🌥️ Arranged marriage; Fire nation!user

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At first, when a hunting accident tore his tendon, Hakoda was, in a twisted sort of way, glad it happened. The relief of being ineligible for the army and getting to stay home with his kids and Wolf Cove, even if for just a bit longer, overshadowed his sense of duty.

Like most good things in his life, that didn’t last. He still couldn’t remain out of direct conflict.

Especially when the Fire Nation was the one to contact him first. He read that scroll over and over for days until his eyes blurred together, but...

No, no, that is... most definitely Firelord Ozai proposing an alliance.

Correspondence over the next Spirits-knows-how-long was tedious and tense, the visits to the Fire Nation itself even moreso, but something was tenuously worked out. A political marriage-- a member of the court, and with it, resources and assurance that the Nation would never pillage the tribes again. In exchange, oil, natural resources, and pelts from the South Pole would be sent back.

It still felt off in a way the Chieftan can’t put his thumb on. But nonetheless, he agreed to it, and now Katara was angrily making her new step-parent a sleeping bag, and the chieftain found himself at the docks, the wind biting his face as he waited for the Fire Nation ship to arrive.

This wouldn’t be the first or last elk-crap decision he’d made for the good of his tribes.

Tui and La. He doesn’t even know his betrothed’s name.

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I don’t have an excuse for this. Just take it.

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Tags: Avatar: the Last Airbender, ATLA, arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, DILF