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defending aang from people who lack media literacy isn’t enough i need a GUN

#aang may be a pacifist but i’m not #i don’t play about him #aang defense squad #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang

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*extreme sarcastic voice*

how dare the sole survivor of his people’s genocide, who was forced to grow up early due to a power he never asked for be selfish?!!!

yes, he saved everyone and the only reason anybody ended up having a happy ending was because he defeated the show’s greatest antagonist. and yes, he constantly put his own needs aside so he could take on his duty as avatar. and yes, he dealt with extreme racism and genocide-erasure during his journey. but how DARE he not continue being entirely self-less to end a war that took everything from him?? the AUDACITY

how DARE he not fulfill our western craving for violence. the show’s propaganda claimed the air nomads were weak because of their resistance to physical fighting, so aang (as the LAST air nomad) should have proved their point by rejecting his ideals at the end and killing ozai, especially after the man used those exact words to demean him as an air nomad :)

when ozai said “you’re weak just like your people. they didn’t belong in my world” aang should have proved him right!!! cause the only way to win a war is through violence! and every piece of media i consume must contain violence so my child-like brain can enjoy it! or else it is boring!! aang is boring!!

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it’s so dumb when ppl say Aang is selfish in his choice to not kill Ozai. If such a thing makes him selfish, then so fucking be it. Aang sacrificed everything there is to sacrifice the whole damn story. So to see him put his foot down and refuse to bend to other ppls wants was liberating. There was no other way this story could possibly conclude. Aang is the last airbender. If he fails to preserve his culture that was taken from him, balance will never be achieved. Killing Ozai would simply be another sacrifice in a long list that Aang made throughout.

#me if i was dumb and didn’t understand character development #aang defense squad #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang

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the airbending tattoos are actually so beautiful. like… they’re such an impecable representation of a bender’s life-long commitment to their bending art form and culture. the fact that it takes years to reach mastery level and the hard work is then cemented with beautiful light blue arrows across your limbs, a forever reminder of your connection to the element and your values… it’s just beautiful

and even without the cultural connection, the arrows are breathtaking to look at. aang’s character design is so amazing and iconic largely because of those arrows. they suit him so well and tell you so much about his character, especially since he’s surviving in a world that hunted everyone with those arrows. his people. those tattoos mean sooo damn much

his people are, in a way, literally ingrained into him. and i just think that’s so beautifullllll. i admire cultural markings like that so fucking much. the airbenders have such beautiful customs i could just scream about it

they also have the coolest and nastiest avatar states because of them, lets be real. absolutely nobody is touching them in that department. their whole body fucking glows THEY’RE TAKING ITTTTTT

#the airbenders being the coolest mfers to have ever walked the earth what else is new? #not only is their element insane but so are they im obsessed #atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #avatar aang #aang is outdoing everyone in appearances alone

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Friendly reminder that Aang defeated the fire lord (amped by the comet), mastered the Avatar State, mastered all the elements (except fire) and saved the world in less than one year, at 12 :)

Oh and he's also the first avatar who used energy bending, the most powerful ability in the series and seismic sense

This kid was a beast and a prodigy

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They are BROTHERS your honor :)

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“aang is useless without the avatar state” 🤓

tell me you haven’t seen the show without telling me you haven’t seen the show. some of his nastiest bending happens outside the avatar state let’s be serious. you see this impressive shit??

he looks so fucking cool in this scene man

#the way he so carelessly smashes that bolder to PIECES without moving his head an INCH??? #just nasty #aang #avatar the last airbender #atla

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Are people waking up or something because these posts are so good and funny 😭

Glad that even Aang's power is appreciated!

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The sheer scope of Aang's loss is terrifying to think about sometimes (all the time). He didn't just lose the air nomads -tho it's his most personal and devastating loss- he's lost everything. Most plants and animals went extinct, the places he knows are in ruins. He lost the four nations as he once knew them, the friends he made, the festivals he went to, the peace and harmony he lived in. The slang, the references, the dances he knows are something of the past, now scoffed at. No matter how much he remembers, how much is restored, there's still so much lost to time. Aang was taken from a time of peace (before being told he's the avatar anyway, and the war silently brewing) to a war-torn age.

And he has Appa and Momo and Bumi from his old life and all the gaang, of course, but it's just so tragic on so many levels.

The fact he chooses kindness again and again and again in the face of all what was taken from him.... that he chooses life and peace, to make amends, and follow the teachings of his people.... that he forgives.... Aang is actually the greatest character ever, and someone needs to drown him in hugs.

I know 😭😭😭 Aang is such an important character to me and he is so near and dear to my heart. I absolutely adore him and his character arc.

The fact he had unconditional love for the world even tho that same world took everything from him. The fact he did all of the things he did for others never asking for anything in return. The fact everyone tried to get him to give up the last of his culture and he put his foot down and said “no. YOU move” .. who is doing it like him? King

“But he never let it destroy his spirit. He chose to find meaning in his suffering, and eventually found peace.” When Katara said this in TLoK I threw up and died btw. Also when Aang said “It’s easy to do nothing, but it’s hard to forgive.” ten year old me felt that and I never really stopped feeling it.

