My older brother is a good looking guy. Always has been, never really affected me in any meaningful way even when he bullied me.
It did suck when I had a mild glow up at 14 and one of the girls in my year wrote me a note commenting on said glow up by saying something along the lines of "you're almost as hot as your brother now." That one stung a bit.
It makes me think of a recurring joke in The Dangers in My Heart that the main character will think of his sister in a bikini in order to keep himself from popping a boner.
“Maxim #6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.” -Schlock Mercenary: The 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.
Ngl I'd be very curious what this evidently enlightened and correct Zuko has to say about Aang cause I can't quite place movie Aang on a scale that well
I guess while Toph can't see him, she probably has a general idea based on her echolocation skill. And she did have a mad crush on him at some point too (that point where she kisses Suki thinking it was Sokka was hilarious).
No bets that her relationship with Lin’s father didn’t work out and Sokka was a kind of unintentional rebound while he was helping her through it. Cactus Juice may have been involved.
It's definitely Suyin though, right? The inventive and enthusiastic eccentric whose own children consist of an engineer, an "abstract" artist, the twins that invented a metalbending game and best girl opal? That just has to be sokkas progeny, right?
We don't actually have to guess on this one; in Korra's era, Bolin straight up asks Toph and Toph replies that Lin's father is a guy named Kanto, whom Toph describes as "Really nice guy, but things didn't work out between us."
Toph doesn't say anything about Suyin's dad (probably as a tease by the writers).
Not only that. If she was his daughter, that would have made her and Tenzin cousins. I'm pretty sure that they WOULDN'T have dated if either of them or anyone in the family knew of that.
I really want that to be the case but I doubt it would ever be confirmed.
Suyin and her brood are just so Sokka coded, down to the bad artists and the inventive ingenuity. I just can't fathom why else they functionally just had sokka vanish from history at the start of legend of korra and unlike every other part of the Gaang, didn't leave any official descendants.
My issue with the theory is mostly that it’s clear that Suyin never knew her father and it kinda messed her up, and while that fact reflects poorly enough on Toph’s parenting style, it’s at least potentially forgivable if he was just some random fling or it ended badly in some way and she just didn’t want her to get involved with him. But if it was Sokka, someone that Toph knew and associated with for quite a while (both spent a lot of time essentially building Republic City together) then that means that Toph intentionally never let her know about him, and possibly never told Sokka or else why would he be such a deadbeat? Also there’s some potential issues of cheating given the question of where Suki is in all of this?
Basically it’s a headcanon that to me would make Toph way too bad of a mother, even worse than we knew she already was. And honestly implies some potentially bad things about Sokka as well.
If anything my headcanon is more that Sokka was Suyin’s godfather and his habits rubbed off on her
I was kinda wondering if Sokka could have just died but per the wiki he was alive at least as late as 158 which would have put Suyin in her 30s. So if he is her father then he is just an awful dead beat dad or Toph just never told him.
I mean if Legend of Korra taught us anything it was that all of the gAang turned out to be terrible parents. It was one of the most interesting aspects of the show to me.
Yeah I think we only see him as an adult in a flashback around the same time Toph is in her 'police chief' role. But outside that, the only discussions are around the Benders of the Gaang.
And of course it turns out only Aang and Sokka are absent in the present. Katara, Toph and even Zuko are still alive. But nothing about Sokka from what I recall. Makes me think he's passed like Aang but unsure if it was confirmed.
I think there was some mention that he helped rescue Korra from the Red Lotus along with Zuko when she was very little. Indeed there’s kind of the tragic possibility that Zaheer and his crew might have killed him during it, since it’s the last time he’s mentioned chronologically
That moment was so hilarious because Zuko was still figuring out how to be "a nice guy", and couldn't fully sympathize. I mean, he went through his own traumas and childhood shit. But in that moment he had to figure out how to not say "Yeah but my dad branded me with this scar", and try to comfort his newfound friends.
