#it is also just zukka in a different font so

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

I’m curious about something,,, to all my zukkas

[kings-favorite-courtjester]

Here is some Zuko bc I've been obsessed over atla since the pandemic started and the live action gave me an excuse to reignite my love for it with my friends.

[sasukeless]

Regarding your ATLA hot takes ask you said zutara is the same as zukka but what do you think of the ship

i just have no thoughts on it actually. i find the fans unberable but zuko and katara’s dynamic doesn’t bring love nor hate like it does for 99% of the fans. i dont find them the worst ship alive like some do, after all they do grow into good friends but i also dont see the greatest romance others see, they just look like another of the same formula of het enemies to lovers that are complete opposites

zukka kinda has the fact they are both men so they avoid falling into that formula but still. everything i see about them online its like seeing klance in a different font (not good)

[ultfreakme]

Thinking so hard about how Zuko and Asami would get along so well. Just the whole fixing the institutions their fathers ruined at a very young age, battling public opinion and doubts within themselves about said institution.

(also zukka and korrasami are same ship different font but korrasami superior because they’re canon and have a happy ending sorry not sorry)

[alfredolover119]

001 — atla 😏👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 mwah

omg!

favorite character: 100% appa. i mean this full /srs

least favorite character: zhao wtf he's so unsexy (and as the mutuals have said, that old guy who ratted out haru!!! that bitch needs to die)

5 favorite ships (canon or not-canon): zukka, sukka, kataang, yuetara, mailee

character i find most attractive: june probably? haru pre-stash isn't bad either

character i would marry: would it be bad if i said suki 😪

character i would be best friends with: mai!! i am basically ty lee in a slightly different font so i think we would get along great 😌😌

a random thought: ppl don't sexualize the members of the white lotus enough. like it's a bunch of buff old men. c'mon. they deserve it.

an unpopular opinion: i am really not jet's biggest fan 😭 i enjoy his character and his anger towards the fire nation is entirely justified and i really enjoy how he parallels sokka but he annoys me too much in canon to really interact with him in fandom :/ he's definitely a very nuanced character and i can appreciate how he's written i just. don't like him and his stupid eyebrows 😪

my canon otp: sukka! literally i love their dynamic so much and how they obviously better each other throughout the show and i enjoy how their relationship really breaks down gender roles and stereotypes! they literally invented bi4bi

my non-canon otp: zukka! i don't even know what to say about this one just look through my zukka tag on tumblr 😪😪

most badass character: oh for sure katara. literally drooling during her fight w pakku And her fights with azula and like. she proves over and over again that you don't have to sacrifice your emotions and femininity to be a badass and kick some ass!

most epic villain: azula!! outside the complex levels of motivation that make her an antagonist, she also has blue fire and lightning which makes her 10/10 the most epic.

pairing i am not a fan of: z*tara, z*kaang, t*kka, literally every azula ship etc etc they just make me feel gross + also destroy these characters lmao

character i feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): azula oh my god. i'm so. her behavior in the show definitely set up for some sort of Progress post-canon. maybe not a whole redemption arc but. i feel like what the comics did to her is the worst thing they couldve done tbh 😭😭

favorite friendship: sokka and toph! their dynamic is Siblings Who Oppress Each Other which i am legally allowed to love! i do feel like the comics expanded on that well by having sokka help toph set up her metalbending academy, etc etc and having them very obviously remain besties after the show. although i am very much not a fan of the "sokka is the absent father of one of toph's children" hc, i do like to think he would be a presence in their life much like he would be in katara and aang's children's lives (uncle!!)

character i most identify with: sokka lmao he is just. he is fruity he is the smartest man alive he is silly he is my bestie he loves shopping. yeah.

character i wish i could be: suki 😪😪 she is just so cool oh my god

[donvex]

Does zukka fit a flower shop/tattoo shop trope? No, absolutely not. Am I writing head canons for it anyway? Yes, because I want to, and I said so, so I’ll make this work

-zuko loves the arts. Has loved the arts since he was young. He passion starts in the theater, and that’s where he starts to branch out

-maybe, just maybe, he leans away from theater a little bit because of his dad

-he doesn’t really talk about it, but he knows that he ended up going into his field because it was a little bit more masculine

-it takes a couple of years and a lot of therapy for him to separate his history with his dad from the work he very much loves to do, even if he started for all the wrong reasons

-but he’s good at it

-he’s a really good fucking tattoo artist

-zuko does almost exclusively in blackwork

-on occasion he does spot color, and ok of course his signature spot color is red, because its BOLD

-but he really really loves blackwork

-there’s a flower shop on the same block as the shop he works at

-but lets get this straight sokka absolutely does not own this flower shop

-aang does. Sweet sweet aang, who’s a vegetarian, who gifts his beautiful girlfriend katara flowers every other week despite the fact that its literally from his work

-katara loves it no I do not take criticism

-sokka just likes to stop by to bully aang hang out

-a lot

-its also because katara hangs out there so often and sokka just really loves his sister okay

-plus sometimes he brings his work (he’s an engineer, what a smart boy) and works in the back room, paperwork and math and all the administrative stuff

