#hakoda/piandao

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

i neeed to see hakoda & piandao interact tbh. hakoda sees his son has a friendship with this random fire nation adult and is like ?? in one comic where sokka showed interest in fire nation food he said "please dont say things like that" if he found out sokka was friends with piandao he would wonder where he went wrong in his parenting

i've said before that i think there'd be a lot of mutual suspicion when they first meet. like hakoda is concerned about a fire nation guy being interested in his kid, like you said, but also piandao knows that kids generally latch onto him as a father figure because there's some problem at home. when they meet they're both kinda sizing each other up, trying to make sure the other's good for sokka.

except they're both capable of being polite so nobody ever really notices. hakoda is in friendly welcoming community-leader mode and piandao is being a Perfect Gentleman and they seem to be getting along fine. like if this is a piandao & jeong jeong visit the southern water tribe situation like in the post i linked, sokka's thrilled that his dads are getting along, meanwhile bato and jeong jeong (who have some idea of their partners' feelings) are trying their best to stay out of the weird polite little dad rivalry.

this is also a dynamic in the hakoda/piandao boiling rock au, where they have to learn to trust each other because they don't have anyone else (until they run into suki).

eventually, piandao is genuine enough that hakoda believes he's not a bad influence and piandao discovers that hakoda left his kids to fight in the war, which explains why sokka needed a dad. (piandao feels kinda bad for assuming hakoda was the problem, when the problem was, y'know. the war. that he used to fight in)

and then they become friends and maybe make out

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[feral-jackdaw]

Headcanon:

After the war is over, Sokka tries to convince Hakoda to go train with Piandao.

At first, Hakoda is like, “Nah, I don't need to learn swordfighting, my Water Tribe weapons are enough, blah, blah.”

But then, enter Piandao, the most beautiful man Hakoda had ever seen. And suddenly, swordfighting seems like the most useful skill in the world to him.

[neechees]

Just remembered somthn i saw a lil while ago but I hate fan art depictions of Katara telling Sokka he "needs a haircut" bc 1. Basically all the Watertribe men are shown with long hair, so this goes against their worldbuilding canon to begin with 2. Just reads as a racist microaggression & part of the wider issue of white ppl making fun of Native men for having long hair.

[atlararepairmonth]

AtLA Rarepair Month - May 2024

Hello and welcome to the Avatar: The Last Airbender Rarepair Month event!

This event is a month long, spanning the entirety of the month of May 2024, and will be devoted to any and all forms of content celebrating the Rarepair ships of AtLA.

Content can include but not limited to fanfiction, fanart, moodboards, edits, music videos and playlists.

Prompts:

Week 1 - Tea Time + Role Reversal + Hobbies- May 1st to May 6th

Week 2 - Survival + Bending Swap + What "Family" Means - May 7th to May 12th

Week 3 - Food + Animal Companions + Dreams/Nightmares - May 13th to May 18th

Week 4 - Prison + Sparring Practice + Spirits - May 19th to May 24th

Week 5 - Weapons + Behind enemy lines + Secret Pleasures + Free Space - May 25th to May 31st

The rules for entries are as follows:

-Must be 18+ to participate, as we will be accepting NSFW entries (make sure to tag appropriately for content warnings)

-A rarepair must have 100 or less fics on ao3 to be considered acceptable.

-For this event we are excluding any Canon Character x Reader submissions.

-We will, however, accept Canon Character x OC submissions.

-All content is acceptable, please be courteous of other people's submissions and do not leave hate or discourse in the comments and tags. This is a celebration of rarepairs and encouraging more content for rarepairs in the fandom. If you don't like something someone made, just keep scrolling.

-When submitting your content, make sure to tag us @atlararepairmonth

[sokkas-therapist]

Brooklyn 99 is very quickly becoming a comfort show of mine but as an Atla fan I can’t get over how Jake Peralta is giving such Sokka vibesss

[ace-and-ranty]

If Netflix Avatar actually wanted to do one (1) actual cool feminist change to the original show, then they should make Piandao a woman instead.