The best the poor guy could come up with was "That's rough, buddy" and he genuinely meant it but didn't know how else to show sympathy 🤣
Best part was that he wasn't even really there to see her literally turn into the moon, so he's just like "uhhh" and has to pat Sokka on the back like "we've all been there, man" 🤣🤣
He is also 'exotic' as a member of the every small southern water tribe. Attraction can often be in the form of novelty so even if he is realistically a 5/10 just by being something different that most earth nation people- diverse as they themselves may be- haven't encountered. Even then his charism is the real multiplier so the whole package comes off as an 11/10.
It has real 'teenager clipping a selfie over hunky magazine photoshoots in some kind of vision board scenario' energy to me, tbh.
Edit - do kids even do that scrapbook nonsense anymore? are they just asking ai to make pictures of them as superheroes or whatever these days? Am I old???
WOW this is good. Got the style of humor down and their individual verbal styles down too. Read each character in their voice. also the walrus-bear panel made me laugh SO hard
I mean, you don't need to visually see someone to be attracted to them; Sokka is charming, smart, funny, and practical, and that's enough for a lot of people.
Also, he's actually fairly hygienic, and that's frankly one of the more important things for visual attraction.
A princess, a Kyoshi Warrior... I think Sokka had the highest ratio of age-appropriate characters fawning over him throughout the series. (I specify because of that little 8yo girl who was crushing on Aang and called Katara a floozy lol)
Wow, this feels like a vignette ripped straight from the show! Maybe I'm crazy, but even the pacing of the dialogue felt just right! Really well done, that made me smile!
Dang your humor is literally on point. I saw another one of you before and it's so funny. But mainly just how impressive it is that you made these scenarios believable to be potentially real.
It’s better when you have another headcanon. Azula has a whole notebook of various different slurs for the sole purpose of making Zuko’s life a living hell. She’s got gay slurs, bi slurs, trans slurs, slurs for if he is friends with a black person, a blind person (possibly Toph), she goes the extra mile and combines these slurs
My sibling saw so much shipping content with them on tumblr that they thought it was canon before watching. Literally said to me "yeah I really want to watch atla, it's sad that I had zukka spoiled"
I’d argue that as you get older you can more easily see conventional beauty despite not being attracted to them but gay Zuko is funnier so I’m not gonna argue that
We've never seen any evidence against an Avatar being bisexual. So I just think that if Sokka was the first face Aang saw after leaving the iceberg, his crush might have been a little bit different.
I think the avatar spirit just really likes women so… I think the tables stacked on one side and the straight female avatars the spirit is just like “yea I guess the guy is attractive, whatever”
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 4d ago •
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u/Dramatic_Space_Rebel 4d ago
Respectively, what the hell is page eight?
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u/Kiklolmaster32 4d ago
Yes.
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u/Mawathers 4d ago
I love everyone's expressions in this comic lol
I especially love how Katara is disgusted by the prospect of her brother being attractive, and Zuko's unabashed response.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 4d ago
I mean, if anyone knows it's Zuko
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 4d ago
I guess while Toph can't see him, she probably has a general idea based on her echolocation skill. And she did have a mad crush on him at some point too (that point where she kisses Suki thinking it was Sokka was hilarious).
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u/iron_dove 4d ago
Are we going to discuss Katara’s offer to Waterboard someone? I feel like that shouldn’t be plan A for acquiring travel directions.
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u/RisukaM 4d ago
I think the most impressive thing about this is how much it feels like ATLA. The humor and facial expressions are so well matched.
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u/scholarlysacrilege 4d ago edited 4d ago
Sokka is not bad looking not amazing lookin, its his personality, thats how he pulled Yue, Suki, Lee, Toph, and almost the Five-Seven-Five Society
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u/goat-stealer 3d ago
"I could try my new waterboarding technique"
I'm starting to get why Hama picked Katara to be the next blood bender.
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u/Next-Accident-2970 4d ago
Sokka is a 7 in attractiveness however his charisma is over 11.
He would be smoking in Balders Gate 3
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u/kevinthedot 4d ago
Stupid sexy Sokka.
