Kissing Headcanon – Cultural Kissing
Sometimes, Sokka likes to give Azula a kunik, a Water Tribe form of affection toward loves ones that many outsiders typically call a “Tribal Kiss”.
He’ll wrap his arms around her, press his nose and upper lip against her cheek or forehead and breathe in. To Azula its almost akin to a dog sniffing a person, their wet nose against their skin, just before they lick. She’ll grimace at the gesture as if she absolutely hates it, but secretly she likes it. Its the intimacy of it, the strangeness.
Sokka, on the other hand, absolutely hates Fire-bender love bites. Azula says the cultural term is a “Soot Mark”, and once made fun of Mai and Zuko for it when they came back from Ba Sing Se.
Its like any other hickey, but given by a fire-bender. She’ll suckle the skin on his neck and, with a light touch of her bending, leave a very light burn around the hickey. Sokka makes a point to wear something collared until it goes away. Azula says its to let everyone know who he’s with.