I'm thinking...
ATLA AU, transfem!Zuko (she/they atm, might go by she/her later on) x nonbinary!Sokka (he/she/they, might eventually just go with any).
The AU isn't about them getting together or learning their gender identity (and coming to accept it despite what others have told/beat into them). No, they're already dating and have long since come to terms with who they are (and are both down to fight for the other whenever someone makes a shitty ass comment).
No, this AU will focus on Sokka deciding to become a Drag Queen.
He just keeps remembering dressing like a Kyoshi Warrior. How he felt while doing so. How much he enjoyed it.
He remembers how good it felt to have the makeup put on his face. How none of them batted an eye at him when he wore their uniform. How that was when he first truly began to wonder if he really was a man. Not because of the Kyoshi Warriors themselves, but because he had always had this picture of what a man is like in his head. Someone like his dad or Bato. And training with the Kyoshi Warriors, wearing their uniform and their makeup, it made him question that picture. And it takes some time for him to realize why.
It takes time for him to realize that that picture was changing because she was changing. They didn't fit the mold they envisioned for such a long time. She doesn't know when it fully hit them. Was it while they were in Ba Sing Se, and he saw a girl whom he later found out was Zuko who had transitioned? Or was it when they were studying at Master Piandao's?
Whatever it was, he wanted to feel that again. But she's scared that if people learn she wants to dress a certain way, then they'll expect her to come out as just a boy or just a girl. And that it's not just something she wants to do because the first time she did so made her feel confidence. Made him feel good about himself. Made them start to realize who Sokka really, truly, was.
















