#listen. aang as a dad and katara as a mother makes me insane

[alfredolover119]

zukka fic rec list (post-canon)

howdy! i’ve been collecting zukka fics i like since uhhh june and now i am sharing my lists with the world. i’m splitting it into three posts so it hopefully wont be too long. this is the second one: post-canon fics! the other two will be canon era and modern au. [side note!! if youd like a specific type of rec list,, i.e. soulmate au, fake dating, ambassador sokka,, hmu and i’ll post a list !!]

within this post, the fics are in word count order! also, if you’d like a soundtrack for your reading, i might recommend my zukka playlist :^) happy reading!

speak ill by @moonsongdotmp3

-4111 words, teen

-developing/established relationship, ozai hate <3

"I hate your dad so much,” Sokka considers for a second. He tries to mix it up as often as he can when they play this game. “That I have considered starting an official petition begging Aang to reconsider his commitment to nonviolence.” // It’s quiet for a beat. He’s afraid he’s miscalculated, but Zuko laughs, broken and sincere. // (Or: 5, 8, 15 years after the war, Sokka talks shit about Ozai.)

Friends Don’t Let Friends Fake Date Each Other by @d-naggeluide

-5349 words, general

-fake dating, coming out, kinda crackfic

Toph demands that Zuko fake date her. This goes just about as well as can be expected. Sokka steps in to show them how it's done, and this goes a bit better than expected.

Oh, How We Find Our Way by @donvex

-6043 words, teen

-bed sharing, hurt/comfort, domestic fluff

In which Zuko doesn’t sleep nearly enough once he takes up the throne, and Sokka isn’t having it. And maybe they get to fall in love on the way, as a treat.

(let me be) there for you by @bisexuallsokka

-8471 words, teen

-friends/idiots to lovers, mutual pining, getting together

Sokka pulls out a clean piece of parchment and starts to write: Reasons Why Sokka Would Be A Great Bodyguard for Lord Zuko // He smiles in satisfaction at the title. Seeing it in writing only makes him feel more confident in this brilliant, two-minute-old idea of his. Zuko is one of his closest friends, and Sokka is a great fighter, he would be the perfect bodyguard! He has the entirety of his trip in the Fire Nation to prove it to Zuko. This is going to be a piece of cake.

This Isn’t My Idea of Fun by @khaleeseas​

-8921 words, explicit

-royalty/moon spirit!sokka, childhood friends to lovers, no war au, mutual pining, fluff and angst

If you asked Zuko, he and Azula saw far too much of Chief Hakoda of the Northern Water Tribe’s children growing up. It wasn’t until they were older, and Azula pointed out that - duh - their families were trying to set them all up, that he realized why. // He was told by his mother to be polite. These people were their friends and allies, and though their nations were as different as they came, harmony between nations was the most important thing. // It wasn’t his fault the Chief’s children were so annoying.

the thing about dancing by anodymalion

-9713 words, teen

-trans sokka, family angst

The first time a attendant spills Zuko’s tea and doesn’t immediately fall to her knees, begging the Fire Lord’s forgiveness, it is not anger but a resounding warmth that fills his chest.

Will You Fake Date Me (But This Time For Real)? by AlyssiaInWonderland

-10520 words, not rated (teen, i think)

-fake dating, mutual pining, idiots to lovers

Zuko is determined to convince his Uncle that he is not, in fact, pining after Sokka. // Sokka is desperate to convince Katara and Aang that he is not, in fact, pining after Suki. // When Sokka's scheme to avoid pity means Zuko and him must fake date for an entire diplomatic event, shenanigans, realisations and confessions ensue.

i could (never) give you peace by @zukkababey​

-10540 words, mature

-ambassador!sokka, friends to fwb to lovers, angst with a happy ending, miscommunication

Zuko almost said it. He almost said the words I think I’m in love with you, but he choked them back down at the last second. // Zuko would never be able to be what Sokka wanted. They might have needed each other during the summer, when two boys with too much weight on their shoulders found comfort in each other in the only way they knew how. // But now Zuko was Fire Lord, and Sokka was leaving.

