#Ultimate Sukka Family Headcanon

[boomerangguy]

My favorite headcanon in all of ATLA & LOK right here. Answers the “What happened to Sokka and Suki? Did they get married and have kids?” questions with “Of course they got married and had kids — we’ve met them already!” and I love that. 🥹🥰

You might also enjoy this meme post I made last year (and its sequel which is linked at the bottom):

Sokka and Suki had three kids; Bataar, Varrick, and Senna. That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it. Bataar looks a lot like Sokka, especially if you compare the older Sokka we see in Legend of Korra. Plus, he doesn't seem to have any Earthbending skills.

Varrick is a lot like Sokka in terms of personality and he's also clearly from a Water Tribe member considering his eye color, hair color, and clothing color.

And Tonraq being the chief of the Southern Water Tribe despite being from the Northern Water Tribe doesn't make sense. Unless, Senna is the daughter of Sokka, who we know became the chief of the Southern Water Tribe after Hakoda, and married Tonraq, thus making him the chief.

This is my headcanon and I'm sticking to it.

[boomerangguy]

BEHOLD, THE GREATEST OF ATLA HEADCANONS (NOW UPGRADED TO ‘THEORY!!!’) HAS REACHED SCREENRANT!!!

Just to be clear, the idea of Senna being Sukka’s daughter didn’t originate with me—it seems to be as old as LOK, which premiered long before I entered the fandom—but it’s easily my favorite Sukka Family headcanon, and I want the world to love the idea of Korra being Sokka and Suki’s granddaughter as much as I do!

I’ve listed some posts and fics featuring Senna as Sukka’s daughter—and if anyone knows of others, feel free to give me a heads-up so I can add them! Here ya go:

AO3 Fanfics

The Councilman’s Mistress by GeneralKenobi212 (that’s me!); featuring Senna and her sisters discovering the affair that their father isn’t having (😬🤪); Rated T for implied sexual content

you’re so lovely by svnflowerz; featuring Sukka admiring their newborn daughter (🥺🥰); Rated G

Tumblr Posts

Boomerangguy’s Ultimate Sukka Family Headcanon

Ultimate Sukka Family Headcanon in Star Wars Memes

Ultimate Sukka Family Headcanon in Marvel Memes

Discussing the Canon Compliance of Senna as Sukka’s Daughter

A Conversation Between Azula and Korra

A Birthday Card from Aunt Azula

A Sukka Family Camping Trip

Senraq Just Want Some Peace and Quiet…

Next Gen Gaang Kids, Including Senna

Senna and Baatar as Sukka Babies

you’re so lovely (tumblr)

A special thanks to @light-miracles for bringing the article to my attention! 🙌 Both Light and @the-power-of-stuff have been fantastic fellow Sukka shippers and wonderful encouragers of this Sukka headcanon, as well as many others! 😊 I appreciate everything that they (and all other Sukka stans!) do on this mighty little ship of ours!

[sokkagatekeeper]

Zuko and Sokka for ask game :)

a song that reminds you of them

ok i was just listening to @littlespoonsokka's zukka mitski playlist so like. all of those. but especially first love/late spring. nour has a post somewhere in drafts about how it's a tbr zukka song and like.... “please hurry leave me i can't breathe please don't say you love me”. yeah.

an otp

zuko: zukka! for me the simplest way to explain why i find the ship so compelling is that they have similar struggles (their relationships with masculinity, feelings of inadequacy compared to their prodigy younger sister, etc) and interests (swords, literature, general nerdiness, etc) that they can bond over, and yet have opposing flaws (sokka's perfectionism vs zuko's impulsivity, sokka's pessimism vs zuko's almost naïve idealism, sokka's emotional repression vs zuko's oversharing tendencies, etc) that they can help each other improve with.

sokka: also zukka of course, but sukka invented bi4bi relationships and yuekka is thee epic romance of atla.

a notp

zuko: zvtara, because 1. their relationship is more compelling to me if i read them as siblings, 2. they're so similar in ways i think would not be conducive to a healthy relationship, and 3. zuko gay. & maik0, because imo their romance is super compelling precisely because they're both gay and not good for each other, and how their relationship therefore showcases the fire nation's repressive nature and mai and zuko's responses to it.

