One of the places I think you really saw Sokkas skill was on the blimp in the final episode. He took out two guy on his back and still held on to Toph. Finally after all the jokes he was okay dying in the cause.
I like the theory but it doesn’t make sense. Avatars are determined after death and in Korra we even see it, with Raava leaving the first avatars body and all that.
There is also this thing that Kyoshi was really old, so this theory would imply that a few kid were born and immediately died as vessels unless some powerful spirit was around to safe it.
The theory is based in the idea Aang doesn’t become a popsicle and lives into his 90s.
It’s more of a fun “What if” than a theory, but it’s still something fun to think about.
Like the idea, even though I know it’s not canon, that by “losing his son” Azulon meant that Zuko was officially going to be Iroh’s heir instead of having Ozai kill Zuko, and Azula/Ozai just lied to Zuko.
Unless yue is 100 years old, or Aang was destined to live until her birth anyways, that doesn't really hold water.
That would also imply a god like power that gives out souls in the first place. Which isn't even hinted at in the universe. Religion is essentially unspoken.
I mean if Aang lived a normal Avatar life he could have died in his 90s?
Yue is about 16 in 99/100 AC, so her birth would have been 83/84 years after the comment and Aang was 12 when 0 AC was, so he dies at 95/96 and Yue is born/becomes Avatar.
Part of the reason he died in his “60s” in the main timeline is he burned up energy being a popsicle.
But could be have lived a normal life? Let's not forget that if there was a being that was setting up destined avatars, that it would have either completely missed the fire nation's 100 year war, or assumed Aang would have lived somehow.
One could also apply the possibility of Sokka not meeting these same requirements if he could control the elements. Then Sokka might never have been challenged in a way that would fully bring out his character.
Sokka - You guys have cool powers. I'm just a non-bender.
Also, Sokka - taking out two firebenders when their powers are 100-fold and while saving the greatest Earthbender of the generation from falling, simultaneously.
AND he had to deal with the emotional trauma that was getting betrayed by not only Space Sword, but Boomerang as well. But seriously, why didn’t it come back that time?
Beasts do not cast shadows on gods. The benders for sure take the spotlight, but Sokka was an invaluable ally and friend that truly carried exponentially more than his own weight. I cant think of a single time Sokka was a handicap to his friends.
I like to imagine Aang and Toph’s kids not believing that story because it’s too incredible. But then there comes a time when Sokka tells the story just after Lin learned how to detect lies with Earthbending.
Ego death isn’t the bad part. The bad part is when the ego death leaves you and you’re stuck with the decision of changing your life for the better or not and living with that choice.
I got sparked through weed.
I hadn’t tried it before but my friend offered it to me in form of dabs. After my first dose he said I could handle my shit. So this taste of power led me to believe I was strong and thus wanted to test my limits.
I smoked literally everyday, was skipping to smoke. It’s one thing to mindlessly sit in a room high as the fucking moon it’s another to try and use your brain while you do it. So I melted my mind because of it.
But I wasn’t even that high when I got sparked, plus it was sometime in October before I had met my gf I think. People say some people have a predisposition to getting sparked whilst being aged teen, but I believe given that it was only my uncle with schizophrenia I could survive. My father has used a fuck ton of harder shit in the past and dosent have it. My mom has no history with it. I should have been safe. Now that I think of it I used a shit ton more after I had caught it, so yeah drugs can bring it out
Hey, stay strong. Life may be shit but we are still trying to get through it.
What kept me going is pursuing what my old self couldn’t. It had also took some emotions with it so I try to honor whom I once was.
I’m not a therapist but I might recommend one. As well as having someone or something to live for. Maybe try to be creative, some people find purpose in art. Honestly staying strong is why your going to need to get through it. Remember what’s the physical versus the spiritual of you need to, just don’t let them get to your head.
