Also, while I still haven't read either of the Kyoshi books, I'm still very excited for the Yangchen one. We got snippets of her life through ATLA and LoK and some of the comics, and she used to be the earliest named and known predecessor of Aang (Pre LoK and before the reveal of Wan) so to see her fleshed out and all in the future is something that makes me happy to see!
And because we got through Kyoshi's pov information on Kuruk's life and a clearer understanding of him, I think that maybe we get the same perhaps of Szeto (the fire avatar that is her direct predecessor). And general, I would be interested in the Avatars that are shown very blurry in the line up we see in ATLA, or the statues that are seen in LoK's concept art in detail. Specifically, the grey bearded earth avatar (that came before Kyoshi), the water avatar with the long spear/staff (that came before Kuruk) and maybe some mentions of the male air nomad and female fire nation avatars that came in the cycle before Yangchen and Szeto.
I don't want them to compress all information in one book, but it would be something cool to explore in later planned books or other types of media!
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Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending
Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here
There are no airbenders in the crowd
All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.
No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.
Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.
Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.
This is so heartbreaking.
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You know what’s astonishing about Katara? She grew up in a world without bending.
It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.
So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.
Everything she does is so incredibly impressive, and yet I can’t help but feel the most proud of her when she catches a fish on that little boat.
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Don’t forget we invade the Fire Nation today
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Sometimes I think about exactly how powerful Zuko’s story as an abuse victim is and I just have to stop and tear up for a minute.
Just let it sink in that at 13 years old, Zuko’s father mutilated him in front of an audience and told him he was worthless and unwelcome until he completed an impossible mission. Nobody stepped in to help him. Most onlookers thought he deserved it, and even Iroh was too afraid of Ozai to challenge him in Zuko’s defense.
Zuko went on for years believing Ozai was right, and didn’t recognize what happened to him as abuse. He thought his banishment and suffering were his own fault because something was wrong with him, and that it was his duty to change to become worthy again.
Then this scene? Absolutely incredible.
Zuko’s whole journey leads up to this confrontation, where he not only recognizes that he holds no responsibility for the abuse inflicted on him; he confronts his abuser and tells him he was wrong to treat him that way, that he doesn’t owe his abuser anything.
And not only that, Zuko also tells Ozai that he sees how he’s hurting the rest of the world the same way he hurt him, and vows to stop him. That’s literally so powerful, especially watching this as someone who once felt as broken and alone as Zuko once did. His story is everything to me.
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ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT SOKKA DATED GIRLS LITERALLY NAMED MOON MOON? THIS IS THE MOST IN CHARACTER SHIT I’VE EVER SEEN
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The Boiling rock in a nutshell
Y'know, this was supposed to be posted next week but I've decided that gay month deserves to start out a lil fruity
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