sokka: i mentioned this when i answered this ask game for toph, but t0kka.

favorite platonic/familial relationships

zuko: god there are so many to choose from... i'm gonna go with katara for now. i love their relationships so so much. siblings, besties, the ultimate straight-girl-and-her-gbf (with the same taste in guys...) friendship.

sokka: i'm gonna go with katara for this one too! they are truly the best siblings ever, individually and as a set.

the position they sleep in

ok we're #LittleSpoonSokkaBigSpoonZuko truthers on this blog but beyond that, i think the way that sokka sleeps all sprawled out in “the puppetmaster” is so funny

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with

how could i choose just one but:

zuko: that he's “the responsible one” whether that's in the gaang or in his relationship with sokka. like this isn't so much a headcanon as it is a complete misreading of his character but uuuugh it annoys me so much

sokka: that he becomes an ambassador to the fire nation... like there are so many things he would do that are not that. he should travel, go to university, become a pai sho master, invent new scientific fields, write poetry, and yes, he would help zuko (and katara) with their jobs leading nations. but often “ambassador sokka” is just a more polite sounding way of saying “prince consort sokka” which is. disgusting & racist

a crossover au i’d love to see them in

the first thing that comes to mind is this..... idk if “inside joke” is even the right term for it, it's too convoluted for that.. that an irl friend and i have about zuko & sokka as ryan & chad in high school musical 2. like their characters aren't even that similar but. it's a whole thing that this friend and i have spent several hours of our lives talking about.

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn

kyoshi warrior and blue spirit!!

[stitch1830]

You said to send in Taang, Zutara, Sukka thoughts (the three best ships by the way!) and I always wondered. Do you think Aang and Toph would remain the goofy troublemakers they were during their youth when they became parents? I can just imagine the two trying not to get into all sorts of antics with the dune/blade/steam babies but ultimately failing.

Anon, Anon, Anon. Can I call you Nonnie? We're on that level now. Peas in a pod.

Lmao ignore my attempts to be casual and humorous, and thanks for the ask! I agree, Taang, Zutara, and Sukka can just be so personal, you know? I'm not opposed to convos about Tokka (my OG ship), but I think I've established myself as passionate Taang shipper, and it's understandable... they live in my mind rent free at this point lol! Okay, enough of me rambling, and let's answer the question! (Thanks again for the thoughts, feel free to send more! :)

I do think that Toph and Aang have a very relaxed parenting style. They do not seem like the type to make chore charts, designated nap times, or worry about the state of disarray their house is in. Both of them understand some of the things that are sort of required of parents (a bit of discipline, or at least an understanding of right and wrong and education are the two main ones that come to mind), but I don't think they let a ton of rules dictate how they raise their kids. Not unless they need it for success (an example that comes to mind is my dunebaby Lin. She does better if there's order in her life, so both try to give her that if it's what she needs). When it comes to discipline, I see Aang having to take control of that. Toph hated the rules and orders of her parents, I think she would always be apprehensive about being resented by her kids just because she told them to clean up their mess. Maybe there's some favoritism that occurs for Aang when it comes to the airbenders in the family, but I don't think Toph would let that stand for long and he'd correct his errors.

Aang gives me super fun dad vibes; he's always asking and encouraging the kids to play outside or to make up games with him, and all the kids have a great time with him! He loves spending every second he can with his kids and just wants them to be happy and themselves. Toph to me radiates chill mom vibes. She won't initiate play time with her kids, but if they ask her to play, she'll never say no and she's a great play buddy. That kind of translates into the rest of her parenting style. She does things casually, and tries not to make a big fuss out of things ("Yeah, I put the kid to sleep, Twinkletoes. That is my job, you know"). Their house is full of teasing, banter, and laughter, and it makes them a pretty strong family unit. All the kids need some thick skin to withstand all the silly jokes, and they learn to go with the flow and egg their family on as they get older.

