Avatar - Warrior's Legacy

So, after I finished the Kataang picture, I started getting the urge to do a Sukka (or is it Soki?) piece as well. I probably won't be drawing Maiko, since I find Mai's hair to be hard to draw and because, frankly, I don't really care much for Zuko. Sukki came out way bigger than I'd meant to make her. I ended up getting so distracted trying to draw Sokka that I guess I kind of forgot to make her more reasonably sized.

As with the last one, wrote a little companion piece to it. Excerpt is here, full version is at [link]
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"They're not going to kick, you know?"

"Aww, c'mon. Just once. For daddy." Sokka said, shifting his hand around and speaking to the children inside.

Suki giggled. "It's too soon."

Sokka opened his mouth and said a very stupid thing. But before the stupid thing is written, it is important to understand just why he said it.

Suki was huge. Huge is often considered to be one simple word, but this is in fact wrong. "Huge" is simply the pronunciation of several different words which have similar meanings. She was not, for instance, "huge" as in ten feet tall, or with hands big enough to crush a grown man's skull. She was not "huge" as in enormously fat either. She was that special sort of "huge" that refers specifically to pregnant women. This might be grounds for misunderstanding, however. Because there are two words, both spelled and pronounced "huge" which refer to a very big pregnant woman. One of them is said by the pregnant woman herself. This is the sort of "huge" that Suki was. The other "huge" was the one that other people said. And while they might sound the same, and have roughly the same meaning, one of them is a huge offense.

Sokka might have, perhaps, thought that since Suki had already said that she was "huge" several times today already that this might mean it was alright for him to do the same. It's also possible that the sheer extent of her hugeness made him think it was acceptable. A lot of pregnant women were huge, but Suki was as huge as any pregnant woman might expect to be, unless they had a 'head start' on hugeness.

So, with all these things, it might seem like what Sokka said next wasn't very stupid. But, in fact, it was. Sokka was married to Suki, and had already had months to get used to her pregnant temperament. So it was a very stupid thing for him to say;
"But you're huge."

Unfortunately, being married to a woman and living in close proximity to her for years only gives a man "husband sense". Husband sense, possibly an outmoded evolutionary trait, warns a man the moment after he has done something incredibly stupid. It was an ancestral ability that his father, Aang, and even Zuko had warned him about, although in Zuko's case he said it overlapped with an already well developed sense of when he'd done or said something incredibly stupid.

Now Sokka's was on fire.

"Huge, am I?" Suki asked, her grin melting into a glare. "Probably so huge I take up the whole bed. So I'm sure you won't mind sleeping outside."

Sokka's mouth bounced around like a ring of elastic that had been twanged. Eventually it settled in a long distended o. "That's not what I meant. I meant you're- no- your belly is very- wait- that's- the babies are very big."

Suki glared at him.

"Isn't that right, babies?" he asked.

There was a pause, as if both were waiting for the unborn children to throw in their two coins.

Eventually, Suki's glare broke into a grin, and then a laugh.

Sokka sighed and joined her. While he hadn't figured how to stop saying stupid things, he had at least gotten a little better at riding the hormonal waves until they settled back into a more affable mood. Once he was quite sure that Suki wasn't angry any more, he slipped a hand over her shoulder and hugged her.