5 headcanons on a Sokka/Azula role swap, please?

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attackfish:

1. This is an AU that is fairly difficult to construct.  Aside from the fact that they are both strategically minded, Sokka and Azula have very little in common.  Changing them around would change the entire dynamic of the Fire Nation Royals, because I just can’t imagine that Sokka, who has a conscience, would attract Ozai’s favor in at all the same way as Azula, who he favored for their similar personalities at least as much for her firebending talent.  So here we have Sokka the clownish protege firebender, and Ozai’s second disappointment, and this has to be the fault of Ursa and her weak blood.

2. Meanwhile Katara has an older nonbending sister who likes to torture animals before killing them, and is still really good at convincing Gran Gran that she’s a sweetheart.

3. Zuko is not exiled in this universe, because Ozai doesn’t want him out of the way in favor of Sokka.  Instead, both are stuck at court, miserable, treated like crap by their father.  When Sokka overheard that Ozai was going to kill Zuko, he talked him into running away together.  They hid out in one of the palace tunnels until Ursa found them and told them Azulon was dead and it was safe to go home.  Ozai forced her into exile soon after.

4. Mai and Ty Lee are much happier in this universe where they aren’t being abused by Azula.  Mai’s parents might still be horrible, and Ty Lee still feels ignored, but at least they have never had to deal with Azula.  Because of this, Mai is more open with her emotions, and Ty Lee never runs away to join the circus.

5. Sokka and Ty Lee flirt terribly with each other, constantly.

-Would alternate Azula (Akana?) use a boomerang?
-How would growing up with a sister like that affect Katara?
-Did Katara’s mother catch onto the fact that something was off about her elder daughter?
-Alternately, did growing up in Katara’s family curb Azula’s worst tendencies?
-Did alternate Azula blame Katara for their mother’s death, and if so, how did it affect their relationship?
-How’s SOZIN for alternate Sokka’s name? XD

Akanna does use a boomerang but she might just go with knives instead of the club for her close up weapon. She’s always about doing the unexpected, and a boomerang is that.

Katara is much more cautious and guarded around her sister, and anyone she thinks might tell her sister anything, than she is in canon, and also more prone to snapping defensively at people. She feels under attack.

Kya did cotton on to Akanna’s nastier side, and while she was alive, she and Hakoda tried to teach her better, but after Kya died, and Hakoda left, Kanna thought they were paranoid and being too harsh with a child. This combined with the trauma caused by the invasion and her mother’s death (which she absolutely blames Katara for) means that Akanna’s cruelty is in full effect by the time canon starts. She is however sneakier about it than canon Azula ever had to be.

Two things, first, Akanna is a nonbender with a powerful bending sister. She doesn’t have the “I am the acknowledged superior and having my brother around highlights this” relationship with Katara that Azula in canon has with Zuko. Her feelings are much less complicated. She loathes her.

Second there are no adolescent boys in the Southern Water Tribe. In canon Sokka was the only one. Akanna does not feel the same need to protect her sister that he had.

Sokka’s name in this of course would be Sozin!