#bakyada

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i've always thought bato/hakoda/kya couldn't have happened in the canon timeline bc sokka would be way less fucked up about gender if he knew his dad was bi but i just remembered that mostly-mundane-atla's posts mentioning polygamous marriages in inupiat culture describe it more as two men providing for the same wife & kids than a modern polyamory situation and that could totally work. like if it wasn't a fluid-roles romantic arrangement and more just "these are kya's two husbands supporting her kids" sokka could still develop certain ideas of men's and women's roles and we'd get to have the convenient explanation for why bato felt comfortable stepping up as the kids' dad.

and then there's the juicy dynamic of bato and hakoda not dating but being co-husbands who are supposed to be close and spend a lot of time together. like they don't have to be anything but close friends but being married to the same woman raises the possibility, doesn't it? and maybe kya asked bato to be her second husband because she knew he was gay and in love with hakoda and kept sending them off to do errands for the family with a wink and a twinkle in her eye. did they know what she meant? did they ever do anything while she was alive? or did they only realize years later, after her death had destabilized their little family unit and then fighting in the war brought the two of them back together? did hakoda bolt awake in the middle of the night three years post-canon like "i'm such a FUCKING idiot i could have been dating you the whole time" and bato was like "yeah probably. i love you go back to sleep"

[witchering10123]

WAIT I WROTE NOTES ON THIS ONCE

sokka - hercules

zuko - meg

piandao - the lil satyr guy

katara, suki, aang, ty lee, toph - the muses (I'd give them a bigger role though cause you know... main characters. probs make them demigods and gods and the like, but have them be the wingwomen)

hakoda - zeus, with kya as hera and bato as the farmer who finds baby sokka, so hakoda spends time disguised as a human with bato and time up doing god shit with kya (it's a whole plan the three of them made)

ozai - hades

the three fates- ursa, azula, and mai

panic and the other guy (I forgot his name) - zhao and admiral chan (who we never meet but I can pretend he's more relevant)

foo foo cuddly poops - pegasus

I keep seeing people talk Disney x Zukka AUs (specifically Mulan, Tangled, or Atlantis) and don’t get me wrong, I eat that shit up EVERY TIME, but hear me out………….

A ✨ Hercules x Zukka AU ✨

[chaotic-tired-bastard]

Oh no oh no I'm 80's AUing everyone no no no no nO NO NO NO-

[unacaritafeliz]

[Image ID: Pokémon Cards for Kya (Top Coordinator), Bato (Inventor) and Hakoda (Gym Leader) along with movesets and descriptions /End ID.]

Prepare for Trouble (and Make it Double)

A Bato/Hakoda/Kya Pokémon AU

for @atla-polyam-week Day 7 - Free Day

The South Pole is cold.

Theoretically, Bato has always known this. His father and mother have told him enough stories about growing up in the tundra down south to know exactly how cold it can get down at the Pole. Still, as Bato disembarks from the Kyoshi Island Ferry into the freshly fallen snow, he can't help but feel utterly unprepared by how cold, how white, and how small South Pole Capital City really is. He doesn't know how his team of Grass and Earth type Pokémon will survive in weather like this. He'll have to buy more blankets and warming pads before he even thinks about letting them out of their Poké Balls.

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[zukkaoru]

written for @atla-side-character-week day seven: pre-canon

Rating: General Audiences

Relationships: Bato/Hakoda/Kya (Avatar), Hakoda & Sokka (Avatar)

Characters: Hakoda (Avatar), Bato (Avatar), Kya (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar)

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Hakoda-centric (Avatar), Sleep Paralysis, Hallucinations, Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst, Southern Water Tribe (Avatar), Established Relationship, Established Bato/Hakoda/Kya (Avatar), 3+1 Things, bc i didn't feel like doing a full 5+1

Word Count: 2020

Summary:

Hakoda can tell this morning will be one that brings sleep paralysis. He woke early - too early - and spent an hour sharpening hunting knives by the light of the fire until he was tired enough that he felt he would be able to fall back asleep.

