’d stoop so low to having to cheat to def-”

The wave of water that hit them all was huge, strong, and unexpected, and Sokka struggled to keep his feet and keep his grip on Suki, who instinctively grabbed for his hair. The water passed, but left all four of them coughing and spluttering.

“Aang!” all four of them yelled in near-unison.

“Oops!” Aang yelled over at them, while Toph cackled. Aang’s face was too innocent when Sokka managed to squint in the Avatar’s direction, and he glared extra hard for good measure, still spitting out water.

“You okay?” Suki asked him, loosening her grip on him and apologetically patting his head, and Sokka pouted a bit at her just so she’d lean down and kiss him on the forehead.

“Wait, wait, hold on,” Katara was saying, laughter in her voice, when Suki sat up again and cleared Sokka’s vision. Zuko’s hands were up, trying to shove back the hair that had come loose from its top knot and was now plastered all over his face. “Let me – Zuko, let me help.”

Without preamble Katara swatted Zuko’s hands away and then loosened the top knot entirely before sweeping together all of Zuko’s hair gently, intending to redo the hairstyle. Zuko let his hands sink to his sides, and, if it wasn’t for the conversation they’d had earlier, Sokka would have watched this moment and not felt a funny sort of jolt in his stomach at the sight of it. Or perhaps he would have, anyway, because, as Katara went about sweeping Zuko’s sopping wet hair off his face, her fingers brushed, more than once, against the edges of his scar. And Zuko didn’t even flinch; simply rested his hands on Katara’s knees to keep her steady, and gave a quiet, “Thanks” in response to her triumphant, “There! Done!”

Something made Sokka glance to the shore, and he found the adults watching the scene, their faces unreadable. Only Zuko and Katara seemed utterly oblivious about what they’d just done, and Suki very suddenly began trash-talking Katara lightly, forcefully breaking the moment and returning them to something free of the weight of anything heavy on their shoulders. Sokka let his girlfriend tug them along, quietly shelving the thoughts for later, and prepared to wipe the haughty smirk off his little sister’s face.

By the time they dragged their happily exhausted selves from the lake, Zuko and Katara had beaten him and Suki twenty-four to eleven, including the time or two when Sokka and Zuko had sat on the women’s shoulders for a change.

~~~~~~~~

“And then he couldn’t remember the rest of the verse,” Aang said, while Sokka groaned loudly enough one would assume he was dying, “But the chorus went, ‘Secret tunnel! Secret tun-’”

“Aang, for the love of every Spirit and every good thing, please,” Sokka moaned, trying to slap a hand over Aang’s mouth. Suki gave a sharp sound of reproach, and Aang happily danced away, grinning wickedly. “I can’t even run away,” Sokka whined.

“The longer you keep squirming, the longer this is going to take!” Suki smacked him, lightly, on the side of the head. “Stop ruining my braids!”

“Sorry,” Sokka said, meekly, and made a show of sitting still so Suki could finish putting the flowers in his hair.

“So what, exactly, are we doing here?” Toph said, absently skipping tiny pebbles across the floor but otherwise sitting very still as Aang clumsily but enthusiastically braided flowers into her hair.

“There are four different flowers, each to represent a nation,” Aang said at once, brightly. “They’re – wait, here.” He plucked a flower from the pile beside them on the ground, and handed each one to Toph as he spoke, letting her feel the petals. “A blue hibiscus, for the Water Tribe. A red peony, for the Fire Nation. Yellow Ba Sing Se chrysanthemum for the Earth Kingdom. And white pear blossoms for the Air Nomads. It’s encouraged that everybody going to the streets for the festival stalls and exhibitions wear as many different flowers in their hair as possible. To signify unity and the end of the war.” Aang slipped another few pear blossoms into Toph’s latest braid, frowning as he wondered if they’d actually stay in until the evening, when the festivities actually started.  

“And you’re doing what, Twinkles? Gluing the flowers on your head?”

