#aang and Kya ii

[thinky-think-brainblast]

Aang was destined to be a girl dad and the writers just didn’t deliver.

[kataangoogie]

Day 3: Parenthood 🎏

[queen-morgana91]

Damn Kya stole all her parents' pretty genes 😭 😂

Also i love how Kya got Aang's personality while Tenzin got Katara's personality!

[izze-art]

the kids all grown up!! (or aged down if we think about tlok?? idk)

[mesapies]

Over 70% of ppl said that kya would have brown hair like katara on the poll I did the other day, but I rlly do like the idea of kya having black hair like aang. Idk it just feels right to me.

[zukkaart]

Headcanon that the gaangs kids learn about Zuko’s misguided quest to capture the avatar and subsequently make a game out of it.

Bumi steals an air nomad necklace from his dad and whoever wears it becomes the “avatar” for the duration of the game. The “avatar” is given 100 seconds to hide.

When they “capture the avatar” the winner must shout “I have restored my honor!”

Zuko is mortified, everyone else thinks it’s endlessly hilarious.

[wilcze-kudly]

[chriscdcase95]

Aang: “Avatar Kyoshi’s, I seek your advice-”

Kyoshi: (spirit manifests) “End that motherfuckers life!”

(We cut to see it’s an adult Aang with a teenaged Kya standing beside him. Both look taken aback, and bewildered.)

Aang: “Actually, I was hoping to speak to you on my daughters behalf…”

(Jump cuts to Kyoshi, projecting herself through Aang whilst sitting at a table, across from Kyla. Kyoshi is listening expectantly to Kya.)

Kya: (sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck, a blush on her face) “Okay, so there’s this girl at the Academy…”

Kyoshi: (nodding) Yes, yes, Go on…”

[bacipinoto]

(SwapAU) Bending-sibling-rivalry

[hadesisqueer]

We talk a lot about the insanity of Kuruk and Kyoshi's companions and their relations but tbh Roku/Aang/Korra aren't any better like what is this

This isn't even all of it, I ran out of proper space for Sozin, Gyatso or Iroh. And thank god the whole deal with Mako and Zuko's granddaughter was scrapped solely because I would cry trying to fit her in.

[glassy-eyed-poet]

"Yeah but when you're with her you're thinking of me aren't you?"

Korra, with all due respect, EVERYONE thinks of you an obsessive amount (including me ofc.)

[mal3vol3nt]

master katara and her husband, avatar aang, created and raised a lesbian

something about that feels spiritually right. like it must have been written in the stars or appeared to one of the writers in a dream for it to be so perfectly on-the-nose

[mugentakeda]

kataang redraw 🩵🧡

[queen-morgana91]

oh I love them

[prickly-paprikash]

Since the discourse has reared its ugly head once more, the simple answer is no.

Aang was not a deadbeat, unsupportive, absentee father.

He loved all three of his children and was supportive of them. When Kya came out in the comics, she mentioned straight up that Aang was nothing but supportive of her and who she was. Aang made mistakes in parenting, but he was also stuck in one of the worst situations possible for him.

For one thing, it's been stated that Airbending culture has different views when it comes to family dynamics. Never once does Aang mention his parents, and it's clear that Air Nomads did not put emphasis on the standard nuclear family organization that other nations did. From context clues alone, and many have inferred in the past that Air Nomads were communal, so it stands to reason that their parenting was communal. Monks, Nuns, Masters—all of them were most likely parents to every single child. The responsibility of raising and educating a child was shared amongst the nomads, and that there was no real difference between biological and adoptive parents. Airbenders shared nearly everything, and that meant family as well.

Imagine you're Aang, spending twelve years of life being raised by every adult in the temple. Sure, he was exposed to nuclear family dynamics when visiting other nations and befriending Bumi and Kuzon, but his exposure to their culture was most likely limited. Now, not only is he a father to three beautiful children, but he must raise them in a way foreign to him. There are no other Monks to raise his children—it's just him and Katara. I've no doubt that Sokka and Toph chipped in whenever they could to ease the burden of parenthood, but they were leaders and figures of great importance as well. Not to mention that Toph had her own daughters to take care of.

Aang is also the Avatar, the central spiritual figure amongst the four nations. His presence would always be demanded in other nations. Peace Summits. Negotiations. Ceremony. Dealing with splintered Fire Nation cells and loyalists. Aang had to lead the people of all four nations back into balance, and he was in the unique and unenviable position to heal the scars of a 100 year war due to the absence of the Avatar.

Finally, the dude is also the Very Last Airbender. Of course he'd show favoritism to Tenzin. Bumi was a non-bender and Kya was a waterbender already taking after her mother. Aang was a war hero, a political figure, a man out of time and history, the Avatar, and the Only Living Airbender. The weight of his culture and people all rested on his shoulders, and so he passed on that responsibility and hope to the only other living Airbender at the time. Aang needed to spend time with Tenzin because only through Tenzin could the practices of the Air Nomads survive.

Aang was basically having to transition from a communal family mindset to a nuclear family's; he had to balance romance, fatherhood, and being the Avatar in a Wartorn World; and he had an obligation to every Airbender in history—millions of souls and their memories, passed on from one very flawed father to his newborn son. Every part of Aang's life as a father was met with trials and tribulations, and his family still came out loving him, albeit with some resentment underneath.

No parent is perfect, and Aang could have done so much better when it came to communicating with his children.

But none of his mistakes ever meant he was an abusive, cold, distant father.

He was overworked, acclimating to a style of family not his own, and desperately reviving a century-long dead culture all by himself. The fact that every single one of his kids still loved him and cherished him only solidified the fact that Aang was a father who did his very best.

Being the child of the Avatar would always mean living in his shadow. That resentment, of Aang being needed by the world while his children sought him out, would always be there. Doubly so for Tenzin, who grew up with the Avatar as his father and continued his life-long work of breathing life back into the Air Nomads. Say what you will, but at least Bumi and Kya had the freedom to choose who they wanted to be. Tenzin, no matter what, would always grow up to be the Airbending Master because no one else could.

Aang loved his children. Aang loved his wife. And they in turn loved him. But just like every family, complications rose up and planted the seeds of bitterness and resentment. The only thing that stopped these from blossoming into actual dislike of their family was that Aang's love and respect for his children was always genuine, and that Katara stood firm in making sure their children knew they were beloved.

Aang and Katara's family would never have been ideal in the first place, but they did their best.

And their best was certainly enough.

[mesapies]

The way there's grandpa iroh content for kataang kids but none for izumi. And there's no grandpa hakoda content either

I like to believe that iroh was like a grandpa to all the gaangs kids but I'd like to see him with his actual great niece granddaughter as well.