#i can only freely touch people when im absolutely sloshed.

[hello-yue-here]

after sokka and zuko get together its painfully awkward at first because sokka is a somewhat touchy person and zuko is… not that. sokka notices that zuko wont/doesnt know how to initiate contact. he also doesnt seem to know what to do when sokka initiates contact. sokka doesnt give up tho but he stops with the hugs and the arms around shoulders and the hand settling on the small of his back when they stand next to each other. he still sits close enough that their knees touch and occasionally sokka will put a hand over zukos but nothing much other than that.

however. zuko may not have known how to react but that never meant he disliked it. a few days after zuko notices that sokka hadnt hugged him or held his hand in a while he began to realize that he missed it. a lot. like he missed it so much. eventually it got so bad that he attempted to hug sokka. it was abrupt and stiff and a little bone crushing. sokka was very confused. when zuko let go he immediately turned around and sped walked away without saying a word. sokka thought about it a little bit but he wasnt sure until zuko tried awkwardly putting his hand on sokkas shoulder: zuko was trying to be close and touch him. zuko was a touchy person.

sokka was thrilled.

zuko was very pleased when sokka began hugging him and snuggling him and soon enough the two of them were constantly touching.

during meetings theyd homd hands under the table. on hot summer nights they linked their pinkies and on cold ones theyd be a mess of tangled up limbs. when they were happy theyd be embracing and when they were angry theyd only touch the tips of each others shoes. but they never wanted to stray further away from each other than that.