“Sokka’s making me a flower crown!” Aang said, excitedly. “It looks like the one the singing nomads made me, which reminded me of the song they – ”

“Aang, I will feed this flower crown, and the rest of your fruit and nut stash, to Momo,” Sokka warned in a growl.

“Sokka didn’t like their songs,” Aang stage whispered, and Toph sniggered.

“You’ll teach them to me, right?” she asked, slyly.

“Sure.”

“Aang!”

“Stop. Moving. Sokka.” Suki nudged him, hard, with her knee.

“Everybody gets to go to the street festival, right? All the official boring bits are over?” Toph asked.

“Uh-huh,” Aang confirmed.

“So… is Pakku getting flowers in his hair, too?” she asked, gleefully.

There was a pause, and everybody started giggling at the mental image. “Oh, man. When we’re done here, I’m totally going to go and convince Gran-Gran to bully Pakku into that.”

True to his word, when Suki was finally satisfied with her masterpiece, Sokka scrambled to his feet, bestowed Aang with a flower crown and then went in search of his grandmother. The others tagged along out of sheer delight; delight that only increased when Kanna’s response was a slow, but very recognisable, smirk.

“We wouldn’t want a senior member of the White Lotus to not be seen partaking in customs of unity,” she said, sagely, and Hakoda badly hid his laughter in a cough.

“Quite right,” Iroh agreed, eyes gleaming in mirth. “As the Grand Lotus, I forbid such an oversight.”

“Hey, you then have to get flowers, too, Uncle! You too, Dad! You can’t get out of this!” Sokka insisted, and Hakoda laughed outright.

“Okay, okay. Where’s your sister? I’m sure she’ll be delighted to help Iroh and I out with this.”

“Sweetness and Sparky are looking over the latest Northern Water Tribe demands in the courtyard,” Toph said, pointing without looking. “Probably making sure Sparky doesn’t get out of this festival hair business, either.”

“Uh… I’m not sure,” Aang hedged, and Suki and Sokka realised that Toph hadn’t been around for the revelation Iroh had given them about Fire Nation hair.

Toph frowned, stamped one foot firmly on the ground and tipped her head to the side. “That’s what it looks like,” she insisted.

Sokka, Aang and Suki glanced at one another and then, curious, they started toward the door leading to the courtyard, the adults following suit. Sokka quietly slid open the screen door, and sought out the two figures sitting in the patch of sunlight, papers spread around them. Zuko was cross-legged on the stone, but Katara was sitting in a familiar Water Tribe pose, her legs crossed around Zuko’s waist from the side so that she could sit close enough to read over his shoulder. Her hands were, indeed, braiding a strand of Zuko’s hair deftly and quickly, while other strands already braided and peppered with flowers lay against his head. Zuko, utterly unperturbed by both her closeness and her touching his hair, said something and pointed to a piece of paper. Katara paused in her braiding and leaned over to read it and, when her hair fell into her face from the shift in gravity, Zuko absently reached out and tucked the strand behind her ear for her so that she didn’t have to let go of the end of the braid.

“Definitely no to that,” Katara said, snorting in derision. “That’s absolutely just them trying their luck.”

Zuko hummed and made a quick note on the sheet, eyes scanning the next page as Katara finished the braid and reached for the flowers beside her.

“So Sparky’s coming with his hair done, right?” Toph insisted into the slightly leaden silence.

“Yeah,” Aang said, and there was something in his voice that matched the look on his face: old, sad, but also impossibly soft. “Yeah, he’s taken good care of.”  

#Zutara Week 2021 #Day One: Hair #Ghostfic #It's still the 8th in other timezones okay don't @ me #this was supposed to be so much better than it turned out to be but #oh well #it feels gratifying that I stuck it to yet another unexpectedly insanely busy weekend by sticking to my guns to participate #Zutata fandom: hello. #I bring you my first official offering that isn't a drabble or fic bullet point

[im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh]

hiii !! sorry for the bother, but i was wondering if you know the link to that post of the gaang adopting zuko early and them being like: 'no. we're your parents now because yours is a shitty one and you can't do shit about it.'?

