ATLA Soulmates AU - Sokka/Zuko/Toph
So! Thanks to @asukaskerian and @pathalt for giving me the nudge I needed to actually sit down and figure this one out. Itâs got some dialogue taken from the Zuko/Toph drabble I wrote for this series, and itâs also almost three times as long, so itâs going under a cut, because walls of text on your dash are annoying.
(And with this, you finally have ALL the different soulmate-identifiers in this âverse. Well, I think all. Maybe the Foggy Swamp have a different way of doing it. Maybe Kyoshi Island does. Maybe the Fire Colonies do. -flails- So many options.)
Sokka has been so careful, these last months, not to let on. Not to let Katara catch him wincing in time with Toph on the rare occasions she takes the time to brush the tangles out of her hair. Heâs not entirely sure why heâs hiding it, except that not reacting to his soul-wounds has been a habit ever since they left the South Pole. Ever since-
He remembers Aang knocking the Fire Nation commander over â the Fire Nation Prince â and him sitting up, spitting mad, with snow slushing down over the palm-sized burn scar blazed over his left eye. Sokka presses the heel of his hand against his own left eye, trying and failing not to remember how much it had hurt, how his face had ached for weeks afterwards, how much heâd screamed when the pain had first hit him.
Sokka shakes his head at himself, firmly pushing the thoughts away, and reminds himself heâs supposed to be sleeping. Besides, he thinks bitterly, Toph doesnât have a soulmate. She said so herself. So thereâs no point in telling anyone that maybe she might be his. Maybe. Because who ever heard of someone having two soulmates? No one, thatâs who. So there was just something wrong with him. The spirits had messed up. That had to happen sometimes, right? They were, you know, powerful and all, but they could make mistakes. Like Hei Bai attacking the Earth Kingdom village because the Fire Nation had burned his forest down. So maybe Tuiâs hand slipped. Fin? Maybe Tuiâs fin slipped when he was picking out a soulmate for Sokka.
Or maybe Tui and La got into a fight over it. Sokka snickers at the thought despite himself, picturing the two spirits fighting like Mum and Dad used to fight sometimes, all up in each otherâs faces and gesturing wildly. Tui waving around a tiny doll-sized Zuko, and La shaking an equally tiny Toph in Tuiâs face. For some reason, in Sokkaâs mind, while both spirits had human proportions, the had their actual fish-shaped heads, and long, thin fins for arms.
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