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theideaguy) wrote2014-09-15 10:29 pm
theideaguy) wrote2014-09-15 10:29 pm
Plan D | [Action/Text]
[Action]
[Ever since the event ended, Sokka has not been in the best of moods. The university shift has messed with his head in some pretty violent ways, and the current shift isn't treating him much better. While he certainly struggled with coping with university classes and the whole thought of being in school again (which, to be honest, there wasn't much of a school to be had i the Southern Water Tribe before the war ended), it's girl issues that have got him down... and namely the sneaking sense that somehow he's betrayed or jilted Suki, his girlfriend from back home who isn't here. All because, for some reason, the recent Shift made him fall head over heels (actually, that's an understatement) for Asami.
Not to mention the fact that he's seeing ghosts of Suki (and even Yue) practically everywhere in Luceti, there's no real safe haven. But the least safe haven is House 56... because everyone he knows—Asami included—are all there. And even if it wasn't his fault (a lot of people have been saying they've been acting weird), well... it certainly doesn't help that some of his dreams aren't of Suki.
So Sokka is spending A LOT of time not at home. For the most part, he will be at the Smithy, Seventh Heaven (no, he's not eating at home right now), the village square, or at the beach. If you run into him, you might notice he's not his usualloud extroverted self and definitely has three shades of guilt written across his face.]
[Action / Smithy / Locked to Leon and Jane Foster]
[One of the primary projects Sokka has been working on in his spare time is figuring out how Poké Balls work. He remembers quite well that Crystal broke one a long time ago, and thanks to Ash and Jane Foster, he's come up with a plan to try to actually create Poké Balls so that, maybe... just maybe... he can understand them enough to fix them. Not that he's told Crystal any of this, mind, but it's a project of passion for the time being trying to reverse engineer technology.
Granted, he's not gotten far yet. However, if someone were to invade upon the inner sanctums of the forge, one might find Sokka in the finishing touches of molding and assembling two metallic half-spheres together, complete with a clasp and a release button. It's not a functional ball by any means; though there's clearly an effort to try to somehow power it inside (there's some wires sticking out of it for good measure). There's also a couple of obviously failed attempts to create two perfect half-spheres. At least his latest creation resembles the real thing.]
[Action / House 56]
[Because Sokka is beating himself up on the inside, he's avoiding confronting the problem, and that means sneaking in and out of the house at a couple of odd hours. The door to his room is locked, and generally he isn't doing lunch or dinner at Avatar House like he usually does. Instead, there's a series of tied together sheets sticking out of his window during the daytime hours.
It's not that Sokka doesn't want to talk to anyone there.It's just that Sokka doesn't want to talk to anyone there. It's that Sokka would prefer to reason it out himself before confronting the situation, but honestly... given how tired he looks, given how little sleep he's been getting, maybe it's a good idea for a few good friends to actually talk with him. Were someone going to be mean and remove the makeshift ladder to his room, he's going to go up the slide and have to pick the lock to his room, and that's... going to take a small bit of time.]
[Text / Locked against Asami]
So hypothetically, let's say that someone has a girlfriend waiting for them back home. And that that girlfriend isn't here in Luceti. And hypothetically, let's also say that, well, maybe due to forces completely beyond your control, like maybe during a shift, that person happened to get into a rather... deep relationship with someone else.
So then (hypothetically mind!), is that considered cheating?
Even more so, is it considered cheating if that person is still having dreams about that new relationship? That they weren't responsible for?
Oh yeah, and this person is also seeing ghosts or spirits of both this current and his former girlfriends everywhere here. Wherever he goes. As he's going to work, as he's eating lunch, at the beach. When he wakes up they're in his bed. Sometimes it seems like they want him to follow them, but then they turn around a corner and disappear.
I'm going insane.
It's driving this person insane. Hypothetically.
[Good save, Sokka. I'm sure they're not going to figure it out.]
EDIT: [Action / House 56 (a day or two later) / locked to Asami]
[After doing a lot of thinking and a lot of talking, Sokka has at least come to a few decisions about where things were. He still didn't entirely know where he felt, and he especially didn't where Asami was after it was all said and done with, but he did know deep down that he had to resolve this whole thing with her, partially for his own sake (and also so that he didn't feel like he had to keep sneaking through the house to avoid awkward meet-ups).
And so finally, instead of climbing up through the window, he comes into the front door and... hoping that he's lucky to catch her at home, knocks on Asami's door. While during the shift he practically could come in uninvited, he wasn't going to do that here.]
Hey, Asami, you in?
