#zukka poking each other

[wilcze-kudly]

THIS WAS VENGANCE

Bonus

Never forgive, never forget

#im rewatching atla if you couldn't tell #zukka poking each other #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla #avatar: the last airbender #the last airbender #avatar the last airbender

[woahtherebuckerino]

Fic Recs: Avatar: The Last Airbender

i rewatched this series when it came out on netflix and i fell in love with it all over again. so many amazing fic writers have taken inspiration from it, so here are some of my favourites!

first rule of earth kingdom fight club… by ohmygodwhy

zuko, his stubborn inability to die, and finding himself thru getting his ass kicked

this series is a collection of amazing fics all about zuko surviving the siege of the north and joining earth rumble despite not being an earth bender. it’s the perfect mix of hilarious and serious, and i love it so much

a crack in the glass (eye) by carthaginian_berries

Okay, so maybe Sokka’s noticed that Zuko’s left eye doesn’t really move that much. That’s fine. It’s fine, because it’s damaged, and probably injured terribly by some incredibly unlucky accident, and it doesn’t even have an eyelid, so like — Sokka can work with this. Maybe it just doesn’t have any functioning nerves anymore. Sometimes, eyes just don’t move; it’s all perfectly normal, a regular day, just like Zuko strolling into the Western Air Temple to volunteer himself as Aang’s firebending teacher/prisoner/Not A Friend. Walking in on said firebending teacher/prisoner/Not A Friend polishing an entire entirely-detached eyeball? Not so fine. or: zuko has a glass eye. toph is fully ready to exploit the fact.

very very amusing fic about toph, zuko and sokka terrorising the rest of the gaang. the scenarios and pranks made are hilarious and i love this fic so much

Wait for It by mindbending

Prince Zuko is born with eyes of pure gold, the surest sign of a strong inner flame. Prince Zuko is born unlucky. He has no fire to speak of. No spark of potential. (Until swords start bending to his will.)

loving this metalbending take on zuko. all of the ideas are so interesting and the characterisation is on point. plus, you gotta love the zuko & toph friendship

Embers by Vathara

Dragon's fire is not so easily extinguished; when Zuko rediscovers a lost firebending technique, shifting flames can shift the world...

could not have a fic rec list without including this masterpiece. the worldbuilding in this is so unique and intriguing, and you can’t help but get attached to the new characters as the story goes on. the amount of research and real world ties this fic has is also outstanding. this fic is over 700k, but i can promise you that it is so enthralling you won’t regret it

Getting Busy in Ba Sing Se by vixxer

Sokka holds up four fingers and pokes him with them. “Four months is still not a lot of time. Weren’t you traveling the earth kingdom for most of it?” “I could’ve met a lot of people while traveling,” Zuko responds defensively. “Really getting around the earth kingdom, huh,” Sokka says with a wink.

beware for general teenage humour and an inordinate amount of dick jokes. i really like this fic because it emphasises the youth of the characters whilst keeping a very lighthearted and comedic tone.

Boomerangs and Rainbows by mindbending

At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow. In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.

a zukka fic with a very creative concept and outstanding writing. do not be put off by the major character death tag, as the guy in question still hangs around regardless. plus, i like how the fic also gives the other characters their time to shine, instead of simply focusing on the main pairing

Spirits Help Us, There’s Two of Them by hopepunk

Sokka and Zuko are both weird guys. Fortunately, they're the same kind of weird as each other.

another zukka fic that definitely deserves the clown-to-clown communication tag. the whole thing is wildly absurd and yet still sweet, and the other character’s bafflement towards their craziness is hilarious!

#avatar the last airbender #atla #fic recs #atla fic recs #zuko #sokka #toph beifong

[cescalr]

For the ship asks! If we're talking Avatar, what about Mei and Zuko?

I'll be honest, I'm not fond of it. I don't really like mei in the first place - apathy never sits well with me, and she never actually changed her mind? Mei at the start is mei at the end. She didn't think what the fire nation was doing was wrong, and she only sided against Azula to stay with Zuko, which would be sweet if she... actually liked him? And I don't think she does? She was happy with Zuko during his time back at the fire nation when he was acting the part of Ozai's favoured son, and its just... eeh. They give me bad vibes, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if she threw a knife at him properly one of these days.

Plus, Mei doesn't have much of a character outside Zuko. I'd rather shew her development than her stagnation, and keeping her with Zuko keeps her the same. In the end, mostly, me*ko just bores me, which is the nail in the coffin for any ship. At least if I hated it I'd feel something, yk? I prefer meilee or even meizula and... really any other zuko ship (aside from aang >-< yike) over meiko, but... I wouldn't, like, absolutely hate it if a good fic had meiko in it, you know? I just don't like them in canon. Much like I've said before, I'm willing to give things their fair shot. It's just that Mei herself is a hard sell for me as a focal character. It's not even that she's a 'bad' person - I read Azula and Jet-centric fics, and even memorably one Ozai centred fic (time travel, it was interesting start but still a wip though so going to see where it leads) - it's more that I just don't know what to do with her. She's kind of a meh girlfriend and kind of a whatever person, to me.

In comparison, Zuko is literally The redemption arc guy. He's the character people want to replicate the success of. Zuko is such a person that he's iconic and Mei is kinda... there. For the record, I didn't even know she existed until I watched the show. Zukka and Zutara and Zuko's character arc were well known to me, but Mei was not. I ended up only liking zukka platonically, not minding and sometimes supporting zutara, shipping jetko for the angst and the parallelism, even giving some really au zuko stuff like that one toph arranged marriage series or his leadership/friendship/family dynamics with his crew a go, jin/zuko, song/zuko - loads of things! On the other hand, Mei didn't have much going for her in my estimation to begin with, and her portrayal by competing ship fans probably didn't help. There was one where she tried to kill him after the war ended, lmao. That was silly. But still. Bias is easy to build, even without meaning to.

So, would I say I like meiko? No. Would I say I hate it? Depends on the portrayal. Much like ronmione, I don't think it would take a lot of tweaking to make her abusive, specifically also without being OOC, which worries me. So I just don't poke that sleeping dragon and hang out in the other ship spaces.

In the end, I think they just didn't understand each other on a fundamental level. (Also important; Zuko never seemed to know what to do with her, the things shed like or appreciate, and never seemed to take her own expressions - mild as they were - of affection as well as one would expect were he actually in love with her, which is itself important to note, though of course also just my own interpretation of what we were given; a lot of their scenes were cut off at some of the most important parts, which doesnt quite sit right with me.) And I need something to dig my teeth into that just wasn't present for their relationship, except in ways I couldn't interpret positively. A shame, but oh well. We can't all like everything :).

#anti-meiko #anti-mei #i think this actualky does count as those... sorry #in theory its a ship id like but in practise.... eeeeeeh not for me #mei worries me the same way willow & hermione do... but i like her less. so. oof. #its the problem of watching the show much later on in life. i cant bring myself to hate hermione we 'met' when i was. four. and willow? six #i am. 21. i first became properly aquainted with mei a year ago. its just its not the same. #harder to get invested i think. #i missed the atla train when i was a kid. getting into it now as an adult is going to mean my perspective is different. im the wrong #demographic. im going to care more about things they didnt want me to and care less about things they did #and im Not going to take stuff at face value. im just not #im also coming from the perspective of a hp btvs ac etc fan. which will again warp things #like it being revealed that it was Chaos v Order the whole time actually! and i went. as an ac fan. Oh No. #(peace and order v chaos and free will is a really big topic to cover in a tv show. let alone one for kids. they did an... okay job.) #anyway #atla #ask game #♡♡

[zukkaoru]

zukka + yoga

zuko started doing yoga in the mornings bc ty lee suggested it to him and he finds it helps him in a lot of the same ways meditation does.

sokka likes it bc he can sit and watch him, and he can poke at the yoga mat bc it has a fun texture

#is this adhd sokka? tourette’s sokka? both? you decide #sokka’s right tho i would sit and just poke a yoga mat for a while they feel so nice #ty lee and zuko do yoga together on staurday mornings sometimes which sokka DOESN’T like #bc it means he wakes up and zuko is gone to mai and ty lee’s apartment >:( #zuko will always leave him a little note or breakfast or smth tho bc he’s a sap #they just love each other so much thank you and goodnighg #good afternoon? whatever #zukka #atla #ask game #bumixzuk

[ssreeder]

hey look it’s me back again so soon! ik it’s not exactly poetry related but we are reading this book in class and there is this quote (and of course it’s long) and it’s so beautifully sad and i zukka but they are a basically codependent (looking at you sokka) and this quote is poignant commentary on love supporting but not sustaining a person (something i hope the boys will learn when they heal. and that’s def why hakoda is so suspicious about their relationship) — “It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don’t wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him…You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.” I could go on and on about what it says and connecting it to ria but the quote says so much by itself. Toni Morrison is an absolute genius. also, i have heard stirrings of a discord, count me in if y’all ever make one :)))) see you next time reed!

