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Sokka the 61st - [Action/Voice]

[When Sokka opens the journal, he does it with a very specific purpose and yeah, maybe it's New Feather season and the aftermath of some dumb experiment, but he has some news that he's been sitting on for awhile. News that only two or three people outside of the Avatar house are even aware of. So today, around lunch period at school, Sokka heads around the building, facing the playground, to make an announcement he'd been putting off for a bit. Not because he didn't want to make it, but it was hard to do it with people being all ragey with the Malnosso. Maybe a few days of New Feathers will have cooled them off?]

Hey everyone. So... this is actually a few weeks late, but uh, that experiment kind of got in the way and New Feathers showing up and... anyway. Forget all that.

If you guys happen to see Suki around town, say hi to her for me. After all, she's the future Missus Thunderaxe. [He allows that to sink in a bit.] Because, you know, we're engaged now. Just saying. Nice pretty necklace and everything. One of my best works, if I do say so myself.

[Yeah, yeah. He's feeling good about that, okay. Like, solid. Whatever that means. Anyway, he decided that tonight he is making dinner. That means he's going to the grocery and stocking up on steaks. He wants to make steak burgers, because he's heard about them (somewhere) and they sounded awesome. From Luceti he had decided he liked steak and he liked hamburgers, so a combination? Gotta be a winner. Nevermind that he's just getting regular old steaks and plans to just put those on a hamburger bun. He'll realize the bones are gonna be a problem later on.

He'll make his customary appearance at the smithy to help New Feathers with weapons. He'll also be around school during the appropriate times for that. In the evening, after his dinner fiasco, he'll be down by the river, on the southern end of town, making some modifications to see if he can't make it sea worthy. Like adding a sail. He's pretty unsatisfied with the results though. Looks like he may need to just make a new boat from scratch. Which necessitates another voice post in the evening. But only after excluding a certain pirate. No offense, Jack, but he wants his own boat.]

[Filtered from Jack Sparrow]

So... ship building. Anyone want to help make one? A big one. Not huge, just... sea worthy with a nice strong sail. And good for bringing in lots of fish, too. Any help would be good. Just materials would go a long way.

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Well that's because I didn't tell everyone I was going to! I did want to surprise her, you know.

So of course it's a surprise! I mean it's not like- well you're young, you know!

Hey! I'm not that young! I proved myself to be a man two years ago. If anything, we're late. We could've been engaged a year ago. Two years for me!

Year a- what? Aren't you only like eighteen?

Seventeen, actually. [But awesome, she thinks he's eighteen. Sweet.]

Seven- you're the youngest of the three of us?! And engaged?! And you're late?!

["Three of us"? He's assuming she's including Winry in that.]

Well, sixteen's the earliest you can get married. After fourteen you're good for engagement. Not that people do that all the time, I'm just saying.

... anyway, aren't you technically younger than both of us now? I mean... that's how it works when you go home and come back.

I'm nineteen chronologically and that's what counts!

[This is the more pressing point, so it comes out first. But she exhales sharply before moving on to point 2]

--So you guys get married young like that, huh?

[She'll remember the important part soon]

Yeah, sometimes. Why not?

[Anyway, changing back to the previous subject...]

But you're what... a fifteen year old in body? I wonder if that makes you think differently... [He doesn't know a lot about biology, but hey, if it bugs Haruhi, WHY NOT.]

Sixteen and a half. And don't change the subject!

Right, sorry. You were saying?

[...Man what was she saying. Let's just think it out loud]

...So I guess Winry knew ahead of time, right?

Wait don't answer that. [...Engaged? Married? It's all too much to think about, and saying Winry's name was probably a bad thing. She flashes through Zan'nen and then Edward in her memories. Neither of which is very welcome. But... all the same, Sokka is the type who would do something like that, isn't he? She never thinks of him as a romantic creature per say, but he does have his moments with... other people. Probably. Winry likes him a lot, after all, and so do some other people she knows.

There's a light humming sound as she considers all that. There's something obvious to say here-]

Edited 2011-05-06 05:05 (UTC)

[Oh right] Sorry, I shouldn't be surprised.

I'm glad she said yes; congrats for it, Sokka.

[Wow. Haruhi happy for him? He didn't think it was possible!]

Wow, I really didn't expect to hear that from you.

...Why not?! Jeez. Getting engaged is a big deal, you know?

I just figured that you'd have some objection to the whole thing being in, you know, this place. [If there's one thing he gives Haruhi credit for, it's not just accepting things at face value.]

What, do you want someone to object to that or something?

Well... not exactly. I just figured you would, that's all.

[...]

Of course it's a stupid idea in the current situation - one of you might poof, both of you might poof, if you go home neither remembers... if you make the leap and get hitched let alone have kids, that's even worse. It's not like you need to be told that though - sure you're a moron half the time, but you would have thought at least that much, right? And either she's a ditz or she's thought about it some too.

[...]

Everyone wants to be loved, after all. I dunno if there's a point being married or not being married in Luceti, but if you guys feel like it helps, then we might as well congratulate you for it, right?

[Heh. That's exactly what he was expecting, really. He ends up laughing at her speech, despite the insults.]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was expecting.

Edited 2011-05-06 19:04 (UTC)

Shut up! I knew you knew and that's why I didn't say it in the first place!

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