#noncommittalhum

[milf-harrington]

6a sokka?

grouchy

[theolddivorcedzukka]

i would put five different sokkas in the pentagram

you place one image of sokka and i show up immediately

[autisticzukka]

what is this hakoda zuko arranged marriage you speak of? i am intrigued

okay so the long story short is that it’s a slight rebuttal of a popular post that is very fun but i find like... unrealistic in a really intriguing way like, how would this ACTUALLY play out. I’ve talked about it at length in my server a few times, and it’s one of those AU’s -- like the genderbend zukka ATLA rewrite or the zukki fic that starts with sokka failing to assassinate zuko -- that lives rent free in my head and I’ve written a couple thousand words for.

tw for like VERY unrequited zuko in love with hakoda and the inherent comedy of sokka being in love with his fire nation stepmom.

so here’s hakoda, chief of the southern water tribe, happily not-married to Bato. and here is a more balanced war, where the north and the south are actually  allies, rather than whatever the fuck they were in ATLA. Yue already has a fiance and the Northern chief refuses to remarry. that leaves hakoda responsible for biting the bullet and doing a political marriage even though, as he points out at length, he is an elected official and if he stops being elected it’s no longer a marriage with the chief of the south pole. intelligently but mostly selfishly motivated (yue’s fiance is his nephew, after all) pakku points out that its not like the fire nation knows... that. the fire nation is dumb. ozai’s stupid.

faced with such inarguable points hakoda stiffens his upper lip, pre-emptively ends things with bato on the understanding that if this is another kya situation they’ll get back together and that he’s still the most important person to him but the tribe comes first yada yada, and deals with katara throwing the mother of all tantrums. it is slightly softened by the fact that in return for him marrying the fire nation noble, a thing everyone can agree isn’t traditional, the north has finally agreed to train katara. she heads out before the wedding, in protest but also so as to not cause an international incident.

(on her way, she’ll find aang. with the war less dire, katara will be sympathetic towards his desire to live without committing violence, even if she deeply can’t relate. they’ll have a hot girl romcom summer of self discovery and coming to terms with the dichotomy between duty and love as they become master benders. at some point they pick up toph. they ARE a throuple.)

sokka meanwhile is like.. not cool with it.. but ? kind of relieved? like. he’s the eldest kid. he’s 18, and he’s been a man of the tribe as far as legalities for several years. it would have been entirely understandable if his dad had asked HIM to do it. he had his emotionally crushing romance with yue, and as much as he was like ‘im kind of a prince’, he finds he doesn’t actually want some of the responsibilities and demands that would bring. yue’s life sucks.

back in the fire nation, zuko never demanded a quest and never went on it. he’s spent years hardening into something that, while brittle, can survive the pressures of the court around him. he still has his scar. he still wants his father to love him, but he knows by now that it’s not something he’s capable of earning. he watches his sister, never the most stable person, start to have complete breakdowns of sanity once she hits puberty, and helps her cover for it and receive medical treatment on the down low. he’s the heir, but he lives knowing that if he was ever in a position to inherit his choices are to abdicate or have the baby sister who he raised kill him and destroy herself and the country in the process.

when he realizes the plan is to marry azula off rather than someone more reasonable-- mai is RIGHT there, for fucks sake-- he doesn’t realize ozai’s true intent is to fuck this up through malicious compliance and false shows of good faith. he panics, and does the zuko thing: he blurts out that this is unacceptable and immoral and she’s only 16 and Ozai sees the true opportunity for two birds with one stone. send zuko, let him piss someone off so badly he gets killed or divorced, and he gets rid of zuko from the line of succession permanently. there are those who are incredibly attached to teh idea of a firstborn for firelord, and it’s been a constant thorn in unpopular ozai’s side to nto be able to name azula his heir apparent without costly rebellion. but if he can taint him in the mind of the fire nation so much that birthright is easy to supercede-- yeah. this’ll work PERFECTLY.

so zuko is sent to marry hakoda, chief of the water tribe.