Omg this is so beautiful!!!

I can’t believe how wonderfully this is written! It really does describe the way the boys are towards each other pretty spectacularly… (well Sokka a bit more because we get to go inside his head)

…. But I don’t think Zuko is all that innocent with the codependency topic

Hakoda is suspicious & that suspicion is only going to grow the longer he is around zukka. I wonder how long it’ll take him to notice the level of closeness hmmmmm.

There is rumor of discord server & playlist went ahead and made one so feel free to join.

I promise it is nothing but nonsense & I apologize now.

LIAB discord server.

(anyone feel free to join)

#poem anon #once again you made me so happy #I love how you find these poems and they just fit so well in the ria/liab vibe #the poems you write so just so wonderful as well #I love that you always come by and share them with me #please feel free to join the discord #any of you #it’s not that interesting & idk what it’s exact purpose but…. #so far it’s been people yelling at me to edit #& yelling at me #(jerks!) #but I love ya #ask #liab #ria

[milf-harrington]

zukka + 2 and/or 22? 😌

2 - interlocking pinkies

22 - kissing someones cuts/bruises/scratches

i offer: college husbands content

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Zuko loved to watch Sokka talk.

He loved his husbands facial expressions, the way his eyebrows rose and furrowed with each word, the way he threw his hands around like just saying the words weren't enough.

It was fun, the lively way he spoke, and Zuko loved it.

Just maybe not when they were walking right next to each other and Sokka's talkative hands kept getting a little too close to Zuko's face for comfort.

Around the fourth time that Zuko had to duck back, he decided to take matters into his own hands, and caught his husbands fingers between his own, gently lowering it back to his side and linking their pinkies together.

It was how they used to walk to class together in high school, so it was less suspicious when they'd let go after seeing teachers looking. (Apparently hand holding counted as PDA, and PDA was generally frowned upon by faculty.)

Sokka faltered, stumbling over his words as he turned to look at Zuko in confused surprise. Zuko just smiled, swinging their hands lightly, before facing forwards again and waiting for Sokka to connect his thoughts back into words.

It didn't take long, the move-by-move run down of Azula's latest scrabble defeat resuming with the mention of a two point loss that had given Sokka the lead he'd needed to beat her.

It was Zuko's fault for bringing it up really.

(Azula had called him the night before, trying to convince him to sabotage Sokka in some way, before he'd calmly reminded her that they'd promised not to involve him in their little feud after Zuko had been the one to suffer from Azula's dirt-instead-of-coffee prank after a particularly brutal 14 point loss.

He'd remembered the call, thought it was funny, and asked Sokka how he'd beaten her this time. That had been around 10 minutes ago, and Sokka was only halfway through the recount of their entire game.

Agni, Zuko loved him.)

And then suddenly Sokka was yanking his hand away and shoving Zuko in the shoulder, making him yelp in surprise as he went careening into a bush.

"SOKKA WHAT THE FUCK-" He yelled, angrily thrashing around and trying to figure out why the fuck he was suddenly surrounded by dry and poky nature.

"Oh my god, baby, I'm so sorry- I panicked-" Sokka's frantic apology was muffled, somewhere to his mid-left, and he kicked his leg out, grinning triumphantly when he felt his foot connect with something followed Sokka swearing.

"Just get me out of this fucking bush." He demanded, wriggling around and trying to get his other foot to touch the ground. Several sharp something's were stabbing into his back where his shirt had ridden up, and there was something jabbing at his ear that was either a twig or the zipper of his jacket. His wrist and hip were stinging, the sharp pain of fresh scratches that had him gritting his teeth.

A hand wrapped around his wrist and heaved, pulling him out of the bush and catching him when he stumbled forward. Briefly, Zuko's head spun from the rush, before he was huffily shoving Sokka away and lifting up his shirt, poking gingerly at the shallow scratches that had reddened the skin.

Sokka made a wounded noise, and pulled Zuko's shirt up further, running his fingers around the injuries gently. "Im so sorry! Let's get you home and we'll put some bedadine on them and then you can yell at me all you like."

- a few minutes later -

Zuko hissed, cringing away from the cool sting of bedadine as Sokka gently sprayed it over his hip and wiped up the drips with a tissue.

"Y'know you could've just let go if you didn't want to hold hands, you didn't have to throw me in a bush-" Zuko started, deciding to return to his previous state of confused anger.

"I saw a dog and panicked." Sokka admitted sheepishly, not looking up as he sprayed bedadine on his wrist as well.

Zuko paused, raising his eyebrow at his husband. "What do you mean you panicked? I thought you liked dogs?"

"Yeah but you're allergic."

Zuko closed his eyes. This sweet, ridiculous man. "I'm not going to have an allergic reaction from a passing dog Sokka. I'd have to shove my face in it's fur and inhale."

"I know that." Sokka groaned, catching more drips with the already stained tissue. "I just saw the dog, and remembered that time you couldn't breathe when we went to visit Aang last week, and panicked and apparently shoving you into random bushes is my panic response."

"Well, get a new panic response you loser." Zuko grumbled, poking at his hip and hissing, and then feeling offended when Sokka slapped his hands away.

"Don't go prodding at them dumbass."

Zuko sat impatiently as Sokka carefully cut off a short length of bandage and pressed it over a folded up tissue, keeping it in place with medical tape from the first-aid kit Katara had given them after the whole tackling-someone-into-the-pavement debacle.

And then Sokka leaned forward, and pressed his lips right over the scratches, gently kissing them over the bandages before moving onto Zuko's wrist and repeating the process, kiss and all.

"All better!" He declared, rolling Zuko's shirt back down and turning to put his supplies away.

Zuko rolled his eyes, feeling his cheeks warming as his heart melted in his chest. "Thanks."

#me? actually kinda proud of this one?? wild #zukka #zukka fluff #asks #fitzroy-maplecourt #my writing #college husbands au

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

here lies the complete story of the Crocverse (AtLA zukka modern AU)

The general facts are as follows: 

Iroh owns a croc store and Zuko works there

Sokka works at Trader Joe’s and loves crocs

Bending is a thing

Jeong Jeong owns an antique store and is furious the croc store ruined the vibe of the strip mall

Sokka and Zuko go on a date to Olive Garden

Toph and Zuko hate crocs

Bumi owns a Jamba Juice

Worldbuilding 

This takes place in Florida

Bending is a thing, but it is unclear whether or not the Avatar is a thing 

The 2008 financial crisis was a thing that happened in this universe 

Characters 

Iroh is the new owner of the strip mall Croc store. He loves and appreciates crocs in a big dorky way. 

Zuko is his disgruntled nephew who works at the Croc store. He hates crocs with a passion and is in kind of a Linkin Park phase. (He is not an eboy, no one is an eboy, society has moved past the need for eboys.) 

Sokka works at the local Trader Joe’s. He wears Hawaiian shirts all the gd time. He is incredibly excited about the croc store and gets addicted to buying crocs. He also likes wearing a ‘men want me, fish fear me’ hat and sometimes completes his ensembles with fanny packs. 

Katara works at a Petsmart. 

Jeong Jeong owns an antique store next to the croc store and is pissed that the croc store ruined the vibe of the strip mall. 

It is undecided whether or not Aang works at Bumi’s Jamba Juice or if he works at the Trader Joe’s bakery. Regardless, he’s more of a Birkenstocks guy and finds that crocs and airbending don’t really work together. 

Piandao is the Trader Joe’s manager. 

Hakoda is currently deployed and Sokka is trying his best to cope (with unhealthy shopping habits). 

Dynamics 

Zuko goes to Jamba Juice a lot. Toph also goes to Jamba Juice a lot. They become buds because they go ‘well we’re both loners going into school with few or no friends and we both love Jamba Juice and hate crocs, that’s as good a place as any to start a friendship’ 

Sokka loves to explore Jeong Jeong’s antique store. Jeong Jeong considers Sokka to be a local menace (and he’d never say it but he’s his local menace and would be hurt if Sokka started poking around another antique store). 