As for getting into trouble with the dune/steam/bladebabies? Ohhhhh you bet! They are the aunt and uncle that you go to when you need to get away with shit. Toph and Aang ask little questions... usually the only one they ask is "All right, where do you need me?" lol. They love giving their friends extra grey hairs and if they can and they'll escape every single boring adult conversation to wreak some havoc with their children and niblings. This makes them great relatives to go to for any problems they may be having. Obviously the steam and blade babies look to their families, but I think if anyone wants additional advice, they trust Toph and Aang with their troubles.

In conclusion, I agree with your thoughts, Anon! Out of everyone in the Gaang, they would be the most fun and mischievous pair, and I think that would carryover into their parenting style, as well as make them the designated Fun Aunt and Uncle without a doubt. Other members of the Gaang are fun, but no one really comes close to the shenanigans Toph and Aang play with the kids. Frankly, they don't need a competition to try and outdo those two, either. Cities would burn. Islands would cease to exist. LOL ;)

Thank you for the thought/question, Anon! Like I said earlier, feel free to send more if you'd like!

Send me questions, asks, or headcanons about Taang, Zutara, or Sukka!

[boomerangguy]

Ahhhhh I love this headcanon!!!! 🤩 (Thank you, @the-power-of-stuff ☺️)

Although I’ve seen plenty of folks point out that Baatar Jr. looks like Sokka…very few seem to make the connection that the resemblance comes from his dad — and that’s a shame, because there’s so much potential in Sokka and Suki’s son ending up with Toph’s daughter!!! 😁 Love all those examples you gave, too. Baatar and Suyin’s kids as Kyoshi Warriors??? 😲 Opal throwing around Gramp-Gramp Sokka’s boomerang??? 🥹 Katara seeing her brother in his grandchildren?????? 😭

It’s all beautiful stuff. And I’d be remiss not to share this art and the associated headcanon.

I don't know how much water the 'Baatar Sr is a Sukka kid' theory holds, but the possibilities for his kids it opens is incredible.

I mean Opal and the twins with FANS AND SWORDS?! COMBINING THE LEGACY OF THE GREATEST EARTHBENDER IN THE WORLD, THE CHIEF OF THE SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE AND THE LEADER OF THE KYOSHI WARRIORS?!

Metal fans? METAL FANS?!

Also give Opal a sword the woman deserves it! And a boomerang she can throw at Kuvira.

Huan incorporating traditional Southern Water Tribe motifs into his art?!

The Beifong kids ice dodging?! With Kuvira, who is not even marginally prepared for this?And Kuvira getting the mark of the trusted (like aang did in the atla episode)?! The irony! The foreshadowing!

Katara seeing different iterations of her dead brother in them, especially the boys?! Tragic and beautiful.

[dapple-grey-mare]

atla social media headcanons

(brainstormed with my friend when we were messing around/being completely serious with our love for the characters)

in this modern au, iroh is the fire lord and lu ten is the heir. also, bending and the avatar is still a thing.

beware of shameless sukka and mai lee because those are the only ships i will accept no arguments about. (i’m also a zu/tara and t/aang shipper but you won’t find anything romantic about them in here)

read below the cut because it’s a lot

katara posts aesthetic photos and inspirational quotes on instagram and sokka never stops teasing her about it 

(he won’t admit it, but there are days where he gets super stressed and reads one of her posts and immediately feels better)

sokka keeps posting about suki (they’re not dating yet) and everyone hates it (but also loves it)

he also posts videos of stupid stuff he does alone and with his friends, as well as livestreaming q&a

