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thinking about sokka hugging piandao goodbye before sozin’s comet.
Ya for sure
A reformed villain becoming the protagonist’s protective older sibling is infinitely better than them becoming the protagonist’s love interest and you can’t change my mind
it’s so funny how sokka thinks of himself as a very average, even insignificant, person, because literally everyone who meets him has an intensely strong reaction immediately upon seeing him. and it’s a very strict binary too. it’s either pure, unadulatered adoration, or extreme annoyance. ppl meet sokka and they’re either like “this is a god among men. a perfect specimen. I would gladly lay down my life for him” or they’re like “wow idk why but I fucking hate the vibes on this kid. I want to bully him til the end of time.” only aang seems to have a normal reaction to sokka, which is “yeah he seems alright :-)”
sokka and katara have probably never spent more than a week apart from each other, both growing up in the south pole and having literally traveled everywhere together…
…until after the war.
the gaang probably got swept up in fixing the relations between the nations, helping with rebuilding in cities and towns, and just fixing the entire world way past what should have been expected of them, and so when they inevitably went their separate ways, how well do you think sokka and katara coped with that?
do you ever think that katara might sometimes turn around to try and crack a joke about her brother only to realize that sokka isn’t there to laugh with her? did she sometimes forget that the first person she looks to for support simply isn’t there to have her back anymore?
do you ever think about how sokka, maybe searching for a chance to make fun of his little sister, realizes she isn’t there to bicker with him anymore? or how maybe after so many years of trying his hardest to protect her, sokka can’t quite sleep because he isn’t able to know for certain that katara is okay at that very moment?
and when they do end up meeting back up again, did either of them cry after not having seen each other in person for weeks or even months? or were they too stubborn to admit that they missed one another?
how long did it take for these siblings to settle in with the fact that things were never going to be the same as it was before they left the southern water tribe the day that they found aang?
varrick definitely isn’t sokka’s son because sokka’s genes could never produce such a vile offspring, but varrick definitely did have a poster of sokka in his room growing up, and a picture of sokka he carries around in a locket that he kisses for good luck (even though he knows sokka would look down on him for it because he famously loathes superstition—which is so cool of him actually), and every meeting varrick’s ever had with chief katara about how his innovations could improve the southern water tribe end with at least half an hour of him grilling her with questions about her brother. so it comes as no surprise that when katara receives an invitation to varrick’s wedding in republic city, she politely declines on the basis that she needs to wash her hair that day.
Listen, I didn’t want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smolder.
I commissioned @all-things-geekie to combine my two favorite fictional characters of all time into one and I will never stop screaming over how beautiful the result is
Can you make an incorrect quote about Shinso and Kaminari?
Hitoshi: Hey Pikachu, how are yo-
Denki: You know, I never felt like a Pikachu. I feel more like a Jolteon. I don’t know why people refer to me as Pikachu.
Hitoshi:
Hitoshi: Kitten, do you not feel like a Pikachu, because you don’t feel like the main character? So you instead go with Jolteon, because he isn’t very important in the show?
Denki:
Hitoshi:
Mina: *In the bushes getting the tea*
Hitoshi: I’m getting Aizawa.
So I had this idea of motorcyclists Shinsou bc a motorcycle is just a step up from a bike and he likes cycling! Also bc motorcyclists who save kittens and put them in their leather jackets r just
<33333333333 rlly great
Also shinsou’s hair was not meant for a helmet lol
Wait but the real question is, which Ghibli movies do the Gaang like??
i feel like when zuko finds out sokka loves poetry he's just completely over the moon, like finally, someone else who appreciates the arts! until sokka says "of course i love poetry, it's like math but with words" and zuko nearly goes through the 7 stages of grief in a single minute. (he gets stuck on denial because there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY he likes something comparable to math.)
unfortunately, yes. sokka keeps shattering all of zuko’s fragilely-held illusions that there are two types of things in this world: math (which is bad) and art (which is not math).
zuko shows sokka a perfect conch shell on ember island beach and asks sokka if he thinks seashells are something that can only be appreciated by frivolous girls. to zuko’s great relief, sokka immediately replies “of course not!” until he immediately follows it up with an explanation of the fibonacci spiral, and isn’t it so amazing how math can be found in all of nature???
math??? in nature??? zuko’s nature???? preposterous!!!!
first poetry, then nature! zuko is determined to find something beautiful that sokka cannot tarnish by comparing it to that most vile and accursèd fiend numbers.
