More Doodles Of The Warners Because My Body Naturally Produces Them At This Point

ik this has been said countless times before, but i lose my marbles whenever i think about sokka slowly realizing that he doesn’t have to protect everyone all the time. sometimes he can let other people take watch out for him too!!

there was never really anyone to protect sokka growing up. all the other men had to fight in the war, and his mother was killed by the fire nation. my dude had to protect his entire village! and he let himself down when his girlfriend turned into the moon spirit when his only job was to protect her!

but all those scenes where sokka lets slowly suki protect him...

and he starts to open up to toph and zuko...

he feels awkward abt it but my heart melts every time sokka remembers that he isn’t actually ISN’T totally alone and sacrificeable. he’s allowed to be vulnerable. he’s isn’t just valued as a warrior, as a protector, but as a person! as a friend! even just a lovable-ass idiot!

throughout the series, sokka realizes that he’s LOVED by people other than katara obviously and he cherishes it. and his journey from Lonely Warrior to Cherished Friend absolutely obliterates me. every. single. time.

“Suki is a valuable member of Team Avatar, and if you exclude her due to lack of screen time, you’re a coward.” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off the stage in shame, when a powerful voice speaks and commands attention from the room.

“She’s right.” I turn to see the speaker, and there, in the back row, is Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe himself.

Just my fav heros- kind and empathetic ☺️ agile freaks of nature 🤩 Linchpins of their franchise 🥰🥹💜

Now I just need to find a hero who fits the bill and happens to be a middle child

right, bryke is out and there goes my last interest in the live-action

Happy birthday, Shinsou!! You’re going to be a wonderful hero.

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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.

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

Listen, I didn’t want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smolder.

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