Sokka!! He Is Best Character And I Love Him

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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.

weird kid

sokka’s self-esteem is so fucking low he is literally incapable of processing any form of compliment. the problem isn’t just that no will tell him he’s good, but that when they do, he refuses to believe them.

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Mikey is a fun dude

sokka can’t help but be a big brother to aang too

warner sibling dance!

idk if youre still doing these but 🔥 sokka? im watching atla for the very first time rn and im loving your takes on it

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i love sokka

my main controversial opinion is that he’s really smart. I don’t really think that’s a controversial opinion though (anymore), and the show gives us plenty of evidence, especially in s3 (but as early as s1 and 2 too), that sokka is the brains of the operation, that he’s the voice of reason and rationality, and has all the strategic/tactical nous. i think he just largely uses humour to cope with his situation and all the pressure that’s on his shoulders as he’s the elder brother and the oldest (and only) warrior left defending the village & the last southern waterbender (and later that changes to the avatar and the last southern waterbender). i think he also tends towards a more scientific outlook probably because he’s a non-bender with a powerful bender for a sister, surrounded by other benders, who have connections to mystical creatures and the spirit world and so on.

i think sokka also acts in the way he does largely because he’s trying to imitate his father - who is both a skilled warrior and a clever tactician - & wants his father to be proud of him, as well. like there is a lot of ‘boy trying to be a man’ in sokka that is equally funny and sad. i think this idealism helps him avoid the pain of his father & all the adult men in his village leaving him and the others behind.

i think when he grows up, after the war has ended, I definitely think he might have more mixed feelings about it all. sokka spends a lot of time trying to be the best possible warrior and tactician, and takes it fairly seriously as well (consider how in s3 he’s always telling the gaang they’re running out of time), because he wants to be his dad, and assumes he’s going to be doing the same thing his dad is doing, and i think in five years time or so it might dawn on him that actually, after all his travelling with the avatar and co, and because they’re in an era of peace now, that absolutely isn’t going to be the case, it’s a whole new world, and he spent a lot of time trying to fit a mould that isn’t needed anymore.

& maybe, just maybe, he might feel a little bit of bitterness about how back then he felt like he was supposed to be responsible for everyone, at the age of 15, when he was still a kid himself.

(sokka probably has a “quarter-life” crisis about this at the age of 23 or something. painfully relatable, if i’m honest.)

i can honestly imagine sokka doing anything in the future except becoming the chief of his tribe. not because he neglects the responsibility - on the contrary he’s always risen to that responsibility, but more because he realises that isn’t where he’s most useful, and that’s not the role for him anymore.

(tbh my own headcanon is that katara becomes chief instead)

EDIT: just wanted to add that i don't really blame hakoda for all of this, like it was a difficult choice to decide to leave his kids behind & it was one imposed by years of fire nation raids and imperialist policies.

i also wanted to add that while i love the fire nation sibs (zuko & azula) to pieces i think something that is very very overlooked with sokka and katara is that while on the surface they're far more functional, they have an equal amount of depth and are also dealing with a lot of trauma. the loss of their mother, the absence of their father, & the effect that fire nation imperialism has on them and how it has hurt their tribe has a very profound effect and the way sokka acts, the way he throws himself into a position of responsibility at such a young age, is a product of this.