Operation: Get the Fire Lord a Boyfriend by @rejectscanon 

-10679 words, teen

-established relationship, attempted matchmaking, fluff, hurt/comfort, 5+1

5 times the people of the Fire Nation tried to get Zuko and Sokka together, and 1 time they realized they already were.

a study in matchmaking by @verdanthoney​

-12218 words, general

-friends to lovers, mutual pining, idiots in love, bg bakoda and kataang

Zuko and Sokka try to play matchmaker, but things don’t go exactly as planned.

Always read Your Peace Treaties Carefully by preciousbunnynoiz

-14039 words, teen

-arranged marriage, miscommunication, found family, fluff, non-linear narrative, angst with a happy ending

Zuko and Sokka have been engaged to be married since the peace talks. Only they were the only ones who didn't know. // Everyone else thought they not only knew but that they had already been dating the entire time. // This is also news to Zuko and Sokka who have definitely NOT been dating but maybe they aren't as uninterested as they are protesting.

this love burns so yellow (becoming orange and in its time, exploding) by @meliebee​

-18767 words, teen, major character death (NOT ZUKO OR SOKKA OR ANY OF THE GAANG)

-found family, slowburn, fluff and angst, hurt/comfort, mutual pining

Ten months after Zuko is crowned at seventeen, he faces his first coup.

All the Little Things by @voidcenturyscholar and @romancedawning

-23575 words, general

-fake dating, friends to lovers, mutual pining, bed sharing, fluff, miscommunication

Sokka receives an offer of an arranged marriage from the Northern Water Tribe. On the one hand, accepting would strengthen ties between their tribes. On the other hand, Chief Arnook has suggested Hahn as a potential match, and Hahn sucks. But with the future of the Southern Water Tribe Reconstruction project relying heavily on the good will of the North, Sokka doesn’t know how to say no. // (Katara doesn’t have to deal with this. Katara is dating the Avatar.) // Zuko has a solution. Sokka just wishes he’d realized he was in love with the Fire Lord before he agreed to pretend to date him.

isn’t this the vision that you wanted by @goldrushzukka​

-34633 words, teen

-pining, matchmaking, coming out, friends to lovers, bed sharing, internalized homophobia

Firelord Zuko - ender of the Hundred Year War, ruler of the Fire Nation, payer of respects and reparations - takes advice and counsel from representatives of every nation, division, and specialty. // But teenage boy Zuko - friend of turtleducks, wielder of fun looking swords, stumbler over words and feet in the presence of cute boys - only listens to two people, and they are conspiring together to ruin him.

(do you take this jerk to be) your one and only by @jatersade​

-55855 words, teen

-enemies to friends to lovers, (not actually) unrequited love, slowburn, sharing a bed, alternate universe, arranged marriage, huddling for warmth, fluff

Under the leadership of Fire Lord Iroh, the Fire Nation has made every attempt to restore peace and make amends for the harm they inflicted during the Seventy-Year War. Their newest proposal is a literal proposal: a marriage to unite the Fire Nation and the Water Tribes. // The Fire Nation offers Prince Zuko’s hand. // The Water Tribes offer Princess Yue’s. // Sokka is apparently the only person in the world who has a problem with any of this.

Wooing the Water Tribe by @dameferre​

-56839 words, teen

-didn’t know they were dating, i mean IDIOT idiots to lovers, ambassador!sokka, mutual pining, himbos istg

Zuko is courting Katara, and with every passing day finds new and insane ways of showing that he would quite literally move the spirit world and earth to make her happy. // In hindsight, it probably would've been better if Sokka had realised he was in love with Zuko at literally any time before this. Or preferably, never fallen for his best friend in the first place.