[Ever since the event ended, Sokka has not been in the best of moods. The university shift has messed with his head in some pretty violent ways, and the current shift isn't treating him much better. While he certainly struggled with coping with university classes and the whole thought of being in school again (which, to be honest, there wasn't much of a school to be had i the Southern Water Tribe before the war ended), it's girl issues that have got him down... and namely the sneaking sense that somehow he's betrayed or jilted Suki, his girlfriend from back home who isn't here. All because, for some reason, the recent Shift made him fall head over heels (actually, that's an understatement) for Asami.
Not to mention the fact that he's seeing ghosts of Suki (and even Yue) practically everywhere in Luceti, there's no real safe haven. But the least safe haven is House 56... because everyone he knows—Asami included—are all there. And even if it wasn't his fault (a lot of people have been saying they've been acting weird), well... it certainly doesn't help that some of his dreams aren't of Suki.
So Sokka is spending A LOT of time not at home. For the most part, he will be at the Smithy, Seventh Heaven (no, he's not eating at home right now), the village square, or at the beach. If you run into him, you might notice he's not his usual
[Action / Smithy / Locked to Leon and Jane Foster]
[One of the primary projects Sokka has been working on in his spare time is figuring out how Poké Balls work. He remembers quite well that Crystal broke one a long time ago, and thanks to Ash and Jane Foster, he's come up with a plan to try to actually create Poké Balls so that, maybe... just maybe... he can understand them enough to fix them. Not that he's told Crystal any of this, mind, but it's a project of passion for the time being trying to reverse engineer technology.
Granted, he's not gotten far yet. However, if someone were to invade upon the inner sanctums of the forge, one might find Sokka in the finishing touches of molding and assembling two metallic half-spheres together, complete with a clasp and a release button. It's not a functional ball by any means; though there's clearly an effort to try to somehow power it inside (there's some wires sticking out of it for good measure). There's also a couple of obviously failed attempts to create two perfect half-spheres. At least his latest creation resembles the real thing.]
[Action / House 56]
[Because Sokka is beating himself up on the inside, he's avoiding confronting the problem, and that means sneaking in and out of the house at a couple of odd hours. The door to his room is locked, and generally he isn't doing lunch or dinner at Avatar House like he usually does. Instead, there's a series of tied together sheets sticking out of his window during the daytime hours.
It's not that Sokka doesn't want to talk to anyone there.
[Text / Locked against Asami]
So hypothetically, let's say that someone has a girlfriend waiting for them back home. And that that girlfriend isn't here in Luceti. And hypothetically, let's also say that, well, maybe due to forces completely beyond your control, like maybe during a shift, that person happened to get into a rather... deep relationship with someone else.
So then (hypothetically mind!), is that considered cheating?
Even more so, is it considered cheating if that person is still having dreams about that new relationship? That they weren't responsible for?
Oh yeah, and this person is also seeing ghosts or spirits of both this current and his former girlfriends everywhere here. Wherever he goes. As he's going to work, as he's eating lunch, at the beach. When he wakes up they're in his bed. Sometimes it seems like they want him to follow them, but then they turn around a corner and disappear.
It's driving this person insane. Hypothetically.
[Good save, Sokka. I'm sure they're not going to figure it out.]
EDIT: [Action / House 56 (a day or two later) / locked to Asami]
[After doing a lot of thinking and a lot of talking, Sokka has at least come to a few decisions about where things were. He still didn't entirely know where he felt, and he especially didn't where Asami was after it was all said and done with, but he did know deep down that he had to resolve this whole thing with her, partially for his own sake (and also so that he didn't feel like he had to keep sneaking through the house to avoid awkward meet-ups).
And so finally, instead of climbing up through the window, he comes into the front door and... hoping that he's lucky to catch her at home, knocks on Asami's door. While during the shift he practically could come in uninvited, he wasn't going to do that here.]
Hey, Asami, you in?
*BETTER LATE THAN NEVER*
Sokka pushes open Asami's door, and at once his face is revealed. It's conflicted, confused, uncertain. The confident and cocky side of Sokka of last week has vanished and been replaced with a much more humble one. He enters in and takes a seat on the floor, almost echoing their first encounter the week before, but he doesn't want to be forward after what's happened, and he wants to respect her space.]
I'm sorry I've been avoiding you. I was—I was trying to clear my head of all this. But I've come to realize that I can't really do that without talking to you. So... we should talk.
[He finally looks up from the carpet to see Asami's face. Just looking at her makes his stomach move in weird ways, but... he needs to face the music.]
So... want me to go first?
[He'll let her choose, but at least he'll be the man and offer.]
