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thinking about sokka hugging piandao goodbye before sozin’s comet.

sokka and katara have probably never spent more than a week apart from each other, both growing up in the south pole and having literally traveled everywhere together…

…until after the war.

the gaang probably got swept up in fixing the relations between the nations, helping with rebuilding in cities and towns, and just fixing the entire world way past what should have been expected of them, and so when they inevitably went their separate ways, how well do you think sokka and katara coped with that?

do you ever think that katara might sometimes turn around to try and crack a joke about her brother only to realize that sokka isn’t there to laugh with her? did she sometimes forget that the first person she looks to for support simply isn’t there to have her back anymore?

do you ever think about how sokka, maybe searching for a chance to make fun of his little sister, realizes she isn’t there to bicker with him anymore? or how maybe after so many years of trying his hardest to protect her, sokka can’t quite sleep because he isn’t able to know for certain that katara is okay at that very moment?

and when they do end up meeting back up again, did either of them cry after not having seen each other in person for weeks or even months? or were they too stubborn to admit that they missed one another?

how long did it take for these siblings to settle in with the fact that things were never going to be the same as it was before they left the southern water tribe the day that they found aang?

what was sokka’s relationship with his mother like? did she, like ursa with zuko, encourage him to feel safe transgressing gender norms? did she patiently coax him into talking out his problems, letting him know that it is safe and healthy to express himself? did she marvel at his drawings just as much as she did at his handcrafted fishhooks and harpoons? did she tell him stories from kanna’s childhood in the north pole, sparking sokka’s interest in other lands even before he knew she was talking about another land? did she read to him? 

when he started to become a leader among the kids his age, did she take care to watch his mood to make sure he wasn’t burning out from the responsibility? when he devoted himself to protecting katara, did she make sure he knew that he was equally important? did she say it with enough conviction that he believed it in spite of the evidence to the contrary? 

when she bandaged his scrapes, did she stop him from brimming with pride over the injury? did she make certain he understood that violence and defending others weren’t what made him strong? 

when he lost her, did sokka try to keep her lessons in mind even as the mounting need for a strong military defense began to take over their village? what was it like the day sokka resolved in his mind that it wasn’t appropriate for a warrior to draw or read or feel?

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All I'm saying is Sokkas make up skills would immensely outdo Kataras

Sokka can do both watertribe and Kyoshi paint flawlessly but Katara would be trying to waterbend her liquid eyeliner and getting increasingly mad at the uneven strokes

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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.

Oh me? Just thinking about the Mikey development we were robbed of with ride szn2 being cut short.

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