#people think the avatar's gonna cause a diplomatic incident throwing fruit pies at the chief of the southern water tribe

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

okay this is like the third post i've seen in the hakoda tag that repeats this line about hakoda granting aang honorary water tribe membership as his son-in-law and while i love aang & hakoda friendship i feel the need to point out that aang became an honorary member of the water tribe after ice-dodging in "bato of the water tribe". bato said so. and tbh i like that a lot more! he became an honorary member of the tribe by participating in a cultural ritual, not just by marrying in. also if you ship bakoda it's still one of his in-laws granting him that status :)

i guess i can see aang thinking that didn't count because he admitted to lying right after and wiped off the mark but i don't think bato thinks that, i think aang would go to him all apologetic and he'd be like "you were a kid scared to lose your friends, i'm not going to hold that against you. also you saved the world"

aang can have 2 water tribe dads. as a treat

Aang and Hakoda have a very respectful relationship, I love the in-laws ❤

He canonically granted Aang honorary status as the Son-in-law of the Chief and that’s beautiful