#atla post

Based on this post that always cracks me up

So there are many fics where Sokka and Zuko decide to hire a surrogate to have their baby, either Mai or a stranger, or go for adoption. But in the case of adoption, even if Zuko is the Fire Lord, he knows many traditionalist people will give his future child a lot of trouble for not having royal blood, but at the same time he’d rather die then hire a some sort of concubine (assuming artificial insemination wasn’t developed yet). So, Sokka and Zuko combine their halves of a braincell and come up with a plan.

Zuko declares to the council Mai will be their surrogate. A week later, Mai shows up in the middle of a meeting and declares with her usual bored stare: “Zuko I’m pregnant.” And Zuko and Sokka, like the amazing actors they are, pretend to be excited, even fake cry “Sokka we gonna be dads!” “Yeah, we gonna be dads of a child. Your child. Totally royal blood.” After that, Zuko will send Mai (accompanied with Ty Lee as her personal body guard and definitely not because they are secretly dating) to the beach house in Ember Island because he will not expose Mai and “the baby”  to the stress of politics and all.

In the meantime, Mai and Ty Lee will travel to different orphanages to find a baby that looks the closest to Zuko to do the trick.

When they come back, Mai is like “here you go, Fire Lord Zuko, your child, that I delivered, with Ty Lee and Katara as witness (because they told Katara about their plan and she agreed to pretend to be the one who helped deliver the baby) and by the way I don’t want to take responsibility of this kid, and I’d prefer if she called me aunt. Good luck. Im outta here.”

(I’m sapphics btw.)

Zuko, is that you?