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woahjo · 2 months

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i think all the time about the line "in what year did fire lord sozin defeat the air nation army" and then aang responding "is this a trick question? the air nomads didn't have a formal army" and the implications of the history that the fire nation had been rewriting for a century. the implication that the air nomads (a peaceful nation) weren't brutally ambushed, but rather that they were ready to fight and may have even been eager to do so. absolving the fire nation of some of the guilt in a total genocide and painting the narrative that the air nomads were ready to defend themselves and/or that the attack on the air nomads was anything but a one sided ambush. i think about it a lot.

#this scene in particular actually devastates me in a visceral way #because it is ONLY aang alive now to remember first hand that the air nomads didn't have a formal army #that it was part of their principles and their cultural identity to NOT have one #that the air nomads largely preached pacifism #and he's the only one alive able to refute the history that the fire nation rewrote based on his own first hand testimonies.#almost everyone else who could do that is dead #and of course.. other nations know it was a brutal attack.. but there's something so deeply sinister #about the implication that aang is from the colonies followed by that scene #because it means that this is a conscious effort to indoctrinate not just fire nation citizens... but the PLANET #and aang is literally the only person who can refute it.#MAN.#i love atla

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