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1. The Closer You Try to Look by apidaee

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   26 May 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Sokka/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Aang/Katara (Avatar)
   • Bato/Hakoda (Avatar)
   • Azula/Mai/Ty Lee (Avatar)
   • Sokka (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Toph Beifong
   • Mai (Avatar)
   • Ty Lee (Avatar)
   • Azula (Avatar)
   • Aang (Avatar)
   • The Gaang (Avatar)
   • Iroh (Avatar)
   • Suki (Avatar)
   • Hakoda (Avatar)
   • Bato (Avatar)
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Liberal use of the word fuck
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Slow Burn
   • Pining
   • Touch-Starved Zuko
   • Background Relationships
   • Bisexual Sokka (Avatar)
   • Gay Zuko (Avatar)
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • Eventual Smut
   • Texting
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Past Jet/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Past Sokka/Suki (Avatar)
   • Past Sokka/Yue (Avatar)
   • Partially Blind Zuko (Avatar)
   • Partially Deaf Zuko (Avatar)
   • the past rape/non-con is not explicit just referenced
   • all the characters get hella screentime

   Summary

   Sokka laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling and clutched his phone to his chest and couldn’t stop grinning.

   He whispered the word astounding to the ceiling, and the ceiling said nothing back.

   He wished he could make the word sound the same as it had when Zuko had said it.

   You are astounding.

   He felt like a middle school girl with a crush.

   Fuck it. May as well lean into the character. Sokka flipped onto his stomach, kicked his feet up, and screamed into a pillow.

   Sokka pulled his head out of the pillow, opened his phone, and Merriam-Webstered astounding. He knew what it meant, but he needed to inject it into his very bloodstream. He had to get linguistic with that shit. 

   Or:

   Two idiots fall in love and yearn.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   22,615

   Chapters:

   3/?

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