FLYING KICKAPOW

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HANDLE: Kaley
CONTACT: inperpetuity
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Dick Grayson / Nightwing bluer (Accepted earlier this round)

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NAME: Sokka
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
CANON POINT: End of The Promise comics
AGE: 16
BACKGROUND: https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Sokka


PERSONALITY: The first thing you will notice about Sokka is that he’s talkative. His sense of humor forms a major part of how he presents himself and interacts with people. It serves to counterpoint either his practical intelligence or highlight his sarcastic goofiness. In normal circumstances, he’s a ‘look at me!’ type who likes attention, but also has the sense to know when this is not practical. Even in his paranoia, however, he’s a bit over the top, and while he usually has a point to make, it can be easy to overlook in the wake of the GESTURES! And the JOKES!

Sokka has a bit of a chip on his shoulder; to his own eye, he’s the only man who was left behind when his tribe went to war, and this, combined with the death of his mother, makes him desperate to succeed and prove himself. He wants to be a man his father would be proud of, a proper warrior, and he also wants to protect his family and loved ones. The fear of failure is strong with this one, and it only gets stronger after the sacrifices of Princess Yue and his father. This is the serious side that really only comes out when the situation calls for it, and surprises everyone when it does.

He’s also very passionate. Everything Sokka does is done with gusto. Enthusiasm. He gets into his plans, he gets into his acting, he even gets into his own paranoia. He’s quick-witted and good at taking all of the details and turning them into a giant explosion of weapons or tactics. Sokka’s the sort of person who takes lemons and makes a lemon meringue pie to supplement the lemonade. With a bendy straw. He’s creative and puts his own spin on things. He’s a big-picture thinker with grand ideas and the sharp mind it takes to plan and carry them out.

He is also a consummate big brother. He is very protective of his sister, Katara, and while he considers her annoying and fun to antagonize, he loves and admires her for her ability to take charge in the face of their mother’s death. While Sokka is the older sibling, he does end up deferring to Katara just because she’s become so much like a mother to him, and will sometimes just bow out of a serious fight with her.

Sokka is very supportive of his sister, and defensive. While he’s not afraid to disagree with her, seriously criticizing her is a good way to get him to yell at you. Katara and Sokka switch off between who’s the sensible one in their relationship, with Katara acting as a down to earth counterpoint to Sokka’s extreme paranoia or silliness, or Sokka as the neutral middle ground to either Katara’s extremes, whether it's her idealism or her refusal to let things go.

He also extends his defensive protectiveness to anyone else he loves. He acts as an older brother figure to Toph, being her confidant and the first person she’ll hang on to if she’s cut off from her Earthbending, and Aang, who finds Sokka easy to talk because he’s a bit more understanding than Toph and not the person he’s in crush-at-first-sight with, like Katara. Any disparaging comment made towards the moon is met with swift shutting down, because the Moon Spirit was a love interest and she was lovely, and the deciding factor in the failure of his invasion plan is that he let Princess Azula taunt him the possible fate of his other love interest.

Basically, Sokka has a lot of capacity for love. He forms strong attachments, both to living friends and inanimate objects.

And may all the lion-turtles in the world help you if you cross his attachments, because his brain, his boomerang or his sword will get you. Possibly all at once

POWERS/ABILITIES:

* Combat: he's reasonably versed in hand-to-hand and weapons-based combat, being proficient with a boomerang, club, sword, and machete, though he's not touched a sword in more than a year. He rarely goes against opponents that he has the advantage over, so he's developed a knack for working around that and using his brain (below) to figure out how to pull an advantage out of his hat.

* Brain: Intelligent, creative, analytical, thinks things through and has a talent for planning and strategy, as well as attendant info-gathering skills like map reading and researching. Invented the submarine. Is genuinely hilarious (trust me, comedy goes under this heading!), clever with word play in both snark and poetry. Give him enough facts and he'll solve the mystery. He has the hat to prove it!

* Art: ...wait no I lied.

* Weapons forging: He knows the basics. Was able to forge his own sword, and armor for a sky bison.

* Shopping: He WILL find the one thing he HAS TO have. Whether or not he'll have it remains to be seen.

