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Whumperless Whump

Day 24: Clinginess

Binged the entire series in 3 days and have now been afflicted with Kataang brainrot

Anyways!

Baby Gaang 🌪️🌊🔥🪨🪃🪭

• maizulee version

Short break from the adult designs bc Zuko is complicated lol SOKKA! There may have been a hunting god before Sokka, but they've long been forgotten. When wars began to break out across the mortal world, food scarcity became an issue again. People began to pray for bountiful/successful hunts, and with that, a god had to emerge to fill that void. Sokka spent a long time living as a wolf, seamlessly taking his place amongst wolf packs. When gods are young, they spend their first few years almost as a mirage, half-conscious as they appear in crowds, unnoticed by the mortals surrounding them. When he finally gained full-consciousness, he left the wolf pack and explored the woods until he found himself wandering around in the snow. That's where Hakoda and Kya found him. They weren't certain, at first, if he was a god. It wasn't until a year into living with them, when the wolf puppy they took in was still a puppy, that they knew.

It took a few years after that for Sokka to take on a humanoid form to imitate his parents. Having spent a significant amount of time in the wilderness before meeting Hakoda and Kya, Sokka is much more comfortable shifting forms than most other gods.

He becomes a wisdom god in his teens, after running off and spending a significant amount of time exploring cities and towns. He even finds Wan Shi Tong's library, and loses track of time, spending several years scouring the shelves.

This one's really fun

Toph is a very interesting one.

She's the Goddess of Victory and the Truth, amongst other things. She's one of the most-revered gods out there, due to how powerful a domain she holds. Athletes, soldiers, and leaders alike all pray to her very often.

Her blindness is not at all seen as an issue by mortals-- actually, due to her blindness, mortals tend to be much kinder to disabled folk.

It's seen as sacrilegious to forbid someone from participating in sports, contest, or even war on the basis of their perceived abilities. It's seen almost as if you're saying that Toph wouldn't be able to do that.

She's also the patron of innovation. She's the first form of Metalbending, and inventors/tinkerers will often pray to both her and Sokka (god of wisdom) when they go to create something new.

The Blind Bandit is an enigma.

No one really knows what she is-- she might be the goddess of trickery? And lies? but she's the only goddess to have no temples, to never ask for offerings or prayers, and she doesn't really... act like a goddess.

Really, she's more of a cryptid than a goddess- she definitely isn't human, considering she's been hanging around for like 300 years... but yeah no one really knows what she's up to.

Yes the wolf she's riding on is Sokka- he isn't too happy about it but he has a soft spot for Toph.

Aang and The Blind Bandit meet each other pretty often on the road-- he's normally the epitome of "good deeds" but she's a really bad influence on him (some think that he just can't say no to someone that shares his sense of style)

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I know I've literally got another au in the works already but i don't care man I love mythology and now they're gods >:)))))

Some info!

Katara and Sokka's face markings are based on the Painted Lady and Warrior makeup (respectively)-- on top of giving Sokka some winged eyeliner to resemble a wolf's markings (as the master of wolves), and a semi-circle on Katara's forehead as a symbol of equality (as the goddess of justice).

Gods don't technically "die" in this AU-- it doesn't happen often, but when it does, they usually become one with their domain. When Gyatso died, as the god of the wind, he turned into the wind and could only communicate through wind chimes (small signs/yes/no-- he can't communicate complex thoughts).

When Kya died, she turned into the starry sky. Hakoda, grieving his wife, would often study her form in the sky and learned to use the patterns of her stars to navigate, which made him become god of navigators.

When Kya died, people started praying to Sokka and Katara for matters of family and home-- it's not actually their domain, but they gratefully accept the duties that come with taking over for their mother.

Katara's necklace has sharp points in this to relate to her mother's star domain.

Katara's cloak is a sealskin (as the matron of sealife)

Yes, Sokka's leg is still hurt in this (still trying to figure out the story behind that, but I love when characters get permanent injuries in media and I'm KEEPING IT) he has a cane-- doesn't always need to use it but he has it!

Sokka's cloak is a polar bear dog's hide (as the god of hunting)