(katara: sokka you aren’t actually famous)

sokka unironically vlogs

toph posts random pictures (usually of her feet or of the ground) and pretends it’s because she’s blind and can’t take proper pictures and everyone knows she’s just messing with them

but everyone does add alt text to their photos so toph can hear what’s in the photos and captions

the actual reason why toph is bad with instagram is that she wasn’t even allowed to have a phone when she was younger, as her parents thought it would be unsafe for a little blind girl (they were wrong)

the gaang eventually realizes that toph isn’t entirely messing with them and help her through everything

she now knows that she can post videos and will not stop filming her earthbending or her sessions with a blindfolded and vulnerable aang that she beats up in two seconds

aang posts a bunch of pictures of appa (who is a dog? still a sky bison? we don’t know)

zuko and suki don’t have instagram (zuko says it’s because he’s royalty and he doesn’t want to get stalked and suki just likes to do the exact opposite of what sokka tells her to) but their friends continue to pester them about getting accounts

zuko ultimately caves, but as a “fuck you” to all of them, he posts a selfie with suki captioned “say hello to my best friend and the only valid person in my life besides my mother and uncle”

sokka is outraged and he, along with katara because she’s the nosiest, find zuko’s account password, gather all of his friends and family (the valid family members only), take a selfie with all of them, post it with the caption “the best people around” or “the people i love most in the world” or smth uncharacteristically cheesy like that, then wait for zuko to notice

it gets a million likes

he eventually does notice and he swears to delete it but doesn’t

mai also does not have an instagram and she does not cave despite their constant badgering

she does cave, however, when ty lee asks her. she only needs to ask once.

azula is just subtly posting pictures with the royal palace as the background because she likes to flex

every year, katara posts a family picture on mother's day and/or her mom's birthday

also on mother’s day, each member of the gaang (even zuko because he really would do anything for his best friends) posts a picture of katara and very seriously celebrates her as a mother

they do the same with zuko on father’s day

every time aang posts, without fail, everyone in the gaang comments “BABY 🥺🥺🥺” and they refuse to stop

they convince iroh to make an official account for the jasmine dragon to bring in more business, but both iroh and zuko have no idea what they’re doing with it

so the rest of the gaang posts posters and menu items but since they all have different styles, every post is wildly different and customers are really confused

katara is all about the aesthetic and posts pics of her order almost every time, sokka livestreams and sneaks random videos of zuko working, aang actually really tries to help with marketing but it’s all just pictures of the menu which hardly every changes, toph has a schedule for posting pictures of chair legs, suki is the only competent one and with katara’s help, makes cool posters and edited videos

the first time someone tags zuko in a picture on their account, all their followers freak out about the fire nation prince in their game night or cafe outing

since then, they make a point to get zuko in all of their photos

as well as the occasional lu ten or iroh

suki’s first post is a video sokka took of her practicing martial arts with her warriors and at first, she was a little hesitant to exploit the kyoshi culture but kyoshi herself appeared and gave her permission to show off their badassery

since then, she’s posted tutorials and practice/teaching sessions

she’s also a makeup master and she posts standard makeup tutorials too, but she refuses to post a tutorial on the kyoshi makeup look in case people start appropriating it (sokka understands and stops asking her)

katara doesn’t like to show off her bending on social media, especially since it’ll mess up the aesthetic of her account, but once zuko posts a video of him practicing because sokka dared him to (he really can’t resist a dare), katara gets annoyed and does the same

it becomes a competition of sorts, but they never mention it outside of their posts, so the rest of the gaang doesn’t know if they should intervene or encourage it

(toph obviously encourages it, aang is conflicted)

(sokka is secretly rooting for katara, but he likes to annoy her further by cheering zuko on)

it’s pretty neck and neck for a while, but katara is a faster learner and surpasses him

zuko gets really upset with this and decides to post of a video of him practicing with his dao swords, since katara can’t do any fighting outside of her bending

(katara: that’s cheating, you’re a cheater, i hate your guts)

(she doesn’t)

sokka keeps trying to make zuko post a video of the dancing dragon and aang really wants to, but zuko refuses

they all have a shared youtube account with videos of them sparring, playing games, or just chilling

azula is in one of these videos and roasts each of them, and it’s the most liked video on the account

