markofthewise | 65th: The Swapping of Sokka Thunderaxe

[And now Sokka was a girl. Worse than that, he was Haruhi Suzumiya. After an enlightening conversation with that Malnosso girl, he and the real Haruhi had come to the unhappy conclusion it was better not to tell anyone what happened. Which Sokka hated the idea of, but the potential consequences of not doing it could be worse. Besides, if Haruhi could figure out how to fix all of this, he'd be back in his own body by tomorrow! Or a few days, anyway.

This, unfortunately, means having to live like Haruhi. And dress like her too. Girly top, a dress, and that stupid ribbon in his hair. As much as he wanted to just tie it all behind his head in a ponytail, she wouldn't let him do that. Can't blow their cover, after all. And then he has to follow Haruhi's schedule for things.

He leaves the house undetected that morning, eating breakfast on the go. This leaves him to try and do things that Haruhi would do. Which he is not at all thrilled about. Since he doesn't want to run into people, he ends up hitting the library to read about things that would help him be Haruhi. Like things about Japan. He'd never cared about Japan, but it seemed like he ought to know things on it by now.

After lunch (which he spends tucked away privately in the back of one of the restaurants), he swallows his anxiety and goes to visit Winry. But then he decides to look in on Shiki first at All Passions, like instructed. After that he'll warily enter the smithy, feeling oddly out of place there, to visit Winry. When these 'appointments' are finished, he'll arrive at the Brigade building. Early. Twiddling his thumbs until people arrive. Fortunately he wrote down a cheat sheet for who everyone actually is.

After the meeting (which is probably short), he'll be left with nothing to do for a few hours. That's when he opts to just hit the barracks and try to train. He'll be incredibly frustrated at the fact he seems to have lost his skill at just about everything. While he's not horrible, he's nowhere near his "A Game".

In the evening he faces the second worst part of the day - cooking. Being only skilled at cooking meat, he'll try his darndest to make a decent meal. It will be edible Shiki and Beat, don't worry. It will just be incredibly bland and very heavy on the meat. Sort of a boring exercise in chewing, really. Given that Katara has drilled family dinners into him, he'll be at the table expecting a group dinner.

Later in the evening he'll spend some time on the roof, grumbling about his fate, and working secretly on carving a piece of wood into a new boomerang. Day one was a nightmare. He doesn't think he's going to last another one.]

((OOC: Okay! So lots of teal deer up there. Hit him up at any time during the day. You can forward date stuff to later in the week if you want. His routine will be more or less the same the rest of the week. Replies will come from

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MORE IMPORTANTLY this is a body swap plot! It involves some of Haruhi's reality bending powers, so it's not an experiment/Mallynapping thing. As explained here, this means that Sokka and Haruhi's friends shouldn't notice things being that odd. If they do, it's something they'd quickly dismiss. I hope you guys will play along!))

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Well we could always go to the grocer to get a half gallon of it?

[And end up at one of their homes cuddling? Sokka thinks not.]

No no, just a large is good. You can find a seat, I'll take care of this.

Fine, all right. [She takes a seat and pouts a bit. What's up with her?]

[Haruhi is being the man of the relationship now. Hope you don't mind. Sokka joins her soon enough with an extra large ice cream, with tons of chocolate, for them to split. He holds out a spoon for Winry.]

Alright, dig in.

[Winry prefers that, though. She takes the spoon and fills it up with ice cream. However instead of eating it, she offers to feed Haruhi with a smile.]

[... wow, are they really doing this. He stares down at the spoon hovering in front of his mouth like it's utterly ridiculous. But he knows what he has to do. He leans forward, takes the ice cream in his mouth, and then forces a smile back.]

Mmm.... tasty.

[Winry will retract the spoon then, and feed herself. She gets this odd vibe that "Haruhi" doesn't want to be doing this, but she looks happy and smiling? Maybe Winry's just out of it.]

[Okay, Sokka finally gets a spoon full of ice cream. A really, really big scoop. And then he's going to try to feed Winry with it. Because apparently this is their thing.]

[She looks at it suspiciously, since it's so big, but will try to eat it anyway. It's too much, and some of it ends up falling down her chin and on her shirt!]

[... oh, oops. Well, that's unfortunate.]

Um. Sorry about that.

[For now she leaves the mess on her skin in favor of trying to wipe up the glob of ice cream on her shirt. Frantically she tries to remove it, but a small stain will stay.]

[Haruhi would probably lean in and sloppily kiss it off or something.

YEAH NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.]

I guess maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

If you were smarter about how much you tried to give me I wouldn't be so messy. [She gets a napkin to clean her chin off.]

I could have handled it. [... if he had his normal mouth.]

Well we can't all be special like you, Haruhi.

You have no idea how right you are.

Excuse me?

Uh, nothing. [Whoops.] So um, I guess you'll want to get a new shirt after this, huh?

Of course!

So. We should finish this up then! [Sokka takes a big spoonfull and stuffs it in his mouth in a very unladylike fashion.]

[Sigh. Why visit if you were going to rush it? Winry silently digs into the ice cream, but now she's not feeling very enthusiastic about it.]

[Sokka on the other hand is just going to dig in. This is delicious.]

[When it gets down to half melted half still ice cream she pushes around the melted stuff.]

[He notices that. Oh, he made Winry upset. He ends up doing the same, trying to think of a way to fix this situation.]

So... how's thing at the smithy?