In the Soft Light by @voidcenturyscholar and @romancedawning​

-83901 words, teen, graphic depictions of violence

-moon spirit!sokka, ambassador zuko kinda, hurt/comfort, slowburn, pining, canon divergence, miscommunication, sickfic, huddling for warmth, angst with a happy ending, enemies to lovers, underage drinking

As the newly appointed cultural liaison to Northern Water Tribe, Zuko is the first Fire Nation Citizen to step foot inside the city's walls in nearly a century. He's determined to prove himself—to the Fire Lord and to his father—even if the Water Tribe's spirit-touched prince seems to want nothing to do with him.

#zukka #zuko #sokka #atla #avatar: the last airbender #fic recs #zukka fic recs #fanfiction #rec list

[the-last-cuddlebender]

AU where Aang and Zuko are collectively Steve Irwin but instead of crocodiles it’s dragons

Aang is the one to (carefully) yeet himself onto anything and everything and speak into the camera all excited. Zuko is the one who gently blindfolds and calms the creature.

Aang gives every lil dragon ridiculously fluffy names and talks to them in baby talk like each one is his child. Zuko tries to avoid direct names because he thinks they’re slightly undignified (but doesn’t change them because they make Aang happy and the dragons don’t mind), and he speaks to them formally like each one is a dignified gentleman/lady.

King Bumi is their coordinator and intel guy who feeds them info on where to find their next dragon-rescue mission.

Appa is the support animal for the dragons like how dogs are for cheetahs or like donkeys/goats are for horses. The dragons love him because he is very warm and fluffy, and they occasionally fight over who gets to keep him in their hoard.

Momo just shows up one day and claims every dragon as his new flying family since he is the last winged lemur, and the dragons immediately accept him.

Katara is the medic who pulls rotten teeth and provides first aide and any and all medical services. (Kataang: every time she visits, Aang goes out of his way to get hurt to have an excuse for her to tend to him, too. Zuko tells her one day that Aang is doing this, and Katara blushes and says she knows. The first time she kisses Aang’s cheek to make his little bruise all better, she sends him into cardiac arrest, and the dragons each and all huddle around their ‘injured’ little airbean).

Zuko helps the dragons regain their fire if they lose it because of an injury. Aang, likewise, helps them learn to fly again.

One day the dragons kidnap Zuko and Aang to bring them to the masters to show the ancient dragons that some humans were good and worthy. The masters share the secrets of the dragons, and Aang and Zuko can ‘listen’ to the dragons now because they so thoroughly understand their body language/little sounds/etc on a fundamental level.

^^^ the masters also gift them their own (the masters’) egg—their most valuable possession—because they are too old to care for a youngling properly and sense it will hatch soon.

^^^Zuko becomes its ‘mother’ because Aang was off on a mission and Zuko was right with it as it hatched (so it imprinted on him). All the brooding dragons in the sanctuary now huddle around Zuko like older aunties and tell him what he’s doing right/wrong to raise his baby. Likewise, they puff smoke at Aang (because he is the youngling’s ‘father’) for not brooding properly/enough because he has to go on missions in Zuko’s stead so Zuko can mother the lil dragon.

Toph runs a badgermole sanctuary that Zuko and Aang help with as well, but Toph will actually kill them if they touch any of the badgermoles without her oversight (because someone had wormed into her trust in the past so she trusts no one around them now).

Sokka is their cameraman and tells them they are insane, but he pets and coddles the dragons when no one is looking.

Sokka discretely shares his meat with the dragons even though he’s not supposed to ‘feed the animals’. (He’s very a la the dad who says he doesn’t want a dog but falls in love with it/lets it become his new favorite in the family).

Suki is their security, and it’s become right-of-passage for every dragon to prove they are all healed by taking a golden egg from her.

Suki is the dragons’ unofficial leader because she is somehow the only human to ever best a dragon in combat.

Suki always comments on the dragons’ playful brawls by giving them tips and tricks on how to tussle better, and she shows and teaches them all about the types of traps and battle tactics that poachers use (so they may more easily avoid/escape them when they are released back into the wild).