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You know you don't have to sit on the floor, right?
[...
She froze a little at her lack of thinking--it had felt natural to say it, at least-- but decided to play it off immediately and let it be as she listened to what he had to say. Her face took on an expression of understanding instantly, and she lowered her eyes to the sheets on her bed instead.]
It's okay-- I understand. [A sigh escapes her as she closes her eyes in thought.] I understand completely.
[His offer to go first is met with a nod and green eyes on him again, though they're not demanding in the slightest.]
Sure.
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Sokka clears his throat, as if getting ready to recite a well-rehearsed line, but if there is such a line, it never comes. Instead, there's just a momentary silence as he closes his eyes, trying to find the words for it.]
So... I stand by what I said to you about a week ago. You're a pretty amazing girl, Asami.
[There. That's a confession of sorts, right? That's how this entire thing got started. He opens his eyes and gives her a half smile, conveying an emotion that's half genuinely happy yet still half guilty and unsure. There's an obvious "but" upcoming; his face betrays his secret.]
I was dating someone from home—Avatar World, I mean—when I got sent here. I haven't seen her in months, and I don't know if or when I'll actually get to see her. Or if I do, if she'll even know who I am or if she'll come from a time after we've broken up. I don't know.
Which means, I don't know if I'm actually in a relationship right now. I've spent the last few days wrestling over that. And I still don't have an answer. And if I did, I don't know if that's the answer you'd want to hear.
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His explanation is sound, and though she somehow finds it a little disappointing that there's someone else, she doesn't let it shake her at all, and instead only continues to listen with an apologetic look on her face.]
I'm so sorry...
[Her apology is genuine. She can't even begin to imagine being separated from the one you love, and the entire situation begins to take on a slightly different light. The fact that this shift has put them in such a position also now reminds her that she's become the 'other woman,' and guilt begins to stack up as she thinks about the girl he had been seeing. Or was seeing. Before trying to reason through that too, however, she decides it's only fair that she offers her background as well. It's not quite as stressful, as she's single in the time she hails from, but... for some reason, she's compelled to explain herself as well.]
I'm actually not in a relationship anymore. [Though she's not too bitter about how things ended between them, it's not particularly a pleasant memory to bring about either.] My last boyfriend ended up secretly being in love with Korra, [she admits with a shrug, her eyes anywhere but the boy in front of her now.] When they ended things between them, we started seeing each other again, but then she came back and he chose her over me...again...because they hadn't ...actually... ended things...
[The story itself is confusing, and though she doesn't look too upset by the confession, it's the first time she can remember actually trying to explain it to someone else.]
To be honest, this past week, real or not, was probably the best relationship I've had, but I'm not entirely sure that that's something you need to hear. You're a lot of fun, Sokka, and obviously a really good person, but... it was a shift. We don't even really know each other that well, yet, except for what this place put in our heads.
[Well. At least she's leaving it open ended and not counting out any possibilities.]
1/4
He leans back and rests his head against the wall, and he grimaces terribly at the realization. He kind of looks mortified because he, not only does he have to wrestle with betraying Suki, now he has to wrestle with betraying Asami too.]
I don't know if this will mean much, but believe me that the absolute last thing I would ever want to do is to make you feel like that jerk made you feel afterwards. No offense or anything. [You know, just in case she happened to take that as a condemnation of her choices in men or something like that.]
I try pretty hard not get into situations like, what's his face, Mako? After Suki and I started dating, this one other girl was... kinda forceful in liking me. [That's practically an understatement, and perhaps Sokka's hesitation will give an indication], but I couldn't let myself feel anything for her, even though Suki wasn't there. Granted, Ty Lee was working with the Azula and Fire Nation and was our enemy, but... never mind that.
2/4
I know it was a shift, and I know it wasn't really real, and I know I barely know you. But if it wasn't real... I don't know why I can't get you out of my head. Half the people that gave me advice practically assumed that I was going to ask you out when I finally talked to you, and half was trying to make me feel even more guilty than I did. And another half just thought I needed to tell you everything.
[Yes, that's three halves. Don't question Sokka's math.]
3/4
What's real is that I want to know you. I want to figure things out with you. I want to have fun with you. And... [Sokka shrugs a little bit. He's not exactly smiling, but there's no frown on his face either. He's just honestly serious about it.]
And I don't know when, how long, or if someone can actually consider themselves to actually dating someone that "doesn't technically exist" here, but... maybe...
[He stops mid-sentence, not really wanting to continue that thought if only because he doesn't want to promise something he can't, nor does he want to admit yet that he's in some ways already fallen for her.]
4/4