#gay zuko

[kabruyearner]

happy pride month to my favourite queers

[isthei]

lesbian and knows it: ty lee

lesbian and doesn’t know it: azula, mai

bi and knows it: sokka, suki

bi and doesn’t know it: katara

aroacespec and hasn’t realized yet: toph

too enlightened for labels: aang

gay and knows it, but only sometimes: zuko

[sleepyzukka]

text posts :3

had these laying around… i’ll make more one day but i’m sooo tired rn i’m gonna collapse

[joodeegemstone]

[gaybd1]

“So… you’re really breaking up with me?” Zuko asked again.

“I mean, I guess. We don’t need this anymore, don’t you think?”

Zuko was more confused than upset. And wasn’t ‘we don’t need this anymore’ an odd thing to say about ending a relationship?

He looked back at Mai across the sofa they sat on, confusion still showing on his face. He could see a hint of exasperation beginning to make its way into her expression. They’d been having this conversation for a while already.

“I just… aren’t things going well?”

“Zuko,” Mai sighed and placed a hand on his shoulder, “You’re like my best friend.”

“Right, so..?”

“Not. A boyfriend?” She raised an eyebrow, hoping Zuko would be able to fill in the blanks.

Zuko knew his relationship with Mai wasn’t… typical. They didn’t kiss much anymore and had never even thought of doing anything beyond that, but it… worked… He valued their companionship.

“I just… why now?” He thought it was a fair question.

Mai huffed and stood up, turning to face him.

“Honestly, Zuko. I didn’t think this was going to be such a big deal. I just thought maybe we were both ready to move on. The world’s changed since you became Fire Lord, and I thought maybe it would be safe now for us to…”

Zuko blinked at her, still making it quite clear he had no idea what was going on.

“Look,” Mai sighed, sitting down to face Zuko on the sofa opposite his, “We aren’t in love, Zuko. We never have been.”

He sputtered, wanting desperately to protest, but finding he needed a moment to think about it. He did love Mai, definitely. He always would, just like he loved Azula. Being with Mai had always made sense…

“Zuko,” Mai pushed, “We’ve never been in love, right?”

“Maybe not…?” he admitted.

“It’s fine,” she waved her hand. “I don’t take it personally. I know you’re not interested in women.”

Zuko sputtered again. What? Of course he was… why wouldn’t he…?

“What?” he whispered. The truth was he’d never really thought about it.

“Zu. It’s fine. In case you haven’t figured it out, I’m not into guys either. That’s what I thought this whole relationship was about, actually.”

Zuko didn’t say anything. This was a lot to process.

Mai seemed to understand, sitting quietly until he was ready to talk.

“So…” he finally managed, “You’ve always…?”

“Yeah. It took me a while to figure it out, but definitely.”

“So you think if we break up now we could…?”

“No offense Zuko, but I’d much rather be with Ty Lee than stuck in whatever this is with you. I think we’re ready for it now. And you and Sokka—“

“WHAT?”

Mai sighed and put her head into her hands, staying like that for a moment while Zuko tried to figure out what the fuck was going on.

“Agni, Zuko. Sorry. I didn’t think any of this was new information to you,” she sat up and looked directly into Zuko’s eyes, “Yes, dumbass. The whole Nation knows at this point that boy is in love with you. He’s not exactly subtle about it. And everyone besides you seems to have the idea that you love him back.”

“But I’m not even…” Zuko was learning a lot about himself tonight, apparently. Could he be in love with Sokka?

He thought about it.

They were just friends, right?

Thought about the happiness that filled his heart every time he entered a room Sokka was in.

Good friends…

About the natural ease with which they spoke with and spent time together.

Close friends…

How he thought of his friendship with Sokka very similarly to how he thought of his relationship with Mai.

…Best… friends?

The desire that had crossed his mind on more than one occasion, which he’d tryed and failed to lock away completely, to grab, caress, kiss Sokka. But thoughts like that were normal every once in a while, right? Everyone had them. Except… he had them for Sokka more than he ever had with Mai…

“Oh shit…” he whispered, “I’m…”

“An idiot,” Mai finished for him.

That was not was Zuko was going to say, but he let it slide.

“I think we gotta break up,” he said instead.

[coconutsaiyan]

If Netflix had some balls then they’d make Zuko gay in their adaptation.

[yuujigumi]

Sokka is an "updog/ what's updog?/not much what's up with you?" ADHD bisexual and Zuko is a "you mean to tell me a chicken fried this rice" autistic gay

[carrion-corvus]

They are gay (in opposite directions)

[knownsecretss]

sokka calls zuko babygirl and somehow zuko is flustered by this. everyone else hates it.