Iroh really wants to be friends with Jeong Jeong (who could honestly use a friend, he’s kind of a hermit). Jeong Jeong is firmly annoyed that Iroh ruined the vibe of the strip mall. 

Zuko likes hanging out at the antique store and occasionally runs into Sokka. He voices his displeasure for the croc store on multiple occasions and Jeong Jeong feels incredibly validated. 

Zuko has kind of just planned to not have friends for his senior year. Iroh thinks that unacceptable. 

Iroh loves Sokka’s outfits a whole lot and compliments them all the time (while also trying to set him up with Zuko as friends). 

Sokka initially thinks Zuko is just kind of weird and asocial, but then one day at Petsmart he’s bothering Katara at work and he sees Zuko sitting on the floor of the reptile section just looking at all the tanks. Katara tells Sokka that Zuko basically does this every other day and Sokka realizes how soft this guy is and just kind of goes ‘oh’. 

Sokka goes to the crocstore and buys some pride crocs to send a message to Zuko. Zuko is oblivious. 

Eventually, Sokka pulls the “so… do you want to do an activity together?” and Iroh comes over with a “he’d LOVE to” and gives them an Olive Garden gift card. 

Sokka hopes Zuko thinks this is an actual date, Zuko is unclear on whether or not this is a date but puts on a button down shirt just in case, and Iroh doesn’t realize it’s 100% a date until Zuko comes out with his shirt and Iroh decides that it is of the utmost importance that he does Zuko’s hair. 

The details of the date have been decided on….but @animegenork is writing the actual fic and if you really want the sweet, soft zukka details you’ll have to wait. All I’ll say is there are turtleducks and smooching involved. 

Relevant Backstory 

Iroh didn’t actually want to own a croc store. He used to own his own tea/coffee store, but when the economy tanked and his son died, it ended up going bust. 

Iroh didn’t have much contact with his brother after Lu Ten died because Ozai was an unsympathetic asshole about it. The last time he saw his brother’s family was at Azulon’s funeral. 

A few years after the falling out with Ozai (and Iroh’s contact with his niece and nephew being basically reduced to birthday phone calls) Iroh finally upgrades to an iPhone with Facetime. When he calls for Zuko’s birthday, Iroh is VERY FUCKING DISPLEASED to see that someone has burned off half of Zuko’s face (and it doesn’t take much thinking for him to guess who). 

Iroh scoops Zuko up ASAP and Zuko moves in with him. 

Iroh attempts to bring Azula, but she firmly does not want to go with him and Iroh can’t exactly just kidnap a child in this day and age. 

So instead of reinvesting in a new tea shop, Iroh invests his time in legal work to go after Ozai for being the Fucking Worst™. 

He also puts Zuko in therapy, because god knows the kid needs it. 

Iroh worked in middle management for various retail stores and landed a management position in a croc store. Eventually, he opened up his own branch in Florida (which is where our story starts). 

And really, it wasn’t Iroh’s dream to own a croc store, but he accepts that life doesn’t always go exactly how you plan it. Iroh recognizes that what he can focus on is bringing joy to people and trying to project kindness into the world every day. Maybe you end up onwing a croc store. Maybe you’re in a bunch of bs legal crap because your brother is a monster and there are two kids who need someone, but you can make the best of it and it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy simple pleasure where you find them. 

Other details 

The Crocverse is a Mouth Wheat Boy Free Zone. Jet is just not a croc person. Jet has no reason to enter the croc store. This AU does not have room for Jet. I’m sorry Jet stans. (I’m not.) 

Zuko and Sokka are upcoming high school seniors (age 17). 

Katara is an upcoming junior (16), Aang is an upcoming sophomore (15), and Toph is an upcoming freshman (14). 

The swampbenders are frequent patrons of the croc store because they’re good for marshy areas.

The only people who are actually croc enthusiest in this world are Sokka and Iroh. 

Sokka likes wearing neon turquoise crocs the most. 

Sometimes Iroh wears rainbow tie dye crocs to support his gay nephew .

Final words 

This is what I meant when I said the Crocverse was never really about the crocs. The crocs were just a framing device, they’re just how we got here. At its core, the crocverse is about these characters and their struggles, and more importantly how they find each other despite the struggles. It’s about Zuko learning how to make friends. It’s about Iroh wanting the best for his nephew and trying to make the best of a less than ideal situation. It’s about Sokka trying to figure out what to do now that his dad is gone and learning how to open up about it instead of cope with unhealthy shopping habits and deflection. It’s about going to Petsmart and spending an hour looking at the reptiles because you deserve it. It’s about going to Jamba Juice and making friends with the other loners. It’s about learning that you don’t have to be alone. It’s about ditching Olive Garden for a better date somewhere else and smooching the ridiculous Hawaiian shirt Trader Joe’s employee because he’s funny and caring and maybe, just maybe, you deserve that. It’s about letting new people enter your life when you think you have to be alone. It’s about being teenagers together before life starts for real. It’s about, above all else, finding those weirdos who will be there for you and accept you for all your quirks and baggage. 

And that’s the Crocverse. I will shut up about it forever now. 

#the crocverse #I'll shut up about it forever now #it's not ABOUT the crocs #the crocs are just how we got here #thank you for your time #zuko #sokka #iroh #jeong jeong #aang #toph #katara #hot leaf content #modern au

[beachytablecloth]

zukka or renga + 67?

i still have faith in you - abba (which was actually my 66th song, because 67 was a wiggles song. #preschoolteacherproblems)

We do have it in us

New spirit has arrived

The joy and the sorrow

We have a story and it survived

(cw: descriptions of grief and depression)

Everything after his dad’s passing had happened in a fog, like there was a thick piece of blurry glass between him and the rest of the world.

Langa remembers that first ride after he was gone. The snow somehow felt colder, and the wind against his face as he made his way down the mountain wasn’t exhilarating, but harsh, bitter. Even the sun, trying its best to poke between the heavy clouds, reflected off the snow in a dim, muted sort of way.

It was quiet, but not peaceful.

And he felt nothing.

And then they moved. Mom worried about him—insisted that they didn’t have to go unless he really wanted to—but he would have said yes to anything if it meant he didn’t have to hear her muffled crying through the wall their bedrooms shared every night.

His first day of school was a blur. Maybe he should’ve been nervous, anxious, something, but all he could do was go through the motions. Introduce himself. Sit in class. Try not to get lost between periods.

Until—

A runaway skateboard rattling down the hill. A loud, excitable redhead chasing after it.

The fog began to clear.

He rode and his heart raced. He fell off and scraped his knees and hands and leaned on Reki for balance. It felt like coming alive again.

He snuck out with Reki. He laughed with his friends.

(It felt like coming alive again.)

And then, it was all gone. It was like Dad, again. Except it was almost worse because he knew enough about this feeling to fear it this time. And the one person he wanted to talk to about it was avoiding him and it was his fault because Reki had made him promise and he’d joined the tournament anyway, chased the high of skating like it was the last thing he’d ever feel.

It didn’t matter that he was winning the races. That people were cheering for him.

He was skating, but he felt nothing. The joy slipped through his fingers like sand. He’d lost it. He’d lost Reki.

The person who’d brought fun back into his life. Someone amazing and intelligent and passionate and wonderful—gone like a bandaid ripped off too soon.

And Langa wasn’t sure how he’d survive it—the numbness, the hollowness in his chest. The world, gray and muted and like nothing even mattered anymore.

