Let’s put it this way focusas…
If it becomes canon…I wouldn’t complain.
I’m still unwilling to pair her off with anyone. I just want to see her happy.
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I’m for this. I think they would be wonderful together, balance each other out.
What if her happiness lies with Sokka? They will be awesome!
Two against one is not fair guys! lmao xD
Oh this nothing. You can count yourself lucky that you haven’t met other crazy Sokkla shippers like seyaryminamoto, singlemanmedia or Fanwright. If we all gang on you, you will have no other option but joining us! Sokkla FTW!
Heeeey, now, we don’t gang up on anyone xD there’s no need to, that’s not our procedure (?)
our schemes are far too sophisticated for that, Focusas, you know thatIf happy Azula is what you’re after, well, that’s the exact reason I ended up falling as deep for this ship as I did. At first I thought this relationship was funny, I figured Azula would thoroughly enjoy messing with a lovestruck Sokka, but later on I realized this ship has practically unlimited potential. And one of the best things you can do with these two characters is bringing them together so they find in one another what they hardly knew they were looking for.
My fic The Reason was born out of my need to see Azula getting a happier resolution than what she got in the show. Seeing how I had no idea what would happen in The Search by the time I wrote The Reason, I decided to ignore the comic for the time being and simply write the fic, no matter if it turned out well or not. Granted it’s nowhere close to a perfect fic, but it was my first true attempt at making Sokkla happen, and at giving Azula actual happiness.
Granted some people like this ship for other reasons (some actually are fond of darker aspects of it), but what turned it into my indisputable OTP was the realization that this could give Azula the happiness I wanted her to find.
I am just looking for good reasons. Obviously I want her to find true happiness and love. I am a huge Azula follower. (I would defend that girl with my life if that were possible? xD )That’s why I am looking for good reasons. You can’t just jump ship. I want facts and proof. And not just cause “they would be the strongest couple and dominate the earth” LOL
I am unwilling to pair her off to just anyone…My girl deserves the best. Could Sokka be the best for her? Thinking of qualities I can see him being the rational one. The one to calm her if she were angered. Possibly make her laugh? He is pretty much the opposite of what she is. But as the saying goes “opposites attract” so anything is possible.
The famous ‘opposites attract’ idea has a lot to do with the appeal to this ship, but that’s really just the surface of it. Turns out they’re opposites in many things, the more obvious ones being that they’re princess and peasant, fire and water, fighting at opposite sides of a war… all that is true. But see, one of the nice things where they’re also opposites is regarding honesty. Azula is used to people lying to her to stay on her good side, she lies on occassion too and rarely ever trusts anyone, if ever (every single time she has trusted someone, she has been betrayed later on…). But Sokka… Sokka is a brutally honest guy, and even if he tried to lie to her regarding anything he’d do it so poorly he would end up telling the truth later on anyways xD one of the things Azula hates the most is betrayal, and due to Sokka’s honesty, he’s the last person I can imagine doing that to her. So Sokka is blunt, and he’s never going to be dishonest to her. There will be no pity from him, no lies, no attempts to get to her good side just for the sake of it. He’s honest about everything, and that’s something Azula has rarely found in anyone in her life so far.
Moving on, though, turns out that they’re opposites in a lot of things but they share many things in common as well. Their senses of humor are another reason to think they’d work together xD Azula’s weird humor actually might suit Sokka’s tastes (I mean, if he laughed at that ‘Nunya’ joke you can’t expect him to have high standards regarding humor, can you? xD), and I like to think she’d be amused by his nonsense despite not wanting to show it (which results in her either rolling her eyes to mask her amusement, or muffling her laughter, or actually being unable to hold back the laughs). But that’s not all! They’re both the strategists of their groups, and heck, Sokka is quite the leader when put to the task. Azula is, obviously, a leader as well. So they’re both clever enough to actually challenge one another intelectually (granted Azula likely beats Sokka more often than not, but he’d give her a fair contest all the same).
