I Saw A Post With Someone Wondering Why Sokka Wanted To Borrow Momo For A Week After Katara And Zuko

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