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Let’s talk about Hakoda, who left.
Let’s talk about Sokka, who was left behind.
(This is a boy so defined by loss. )
Sokka: A character study.
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- Part 5 of childhood living is (not) easy to do
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09 Aug 2026
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If You Make It Out Alive, Hold That Bloody Head Up High by Anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Sep 2025
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For a moment he focused on what seemed to be the truth. Zuko was once again seven years old. He was no longer thirty nor was he Fire Lord, so he had to do away with that mindset. Zuko was seven and had just excelled at his first ever Firebending lessons. Azula was five and still unsure of her role in the universe, his Mother was still with him, Ozai was plotting to take the throne, and Aang was twelve and frozen in a block of ice.
Zuko has been Fire Lord for over twenty years when he falls into the past. Quickly realizing he is a combatant in the battle for Azula's soul, he also comes to understand that ---as her older brother--- he has the chance to be the only player in the game.
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08 Aug 2026
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Some people are born with soulmarks. Zuko has them, but his grandfather burned them off because they "make you weak."
Team Avatar has a few things to say about that.
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06 Aug 2026
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Top tier characterization, and one of my favorite flavors of soulmate AUs
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[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.
It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife.
When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.
“Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.”
Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day.
A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.]
Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.
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“My sister isn’t the bender.” Sokka lied. “I am.”
When the Fire Nation comes looking to the last water bender of the South Pole, Sokka lies to save his mother and sister's life. He's taken as a captive to the Fire Nation Capital. Determined to escape and return home, Sokka confronts what it means to be a warrior when the battle can't be fought with weapons.
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01 Aug 2026