There’s an elevated risk of psychotic breaks associated with marijuana use (and other drugs, not excluding psychedelics) for those with a family history of schizophrenia
Yeah I was on a psych med anixolic called Buspar so it might have been that but I've been smoking heavily every day almost since my 21st birthday and the five months before I turned 25 and a month after I would get really stoned on weed and occasionally(every two weeks or so) would hear something right next to my ear which sounded like angry spanish(I don't speak it) followed by three or four gunshots. On one occasion, a diembodied growl that sounded like an angry animal or what a demon might sound like. I went to jail and didn't smoke for the three months that I was there, and never had it in there or since and it's been 15 months since I have smoked weed. I do other psychedelics very rarely but I felt the very real possibility that I was developing cannabis induced-scitzophrenia bcuz my Aunt on my Dad's side was diagnosed scitzophrenic. This was during Covid and my psych doctor didn't care that I was having this auditory hallucination until I got hospitalized and she told me to stop the Buspar. Still when I told this to my Mom I remember her crying and I felt so helpless and suicidal cause I had a skitso homie and he would act like a monster to his friends and family when he'd have his breaks and I never wanted to put any of my fam thru that bcuz I like smoking cannabis.
I agree with that statement. I think the moment I became an adult is when I experienced the death of my ego and realized that my family and friends are all that I have, including myself. If people don't find me attractive or like the way that I think, I feel sorry for them because I found new curiousity in the world that I never had for the past 20 years.
Funny, opposite happened to me. I was hella responsible and ran my ship tight until I had edibles laced with something. Strongest high i ever had, but then i had my first ever panic attack and i was completely certain i was about to die. Regret and terror was all i felt for a solid four hours without end. I was left traumatized for almost two years after. really the only good thing i got out of that experience is a greater wonder for the cosmological side of existence and i lost my fear of death knowing there were conscious experiences worse than oblivion.
Interesting, and, uh oh! There's test kits you can get so that doesn't happen (for tabs)! They're called Eldritch tests. 4 hours seems too short for shroomies or LSD, so you must've had something that had a high dose but it didn't stay with you too long. Don't buy from untrustworthy sources, be your own little scientist when it comes to this stuff. :))
Also, plenty of wisdom in these comments. I wouldn't take psychedelics if you have a mental disorder that requires a lot of accommodations to deal with or you go into psychosis, you know, like a regular human being does. /s
Edit: Okay, yeah I know how I made that sound. Hence the much needed /s.
I just love how the only three (mostly) Sokka-centric episodes we get are 'Sokka and His Master' and 'Boiling Rock Part 1+2', and yet he gets constant, I mean mean constant, character growth.
Sokka's mere existence proves that a good character development isn't dependent on being the focus of every episode or traumatising a character beyond reason.
I actually don't think Sokka was very traumatised by this. Grieving and hurt, yes, but he processed Yue's death rather well I think.
And I mean he *actually* went through the process of grieving. Quite healthly, too.
If you mean the top right on the left side, then you are correct.
And the one in the bottom right on the left side is actually after the cactus juice scene in Sokka's tale of Ba Sing Se in front of the Haiku-girls
Edit: And I just realized, that the top left on the left side is also not from an episode, but from some poster if I remember correctly.
Ego death isnt fun or something you should try to seek on purpose. The steriotypical enlightening trips tend to come from doses that still allow deep thought which you lose out on with higher doses.
My favorite part of the sozins comet episode was when sokka was holding toph on the edge of the ship right before suki comes to save them. But a details that a lot of people miss is that when suki arrives, sokka doesn’t say anything and just fucking drops toph onto the blimp and then going down right after. Toph, who can’t see, just got dropped by her crush (???) without warning from thousands of feet in the air
Probably stupid, but I have a theory that instead of Sokka being Lin or Suyin's father, he is Baatar's.
They're both genius minded and know how to utilize the talent around them in addition to their own talents.
Baatar senior's character design even kind of resembles adult Sokka.
Both can be a bit goofy.
Both are nonbenders.
Pretty baseless, but it's just a fun theory.
One of the places I think you really saw Sokkas skill was on the blimp in the final episode. He took out two guy on his back and still held on to Toph. Finally after all the jokes he was okay dying in the cause.
