#AirBison

[waywardsunlight]

So if Avatar!Luz was a Fire Nation citizen frozen in ice, does that mean the Air Nomads are the villains in this AU?

NO!! Not at all. Airbenders are still cool. The Fire Nation is still bad. Luz is Fire Nation for various reasons but also bc when you put characters from one show into another, Luz wouldn't have the same personality as Aang and therefore has different challenges. I think it's kinda important that Belos and Luz have something in common that makes Belos think they're equals/ fuels his connection to her, because her fighting against that and proving she's awesome sauce and she doesn't need to conform is important to her character.

In ATLA, it doesn't matter what nation the Avatar is, but whether or not they've sided with the fire nation. If Aang was from the fire nation, they'd go after him just as hard as a traitor.

Also, Belos's personality will change his role as Fire Lord. Ozai and Belos are very different people and therefore they're going to have different plans and goals based on that.

[wuekka]

THERE'S ONE! And it's good! Avatar fandom please. (Jianzhu commanding Kuruk to command him, hell yeah that's the dynamic 👏)

There's so much potential in this ship in canon, Jianzhu being implied slightly younger but being "serious friend", Kuruk finding him fun and intelligent so he practically forces his friendship on him and becoming friends during pai sho, them talking iroh-like about different bendings not being that different and adapting water bending to earth bending. Kuruk and Jianzhu planning to steal an airbison together! (Did Kuruk talk Jianzhu into it? Jianzhu has been implied hating his family so were they going to escape?) Jianzhu almost worshipping Kuruk at some points, but still being his friend...

I probably have made multiple posts about them, but it's the fandom wheel turning again.

[dont-blame-it-on-the-kids]

Fake fic title: Sixpence None the Richer

Ooooooh good one!

Hmmmmm Tenzin pov Linzin fic

Starts up Around the time Aang dies and he is coming to the realization that he is the last airbender.

Then snips of thought and a string of consciousness for the next few years until he finds himself on the back of an airbison watching someone he once called Forever jump into open air to save them.

Thank you!!

[stardust948]

[Frenemies AU]

Ursa: Whoa, that's insane!

Bato, showing her his phone: Look what happens when I zoom in.

Ursa: No way!

Poppy, walking up: Hi!

Bato: And you can turn it this way.

Ursa: This is blowing my mind!

Poppy, annoyed: HII!

Bato: Hey Poppy.

Ursa: Hey!

Poppy: What are you guys looking at?

Bato: The air bison maps app just update and now you can look anywhere in the world in HD. See here's a shot of our school.

Poppy: Cool!

Ozai: You guys looking at the airbison maps app?

Ursa: Yeah, you can zoom in now from any angle.

Bato: See. *zooms in*

Poppy: That's were we eat lunch!

Bato: The satellite must have taken the shot a few months ago.

Ursa: From space!

Poppy, looking up and waving: Hi!

Ozai: Poppy, we're inside.

Ursa, pointing at the screen: Hey is that us?

Bato: That is us!

Ozai: Oh yeah, I'm wearing my red boots.

Ursa: Um, can you zoom in on Ozai?

Bato: I think *zooms in*

(Shows a picture of Ozai picking his nose)

Everyone: *stares at him*

Ozai: No! No, okay I'm not-

Poppy: Picking your nose?

Ozai: POPPY!

Ozai: I was not picking it! I was just scratching the outside of my nose!

Bato: Yeah but from this angle it looks like you're-

Ozai: DON'T SAY IT!

Ozai: No one mention this to anyone.

Ursa: Okay.

Bato: We won't.

Poppy: You mean you picking your nose?

Ozai: POPPY! I was scratching it!

Poppy: Right...

Ozai: *leaves annoyed*

Everyone: *burst out laughing*

Ozai: *glares at them*

Everyone: *stops immediately*

___

Malina: Hey Ozai, if you had to chose between your elbow or nose, I guess you'll pick your nose! *pretends to pick her nose*

(Students laugh)

Ozai: ಠ_ಠ

Ozai, furious: HEY!

Bato: Oh hey, we were just looking for you-

Ozai: WHO TOLD?!

Poppy: About what?

Ozai: About me on airbison maps!

Bato, raising his hands: I told no one.

Poppy: I told people not to look.

Ozai: Then it must have been Ursa because she was the only other one who...

(Both Ozai and Bato look at Poppy)

Ozai, lowly: What do you mean you told people not to look?