But then, they found each other again. Langa realized how much Reki meant to him, and he got to tell him that, and they skated together and it was back. They were a team again, and Langa knew that with Reki, he would be alright.

send me a ship and a number 1-100 and i'll write a drabble based on the corresponding song from my 2021 top 100 playlist

#ok this song. actually works SO much better for matchablossom!! but def works with renga too. #this ofc ending up being much sadder than i intended it to be but. that's just how i am i guess #anyway thank you so much grace!! #renga #sk8 #my ficlets #renga ficlet #beachytablecloth inc. #ask games #grace tag

[moth-time]

poking your ao3 “marked for later” list like all of these sound fabulous but none of it scratches my particular itch OTL

anyway rec me some atla content? Jetka, Zukka, Zukki, Jetko, Sukka, Mailee, whatever I am flexible on pairings, but something from these tropes:

enemies to lovers

h/c

WHUMP

seriously give me the dead dove fics

repressed af boys (internalized homophobia, guilt, self-loathing, all the good shit)

reluctant allies/allied in the face of greater evil

dealing w trauma/ptsd

i think you get the gist of it I want the sad shit and the complicated relationships and the stories about fucked up people crawling through the mud trying to heal each other

#atla #avatar the last airbender #fic rec #asking for recommendations #will also take fallout fics actually #kinda miss deacon and his endless pit of repressed issues #fo4

[ya-so-im-here]

Mister and Mister Li

Writer: Me, I have it published under my wattpad account TheNinjaOfCake22

Fandom:Avatar the Last Airbender

Ship: Sokka x Zuko

https://www.wattpad.com/1052674726-avatar-one-shots-zukka-mister-and-mister-li

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   Both Zuko and Sokka were trying their best to walk about the prison without drawing   unnecessary attention but pretending to be a prison guard was harder   then either of them thought. The uniform worked most of the time but   whenever they got caught being somewhere they weren't meant to be, they struggled to come up with a good explanation... one could only use the excuse "I'm new here" so many times before it no longer worked.

    It was late as Sokka  and Zuko were going through the corridors trying to find the ice box  that was used as punishment for firebenders who were firebending, if  Sokka's plan to escape was going to work they needed to find it and check it out first.

   "Are you sure this is the right way?" whispered Zuko glancing at Sokka

   "Of course, I'm   positive this is the way they brought the prisoner" responded Sokka but his voice wasn't very confident and Zuko noticed but, they kept walking  about the corridors.

   "Ok. We have to be going to wrong way" said Zuko abruptly stopping and facing Sokka

   "No, I think we're getting close..."

   "Just admit it... you don't remember where they took the prisoner" Zuko smirked as he placed his hands on his hips.

   "I won't, because I do remember" stated Sokka crossing his arms

   "Oh really then tell me, are we getting close?"

   "We are" said Sokka leaning in towards Zuko slightly glaring.

   "Then tell me... how close" Sokka opened his mouth to respond but stopped when he was interrupted.

   "You two! What are   you doing back here? Who are You?" both Sokka and Zuko backed apart and stood up straight trying to resume their roles as guards as an actual   guard approached them. Though they would never want to admit this they   both froze they weren't paying attention and forgot their stories, they quickly blurted out the first names that came to mind.

   "Li" they both said in unison and once they realized they said the same name their hearts   beat even faster and their hands began to get sweaty. The guard just   looked at them just as confused as they were, what were they going to   do? Zuko's mind was racing trying to find a logical reason for them to   have the exact same name, maybe they were brothers? no that made no   sense.

   Sokka's mind was   working double time they couldn't get caught just because they had the   same name, he would never forgive himself if he failed to save his dad   and Suki because him and Zuko happened to say the same name. Oh why   would they have the same name? how? then without Sokka's realizing it at  first his mind started acting on a plan to escape the situation.

    Sokka's hand casually  reached out and grabbed Zuko's hand sending chills up both of their  arms from the contact. But neither pulled away as Sokka lifted up their  intertwined fingers high enough for the guard to see.

   "We're um... We're   Mister and Mister Li" said Sokka trying to sound as calm as he could the  guard eyed the two with suspicion, both Sokka and Zuko were beginning to panic it didn't work Zuko gripped Sokka's hand tighter.

   "Oh I see you thought  you could get a little alone time did ya? well you know the rules no  personal relations are supposed to interact while on duty. Return to  your positions guards and no lollygagging gots it?" the guard pointed a  finger at the two before he returned back the way he came shaking his  head lightly as he mumbled "young couples."

    Zuko and Sokka stood  there for a moment shocked that it worked, they didn't get caught. Both  boys exhaled sharply with Zuko now realizing he had been holding his  breath then they noticed they were still holding hands and both boys  yanked their hands free of the other immediately choosing not to say  anything.

   "We uh..." started   Zuko but it came out as a mumble "We should... get going. you know   before he comes back" his raspy voice tight and awkward

   "Uh... ya. Let's go"  responded Sokka as the two left the area in utter silence not saying   anything to each other only glancing at each other when the other wasn't  looking. They made their way to the guard dorm rooms where they were   staying in, Sokka sat down on the bed and started taking off his helmet and armor. Zuko began to take off his helmet but instead of putting it down he held it in his hands thinking to himself.

   "You just gonna stand  there? It's late we have to find the freezer tomorrow so you better get  some sleep" said Sokka as he loosened the guard shirt under the armor  and tossed the rest of the armor to the floor.

   "You're just going to bed?" asked Zuko abruptly his voice louder then he expected, catching Sokka off guard.

    "Uh ya and I suggest you do too" said Sokka trying to brush it off.

   "How could I? were   you not there?" Sokka looked over at Zuko meeting his eyes realizing   they were indeed going to discuss the situation.  "Why did you take my   hand like that? why did you say we were... you could've just said we had  the same name or something"

   "I don't know it was  a stressful moment I didn't know what to do, it wasn't like you were   much help you froze just like I did"

    "I was thinking" grumbled Zuko "Why would you even say your name was Li anyway" asked Zuko

   "Master Piandao said to use the name Li, he said there was a lot of Li's in the fire nation. What about you" asked Sokka

   "I've been using the  name Li as a cover since I started running from Azula" responded Zuko the two sat there for a moment in silence.

    "Hey I'm sorry if I  made you uncomfortable. I really was just trying to think of a cover, I  didn't think that it would upset you..."

    "It didn't upset me" interrupted Zuko causing Sokka to raise his eyebrows and widen his eyes.

   "But... you seemed   upset" poked Sokka tilting his head to look up at Zuko through his hair that he had let cover his eyes and he noticed a faint blush on his   cheeks.

   "I was. I mean... it  caught me by surprise" Zuko looked over at Sokka and noticed the water  tribe boy try to make contact with him. "Ugh just forget it, I shouldn't  have said anything. I'm going to bed" Zuko went to walk past Sokka as  quickly as he could to make his way to his bed, but was stopped when he  felt Sokka hold his arm back.

   "Zuko..." whispered Sokka his voice feeling dry all of a sudden, Zuko turned and looked at him "I held your hand because yes I thought it would help sell the story  but... I also wanted to hold your hand" they both stared at  each other in silence. Zuko didn't know how to respond and Sokka was  beginning to regret his decision and quickly dropped Zuko's arm and took  a few steps back.

    "I'msorryIdon'tknowwhatIwasthinkingI'mjusttiredyesjusttiredg'nightZuko" Sokka rambled as he quickly made his way to his bed and covered himself  in his blanket and facing the wall as to not look at Zuko, who was   blushing a beat red just standing there in the middle of the room.

   Zuko finally fell   out of his trance and made his way to Sokka's bed sitting on the edge,   Sokka immediately felt the fire prince's weight on the bed and shut his eyes tighter as he cursed himself repeatedly in his head. Why did he have to say that? why did he grab Zuko's hand, why did he say they were married? Then  he felt the touch of Zuko's hand on Sokka's shoulder and the water   tribe boy froze as he felt his arms cover in chills from the touch.

   "Sokka..." Zuko   exhaled his voice weak his hand still on Sokka's shoulder "I wanted to   hold your hand too" his voice was soft just a mere mumble but Sokka was listening for a response and heard the firebender as clear as day. His heart had sped up and his hands were getting sweaty again. Slowly the   water tribe boy sat up and crossed his legs sitting to face Zuko.

   "You... you did?" he  asked and Zuko nodded lightly "then why did you get all upset over it"  Sokka was dreading this his mind yelling at him stop you fool, your just friends, your gonna ruin your friendship, just leave well enough alone but the voice stopped when Zuko spoke again making direct eye contact with him.

    "You don't know me that well the only knowledge you have of me is of me chasing you and   trying to hurt Aang and... I don't want to ruin anything" Zuko looked   down in shame for a moment before he reached out and took Sokka's hand   and looked back into his blue eyes.

    "I know that I   don't know you very well, just as you don't know me that well but I   really like you Zuko, more then I've liked anyone even after all we've   been through" he said it Sokka had finally said it and it was as though a  large weight was lifted from his chest, he held Zuko's hand back as he  smiled a large dorky grin.

   "I really like you   too" Zuko's raspy voice weak as he said the words back, he couldn't   believe this not only was he holding the hand of the boy he liked but he  liked him back. They leaned in closer to each other still holding each  other's hand and  shared the most awkward kiss either of them had ever  had resulting in them breaking apart blushing like fools while laughing  lightly.