He slips back under the covers carefully, not wanting to disturb Kya or Bato. His eyes are already dropping shut as he turns onto his side, facing his partners who both remain fast asleep. Sleep pulls at his limbs, his body tugged into the in-between limbo where sleep paralysis happens.

or: hakoda + sleep

[unliikelylovers]

happy fathers’ day to sokka and katara’s two dads

[misty--nights]

Day one of the ATLA Polyamory week for the prompt established relationship.

Summary: Bato comes home after months at sea Relationship: Bato/Hakoda/Kya Words: 1471

@atla-polyam-week

[jaanii]

bakoda and bakyada?

i love both of these so much !!!!!!!!!!! for bakoda it’s so special because you have hakoda allowing himself to fall in love again after kya and being able to be romantically intimate with someone he’s known for so long i love bakoda so much there is Nothing wrong with it. and bakyada is just amazinggggg….. like i feel like they’re perfect together because the three of balance each other out very well you know the wise the brave and the loyal??????? bestie…. i love them an unreasonable amount

[bisexuallsokka]

bakoda + love or bakyada + short

because hakoda was the shortest of the three of them, bato and kya loved letting him use their parkas. they were so big on him and they thought he looked so so cute like that. hakoda pretended to be mildly annoyed but really he loved the attention from his partners

send me a ship + word for a headcanon!

[meteor-sword]

cannot stop thinking about hakoda being the cringiest freshman in college. he’s got braces, he’s got acne, he wears pajamas pants as much as possible, he brought his stuffed animals, he’ll talk for hours about the latest sci-fi franchise, he’ll recount his last dnd session.

and bato and kya are totally smitten 😍😍😍

[mostquenchiest]

i feel like bakoda is the only non-canon ship that genuinely could have worked within the canon timeline without making big changes (there are some other minor ones that could fit, but i think they’d still need more screen time devoted to them etc to make it make sense).

(i’m specifically thinking of bakoda in the sense of “they were both married to kya” in this post btw)

apart from potential issues with the audience understanding what’s going on (and maybe the swt being separated from the rest of the world and being small could be used as an in-world excuse to give an explanation) it would really only take adding or changing a few sentences to make it work (and potentially some changes to hakoda and bato’s interactions but i don’t think this is even really necessary).

(disclaimer on the next bit: i am not inuit/indigenous nor am i an expert on their history or culture. i have done some research to make sure i’m not talking completely out of my ass and i’m pretty sure i don’t have anything totally wrong but please do correct me if i made any mistakes)

it would also be another nice cultural addition to the show as both monogamous and polygamous marriages occurred within inuit society, + with it being much more common for polygamous marriages to consist of one woman and multiple men than the other way around (because one man wouldn’t necessarily be able to support multiple women + kids where having several men would lighten the load re providing for the family). i can see that being especially relevant where one of the men has chief duties on top of the duty to his family also - having bato to rely on as well would be a lifesaver when things got busy.

and also i just think they should be allowed to be in love

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

bakyada walked so zukki could run is very apt bc i don't think bakoda got together until like canon era. hakoda's whole character is about how he chose his duty over the people he loves and bato's whole character is being hakoda's Loyal Sidekick and that's such a perfect recipe for years of mutual pining. "i can't pursue a relationship i have my duties" and "i know this and i'll settle for quietly pining at your side". zukki is sokka with a girlfriend and a boyfriend but bakyada was kya and her two husbands and hakoda never had a girlfriend and a boyfriend at the same time. but sokka does and hakoda is very proud

[theatrequeen]

I got a headcanon that's been floating around for a bit in my mind so I need to share it. Anyways, modern atla au where Kya's alive and she's a tiktok mom.

Like she got it just because she knew her kids and their friends (tiktok!Gaang lives rent free in my head) made videos so she wanted to see what the fuss was about. Needless to say she's hooked.

