006 - Rip Van Sokka

[alwayscomeback]

Who: Sokka and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Blue Fish
When: Right now!

[Sokka has finally awoken from cryosleep. He looks a little older (which, of course, he is, he's a whole 19 years now) and his hair is in disarray, but awake he is. His communicator catches him sitting upright, blinking confusedly around him as he tries to sort through three years worth of memories and try to work out where the hell he is.

After a few moments, the pieces fall into place, and he lets out a low groan, flopping back on his bed.]

Ugh. I thought I was done with this place.

[Then, he gets up, reluctantly, ties his hair back up in a pony tail, and heads up the hatch and out into the Blue Fish himself. It's like going back to a dream. Or maybe a nightmare. The familiarity is fuzzy and off, but it's slowly creeping back to him. ]

Comments

[alwayscomeback]

[May they never speak of the moment they almost bonded ever again.]

Mostly? Moving around, solving everyone else's problems. Pretty much the same as before, but without the threat of a world destroying war.

[delincuente]

Dude. You never even told me there was a war.

[Why are all of her friends from dangerous worlds...]

[alwayscomeback]

...Oh.

Well, there was a war. A big one. We helped win it.

[delincuente]

"Helped" as in, like, fought?

[alwayscomeback]

Yeah. I'm a warrior, I've been fighting for a long time.

[delincuente]

[She doesn't like finding out that her friends do dangerous things. Goddammit Sokka.]

Somehow I pictured you as more of, like, a field medic type.

[alwayscomeback]

[Sorry, gurl. That gets a snort of laughter.]

Heck, no. I fight with my boomerang and my sword. I'm better at tactical stuff, but since meeting Aang, I've been on the front line for most of it. I couldn't fix anyone's injuries if everyone's lives depended on it.

[delincuente]

You fight with a boomerang?

[She's not necessarily making fun of him. She just doesn't understand how you can fight with that.]

[alwayscomeback]

Sure! [He'll pull it from the holster on his back to show it off. ]

See? It's got a blade on it! I took out a guy who could explode things with his mind with it.

[delincuente]

Took him out? You mean, like, you've killed people with that thing?

[It's not that Alex discriminates against warriors, she's just really into the whole anti-violence thing after Para.]

[alwayscomeback]

Person, singular. And he was trying to kill us. With explosions.

[He opens and closes his hands his his head, making a 'pssstoo!' sound. ]

[delincuente]

A-plus sound effect. I really felt like I was there, in the moment.

[alwayscomeback]

I try to deliver the best I can when I tell my stories.

[delincuente]

You should really consider a career in the entertainment industry.

[alwayscomeback]

I already got it mapped out for me, but I'll bear that mind all the same.