    "Do you mind if we try that again?" asked Zuko still nervous which resulted a large smirk from Sokka.

    "Trust me you don't  need to ask" responded Sokka as he jumped to his knees getting close   enough to Zuko to wrap his arms around the fire prince's head and   kissing him with more passion and less nerves. When they pulled apart   both were out of breath as they smiled like dorks still in a tight   embrace.

    "You know, we do make a good couple" smirked Sokka as Zuko raised an eyebrow

    "We just now started  dating... we are dating now right" asked Zuko now feeling nervous like  he misunderstood. Sokka laughed giving Zuko another quick kiss.

   "Yes we're dating,   but I know we make a good couple because even that guard thought we were  a real couple" this made Zuko smile and laugh

   "He really did fall for that didn't he? your hands were so sweaty I thought he would see right through it"

   "My hands? really  jerkbender? your hands were so sweaty I thought they were gonna slip   right out of mine. Plus we both know it worked because it looked like we  got caught" said Sokka raising his eyebrow which caused Zuko to blush once more causing Sokka to laugh. "Has anyone ever told you, you look   adorable when you blush?" teased Sokka.

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[jockvillagersonly]

I’ve been thinking about the miracle of friendship and my Zukka university!AU so, for your consideration, how Zuko and Toph became friends:

Picture this: Junior year. Zuko is fresh off realizing that he gets to decide what he wants his life to be — not his dad, not Azula. Him.

Zuko goes full fuck it - cuts ties to his family, gets a job at his uncle’s tea shop, switches his major from business (boo!) to theater (woo!)

Downside: despite being a junior, he has to take a bunch of intro-level seminars to fill the preliminary requirements for his new major ☹️

It’s in one of these classes that he meets our lord and savior, mothercrusher Toph Beifong

Zuko is sitting alone in the back zoning out, chewing on his pencil, being dark & broody (duh) when someone small and compact sits directly next to him & pokes him in the face??

We are talking strong this scene energy:

Small & Compact immediately leans in, sniffs, and then sits back with visible disappointment, all damn, you don’t smell bad. So what’s the reason people avoid this row like you’re a walking plague?

Zuko doesn’t answer beyond making his eyebrows Extra Angry 😡 and shooting her his patented “I Listened to a Lot of Mayday Parade in Middle School” glare.

It has approximately no effect because, as Zuko is just now realizing, the weird small freshman is blind and cannot see his glare (which is honestly her loss, he has practiced it in the mirror and it’s a powerful look — )

ANYWAY small freshman leans back in conspiratorially and asks is it cuz you killed someone? I’m not a narc...you can trust me.

Zuko snaps out prove it, pokey before his brain catches up to his mouth and he flushes

But Toph just smirks: sounds like something the feds would say, sparky. Who’s the real narc here, huh? Dumbass.

Obviously this is the start of a beautiful friendship. They sit together every class and talk shit about everyone

(Zuko eventually asks why she sat next to him the first time, and Toph is like I’m blind, and even I can tell that no one sits near you... people keep trying to help me walk up stairs and shit, I wanted to learn your secret for scaring people away)

Zuko recommends using the elevator instead; Toph punches him

Zuko thinks he has a Friend™️?

(And like obviously beyond mutual shit talk, they become friends because they understand each other. They both have fucked-up, dysfunctional, wealthy families, and they’ve both spent life not being seen for who they really are)

#long post srry #I’m just a poor gay who cant self censor #atla #zuko #atla zuko #atla toph #toph #toph and zuko bromance !!!! #we love to see it #zukka #i mean it is background to a zukka hc #leaf me alone im bushed #long post

[strrwbrrryjam]

001 zukka, if youd like.

hi! okay, first ask, thank you for asking.

when I started shipping it if I did: ...im going to be completely honest, im new to atla, but not new to tumblr. i actually had a large tumblr that i made when i was fourteen that was dedicated to hetalia. but over the years i got bored of it, so i stopped updating it, i only looked at the blogs i followed and then one day, someone reblogged some zukka fanart, and i loved it. i knew nothing of the characters, but from the looks of each of them and how it followed the classic red-blue gays and representation that i craved as a young lesbian i decided to give it a watch, still in love with a ship i knew nothing about, so imagine my whiplash that i got when they were two people who weren't even friends until the final season, but i never got discoaurged because of all the tension and the parellels and how if either of them were female-male i definitely felt that zukka would be canon and have so much more hype.

my thoughts: im not the best at describing why i love them, but ill try. i love zukka for a lot of reasons, but mostly because... for me relationships are a partnership, you both get benefits from it where you can rely on eachother, where there is a mutual understanding between each other to the point where you know exactly what your lover needs to hear... and sometimes, no matter the mood your in, they are the only ones who can truly make you happy, and thats what i get from zukka. sokka is very much the older sibling, he goes so underappreciated for so long that when piandao tells him he should be proud of who he is and what he can do... he just doesn't believe him. now, this isnt the fault of katara, aang or anyone else, maybe a little bit hakodas fault i mean he literally left a kid with such high expectations of himself to protect the village by himself with what limited training that he had. even when they listen to his ideas, some of which are very much right but have failed to no fault of sokka like walking because appa is too noticable, katara or someone else pokes fun to these ideas for failing miserable, which they may mean in jest, but can still really hurt, so he needs someone to encourage him that sure, maybe this idea has failed, but its just a learning experience. zuko... my god he has trauma. zuko was this sweet and kind and passionate kid born into an environment where he didnt belong and he was abused for everything that he was. ursa while was a safe haven didnt do enough to protect him, as she too was powerless. his sister turned from this sweet and kind sister to someone who quickly realised that being that way makes it impossible to survive so she began to tease and taunt and turn into a mirror of their abuser. while id like to think lu ten was there for the both of them, iroh and lu ten where getting ready for the siege so they were rather busy... and azulon actively wished that ozai kill him, and ozai, fucking ozai man, is there anything else left to be said? once ursa left... everything when down and he was burned and banished for his wish to protect his people. iroh... for all my love of iroh, he doesnt understand zukos intentions or actions, he thinks hes lost his way but... he doesnt see that zuko doesnt want to hunt the avatar, he doesnt want to stay at the tea shop, what he wants is to be home. hes not safe in the watertribes, not safe in the earth kingdom and while he isnt truly safe at home, its his nostalgia(?) and how everything hes used to is at home, its where his mother memory lives... its where his the remnants of his past relationship with azula and where his baby sister is... its as safe as a home they could get. he knows people doesnt like him and he while isnt okay with it, nothing matters more than getting home. which isnt a good reason for his literally capturing of a twelve year olds, fourteen year old and fifteen year olds, but... it is for him, hes sixteen, still a kid, like the one hes chasing and he doesnt realize that the home he hopes for isnt what he thinks it is, at least not anymore. that his father doesnt love him, that his sister is no longer the sweet kid that she used to be and she too was abused, that his mum is no longer around anymore and he doesnt have a happy life or a happy family. he repeatedly doesnt listen to iroh because iroh doesnt get it. iroh grew up loved and cherished and praise while zuko doesnt, he grows up hated with no chance of change, he... is very much an asshole and doesnt listen to anyone, but hes trying in season 3. and then... the boiling rock happens. my god, its... like my favourite episodes. sokka feels like he has to go alone because he felt like he failed, its his responsiblity, it was his mistake despite the fact that it wasnt, that there were many, many adults who it the fault could fall onto, and the fact that the odds were stacked against them completely, but sokka being who he is, still feels responsible, but wants to go alone. except, zuko wont let him, he understands sokka, because thats what hes felt like his whole life. hes

always felt like a failure, not being able to protect his sister, not being able to protect himself so he knows what sokka is going to do, and, forces himself onto the journey. its awkward, at first, because of course it is i mean this is the guy who was chasing you for half a year and was inadvertidely responsible to two of your closest friends deaths/near-deaths. but once they get past this awkwardness, the banter very much starts when they land. and zuko. zuko who never asked for someones opinion, looks to sokka for guidance and listens and encourages sokka. for me boiling rock is peak sokka for how well he plans. sokka is able to express himself and talk and give advice and when his plan fails, zuko is there to help him through it and see it with a different perspective, and they just... the trust, its there. its already there despite how much it shouldnt be. it just works so well and then sokka defends zuko to hakoda and finally hakoda tells him what he should of and... its up from there. they are just there for each other and its... wonderful. they are both absolutely miserable people but... they make each other happy. it happens so fastly too and its just absolutely wonderful.

