i know Zuko and Sokka don’t get much (if any) material in ATLA but i still think they’d be really good for each other?
like, Sokka is an entertainer. he needs to feel he’s funny and entertaining and ‘useful’ in that regard, and i feel like a no-nonsense relationship wouldn’t be right for him. toph and aang laugh along to his antics just fine, but to Big Brother Sokka, toph and aang are literal children. so he’d need someone that wouldn’t act 100% no-nonsense with him the way katara does, but is still older and more mature than the rest of the gaang. who does the audience know to be someone older, more mature (in S3) but would still VERY MUCH need a laugh from time to time? that’s Zuko! but Sokka also needs someone who can trust him to be the bigger person and will take him seriously when he needs to, and not just see him as a clown— and we know Zuko’s personality is basically I’m Very Intense And I Take Everything And Everyone Seriously
Zuko, on the other hand, is very much dramatic. he’d need someone that wouldn’t make fun of him because of it, but would still say ‘you need to chill now’. and like, Sokka’s dramatic too, it goes with his entertainer personality, but when it comes to the real deal he’s laid back, down to earth, logical. (in the last series of ATLA sokka takes the role of the strategist and it’s telling!!) romantic relationships are something drama stems from, and Zuko would need someone that’d defuse him— pick him up and throw him out of the drama zone.
plus, I feel given Zuko’s background, Zuko’d be the type in constant need of reassurance that yes, i do like you, we’ve been dating for ten years cut it off. and Sokka... can do that? in a low-key way? like, Sokka is only fleeting on the surface. all his chara-development in atla goes to show he’s in fact REMARKABLY stable. i feel like, would they ever date, it’d be pretty rocky at the beginning bc Sokka would play it lowkey and Zuko wouldn’t feel loved enough, but they would quickly reach a place where Zuko doesn’t need Sokka to voice everything aloud bc Sokka would have proved him he’s there and not going anywhere.
anyway yeah just because two charas don’t get much ship material in canon doesn’t mean they’re not compatible!! and i love those boys
