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[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
[Background] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokka | http://avatar.wikia.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.
[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.
[Other important stuff]
He’s adaptable yet eccentric, practical yet a bit of a paranoid maniac, and a chick magnet despite being a painfully huge dork.
Also if anyone should dare imply the moon is the source of everyone's problems in his hearing, mercy will not be shown, denouncing will be swift, and boomerangs will be asked to come back only after impact.
[Sample post]
[First Person]
- You are a given a mission. Would you complete it effectively or would you goof off and do something else? Expand a little on the response.
No reason you can’t do both, right? I mean… the mission part, that has to be serious, well-planned, every piece of information worked out and account for as many possible, uh, complications as… well, possible. Because you know there’s going to be complications. It probably wouldn’t be a mission if it wasn’t complicated. Otherwise it’d be an errand.
Buuuut after that, no reason to be serious all the time, right? Some things just need to have jokes made about them.
- There is a cake in the rain. What do you do?
[Eyes narrow.] Iiiiiiit’s probably a trap. To lure out the Avatar. Or even a Waterbender. I’m pretty sure that Katara or Aang could salvage a rainy cake, just take all the water out, and then the Fire Nation would have us in a trap. Because who would even bother with a rainy cake if they couldn’t make it less rainy?
[Cough!] I mean, I’d ignore it.
- Do you believe you can fly? Do you believe you can touch the sky?
Not unassisted and what are you talking about? Sky’s just air and water and stuff. I mean, reach out and wave your hand around, it’s the same thing. Just not as damp.
- You find yourself with a cute, little penguin slave. What do you do with it?
I call him Pengy, of course! And I wouldn’t make him do anything he didn’t want to do. Or she didn’t want to do. And I’d introduce him to Appa and Momo and they’d be friends and I’d hope he didn’t run off like that traitor Hawky.
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
As much as he wanted. Or needed to build a dam. Woodchucks build dams, right, or is that just beaver-otters?
- Murder. What is your opinion?
It’s not worth it. People don’t deserve it, not the victims and not their families.
[Now. Overthrowing a dictator via political assassination, on the other hand… whole ‘nother kettle of fish…]
[Third Person]
Well, gee, that was what Mom looked like. Still a lot like Katara, but Katara took more after Gran-Gran than not, and Mom...
He'd known it was bad. He'd always known it was bad-bad, because after that, his little sister had stopped being his little sister and started being more of a mom-substitute, and when she should have needed Mom way more than Sokka had. So, he'd known it was bad.
But the how-bad and the why-bad had escaped him, somehow. He wondered if Dad knew. He was, for about a quarter of a second, upset with Katara for not ever talking to him about it, but it was a short quarter-second. The idea that Mom died specifically so she wouldn't-- it was... a lot to process. She was probably still processing it. Maybe she hadn't known?
Did she have that dream a lot? There was really nothing good and sarcastic Sokka could say to that. Which, frustrating! Because life is -- if not actually easier -- than at least bit easier to swallow if he could say something without looking like a jerk. And getting splashed. She would splash him.
But hey, if it offered a distraction... Well, why stop there? Distract her, get splashed, call it a day? Nah. Not ambitious enough. He could probably provoke her into tidal waves if he tried... there was a harbor, out there, somewhere... he was sure that, given a few months and enough equipment, he could probably get a crew to build a tunnel-digger to get under the desert.
If there wasn't a tunnel already.
Maybe he could design a tunnel finder? That would be useful... something that searched out tunnels... pockets of air below ground? Something that combined airbending and earthbending? A hybrid sky bison-badgermole?
...Something that wouldn't get him and Bumi sharing a 'wanted' poster for excessively mad geniusing. Although if they got the Mechanist in on it, splitting a wanted poster three ways, there was artistic merit! Everyone gets his own third, they could even be color-coded...
...aaaand then Katara would have another dream about how her brother had failed her in her time of need. Just like he'd failed Princess Yue.
Back to the drawing board.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] The bandwagon effect + just wanting to inject his brand of humor into things.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] No godmodding.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Been here.
[Do you need a promo code?] No , thank you.
[Any questions?] None at this time, thank you.