Poppy: I tweeted it.

Ozai: What did you tweet...?

Poppy: Just, "Please do not to go on the airbison map app and look up Republic Arts. If you do, please don't zoom in on Ozai. P.S. he is NOT picking his nose." I made it very clear.

Ozai:

Ozai: *Tries to get Poppy but is restrained by Bato*

Poppy: *squeaks*

Bato: Just run. Run fast and far.

____

Ukano, on the laptop: There. Now I just have to input the proper code.

Ozai: Blah blah nerd nerd! Can you take down the picture of me or not?!

Bato: You have got to work on your people skills.

Ozai: He's an Ukano. He's not people.

Poppy: Can I stop eating bush peas now?

Ozai: No! You eat every single one!

Poppy: But I hate bush peas.

Ozai: And I hate you made every kid in this school go online and see that picture of me.

Bato: With your finger up your nose?

Ozai: I WAS SCRATCHING IT!

Poppy: But why does me eating bush peas help?

Ozai: Because it makes you miserable. Which makes me slightly less miserable!

Poppy: Your logic is flawless.

Ursa, walking in while on the phone: Yeah, they're getting the picture down now. Tomorrow? Thanks Mr. Tyro.

Ozai: Well?

Ursa: My dad's friend said if we get the picture of you off the apps, they'll take a new picture of Republic Arts when the satellite flies over.

Bato: And when's that?

Ursa: Tomorrow at 4:15.

Ozai: Okay, great. So the plan's- POPPY!

Poppy: *squeaks and spills peas everywhere*

Ozai: No shoving bush peas into your pockets!!!

Poppy: *pouts then keeps eating*

Ursa: Plan?

Ozai: Tomorrow I will be standing outside when the picture is taken and I will look so hot no one will remember the other picture of me with-

Bato: The finger up your nose?

Ozai, gritting his teeth: Bato...

Ukano: Boom! Picture down! I will take my payment in cash, credits, or hugs.

Ozai: Bato, hug him.

Bato: I certainly will not!

Ozai: HUG HIM!

Bato: *sighs and hugs Ukano*

___

(Next day at the lunch table)

Ukano, on the laptop: 40 seconds and counting.

Bato to Ozai: You're going to want to stand right there so the satellite gets a good shot.

Bato: Time?

Ursa: Satellite should snap the shot in 17 seconds.

Ozai: Perfect. Now nobody talk to me. *poses*

Ursa: *counts down*

Poppy: Ah! A bee! Go away! I'm not actually a flower!!!

Poppy: *trips over her heels and falls onto Ozai*

Ursa: Now!

(Satellite takes picture, making it look like Ozai and Poppy are kissing)

Ozai: AAAAAAAAAA-

[bakuhatsuo]

Waterbending states the first water bender was the moon (Tui) pulling the tides of the sea (La). We’re told through out the series that waterbending is at its strongest on the full moon (ep: puppetmaster) and stronger at night in general “you rise with the moon…” (zuko to katara). We often see the breath is used in water bending to freeze or melt ice.

Firebending is canonically fueled by two parts: The Sun (“…I rise with the sun” zuko) and the inner flame aka emotional/spiritual energy. I’m including “fire bending comes from the breath, Prince Zuko” (uncle) in with emotional spiritual as breathing exercises and meditation are often considered more spiritual.

In Legend of Korra, we meet one airbender who is able to fly unaided because he was able to truly “give up all earthly ties” and he is a very spiritual character as well (i think lmao). Despite aang being the main character we know little about airbending’s source. Airbison are canonically the first airbenders, and it is stated that air is the element of freedom. The air bison’s migration patterns probably lead to the nomadic lifestyle. It can be inferred in just the first few episodes that air bending is fueled by the breath itself (aang sneezing at least 40 ft in the air, bending with only his breath when tied up), making it the most spiritually connected by association.

And earth, back to the main post, doesn’t seem to require fuel more than will power and understanding. When teaching aang, toph say “theres no trick to it. No special angle thats going to break this rock”. It implies aang is used to finding that in his previous learning (air and water), but it also says a lot about earthbending in its base form taught by the badgermoles. In the episode “the blind bandit”, toph’s tutor claims to her parents that shes doing nothing strenuous, “basic forms and breathing exercises only”. That implies the breath is used by the average earth bender and you can see it as they bend, most earth benders breathe in while summoning the rock up toward them and exhale sharply while striking it out to the opponent. When Toph uses breath work its almost always shown as her connecting to the earth closer to listen and watch with her earth sense. Tophs breathing is unique in that her focus is after the exhale, when the body is still, like the earth. It shows a connection to her element way past the perception of all the other benders we’ve seen. I like this implication a lot because it ties in well with earth being the opposite of air. Sturdy willpower and unmoving body. The confidence to wait and listen and strike when the time is right, where airbending is all about drifting as a leaf on the wind and reacting.