Like. Okay. By that point in the show, Sokka's feminist character arc is pretty well established. He drinks his Respect Women Juice now. He doesn't need to learn to listen to a lady teacher a second time, he did that already, it's fine. But it would have been a pretty neat through-line, that he left the South Pole all macho-macho-man and ends up, instead, learning all his warrior skills from women. It would have been cool! Sokka and his badass lady teachers!

Besides, it would bring much needed gender diversity to the Order of the White Lotus, which is much too dudely as it presently stands.

[theduckeminence]

Hot take: More ATLA old men should be cherished and loved.

[atlashippingtournament]

Submission form is open! Feel free to fill out the form multiple times, but only one ship per submission. See the link for details and guidelines. You have one week, then the form will close on 1/21 11:59 pm

[zuko-always-lies]

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[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hakoda/Piandao (Avatar), Bato/Hakoda (Avatar), Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Hakoda (Avatar), Piandao (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Suki (Avatar), Bato (Avatar) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: s03e10-11 The Day of Black Sun (Last Airbender), Boiling Rock Prison (Avatar), Episode: s03e14-15 The Boiling Rock (Last Airbender), Canon-Typical Violence, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

When Piandao joins the invasion on the Day of Black Sun, Hakoda is suspicious of the Fire Nation swordmaster in their midst. But when the two of them are singled out and sent to The Boiling Rock, they find themselves developing a friendship - and maybe something more.

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just under the wire for @dilf-cember day 3: DILF/DILF

[suzistan420]

Truing to resist the urge to ship Zuko with every dilf known to man. Failing.

[zukkaart]

Hear me out…. Hakoda and Piandao

[sulkybender]

do you write t4t

sorry i'm just like trans zuko trans zuko trans zuko BABY TRANS ZUKO and experienced elder trans

OMG ZUKO AND HIS SEXUAL ELDERS BUT TRANS I'M SORRY THIS IS ALL BRAINROT BUT AHHH

Omg I love it!! I haven’t written t4t before but I do love thinking about it. And now I get to think about t4t Zukoda? t4t Pianko??

[queendollophead-ao3]

Thank you @erisenyo for the tag! This was a lot of fun!

1. how many works do you have on Ao3? 33! Public ones at least lol

2. what's your total Ao3 word count? 210,749 which is both a lot and not nearly what I thought it was. If only WIPS counted!

3. what fandoms do you write for? ATLA and I used to write for Merlin

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

1. Self-Taught 2. The Dating Game 3. Thirst 4. Lights, Camera, Friction 5. Word of Mouth

5. do you respond to comments? I do, but not always in a timely fashion

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? It's a toss up between Taking on Water and the "angst ending" option of Please Fall

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Another toss up between The Dating Game and Rain Check. Both tooth rotting fluff at the end <3

8. Do you get hate on fics? Luckily no, not even on my DILF fics! I think I'd cry lol

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I do indeed write smut, mostly M/M although I've considered venturing into F/F for some Tyzula

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I do not

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope, but that would be dope!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes! afterparty :) with the lovely @rosewatertears0 (AO3) and agni_kai

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? I loooove Piandao/Zuko, but Zukka is also up there as well as Merthur

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? There's a depressed!Sokka fic that I started in 2021 that I just don't feel connected to anymore. It's a regurgitation of my life that had some bonus Zukka, and touching it is just too real sometimes.

16. What are your writing strengths? Uhhhhh I think dialogue? I know I have creative ideas and I hope that they're immersive, idk. Also my Sokka voice is SPOT ON bc he lives in my brain rent free. Also summaries and titles so hmu if you need help!

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Weirdly I think smut, even though I write a lot of it lmao.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I've done like words or phrases in isolated reference but never like a back and forth. I am not qualified to write an actual conversation.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Law & Order SVU lmao in a long dead fanfiction.net account

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? Honestly, it might be Up the Ante because it feels like a TV show or a movie to me, like just the beginning of something very plausible in an espionage movie.

tagging @rosewatertears0 @sulkybender @sword-and-stars in case you want to play :)