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Zukka Soulmate’s AU

Just think about the possibilities:

If its one of those au’s where you can immediately tell when someone is your soulmate, imagine them meeting on the south pole, both of them freezing for a second.

Sokka feeling numb, having this horrible realization that he found his soulmate but he is not only an evil fire nation soldier, he is the one sent to destroy the only hope the world has left and also the person leading the attack on his home.

Zuko realizing he is never actually going to be able to just be with his soulmate, realizing that his father would never ever allow it and would probably kill his soulmate if he ever found out who he was, and that no matter what happened or what he did this was only going to end in heartbreak.

And after that second is over, they just:

“I’m sorry” Says Zuko, not being exactly sure about what he is apologizing for, if for attacking his village, for meeting this way or for the inevitable heartbreak.

“You don´t have to do this.”

“I…”Zuko hesitates for a second, before shaking his head with a pained look on his eyes and continuing, “You don’t understand, I have to. I just want to go home. I’m sorry.”

“I’m sorry too.”

And then shit goes down mostly as in canon, except that Zuko is trying very hard to like, not ACTUALLY hurt either his soulmate or his soulmate’s sister and everytime they fight eachother they are like:

Zuko, using his swords so he doesn’t accidentally burn any of them: So, how have you been?

Sokka, dodging and swinging at Zuko with his club: Not great, Katara and Aang have been INSUFFERABLE with their sappy soulmate shit lately.

Zuko, jumping out of the way: Oh, yeah, that sucks.

Katara, sending Zuko flying with her water: You do know I can hear you, right?

And then he actually turns joins the gaang on Ba Sing Se and Sokka has never been happier.

Or think about one where they don’t realize immediately. Maybe they have matching marks that are in a place where the clothes usually hide them or if you can tell from the mark which nation your soulmate is from then maybe Sokka was told to cover it so other people wouldn’t judge him for it and Zuko was forced to hide it or dear old dad would burn that too.

It doesn’t matter why, but they don’t realize that they are soulmates until AFTER Zuko finally joins the gaang. 

There are different ways we could play with the big reveal, maybe they are on the beach on ember island and when wearing nothing more than their swimming trunks they can finally see that their mark matches or maybe it happened in the Boiling Rock, where Zuko ended up wearing that top without sleeves or maybe after Zuko decides that his dad can Get Fucked he just stops covering his soulmark and Sokka sees it and is about to have a heart attack because What The Fuck Zuko Is My Soulmate.

It really doesn’t matter how we do it, but the Reveal Happens and they just talk.

“I’m sorry.” Zuko says, because of course he thinks this is somehow his fault.

“It’s fine, I know you’re good now and you’ve already apologized for-”Sokka starts but Zuko interrupts him.

“No,” Zuko says softly, “I’m sorry that you are stuck with me. You deserve better than a disgraced prince that has made way too many mistakes and probably doesn’t deserve the chance he’s been given to redeem himself.”

And Sokka maybe just wants to cry a little bit because How Is Zuko Real and just hugs him tight and reassures him that it’s fine, more than fine really. 

But no matter how we do it, one thing stays constant: When Sokka finds out exactly HOW Zuko got his scar he doesn’t freak out or anything, no, no, everything is fine, it’s just that now Aang doesn’t have to worry about killing the Fire Lord because Sokka is going to do it himself-

Sokka, its fine-

It is absolutely NOT fine and I am going to kill your father-

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