i read one of the linked fics in it already and i rlly wanted to read another one, huhu.

thank you so much, and it's totally fine if you don't !! i hope you have a good day !!

Hi anon! I've been trying to use the "search tags" thingy on my acct and I can't seem to find what you're asking for. Totally feel free to dm/ask me again and tell me what the name of that fic is so I can be better at snooping (on my account😂)! In the meantime, here's some of my favorite fics from the "The Gaang Learns How Zuko Got The Scar" or "Zuko Joins The Gaang Early" tag on AO3

(PS. since I am a Zukka oriented ATLA fan, most of my recs have Zukka/Kataang pairings or just gen pairings)

1) A strange discovery - T_h_e_W_a_t_c_h_e_r (Zukka wip, ~41k words rn, "The gaang are thrown in jail with zuko, then proceed to adopt him.")

2) Second Thoughts - code_earth (no current pairings, ~90k wip, "...or, Katara and Sokka get trapped with Zuko on the day of the Winter Solstice, things happen, and they accidentally become friends with their enemy.")

3) Kidnap the Prince, a Great Idea - @saitslirena (Zukka wip, -26k, "During the Winter Solstice, Zhao orders the prisoners and traitors to be locked in a room. Zuko, Katara, and Sokka share some words and Sokka and Katara decide to kidnap Zuko....")

4) winter solstice: an addendum - @parsnipit (Zukka wip, ~141k, "“your dad,” sokka starts, then swallows hard. “your dad dueled you, burned half of your face off, and then banished you because you spoke when you shouldn’t have?” "tui and la what the absolute fuck,” sokka whispers.")

5) White Lotus Zuko series - calcliffbas (Sukka and slight Zutara, ~422k over 5 works, "Zuko questions whether the Fire Lord was right to banish him three years earlier than canon, and joins Aang, Sokka and Katara in Omashu. Things get complicated pretty quickly after that.")

6) Skipping Stones - ShivaVixen (Sukka, ~91k wip, "In which a helpful sea monster rescues an injured human hatchling (read: kidnaps a recently banished Zuko) and causes headaches for the rest of the world.")

7) Finding Zuko series - @nvrlostword (Zukka/Kataang, ~153k wip over 2 works)

Hope this helps anon! And lmk if you'd want any other recs!!

#atla #atla fic rec #atla zukka #atla kataang #atla sukka #anon in the asks #send me asks #for the asks

[wingsfreedom]

You know, I love ATLA, but I just hate the blind praise it constantly gets. Like, yeah, this series is iconic, but it's not a masterpiece, flawless, perfect or whatever. Most characters of ATLA, who had really good potential, was easier unexplored or undeveloped, such as Azula, Iroh, Jet, Mai, Ozai, Suki, Ty-Lee, Yue and etc. Canon ships like Kataang, Maiko and Sukka just feels really forced to me (no offense if you like one of these ships).

Also, the 3rd season feels so rushed to me - It's just feels like the show wanted to another season, but decided to not go for it, because it have lots of plot holes or not finished arcs. Not to mention, that post-ATLA content is very subpar and super overrated. And there's so much more.

I wish majority people would stop acting, like ATLA is flawless and shit. Because most of them can't take even slight criticism towards the Avatar.

^^^

#atla #tbh i like there's plank spaces left for us to fill #it made the universe rich for storytelling and alive to this day #but post atla contect kills it while at the same time failed to add anything meaningful

[krastbannert]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers (if you feel like it!!)

Oh, god, now I have to pick. This is hard. I'd recommend my original work, Sins of the Past, but that's an original work, not a fanfic, so...not sure that counts? Eh. Consider it a bonus recommendation.

