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the first chapter is done!

eventual zukka, modern roommates au, the whole shabang

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"yall ever been in a fandom where everyone knows each other" "yall ever been in a fandom so small that half of the works are crossovers" there is one good author in the fandom. out of 200ish works on ao3, 20 of them are made by the good author. the other ones were published in 2015 and are all pretty much just shameless smut. i hate this

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Modern AU Gaang Caffeine Headcanons !!!! ☕👀

Zuko:

As a teenager, he lived on energy drinks. 5 hour energy, Monster, coffee, whatever he could get, he took. It kept up in college, and got worse than middle school during a hard month. He once took an engineering lecture and it got his brain thinking, so he bought some bendy straws and four Monsters, then taped the straws together and moved them until he could take a sip from all four cans at once. Needless to say, he’s an addict, even if he won’t admit it. Tea isn’t really his favourite, but his uncle loves it, so he used to drink it a lot when he worked in the back at the Jasmine Dragon. He’s horrible at making it though.

Toph:

She’s got so much energy naturally that she doesn’t need caffeine, though she drank a mug of black coffee for a dollar once just because Aang was so surprised that she liked the bitterness. She prefers to have tea, and used to go to a little cafe until it was shut down, so she semi-successfully taught herself to brew tea. When she was in middle and high school, she’d take recycled energy drink cans and fill them with dyed sparkling water and sell them to kids.

Sokka:

Caffeine kills him. It only makes him more tired, to his dismay, so he stays away because there’s not much point. Once every six or so months, he says, “this is the time when I finally get energised from coffee,” and drinks a cup. It never works.

Katara:

Unlike Sokka, coffee doesn’t make her tired, but it doesn’t help her much. Perhaps a little buzz. But her father makes a cup of coffee every morning, and as she got older, she preferred to wake up early to drink with him. It became a morning ritual.

Aang:

No matter how much milk or sugar is added, coffee is too bitter for him. If he’s handed a mug, he’ll drink it out of politeness, but he never makes it on his own. For a while, he was one of those, “you shouldn’t drink it! It’s unnatural, so it’s not good for you,” people, until he and Zuko became friends and the amount of glares he got from him was enough to make him stop.

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Modern AU Gaang Martial Arts Headcanons :) 🥋

Zuko:

He and Azula were forced into both Judo and Karate from a young age. Zuko constantly got frustrated with his katas and that his technique wasn’t perfect, while Azula was always angry that people didn’t want to spar with her because she was so aggressive. Despite their challenges (which included both of them breaking people’s bones by accidents), they both reached first-degree black belt. Zuko stopped attending when he moved in with Iroh, but Azula is a third-degree black belt. 

Toph:

She likes more physical arts, especially boxing and wrestling. She dabbled in taekwondo but the speed wasn’t her forte so she decided to go into boxing instead, and from there, she joined the school’s wrestling team and does BJJ on her own time. She’s gotten in trouble many, many times because she doesn’t care much for rules, and has a clean WR rate of 84-3. Like Azula, most people are too scared to spar her, but she isn’t as frustrated about it.

Sokka:

His first experience in martial arts was from a crappy mall studio where he went because his parents wanted him to learn self-defence. He was a big Karate Kid watcher when he was young, and tried lots of martial arts, though was the best at taekwondo. As he got older, he didn’t have much interest in it, and just had his dad teach him techniques at home rather than attend a school. Toph always insists on sparring him, and he agreed once, but it left him bruised for weeks, so he doesn’t dabble in it much.

Katara:

While originally not much of a fan, she was raised the same as Sokka: take martial arts to learn how to defend yourself. While he liked the fighting, she was more of a fan of the technique, like her mother was. When her mom passed, it only magnified the choice, and she kept at Karate for a few years while Sokka only dabbled. She got to brown belt before her dojo was shut down and, combined with the other stresses of life, she took a break. She still loves martial arts, though, and watches lots of videos about them. 

Aang:

He took a lot of Tibetan White Crane and tried a few other Chinese martial arts. He is skilled with the bo staff, too, and once he and Zuko became friends, they practised a lot of weapon sparring together. Aang’s marital arts practice involved a lot of conditioning, so he can do an impressively high amount of knuckle push-ups. He was taught mainly defence, which especially part of the reason he rarely won fights against Zuko, because he was often too afraid to attack, though that’s more of him being a pacifist than his martial art background. 

Suki:

While she mainly performed Aikido and Kendo, Tessenjutsu had always been her favourite. She has extremely fast reflexes from so much practice. Additionally, she started a martial arts club in her school and met Sokka through there. She was like a mix of Katara and Sokka, enjoying the fighting and cultural aspects equally. When she went to college, it was harder to find a place to train especially with such a packed schedule, but she makes time for it.

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y'all want some modern atla au headcanons?👀 i've got a lot of em

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sokka and toph's friendship is on top. like you know he goes to talk to her because she'll make fun of him the most but judge him the least

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my favourite headcanon about zuko in a modern au was that he was a private school kid and after he moved in with iroh at age ~13 he had a massive culture shock to public school. and like, snobby culture shock, stuff he thinks is normal but isn't. why is the lunch so bad, can no one here afford clothing that actually looks good?, why don't you have to say the pledge of allegiance every morning? but he gets into enough fights within the first month to figure out he might want to shut up about it