I will add more ideas to this list as they come to me, but goodness do I love this AU

#aang #Zuko #avatar the last airbender #katara #Sokka #Toph #Suki #gaang #Gaang love #avatar: the last airbender #a:tla #can be any ship!❤️ #I just prefer kataang for the sweeties #kataang #zukaang #zukka #crocodilehunter!AU #AU #AU hc #post #myfanfictiontag #myAUtag

[that-was-anticlimactic]

📂 hmmm let's see... how about Toph?

aw Toph Beifong, how I love you,

Okay. So. First:

Obviously, Toph can tell when people are lying, but much like how the gaang always forgets that she’s blind, they forget that she’s a living lie detector. After the war ends, the kiddos are all obviously traumatized and always ask each other how they’re doing and they usually always say “fine” and Toph can feel that they’re lying but she just... doesn’t do anything. Sometimes it’s obvious a person is lying, but sometimes they can really pull it off and Toph is the only one who knows. She just lets them be, though, because she would want to be left alone too. In her mind, if it was a big enough deal, they wouldn’t say that they’re fine (also because that’s the reasoning she gives herself to not talk about her problems). She doesn’t want to push them.

Eventually, and let’s use Aang here because poor kid suffers so much trauma and no one really talks about that much (myself included, I need to pay more attention to Aang), Aang’s mental health really starts declining and everyone is really worried but Toph always lets it go because she doesn’t want to push him or stress him out. One time, it’s so bad that they ask Toph to out Aang for lying and she just shrugs and says “he wasn’t lying” even though he definitely was.

After a week or two like this, Aang kind of just breaks down and Toph instantly feels guilty because deep down she feels like she could have prevented it, but she didn’t. It’s one of those times when she learns that letting people believe a lie, no matter how good intentions are, is worse and more hurtful than telling the truth.

It kind of starts making her more honest than before. She began by calling everyone out on every little lie until she realized it would probably be better to talk to people in private and I just... mmm... I feel like Toph wields so much power after the war because everyone will always say “I’m fine” and she knows, she knows, they’re lying.

And now for an angsty Toph-related headcanon because I said so:)

Toph’s parents. Mmmm. I have not read the comics and also I heard they were... iffy... so we’re disregarding comics here. Toph’s parents kind of suck. Like, once she talks to them after the war, they treat her like a helpless child again and not the LITERAL HERO she is. She doesn’t live with them, but she wants a relationship with them, even though she physically cannot make her say it out loud. So, eventually she blows up at them and Earthbends and her parents are like “okay, if you’re not a child, then start acting like an adult” and COMPLETELY misread the intention behind what Toph was saying. Ontop of that, they constantly complain about everything to her. Like trivial things. They complain about trivial things to a traumatized child (not to mention they did like nothing during the war smh, they just sat there and were rich). Like, they complain about each other to Toph say all of these things that she never wanted to hear ever and that no parents should actually burden their child with. Eventually she just... stops.

She just never answers letters, never returns to the city, much less the house. And it just... it kills her because she wanted to fix their relationship. She wanted to try and be a family again and she tried. She tried so hard but her parents never pit any effort in.

It was actually Zuko (or Azula...) who kind of made her realize. Like, I’m just gonna say: Sokka and Katara HATE Toph’s parents, like, with a burning passion. Toph offhandedly mentioned some of the terrible things her mom said about her dad and vice versa to the gaang and Katara was about to go give them the biggest lecture they had ever received. Katara lowkey got all mother hen (but sometimes Suki would have to drag her back and be like “you’re smothering her” so Toph wouldn’t feel like Katara was acting like her parents) (and again, Toph would never say it outloud, but she could never think of Katara in that way ever. She’s SUCH a better person than her parents could ever be) and would try and... not be the mother Toph never got to have, but give her the support she never had.