“what about MUSIC.”
“hate to break it to you, but that’s all math.”
“wait but I play the tsungi horn! am I doing math????”
“‘fraid so.”
“....fuck.”
zuko returns later with an irrefutable claim: that paintings are not and cannot be math.
sokka explains composition to him.
“next you’re going to say plays are math!”
“well....”
by the end of the day, zuko is simply distraught. has his whole life been a lie? he always thought that math was numbers, and everything else was firmly Not-Math, but as it turns out, everything is math??? and there are numbers in everything???? O katara, what is he to do????
katara (an ally in his righteous crusade against math, specifically the type of math that sokka likes to insert into everything that is good and fun and sacred) wisely informs him to stop listening to so much of what sokka says, because, “sokka is an idiot, and your life will be so much better if you just tune him out.”
“besides,” she continues, “there’s no math in bending.” they both take comfort in this notion.
sokka wants so desperately to correct them. it would be so easy to refute such a ridiculous claim! instead he merely shrugs, as if to say, “well what would I know about bending??”
katara and zuko sleep soundly that night, which is all that matters.
Underrated reason why Aang and Sokka are the one brain cell BROTP
Aang really got Sokka to hike up a whole volcano with him (AND DOWN) to get a rare flower. And for no reason other than to have him make side comments about how maximum aloofness is important. Not to mention Sokka went ON FOOT while Aang had his airbending-powered jumps
I STAN VERY SUPPORTIVE BUT ALSO IDIOT FRIENDS
I really like Denki but I don’t really enjoy the vision the fandom has of him. I mean yeah, the dumb jokes are kinda funny but when they’re all you see it gets old real quick, he’s not even dumb, he’s just not good at studying as many others in class 1A but they don’t call Mina dumb even tho she failed her exams and needed tutoring just like him. He’s not clueless, everybody jokes about him beig short circuit from his quirk but all I can think about is how scary it must be to loss control of your own body while trying to save people, he pushes his limits all the time to get closer to his goals
There’s nothing wrong with being scared, Norman, so long as you don’t let it change who you are.
I think many people, in their quest to complain about the unrealistic skills Sokka showed with a sword after so little time, forget that he knows how to use a shit ton of weapons already.
Machetes, Clubs, Boomerangs, Sabres, Spears, and even Daggers. Sokka learned a lot of shit with these things, before he ever got a sword. Dude could slap darts out of the air with one swing of his machete. His aim with the boomerang is terrifying.
Sokka wasn’t some untrained pampered prince who’d never touched a weapon in his life prior to approaching Piandao.
posting sokka and aang headcanons i have cause they bring me Serotonin. in no particular order:
sokka cries when aang asks for his blessing to marry katara
aang cries when sokka asks him to be his best man
sokka and aang bake together
it always ends in the whole kitchen being covered in flour
one time, they tried to frost cookies together
somehow, it ended in sokka decorating aang’s head with different colors of frosting
aang got sokka back by smearing a full bag of frosting down sokka’s back
aang picks up the life of a nomad, traveling around and rebuilding the air nomad’s culture
sokka... does a lot of different things. he chills in the southern water tribe for a bit, stays in ba sing se for a while, visits zuko in caldera, explores the countryside villages with toph, practices and trains with suki, is actually taught fully by piandao, etc.