[waterfire1848]

Person: What? Isn't this the kind of present you're supposed to get a gay person? Sokka: Okay, first off, I'm bisexual. If you want a gay person than go talk to Zuko and Azula. Second-

[autistic-katara]

said this in the tags of a previous post from like 5 minutes ago but does anyone have any angsty / hurt/comforty zukka fic ideas they cba to write/want me to write? (bcz there are seriously not enough of those like how the fuck have i read like all of them on ao3 that interest me??? anyways conditions(?) for what i write under the cut)

i don’t like aus much so pls don’t include any (just a personal preference // canon divergence is one idm as much but don’t love)

when it comes to hurt/comfort it doesn’t have to be them comforting eachother (me personally i love those “hakoda finds out accidentally and zuko freaks the fuck out bcz fire nation homophobia but sokka’s just insanely embarrassed and hakoda’s a rlly good dad abt it” fics, also love the idea of iroh talking to zuko abt stuff or other members of the gaang finding out+talking abt it)

would prefer if it either included a focus on either queer stuff/coming out or outing/homophobia discussions/etc or mental illness shit (eg. zukos extreme daddy issues or shit like sh/suicide bcz fuck you i like what i like)

piggy backing off that i have no idea how to write mcd so pls don’t suggest it

am cool with making it zukki/suzukka instead of just zukka

the ship itself doesn’t have to be main focus of the fic i just want them in there

idm at all writing stuff that implies/references sex and i don’t really mind including actual sexual content but i’ve never written smut before and don’t wanna write smthn rn thats nsfw-focused so if u include that in ur prompt just be aware i might have to skip and imply the scene or i might not write it bcz yay writers block (it’s connected i promise-)

VERY happy to make either of them autistic and will probably write zuko like that anyway

PLEASE if u have an idea but think it’s cringe or weird or whatever just send it (on anon if u want) and if u have an idea but are not sure if it fits just send it with a disclaimer, i’d rather have a lot of bad ideas like what happens everytime i ask for bsd ideas than nothing bcz the eldritch horrors have maybe allowed me to write for the first time in ages and i rlly wanna put a fic out

please don’t be super vague i’m too autistic for that 😭

plz send the requests as asks, not a reblog or comment (just so i have them all in the same place)

sorry this was kinda long and idk if anyone’ll respond to this but yeah there’s srsly not enough of this kinda fic in this fandom (and i’m not even gonna mention how i wrote my kyoshi fic in april and it’s STILL the only fic like that abt her so what the fuck)

oh also yeah my ao3 is Raines_Adopted_Son

[isthei]

[the gaang group chat]

zuko: hey everyone, i’m gay

katara: yeah, no shit

aang: easy, katara. thanks for telling us, zuko. we love you.

toph: i just hit someone with my car

[gaywithflowers]

I like jetko for a lot of reasons- the emotional and philosophical complexity, the intense struggle to change paradigms, the awful truth of traumas, the inevitable attraction laced with so much pain and so much self analysis but at the same time just impulsive rash decision-making.

There is also the comedic side: Jet trying to charm Lee and being annoyingly and charmingly insistent (while Iroh is delighted and encouraging and lowkey chuckling). Then the fallout of the terrible truth revealed and- the scandal man! The Fire Nation's Prince with an orphan earth kingdom peasant who hates firebenders!

The Gaang reacting!

...but yeah, one of the things I like too...? Is that although I don't see them as just a precursor for Zukka or any other ship, or as just merely a time of mutual exploration, I see their future together deeply doomed.

In my headcanons Zuko is gay, yet he needs an heir because he can't keep the peace without raising his next heir himself to the best of his ability. And its a terrible tragedy I still haven't decided how to get him out of with as little pain as possible.

But is not only that- Jet loves him. Zuko loves him. But Jet cannot will not just can't can't can't go live in the Fire Nation with him.

Just.

Doomed.

(But they never fall out of love.

So I'm not sure how to fix this haha their odds are pretty bad and somehow I really like that about them.)

[joodeegemstone]

zuko @ ozai

[gaybd1]

Very important

[luckyturtleduck]

Does anyone know the name of that one fic on ao3 where Zuko rescues two water tribe boys (part of Hakoda’s fleet) from the ocean and then ends up falling for one of them?

I can give more details if needed, I just can’t find it and it’s driving me insane.