Anyways, Zuko or Azula talk to Toph and are like “take it from one abused child to another, your parents are abusing you” which just confirms the suspicions she had deep down but refused to believe. She was just filled with so much rage because it’s not fair and she was trying so hard but her parents really don’t care about her in the way that they should of and she gave them so many chances to be better but they never took it.

okay so, sadness over, let’s make Toph happy:)

Toph is asexual (and maybe aromantic, unsure as of right now) because I said so:))

Toph takes great pleasure in going to The Jasmine Dragon and just... listening to make sure no one is ever rude to Iroh or any of the other employees ever. If they are, she causes trouble so they can feel ashamed for being mean to people in food service.

no you know what? Am I going too overboard? Yes. Do I care? No. One friendship Toph headcanon for everyone in the gaang.

Aang: Toph and Aang both help remind the other that they’re children because they both forget sometimes. Toph is great at taking Aang away from work and making him take breaks and spend time for himself rather than others. Aang is great at giving Toph the “having friends as a child” experience she never had. He teaches her games he learned from all four nations as a child and sometimes they do really ‘childish’ things like playing bending tag or even like regular tag with each other just because it’s nice.

Katara: oooh the Toph and Katara friendship is one of my favorites in the show. The two are both ridiculously competitive. Like. Out of everyone in the gaang, they are the most competitive (let’s be real, Sokka is too petty and WE NEED TO FOLLOW THE GAMES RULES to be competitive and Zuko just gets angry and rage quits). But eventually, they learn that they’re stronger when they work together and make a competitive truce. So whenever people need to team up for games, they immediately go to each other and they destroy everyone.

Sokka: Sokka and Toph ahhhhh I love them so much. Sokka adopted Toph as his daughter-sister, as in he can’t choose whether he wants to replace her dad and be her dad or be the protective but not overly protective older brother she never had, so he calls himself “father-brother” and everyone hates it, but Sokka was never good at naming things. Also, one time they were really bored, so they decided to try and invent a language that is never spoken, but can be interpreted through Earthbending. Like, different methods of bending meant different things and stuff. It worked... kind of? Sokka likes learning and Toph likes kicking dirt and making people confused about what they were doing. They both have short attention spans, though, so they didn’t get far. They each still remember s=certain things and still talk through it (since Sokka is not an Earthbender, he taps his foot on the ground or kicks dirt a certain way. It’s kind of like morse code, bit different because only Toph can feel the taps).

Suki: Suki Suki Suki I love you! Suki is Toph’s go-to for fake relationships. Like. These two have been in a fake relationship with each other too many times to count. Toph’s parents invite her to a formal event but she needs to bring a date (and also she doesn’t want to go but she wants to repair the relationship)? Suki is her date. Suki needs to attend a royal event because she’s the highest Fire Nation palace guard (because I said so)? Toph comes as her date. A random person is hitting on either of them and they don’t know how to respond without unnecessary violence? Find the other and kiss their face.

Zuko: Zuko and Toph, what a pair. They both find beauty in nature (in different ways, obviously), so they’re walking buddies. They’ve gone on hikes together, like week-long hikes together. They’ll walk around the palace together... sometimes they’ll just sit together in silence because they don’t always need words to be friends.

Azula: (because yes, I am including the three girls): y’all. These two together can scare the entire world. Not just because they are actually insanely powerful, but because they make the most horrific self-deprecating jokes known to man and say it with intense seriousness that everyone has been genuinely worried at some point before they caught on (if it’s serious, they say it as a joke). One time, they both made these depressing jokes at lunch and Aang choked on his food. He didn’t die, but like. He was so unprepared that he choked. What I’m saying is, these two have a really weird relationship that takes place entirely through insults at each other, theirself, and everyone they love.