eventually, the whole gaang works together to build republic city, and sokka settles down there for the long run
aang and sokka are penpals, and they write alllll the time. about diplomatic shit, about aang’s adventures, about sokka’s (slightly more secretive) adventures... literally everything
sometimes aang will write sokka complaining about how nomadic life would be so much easier if he just had so-and-so
sokka starts indulging his engineer side and builds a bunch of stuff to make life easier for aang
aang realizes the stuff sokka keeps making for him could help other people and pushes sokka to start selling them to the world
sokka hates being known as fuckin “CoUnCiLmAn SoKkA!!11!!1”... so he opens up a knick knack shop that is in no way related to him
to get back at aang actually, he brands it like an avatar fan merch store
cause why the fuck not
he does actually sell the useful shit, like the fan he made for aang. aang uses air bending to power his, so it’s super effective, but since there’s only one airbender, sokka sells those like rainbow pinwheels that people put in their yards (except they’re wooden and he carved the arrows on them and painted them orange and blue)
sokka thought aang would hate the avatar merch store, but within a week of opening, aang has come to the store at least 13 times to hang out with the kids and sign random merchandise
sokka wants to be upset but now he’s making a bunch of money off a joke so.... win win
sokka sells the first appa and momo plush toys
aang has one of each
sokka cries when he holds bumi for the first time
aang cries when he overhears sokka telling bumi that it’s okay not to be a bender
basically, sokka and aang are brothers. the end.
Sokka isn't "high intelligence low wisdom", he's an adhd genius
he sure fucking is and idk why we have to keep saying it for people
idk, maybe Sokka's just really emotionally attached to his boomerang because he lost his mother and he's really scared of losing his father and the boomerang is literally designed to always come back to him 🥺
what don’t people get about the fact that “sokka raised katara” and “katara raised sokka” are not contradictory statements! they raised each other! sokka relies on katara’s support as equally as katara relies on sokka’s support. they both have a mentality of “ugh I have to do everything around here” born of frustration with the fact that they are kids with too many responsibilities, but in truth, they share responsibility, supporting each other both physically and emotionally. sokka raised katara, and katara raised sokka, because that’s what loving siblings who had to grow up without parents do.
to celebrate 1300 followers, a bit of detail on my sokka owns a knick knack store au, first mentioned here:
sokka does a portrait of the month series. every month he’ll paint a different “historical figure” and sell prints
the first one he does is zuko, newly crowned fire lord after fire lord iroh abdicates. zuko sighs and complains more and more as he’s sitting for his portrait because he has work to do sokka, not that you would know anything about that, running a silly store instead of focusing on your actual job—
sokka just stares at zuko silently until zuko realizes he’s messed up.
zuko sits very quietly and stays still for the rest of his portrait session. he also pays for production of the first set of prints.
zuko’s portrait ends up being him looking directly at the viewer, eyebrows furrowed like he’s going to scold them, but mouth open in laughter. sokka hangs it up next to the cashier’s area.
the second portrait sokka does is aang cause avatar, duh. before sokka starts painting, aang is a ball of energy, all over the place, but once sokka starts aang channels all that energy into talking. he sits perfectly still, but his mouth is going a mile a minute.
the end result is stunning. aang’s body is facing slightly off to one side, with his head turned over his shoulder closest to the viewer. he’s glancing off into the distance, one eyebrow raised, gleefully smiling.
the third ‘portrait’ sokka does is toph, as she’s the only one in town at the moment (and also a badass in her own right). instead of doing a formal portrait that toph wouldn’t be able to see, sokka works for weeks on making his own little statue of toph from the shoulders up.
toph definitely doesn’t tear up when she holds it for the first time.
sokka’s arms hurt, both from sculpting so many copies and from toph’s punch after she doesn’t cry over the statue.
the fourth portrait sokka does is suki. he does the initial portrait in one go while she’s practicing her forms, a powerful image of suki with her kyoshi makeup and her fans, mid pose. he does the formal portrait from memory of all the times they’ve fought and practiced alongside each other.
the suki portrait is amazing, although people seem to think sokka was trying to do kyoshi herself. suki isn’t offended, she just takes it as a compliment.
