markofthewise | Sokka the 61st

[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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... so you lost. [He can't imagine 'crater' being a victory. But with the way Buffy talks, it's also hard to imagine her having lost either...]

Won, actually. The place was evacuated. It was kind of an only way out scenario.

Oh, right. Well, that's good. Even if you lost your home. [Not a decisive victory, but it's the people that matter.]

The underneath of the city was infested with countless ubervamps. It -- well, better to do the magical equivalent of nuke the place than slay them one by one.

That's one way to do it, I guess. [What a way to finish things though. Man.]

Can't blame you for wanting to go back. I wouldn't mind seeing my village from before it was hit by all the raids.

Raids?

[ she doesn't quite like the sound of that. ]

Yeah, from the Fire Nation. They first started a hundred years ago.

[Yeah, it sucked. But while his tone may be more serious, it's just... one of those things he's accepted, got over, and doesn't let it bother him. Besides, it's not something that will happen again now.]

...I'm hoping this story doesn't end in a ka-boom.

There was a few along the way. None at home, though. They mostly stopped when there wasn't much of us left.

[ that's...that's horrible. ]

Those don't happen anymore though, right?

Well seeing as one of my friends is Fire Lord now, they better not.

[Yeah... it is awful. It's better to just talk about it like this.]

Friends in high places, huh? It makes a difference.

The irony being that he was the last person to raid our village...

[ buffy's well-acquainted with that kind of irony. ]

Turncoat, huh?

Well, uh, calling him traitor is a nice way to annoy him. It's not really my place to talk anyway. [Zuko's life is a box of complications that Sokka quite honestly doesn't know enough about to comment on.]

Maybe the more diplomatic way of putting it is he saw the light. I know the type.

Yeah, I guess so. His sister and dad were pretty much insane. [So he must have been squinting a lot before he finally opened his eyes, honestly.]

One of those runs in the family kind of crazies. Right.

Yeah that... does pretty much sum it up. Him and his uncle aren't bad though.

[How did they even get on this topic anyway.]

But uh, anyway, let me know if it works. The going to your home thing, I mean.

I will. And if it does? Then you can maybe someday see what a real vamp patrol's like.

[ buffy. asking someone out to do violence with you? not an appropriate friendly bonding technique. well. not usually. ]

You realize, of course, I don't uh... exactly have super strength anymore, right? I mean, not that I'm a bad fighter or anything. But can normal people even fight them?

[Thinking back to his fight with Giles, he could have done way better if he had fought smarter and prepared...]

Oh, I know. Still -- there's strength and then there's know-how and it can't hurt to have the one even if you don't have the other.

[ translation: you are her little proto-slayer, sokka. she wants you to leaaaarn. ]

[He doesn't like strength being used that way. He has strength, just not the boulder lifting kind.]

I'd like to think I already have a lot of both.

I didn't meant to say...uh-uh. Sorry. Removing my foot from my mouth, now.

No no, it's fine. So, fighting vampires. Yeah, we can do that. I'll just, you know, make sure I have a stake and stuff.

[Maybe he can rig up a crossbow that shoots stakes!]

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