seyaryminamoto:

•In the year of our lord 2019 or 2020, at a New Year’s Eve party, Sokka kisses Azula as the ball drops. He smiles his little smile at her and she sighs in contentment, then suddenly “Oh by the way, I’m proposing this year, HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
•Azula’s reaction is essentially: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
•Azula is on red alert all the time, constantly on the watch for any sign of a proposal, a glint of a diamond in his pocket, ANYTHING.
•Now Sokka knows there’s no way he’s actually going to be able to surprise her, she knows him too well
•So instead, he decides to fucking torture her
He pulls shit like Jim Halpert did on The Office
Fake proposals
All. The. Time.

Several incidents of this:

•One night they are walking back to their apartment after dinner and Sokka stops in front of a fountain in the park they are walking through. He goes down to one knee, and Azula gasps so loud and she’s covering her mouth with her hands and he goes “…just wait a minute I need to tie my shoe”
•One night, at a very nice dinner, Sokka just stops in the middle of dessert and looks at her. He goes full heart eyes, takes her hand and cups her cheek. Azula’s internal monologue is: “oh shit oh man oh boy okay this is happening stay cool”. Sokka takes a deep breath, smiles like an angel and goes “You have lettuce in your teeth” before continuing to devour his chocolate cake
•He constantly sets up things like this, and by September Azula is so tired
•So one night, he takes her out to dinner, and the waiter brings over two glasses of champagne.
He goes to one knee and opens his mouth to speak-
“Haha very funny Sokka now tie your shoe”
he smiles and goes on
“Azula I-”
“Sokka I’m not in the mood for another-”
“Azula, love of my-”
“Sokka I swear to god-”
“LET ME TALK”
she stops and looks at him, carefully calculating the situation
•He goes on to deliver the most romantic speech about his feelings for her you could have ever heard (I have not thought about it for a long enough amount of time to have that speech prepared for you I am sorry friends)
•He stops talking and she just raises an eyebrow at him
“Okay…but this was fake right?”
He rolls his eyes so hard and shoves the ring in her face
“WILL YOU JUST FREAKING MARRY ME?”
“This is your own fault”
“Azula"
“You did this to yourself”
“Azula, kind of just asked a really huge question, probably need that answered, my whole life hanging in the balance-”
“Well yes, obviously, but-”
“Yes?”
“Yes”
“Thank god”
•and then he slides the ring onto her finger and kisses the crap out of her
The end

xD This would make such a lovely fic! Goodness, but that really is something he’d dare do. Poor Azula, on edge every day, waiting and anticipating his great proposal but she just doesn’t expect it to happen in the most classic of ways after all that xD he probably did many, many fake outs in those nine months, haha. She’ll have been on the verge of being the one asking him to marry her xD

Thanks for the submission!