Go For Broke - ATLA fanfic set in a "Korean War" alternate-universe. Kantoph, where Kanto is called up from the United Forces Reserve, and is put to the ultimate test. Based on the true story of Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura.

One Night in September - ATLA modern AU fanfic, part of my "We Will Become Silhouettes"-verse. Sukka, bit of a meet-cute of sorts, written for @sukkaweek2021. One of my all-time favorite fics that I've written. Sequel of sorts to "Hey, Pretty Boy".

Brave Soldier Girl - ATLA slight canon-divergence AU (Mai & Ty Lee escape Boiling Rock, Ikem is nowhere to be found because Ursa went somewhere else). Azula redemption story, describing Azula's long road home from the war. One of the hardest fics for me to write, honestly because I'm setting myself a really high standard for it, but I'm also very proud of the writing itself. (Update: Chapter II is probably going to be published within the next two to three weeks.)

Hey, Pretty Boy - ATLA modern AU fanfic, a retelling of the story of Yue and Sokka, inspired by the song "Bishounen - Acoustic Version" by Hikaru Station.

If the Sky Comes Falling Down - Fanfic for The Dragon Prince. Post-canon (like, post theoretical Season 7) reunion for Soren and his little sister. My only TDP fic so far, but one of my favorites that I've written.

#krast answers asks #@lone-star-ranger #my writing

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

I just want to say, before I say anything, I'm not accusing you of saying this and I understand that you feel how you feel. I'm just asking this in a very general way and was wondering your thoughts. Why is it so verboten to think Zuko might have had a slight crush on Katara? There seems to be a rush to not just deny it but to treat it like it's some sort of horrible thing to even suggest it and I'm not sure why that is?

Katara is presented as a beautiful, lively girl who is a powerful bender. Why wouldn’t Zuko be a little starry eyed over that? It doesn’t mean she likes him back. Idk, I’m not exactly sure where my point is, except that being shouted down for just advancing the idea that maybe Zuko had the hots for Katara is a little frustrating? I’m not saying he was wacking off in his bunk thinking about her or expected to get some while they were hunting Yon Rha.

Also, unrequited crushes happen in ATLA-verse? Toph/Sokka anyone? Why does that never get screeched on but saying “Hey, Zuko loved Mai but he was probably looking at Katara and thinking ‘noice!’ a couple of times” the worst thing in the world? Is it the Water Tribe/Fire Nation thing? I mean, if it’s that, I wish people would just say that and stop screaming at people for their headcanons and whatnot. [theend]

Lol do not worry anon I know this isn’t an accusation!! Not only have I myself never perpetuated this rhetoric, but I don’t think I’ve really heard it before! Maybe once or twice?? I might just keep to chill parts of fandom, lmao, and that’s why I’m not very familiar with it. But I’ll do my best to theorize what may spark conflict based on the info you provided me!

(I’ve talked very briefly here about Zuko having/not having a crush on Katara before, if you were wondering.)

My main guess is that it’s not the headcanon itself that makes people frustrated, but how some shippers probably treat the HEADcanon as canon-canon (not an issue exclusive to Zvtara, btw; all big fanon ships have this problem - Zvkka, anyone? lmao). I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with headcanoning that Zuko had a crush on Katara! But in that same vein, there’s nothing inherently wrong with others acknowledging that the headcanon has no basis in canon either, if that makes sense. And headcanons don’t need canon basis! Headcanons are fanon! That’s why they’re so much fun! I ship Kuzaang like there’s no tomorrow, but I can also acknowledge that there wasn’t anything in canon that demonstrated Aang having a crush on Kuzon. Kuzaang is strictly fanon, and I love that about the pairing! It means I have incredible free reign, hehe.

But yeah. I don’t think it has anything to do with their different nations! Like I said - it’s probably solely an issue of some shippers (and undoubtedly just a loud minority) treating the headcanon as canon.

