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hey, i was wondering if you had any thoughts about sokka returning to piandao to continue his training? do you think he does? what does that look like?

considering he only spent a total of 2 days with piandao and sokka is piandao’s favorite human ever to walk this earth apparently, i’m sure they’d reunite at some point, and sooner rather than later (other than at the white lotus encampment, i mean). i’m sure they would continue training (swordsmanship, painting, calligraphy, etc), maybe play pai sho together, and gossip about the (other) members of the white lotus. i think their relationship would eventually evolve past student + master, cause if sokka was able to achieve that much after a day it probably wouldn’t take long for piandao to be like “i have nothing more to teach you.” of course, they remain lifelong friends (he’s not sokka’s first weirdly older friend, and he won’t be his last. it’s cause sokka has grandpa energy). not to mention they see each other regularly at white lotus meetings. and when piandao dies, he leaves everything to sokka. 

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Kataang × Earth Kingdom girls × 'that's rough buddy' duo

Some things never change…

au where sokka, not their mother, is the one who sacrifices himself for katara (inspired by this post about sokka looking like his mom)

Sokka and katara are together in their house when the southern raiders attack

Their parents are out when the soldier yon rha breaks into their home

He knows that the north only trains boys in waterbending… he thinks the south is the same way

The kids are cornered by yon rha, who tells them

“I won’t hurt you kids if you tell me who in your village is the last waterbender”

Katara is terrified and knows he’s come for her

Sokka looks at his sister and thinks it’s up to me to protect her

So he says “it’s me. I’m the last waterbender of the southern tribe.”

Yon rha was planning to kill the last waterbender, but it’s only a child… he decides to kidnap sokka instead

Katara watches as her brother is dragged away, unable to stop the man as he takes sokka from her

All that’s left of sokka is his beloved boomerang

Yon rha takes sokka to a fire nation prison far inland in the earth kingdom colonies, even though he’s the only child there. Without a master or water around, he reasons, sokka is no threat.

Katara still has both parents, but she’s lost her brother and best friend and feels that it’s her fault

Sokka grows up in prison, learning how to fight when he’s smaller and weaker but cleverer than his fellow prisoners

As the only child in the prison, sokka has to play up his role as a harmless and agreeable kid. He’s funny and the other prisoners derive amusement from it, which means they’ll keep him around

He never forgets his water tribe roots though, or his family

Katara grows up lonely and determined, learning to hunt with the boomerang and a spear and waterbending all together. She’s not the caretaker role now, but the angry rebel daughter, brave but rash and proud and desperate to prove herself

One day she’s out hunting alone when she discovers a very special iceberg. Curious, she breaks it open immediately (bc let’s be real sokka is 95% of her impulse control in canon)

When sokka is fifteen, he successfully escapes from prison and makes his way west to the coast

He gets ambushed in the forest one day, and almost gets killed by a boy with hooked swords who accuses him of being fire nation (his prison shirt is red)

Sokka argues “no! I’m water tribe!” jet doesn’t believe it at first, but the blue of his eyes doesn’t lie

Jet is impressed by sokka’s fighting-dirty style and great aim and invites him to stay

Sokka joins the freedom fighters but is disgusted when he learns about jet’s distorted sense of justice. He starts planning a way to overthrow jet from the inside

Meanwhile, katara and aang travel north to find a waterbending master, and they just so happen to run into jet while flying over a forest

When they get to the treehouses, they run into a skinny, scrappy dark-skinned boy whose jaw drops when he sees katara

She doesn’t recognize him at first, and then all at once she does

“SOKKA?” “Katara, is that really you?”

There’s much crying and hugging and “how are you here?”

Sokka explains his plan to katara and aang, and they know not to trust jet

Jet’s plan is foiled by sokka and gaoling is never flooded

Katara gives sokka back his boomerang (“You kept it all this time?” “Of course. I’m probably better at it than you are, now.” “No way!!”)

They fly north. Katara has to relearn her brother, relearn his mannerisms and his personality. She’s surprised by how little he’s changed, even though he’s been through so much

Sokka is a harder version of himself, sharper and more cautious. But he still has his sense of humor and his clever plans, his same hairstyle and bright blue eyes.

Very good post 10/10

So my brother and I were just talking on the phone and we realized: Aang might have mastered all four elements but Sokka mastered the non-bending styles from all four nations!

