your sokka is SO sokka and i say this as someone who holds him so dear ur writing of him is amazing. tbh im sooo fussy with his portrayal but its pretty nailed. like so many fics (esp zukka and zuko centric and ESPECIALLY ones where hakoda like adopts zuko) he's constantly pushed to the side in favour of zukos issues and zukos problems when in reality sokka is very hurt himself and has suffered a lot. man i GET taob sokka i really do bc people seem to think he was a lil mean but nobody seems to realise when you're in sokkas position it would've read like everyone was against you. all the swt men, including his dad who snapped at him, and even katara and aang and suki tell him to give zuko a chance and the fact that they were trusting someone who had hurt all of them so much- because yes WE know zuko wouldn't have killed them, but the gaang didn't. not when they were being chased and terrorised, and when sokka had his trust betrayed in the prison, he had absolutely every right to hate zuko, esp when it felt like everyone who he thought would understand his feelings, including his own dad who had been hiding his relationship with zuko from him, seems against him. his conversation with hakoda was probably my favourite scene in taob just bc he was allowed to feel like that without being treated by the narrative as someone just being mean to poor little zuko. he gets to be a sourpuss and angry and jealous at zuko for feeling like hed been replaced by his own dad. all of the water tribe men get this treatment like they're not written as bad people for being wary or disliking zuko initially (even chena despite being enemy no.1 at the start). his convo with hakoda was so important bc it stressed the detail that yes zuko has suffered and deserves to be cared for but SOKKA is his son, his actual child who is so hard on himself for things out of his control and who has hurt so much and deserves just as much as zuko does. sokka is just a baby my boy. he's not the main character but he's just as complex and intricate as zuko, not just in taob but also for the times we have seen him in tams there's been keen detail to his emotion and how he's feeling pointed out
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Is there any more interesting things you can tell us about the sniper OC you posted a while back?
OH ABSOLUTELY I CAN
for those who didn't see him when I posted him previously: this is alistair "sunny" sunshine, my red sniper oc! he's a disgraced former pop star singer and idol who has turned to mercenary work after a massive scandal in his star life (caused by his own team's spy, actually, although he only learned this some time after joining the team). he's a charmer and he knows it; he loves being the centre of attention, which is his main downfall on the field, since while he's an excellent shot, he tends to accidentally give his position away purely because his enemies can track him down based off of the sound of his snappy post-kill one-liners. he's a heartthrob and a romantic and a shameless flirt, but as much as he loves getting people to fall for him, he gets a little confused when anyone flips the script on him. he swings between being silly and shallow at his most comedic-
-and being nasty and vindictive and spiteful at his most serious.
fun facts:
he has a mallen streak in his hair; however, the term "mallen streak" is anachronistic by only five years (his story is set in 1968, while the term was invented in 1973). also, nobody knows whether it's natural or if he bleaches it in himself
his hair is naturally curly! he uses copious amounts of hairspray and gel to keep it slicked back like that (under the cut)
he's hard of hearing from all the Guns so he wears custom hearing aids designed by his team's engineer and is fluent in ASL
he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would be good at focusing (and he's usually not) but
his father is a movie star (sunny got quite a lot of his initial fame out of nepotism) and his mother is head editor of a fashion magazine
a solid 70% of stuff he does is driven by spite he's SO spiteful. if you even Vaguely insinuate there's something he can't do he'll immediately try to do it just to prove you wrong (however he is kind of a loser and will probably fail unless it has something to do with one of his two talents)
he has an uncanny ability to tell when he's being watched! this mostly stems from either being on stage (where people are watching him) or being in a sniper's nest (where he's watching others, so he knows what it feels like)
he is totally for sure and definitely not crushing on his team's engineer (with whom he holds dance lessons) not at all no sir. not in the slightest. he's not even dealing badly with it don't worry about it
other doodles and drawings under the cut (he is shirtless in some of them because he. he is like that)
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