It’s So Fucking Tragic How Sokka Can’t Recall His Mother’s Face But He Can Remember Exactly What

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.

Denki is so incredibly underrated. He is often written off for his for his quirk drawbacks short circuiting his brain,  academic performance, or as simple comic relief,  but  His quirk is extremely powerful and has so much potential.  Once he learns more control and how to deal with its drawbacks, he is going to be a formidable pro-hero. If i was a villain and some guy showed up who was essentially a human short and long range teaser, id surrender real quick regardless of my own quirk! Trauma can also be a powerful motivator and he and his class defiantly have plenty of that after the War arc. 

Adventure Time was just like “here’s s fart joke, here’s a talking piece of candy, here’s an absolutely soul crushing scene where a woman realizes that the man who saved her from starvation and dangerous mutated humans in the aftermath of a brutal global nuclear war no longer remembers her fully or who he used to be because the thing that kept him alive all those years also drove him completely insane and now she finally has to accept that he’ll never truly be the same friend she once knew and decides that even though he does questionable and sometimes dangerous stuff now because of his insanity she’ll still accept him back into her life as he is because he’s still important to her and probably needs a friend now that his mental state has caused him to be alienated by most other people, here’s another fart joke

you know what i just realised? that katara, telling sokka that he ‘didn’t love their mother like she did’ was after sokka lost yue.

like. her brother not only lost his mother and then had his father leave which made him overprotective and extremely fearful of losing people he cares about, but then he also fails to protect his first love after being appointed as her bodyguard which only makes him feel like more of a failure, to the point where he’s desperate and guilty enough to break hakoda and suki out of prison with no backup, because he believes the failure on the day of the eclipse is his fault.

apart from aang, sokka probably knows more about loss than anyone else on that show, not because he’s experienced a lot of it, but because he didn’t get angry at the people who killed them: he internalized it.

I was trying to talk about those other forms, all the different ways you can love, some of which are sexual, some of which are romantic, and some of which are platonic,” she says. “None are necessarily better than any other, but all of them have the capacities to help shape who we are and hopefully set us on the path to become the people we really want to be.

THE HALF OF IT (2020, dir. Alice Wu)

Jake…..why didn’t you wait for me? 

Adventure Time: Distant Lands “Together Again” 

AU where Sokka’s high-on-cactus-juice encounter with the giant mushroom takes a dark turn. (Also he has a gun)

based on this beautiful tumblr post

bonus:

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 her 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?

rough animation of this x

Mikey (any version)

Chaotic good (though that may be wishful thinking lmao)

Middle child!

random experiment: reblog with your favourite turtle (specify what incarnation if u want), your alignment, and if your the oldest/middle/youngest or only child in the tags…

y’know, for science