literally NO ONE was expecting it to be a member of Ozai’s immediate family. besides the fact that his oldest child is half hakoda’s age and his brother has 20 years on hakoda, it would have been sus as fuck - the treaty is not favorable enough to grant that kind of secession of interests. it becomes quickly apparent that this young man -- hakoda reminds himself of that repeatedly. not kid. not kid. young man. don’t think of him like a kid, it’s hard enough on both of us already. -- is not a horrible threat. he’s scared shitless and shakes with what he thinks is bravado. he’s desperate to make the marriage work. he’s desperate to not go home. he’s got a giant fucking scar on his face from where the fire lord punished him for some grievous but unstated offense.

zuko “daddy issues” fire nation sees his husband to be and, despite being scared shitless, immediately begins to soften a little. like... he’s not nearly as scary as he thought he’d be. his face can be stern, but it just as easily breaks into huge smiles, and his eyes are crinkled with laughter. he’s incredibly handsome. and his biceps are. his biceps. are. his hands are...

like. zuko thinks. okay. maybe. maybe his marriage duties. won’t be so horrible as he thought. maybe he’s ready for this. and he knows what to expect, Uncle had discreetly provided him the means and the contacts to acquire an intimate education in the whirlwind of activity that was the two months before leaving. and like, once he’d gotten past the nerves, it was often even... good? or at least... not bad? he thinks that even if hakoda isn’t a professional expert, he has a certain.... je ne sais quoi, if you will.

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sokka sees his new stepfather and immediately falls in love because he’s that kind of dumb bitch. (the core of this au is that i cant breathe thinking about sokka falling in love with his hot young stepmom his age who his dad doesnt even want to fuck. like. i CANT. sokka masturbates to ‘hand caught in the washing tub’ fantasies which are even more absurd for requiring zuko to be DOING LAUNDRY. i find it so funny.)

bato watches them at the wedding feast while hakoda is very clearly trying to treat zuko as an Equal Adult Partner and mostly managing to seem like someone having a serious conversation with a seven year old about the game they’ve made up. zuko is clearly enamored with it, soaking up the attention, blushing and doing his best to Bravely Flirt, which at one point includes awkwardly attempting to feed Hakoda by hand. bato has to excuse himself to have a teary eyed giggle, hoping that Kya is in the spirit world looking down and laughing with him. he can’t resent the kid even a little bit, when hakoda is sitting there looking so incredibly fucking befuddled as to what he’s supposed to do with this star struck infant he’s legally wed to

anyways all of this... is very funny. their wedding night... is less so. zuko does not take the rejection from hakoda very well, especially because he’d been caught wanting. HE’S the one who should be rejecting hakoda. and he catastrophizes almost immediately about his potential value to the water tribe, his future treatment, that endless inescapable freezing cold loneliness is the good ending for him here... hakoda, meanwhile, drops zuko off at his home, reassuringly informs him that there’s NOTHING else expected of him and he will be well taken care of, and books it to bato’s. bato refuses to let him in on grounds of ‘you can’t sleep under the same shelter as me on your wedding night to that kid, have a fucking brain’, and he ends up crashing at sokka’s.

sokka, who had KNOWN that his dad wouldnt, but also upon seeing zuko and zuko’s awkward flirting was like... but how COULDNT he???? sokka is relieved.

the core of this fic is that i find it endlessly hilarious for zuko to try and seduce his husband while sokka simps around zuko and bato tries to be heartbroken or betrayed but mostly ends up with a giant case of hysterical schadenfreude. but the thing that CLINCHED it for me, like THE scene. several years after being married, settled into their life. they’re partners and they see each other as people. and zuko just fucking snaps one night

he just kisses him, desperate and clawing and climbing and maybe a little drunk. he knows hakoda is going to push him away, maybe even hit him, but he doesn’t care anymore, he doesn’t care. he can do anything he wants to him as long as he just-- finally does something. zuko is 21 and married to the surface of the sun and the surface of the sun jr is his best friend and clearly in love with him-- so clearly not even zuko can miss it-- and like. listen. listen. zuko is not a patient person. but he’s been patient for this. he waited and he matured and he is a fucking amazing husband and he wants this, he wants him. he wants to be wanted.