the fifth portrait is of katara. this one is done entirely while katara is practicing her bending. the first draft gets dowsed with katara’s water when kya startles her by being pushed off a wall by bumi.
the final portrait is an image of katara with two orbs of water circling her head, joy clear on her face. the light shining through the water makes her face look like it’s glowing. (sokka sneaks kya and bumi into the background, falling off one of the garden walls)
the sixth portrait was supposed to be of iroh, but the old man cancels the meeting so many times that aang convinces sokka to do a self portrait. sokka does a caricature of himself for his part.
however, aang thinks it’s unfair that sokka will do amazing portraits of everyone but himself. he rifles through sokka’s works until he finds a self portrait sokka did. he’s in front of the shop with little kids surrounding him, laughing his head off with a toy in his hands. aang sneaks around, buys a bunch of copies of this painting, and replaces the caricature with his choice
sokka is embarrassed and angry and refuses to speak to aang
...but then his self portrait sells out the fastest of them all
and now people know he owns the knick knack store ugh aang this is all your fault
once again, sokka has aang to thank for his store’s success. aang is unbearably smug about it.
iroh has all five portraits and one statue (as well as the eventual portraits of mai, azula, and ty lee) in the same small room where he keeps his memorial to lu ten, his wife, and the others he has lost. they remind him of the joy he has found in life as it is now.
thinking abt how the reason yue liked sokka was because he was an awkward nerd who didn’t actually think he had a shot with her, as opposed to the obtuse surfer dudes vying for her attention (and the consequent position of power being her husband puts them in). sokka called hahn “soulless” when he talked about the “perks” of being with yue, because he, unlike the bros of the nwt, saw past her status—he liked spending time with her and making her laugh. yue is immediately endeared to sokka because he’s so clearly awkward and inexperienced and earnest, which proved a refreshing change of pace. to yue, sokka’s and his bright-eyed sincerity was an escape. yue was the only person sokka ever asked out (to do an activity with, to be precise), but she initiated all of their kisses. suki kissed sokka first, on kyoshi island, and then again at the serpent’s pass. only once sokka knew for sure what she wanted did he try to kiss her. both of sokka’s relationships are founded upon mutual respect and communication, and both suki and yue are impressed and endeared by his humility. so why do ppl wanna paint him as some smooth-talking, cocky or even blustering ladies’ man.... because he had two (2) whole girlfriends, whose arcs complement each other and develop his character in significant ways? yeah girls like sokka. but it’s not like he’s doing anything to encourage that. he is just... standing there...... bein his nerdy self.......
You know what?
I love that Sokka and Bolin are always clowning around. I know people think being the comedic relief character is a bad thing but do you know how much care and effort goes into making other people laugh?
Like putting aside your own hurts and fears and baggage to cheer up others is hard. Bolin and Sokka aren't as stupid as they act, they just play it up.
Making people laugh and smile in times of stress is hard because you have to shove all of your own stress aside and joke it up and smile and pretend its all going to be okay even when you don't feel it will.
Sometimes you've just got to let that built up energy out and it might as well come out as laughter.
Like pretending everything is fine and giving your humor to others? That's learned behavior.
No doubt Bolin and Sokka picked it up to make Mako and Katara feel better or less stressed. After all a joking and happy sibling is a safe and cared for one. Then they just extended it as their friend groups grew.
And don't get me started on when they slip up and drop the charade. Sometimes people are more concerned the comedy stopped over the character's emotions and that can lead to people overlooking their more emotion heavy moments for their funny ones.
Like comic relief characters are vital man, because who else will make you laugh when you really just want to cry?
i am absolutely DYING at the idea of piandao inviting sokka into the white lotus. sokka obviously deserves it. but.
just imagine how that would go over at their monthly get together. everyone’s sitting in a circle, drinking their tea like the group of old people they are, and someone asks if they’ve met any new potential candidates.
piandao’s just like oh yeah. i uhh invited this kid? 15 year old kid. trained him for like maybe two days? definitely worthy. also you don’t have a choice i already gave him the white lotus tile. anyways, pass the cookies.