She does all sorts of videos; q&a's, pranking her husbands (bakayada supremecy), singing (specifically sea shanties once people find out she can sing), story times of her time in the navy (that's where she met her husbands), skits, cooking tutorials, makeup tutorials, life hacks, jokes, really anything on tiktok she's probably done, and she's also that woman ready to adopt every child who needs a mother. She's that accepting mom and everyone loves her.

It also confuses the hell out of Sokka since she's only had an account for a few months and is already verified.

[zukkas]

bakoda or bakyada + fairy tales?

OOOO OKAY LET'S SEE

Hakoda stood in front of Bato, his best friend for as long as he can remember and his most beloved, and Kya, his betrothed, a stunning princess sure to win his heart, mouth agape, as the two recounted their past romance. Bato had said it was to "come clean" as he did not want to get between Hakoda and Kya, nor did he want for Kya to get between them and their friendship, but Hakoda had different plans. Even though the two were still talking, he pulled them into a tight hug and placed a kiss on each of their cheeks, and they all knew it would be okay.

i'm not gonna lie this was much harder than i thought it was gonna be!!! and now i wanna write a full au of this 😭😭

[unacaritafeliz]

ghost stories

a bato/hakoda/kya fanfic

written for @avatar-sunken-ships-week day seven: asian folktales/fairytales

"Uncle Bato," Katara asks, seriously. "Will you tell us a bedtime story?" She's sitting cross-legged on Sokka's bed, letting her older brother put her long hair into a messy braid. She'd asked Bato to do it but he'd refused. Bato doesn't know how to do things like braid hair or tell bedtime stories, he barely knows how to interact with kids at all! Tonight is the first night he'd been tasked with getting the kids to bed on his own and he has no idea how Hakoda and Kya managed to trick him into it. He's sure some sort of seduction magic must have been involved.

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[zukkaoru]

hi, grace! hope you are having a wonderful day! that being said, zukka + photos and bakyado + heat. 💞💞💞💞

hi!! tysm and right back at you! <3

zukka + photos

zuko doesn't really like getting his picture taken. it doesn't even have much to do with the scar (though, admittedly, that doesn't help) - he never liked having his picture taken as a child.

sokka, on the other hand, likes to post on his snapchat or instagram story wherever he goes. he's always making katara or suki or aang take pictures of him, or taking selfies with his friends. he doesn't even necessarily post all of them - he just likes having them. (he likes knowing that he'll never have to worry about forgetting the face of someone he loses again, because he'll always have the pictures to remember them by)

when the two start dating, sokka tries to tone it down on how many pictures he takes, and he doesn't post many of zuko until zuko asks why he posts pictures of all his other friends but not him.

"because you don't like getting your picture taken. i figured you wouldn't want them posted."

zuko hesitates, and it's enough for sokka to know he somehow read the situation wrong.

"i can post more of you if you'd like," he offers. "i just didn't think you really cared for that sort of stuff."

"i don't," zuko says carefully. "and i don't really like getting my picture taken, but... i kind of like you letting everyone know we're dating." he lowers his voice and looks away. "i like knowing everyone knows i'm yours."

(sokka starts posting more pictures of zuko after that, because he likes everyone knowing zuko is his too, yes, but he also likes everyone knowing that he is zuko's.)

bakyada + heat under cut to keep the post from getting too long

send me a character/ship + a word and i'll give you a headcanon

bakyada + heat

modern au hakoda and kya grow up near toronto, so they get pretty warm weather in the summers and they're used to it.

bato, however, grows up much farther north in canada and is in for a shock when he goes to toronto for college.

luckily, his roommate and his roommate's girlfriend (hakoda and kya respectively) help him learn how to deal with hot weather. even after he's adjusted to it somewhat, they still make sure they've always got extra water on them for bato and even when the weather gets cooler, they make a habit of going out for ice cream on friday afternoons

it's when the warm weather hits again in spring, on an unseasonably warm day in march when kya and hakoda both brought extra water for bato, knowing he would need it, that they all sort of end up in a jumbled confession about their feelings - bato that he likes both kya and hakoda and kya and hakoda that they both also like bato