but hakoda doesn’t push him away. hakoda doesnt yell at him, or hit him. hakoda gentles the kiss into something soft and closed lipped. he pulls away slowly, and his eyes are so sad for zuko, so pitying. he strokes his cheek with the back of his hand so gently. he says, I’m sorry. I don’t want you.

and zuko daddy issues fire nation swallows

and he nods

and he leaves, even though its his own fucking house

and he knows he’s never going to be good enough

like FUUUCK i am OBSESSED WITH THAT

[drysauce]

oooo whos your new pfp she (?) looks cool

that's Wei Wuxian! he's the main character from Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

my icon is from the manhua but there is also a novel written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu which is the original story (if you ever plan to read it make sure to check the content warnings, this is NOT a YA novel), a donghua, a chibi donghua and a live action (the untamed/cql)

[jimmys-angels858]

hey! how are you. would you like to draw tori

Hi! I’m really good thanks :) Here’s Tori feat. a disproportionate laptop XD hope you like it :3

[zukkaoru]

📓?

this one doesn't exactly have a plot but i would love to write an exploration of toph as an adult coming to terms with her aromanticism and asexuality

i'm not even sure if it would be a long oneshot or a multi-chapter fic, but it would basically follow toph from shortly after the war when everyone is going their separate ways, through her relationships with lin's dad and su's dad and how those both fell through, leaving toph alone

except, she's not really alone, because she has her friends. and they want to help her, but she's stubborn and her feelings don't make sense to her, so she's not going to burden other people with them

it would probably delve into some of the resentment she feels towards lin and su bc they weren't enough to keep her partners with her, nor were they enough to make her feel normal. and how that resentment just turned to distance, leading to watch tlok shows us about how strained lin and su's relationships with toph are (and not to mention their relationship with each other)

in the end, toph would finally break down to katara and explain that no matter what she does, she just can't seem to get it right (it being romance & the stereotypical get married/have kids/have grandkids dream life) and katara helps toph understand that she's not broken and she's definitely not alone, nor is she the only one who feels the way she does

(and maybe i would include aromantic bumi ii just because but that's probably not super relevant bc it would just be at the end lol)

idk i just think that Aro Toph 💚

[that-was-anticlimactic]

oh i didnt know you liked the hollow! how abt kai?

omigosh i love the hollow so much literally my comfort show

hehe okay so kai:

how i feel about this character: i love kai ! he was actually my favorite hollow character when i first started the show ! i especially like his growth in s2 how, despite being (presumably) the youngest, he began to take on the role as a leader and a constant when the group needed it--a bridge between vanessa and everyone else. i also loved the fact that he was a rich kid with family issues because, while i am not a rich kid, my parents fought a lot and got divorced so it just it was nice and also my favorite line in the show was about that !

i also loved s1 kai. adam is a pretty serious character and had trouble finding fun and kai brought that out of him. i love the banter between him and adam as well as him and mira. i especially love how he developed after discovering his powers but how he also came to terms with "i don't have some super special power like adam and mira and the other kids, but i'm smart and still contribute to the team" and didn't always rely solely on his fire. i love how we got to see kai separated from adam and mira and how he actually became a bit more serious because his friends were in danger, as well as his little run in with reeve and skeet and how he was like "i could totally take you!"

all the people i ship romantically with this character: okay. i am conflicted. originally, i was a hardcore kai x adam shipper. because the poTENTIAL for them is just *chef's kiss* and the way they both actively helped better each other and drive each other and balanced each other was amazing. plus, the fan art is really cute and the way that adam looks at kai... like... ahhhhh... also the way kai just destroyed mabel the chicken because she almost got to adam... like... bisexual,,,

but s2 came out and i do kind of like kai x vanessa... the way their friendship developed was so organic and so sweet and that's something i can really appreciate. the way he stood up for her when even reeve was upset with her made my heart so happy and how he respected her decision to tell the others / not to tell the others (plus that speech he gave in 'fire'... chills). i definitely prefer kaidam but kai x vanessa is also adorable

