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[August 2] [Avatar: The Last Airbender] Death of a Warrior
Title: Death of a Warrior
Day/Theme: August 2/paint myself in blue and red and black and grey
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Sokka, Hakoda
Rating: PG
Word Count: 186
Warning: Character Death
Sokka stood before his father's body with tears in his eyes and paints in his hands. He was breaking tradition, and he knew it, but his father had lived as a warrior and had taught him to be one, even if the Avatar had brought peace years ago.
Hakoda had died in his bed, not in war, but Sokka would never forget how he had defended his people. Someday Sokka would teach his own children what his father had taught him.
He began with the gray paint, which symbolized strength like the toughness of the gray ice. He covered his father's cheeks and forehead with it. Then came the black paint for his father's eyes, to give him the eyesight of an ice-hawk. Finally he used the white around his father's mouth, which would give him ferocity, like the white teeth of the tiger seal.
Finally he was finished. Sokka knew there were no wars where his father was going. The afterlife was a place of peace. But he would be buried in the ice as a warrior, just as someday Sokka himself would follow him.
Day/Theme: August 2/paint myself in blue and red and black and grey
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Sokka, Hakoda
Rating: PG
Word Count: 186
Warning: Character Death
Sokka stood before his father's body with tears in his eyes and paints in his hands. He was breaking tradition, and he knew it, but his father had lived as a warrior and had taught him to be one, even if the Avatar had brought peace years ago.
Hakoda had died in his bed, not in war, but Sokka would never forget how he had defended his people. Someday Sokka would teach his own children what his father had taught him.
He began with the gray paint, which symbolized strength like the toughness of the gray ice. He covered his father's cheeks and forehead with it. Then came the black paint for his father's eyes, to give him the eyesight of an ice-hawk. Finally he used the white around his father's mouth, which would give him ferocity, like the white teeth of the tiger seal.
Finally he was finished. Sokka knew there were no wars where his father was going. The afterlife was a place of peace. But he would be buried in the ice as a warrior, just as someday Sokka himself would follow him.