#idk bilingual gaang just sits right w me

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

GLAD TO BE BACK :D.

this hc applies to the 90s hc but it can apply any other au. i mentioned this on discord before but this one shall be shared.

zuko, mai, and suki speak japanese due to it being their native language. zuko & mai learned english together but mai was taking a little bit longer to settle in. suki was used to tourists coming around often so she started to pick on some terms.

while they were fluent in english, they still needed help on some stuff and they have sokka being their handy dandy translator. sometimes they still confuse their l's and r's.

they'll see a sentence or a word with way too many l's and they'll just slide it over to sokka. "so you guys can say insults left and right but you can't pronounce alligator???" but he does end up helping them tho.

sokka will let out a little snicker like him and katara don't skip articles like a stone on water. they got shown the word 'phenomenon' and 'onomatopoeia'. they just shut down.

tbh, i could a whole essay on the atla characters and their beef with english 😭

YOU HAVE ME HOWWLLINGGGG THIS IS AMAZING 😭😭😭 no but honestly this feels so real especially the sokka being the translator and being all snarky but then looking the other way when he sees a word like ‘worcestershire’. I’m so glad you gave this to the people bc the people deserved this hc. anyway neeed to mention that I can picture Toph watching this bullshit go down, and bc she’s still in her ‘I hate english’ era (real) she doesn’t tell anyone that zuko helped her so when sokka is trying to get Suki or mai to say a word Toph just casually says it perfectly and then sokka is just on her lying ass like: YOU REFUSED TO LEARN?? I THOUGHT YOU HATED ENGLISH??

and Toph is just like: it’s an easy word 🤷

sokka is just too tired for her bullshit and zuko is sitting there smiling like a demon

#atla #atla hc #sokka hc #suki hc #zuko hc #mai hc #toph hc #motheryvs #literally obsessed w this au but THIS aspect specifically makes me violently silly abt it #idk bilingual gaang just sits right w me