Sokka and Azula, character-traits-wise, are one another’s equivalents in the other team, pretty much. People always draw the parallels between Zuko and Katara without realizing that you can draw those too with Sokka and Azula. Where Zuko and Katara are close to their moms, Sokka and Azula were close to their dads and wanted to be like them (not saying, of course, that Hakoda is at all an example on the same level as Ozai .___. nonononononono). Where Katara and Zuko are humorless and serious, Azula and Sokka are constantly teasing their stern siblings, messing with them even if at times they cross lines they shouldn’t (it needs to be acknowledged that Sokka does this too…). Where Katara and Zuko are emotional and driven to do things because their hearts tell them to, Sokka and Azula do the smart, logical thing instead. They’re practical, they’re capable of making sacrifices, of cuting their losses, of doing what needs to be done to triumph. Soooo, there’s all this to be considered as well 😀 It’s not just opposites attract, as you can see 🙂
You were kidding, I guess, about the thing on how they’re the strongest couple in the world xD but they could be, pretty much. Azula shows no disdain towards non-benders, something some people have falsely assumed about her (it makes no sense to think that when her two best friends are non-benders and she has never belittled them for it o___O), so I doubt she’d care if Sokka is a non-bender, especially considering his skills as a swordsman. Get Space Sword back for him and he makes the most dangerous non-bender I can remember in the show (really, a sword that cuts cleanly through steel… that’s really something). But it’s not just this: regarding strategy, again, Azula is pretty good at reading people, reading through her opponents’ moves, assessing the battle ground… she’s great at drawing plans. But what she’s not so great at is improvisation. When things get a little out of hand, when something goes wrong, she has to pull back and reconsider her approach. Which is cool, nothing wrong with that xD BUT, Sokka’s actual skill as a strategist lies in his ability to improvise. So imagine the pair of them on the same team: Azula draws out the big plans, and if anything goes wrong, Sokka improvises his way through. Who could get in the way of a guy with a sword that cuts through metals and a princess with blue fire and lightning?
So really? Strongest couple in the entire world xD nobody can convince me otherwise.
Another thing to consider is Sokka’s POV. Because while Sokka can be the best for Azula, some people might argue that’s not a two-way street. But it is 😀 and the reason why that is can be found in this post (that way I don’t have to repeat myself too much, my followers will be tired of reading me say the same things all the time xD).
Of course, that is not to say that Sokkla will always be a wonderful thing… they’re not exempt from angst and conflict. It’s actually hard to get things to work out properlyl for these two. It takes a lot of work, and a very very careful balance to make them fall in love and appreciate one another for who he is. If done wrong, Sokkla can turn out to be a mess, and it could easily become an unhealthy relationship (some people like to turn Sokka into a mindless sex slave for Azula, others like to mellow out Azula completely and practically take away her character’s traits… I rather doubt those are the stories you’ll want to read). But if done right… if done right, a simple guy like Sokka can bring unparalleled happiness to a complicated girl like Azula. He can help her put her darkness behind her, and help her appreciate the smaller pleasures in life. With him she’d come to see she doesn’t really need a throne, or glory, or anything of the sort. She can just be Azula, if she’s perfect or imperfect won’t matter to him, and she’ll know that’s the case because he’s too honest for his own good.
Aaaalright… if that didn’t sell you on the ship, hopefully fics might do the trick xD for quality Sokkla material, you really could check out these fics: Love of Madness and Airship Down and the Mountains of Madness by Keith B. Real are obvious recs. A new one, but very cool one, is She’s Something by yeahsokkla. There’s also Bonfire Heart by Madame Atomic Bomb (I’d tag her tumblr but for some reason it’s not letting me do that o__O), which is still starting out, as a prologue/epiloge to her main story, Addicted to Love. Also, Scribble Hearts, Correspondence and Flying Tiger, Crouching Dragon by Fanwright are all great. For a rather funny one, you have Tales of the Stranded by adeyaah421, for a cute one there’s Puzzling Pieces by Vayleen, for a steamy one there’s A Week of Steam by Nara Shikaku. For a beautifully heartbreaking one, Cold, comfort and candlelight by rufeepeach.
My latest discovery, though, was The Gentleman of Weapons by thingsareswinging. It’s AMAZING. It’s such a great AU. I had a ton of stuff to read for school but I said “screw it” and read this instead xD I REGRET NOTHING! it’s really that great. Sokkla aren’t the main focus on this fic (they’re not even together-together as it is xD), but it’s a great fic nonetheless, and you get to see things from Azula’s POV when she’s present in scenes (you get either Piandao or Azula POV). There’s another great story by thingsareswinging, To The Thunder, worth checking out just as much as GoW is.
I’ve also written several fics myself. You can find links to most my stories here, including some of my Tumblr one-shots.
… So, after this crazy rambling + fic recs, I hope you take our humble ship into consideration ^^ As an Azula fan, I really think the best thing to happen to me was joining this ship.
You Win.
lmfaoWelcome to the family bro!
Fanwright 