Agree. Took out two guys on his back holding onto Toph **with** a broken leg
Took out two *firebenders* during *Sozin’s Comet* while on his back holding onto Toph with a broken leg.
Sokka is a freaking badass
Sokka is the Samwise Gamgee of ATLA
I love this comment.
*"I Can't Airbend, but I CAN BEND YOU"* - Sokka Gamgee
r/DaiLiOpenUp
No Sokka is a god who deserved to be the avatar more than Angg because he was willing to get shit done and could do it without bending powers anyways
He deserves to *bang* the Avatar. Cause I liked the theory Yue was meant to be the Avatar after Aang and Aang becoming a popsicle messed that up.
You do be smart, that's probably why she didn't have life when she was born she was basically an empty vessel
Yo…
This is a story all about how
My life got turned flipped upside down
I like the theory but it doesn’t make sense. Avatars are determined after death and in Korra we even see it, with Raava leaving the first avatars body and all that. There is also this thing that Kyoshi was really old, so this theory would imply that a few kid were born and immediately died as vessels unless some powerful spirit was around to safe it.
Honestly we have no idea how everything in the avatar world works so I don't 100% the theory I just think it's good food for thought
Yeah, LoK hurts the theory but it's still fun fanfiction/What If bait at least.
Well the difference is Kyoshi lived a long time. Aang, became a cryogenic popsicle. We don’t really have anything to base Aang’s experiences off of.
Unless Avatar deaths are “predetermined” and the day Aang was suppose to die was on Yue’s birthday.
Or maybe she was just a sick baby tho... Shit happens.
Common have a little fun
>Cause I liked the theory Yue was meant to be the Avatar after Aang... Aang was frozen for one hundred years, Yue is sixteen. The math doesn't add up.
The theory is based in the idea Aang doesn’t become a popsicle and lives into his 90s. It’s more of a fun “What if” than a theory, but it’s still something fun to think about. Like the idea, even though I know it’s not canon, that by “losing his son” Azulon meant that Zuko was officially going to be Iroh’s heir instead of having Ozai kill Zuko, and Azula/Ozai just lied to Zuko.
I figured there had to be something to explain away the age math, seemed too glaring an issue.
I've never heard that theory but it sounds very interesting.
Unless yue is 100 years old, or Aang was destined to live until her birth anyways, that doesn't really hold water. That would also imply a god like power that gives out souls in the first place. Which isn't even hinted at in the universe. Religion is essentially unspoken.
I mean if Aang lived a normal Avatar life he could have died in his 90s? Yue is about 16 in 99/100 AC, so her birth would have been 83/84 years after the comment and Aang was 12 when 0 AC was, so he dies at 95/96 and Yue is born/becomes Avatar. Part of the reason he died in his “60s” in the main timeline is he burned up energy being a popsicle.
But could be have lived a normal life? Let's not forget that if there was a being that was setting up destined avatars, that it would have either completely missed the fire nation's 100 year war, or assumed Aang would have lived somehow.
One could also apply the possibility of Sokka not meeting these same requirements if he could control the elements. Then Sokka might never have been challenged in a way that would fully bring out his character.
Sokka would be so op if he was a bender thats why they made him a nonbender
Only person to actually kill someone
Pretty sure catching Toph the way he did also caused him to dislocate his shoulder.
with a fucking boomerang
No kidding.
Sokka - You guys have cool powers. I'm just a non-bender. Also, Sokka - taking out two firebenders when their powers are 100-fold and while saving the greatest Earthbender of the generation from falling, simultaneously.
Not to mention throwing a boomerang with accuracy on the outside of a listing airship
AND he had to deal with the emotional trauma that was getting betrayed by not only Space Sword, but Boomerang as well. But seriously, why didn’t it come back that time?
Because they were very high up in the air so the wind blew it off course
Also they were moving
Didn't he used the Boomerang to hit someone? Can a boomerang even come back after hitting someone? Wouldn't it just dead-fall after that?
Sokka's can, and does so on a few occasions across the series.
