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[sokkagatekeeper]

Hi! I love your rants about sokka, i think he is a very interesting character that isn't that explore to his core (i mean people tend to think of him as the genius cómic relief) and I identity a lot with him. Anyways, I intensely ship him with suki, and i wanted to know your thought about:

- suki, as a character (i know it's not sokka related, but I'd like to know)

- their relationship during the show

- their relationship during the comics (if you have read them, and maybe your opinion about the comics per se) and post-atla period

- that period after alta but before korra, and what happened canon wise to sokka, and maybe suki, because im kinda confused (also your hc from this era)

You can answer the ones that you like, or none at all, This were just some ideas :))

Have a nice day!

oh well i love suki and i love her relationship with sokka!! however i haven’t read the comics or finished tlok, and people whose judgement i trust have told me none of those are as faithful as they should be to the carefully crafted text that is atla therefore i have no intention of engaging with the paratexts anytime soon (except for the upcoming suki alone 🙏 i have high hopes for this one). that said;

i think suki is a good character. she is albeit “underdeveloped” because she is a minor character whose purpose in the story is to further other main character’s arc (sokka in this case), but she serves her purpose. most of suki’s depth is implied, and to understand suki as more than the local baddass one needs to take into account how she parallels sokka; suki takes pride in her responsibility and her duty to her warriors, the active side of the war that she’s in and therefore the avatar she never hesitates when she must make a sacrifice for the sake of the greater good at her own expense, just like sokka (and just like yue). an example of this is the entirety of her interactions not only with sokka but with the rest of the gaang, even those she doesn’t really know or has any reason to trust, like when she jumped into the water to save toph or when she allied with zuko at the boiling rock since sokka trusted him and his help was indeed necessary for them to get out of prison; when she stayed and fought a battle she could not win against azula in order for appa to escape. all of this is suki knowing her place in the war, where she’s needed the most and what her duties are — values that are an important part of the core of sokka’s character.

suki is also a blatant idealist. she sees a cute boy who’s like wrong about stuff, she teaches him better, she dates him. suki is determinate, smart, outspoken and emotionally open (good news for sokka, also known as the king of self-repression and infuriatingly low self-esteem who won’t believe someone values him if they spit compliments to his face). she’s not afraid to talk about her feelings and she has no reservations calling zuko out for burning her village. overall a very direct, fun-to-love character.

suki also knows how to have fun and relax which is undoubtedly yet another thing that makes her and sokka compatible – they’re both responsible at their cores, but when it comes down to it sokka can get a bit neurotic and suki grounds him and helps him relax and let go of his responsibilities for a little while. she’s both physically and emotionally strong and stable (admittedly her lack of emotional depth is a little due to her status as a minor character, but alas we’re basing this analysis on the text), and she’s able to do something people haven’t done for sokka in a while; take the role of the protector in their dynamic. coming to mind when during the journey to ba sing se, when sokka asks her “did you come here to protect me?? ME????????” and suki is like “yeah.... ??” because as we all know sokka has the named protector complex that eldest sons are burdened by forever and ever. suki gives him a safe space in that sense.

i’ve stated why i believe sokka travelling the world after the war (and after he has spent a long time at the southern water tribe, recovering and probably helping to restore the village and just like relaxing for a while after all that batshit frontline he was at) is the most satisfying & accurate continuation of his arc of learning and discovering himself through the world, similarly to how katara becoming chief of the southern water tribe is the most satisfactory & accurate continuation to her own arc. and for suki’s sake, i’d say the best future possible for her after the war is some nice therapy back at kyoshi island, reuniting with her warriors, spend her life travelling and helping people along with them all around the earth kingdom and definitely not become the bodyguard of the boy king of a racist nation (i love zuko in all his boy king-ness but i had to say it).

suki and sokka’s relationship after the war is pretty much the way it was throughout the show; each of them being happy doing their own thing, when they’re at the same place they have a fun loving time, when they aren’t they love each other anyway, and in the meantime they’re open to relationships with other people (namely a dear interpretation of mine, ty lee and zuko respectively) without ever really falling out of love. when they’re together they go on fun little dates which help sokka have excuses to shower suki in gifts and appreciation and an excuse for suki to be allowed to help sokka relax and just exist for a couple of hours. just healthy relationships all around!!