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Voices

Voices. Everywhere she turned, there were voices. Voices questioning, voices criticizing, voices gossiping. There whole relationship was based off of voices.

The day she first saw him, the voices of her angry, scared tribespeople rose against him. He was the enemy, the one who destroyed their village and killed their friends and family.

He then became the teen who chased them across the whole world. Sokka and Aangs' voices expressed anger and hate towards this boy for keeping them on their toes every day.

When he was wandering the Earth Kingdom, reduced to a lost, confused child, who trusted nobody, he feared the voices of those who discovered his true identity.

In the cave, he became her equal. A boy and a girl, suffering and bonding together over the loss of their mothers. But then the voices came again. Aang to take her away, Iroh to take him away. Soon after Azula's voice joined into the chorus, turning him against her.

He was then the traitor. The voices in her head told her so. He was the person who made her trust him, just to stab her in the back, hypothetically of course.

When he became Aang's firebending teacher, the whole group voiced that he was simply the sifu that was there to teach, not a companion.

After the Southern Raiders trip, she told him that she was giving him a clean slate and her trust and respect. This eventually turned into a close friendship.

During the Agni Kai with Azula, he became her savior. His voice separating the lightning from her, Azula's voice separating her from his twitching body.

At the dance following his coronation, the Fire Nation nobles' voices expressed how he was sure to marry one of their daughters, especially in such tentatively peaceful times. Although she knew this to be true, she could not ignore the slight twinge of jealousy that pricked her heart.

A year later, the faceless voices again whispered how she should not have broken up with Aang. He was the Avatar, after all. She could've had anything she wanted. How she wanted to snap at them that no, with the Avatar she couldn't have anything she wanted, because the one thing she wanted was ruling a country far away. She couldn't have said thing anyway though, she knew, because that thing had a perfect noble girlfriend, just as was expected of him.

When she returned to the Fire Nation to become the Water Tribe Ambassador, she was surprised to hear from those gossiping voices of the servants that the Fire Lord had broken up with his girlfriend, on the reason of "having lost the spark of interest". After interrogating him for a better reason, he would only say another had captured his attention. She realized later she must have been a masochist because she still wanted to know which noble it was.

When he approached her some weeks later and asked her if she remembered that conversation, and she replied in the affirmative, he told her that he wished to court that girl. He had already received permission from the girl's father and the decision was left to the girl. She told him, slightly bitter, that of course the father agreed, it was a chance to gain favor with the Fire Lord. He raised his eyebrow in confusion, and repeated his question of whether the girl would accept his courtship. She sighed, and told her that of course the girl would accept; any girl would be ecstatic to court someone so wonderful. Imagine her surprise when he smiled, told her that he had always loved her, and kissed her right there in the hallway. Only then did she realize the girl he was referring to was actually her, and she melted into the kiss. She could just distinguish the voices as they began to spread the rumors like wildfire.

When their courtship became serious, the councilmen added their voices to the chorus of opposition. They told the Fire Lord he couldn't marry a waterbender, because it wasn't proper. He practically screamed at them that he was the Fire Lord and could do whatever he wanted, including fire them. That successfully quieted them, though they still grumbled about how their nation was falling apart at the hands of teenagers. Quite true, really.

When he proposed, she immediately accepted, although she felt the air almost crackle with the utter shock and outrage that everyone across all three nations felt at the moment the news of their betrothal spread.

Indeed, the next morning the angry letters arrived. They all said basically the same thing per nation: the Water Tribes said that the Waterbender shouldn't marry such scum, the Fire Nation said that the Fire Lord shouldn't marry a peasant and should instead marry a lifeless noble, and the Earth Kingdom said it wasn't fair that the Water Tribes and the Fire Nation were going to have an alliance without the Earth Kingdom. The betrothed couple was honestly not surprised. All three said they never actually thought the relationship would last, hence why none acted sooner.

On their wedding day, the voices were practically screaming to divide them. So many were upset that Aang even had to intervene to maintain some level of tranquility. But when Aang was forced to escort several weeping noblewomen out of the room during the ceremony, several assassins attacked. But together, fire and water were able to safely capture the assassins, and in that moment, they both knew with a certainty that there would always be voices raised in opposition. But only together would they be strong enough to defeat them.