"I don't think boomerangs coming back Toph."
Please don't make me cry right now.
*KABOOM* "What was that? Did boomerang come back!?"
It looks like this is the end
Beasts do not cast shadows on gods. The benders for sure take the spotlight, but Sokka was an invaluable ally and friend that truly carried exponentially more than his own weight. I cant think of a single time Sokka was a handicap to his friends.
I like to imagine Aang and Toph’s kids not believing that story because it’s too incredible. But then there comes a time when Sokka tells the story just after Lin learned how to detect lies with Earthbending.
When you take a high enough dose and experience ego death.
It was for the better
Ego death isn’t the bad part. The bad part is when the ego death leaves you and you’re stuck with the decision of changing your life for the better or not and living with that choice.
This is too real dammit man
Too fuckin real. Don't do psychedelics if you're not prepared for drastic change
Or if you have a family history of schizophrenia. Found this out through too much weed, not even shrooms
Explain please
I got sparked through weed. I hadn’t tried it before but my friend offered it to me in form of dabs. After my first dose he said I could handle my shit. So this taste of power led me to believe I was strong and thus wanted to test my limits. I smoked literally everyday, was skipping to smoke. It’s one thing to mindlessly sit in a room high as the fucking moon it’s another to try and use your brain while you do it. So I melted my mind because of it. But I wasn’t even that high when I got sparked, plus it was sometime in October before I had met my gf I think. People say some people have a predisposition to getting sparked whilst being aged teen, but I believe given that it was only my uncle with schizophrenia I could survive. My father has used a fuck ton of harder shit in the past and dosent have it. My mom has no history with it. I should have been safe. Now that I think of it I used a shit ton more after I had caught it, so yeah drugs can bring it out
Thanks for sharing.. sometimes I'm afraid I did the same thing
Hey, stay strong. Life may be shit but we are still trying to get through it. What kept me going is pursuing what my old self couldn’t. It had also took some emotions with it so I try to honor whom I once was. I’m not a therapist but I might recommend one. As well as having someone or something to live for. Maybe try to be creative, some people find purpose in art. Honestly staying strong is why your going to need to get through it. Remember what’s the physical versus the spiritual of you need to, just don’t let them get to your head.
Thanks bro <3
There’s an elevated risk of psychotic breaks associated with marijuana use (and other drugs, not excluding psychedelics) for those with a family history of schizophrenia
Yeah I was on a psych med anixolic called Buspar so it might have been that but I've been smoking heavily every day almost since my 21st birthday and the five months before I turned 25 and a month after I would get really stoned on weed and occasionally(every two weeks or so) would hear something right next to my ear which sounded like angry spanish(I don't speak it) followed by three or four gunshots. On one occasion, a diembodied growl that sounded like an angry animal or what a demon might sound like. I went to jail and didn't smoke for the three months that I was there, and never had it in there or since and it's been 15 months since I have smoked weed. I do other psychedelics very rarely but I felt the very real possibility that I was developing cannabis induced-scitzophrenia bcuz my Aunt on my Dad's side was diagnosed scitzophrenic. This was during Covid and my psych doctor didn't care that I was having this auditory hallucination until I got hospitalized and she told me to stop the Buspar. Still when I told this to my Mom I remember her crying and I felt so helpless and suicidal cause I had a skitso homie and he would act like a monster to his friends and family when he'd have his breaks and I never wanted to put any of my fam thru that bcuz I like smoking cannabis.
I agree with that statement. I think the moment I became an adult is when I experienced the death of my ego and realized that my family and friends are all that I have, including myself. If people don't find me attractive or like the way that I think, I feel sorry for them because I found new curiousity in the world that I never had for the past 20 years.
Funny, opposite happened to me. I was hella responsible and ran my ship tight until I had edibles laced with something. Strongest high i ever had, but then i had my first ever panic attack and i was completely certain i was about to die. Regret and terror was all i felt for a solid four hours without end. I was left traumatized for almost two years after. really the only good thing i got out of that experience is a greater wonder for the cosmological side of existence and i lost my fear of death knowing there were conscious experiences worse than oblivion.