* Survival: He is capable of hunting, fishing, trapping, fire starting, and sleeping in the woods.

* Big brothering: He is the best big brother, capable of both overprotectiveness and teasing, of unconditional loving support for your sidequest and simultaneous snide mocking of the same.


INVENTORY:

1. Boomerang

2. Club

3. Machete

4. Green swag bag

5. Wang Fire's beard

6. Detective hat & pipe (he may be a hoarder)

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The first thing you will notice about Sokka is that he’s talkative. His sense of humor forms a major part of how he presents himself and interacts with people. It serves to counterpoint either his practical intelligence or highlight his sarcastic goofiness. In normal circumstances, he’s a ‘look at me!’ type who likes attention, but also has the sense to know when this is not practical. Even in his paranoia, however, he’s a bit over the top, and while he usually has a point to make, it can be easy to overlook in the wake of the GESTURES! And the JOKES!

Sokka has a bit of a chip on his shoulder; to his own eye, he’s the only man who was left behind when his tribe went to war, and this, combined with the death of his mother, makes him desperate to succeed and prove himself. He wants to be a man his father would be proud of, a proper warrior, and he also wants to protect his family and loved ones. The fear of failure is strong with this one, and it only gets stronger after the sacrifices of Princess Yue and his father. This is the serious side that really only comes out when the situation calls for it, and surprises everyone when it does.

He’s also very passionate. Everything Sokka does is done with gusto. Enthusiasm. He gets into his plans, he gets into his acting, he even gets into his own paranoia. He’s quick-witted and good at taking all of the details and turning them into a giant explosion of weapons or tactics. Sokka’s the sort of person who takes lemons and makes a lemon meringue pie to supplement the lemonade. With a bendy straw. He’s creative and puts his own spin on things. He’s a big-picture thinker with grand ideas and the sharp mind it takes to plan and carry them out.

He is also a consummate big brother. He is very protective of his sister, Katara, and while he considers her annoying and fun to antagonize, he loves and admires her for her ability to take charge in the face of their mother’s death. While Sokka is the older sibling, he does end up deferring to Katara just because she’s become so much like a mother to him, and will sometimes just bow out of a serious fight with her.

Sokka is very supportive of his sister, and defensive. While he’s not afraid to disagree with her, seriously criticizing her is a good way to get him to yell at you. Katara and Sokka switch off between who’s the sensible one in their relationship, with Katara acting as a down to earth counterpoint to Sokka’s extreme paranoia or silliness, or Sokka as the neutral middle ground to either Katara’s extremes, whether it's her idealism or her refusal to let things go.

He also extends his defensive protectiveness to anyone else he loves. He acts as an older brother figure to Toph, being her confidant and the first person she’ll hang on to if she’s cut off from her Earthbending, and Aang, who finds Sokka easy to talk because he’s a bit more understanding than Toph and not the person he’s in crush-at-first-sight with, like Katara. Any disparaging comment made towards the moon is met with swift shutting down, because the Moon Spirit was a love interest and she was lovely, and the deciding factor in the failure of his invasion plan is that he let Princess Azula taunt him the possible fate of his other love interest.

Basically, Sokka has a lot of capacity for love. He forms strong attachments, both to living friends and inanimate objects.

And may all the lion-turtles in the world help you if you cross his attachments, because his brain, his boomerang or his sword will get you. Possibly all at once.

Abilities:

HIS BRAIN. It’s totally magical, and it provides him with charming sarcastic commentary and inventive ideas. This is the guy who invented the submarine, in-universe. His imagination is boundless, and while he might need a buddy to help him build something, he can work out the logistics. His ability to analyze his situation and apply practical knowledge is probably best illustrated by his defeat of Combustion Man, which involved using the trajectory of enemy fire to triangulate a path for his boomerang.

He's clever when it comes to his jokes, sarcasm, and snarkery. He would say too clever, since at times he and his father are the only ones who find it funny. Everyone else would just say he's incomprehensible.

Sokka is also a skilled fighter with various weapons, primarily a sword, boomerang, and machete.

Poetry is also a skill, even if his syllable counting messes up when he’s not paying attention.

