Sokka the 47th - [Voice/Action]

[markofthewise]

I guess that's it for the new people, unless it starts up again this month. Well, anyway, I'm Sokka. Or Sokka Thunderaxe as some have been known to call me. I'm fine with either one.

I run the smithy here in town, known as the Slash 'n Crash, along with Edward and Winry. They both work for me. [They don't, but this is some rather obvious trolling here.] So if you need any kind of weapons made, or sharpened, or you know... some other kind of odd job. I'm the go to guy for that. There isn't money, so... the stuff is free. But we do accept favors as payment! Or food. Or well, anything. Just ask for me, Sokka. That's with an okka. [Accept no substitutes.]

[Filtered to Raine]

Speaking of which, mind dropping by today?

[Filtered to Regal and Gelda]

Sooooo. [A beat.] How did it go?

[For you action lovers out there, Sokka can be found at his usual haunts. School, the smithy, eating lunch in the plaza, or generally hanging out around his house.]

Comments

[voice]

[psychebubble]

Is that really the only place in your world like that?

[voice]

[markofthewise]

Uh. Chin Village is pretty bad too.

[voice]

[psychebubble]

Tell me about your world again?

[voice]

[markofthewise]

Uh, well there's four nations. The Earth Kingdom, which is where Ba Sing Se is; the Water Tribes, I'm from the southern one; the Fire Nation, who started the war; and the Air Nomads, who were wiped out. We're not as technologically as advanced as your world. We haven't discovered electricity yet and most things are powered by either steam, coal, or bending. The latter being a special elemental control that only certain people can do.

... that cover it?

[voice]

[psychebubble]

And you mentioned that the water tribe you're from is on the south pole, right?

[voice]

[markofthewise]

That's the one. I'm from the South Pole. Why?

[Voice / Now this is private]

[vermified]

...Of course you were, men don't marry each other.

[Voice / Now this is private]

[markofthewise]

Well, I wouldn't say that. The can fall in love. [Apparently. Or so Haruki claims.]

[Voice / Now this is private]

[vermified]

[Edward seems strangely unsurprised by this.] Well, yes. Anyone can fall in love, it isn't that hard.

[Voice / Now this is private]

[markofthewise]

Yeah. So then marriage. Or something. I don't know.

[voice]

[psychebubble]

So your choices on where to live in this world are in a country controlled by a psychotic puppet government that doesn't allow people to save the world, on the south pole, in the nation that picked a hundred-year-long war and committed genocide, or that fourth group who got entirely wiped out.

[voice]

[markofthewise]

Uh... well. The South Pole isn't that bad! Neither is the North Pole. And we dealt with the Dai Li, so that's not even an issue anymore.

[Action]

[endgames]

[Well it was about time for another visit to the Slash 'n Crash anyways. Shikamaru's been looking for his trench knives ever since he got here, stopping in about once a week. He'll be browsing around the knives for now, keeping an eye out for them.

Couldn't help but overhear this though.] ...now it isn't.

[voice]

[psychebubble]

I can't deal with a place that cold! Anyway, if you've dealt with that, that means there's going to be massive political reforms, which tend to lead to riots and power grabs... Again, a bad place to live.

[Voice / Now this is private]

[vermified]

But men getting married makes no sense. Who would be the wife?

[voice]

[markofthewise]

We just removed the Dai Li, the Earth King is in control now. And he has the Avatar on his side. It should be fine! It's the Fire Nation that I'm worried about.

[Voice / Now this is private]

[markofthewise]

Um. Nobody would be the wife. They'd both be the husband. I guess.

[Voice / Now this is private]

[vermified]

....That's stupid.

[Action]

[markofthewise]

[Blink. What? Oh, he didn't see you come in...]

Huh?

[Voice / Now this is private]

[markofthewise]

[...]

Yeah, I guess you're right. By the way! There's something I have to show you.

[Action]

[endgames]

Nothing. Wouldn't want to spoil the element of surprise.

[Action]

[markofthewise]

[An eyebrow.]

Right... something you're looking for?

[Voice / Now this is private]

[vermified]

[Oh thank god, any more of that topic and Edward might have exploded in a cloud of rainbow sparkles.]

What, at the smithy?

[Voice / Now this is private]

[markofthewise]

No. Just this.

[He'll just redirect Edward to this.]

... strangest request ever.

[Action]

[endgames]

Trench knives. [He puts a dagger back down on a table.] A pair from home, anyways. I've been looking for them ever since I showed up here, but no sign yet.