(toph is laughing the entire time but the second azula gets to her, she throws a rock in her face and the video ends)

sokka posts gaming videos and vlogs on his youtube, zuko draws the line at youtube, aang has a camera on his staff and livestreams the view of the ground as he’s flying, katara makes cooking videos, suki is a makeup guru, and toph is their designated guest star when they’re running out of content because viewers love her

every time sokka is in a post with a girl that isn’t katara, he gets shipped with them, so he starts baiting viewers with intentionally vague wording and shots that could be romantic

eventually, sokka and suki start fake-dating to get the extremely pushy viewers off his back, but in pure rom-com style, they fall in love for real

ty lee makes shopping vlogs and makeup hauls and these are the only things mai will say no to her about

one time, suki had toph try and do her makeup... it did not go well

(suki: i swear to kyoshi, you did this on purpose)

a lot of sokka’s vlogs involve him, aang, and toph lounging on the sofa (all of them but zuko share an apartment, zuko is trying to convince his family to let him move out of the palace) watching tv and eating chips

katara and suki hate it but they allow it as long as they clean up the mess

they draw the line once they catch the three of them simultaneously fart

(suki: sokka, i’m dating your sister now)

[boomerangguy]

Hey Boomi. I was wondering, how do you think Baatar and mommy Suki's relationship would have been? And Suki + her grandbabies?

Thank you so much for the ask, LM! And what a great ask, too! 😄 I loved answering this one…even though it got kinda long and ramble-y.

In my Ultimate Sukka Family Headcanon, which is something I don’t write fics for really (it’s much easier to write just 3-4 OC kids with distinct personalities rather than twice that number), they get married pretty young—like 19ish, right where the comics left off. They just both know they’re it for each other, so what’s the point in waiting? 🥰 But regardless, Sukka goes back to Kyoshi Island not planning on having kids anytime soon—they’re just trying to enjoy being kids themselves and have fun, since the war pretty much stripped them of a normal childhood.

But that’s not quite how things work out, and Sokka and Suki quickly realize that being both spontaneous and frisky is precisely how you end up pregnant. 😬They freak out and panic at first, of course, but then with each passing symptom, the terrifying abstract concept of having a baby starts to feel more like welcoming family member #3, and by the time little Kanna arrives, they’re so hyped to be parents that they make Foaming Mouth Guy look like a stick-in-the-mud. 🤪

Fast forward several years later (almost a decade, maybe?), and they’ve basically created an entire troupe of Kyoshi Warriors—six girls. 👩🏼‍🦰👩🏽👩🏼‍🦰👩🏽👩🏼‍🦰👩🏽Six sassy, sarcastic, carnivorous, little girls (with varying senses of humor) who will just as soon chi-block the shit out of a playground bully as write and recite haikus. They’re a handful, and Sokka and Suki love them. Attempts to pump the baby breaks fail once again (they weren’t really trying that hard anyway) 😏 and Suki finds out she’s pregnant with #7. Everyone predicts a girl, because at this point, who wouldn’t? 🧐 Sokka has stopped joking about the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi cursing him to be forever sonless as punishment for his past sexism because…he just truly doesn’t care about that anymore. He loves his daughters, they love him, and that’s all that matters. 😌

Enter Baatar. 👶🏻 Naturally, the whole Gaang and all Sukka’s family and friends go bananas when they finally have a boy, and everyone (especially the SWT folks) makes a point to congratulate Sokka on having a son. And he’s definitely excited, of course—but it’s Suki who takes one look at her baby boy and just suddenly feels a type of love she never knew before. 😯 She understands now why Sokka is so crazy about their girls—because they remind him of her, and little Baatar looks so much like her husband, her soulmate, that she doesn’t want to ever take her eyes off of him. ☺️

Baatar is the baby of the family, so between his dad and older sisters, he already gets a whole lotta love—but from Suki, it’s different. It’s not in her nature to actually coddle her children, but with Baatar, she comes pretty close—much closer she did with than any of her daughters. She reads to him every day, always helps him lace up his little boots, snuggles with him all through stormy nights, tells him legends and tall tales from Kyoshi Island & the SWT, and even some G-rated versions of her and Sokka’s adventures. But ‘the memory’—the thing they do together that is just between mother and son, that’s so sacred not even Sokka and the girls get to join—is when they go down to the bay at dawn to watch the koi fish jump out of the water and build sandcastles together. 🌅🏰That’s where Baatar begins to love building things—beautiful things. His earliest memory is watching the sky fill with color, sitting next to his mom on the beach and helping her (or so he thinks as a three-year-old) shape the sand into something new and magnificent. 😮