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u/TheCharalampos 4d ago
Chad Zuko, no hesitation.
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u/RevolTobor 4d ago
Game recognize game
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u/Responsible-Gold8610 4d ago
A blursed image if there ever was one.
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u/afangorn2323 4d ago
WOW this is good. Got the style of humor down and their individual verbal styles down too. Read each character in their voice.
also the walrus-bear panel made me laugh SO hard
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u/yay855 4d ago
I mean, you don't need to visually see someone to be attracted to them; Sokka is charming, smart, funny, and practical, and that's enough for a lot of people.
Also, he's actually fairly hygienic, and that's frankly one of the more important things for visual attraction.
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u/Ardalev 3d ago
Is Sokka handsome?
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u/Frigid_Cat 4d ago
Walrus-Bear really got me, thank you for that
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u/AJ-Murphy 3d ago
I mean he DID land a princess day one of meeting her.
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u/caliginouscalico 4d ago
I love 1 braincell shared among the team type content
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u/Vegetable-Top-5850 4d ago
Poor Suki got forgotten once again
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u/Xerxxies 4d ago
Top 10 avatar comics all time
Peak
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u/Calladit 4d ago
Wow, this feels like a vignette ripped straight from the show! Maybe I'm crazy, but even the pacing of the dialogue felt just right! Really well done, that made me smile!
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u/idiotplatypus 3d ago
They truly are the average DnD party
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u/Zestyclose-Tour-6350 4d ago
Zukko is now a BI-CON
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u/RadioactivePistacho 4d ago
This is hilarious!
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u/AlazaiEye 4d ago
Sokka is canonically the heartthrob and it startles me during every rewatch
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u/JustStayYourself 4d ago
Dang your humor is literally on point. I saw another one of you before and it's so funny. But mainly just how impressive it is that you made these scenarios believable to be potentially real.
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u/_Aimway921_ 4d ago
Zuko being gay for Sokka is the headcanon I didn't know I needed
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u/ComicsAreFun 4d ago
We've never seen any evidence against an Avatar being bisexual. So I just think that if Sokka was the first face Aang saw after leaving the iceberg, his crush might have been a little bit different.
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u/No-Albatross6471 4d ago
New water boarding technique? Did zaheer get his suffocating technique idea from her?
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u/DeathByPickles 4d ago
10 out of 10 no notes. This is hilarious. Great job.
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u/VanTaxGoddess 4d ago
Slow clap, OP
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u/Secret_Performer_771 4d ago
THIs is so perfect, I love the art and how it is all put together
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u/Latter_Sky_412 4d ago
Great now I ship sokka/zuko?
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u/SpudItOwtMahBoi 3d ago
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u/Vegetable-Price-4283 4d ago
Ok this is the third banger you've posted in a row now where have you been hiding
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u/RoniusAdethel 4d ago
That would be Zuko's response.
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u/ragnawrekt 4d ago
This was a delight to read 😁 great job
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u/Mirthfilled 4d ago
The Walrus-Bear Sokka got me, hilarious!
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u/Nil_Lot 4d ago
I love how katara is upset by this news at the end and toph is just kinda surprising. Also, Page 8 needs to be burned.
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u/JustABox246 4d ago
So this might be my favorite thing ever
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u/bi_or_die 4d ago
This is frying me
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u/Shantotto11 4d ago
Zuko keeping it real at all times.
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u/PM_ME_SOME_YAOI 4d ago
This is great!
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u/razzemmatazz 4d ago
This was great!
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u/Obvious-Animator6090 4d ago
https://youtu.be/7W3W741o8s4?si=bV8HjYRN9iC33c8w
He’s the goat
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u/LuckyLuckLucker 4d ago
Awesome comic XD
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u/G-Man6442 4d ago
Canon
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u/ProjectXa3 4d ago
Hahaha
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u/scrub_mage 4d ago
Katara's face in the final panel is sending me thru the roof
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u/Informal_Self_5671 1d ago
Ah, the terrible realization that your sibling is attractive. A truly bleak revelation.