Ty Lee: Toph was actually scared of Ty Lee at first because of her chi blocking abilities. Not like terrified-scared, but like if you even take one more step towards me I will smash you with a boulder no matter your intentions-scared. Also, Ty Lee was so perky and kind of loud and Toph found that suspicious at first. It wasn’t like an Aang perky or loud, it was like... well, Toph couldn’t explain it (as in, I, op, cannot explain it), but it was a bit overwhelming? And then one time Ty Lee just. randomly visited her at her parents’ house even though they “weren’t friends” and Toph was just ????? but let her come in for dinner anyway because she kind of wanted to see how her parents would react to this peppy girl. Her parents ended up making a kind of snide remark at Toph’s expense during dinner (which was the usual but Toph didn’t realize it was a b u s e) and Ty Lee went off. That’s when Toph knew there were reasons to be terrified of this girl, but she would never be on the receiving end of her fury unless she really deserved it. They have very different family situations, but take pleasure in actually talking about it to each other. Because Ty Lee is a very open person and Toph is not. Toph thinks it’s nice to just let Ty Lee ramble on (kind of like Mai) and Ty Lee thinks Toph gives really good advice and has good insights (plus strives to help her feel more comfortable with her feelings). They become spontaneous buddies and randomly show up at each other’s houses when they’re living at home and it’s just nice.

Mai: last but never least, Mai and Toph! These two. feel for each other. so much. Rich kids, only children, parents who ignore them, ahhhhh, do you smell that? The repression of feelings:) Sometimes, they prefer to just be around each other because everyone else can kind of be overwhelming. They can communicate through few words and they both like throwing things, so they like sparring together a lot, It gives them a chance to throw things with another person who likes throwing things. For them, sparring is like this connection and it’s own method of loving each other (as friends do) and it’s just really nice for both of them.

Okay. I am done. Thank you, Grace, for fueling me.

I love Toph and I don’t give her enough attention.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #atla Headcanons #avatar Headcanons #atla toph #Toph Headcanons #in this house we love and appreciate Toph Beifong #not me making her parents fight to cope with my parent’s divorce lol #no but seriously her parents give me secretly hating each other but being too petty to divorce vibes #Toph angst #and Toph love #zukkaclawthorne #:)

[fireflywonder]

TATBILB x ATLA (part 2)

Katara: “Honestly, you know, it’s nice talking about her like it’s normal. Like it’s not some tragedy.”

Katara: *sits on counter*

Katara: “Is it weird not having your mom around?”

Zuko: “It’s not as weird as it used to be. But sometimes I’ll walk around the house and see she’s not in any photos anymore and... I’ll miss her. I wish I could have gone with her.”

Katara: “Zuko…”

Katara: *lays a hand on his arm*

Zuko: “I bet you miss your mom too.”

Katara: “Yeah. Every day. But you know, it’s… it’s been so long now that, when I think about my family I forget there was a time where it wasn’t just my dad, Gran Gran, and my siblings and I. And it only happens for like a quarter of a second, but… I feel really, really guilty about it. I’ve never told anyone about it before.”

Zuko: “I mean, I get it. It makes sense to me.”

Katara: “It’s actually really nice having someone to talk to about this stuff. You’re a good listener.”

Zuko: “You are, too.”

Katara: “Thanks.”

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Mai: “I don’t know Zuko. It’s like you don’t have time for me anymore. All you do is hang out with her.”

Zuko: “Am I supposed to wait around for you like an idiot while you’re off with this college guy?”

Katara: “We should leave, this sounds private.”

Toph: “Are you insane? That’s your boyfriend!”

Mai: “He’s not a good listener.”

Zuko: “Because he’s not at your beck and call like I am. Mai, you can’t keep doing this to me.”

Mai: “But she’s not coming on the ski trip, is she? That’s our thing.”

Zuko: “What does it matter? You have a boyfriend.”

Mai: “Yeah, but… maybe by then… I won’t.”

Toph: “Dude! Mai is after your man.”

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Katara: “Look, Zuko… I don’t think either one of us thought this was going to go on for this long, but Yue and I are okay, Mai is sufficiently jealous, I think we need to call it off.”

Zuko: “I cannot believe you’re trying to break up with me before the ski trip. That’s in the contract.”

Katara: “Only if we’re still together.”

Zuko: “We are still together! You’re only trying to pull out because you’re scared.”

Katara: “What do I have to be scared about?”

Zuko: “You tell me, Katara.”