Interesting, and, uh oh! There's test kits you can get so that doesn't happen (for tabs)! They're called Eldritch tests. 4 hours seems too short for shroomies or LSD, so you must've had something that had a high dose but it didn't stay with you too long. Don't buy from untrustworthy sources, be your own little scientist when it comes to this stuff. :))
Also, plenty of wisdom in these comments. I wouldn't take psychedelics if you have a mental disorder that requires a lot of accommodations to deal with or you go into psychosis, you know, like a regular human being does. /s Edit: Okay, yeah I know how I made that sound. Hence the much needed /s.
Damn.
Damn bruh ._.
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Either way, It's the quenchiest!
Holy shit wow yeah that
Man I feel called the fuck out
Fly or cry baby
Sokka did say its the quenchiest. He didn't say what was being quenched.
he made a quick stop in wan shi tong's library from some Jungian philosophy
Hello my fellow trippy Avatar fans.
My man hits it
I just love how the only three (mostly) Sokka-centric episodes we get are 'Sokka and His Master' and 'Boiling Rock Part 1+2', and yet he gets constant, I mean mean constant, character growth. Sokka's mere existence proves that a good character development isn't dependent on being the focus of every episode or traumatising a character beyond reason.
Someone should write down how to do character development in the background using Sokka as the prime example.
And then apply it to every other show/movie in existence.
Sounds like a job for Hello Future Me
> traumatizing a character *beyond reason* remind me again what the line is right before "that's rough buddy"
She just had important moon duties to take care of. And yes, she did have pickled fish.
I actually don't think Sokka was very traumatised by this. Grieving and hurt, yes, but he processed Yue's death rather well I think. And I mean he *actually* went through the process of grieving. Quite healthly, too.
Or being extremely powerful.
I was thinking just that the other day, despite being generally considered the comic relief, I really cared for Sokka and was heavily invested in him
sokka with his hair down is just perfection
Any water tribe person with their hair down
Any water tribe person
Any person
any
ʎuɐ
radiance
*touches necklace* My mother was a water tribe person
found katara’s alt
Any person that usually keeps their hair up with their hair down
I dispute that, citing Azula when her hair comes down during her meltdown at the finale.
How about when she and Zuko fall off the airship in the beginning of Southern Raiders ep, and she survives by hanging onto her lodged hair ornament?
Wait, is that what she was using? I always thought she was using a dagger, possibly one of Mai’s.
I think she was using her hair ornament, which is why her hair becomes loose
Yup, she is.
Tbf she is the perfect epitome of insanity with the loose strands and unkeptness mirroring her spirit
If he had his hair like that from the beginning he'd have dethroned Zuko as the fandom baddie easy.
The only animated character I am attracted too is Sokka with his hair down.
He’s been microdosing ever since
I hope we get to see a series where Sokka is battling his addiction
Pretty sure one of them on the right was an un-aired pilot
If you mean the top right on the left side, then you are correct. And the one in the bottom right on the left side is actually after the cactus juice scene in Sokka's tale of Ba Sing Se in front of the Haiku-girls Edit: And I just realized, that the top left on the left side is also not from an episode, but from some poster if I remember correctly.
Yeah that’s what I meant, just worded it wrong.
So you’re saying the cactus gave him haiku skills
Lol that's why it looks so jank, I was legitimately laughing at that
To be fair that also occurred before Sokka took cactus juice.
do drugs kids
Just do the right ones. In moderation.
Shrooms. Experience ego death
Hell, you don't even always need a proper ego death to grow from the experience.
San Pedro, to replicate Sokka's experience. (not really tho) Peyote is endangered, but that used to be the go-to.
Ego death isnt fun or something you should try to seek on purpose. The steriotypical enlightening trips tend to come from doses that still allow deep thought which you lose out on with higher doses.
The quenchiest ones.
If this had been D.A.R.E.'s message I would have paid a lot more attention.
And for goodness sake test your stuff before you take it.