What makes me happy about them: honestly, i just wrote what makes me happy about them and how much i love them in the above question.

What makes me sad about them: god. how complicated it will be in the actual universe and how they will have to spend most of their lives seperate from each other. ive mentioned before that im a romantic at heart and it hurts, because despite how realistic it will be to have them seperated for most of their early religion, i mean... zuko will have to stay in the firenation despite how much it isnt home for him anymore and sokka is able to move from the southern watertribe to the northern air temple and to the firenation... so id like to think that when izumi comes around, the soon travel together, as by the time izumi is around, things are getting settled and zuko doesnt need such a close eye on everything.

things done in fanfic that annoys me: listen... i dont have anything that really annoys me, except when they play into babified(?) versions of each other, (zuko beng too soft-boy and sokka... being to "daddy" if thats the correct word.) but what bothers me is the lack of sokka-comfort, all of them have trauma. sokka, too. i love zuko. hes... just my favourite/comfort character and someone who i relate to so much, hes just... ive never related to someone more than zuko, but zukka is a more mutual relationship than anything, and i wish we had more fics dealing with sokkas trauma too.

things I look for in fanfic:

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: okay, okay, okay, for zuko, i have many, i just think zuko and sokka both have extreme pretty boy privilege, and while zuko doesnt realize the effortless charm and how pretty he is, sokka most definitely does and uses it to his advantage. so... maiko, jinko, (platonic/relationship) zutara, jetko and sukka. listen. i love yue and sokkas relationship, but they had such a short time together that i could never really ship them. i think sokka mourns her and it is very valid for doing so but i always felt that he mourned his friend and what their relationship could of grown into. also i am a diehard yueki fan.

My happily ever after for them: that they grow hold together, and are able to see their children, (yes, i said children, as in izumi, varrick and senna with trans!zuko) grow and change the world and have their own families.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: dude. dude i dont know. i want them both to be held. i want both little spoon zukka and big spoon zukka. weighted blanket zukka. all zukka sleeping positions. i like to think that like me the both of them cannot stay still while they sleep, they wake up in each others arms but end up at the foot of the bed or something.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: god... everything, picnics, roadtrips, reading together, stargazing, sharing letters... just as long as they are their together everything is their favourite activity as they spent most of their youth and twenties and possibliy early thirties separate from each other.

#my own post #ask #ask game #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla headcanon #avatar the last airbender headcanon #atla writing prompt? #avatar the last airbender writing prompt? #atla analysis #avatar the last airbender analysis #atla meta #avatar the last airbender meta #hope this is okay! #its my first proper ask and i just #well #wanna do well #also sorry if its so long #i have so many thoughts about zukka and i can never really write/type it out properly from my head #bad brain to hand/mouth coodination #thank you for the ask!

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For the ship rating: korrasami/makorra/masami

Alright, I’ve been relatively quiet  about this love triangle up until now, but y’all seem to be appreciating the blunt honesty I’ve been using for the rest of these asks, so I figure I may as well be frank. 

Love triangles are not a trope I particularly care for, and this one was really handled poorly by the narrative, on so many levels. I don’t like it. 

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get into each of the individual ships we’re dealing with here. (Rather than doing them in the order they were asked in, I think I’m going to go in order from least-disliked to most-loathed.) 

Makorra: C+ 

I binged this whole show over the course of about a week or two, and there were plenty of things I knew about it beforehand-- namely, that Mako and Korra were going to date for a while, but she was eventually going to dump him and get together with Asami. 

Keeping all of that in mind, I came into LOK warning myself not to get attached to this ship. 

And for the first season that was really easy. I spent most of the time wondering why Korra was crushing on Mako instead of Bolin. Not because I shipped Borra (I didn’t), but because I was honestly so tired of the “girl falls for bad boy/brooding loner instead of the sweet guy who clearly adores her” category of stories. 

I wasn’t too torn up about the way season two handled their relationship. This was the season I actually started liking Mako (who is now probably my favorite character), and I honestly felt kind of bad for how he kept getting caught on the short end of the stick. 

Seasons three and four are where I really started enjoying their interactions. Their commitment to maintaining their friendship, and the way they stood by each other, was really sweet and inspiring. 

All in all, they were able to form a great friendship, which could have been a foundation for a strong relationship if the show had chosen to take it that direction, but I’m not the slightest bit upset or disappointed that it didn’t. 

Masami: D- 

I should clarify that I... don’t particularly care for Asami. Not to say that I hate, or even dislike her-- I don’t! But the narrative did not do a very good job of handling her character, and she comes off as more of a Mary Sue than anything else. She’s smart, she’s super-talented, she’s freaking gorgeous-- but that’s all she is. She doesn’t have any flaws, or even very much in the way of character development. She’s just.... there. 

And Masami was a big part of that. Season one Asami really seemed like she was just there to get in the way of Makorra, and season two didn’t help matters very much. 

Mako and Asami don’t seem to have much in common, they don’t even seem to be good friends, and by the end of the show the only thing they have tying them together is Korra. 

I honestly can’t picture them making it work as a couple for very long. But, as always, that’s just my opinion. 

Korrasami: E- 

I went into this show knowing that Korrasami was going to be endgame. I put on my shipping goggles, ready for the romantic tension, the ship teasing, the cute flirting..... 

And you know what I got? None of that. I literally finished the show wondering “did they actually get together? Because that final scene could be read as completely platonic.” 

(I really enjoyed Korra and Asami’s friendship, especially in books two and three-- but that was all I saw.) 

I saw a post one time that basically summed up the problem (can’t find it now)-- Korra could have hooked up with anyone in those last few minutes, and it would have made zero difference to the story. 

(Sure, I get wanting representation, but the relationship should still make sense, ya know? Some kind of build-up?) 

(Think about it this way: if they hadn’t both been girls, if Asami had been a boy instead, or worse, Korra had, would anyone like it as much, or would it just feel like a cheap “hero gets the girl”/Strangled by the Red String subplot?) 

Now, none of that means much. I’ve shipped things with less basis before, and even if I wasn’t especially into it, I might have been able to see the appeal well enough to give it an E+ or D- rating. 

Except. 

Except that, while I may not have been part of the LOK fandom for very long, I’ve done enough digging around to get some vague idea of what it was like in its heyday. 

And the picture I’m getting is.... not very pretty. 

Take everything I said about (certain) Zukka shippers. Imagine that it’s for a show that is not nearly as well-done as ATLA. Keep in mind that it was not old yet enough to have a super-large fanbase. Realize that people are not quite as attached to this story as some others they like, and weren’t going to bother investing as much emotional energy if all they were going to get for it was toxicity and hate. 

.....And suddenly you understand why the Makorra shippers are still afraid to poke their heads out from wherever they’ve been hiding for the last six years. 

This behavior is insulting and obnoxious, and I don’t like it. At all. You are entitled to ship whatever you want. But sending hate to someone just because they want the “wrong” pair of fictional characters to kiss is cruel. 

“No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.”

#avatar the last airbender #love triangle #shipping wars #thoughts #korra and mako #mako and asami #anti korrasami #let people enjoy things #let people ship what they want

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Avatar Zuko Rewrite

Pairings: Zukka (pre-romantic, unrequited)

Word Count: 1687 Words

Summary: Lee somehow manages to win Sokka's heart without even trying aka he feeds him. Sokka doesn't even know how to process how cute Lee is.

Warnings: Injury Mention, Food Mention, Half Blind Character, let me know if I should tag something else.

Chapter 7

When they finally consoled Aang, they led him back to where Lee was in the Avatar Chamber still. It seemed they’d all left him there to continue with his intrigued study of the statues.

Finding him collapsed in front of the Roku statue was definitely not something they’d anticipated. It looked like some debris had flown here too from Aang’s emotional breakdown. None of it looked to have hit Lee but they all guessed it had somehow hit him in the head and made him collapse with a concussion.

“Hey, Lee. Lee, wake up.” Sokka shook the raven’s shoulder.

He gave a groan, waking up and he held his left hip, apparently that had hit the ground first and taken the most of the brunt of the fall. Lee pushed himself to sit up, other hand holding his head, eyes shut still and refusing to look at them. Finally, his gold eyes opened and he gazed up at them.