Where Airbending is fueled by movement and breath, Waterbending is in the phase of the moon and the push and pull of the tides, Firebending is in the sunlight and emotion, Earthbending is in stillness and force of will.

The way I see that episode is that Toph is an anchor. She is spiritually connected in that she is connected so deeply to her element. (Sokka voice) you might even say shes… grounded. It makes perfect sense to me that she could ground the library in reality because thats what she wanted to do. Stubborn. Unmoving. I truly think if those sandbenders weren’t there she could have held that library up for much longer.

This isn’t to correct or disprove anything you’re saying but to add in more details from the show to support that YEAH Toph held her own against a major spirit while dehydrated, on sand (a part of her element she wasn’t as connected to) and trying to save appa too. Toph is absolutely the only person who could have done that. Given a second try by the end of the series (making detailed sand sculptures on ember island) I think toph would have yanked the whole enormous building on top on the sand and thrashed the great spirit herself, right after fighting off those sand benders. Don’t fuck with her. She is a 12 year old with the power of the the earth and the avatar on her side.

Okay, so I had a thought (and I'm about 300% sure I'm not the first one, but I was too lazy to check, I also don't know if canon has adressed this already):

When Wan Shi Tong was dragging the library into the Sprit World, how was Toph able to hold it?

Because Toph learned from the badgermoles.

Let's back up a little. The Ocean and The Moon are explicitly spirits. Fang, Roku's dragon, is able to traverse the Spirit World (and on the Solstice, even the physical world) freely, even though Roku isn't. Appa is spiritually connected to Aang and able to perceive it (with help) and follow the connection to Ba Sing Se.

I think all of the original benders are either spirits, or animals that crossed over from the Spirit World. And all of the bending styles we've seen have distanced themselves from the original sources of bending - even Airbending, because Aang and the historical benders don't fly freely, like Appa. Firebending is fueled by rage, that's explicitly stated, I don't have anything good for Waterbending so the source is firmly trust me bro, and in Earthbending, Toph's moves are based on a different martial arts style (Zhujia/Chugar family kung fu rather than the Hung Gar style used by other earthbenders*) than the other earthbenders we see - there is explicitly something different about learning from the original source. I also think all of the original benders, when crossing over, used their bending to anchor themselves into the physical world. For dragons, fire was life and the sun, for Tui and La, their eternal dance was their life and power, etc.

That's a long paragraph to say that no other earthbender could have held up the library. Toph learned her bending from the badgermoles, not as a fighting style, but as a way of interacting with the environment - the same way they do. I don't think she's necessarily aware of it, but I think that, because badgermoles are spirits that crossed over a long time ago, as Toph learned, she also unconsciously learned a style of bending that is much more spiritual than human-taught bending.

This also weaves nicely into the show's themes of destiny. Aang was destined to find Toph (he saw her in a vision, after all), and Toph was destined to teach Aang. But not only that, Toph was the only person who could have held up the library. She wasn't just holding up a big rock. She anchored it into our world.

And I think that's beautiful.

*BUT NOT WING CHUN THO THAT INFORMATION WAS LITERALLY ONE GOOGLE SEARCH AWAY ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT IT WAS WING CHUN I SWEAR I HEARD IT SOMEWHERE AND INCORPORATED IT INTO MY BELIEF SYSTEM FOREVER thank you dear person in the tags i don't know if it's polite to @ you considering it was in the tags but thank you srs

[notdrifting]

i feel so dumb now but- i’ve just realised that we actually got some foreshadowing of bumi being a bender on book 2 ????? when he destroyed the camp, to save his ass he jumped waaayyy too high for it not to have been bending ( especially if we consider that he has tried to jump such heights before and couldn’t do it, needing tenzin’s help to climb up on the airbison ), he was also way too fast at it to climb - he probably propelled himself and just assumed that he made it due to force or momentum when it was, in fact, bending. however, he only discovers that he can do it on book 3.

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[stormakima]

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