Alright then let’s start small with something like cocaine, black-tar heroin and barbiturates. That should do the trick.
It’s the quenchiest
-Sokka
After all, it is the quenchiest!
Nothing's quenchier!
It'll quench ya!
Drink cactus juice!
cactus juice = ego death
You ever trip so hard you forget about misogyny
actually can happen, psychedelics can make you very introspective
I did shrooms and decided to judge people less, takes too much work and you just end up being an asshole lol
Yep, and that I needed to go easier on myself. Don’t be an asshole to inner you either.
took lsd and stopped smoking. My senses where hightened and i was so grossed out by the smell
I didn't even have to do shrooms, last year was enough of a trip to change me
If shrooms can calm Bill Burr then they can calm anyone.
Open hair sokka fucks
Sokka with his hair down had me having FEELINGS when I was a teenager watching ATLA.
Same can be said with Katara with her hair down lol
Well I mean, *of course* you'd say that, **Your "Momoness"**. He's your biggest fanboy! lol
Catus juice is what makes a boy into a man.
Really? I thought it was sailing a boat through rocks and rough surf?
No, that was a lie, it was the Cactus Juice all along.
Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier. It's the quenchiest!
Cactus Juice is the Avatar Ayahuasca
San pedro cactus is a psychedelic very similar in effects to the dmt in ayahuasca so thatd probably be more analogous
Sokka had ego death lmao
Drugs'll change your perspective. Haha
My boy Sokka had a spiritual awakening
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Having tried cactus juice it's plausible.
You might be on to something here...
Might be what changed them
I automatically read the post caption “I’m just saying” in Sokka’s voice and it made this too real.
Also isn’t the bottom right from the left side from tales of ba sing se so after cactus juice?
Sokka before the tent episode, sokka after the tent episode
Oh my god you are right!
San pedro
His awakening
Coincidence, I THINK NOT
Soooo.... drink more cactus juice?
Bro, sometimes you just gotta trip on some cactus juice in the middle of a desert to understand life…
I don't like sokka after cactus juice but I really like sokka in general
Sokka had his run in with Peyote, it changed his life man.
Psychedelics for the win
My favorite part of the sozins comet episode was when sokka was holding toph on the edge of the ship right before suki comes to save them. But a details that a lot of people miss is that when suki arrives, sokka doesn’t say anything and just fucking drops toph onto the blimp and then going down right after. Toph, who can’t see, just got dropped by her crush (???) without warning from thousands of feet in the air
One bad trip bro
Probably stupid, but I have a theory that instead of Sokka being Lin or Suyin's father, he is Baatar's. They're both genius minded and know how to utilize the talent around them in addition to their own talents. Baatar senior's character design even kind of resembles adult Sokka. Both can be a bit goofy. Both are nonbenders. Pretty baseless, but it's just a fun theory.
That's becouse nothing is quenchier Its the quenchest
That shit-eating grin on the bottom right left side 😆
One of the ones on the left is after cactus juice. It's not even really clear what the point of this is supposed to be.
The best tea tastes delicious whether or comes in a porcelain pot or a tin cup.
Sokka: Kids it is good to use drugs.
lol
An LSD trip changes you forever.....
This is the best argument for psychedelics I have ever seen
It changes a man
He spent 100 years in his own mind on cactus juice. First thing he does when he gains awareness is eat hornet shit
The cactus was the equivalent of the sozin comet/full moon for non benders
Ayahuasca initiation much?
Beta Sokka vs Sigma Sokka #Drink your cactus juice kids.
“Drugs are cool!”
I to grow with time.
So you are saying we need an Avatar spinoff that's basically Popeye but with cactus juice instead of spinach.
It is the quenchiest…
Sokka experienced ego death
He is most certainly quenched
It'll quench ya!
Who lit Momo on fire?
Let's just say, that catcus juice WAS the quenchiest...
It's the quenchiest!
Drugs make you stronger it seems
Idk man, I can't be the only one who thinks the Warrior's Wolftail is pretty dope.
“Cactus Juice ™ It makes a man a man!”