“What happened? I’m so sorry if I hurt you, Lee!” Aang hugged him.

“No, it wasn’t you. The spiritual pressure is just really strong in here.” He rubbed his left scalp with soreness from the fall, but thankfully, he didn’t seem too injured.

“Well you are right. It does feel like the pressure is stronger here. Maybe it’s the statues.” Aang told him, helping him up on his left side while Sokka helped his right. Sokka felt protective of the airbender, he was obviously weak and a bit hurt, he needed someone to look after him.

He helped him from the chamber, all four leaving it to let Lee recover. The airbender seemed to be getting better, all but his hip, however. But that just seemed sore too, and was obviously better the more he moved it and used it and wasn’t overstressing the muscle he’d hurt. Aang and Katara played air ball this time, Lee and Sokka sitting on the grass, watching.

“Do you think they’d mind if I looked around?” Lee asked.

“Why?” He asked the airbender.

“Food. You’ve been complaining nonstop, I figure shut your mouth with some food.” Lee told him, smiling broadly but also nervously. He was getting comfortable around people but he wasn't sure how to act.

“Nah, they wouldn’t mind. Just don’t get lost. Come back here after or I'm sure Aang might freak out that I lost you.” The raven nodded and set off the path on the left, slowly retraining the sore but thankfully healthy muscle in his left hip. An hour later, Lee came back with several things in his arms. He threw something round at him and he immediately caught it out of instinct.

“Found the kitchens and the gardens. That’s a pomelo by the way. They grew firebender fruit here. Who would have thought Air Nomads could simulate different climates?” He was smiling.

“What the hell’s a pomelo?” Sokka asked, peeling it curiously.

“A fruit. It’s like an orange but better. Don’t complain. I could have made you eat the durian fruit.” He showed him a large yellow fruit as Sokka took a curious bite of the fruit in his hands.

“Hey, I’m not a quitter. Let me try the other one.”

“Don’t complain to me then, water-boy.” He tossed the yellowy fruit at him. Sokka caught it easily. He used his dagger to cut open the durian fruit to come face to face with the yellow flesh.

“What? Scared?” Lee smirked, eyes smiling and Sokka, to all that knew him, was absolutely not one to back down from a challenge.

If anything, a cute boy staring him down to eat a fruit that intimidated him, yeah that was a challenge. He cut the piece sunk his teeth into the yellow flesh and was met with a bitter, sour taste in his mouth and immediately spit it out, spitting saliva in hopes the taste would go away. Lee took one of the unbitten pieces and bit into it easily.

“I told you. Water Tribe Boys can’t eat durian.” Lee teased.

“Well, Fire Nation Boys can’t eat sudachi.”

“I’m Air Nomad. But just the same. I don’t like Water Tribe food.” Lee finished his demon fruit.

“Smartass.” Sokka mumbled.

“Takes one to know one.” Lee sat back on the grass watching the game going back and forth until Katara and Aang finally both tied in a stalemate.

“Lee found the kitchens and gardens while you two were on your supervised date.” Sokka told them.

“Where are they?” Katara asked, blatantly mad. And then Lee did the unexpected again. He pushed upward with his hands and landed on his feet with only mild difficulty from his hip.

For a second, Sokka was sure that he was becoming a true demon like the fruit Lee had eaten with the way he’d been moving until he realized he was just a showoff. Katara rolled her eyes at the display and Aang snorted laughter at Sokka’s terrified yet shocked expression.

Lee made a small chuckle at his shocked expression too, already him and Aang leading each other to the kitchens and gardens, leaving Katara and Sokka to run to catch up again.

“Oh Gods, the kitchens smell heavenly.” Sokka drooled.

“I figured we’d all be tired and hungry after all that’s happened today. I started dinner before I left. It should be done in a few minutes.”

“Cooking’s a girl thing! You can’t cook!” Sokka protested.

“Eat dinner or go try to make something yourself. The gardens are out the door, to the left, down a bit.” Lee walked away from him into the kitchens from where they were in the mess hall.

Sokka was impressed with how easy he seemed to act naturally around him and the others, like the three years on a Fire Navy ship had never changed his personality to the meek and scared boy he’d seen him the day prior. Though, it occurred to him that Lee could just be scared of his bending being destructive.

“He needs to get a handle on that talk of his!” Katara raged.

“He’s fine. I think he’s just getting comfortable around us.” Sokka told her as much. She growled at him to be quiet.

“I made extra.” And the two big bowls of first pasta then a black and lumpy mix got set on the table. Sokka poked it with his spoon.

“What is that?” He asked.

“Zhajiangmian. Fire nation food. Thankfully the not hot kind. Made vegetarian for our airbender.”

“Waterbenders need meat, Lee.” Sokka complained. Lee raised an eyebrow. He bit his tongue, Spirits dammit, why was that cute!? “But it smells good. I’m eating.” He put some of the noodles into his bowl. He looked at the dark saucey substance oddly as to what he should do with it.

“You put the zhajiang overtop of the noodles and mix them.” Lee spooned the mix over his own noodles, mixing it together with his chopsticks. Sokka mimicked what he’d done and brought a the chopsticks to his mouth, tasting the food.

“That’s pretty good actually.” His mouth was full but he felt the need to say it, wanted to see Lee's reaction. Lee laughed at his face that was obviously covered with the sauce. His heart melted a little bit, Lee laughing made his heart skip. Lee sounded happy.

“Wipe your face. You look like a rabid wolfbat.” He laughed, having to stop eating for a minute. Sokka wiped his mouth clean and continued eating, teeth crunching into what he assumed were vegetables.

“Ya know, that’s a good way to get Sokka to eat vegetables, Lee.” Aang told the other airbender.

“It’s better than him wandering off and maybe getting hurt trying to fend for himself.” Sokka was busy spooning the vegetables from his bowl to his mouth, too satisfied with the food to care much about the conversation.

“Katara, why aren’t you eating?” Aang asked. Indeed, Katara hadn't so much as touched her bowl, let alone fill it and eat anything.

“I won’t eat Fire Nation food.” She told them bluntly, eyes shooting daggers at Lee.

“Technically, this is the Earth Kingdom recipe. It’s not spicy like the Fire Nation makes it and there’s no meat added in.” Aang told her. Lee had folded in on himself when she’d made the comment, he was busy quietly eating, refusing to look up from his bowl. He wasn't going to defend himself, he probably felt he deserved it.

“'Tara, you’ve gotta try this. It’s so good.” Sokka urged her.

“I’m not hungry!” She snapped. Lee flinched at the tone but continued eating, seemingly unwilling to look up at her. Sokka could spot his eyes getting glossy with tears that the airbender was obviously forcing down.

“Katara, you’re being too hard on Lee. He’s not even Fire Nation, he’s an Air Nomad. Don’t you think he’s probably struggling through this war too? This war’s been hard on everyone.” Sokka told her. Lee was staring at him, wide eyed and looking a bit scared on his part.

Was he scared of something happening simply because he was defending him from his sister? Maybe it was justified, his sister was scary and it seemed a feasible fear from what he'd heard Lee say about his father. Being around that abuse so long, he probably learned not to defend himself for fear it would lead to him being beaten.

“Fine, I’ll eat. But you better not be pulling anything, Lee.” Katara told him, finally spooning noodles and zhajiang into her bowl and eating.

“Good, Katara?” Aang asked.

She simply grumbled what sounded like a 'yes’ past her food. Sokka smiled at Lee as the raven continued eating, eyes a bit awestruck toward him. It wasn’t a problem convincing his sister to eat, he would have had to make her eat eventually.

Aang went back for a second bowl, commenting that it was just like Xiu-Mei made it. Sokka had ended up having two and a half bowls while Lee only finished one and Katara finished two. Plus Sokka got to sit next to a cute boy he very much wanted to kiss.

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Zukka Prompt, “Seeds”

Zuko didn’t know what to make of it, when Sokka handed it to him. “You got me… a pot of dirt?” He asked dubiously, examining the clay pot Sokka had given him with a sunny smile upon his arrival in the Fire Nation.

“It’s a ginyu flower! At least, it’s supposed to be,” Sokka said. “It’s the seeds from a flower we found in the Northern Air temple. Well. Aang THINKS it a flower. It kind of looked like a weed to me, but Aang said when it actually blooms it’ll be a real flower and not a creepy seed pod.”

Zuko looked down at the pot with new appreciation, but no less confusion. “And you’re giving it to me because…?”

