That's It, That's The Show.

I-I can’t

Alright that’s cute

BUT WHYYY

WHY DID THEY DO HIM LIKE THAT

We all know he’s pretty

HES BEHiND THIS BEAUTIFUL PIC OF TODOROKI omg

AND IDA TOO WTF

Y is he like this I love himmm

Like

Him

And him

Despite all the relationships inside tmnt 2012 and the guys having their ways of interacting with each other (a lot of the time fighting), it wasn't an abusive household...

Yeah it was different to how they portrayed them in Rise and how they were brought up had a massive effect on that, but taking what they had and calling it abusive is a major exaggeration. 2012 has portrayed the love the family had for each on countless occasions but that gets shoved under the rug as soon as they wanna compare it to Rise.

Both iterations showed a great example of what it's like to have brothers, the good and the dirty stuff, but they both had just as many links to the other as well as the differences both shows have

Nah fam 2012 was abusive asdfhjk. No parent is perfect, but the was 2012 Splinter overtly favored Leo to the point where, after his death he only addressed Leo specifically when his other grieving sons were right there. He also never gave them the choice, he put them in a feud with a man he had beef with. He made them soldiers, and pushed specifically both Leo and Donnie to breaking points bc they were under such pressure to find and cure Splinter’s daughter all while Splinter sat back and barely joined the search.

All of this is a byproduct of poor writing but it was still compelling if u looked at it through the lenses of “this is what happens when u live in a toxic, abusive household”. And 2012 could have been successfully less frustrating if they would have just acknowledged that this was intentionally meant to portray a sucky family dynamic instead of trying to play it off as normal.

Ultimately 2012 Splinter fostered the tense and strained relationships between his kids, didnt really make the important decisions and left a majority of it on Leo- who then projected his stress onto his brothers, namely Donnie. Then 2012 Splinter knew his favortism was causing Raph a lot of anger and hurt, and did nothing but teach him how to channel that anger...instead of ya know, not favoring Leo to an extreme. He also never spoke to Mikey asfdghjkkl

And when Leo got beaten into a coma, Splinter convinced him his pain was all in his head to get him to recover quicker just to send him out to fight his battles again. He also taught them healing hands mad late and only taught it to Leo and not Donnie who...was the family medic at the time.

Like cmon this is abusive atp! Still interesting! But still abusive!

Face designs for the Bat kids 👏👏👏

Very good post 10/10

So my brother and I were just talking on the phone and we realized: Aang might have mastered all four elements but Sokka mastered the non-bending styles from all four nations!

He already knew how to fight with Water Tribe weapons/regalia:

Then, in what’s likely the first Earth Kingdom village he’s ever visited, he learned how to fight with the Warriors of Kyoshi:

When he reached the Northern Air Temple, he was able to tap into the philosophy of the airbenders and realize that the best way to win a battle is to avoid face-to-face confrontation by instead using creative means (and the sky) to take down your opponent:

And finally, when he reached the Fire Nation, Piandao taught him how to forge a unique weapon and hone his swordsmanship:

Sokka learned all four non-bending styles!

Really puts Iroh’s quote into a different context:

“Understanding the other nations will help you become whole.”

“If you’re gonna cuss with somebody, you’re not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!”

sokka + art

bonus:

I know you said you weren’t planning on being friendly, but I like you. You’re totally a future hero.

posting sokka and aang headcanons i have cause they bring me Serotonin. in no particular order:

sokka cries when aang asks for his blessing to marry katara

aang cries when sokka asks him to be his best man

sokka and aang bake together

it always ends in the whole kitchen being covered in flour

one time, they tried to frost cookies together

somehow, it ended in sokka decorating aang’s head with different colors of frosting

aang got sokka back by smearing a full bag of frosting down sokka’s back

aang picks up the life of a nomad, traveling around and rebuilding the air nomad’s culture

sokka... does a lot of different things. he chills in the southern water tribe for a bit, stays in ba sing se for a while, visits zuko in caldera, explores the countryside villages with toph, practices and trains with suki, is actually taught fully by piandao, etc.

eventually, the whole gaang works together to build republic city, and sokka settles down there for the long run

aang and sokka are penpals, and they write alllll the time. about diplomatic shit, about aang’s adventures, about sokka’s (slightly more secretive) adventures... literally everything

sometimes aang will write sokka complaining about how nomadic life would be so much easier if he just had so-and-so

sokka starts indulging his engineer side and builds a bunch of stuff to make life easier for aang

aang realizes the stuff sokka keeps making for him could help other people and pushes sokka to start selling them to the world

sokka hates being known as fuckin “CoUnCiLmAn SoKkA!!11!!1”... so he opens up a knick knack shop that is in no way related to him

to get back at aang actually, he brands it like an avatar fan merch store

cause why the fuck not

he does actually sell the useful shit, like the fan he made for aang. aang uses air bending to power his, so it’s super effective, but since there’s only one airbender, sokka sells those like rainbow pinwheels that people put in their yards (except they’re wooden and he carved the arrows on them and painted them orange and blue)

sokka thought aang would hate the avatar merch store, but within a week of opening, aang has come to the store at least 13 times to hang out with the kids and sign random merchandise

sokka wants to be upset but now he’s making a bunch of money off a joke so.... win win

sokka sells the first appa and momo plush toys

aang has one of each

sokka cries when he holds bumi for the first time

aang cries when he overhears sokka telling bumi that it’s okay not to be a bender

basically, sokka and aang are brothers. the end.

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