What Don’t People Get About The Fact That “sokka Raised Katara” And “katara Raised Sokka” Are

Sokka says “Suki!” with the exact same inflection and level of enthusiasm as he says “Boomerang!” and that’s really all you need to know about him as a person

I cried so much at the end of atla partially because of the realization that now, Iroh not only has Zuko as a son, but he has a whole gaggle of dumbass children to love and give wisdom to over cups of hot tea.

Trying to find a concise way to describe Centaurworld to the uninitiated and so far I’ve settled on “what if Samurai Jack was sent to the Care Bears universe instead of the future. And was also a horse.”

The hair definitely makes him look older (and ugly), but I think it’s supposed to make him look older. I like the idea that Mikey aged way faster, sure bc of the stress, but mainly bc of the mystic powers. If that time thingy portal literally evaporated his entire essence, than I think regular use of those powers would be likely to harm him and deplete him of energy, or age him faster. That badass power has some bad side effects :((

Also! The hair looks very familiar…

so that’s another reason for the hair. They both even wear a similar color scheme with their clothes! They directly compare him to splinter to maybe show he matured? Idk but that comparison btwn these characters means a lot for Mikey’s character… and all other versions of Mikey too. I do appreciate that.

…still ugly tho

According to the timeline I've put together for myself, Mikey is 39 in the future, and I've seen a lot of people say the war aged him so bad - which I agree with don't get me wrong!! He has not aged well, stress and trauma will do that to you!! But I think his hair makes him look a lot older as well, so I edited a couple of screenshots.

Why did I make this

They remind me of em sometimes lol

to celebrate 1300 followers, a bit of detail on my sokka owns a knick knack store au, first mentioned here:

sokka does a portrait of the month series. every month he’ll paint a different “historical figure” and sell prints

the first one he does is zuko, newly crowned fire lord after fire lord iroh abdicates. zuko sighs and complains more and more as he’s sitting for his portrait because he has work to do sokka, not that you would know anything about that, running a silly store instead of focusing on your actual job—

sokka just stares at zuko silently until zuko realizes he’s messed up.

zuko sits very quietly and stays still for the rest of his portrait session. he also pays for production of the first set of prints.

zuko’s portrait ends up being him looking directly at the viewer, eyebrows furrowed like he’s going to scold them, but mouth open in laughter. sokka hangs it up next to the cashier’s area.

the second portrait sokka does is aang cause avatar, duh. before sokka starts painting, aang is a ball of energy, all over the place, but once sokka starts aang channels all that energy into talking. he sits perfectly still, but his mouth is going a mile a minute.

the end result is stunning. aang’s body is facing slightly off to one side, with his head turned over his shoulder closest to the viewer. he’s glancing off into the distance, one eyebrow raised, gleefully smiling.

the third ‘portrait’ sokka does is toph, as she’s the only one in town at the moment (and also a badass in her own right). instead of doing a formal portrait that toph wouldn’t be able to see, sokka works for weeks on making his own little statue of toph from the shoulders up.

toph definitely doesn’t tear up when she holds it for the first time.

sokka’s arms hurt, both from sculpting so many copies and from toph’s punch after she doesn’t cry over the statue.

the fourth portrait sokka does is suki. he does the initial portrait in one go while she’s practicing her forms, a powerful image of suki with her kyoshi makeup and her fans, mid pose. he does the formal portrait from memory of all the times they’ve fought and practiced alongside each other.

the suki portrait is amazing, although people seem to think sokka was trying to do kyoshi herself. suki isn’t offended, she just takes it as a compliment.

the fifth portrait is of katara. this one is done entirely while katara is practicing her bending. the first draft gets dowsed with katara’s water when kya startles her by being pushed off a wall by bumi.

the final portrait is an image of katara with two orbs of water circling her head, joy clear on her face. the light shining through the water makes her face look like it’s glowing. (sokka sneaks kya and bumi into the background, falling off one of the garden walls)

the sixth portrait was supposed to be of iroh, but the old man cancels the meeting so many times that aang convinces sokka to do a self portrait. sokka does a caricature of himself for his part.

however, aang thinks it’s unfair that sokka will do amazing portraits of everyone but himself. he rifles through sokka’s works until he finds a self portrait sokka did. he’s in front of the shop with little kids surrounding him, laughing his head off with a toy in his hands. aang sneaks around, buys a bunch of copies of this painting, and replaces the caricature with his choice

sokka is embarrassed and angry and refuses to speak to aang

...but then his self portrait sells out the fastest of them all

and now people know he owns the knick knack store ugh aang this is all your fault

once again, sokka has aang to thank for his store’s success. aang is unbearably smug about it.

iroh has all five portraits and one statue (as well as the eventual portraits of mai, azula, and ty lee) in the same small room where he keeps his memorial to lu ten, his wife, and the others he has lost. they remind him of the joy he has found in life as it is now.

the way sokka and azula’s dynamic would progress from azula being like “sokka is extremely smart and needs to be destroyed” to “sokka is extremely smart and must teach me everything he knows,” but it’s also a very gradual process filled with a lot of rage and resentment and losing to him at pai sho; concurrently, sokka going from “wow I fucking hate you” to “wow I fucking hate you” (but said lovingly). also azula thinks all of sokka’s jokes are funny. every single one. they share the exact same sense of humor and this fact baffles all of their other friends so much

Wait but the real question is, which Ghibli movies do the Gaang like??

That's it, that's the show.