Art is not a skill, but I figured I’d mention it so that this section looks a little longer than it actually is. His acting could go either way, but his skill in choosing disguises cannot be argued with. Wang Fire was just detailed enough to be... if not realistic or believable, then at least... not... too suspicious. Or else so incredibly, horrifically, unbelievably suspicious that he went all the way around until he wound back up at innocuous.

Which is a skill in and of itself.


Strengths: intelligence, quick thinking, goal-oriented, levity, creativity
Weaknesses: overreacting, skepticism, self-doubt, single-mindedness, paranoia

God/Shinki: God.
Why?: Because him being a firebender wouldn't be funny if he didn't have his memories.
Top 3 Choices:

1. Agni
2. Vulcan
3. Hephaestus.

God Type: An overly-analytical one, who gets trapped into complicated plans when really, all his followers want is an easier route to school or something. His lack of familiarity with the modern world may lead to him attempting to reinvent the wheel sometimes.

Power: If his god is Agni, the ability to channel sunlight and lightning, turning it into fire and manipulating it like a firebender would. This means he'd have no powers on a moonless night, unless there was a thunder storm going on, and very, very faint powers depending on the phase of the moon-- since moonlight is reflected sunlight. At first, he'd only be able to do straight blasts of uncontrollable intensity, based on the source-- is it an unobscured sun he's drawing from? Or are there clouds blocking his access? How far away is the lightning? He better count the flash-to-bang time!

Otherwise, manipulation of standing fire-- no ability to generate it himself. It would work more like moving the fire itself, rather than pulling from it. If someone struck a match, Sokka would only have a single match flame to sting someone with. He'd need to spark something very flammable to generate more before he could move that. Eventually, he'd learn to take parts of it or shape it into blasts or other attacks.

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He lays to rest the lifeless form of the Northern Princess, her long, snow-white hair in stark relief against the encroaching darkness. Where the darkness ought to be fading, where the moon ought to be reviving, he sees nothing, just a high-pitched... it's not even a human sound, it can't be human. If it's laughing or crying, he can't tell; all he knows is that the chill in his bones is not the temperature.

He wades into the koi pond, soaking his boots and coat, trying to get a better look.

Shattering the ice and snow dwellings of the Northern Tribe is... something, a giant monster, dressed in ruffles and lace, laughing-or-crying in despair-or-joy, making no distinction between the Water Tribe civilians or the Fire Nation soldiers.

Sokka splashes his way back to the princess' body, feels again for a pulse, for signs of breathing, and looks for some sign that her sacrifice was anything more than just that...

"I wish this hadn't happened!" he shouts, suddenly, squeezing the limp hand. "I wish she was alive, and I wish I could fight that-- that thing with the weird mechanism dress!"

It's barely out of his mouth when he's blinded in a rush of pink light, so intense he has to drop Yue's hand and back away. His arms go up to cover his eyes, and when it fades, he looks down.

In his hand there's an apple-sized pink jewel.

[Player name] Kaley
[Age] 23
[Personal Journal] perpetuity
[Other characters currently played]

Youji Kudou / Weiss Kreuz / coolestcat
Dick Grayson / Young Justice Animated / staystraught

[Character name] Sokka
[Age] 15-16ishy
[Canon] Avatar: The Last Airbender
[Point in time taken from canon] Post-The Boiling Rock ( Read more... )

[After a few hours of watching, pushing buttons, and general trial-and-error... The camera focuses on a cheery blue ball rolling out of the frame… and then back in. And then back out… back in. Back out… back in. Wash, rinse, emphasis on repeat. This goes on just long enough to prompt thoughts of whether or not it’s a recorded loop before Sokka breaks the silence.]

Anybody got a name for this thing? It looks like a seal that swallowed a whole melon! Which I’m sure was not appreciated by its sister seals. Melons being a precious commodity and all, d’you know how much we have to trade for one? Tons of seal pelts. Way too many to risk actually feeding a melon to one.

Seals only eat fish, anyway!

Also, why is it blue? Seals don’t get cold enough to turn blue. Anything who’d turn blue at living in the Poles reeeeally needs to go house-hunting. Like, far away, because ice is really the only building block we got. I mean, they’re good insulation, but only if you do it right. And that tends to require opposable thumbs. Flippers are cool, but this guy's are seriously weak.

So… help?