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There was a giggle. But it was not from Katara. Or even Aang.
Sokka’s head snapped over to Zuko, who looked just as shocked as Sokka felt. His cheeks were cherry-red and he had a hand clapped over his mouth. “Did you just laugh?” Sokka asked. Just to make sure his ears still worked.
Zuko spluttered, his cheeks darkening. “What—no! Why would I ever—I mean, what is laughing?” And then, “Your jokes suck anyway!”
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Sokka accidentally makes Zuko laugh during one of their fights. He takes it upon himself to continue making Zuko laugh in their future encounters, just as a "distraction tactic."
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Most people know they're a bender since birth. Sokka just had to discover it at twenty when he accidentally burns his own house down.
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[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.
It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife.
When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.
“Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.”
Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day.
A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.]
Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.
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Katara finds a familiar face after wandering into a tea shop in the Lower Ring. Unfortunate circumstances force Katara and Zuko to form a shaky alliance as they both work to escape from the authorities of Ba Sing Se without revealing their true identities.
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Canon-divergent: "The more she dreamed, the more she learned about the boy whose soul is tied to hers. Sokka's pretend soulmate may have been a princess whenever he talked about her, but her soulmate was actually a prince. And though she knew she had to hate him, Katara couldn't. He was just a boy."
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- Part 3 of Zutara Week 2016
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Katara and Zuko have to hide in a cave following their encounter with Yon Rha. Comforting turns to cuddling, which turns to waking up on Appa's tail in each other's arms. Katara is shocked at how comfortable she is. Zuko is shocked that Katara doesn't hate him for it.
And it's the best night's sleep either of them has had in a while.
It doesn't mean anything though. It's not like it's going to ever happen again.
That's what they think until they realize how difficult it is to sleep without the other's presence.
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I Don't Speak Meow Language by Boogum for blahblahbayern
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Feb 2019
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In which Zuko adopts a cat and Katara just wonders what spirits she pissed off to deserve this fate.
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He softened, stepping away from her. “When I was younger, my mother told me this story. About this Prince of the Fire Nation— Kai and the woman he fell in love with, Gira. She was an earthbender and when she touched him, his fire turned green. Apparently, princes and princesses of the Fire Nation throne carry this trait.”
Katara’s brows drew together. “When benders touch you, your fire changes colors?”
He bit his lip hard enough to taste blood. “No. When your ‘soulmate’,” he put air-quotes around the word, his voice shaking, “touches you. I mean almost no one after Kai married a bender— whether it was their soulmate or not. There’s no way to know it’s true.”
“But I’ve seen your fire turn bl— oh. Oh.” she shook her head, turning away from him. “That’s ridiculous.”
“I know.” he huffed.
“But your fire—”
“I know.”
Silence fell over them.
Zuko jolted when Katara laid a warm hand on his shoulder. He told himself he was imagining the tingling feeling that spread through his palms. “Let’s try it.”
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The war is over, and with it goes the only life she has ever known. In this era of love and peace, the world is becoming new, and Katara is unsure of her place in it. That's okay though. Katara has rebuilt her life from scratch before, and she will do it again.
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years of peace and prosperity in the world and the change of time leads Katara to question what her next steps in life will be.
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the story in which everyone but Katara knows she's the Fire Lady.Series
- Part 1 of Dilly and Sea's Zutara Week 2023
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