-there’s a little restaurant around the corner that the gaang goes to all the time, its cozy and warm and they don’t mind when their group gets a little too rowdy because they’re nice and they tip as best as they can for young adults in these trying times

-anyway every single person in the goddamn world works on this street okay

-yes this restaurant is iroh’s. We like it that way

-iroh is very nice to them and they are very nice back

-zuko does live in the area but come on, cities are big, you don’t run into people you know ALL the time

-even when they hang out at your uncle’s restaurant all the time

-zuko also has weird hours. He kinda sets up his own schedule, especially around his clients appointments

-but one day zuko is at the shop and a client is a no show, which always sucks even though he has their security deposit, so instead of sulking and going all the way home, he grabs his bag and heads to iroh’s

-settles down in a corner there, out of the way, with a sketchbook and headphones in so he can work on a flash sheet

-his uncles presence is warm and inviting just like his restaurant and zuko feels better just for being there

-and then, even over his music, he hears someone go “hey! He did my tattoos!”

-and zuko looks up to see the gaang, only one of which he recognizes - ya know, cuz you kinda don’t forget doing a massive body-scale blue arrow tattoo?

-and aang didn’t really intend for it to become anything, he was just excited, but zuko also isn’t sure because he’s awkward so he does say hi

-and the gang just kind of hovers over his flash sheet for a while and invites him in and somehow he ends up at their usual table

-(maybe its because he’s AT their usual table, he realizes. Small world, everyone wants the corner)

-now let’s not forget

-sokka is a bisexual disaster

-zuko is beautiful and sokka kinda wants to hate him for it? He doesn’t but he would love to

-also he doesn’t see any tattoos on zuko so he’s skeptical like aang are you SURE you didn’t hit your head

-toph is delighted no I did not forget her she just is too good of a character for me to write her justly

-but anyway she punches sokka (with affection) any time he voices too much skepticism

-on a different day, sokka goes in to zuko’s shop, because he’s around and he wants to see it for himself

-he isn’t allowed to watch zuko work of course, but he does get to watch zuko come out with a finished client and take some pictures of it

-it’s very impressive, and okay, maybe he DID do gang’s tattoos

-which just means sokka is smitten

-zuko is also smitten do not worry. They are both disasters

-zuko gets adopted into the gaang and they start to hang out. Their shops are so close, they love iroh, their ages are similar, and they get along after enough time. Its nice. Zuko likes it

-one day it rains, and gets really humid, and its fucking hot. So zuko finally takes off that dumb beat up leather jacket he always wears, only this time its not covering a long sleeves shirt, he’s wearing a tank top

-and sokka takes it back because zuko not only has tattoos, but they WORK for him

-zuko doesn’t have any shitty tattoos, because he spent so long dreaming of the theater and thinking that he couldn’t have tattoos if he ever wanted to be on stage, that by the time he finally acknowledged that his dreams had changed, he was working with and around tattoo artists and could afford to jump straight to full on intricate sleeves that took several sessions each

-it is the only good thing his father has ever given him. Jk he doesn’t credit his father for shit and somewhere in this universe there is room for his father to go to jail. Its already happened, and he’s sure he’ll have to tell his new friends at some point, but not now. He doesn’t wanna

-anyway his tattoos are beautiful. And all botanical

-they all have little scientific names nestles between the branches and stems, it dips below his clothes line, but they’re gorgeous

-pretty much everyone wonders why the fuck he doesn’t show them off, but he shrugs

-“I do, just not. here.”

-he likes to be recognized for his OWN work on his street, by his shop. Not for the work that’s on him

-aang is very excited and begs him in that way where you don’t REALLY have the option to say no to come look at his flower shop

-zuko does, its very pretty

-sokka pays attention to all the flowers and colors he likes

-color was hard. Zuko only does blackwork, how is he supposed to know which color flowers to give him?

-if he ever asks zuko out. Which he’s gonna at some point, because aang may be happily oblivious (or is that just his own way of playing the game? Sokka never knows) but katara is onto him and he has a limited amount of time to ask before katara does it from him

-they meet at the shop, the whole gaang, but this time everyone shuffles out early to leave the two dumb boys alone, and sokka asks to walk zuko home

-“idiot! You’re supposed to take him OUT not HOME”

-but the walk is nice and sweet and then, sadly, too short

-but sokka does make it a habit

-eventually he gives zuko a package and dashes away after their walk

-its a picture frame, with a bunch of pressed flowers, collaged in with snippets of poetry. zuko can tell they’re from different books, because the sizes and kerning and fonts are all different, and that’s a nice touch of detail

-when he looks them up, he finds a couple of them are from plays, not poetry books, and he binges the plays

-it also comes with a note from sokka that says “you get what I’m saying, so just. Text me if you wanna talk about it”

-he does text sokka

-they go out on a very nice date to a restaurant that ISNT owned by zuko’s uncle, and then go out on many more dates after that

-aang is always happy to give sokka discounts on flowers. sokka’s favorite thing to do is (have aang) make bouquets up of the flowers zuko has tattooed

-(Occasionally, when he gets The Zuko Bouquet, he tells aang a new flower to add to it. aang doesn’t ask, but he does smile. He’s very happy for sokka)

-(turns out zuko’s entire back is covered in tattoos too. sokka is going to lose his mind)