He already knew how to fight with Water Tribe weapons/regalia:

Then, in what’s likely the first Earth Kingdom village he’s ever visited, he learned how to fight with the Warriors of Kyoshi:

When he reached the Northern Air Temple, he was able to tap into the philosophy of the airbenders and realize that the best way to win a battle is to avoid face-to-face confrontation by instead using creative means (and the sky) to take down your opponent:

And finally, when he reached the Fire Nation, Piandao taught him how to forge a unique weapon and hone his swordsmanship:

Sokka learned all four non-bending styles!

Really puts Iroh’s quote into a different context:

“Understanding the other nations will help you become whole.”

am i… the only one who thinks sokka would improve on his art? that he would practice and get better, and would develop the habit of just absently drawing what he saw? his sketches of wartime water tribe life being displayed in cultural centers, his drawings of early cranefish town, his sketches of the FIre Lord and the Avatar and Master Beifong and the Kyoshi warriors becoming important cultural pieces in themselves? maybe they’re not photorealistic paintings, but the feeling of intimacy of these important– near mythical– figures in history being drawn by their close friend… Fire Lord Zuko with his hair down, Avatar Aang with his children, Master Beifong’s concentration as she practiced her forms, all of them having tea together. maybe he draws the group every time they get together, and all of these drawings are donated to a museum after Aang passes away. shit dude, artists are valuable!! 

For real tho...

I believe Kaminari can be vry smart, and knows big brain words... but he only uses them to make jokes lol

And then there’s more

He uhh likes the news (weather channel too)

(The wiki thing) and we see that in the 1a vs 1b thing and the hero’s license exam, and he’s generally seen making well thought out observations (which is more of the author’s writing use to explain things tho)

(Wiki thing)

And let’s not forget his love for the arts!

School smarts is not all there is to intelligents and it sucks ppl still don’t believe this. This boy is very smart and people who don’t think this either (this is also me generalizing bc I’m salty)

A) ain’t looking very hard (I also blame the anime for dumbing him down a bit more) probs bc he’s a comedic relief character

Or

B) like to make jokes abt his stupidity to put someone down (often times this type of person can’t even string a sentence together very well lol, maybe they just want someone inferior idk I’m salty)

My point is, we can all dig a bit deeper. It’s always fun to try to see the nuance of characters, and when it’s a character like Denki, who as a character is not focused upon, has no background, and has very little degree of importance in the story, this is even more important. Also, STOP MAKING COMEDIC RELIEF CHARACTERS DUMB AND ONE DIMENSIONAL!!! I hate it thanks-

Heroes: Rising rant Number two

Did…..DID KAMINARI JUST PULL A BRAINY JOKE !?!?!?

He just said, “We’ve gone plus ultra way beyond what’s allowed by the labour standards act.”

He fucking knows the labour standards act.

WHO TF SAID KAMINARI DENKI IS STUPID ?!?!?!?!?

ANSWER ME YOU THOTS

I saw a post with someone wondering why sokka wanted to borrow momo for a week after katara and zuko take off on appa in the southern riders, and I got to thinking that's a really interesting scene, because you see sokka looks worried about katara and what she might do and he's probably hurt about what she said to him about their mother and he still feels the need to cover it all up with a fucking joke, even with only aang present

yes! notice how after katara says “then you didn’t love her the way i did!” sokka looks hurt and goes quiet for the rest of these interactions. 

katara………..

(upon hearing zuko say “[forgiveness] is the same as doing nothing!”)

unlike katara and zuko (who are two little rage demons) sokka doesn’t want to make his emotions anyone else’s problem. in the scenes prior, when sokka is telling zuko about the day his mother died, he seems deeply hurt, but immediately represses that shit the second zuko leaves the tent. 

sokka is willing to oblige by providing all the necessary details for zuko to bond with katara, and it is clearly hard for him to talk about, but the second he’s given zuko the necessary information, he is done talking and kicks zuko out immediately, and switches his brain once more into “a moste romantique evening w/ suki” mode. 

sokka is clearly going through some heavy shit in this episode, but because it’s never actually communicated, you could easily miss it considering everything else that’s going on. 

(lol he’s so done with katara here)

other than his tone of voice, body language, and most crucially, the way in which he immediately deflects so that he and aang don’t have to actually sit in this deeply emotional conflict, sokka tries to go about business as usual. 

here he is clearly wistful…

and promptly immediately covers up his feelings in 3…2…1…

sokka could probably get his arm cut off and he’d be like 

king of repression! 👑✊🏼 #relatable #tfw #mood