I don’t think saying “Hey, Zuko loved Mai but he was probably looking at Katara and thinking ‘noice!’ a couple of times” is the worst thing in the world, lmao. I do want to make a distinction here, though; this example you provide is actually an example of aesthetic attraction, which is not the same as a crush (crushes are indicative of romantic attraction)! So saying/headcanoning that Zuko thought Katara was pretty (as anyone with a brain would say, let’s be real) does not actually equate to him having a crush on her.

But back to the crush headcanon. I mentioned that I (personally!) don’t think it has canon basis. I will admit that I am not alloromantic, so crushes in themselves are a little confusing to me (I mean,, people just randomly like someone?? based on their appearance?? without even knowing them?? hell nah), but even disregarding that, I don’t think it would make much sense within canon for Zuko to have had a crush on Katara.

Again, disclaimer: there’s nothing wrong with the headcanon! Fanon is meant to contradict canon! To expand canon! To rewrite canon! Fanon is transformative. That’s the entire purpose of fanon. Go wild with that headcanon!! Make art!! Produce fics!! Support content creators!! Hell yeah!!

So what do I mean when I say that I personally feel there’s no canon basis for Zuko having a crush on Katara? Well, for one, he joined the Gaang in episode 12 of Book 3. That’s episode 52 of 61 overall. So in everything prior to that, Zuko not only has no idea who Katara is but he is also neck-deep in imperialistic rhetoric (you know, racism, superiority complexes, all that jazz. not fun for anyone non-FN). No possible crush there. In “The Western Air Temple” episode itself, Katara (understandably) threatens Zuko. She means what she says, and I think Zuko recognizes that. A crush there wouldn’t make sense - they’ve only properly met this second time and Katara (understandably) hates Zuko’s guts for what he’s done to the Gaang and to her personally.

Episode 53 is “The Firebending Masters” - Zuko’s too hung up on his firebending not working to think about anything else (Katara obviously still does not trust him yet, either, meaning Zuko is pretty much on edge around her. again, she threatened him, and Zuko no doubt took her threat seriously).

54 and 55 are “The Boiling Rock” episodes; not only are these Maiko-heavy but also in general… I mean, Katara’s not really in them. At least not from Zuko’s POV. So nothing implies a crush there. And then after those episodes, it’s worth considering that Zuko probably thinks Mai is dead. That he left her, the girl he loves, to die at Azula’s hands. We know Zuko tends to hold guilt to his chest, so concluding he blamed himself for Mai’s “death” is not illogical. Why would he all of sudden switch his sights to Katara, even if it was just a simple crush? While he’s grieving? That doesn’t track to me.

And then, of course, “The Southern Raiders.” This episode has been talked about to death, so I’ll keep it brief, lmao. I will draw attention to only one line, spoken by Zuko:

This isn’t fair! Everyone else seems to trust me now! What is it with you?

As we all know, TSR was not a flattering episode for Zuko. He was a racist asshole to Aang and - as aforementioned - acted as if he was entitled to Katara’s trust. Obviously, Zuko grows through the episode, and we see by the end that he respects Aang’s wisdom and respects Katara’s decision to walk away from Yon Rha (which is awesome!! I adore this brief but incredibly crucial arc of his!!). But my point is that nothing demonstrates romantic interest from Zuko to Katara. If anything, his initial motives are pretty damn selfish (i.e. demanding her to trust him because he feels like he “deserves” it already).

Emphasis on “initial” motives, of course. Obviously he grows more sincere!! (Tis the point of the episode for Zuko.)

So they end TSR on new, peaceful terms. Personally, I don’t think their relationship would be magically sunshine and roses after that (Zuko did some fucked up shit to the Gaang, lmao), but I do think things are getting better between them! Still, there is nothing indicative of a canon crush.

