#astrogaang

Sooooooooooooooo my take on the Astrogaang is up. A space opera AU loosely following the series, and this first work is my take on season 1! Sokka and Katara live on the planet North Pole, and their lives are turned on their heads by a comet housing a mysterious stranger who might just be able to defeat the Fire Nation, an intergalactic allyship of firebenders intent on stealing suns for their own power and in turn upsetting the balance of the universe.

okay this is gonna be messy but ya know. this is the name of the game.

so i posted part of sokka’s pov of The First Kiss here, so we’re going Zuko’s pov of that... extended edition 😈

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Zuko hadn’t been expecting Sokka to wrap his legs around him and pull him to the ground, a move so uniquely Suki’s that seeing it come from Sokka was... Well, clearly it took him by surprise, because now, he was on the ground. Or, technically, on top of Sokka. Which was totally fine. He was just, understandably, a little flustered, but otherwise, fine. It was the closest they’d been since the night they met Varrick, and he began getting flustered as he remembered dancing with Sokka that night, but... It was all totally fine.

Sokka didn’t seem to be struggling with the same thoughts- which why would he, seeing as he didn’t share Zuko’s feelings- because he laughed as he apologized. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for you to land on top of me. I thought you were going to fall backwards.”

He started blushing, so he just laughed in response and ducked his head so that it was pressed to the ground. They were basically hugging, but Sokka didn’t immediately move to push him off, so he figured it was okay with him. He stayed like that, enjoying the contact, until Sokka made a small noise. It was soft, somewhere between a sigh and a grunt, and he pushed himself up slightly to look down at him, wondering what it was about.

“If I’m too heavy to be on top of you, you can just shove me off, you know,” he said cheekily. “It won’t hurt my feelings, or whatever. Not any more than you clearly winning this fight did.”

Sokka didn’t respond, instead looking up at him with dark eyes and his mouth slightly open. His body was tense beneath his own, and he quirked an eyebrow at him in confusion.

“Sokka? Are you okay? Are you even listening-“

He was cut off aprubptly by Sokka lunging up and- kissing him? His eyes were open wide in shock, staring at Sokka, who’s eyes were... very much closed. His lips were soft, though they were pressed firmly against his own, and Zuko thought he might pass out, there were so many thoughts flying around his head. Excitement, of course, because Sokka, who he was very much falling for, was kissing him. Confusion, because he hadn’t though Sokka had been interested in him like that, too, but now he was, kissing him. Surprise, because he hadn’t really expected to be interrupted in the middle of talking by a firm kiss. He was dizzy with excitement and frozen with shock all at once, and he didn’t quite know what to do. He knew what he wanted to do though, so he let his eyes slip shut.

But before he could do anything else- before he could kiss him back- the engineer pulled back. With a curse, Sokka pushed him off of him, sending him sprawling across the floor, leapt to his feet, and before Zuko could stop him, he was gone. He stared after him with wide eyes, and an uncomfortable mixture of confusion and regret settled heavily in his stomach.

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AAAAAAND there you go! zukos pov of The Kiss form my WIP, telling all the stars (i love you)!!!

thank you sunny!!!

let’s fuckin DO IT

(credit for the martian au idea goes to @acezukos who has a ginormous brain, and ofc @itszukkatime is a co-conspirator in all of my modern au princess yue endeavors)

okay, for those who may not know what The Martian is, it’s a movie starring Matt Damon, and also a book by Andy Weir, where a mission to Mars goes wrong and botanist-astronaut Mark Watney ends up abandoned on Mars, injured, by himself, and he somehow survives over a year by the sheer genius of his brain.

what i’m proposing here, is an au where the gaang are all astronauts, and their mission is on Mars. the movie starts with the mission, but if this was a fic it would of course start with astrogaang training. imma say that Toph and Zuko are the team coordinators back on Earth, Aang is the mission leader, Suki is their analyst, Katara is the medic, Sokka is the chemist, and Yue is the botanist.

they get to Mars and start their mission, but there’s a storm where everything goes wrong. Yue ends up abandoned on Mars, and the whole gaang thinks she’s dead and continues on their flight home. in reality, she was just injured.

Yue then has to figure out how to survive on Mars alone. i am nowhere near smart enough to make things up for her survival, i love sci-fi but i am not a botanist or an astro-physicist, so imma say basically the exact thing that happens in the movie happens to her. she grows potatoes on Mars and subsists on a diet of just potatoes, figures out a way to make contact with the space force, and is basically a genius. as she should.

point is, Yue survives. she’s alone for a hella long time on mars, slowly starving to death. her team doesn’t find out she’s alive until they’re about halfway home. the gaang mutinies and turns the ship around to rescue her. they finally rescue Yue, and they all return home as heroes.

wow o wow okay first of all, POWER MOVE, toph and katara go hmm nice mars you got here, could be better, and do it themselves. entirely in character.

secondly, just like rip out my heart i guess? plot twist tho they land on the moon, expecting it to be deserted, only to find yue’s spirit kingdom prospering. spirit kingdom on the moon, pulling and pushing like spirit ropes to control the tide idk, just vibin out and doing moon shit. what a life to live.