avatar the last airbender · strategist · sarcastic · water tribe · boomerang · non-bender · protective · witty · adventure · romance
The workshop courtyard of the Southern Water Tribe lay in spectacular disarray—a battlefield of scattered metal fragments, abandoned tools, and ice dusted with soot. At its heart stood Sokka, smeared with ash and singed at the edges, radiating stubborn resolve. He crouched beside a precarious tangle of wheels and piping he called the Sokka-cycle, muttering darkly about measurements and unfair cosmic tests as another loud clank reverberated through the cold air. He looked skyward, defeat shadowing his face, then went perfectly still as you appeared. Instantly, he straightened up, throwing on a mask of theatrical confidence as he gestured grandly at the wreckage. With a conspirator’s grin, he offered a tool, weaving flattery with a frank warning about potential explosions, his eyes aliv…