It sticks with Baatar forever, and they go down to the beach, sometimes as a whole family, sometimes just the two of them, pretty regularly until Baatar is a teenager. By then, thanks to his mom, he knows he wants to be an architect…and when it becomes obvious that he needs a real Earthbending teacher—like his aunt in Republic City, whose cute daughter might also have something to do with it 🤨—Suki’s heart breaks. 😞 Their daughters are still on Kyoshi Island or in the SWT, but it still hurts more than anything when she has to stand on the dock and hold back tears while she hugs her baby boy goodbye 😣…because she knows that if she starts crying, Baatar will break down too and want to stay. And as much as she loves him, he belongs out there in the world where he can chase after his dreams and put all his passion and talent to good use. 😔

They exchange letters steadily, but Suki still carries around a dull ache knowing that Toph and Suyin are spending more time with Baatar than she is. There’s a new ceiling to her happiness that’s never been there before, and Sokka takes it upon himself to cheer her up. 🤪 One night when they sneak out of their cottage and camp out on the bluffs, he does such a good job of cheering her up that…well… 😛⛺️😩…I hope you get the picture.

Enter Senna and Varrick (who I’ve started hc’ing as twins, because why not?) 😄 Now preggers at forty years old, Suki remembers that there’s still so much happiness right in front of her (plus two bundles of it right inside her), and her whole family is relieved to see that their matriarch is herself again. 😌 And to top it off? Sokka gets bullied by Aang into going into politics, and after the twins are born, they move to Republic City. It’s hard saying goodbye to most of their daughters (the youngest few come with them), but the eldest are practically young women now, and it feels natural at this point, no matter how much it stings when Sokka bawls like a baby and leaves them each with a hand-painted family portrait, a heartfelt haiku, and a huge barrel of seal jerky. 😖😖😖

In the city, Suki gets to see Baatar become a man while still getting to be a mom to Senna and Varrick (whose birth name is Iknik, he just gives himself a bunch of extra names after making it big). It’s the best of both worlds, and she gets some closure when she eventually joins Baatar and Baatar Jr. down at the beach years later, helping her grandson make his first sandcastle just like she helped his father. (And after Baatar and Varrick join the Earth Empire years later and ultimately come to regret it, Suki takes them both by the ear and reminds them that the namesake of their home island ate Earth Kingdom tyrants for breakfast, possibly the most ironically humiliating part of that whole fiasco for the two boys. 😡😵)

As for the grandbabies? Kanna (oldest child) and her sisters take one look at their parents’ nine children and go, “Ha, amateurs.” Family reunions are absolute madness, because between Sokka, Varrick, Baatar/Suyin and their kids, then the Avatar herself and dozens of little Kyoshi Island munchkins, Suki has a ton of big personalities to deal with. 😜 When she and Sokka finally retire and move back to Kyoshi Island for good, Gran-Gran Suki makes a point to take her children’s children down to the beach to play in the sand and watch the sun color the sky as many mornings as she can. For someone to which community is so important, it’s the perfect way to spend her life. 🥰 (And it’s hardly unexpected, but with so many grandkids running around the world, she gets to meet quite a few itty-bitty babies named after her and her husband—and her favorite miniature Suki is definitely Opal’s daughter.)

How did your simple ask turn into Suki’s bittersweet biography? 😟 I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t help myself. I love Sukka, and I love fluffy family headcanons! And if you can’t tell…once I get going it’s hard for me to stop…and I ended up really getting deep into both Sukka feels and emotional feels. I need to go give my mom a hug. 🥺

@light-miracles thank you so much for the ask! It was a pleasure answering it!

[boomerangguy]

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself 😄🤪

This was such low-hanging fruit for my favorite Sukka family headcanon!

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Sokka and Suki's daughter set up Suyin and Baatar. (She grew up with him, as both were children of a Kyoshi warrior mom and a Water Tribe dad.)

Send 📂 for a headcanon