Sokka beamed at him. “Because when I heard that it’s a rare and beautiful flower, it made me think of you!”

“Of me?” Zuko asked, trying not to wonder what a rare and beautiful flower and a broken prince might have in common. Other than the apparent shared ability to make Sokka smile Like That.

“Yeah, I mean. For one thing, you’re the only person who stays in one place long enough to be able to take care of it.”

Zuko deflated a little, though he wasn't sure why. “Oh. That… makes sense. You just wanted to see what it looks like when it blooms, huh?”

“And,” Sokka said easily, “I thought that the palace could use a little bit more life in it. Not that it isn't a great place and all, but you know.” He shrugged. “You seem like you need something to remind you you have friends when we’re not around.”

Zuko finally gave a little twitch of a smile. “Thanks for the flower, Sokka. I’ll make sure to take good care of it.”

And he did. He kept it under sunlight and watered it daily, waiting patiently for a little green stem to poke its way out of the soil, almost surprised when it did. Well, he’ll be damned. He was capable of being nurturing after all. 

Zuko watched as it grew, and eventually bloomed into a beautiful blue lily. He didn’t get a chance to show it to Sokka before it eventually withered and died, leaving behind a pod full of seeds.

He planted the seeds in his favorite garden, and took care of and watered them the same as the one he kept in his room. He didn’t see Sokka in person much but they exchanged letters, keeping up with each other even through the long months where work kept them from being able to physically meet, and all the while Zuko took care of the flowers Sokka had given him. 

When Sokka did finally find the time to return to the Fire Nation, it was at the perfect timing. The flowers he had been gradually planting were in full bloom, and the first thing Zuko did was take Sokka to see the gardens where he’d planted them.

“WHOA,” Sokka said, eyes wide as he took on the garden. “There were NOT that many flowers in here last time I was here.”

Zuko blushed a little, wondering just now if he’d gone overboard. He’d been having so much fun planting and replanting the flowers, though, it hadn’t actually occurred to him before now he could just sort of… stop. “They’re all ginyu flowers. I… you took too long to come back. So I managed to breed it, a little bit.”

“This is all…” Sokka said, wondering in his voice as he looked around the stunningly bright blue garden. “Just from that one flower seed I gave you?”

Zuko nodded. “It wasn’t very hard. I mean I did need help uprooting a couple of begonias that spread too far out of their boundaries but the gardener was really helpful, so…”

Sokka laughed, “You even did it all yourself. Of course you did, you’re Zuko.”

He leaned down to pick one of the many flowers, bringing it up to his nose to smell it. “Well I’m glad to see you single handedly revived what could have been a dead species,” he said with a laugh, leaning into Zuko’s personal space. “And I’m really glad you seemed to have had fun doing it.”

He wove the flower he was holding behind Zuko’s ear, giving him a small, intimate smile that made Zuko’s face light up in a blush. “Am I supposed to expect a garden every time I bring you flowers?” He joked as he stepped back.

Zuko blinked in surprise. “Were you… planning on bringing me flowers often?”

“Only when you look lonely,” Sokka said back smoothly.

Zuko laughed. “Too bad, then. I haven’t been feeling lonely at all lately.” 

“Oh yeah?” Sokka leaned into Zuko’s space again, close enough to be able to smell the flower in his hair. “I don’t suppose that has anything to do with me, would it?”

Standing in a field of flowers gifted to Zuko by the man standing in front of him, Zuko just laughed. “Now, why would you think a silly thing like that?”

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[1-800-i-ship-it]

*distant cackling* khunbam and zukka for the ship asks!

hello anon (SORRY THIS IS RLLY LATE BTW) jhasdljf u didnt specify which  questions so here we go, im doing the ones i want to xD: 

i wrote this like a few months ago and now im editing it again lmao im so sorry anon it took me so long it was buried in drafts,,,idek if u follow me anymore but whoever reads this, hope u enjoy ^^ 

what was your first ship, and what fandom is it from?

hmm i think percabeth from pjo would count as my first, but for like discovering fandom content, it would be fourtris, from divergent haha which is actually how i discovered fanfiction (i searched up alternate endings for allegiant bc i hated the ending...and found fics LMAO), but my first big phase was probably more like thg & everlark 

explain why do/don’t ship [pairing]

khunbam: they would die for each other and also make such an amazing team?? (hello wave controller and light bearer combo) and just ugh theyre so good for each other if i keep going im gonna go on a tangent haha 

zukka: i just think zuko and sokka work well together and idk i know like maiko is canon but i dont think they would be very healthy for each other? and just like, idk they went to boiling rock together and like sokka actually tells zuko about yue and jahljdf they’d just be gr9 together 

how did you start shipping [pairing]?

khunbam: at some point i was like YOUR HONOR THEYRE GAY somewhere in s2 i just had the realization like, wtf theyre totally in love 

zukka: after i finished atla and poked around fandom, and i found i really liked the zukka ship 

is there a ship that you used to ship, but don’t anymore?

hmm okay probably catoxkatniss, i think i read it bc a friend recced to me? and so i read a few fics on it but i always felt bad when peeta was made out to be the bad guy or whatever so yea i would say i dont really ship that anymore, and for others i would say i just kinda lost my hyperfixations rip lmao but i still ship them 

what’s a ship you like that most people don’t?

uhh idk, but (forgive me) karoomba 

what’s a ship you hate that most people like?

ehhh i wouldnt say i hate any ship that most people like? but i would say i dont really fancy zutara, but its not like i hate it or anything

what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion?

hmm i dont know honestly haha, maybe daniel & jay from lookism or hangang & jasmine from zero game, tho its prob mostly bc i havent went and explored stuff yet and gotten involved haha 

what is the most overrated ship, in your opinion?

bam x endorsi 

do you prefer [pairing] as an otp, brotp, or notp?

khunbam & zukka otp! 

why do you think [pairing] is so popular?

khunbam: they have chemistry its there!! literally gay for each other from the start i swear and just how they act around each other vs other people

zukka: theres a vid i watched on why zukka is so good but like yeah idk why? i think mostly fandom haha and boiling rock, and i think they would complement each other really well 

why do you think [pairing] isn’t popular?

dunno about this one haha i think most of my pairings r popular? ig prob the underrated ships above i listed, tho that may be due to like again me not actively seeking content for those haha; khunbam and zukka r pretty popular already

rate [pairing] from 1-10 and explain why

khunbam: 10+++ bc i love them 

zukka:  10+++ bc i also love them

sorry head empty no brain 

hyperfixation for these 2 actually kind of slipping now actually lmao rip 

what’s your favorite headcanon of [pairing]?

khunbam: they’re both moronsexuals for each other, hm and wear each other’s clothes haha 

zukka: bi sokka gay zuko, also idk if this counts but zuko talking to turtleducks about his problems in the garden haha  

what’s your favorite canon moment of [pairing]?

khunbam: THE HUG OR WHEN THEY FIRST MEET AND KHUN ASKS WHERE BAM GOT BLACK MARCH FROM 

zukka: BOILING ROCK when they talk about plans and both of them dunno what to do xD

favorite AU ideas for [pairing]?

khunbam: soulmate, artists, coffee shop 

zukka: college au 

realistically, do you think [non-canon pairing] will ever be canon? why or why not?

khunbam: maybe???? very very very slim chance tbh imo ig bc apparently bam will have a female love interest but im not entirely sure about that 

zukka: not really since maiko is basically canon haha 

have you ever written fanfiction/drawn fanart of [pairing]? would you consider it?

khunbam: i wrote poems for them and i have a few wips, so yes i would consider it! it just sucks im kind of losing my hyperfixation rip but maybe i can get it back by writing lmao 

zukka: no i havent, i did have some edit ideas i think but idk if i will get to them haha 

also i am tempted to try and learn to do art but idk if i have the time to lmao rip 

thank u for the ask!! this was actually pretty fun to do, hope u dont mind i skipped a few questions haha 

#bluris answers asks #SSORRY THIS IIS SO LATE #khunbam #zukka #tower of god #atla #anon #asjkdlfjwefkaf #i drafted this legitt back in fall quarter im p sure #and now im on break after winter quarter #aaaksdlfwef yeah i am so so so sorry for the really reallyyyyy late response anon if ur still following me and see this haha #im trying to answer all my buried asks befoer break is over ive got like 2 days left rip #hope whoever reads this enjoys it lmao #have a nice day~