#aang's children

[bluespiritshonour]

Four men in uniform To carry home my little soldier

-Kate Bush

[nathsketch]

A little baby Aang and Gyatso to start the week 👶🏻🥹

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[bytesizedshorts]

“A Companion For Life” - The Avatar’s first flight

[the-badger-mole]

Your new fic is awesome! How do you think the rest of the Gaang react to the fog babies thing?

All of Aang's friends try to be there for him. They know better than anyone how he would be affected by finding out such a horrible thing about his people. Aang's denial and later justification and distancing puts them off, but they do still try.

Sokka is disgusted, but his reaction has more to do with how Aang treats his niece and nephews than with the actual horrors of what the Air Nomads did (after all, he was able to be friends with Zuko despite everything). He's always felt deep down that Aang looked down on people for not meeting his standards (meat eaters, hunters, non-benders), and this incident doesn't help. By the time Katara leaves him, Sokka is as fed up with Aang as his sister. Maybe even more. Suki never fully bought Aang's nice guy act, so this whole thing hurt her less than their other friends.

Toph is furious and goes on periodic rants about how people who think they're better than everyone else need to be shot into space from a canon. She tries to comfort Aang by telling him that she doesn't think he's awful like the Air Nomads who did all those horrific things, but she's very hard line about it. She doesn't go as far as to say the Air Nomads had what the Fire Nation did coming, but she is a lot less sympathetic to their loss. It takes her a long time to be able to be more nuanced in her thinking.

Zuko is the one who understands what Aang is going through the most. He knows what it's like to love your people despite knowing what horrors they're capable of. He tells Aang that while no one should judge all of the Air Nomads by their treatment of the fog children, it's not helpful to ignore that this is part of their legacy. Aang is angriest at him because of all his friends, Zuko won't just let Aang distance himself from the issue in peace. That anger...ah...does not cool after Zuko's second wedding.

[billsbae]

i'm sorry but this is so zutara with toph

[queen-morgana91]

The meaning of this scene was to show the mourning of the LAST HOPE for the world. The mourning of the chosen one. Not to show that the 14 year old is the mother of the 12 year old :)

None of you would have cared if katara and aang were gender swapped 🤦‍♂️

Also...being the mom friend and being the mother figure are two DIFFERENT things. Katara is not Aang and the gaangs' mother, you all are weirdos

We get it, y’all are still bitter you didn't get your enemies to lovers bs (in a series not even about romance) but stop embarrassing yourself with dumb posts

[a-mirror-of-memories]

Not the last Airbender Au

From Kyoshi’s novels we learned that Air Nomads can lose their bending by neglecting their spiritual side and clinging to earthy desires and that’s exactly what happened to the survivors of the genocide who managed to stay hidden. Even if they wanted to cling to what was left of their culture their fear for theirs and their loved ones lives shackled them like anything else. Wanting to preserve at least a little of their heritage some Air Nomads went to great lengths to painstakingly write down every airbending form, dish, book, plant, festival or anecdote they still remembered; then they hid them away with the hope that they’ll be found only when the war’s finally over and their descendants could start to rebuild their lives. Others decided to pass their stories the oral way, sharing their culture with their children in secret even if they couldn’t fully embrace it as non benders.

But the children, not fully understanding the tragedy they were living been so young, weren’t always non benders.

Not all their children and not on every generation but airbending keep finding its way back and refused to be erased without a trace. After 100 years of war what was left of the Air Nomads culture was small and hidden away but against all odds was still fighting for survival.

Some parents cried when they saw their kids’ airbending for the first time, passing down everything they could even if it should forever be kept a secret from everyone else. Others were terrified of the danger it implied, punishing and beating the child until they were unable to create anything stronger than a small breeze. But there were still those who the war had turned cruel, who saw such children as something disgusting that should be destroyed before anyone found out.

It was exactly the later situation that prince Zuko stumbled upon only a few months after been exiled.

[kidcaroline]

atla fandom should read this post from the producer...properly

[waterfire1848]

Give me a fic where Hakoda goes to Ba Sing Se with Sokka and Aang (when Aang goes to get Sokka because he has a vision that Katara is in trouble) and Hakoda sees Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee and is just like “Where are their parents? What kind of parents let their children wonder Ba Sing Se all alone?!” (Yes, he knows he did that too but he’s here now).

