5 Works in Sokka Character Study (Avatar)
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After Burning, After Freezing by zukkaenjoyer
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
31 Aug 2025
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This story follows them through the years, focusing on their healing after the war. Zuko never learned how to rest. Sokka never learned how to stop holding everyone else up.
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Zuko makes an expression like he’s about to plunge into ice water: “I visited my father again this evening,” he swallows hard, “If you ever see me turning into him I want you to…I want you to end me.”Everything tunnels in.
“No.”
Zuko pauses, runs his hand through his hair, hard, like he’s trying to dig something out of his skull.
”I’m not... right. Not inside. The war’s over, and I thought I’d be at peace. But I’m not,” he squeezes his eyes shut, “Two years have passed. I sleep, and I see visions, fire. I see myself burning everything. Sometimes it’s Sozin’s dragon. Sometimes it’s…memories.”
Sokka watches him and it’s awful, because he recognizes himself, his own version of this. And he wants to fix it, he needs to fix it, needs to get that look out of Zuko’s eyes, but he’s not even sure where to start.
So he says the only thing that feels honest: “It’s okay. I get nightmares too.”
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She doesn’t always like her brother, but he is the closest thing she has to home. So she offers him her waterskin, that he might wash his stained hands. And when he accepts her offer wordlessly, she is careful that their hands don’t brush.
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In which Katara witnesses a murder.
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to find solace in grief (a study of, and by, sokka) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 2024
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“It’s a bittersweet feeling; watching someone you love thrive in their element, but for a cause that just makes you hurt.
Today marked six years since the death of their mother, and Katara, ever considerate of the feelings of the people she loves, made Kya’s favorite dish so that what’s left their small family could have something to honor her with in their grief.”
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Where Sokka learns what it means to grieve differently than the people he’s surrounded by, and how, even in death, a person can fundamentally affect the people they loved.
(a sokka & katara-centric oneshot)
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Warriors Don't Cry. by allywrites360 for Myargalargan
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Dec 2020
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Days like this were always hard. Times when he was reminded how much he didn’t deserve to hold a spot fighting alongside some of the most powerful benders in the world. He could train as much as he wanted, work to be the best warrior he could be. It still wouldn’t change things.
He was happy for Katara. That much was the truth. She had fought so hard to become the master she was, and he was so proud of her.
But she wasn’t supposed to be the one protecting him.
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Sokka let out a shaky breath as he shut his eyes. By all accounts, seeing Bato should’ve made him feel better. But when he shut his eyes and remembered the way they had laughed over stewed sea prunes huddled around the fire only made him wish it had been his father instead.
He sighed. Maybe unfamiliar was better. It hurt less when it didn’t remind him of a time when their family was all together.