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Toph: “Okay, let’s look at the facts, shall we? The whole stupid fake relationship thing was his idea. You came up with that lame no-kissing rule. You’re the one who keeps trying to break up with the guy and you’re also the one who’s currently eating junk food with a blind girl while he’s probably waiting for you in the hot tub outside. So I’d say if anyone stupidly fell for someone who doesn’t like them back, it’s not you, Sugar Queen. It’s Sparky.”

Katara: “You think he’s waiting for me in the hot tub?”

Toph: “Duh!”

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Zuko: “I wanted to sit next to you, Katara. I even packed snacks; I asked Korra where to find those sea prunes you like so much.”

Katara: “The Asian grocery store is all the way across town.”

Zuko: “I know. So if I went all the way across town to get you something you like, then that means…”

Katara: “You must really like sea prunes?”

Zuko: “You are impossible.”

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Sokka: “You’re in love with Yue?”

Katara: “Wait, Sokka, no!”

Katara: *dashes up the steps*

Sokka: *goes back into the house and slams the door*

Katara: “Zuko, go home!”

Zuko: “God. You were never second best.”

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Hakoda: *sits down and song starts*

Hakoda: “Your mother and I used to come here all the time when we were dating.”

Katara: “Really? I didn’t know that.”

Hakoda: “She’d request this song, then as soon as it was over she’d request it again. Know what else she’d do? Get up and start dancing in the aisles, right by everyone eating. I was so embarrassed, but… you know, I was also in awe of her, too. I think back and I think, ‘Man, I should’ve been dancing with her.’ Look at this.”

Hakoda: *hands over photo*

Katara: “Wow, this place has not changed at all.”

Hakoda: “There’s so much about her I should have told you guys, but I haven’t because talking about her makes me sad.”

Katara: “It’s okay.”

Hakoda: “It’s not okay. I’ve relied on you and Sokka too much, I know I have. You’re sixteen. You don’t have to be an adult yet. That’s why I was so happy when I saw you and Zuko.”

Katara: “I don’t want to talk about Zuko.”

Hakoda: “Zuko who?”

Katara: “Really?”

Hakoda: “I don’t know what happened between you two, but I know how you opened up when he was around. Not with us, ‘cause you’ve always been like that with us, but to the world. Seeing you come alive like that, you reminded me of her. Just don’t hide that part of yourself, okay, Katara?”

Katara: “Dad, I really miss her.”

Hakoda: “I know you do.”

Katara: “So you said she’d always played the song twice?”

Hakoda: “At least, usually till they’d kick us outta here.”

Katara: *gets up from her chair and approaches the counter*

Katara: “Excuse me, can you play the previous song again?”

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Toph: “You gonna do something about this?”

Toph: *hands Zuko paper*

Zuko: “Hey, everyone, listen up. Not that it’s anyone’s business, but nothing happened in the hot tub. If I hear anybody talking about Katara or that video, I’m gonna kick all of your asses. You understand?”

Toph: *claps*

Toph: “Good job Sparky.”

Zuko: *runs after Katara*

Zuko: “Katara, wait. Wait. Look, I am really sorry about everything. If I knew who did this-”

Katara: “Oh, I know who did it. So should you.”

Zuko: “Okay. Let me talk to her.”

Katara: “No. This is a fight I have to handle myself.”

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Katara: *pulls out a note*

Katara: “Katara, everyone was so impressed by your presentation in pyschology, especially me. I love having an intelligent fake girlfriend.”

Katara: *takes out another note*

Katara: “It's cool how we can talk to each other about the real stuff.”

Katara: *grabs another piece of paper*

Katara: “You look beautiful today.”

Yue: “You still believe you have never received a love letter?”

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Katara: “How are we going to do this?”

Zuko: “What’d you mean?”

Katara: “What do you put into a contract for a real relationship?”

Zuko: “Nothing. All you have to do is trust.”

Zuko: *leans in*

Zuko: “You gonna break my heart Katara?”

Zuko: *kisses Katara*

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Korra: *opens the door*

Aang: *presents letter*

Korra: “Katara! It’s for you!”

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