Why Did I Make This

the way sokka and azula’s dynamic would progress from azula being like “sokka is extremely smart and needs to be destroyed” to “sokka is extremely smart and must teach me everything he knows,” but it’s also a very gradual process filled with a lot of rage and resentment and losing to him at pai sho; concurrently, sokka going from “wow I fucking hate you” to “wow I fucking hate you” (but said lovingly). also azula thinks all of sokka’s jokes are funny. every single one. they share the exact same sense of humor and this fact baffles all of their other friends so much

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KAMINARI DENKI | Clash! Class A vs. Class B!        for @dykeugou​

Assorted Nicknames Toph has for Sokka

Snuffles (canon)

Caveman (mix of someone telling her the Omashu caves story and also Toph sticking him in a cave once when he was pissing her off)

Crabmeat (a crab tried to eat him)

Fishfood (a fish tried to eat him)

Birdseed (Sokka has bad luck with animals)

Loverboy (c’mon, royalty sees him and are like o.o, anyone have dibs on that?) 

Shorty/Short Stuff/Strawberry Shortcake (he becomes the tallest before Aang’s growth sport and Toph is in denial)

Baby Bro (related to above, but also made Sokka cry, so Toph keeps saying it <3 )

Adopted (this one confused Katara bc she can’t tell if it’s suppose to be an insult or a compliment)

Porcelain (a teapot breaks and Toph pretends to think it’s sokka’s skull)

what was sokka’s relationship with his mother like? did she, like ursa with zuko, encourage him to feel safe transgressing gender norms? did she patiently coax him into talking out his problems, letting him know that it is safe and healthy to express himself? did she marvel at his drawings just as much as she did at his handcrafted fishhooks and harpoons? did she tell him stories from kanna’s childhood in the north pole, sparking sokka’s interest in other lands even before he knew she was talking about another land? did she read to him? 

when he started to become a leader among the kids his age, did she take care to watch his mood to make sure he wasn’t burning out from the responsibility? when he devoted himself to protecting katara, did she make sure he knew that he was equally important? did she say it with enough conviction that he believed it in spite of the evidence to the contrary? 

when she bandaged his scrapes, did she stop him from brimming with pride over the injury? did she make certain he understood that violence and defending others weren’t what made him strong? 

when he lost her, did sokka try to keep her lessons in mind even as the mounting need for a strong military defense began to take over their village? what was it like the day sokka resolved in his mind that it wasn’t appropriate for a warrior to draw or read or feel?

Aang + Sokka + their single shared braincell

“You’re really lucky, you know that?”

Us: lol Gary is Little Cato's Dad

Final Space: lol yeah

Us:

I was waiting for someone to make this distinction between Iroh and Sokka! I headcannon that Sokka is the only one of the gaang who can beet Iroh at Pai-sho

One of the things that I’m fascinated by as a concept is that Sokka and Iroh are simultaneously very similar and also total opposites in many ways. There’s an aspect where they’re very tactically minded, intelligent leaders with a history of eccentricities… But Sokka is also one of the people for whom it would make the most sense for him to get argumentative with Iroh, and actually has done. 

Sokka constantly poo-poos the idea of destiny and spirituality, and gets mad at Iroh for suggesting that they rescue Zuko from the Crystal Catacombs because he doesn’t care about the “good inside” him. They have similar skill-sets and influence, but their ideologies are mostly incompatible. So I absolutely want to see more of Sokka actually debating him; that would be way more interesting the typical interactions we see with Iroh anyway.

(Zuko watches this in horror like a high-speed ping-pong match.)

I also like the idea of Sokka enjoying many of the same things as iroh, but in ways that make Iroh shudder. For instance:

–Sokka is good at, and likes playing Pai Sho. However, he is very much of a disrespectful opponent who engages in trash talk and speed plays. 

–Sokka also likes tea, but he is prone to dumping all sorts of ingredients into it that’s besides the norm, including sugar and honey and generally just “ruining” the natural flavor of the tea. (Sokka invents ‘iced tea’ which Iroh secretly views as blasphemy.)

–Again they have a penchant for strategy, and debate hypothetical scenarios, but Sokka is noticeably less honorable and is willing to resort to dirty tactics in spades if he thinks it can net him victory.

–They both have a thing for poetry, but iroh is very prosy and thoughtful, while Sokka can just string together whatever first pops into his head and fashions that into a workable poem. 

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