#deaf zuko

Sokka bugging Aang and Toph for like three years so he can make the hubby the first ever hearing aid… HoH Zuko is very important to me

+ Omake

After the agni kie the medic told him that Zuko was lucky to even have a eye after such a severe injury. But when being banished from home With a Barely healed facial scar that came with profound hearing and vision loss. It didn’t feel very lucky .

Not that it would stop him. In fact he refused to admit that there was anything wrong with his vision .

His uncle would just sigh and take that into account when training him. Giving him the skills he needed to hold his own.

Zuko would never admit it. But he noticed that uncle taken to standing on his blind side when they travelled so no one could sneak up on him. He appreciated it immensely. He hated it when people appeared out of nowhere from a point that he used to be able to see .

And with what little hearing remained he could still hear low sounds. So he could still mostly understand uncle when he stood on his deaf side. It made him feel a little less disabled . This would also subtly force people who he couldn’t hear as well to stand on his hearing side

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The only person that he openly told was toph. When he first joined the ganng They bonded over there blindness. She thought he had the bad deal. He had lost his vision . He knew what a full field of vision looked like .We’re as she was born blind . She didn’t know any difference . But she never once pitiedhim. It was one of the things he liked about her .

Zuko was fascinated by tophs ability to “see”. And she joked that if she could teatch the avatar earth banding she could teatch him to see. They laughed about it but after a lot of trial and error Zuko managed to create his own form of “ vision “ by sensing heat sources through his bending . it wasn’t as nuanced as tophs but was perfect for “seeing “ people approching from his blind side .

No one could ever sneek up on him again.

With enugh practice he even worked out that you could tell the difference between different benders and non benders. ( fire benders ran hot and water benders ran cold ) as well as sensing if people were in the next room to him.

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After the war the palaces council always descused the latest story that had emerged of what there New fire Lord had gotten up to during the war. If they asked him about the rumours Zuko would neither confirm or deny it but there is NO WAY he could have been the blue spirit ( who had been given a full pardon for there crimes ) Or had broken into the North Pole by diving in freezing tiger seal tunnels . Those things only happen in spirit tails.

But in a meeting when Zuko had calmly stood up and announced to his guards. that there was an assassination attempt happening and that there was three fire benders and two non benders on the roof about to brake in through the ceiling . Only for said men to come crashing down 10 seconds later and be quickly apprehended buy the weighting gaurd .

@zukkaweek : Soulmate + Chronic Pain/Disability (and also they’re trans :) )

[ID : a digital drawing of Zuko and Sokka sitting on a bed. Sokka, on the left, as one leg up and his hand on his knees. He’s wearing blue socks, a blue tank top and brown shorts. He has a white choker, and his hair is braided into a wolftail, with the underside cut short. He’s looking at Zuko and smiling. He has a scar on his knee and there’s a cane next to him. On his right arm, he has red swirls that signify a soul mark.

New addition to my little series.

Ships: Sokka/Zuko, 4.7k words

Background ships: Azula/Jin, Suki/Yue, Mai/Ty Lee

Ft. Trans! Zuko

Summary:

It's finished! Final word count of 59,847... I am genuinely tempted to go in and write an extra 153 just to hit that 60,000 milestone... But I won't

Chapter 23:

Some really short snippets of life post engagement. Basically self indulgent fluff.

Full Summary:

Snapshots from each month of the most eventful year of Zuko's life. (and then some)

or

Zuko thinks he's learnt more about himself in this year than he has in his 21 years of life. He's finally made friends (of his own, not his sister's). And he's finally seeking justice for all those years living under Ozai's thumb, even if it comes at the expense of betraying Uncle Iroh. And maybe this year he'll finally know what it means to love and be loved.

or

when your best friend is acting like a brat but you can’t actually get mad at each other without cracking up. Sokka broke first this time.

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