[sad-endings-suck]

If I had a nickel for every show I’ve seen that follows a strong spirited blue-eyed heroine who lost her mother at a young age to a fire that can be linked back to colonial violence and who seeks revenge for that but who is also strongly associated with water and the colour blue, who travels with her close companion who happens to be a bald and childlike yet oddly wise individual with traits both physical and emotional that line up with association of air and the colour grey, who eventually fight and then travel with a stubborn fighter who has never lost a battle before encountering them and is associated with earth and the colour green, as well as a fourth character that represents fire and the colour red and who is a royal/noble trying desperately to ensure control over her own destiny for the sake of freedom and power and who very much acts as a narrative foil to the water/blue character, and one of the former two characters is obsessed with honor to the point that they are willing to actively aid their enemy just so that they can personally be the one to bring them down and are also sporting one half of a whole haircut for reasons also associated with honour and humiliation, and all this takes place in either east asia or an east asian inspired setting with both plenty of nuance and entertainment value to be found, then I’d have two nickels… which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

[rosa-100]

KATARA AND HOPE

One of the things I like about the Kataang ship is how Katara had full faith in Aang, long before she knew him. You remember in every episode in the intro where Katara said that Aang would save the world.

We see her say this without her knowing him, where the world had lost hope. Katara is the one who believes in him, who will save the world from war, and I think part of that gave her hope. I can see a part where Katara's grandmother tells her granddaughter that the avatar will come back and all the fascinating stories of the avatars.

She lost her mother very early to fire because of the fire nation and her father who left them at a young age. This harmonious future where the avatar would return allowed him to stay at the beginning and believe in a better future beyond war, genocide, crises, death and to share it with other nations, to inspire others.

I know that many people do not like this aspect of kataang where there is this life of brothers and sisters. But I think we can look at it differently. Katara, at the beginning, sees Aang as a wacky child, but she always has confidence in him and only sees potential in him if a person tries to put Aang down or despise him, she defends him! What I want to say before saying anything is that the kaaang shows us support and belief in the potential of others. Katara, at the end, looks at Aang with so much admiration and pride because she has always known.

Likewise, Aang did it, even if it is a little subtle. Katara feels heard and supported by Aang, especially by the positive affirmations that Aang gives Katara throughout the series. Aang pushes her to reaffirm how strong, courageous, compassionate she is in her quests. Even Aang's words make Katara cry.

I need someone who believes in me before I become someone, like Katara did with Aang. I need an Aang who will remind me of my abilities, my gifts and who will support me. These children have changed the world man.

[nathsketch]

I made a little something!

Love Aang, love Appa, love everything about Avatar The Last Airbender ever since I was 14 🥹

So excited about @avatarnetflix new live action!!

Happy Saturday! 🩵⬆️🩵

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[dunnowho180125]

yes another Zukka AU

Ok so Zuko got put in charge of a boat and its crew at age 13 (not the brightest decision right Ozai) and Hakoda was on sea a year later right? So imagine Sokka, really wanting to go with his dad, deciding to snuck in their boat, so when his dad finally finds him, its too late to go back but still, they can’t let him stay on a WAR boat so they set a course for a port to contact someone from the tribe to pick him up but while they were there, you have 14 years old Zuko meeting 13 years old Sokka and both have 0 idea who the other is until someone, probably lieutenant Jee, comes up to Zu and is like “Your Highness, we are ready to depart” except that in the short time the boys were together, Zuko got told about the raids and a first hand story about the Fire Nation’s “GrEaTnEsS” so he’s like “wait a second my dad’s an asshole” and he’s just like “ok no we are going to help Sokka’s dad” and after a lengthy discussion of life choices, parenting styles and boats intricacies, Zuko comes out with a new dad, a boyfrie- best friend and a new life goal, which is to end the war. He also gives several people a new life goal too, which is to punch the Fire Lord in the face, or whack him in the head with a bat, they’re not picky

[finalsquidmissile]

NOTHING is wrong AU

everyone is happy.

[the-badger-mole]

Some Aang supporters just need to see the potential of Flying Dagger.

Y EEEEESSSSS! Aang and Mai stand need to embrace Flying Dagger. They make sense (at least temporarily). Imagine all the horrific adventures they could have together. Aang with a woman who has Katara's ruthlessness, but none of her compunction? Mai with a powerful man who she could manipulate through his ego? Who cares if they could actually last as a couple long term. The stories that could be told!

[the-genius-az]

You're wrong, Avatar Roku doesn't love Azula for being his great-granddaughter.

It is Avatar Kyoshi who LOVES her because Azula is Rangi's equal.