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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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[ she would waste time being bitter about how rough of a time she had but NO sokka manages to distract her with a shiny offer. ] Really? Would you? Really?

[ careful, thunderaxe. girl's got a serious put all my eggs in one party planning basket complex. ]

[Well Sokka isn't much of a party planner. Well, he can do it, but why not leave it in the hands of someone way more into this than him.]

Uh, sure? I mean, unless Suki minds, but I don't think she will.

I'll ask her. Or -- is it rude to ask? Should you be the asker? Because, really, rudeness be damned, I don't mind asking.

[... hey. So, put this all out of his hands, completely? He's so completely okay with this.]

Sure, ask away!

[ a little wistful: ] It's almost warm enough to have it outside.

[ things might be barely chugging along at okay in her life, but she's always cheered by the chance to displace all her worries onto some other kind of celebration. make the celebration perfect? well, if she manages that then maybe she can transplant a little of that perfection back into her own life. ]

... or at a beach.

[Not particularly invested either way, but hey, beach party is good. And it might appease Suki just a bit after she finds out about his umm... private breach visit he's going on with Winry. Er.]

I was just out there for the first time last weekend. Gorgeous. So that's definitely an option.

I haven't been out there for weeks, but I guess I'm going out there pretty soon. Either way, it'll give people more to do than stand around congratulating us.

The weather's not exactly beach-perfect yet but it's -- well, it's been a few years since I've been shore-side and it was nice to get reacquainted with my California shore roots.

[ plus the company wasn't so bad. ] Clam bake! We could do one of those. So, it's a little east coast but who cares?

Um, sure. Clams. What's wrong with the east?

[Is there some kind of war in her world he wasn't aware of? Old enemies?]

I'm not convinced that they know how to have fun.

Uh huh... sounds like a real problem, all right.

New York's got nothing on LA. Or so I hear -- not like I've been there. [ a pause. ] To New York, I mean. I was born in LA.

Is LA really that much better than New York? Because... New York is pretty amazing.

LA has Hollywood. Can't argue with the big screen

[ WAIT. ] How do you know about New York?

[What does wood and screens have to do with anything...?]

Oh, I went there with Winry and Haruhi. [In the battle dome, but that spoils the fun.]

Sokka? Be kind, rewind.

[ that is to say -- huh what? ]

Yeah, I know, I found it hard to believe too. But I actually went out and did stuff with Haruhi. It was even my idea.

[He's having too much fun with this.]

[ a long pause, then: ] Yeah, actually? That is just about as unbelievable as the three of you somehow going to New York.

I know, right? Anyway, it was just in the Battle Dome. We had... super powers, I guess. It seemed like a good place to test them.

Right. You were monster-guy and I was in my blissfully brief robo-phase.

[ aha. the battledome made a lot of sense. ] I didn't realize it could be real places. I wonder if it can do now-destroyed ones, too.

Oh, right. Yeah. [Good times. Robo Buffy.]

It seems to be able to go anywhere. Though it's not exactly somewhere you go to relax. There's almost something attacking you there.

...Sounds like home sweet home, to me.

[ you don't even want to know how many front windows she's had to have replaced. ]

Really? Generally if I was in the South Pole I could take a walk and not get attacked. You'd think the Malnosso could at least let us turn the bad guys off.

It was a weird night in Sunnydale if I didn't get attacked.

[ a thought: ] Maybe we just need the right techno-geek to hack it. [ where's willow when you need her? ]

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