Sokka x Suki?
- @tildeathiwillread
I don't really ship it.
Why don’t you ship it?
Because to me, it's like, really boring, and I just don't care that much for Suki, and while I do like Sokka he isn't my fav. I don't hate it(I don't really hate any ship, any genuine hate I have for a ship is performative and mainly contarian either because the ship doesn't make sense and the fics tend to suck, like Hakozai, which I still consume, or because the shippers are annoying and piss me off, like polytrix, which I would genuinely really like if it wasn't for the fandom anyways and still fold with ease to. I lack grounded values that I stick to). But yeah, just really boring, no juice, no tension, no drama. Why do you think Zukka is so popular?
What would have made you like it?
If Suki was more interesting first of all. If she had, like, trauma. Like, if being a teen leader, warrior and extremely mature for her age affected her, if she had trauma from being parent less, if she just had trauma in general. And if she had a more developed personality and character arc. Like, I have not much to say about her. I know I look like a hypocrite for liking Ozai, but I've at least seen hints about him. I have gotten nothing about Suki whatsoever besides her being a tough Kyoshi Warrior, Sokka's boyfriend and a really healthy and stable person. She needs to be more toxic, more flawed and less normie. She doesn't need to be as bad as the rest of the gaang, she just needs something juicer about her. She needs to be a person outside outside of her surface level traits. I can't really say anything about Sokka as he isn't necessarily the problem in my opinion.
Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?
Yes, I very much do. It's the most healthiest, vanilla'est, normalist relationship ever in ATLA. Completely unproblematic(which many ATLA fans care about, but I personally don't care). It's the most preferable relationship in say, real life. Much healthier for Sokka's mental health than Aang, Ty Lee, Toph, Zuko or godforbids, Azula(not hating on Sokkla shippers, love yall, it's just definitely not what you would call healthy in real life). Kaatangers and Zutaraians acting like their own ship are so pure and safe when Sukka exists lmao. That's the only truly healthy ship in ATLA.
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So yeah, my takes are, well... a bit spicy, but overall, I don't hate it, I just don't love it either and I really, really like toxic ships(and in my book, Kataang is a toxic ship so I like it along with Zutara).















