Sokkarem Week 2017

An Avatar the Last Airbender fic

By

EvilFuzzy9

Rating: T

Genre: Romance/Humor

Characters/Pairings: Sokka, Toph, Yue, Suki, Ty Lee; [Sokka x Harem]

Summary: With tongue firmly in cheek, let us celebrate the glory of harems. Sokkarem Week is here again.

"I can't tell. Does this look good?"

There was a touch of humor in Toph's voice as she spoke, waving a hand in front of her face. Her cheeks were rosy from a careful application of blush, and her fairly pale complexion had been enhanced with a light powdering. It was an artful mingling of the lily and the rose, beautiful to look upon. She sat crosslegged on the floor, and Suki was kneeling before her, a make up kit at her side.

Suki gave a wry grin, clearly a little amused by Toph's words, despite the staleness of the joke. Toph would say the same thing every time Suki helped her with her make up, drawing on the simple fact that she was blind to lend her requests for 'a second opinion' a certain dry and sarcastic flavor.

"Yes," Suki answered, as much in reply to the joke as to the question. "You look excellent."

"Good," Toph said. "Are you done, then?"

"Oh, dear, no," Suki said, shaking her head. She indulged in a pitying laugh. "We've only begun! There still so much to do. I've picked out a few dresses for you to try, and I really think we should experiment with styling your hair in some different ways. Plus, I want to hear your opinion on a corset. I know you generally dislike that kind of thing, but I'm certain that would do some wonders for you."

Toph's smile became slightly bitter, and she let out a defeated sigh, her hopes critically deflated.

"Darn," she muttered. "You know, Suki, I used to think you were one of the cool ones, but you're actually worse than all the others combined. Yue isn't half as fussy about prettying me up, and she's a princess! I thought you were a rough and tumble warrior sort of woman, but you're actually the biggest girly-girl out of all of us."

Suki chuckled.

"Do you think so?" she said. "But I don't see how that's supposed to be a bad thing. I am a girl, after all. If anything, being a warrior gives me a greater appreciation of what it means to be a woman. Anybody can swing a club and break stuff, but being a woman takes discipline and perseverance."

"Hmph." Toph crossed her arms, a little peevish but not exceptionally bad tempered. "I get being a woman. I mean I don't hate being a girl, or anything like that. My only complaint is, why does being a woman have to include all this stupid fuss? I can clean myself up, you know—I get that nobody wants to suffer somebody else's awful BO. It's just annoying having to do all this junk with make up. It's itchy and cakey and feels uncomfortable on my face."

"You don't mind being covered in dirt, though," Suki observed. "Is that really any more comfortable?"

"I choose to be covered in dirt," said Toph defiantly. "I'm an earthbender. 'S'what I do. Kinda my whole shtick. But I don't like make up. It's always something somebody else is putting on me. And I don't know what the difference between a face covered in dirt and a face covered in make up is. People say the make up 'looks better', but I'm not sure I completely believe them. Why should I trust their judgement?"

"Well, I think make up looks better on you than dirt does," said Suki. "You look gorgeous now. Really, you have such a nice complexion, but you let it go to waste. If I had skin like yours, I would take such better care of it. You don't know how lucky you are."

"I think you have nice skin," Toph replied. "I mean, it feels nice when we—"

"—Yes," Suki said, her face reddening. "I'm sure it does. But you want to look nice, don't you?"

Toph cocked her head, looking slightly thoughtful.

"I could say I don't care, you know. It's not like I can see myself and say, 'Oh, yeah, I look great now.' All I know is how it feels, and what a pain in the butt it is to do all this make up."

"Yet you still ask me to help give you a makeover," Suki observed.

Toph smiled.

"It's nice to have something to complain about," she said. "We can all agree on that, right?"

"That's a matter of opinion," said Suki. She clicked her tongue. "But whether you complain or not, I think you look good, and I think the make up does a lot to bring out your natural appeal."

"Sure. If you say so," said Toph dubiously.

"Well, consider it this way," Suki said, leaning in close. "When you get a makeover, it attracts Sokka's interest. Even if the concept of 'looks' is meaningless to you, I think you know very well what a lover's redoubled interest feels like."

Toph grinned.

"Hah! You know just how to get past my defenses," she said. "Yeah. Fair enough. I like that."

"Heh. I figured you would say that," said Suki, smiling. "Now that we've got that debate out of the way, then, I want to ask you again about that corset..."

"Hey, now, I didn't agree to that!" Toph exclaimed. "I agreed to make up, but I didn't say anything about wearing some kind of torture device!"

"But it will look great on you, I'm sure of it," Suki said. "Besides, I don't mean you should wear it 24/7. Heaven forbid! I just mean it might be nice for our next group date, you know, to put you in something low-cut and really emphasize your figure."

"Why don't you wear the corset, then, if you think it will make you look better?"

"I said it would help you. I didn't say anything about myself."

Toph huffed, still apparently a tad annoyed by this.

"Will Sokka like it?" she asked at length. Her tone was sullen.

"That depends," said Suki sarcastically. "Do you think he likes boobs?"

Toph laughed. This remark seemed to cheer her considerably.

"Of course he does," she said. "He's a man, after all."

Her lips were curved in a playful grin. There was something of pleasant consideration in her expression.

Suki elbowed Toph, and she leaned in to slyly ask:

"So about the corset..."

"Yeah," Toph said. "Let's try it on. Just for the date, though. I'm sure it'll be the least comfortable thing I've ever worn."

"But if all goes well," said Suki, "You'll only be wearing it for a couple hours."

Toph cackled.

"I like the way you think! Hehe, that makes it sound a lot better."

"Yes, I thought it would," said Suki, her eyes glinting. "Now, let's get you undressed..."

With a smile, Toph readily complied.

A/N: Here's chapter two, or the second installment. I'd say it's turned out rather better than the previous. Talking about boobs improves almost anything, I suppose. XD

Updated: 9-29-17

TTFN and R&R!

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