my non-romantic otp for this character: kai and mira !!! kai and mira !!! kai and mira !!! i love their friendship so much. like. seriously. it's so good and the way they bounce off each other is just. so much fun. i also love the parallels of them being in the middle of everything in s2: mira between reeve and adam and kai between vanessa and everyone else. and the way that kai instantly turned to mira at the end of dead end, the way that he was going to mira for help while adam and reeve were fighting, it just shows how much he trusts her and how much he needs her. and how when she starts panicking right before the credits, his last call of "mira" turns into more of a worried / concerned question and ahhhhh

i also love platonic vanessa and kai hehe. again. they are amazing. the way that they are genuinely concerned for each other and are able to own up to their unkind behavior and move past it while still acknowledging that they made mistakes... ahhh so good. and the way that they covered for each other mY HEART

my unpopular opinion about this character: oooo idk if i'll have an unpopular opinion because i haven't really interacted with fandom, so i'll just say that kai was never really obnoxious, he was just asking for attention in the only way he knew how, easing the tension in the only way he knew how since his parents obviously didn't get along or pay him much attention. he diffused arguments (even ones he was in) with jokes because he needed to feel secure or some semblance of normalcy and i love him for that (that's also what my younger sister does)

one thing i wish would happened / had happened with this character in canon: i wish we didn't have the awkward kai liking mira moments tbh. i mean, i know he's young, but those were some of my least favorite scenes in s1. they just felt awkward and made me :/// but i suppose that was the point

anyways... i have many feelings and i love this show perhaps too much hehe

[nazumichi]

hello i heard you were bored. once my chickens clucked so loudly for so long over online school they asked me to leave the call

HHSUHSJSHJS THE REAL ALLIES

[everything-else-and-mars]

mica what were you doing up at 2 am last night. go to sleep.

what were YOU doing at 4 am?? /lh

i was trying to draw something and failing because i was too tired 😌 on second thought perhaps i should have gone to bed earlier

[zukkas]

shut UP about my misspelling of cake. it was an accident. why.

JDGDJSJS don't you mean cark /j

[sokkagatekeeper]

📓?

i know we don't talk about lu ten in this blog but listening to mitski sing ‘i know who you pretend i am’ in a loop for an entire hour did stuff to me. so zuko and iroh are in ba sing se about the time the entire date with jin ordeal takes place. since iroh is such a chad he is utterly oblivious to zuko being gay as hell, and they have an uhhhh argument followed by several disagreements and an actually accurate and sensible portrayal of zuko’s anger management issues. lu ten’s birthday is approaching also so iroh is a little emotionally erratic as well which comes into: the concept of iroh’s perception of zuko as a replacement son, not completely just. little things that are overall understandable? from like an outsider point of view? but as zuko has always been second best (and as the projecting is being placed onto zuko, lol) this obviously would hit a sore spot. especially since lu ten was also a chad, yknow? just a fun little slice of canonical internalized homophobia, complex relationships & nuanced characters ;)

put “📓” into my inbox and i'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that i haven't written but daydream about

[milf-harrington]

of course i am still offering!! she is a loaf

oh fuck yeah

if she is okay with it,, pls give her a smooch on the head for me,,

[theolddivorcedzukka]

every day i check your carrd just to make sure you haven't snapped and added fanon zuko

and when i do? what then?

[autistic-yuri]

i like your new pfp and url!!!

Thanks friend! I felt like I was due for some change and I’m really liking this change!

[drysauce]

i like your new pfp!! hes ginger

oooo hahahh i'm glad you like it!

generally it was that i changed my profile pictures on some of my social media accounts to icons with characters from genshin impact and my friend was like so you're gonna have genshin impact profile pictures on your every social media now? and i was like you know what i think that's exactly what i'm going to do

[zukkaflowers]

congrats on 100 followers!! 🎉🎉🎉

akdlakfklsjfj THANK YOU