if I may I would like inquire as to FA!Zukka arranged marrige au headcannons? -Vibe
Alright, so finally getting around to this!
First off, how this would happen is the fact that Azula calls off the war as an eight year old. (With the help and backing of Zuko who’s just like “I’ll murder you” to anyone who argues).
Why would she end the war you might ask? Well in this AU, she’s just eight and her only family and caretaker is her ten year old brother. Eight years olds are fickle as all hell. If everyone else dies and she’s upset about that, her attention might fully turn onto finding and getting revenge for that. There are other things to do and eventually a young child isn’t going to be interested in war, especially with no one pushing her towards it. So she’s just sort of like “Yeah, I’m in charge now” and Zuko is behind her smiling like “Yeah, she’s in charge now” and who can argue?
So they spend years just sort of turning the Fire Nation back into being just the Fire Nation (Maybe keeping the colonies, maybe going ‘Eh, not really ours...?’ I’m undecided) and they grow up with Azula running the country and Zuko taking out anyone who opposes her. Eventually they somehow end up having political talks with other nations and eventually they question how the Fire Nation can be even mildly trusted after this.
Someone brings up a political marriage for Azula and she just goes, “Uh, no. Not happening. Zuko, you do it.” Of course Zuko is mostly distracted at the time, so he doesn’t actually know what he’s agreeing to, but when he figures it out he just sort of... shrugs it off and accepts it because it’s Azula making the demand.
Azula informs her council and the other nations that while she won’t be getting married, her brother will. Which does change the ages of potential marriage partners slightly.
Now the nations are offering different people to marry the prince of the Fire Nation which does have its own perks. It’s not becoming the Fire Lord’s partner, but it is becoming the partner of her only relative and one of the few people she likes and the absolute only person that she’ll listen to.
Except none of them know why some people in the Fire Nation are fucking horrified by the thought of Zuko being the one married off and trying to convince the siblings that it should be Azula. Eventually though, all the marriage offers come through from the different nations.
Even though Katara is too young to marry right away, both her and Sokka end up being potential partners. So does Yue from the Northern Tribe. (idk who to add from the Earth Kingdom, but no one add Toph, I’m slightly wary on adding Katara cause she’s fourteen, don’t you dare add the twelve year old.)
Now Zuko has several potential partners and while his opinion matters to Azula and the council knows going against her is the dumbest thing they could possibly do they also have to think about it from a political standpoint.
Except someone up North pisses Azula off, don’t know who or how or why (cough Hahn cough) and she decides that just to show them up... she decides on one of the Southern siblings and chooses Sokka.
Now Sokka has to wonder why some people are terrified of Zuko and why they won’t answer questions about it. He thinks about it and Zuko is perfectly friendly and not exactly someone you need to be wary of in his opinion. So now he has to wonder why people keep subtly pushing for him to break off the engagement.