Next episode, in EIP, they scoot away from each other at the possibility of being together, yk? That doesn’t mean they hate each other’s guts, lmfao, but EIP is meant to depict imperialist Fire Nation propaganda - who wouldn’t be uncomfortable with that? Like, the entire Gaang is demeaned in that play. There’s nothing romantic about it. It’s a similar situation later with June - this is a lady that doesn’t know anything remotely personal about Zuko or Katara. Of course they’d react in a horrified and flustered manner when this - for all intents and purposes - total stranger suggests that they’re together! That’s creepy as hell! Definitely not indicative of a crush, lmao. And considering that the Gaang never teases Zuko about having a crush on Katara (compared to how I think Toph teases Katara about Haru?), i.e. the people who know them the best, there’s no reason for the audience to think anything is going on between them.

For other references, here are a few addressing EIP, June, etc.

And after all that… Well, now we’re in the finale. What time is there for romance? There’s a reason the canon couples don’t reunite until after the war is won! (Minus Sukka, I guess, but they’re not professing their love on the battlefield, per se, lmao.) Zuko chooses Katara to go with him because she’s a powerful waterbender and the only person who’s been able to handle Azula in the past (besides Aang, arguably, who’s obviously occupied with Ozai), not because he “likes” her in a romantic sense.

All of this is to say that to me, Zuko having a crush on Katara is strictly fanon. Which is awesome! Fanon is fantastic, and I actually really like these types of headcanons (like, Teo having a crush on Aang? GOOD SHIT). Some people are just jerks about it. That said, I can still understand why people might get frustrated by those who preach this headcanon as if it’s pulled straight from the text itself. I absolutely think it’s ridiculous to harass others over a headcanon (which unfortunately you see on both sides of the ship war), but in that same vein - of course it’s frustrating when those loud few act like their fanon is canon and proceed to shove it down others’ throats, lmao. It’s an imperfect situation, basically.

TL;DR - The headcanon in itself is great, and no one should be getting freaking harassed over it. But it is strictly fanon, so when some shippers treat it like canon, that’s understandably going to frustrate the rest of the fandom. Headcanons are a double-edged sword, lmao.

So that’s my personal theory as to why people get pressed over this headcanon. If anyone else has a different idea, please feel free to rb/comment with it!

#also anon you 100% do not have to agree with any of this!! tis just my own thoughts and theory 🥰 #amy answers #anon #amy analyzes

[theolddivorcedzukka]

I’m doing it with Sukka because I feel like it.

Sokka’s leg was acting up again. This was happening more often, but Sokka constantly insists that it’s completely healed and there’s no need to worry. Suki noticed when he didn’t attend tea time and Pai Sho with Iroh.

Suki ran through the training exercises with the Warriors and then headed to Sokka’s room to check up on him.

Suki knocked and heard a slight groan.

“It’s Suki.” She called out. Sokka groaned out something that sounded like her nickname and she added in “Are you naked?”

“What?! No!” Sokka said, decently loud now.

“Then I’m coming in.” Suki yelled, opening the door. Sokka was sitting on his bed, massaging his leg. He didn’t seem to have moved all morning. “It’s one of those days?” She said, crossing her arms over her chest.

“Uhh maybe?” Sokka says sheepishly.

Suki tsked and moved over to stand over him. “Well there’s only one way to fix this. Give me a second.” Suki said, going to the other side of the bed.

She kicked off her shoes and jumped onto the bed. “Come here you big baby.” She said grabbing Sokka into a hug.

“I’m not a big baby.” Sokka groaned trying to wiggle out of the hug. “I’ve got work to do Sukes.” He added on, but she just hummed.

They sat there like that for a bit before he said, “I’m not a little spoon.”

“You love it.” Suki just replied, nuzzling her head into his shoulder.

“...okay maybe I do.” Suki burst out laughing before planting a kiss on his temple.

“I love you, my little spoon.” She said, falling asleep.

“Love you too Sukes.” He said, accepting his little spoon position.

BESTIE!!!!!

HE LOVES IT HE DOES AND LITTLE SPOON SOKKA!!! WITH SUKKA!!!! MY EYES ARE SO TREMENDOUSLY WIDE RN I AM LOOKING

#FUCKING— #YEAH YEAH YEAH