[Age] 23
[Personal Journal]
perpetuity[Other characters currently played]
Youji Kudou / Weiss Kreuz /
coolestcatDick 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
[Background] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokka | http://avatar.wikia.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.
[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.
[Other important stuff]
He’s adaptable yet eccentric, practical yet a bit of a paranoid maniac, and a chick magnet despite being a painfully huge dork.
Also if anyone should dare imply the moon is the source of everyone's problems in his hearing, mercy will not be shown, denouncing will be swift, and boomerangs will be asked to come back only after impact.
[Sample post]
[First Person]
- You are a given a mission. Would you complete it effectively or would you goof off and do something else? Expand a little on the response.
No reason you can’t do both, right? I mean… the mission part, that has to be serious, well-planned, every piece of information worked out and account for as many possible, uh, complications as… well, possible. Because you know there’s going to be complications. It probably wouldn’t be a mission if it wasn’t complicated. Otherwise it’d be an errand.
Buuuut after that, no reason to be serious all the time, right? Some things just need to have jokes made about them.
- There is a cake in the rain. What do you do?
[Eyes narrow.] Iiiiiiit’s probably a trap. To lure out the Avatar. Or even a Waterbender. I’m pretty sure that Katara or Aang could salvage a rainy cake, just take all the water out, and then the Fire Nation would have us in a trap. Because who would even bother with a rainy cake if they couldn’t make it less rainy?
[Cough!] I mean, I’d ignore it.
- Do you believe you can fly? Do you believe you can touch the sky?
Not unassisted and what are you talking about? Sky’s just air and water and stuff. I mean, reach out and wave your hand around, it’s the same thing. Just not as damp.
- You find yourself with a cute, little penguin slave. What do you do with it?
I call him Pengy, of course! And I wouldn’t make him do anything he didn’t want to do. Or she didn’t want to do. And I’d introduce him to Appa and Momo and they’d be friends and I’d hope he didn’t run off like that traitor Hawky.
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
As much as he wanted. Or needed to build a dam. Woodchucks build dams, right, or is that just beaver-otters?
- Murder. What is your opinion?
It’s not worth it. People don’t deserve it, not the victims and not their families.
[Now. Overthrowing a dictator via political assassination, on the other hand… whole ‘nother kettle of fish…]
[Third Person]
Well, gee, that was what Mom looked like. Still a lot like Katara, but Katara took more after Gran-Gran than not, and Mom...
He'd known it was bad. He'd always known it was bad-bad, because after that, his little sister had stopped being his little sister and started being more of a mom-substitute, and when she should have needed Mom way more than Sokka had. So, he'd known it was bad.
But the how-bad and the why-bad had escaped him, somehow. He wondered if Dad knew. He was, for about a quarter of a second, upset with Katara for not ever talking to him about it, but it was a short quarter-second. The idea that Mom died specifically so she wouldn't-- it was... a lot to process. She was probably still processing it. Maybe she hadn't known?
Did she have that dream a lot? There was really nothing good and sarcastic Sokka could say to that. Which, frustrating! Because life is -- if not actually easier -- than at least bit easier to swallow if he could say something without looking like a jerk. And getting splashed. She would splash him.
But hey, if it offered a distraction... Well, why stop there? Distract her, get splashed, call it a day? Nah. Not ambitious enough. He could probably provoke her into tidal waves if he tried... there was a harbor, out there, somewhere... he was sure that, given a few months and enough equipment, he could probably get a crew to build a tunnel-digger to get under the desert.
If there wasn't a tunnel already.
Maybe he could design a tunnel finder? That would be useful... something that searched out tunnels... pockets of air below ground? Something that combined airbending and earthbending? A hybrid sky bison-badgermole?
...Something that wouldn't get him and Bumi sharing a 'wanted' poster for excessively mad geniusing. Although if they got the Mechanist in on it, splitting a wanted poster three ways, there was artistic merit! Everyone gets his own third, they could even be color-coded...
...aaaand then Katara would have another dream about how her brother had failed her in her time of need. Just like he'd failed Princess Yue.
Back to the drawing board.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] The bandwagon effect + just wanting to inject his brand of humor into things.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] No godmodding.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Been here.
[Do you need a promo code?] No , thank you.
[Any questions?] None at this time, thank you.