We should all be a little more like Aang. He is the most special boy ever and he deserves the entire world and also 100 trillion dollars.

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What the hell is wrong with this man WTF

He's a very realistic character actually, but damn

general fong is great because he’s our first proper introduction of aang’s central quandary of whether it’s more important to choose power or love, to choose being the avatar or being an air nomad. in “the siege of the north” aang’s full capacity for divine vengeance and destruction is revealed to us, and we see that he could easily kill the firelord if he tapped into that power. and by the time he does fight ozai, the struggle isn’t whether or not he can beat him in a fight (it isn’t even a question), but whether he can hold back enough not to kill him. general fong is a more exaggerated caricature of people like sokka and zuko who pressure aang into killing ozai; or guru pathik, who wants aang to let go of his earthly attachments to attain cosmic power; or the avatars who tell him that being the avatar means giving up any one cultural value for the sake of the world. aang cannot enter the avatar state in this way, because it would be ethically and thematically wrong. aang needs to reach a place of enlightenment, true enlightenment, through his own cultural values, if he wants to end the war in a way that actually means something. and he cannot do that by force or through rage, by attempting to cut out pieces of himself or by sacrificing the values of his people. aang needs to be able to prove that his people did have a place in this world, and he cannot do that by discarding those values when it suits him. that is what makes him so uniquely fit to be the avatar: because he’s not just ridiculously powerful (even for avatar standards), but because he’s an air nomad through and through.

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"Ugh Aang is so boring"

"Anyway i'm giving my favs his avatar powers, his charming personality, his storyline and girlfriend too!"

#!!!!!! #he’s literally their blueprint #aang #atla

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if i think about aang for too long ill start crying. this poor bby went through literal hell because of sozin’s greedy bastard ass.

because of sozin, he was told too early that he was the avatar. he was TWELVE and had the weight of the world on his small shoulders. everyone he knew started treating him differently even tho he was the same person he’d always been. the monks wanted him training all the time and his friends didn’t want to play with him anymore because it’d be “unfair” (mind you, aang had always been more advanced at airbending than them. the avatar title just made him “too skilled”). and to top it all off, the monks wanted him and gyatso separated because of his avatar responsibilities. his childhood was literally swept away from him before a war even started.

and then when he was freed from the ice, he was crushed with the realization that a century had passed by. he had to come to terms with the fact that everyone he knew had already passed within that time. but the grief didn’t end there because he was then hit with the fact that not only were the ppl in his previous life dead, but EVERY single air nomad had been murdered. there was not a single person alive who shared his culture or native bending element. he was completely alone. he was the sole survivor of a genocide. a genocide that SOZIN directed in search of him. imagine waking up one day and being told that everyone who is like you has been killed because the perpetrators were looking for you and you alone. i think i’d die from heartbreak man. aang’s grief… he’s so damn strong for being able to even smile let alone be a shining symbol of hope for other people.

and then to be hunted down everywhere he went as he quickly tried learning all the elements, knowing that his friends were in danger because they were helping him, and that their futures relied on his ability to rise to the occasion at TWELVE. every other avatar had time. they were able to grow up a little before being sent off at 16 to complete their training for several years. aang was 12 and had a strict timeline (only a few months) for becoming a realized avatar. he was a BABY

and then when he ended the war and all the nations began rebuilding, he assisted everyone as the avatar and only air nomad left. he saw every nation in the crowd at zuko’s coronation. every nation except for his own. because there was no one left. just him. a child.

sozin when i catch you-

#that’s MY baby #atla #avatar the last airbender #aang defense squad #aang #avatar aang

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“can’t we just respect each other??” stop calling Aang an abuser toward his wife and kids by using his status as the sole survivor of a genocide to do so and then maybe we will consider it 🗿🍷 but until that happens I think not, because I don’t have to respect someone like that <3 hope this helps

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energybending

i don't think the fandom talks enough about aang learning energybending in terms of how cool it was.

he mastered a form of bending - on his first try, may i add - that was so rare noone even considered it an option. not even his past lives. they didn't know it existed, let alone that it could be learnt. and he just single-handedly brought back this immensely powerful form of bending that they could only hear about in that ancient ass library. because that is how old and unknown it was.

and besides its significance of how it allows aang to preserve the values of his culture, it is just the ULTIMATE kick in the balls for ozai. in a world where the ability to bend the elements holds such strength and respectability. in a story where the main antagonist relies SOLELY on his ability to firebend. fym you just take it away ???

and GOD don't even get me started on how he learnt to energybend in the first place. the lion turtle, one of the ultimate "gods" in the atla universe fckin gifted it to him. because it recognized the purity and strength of aang's soul. because it recognized the incorruptibility of his spirit. huh?? HUH???

and he went ahead and PROVED the incorruptibility of his spirit?????

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Sokka: "I'm going to send a note to Katara, and say it’s from Toph, who wants to apologize. Then everyone can be friends again"

Aang: "I gotta say, Sokka, you continue to impress me with your ideas"

Sokka: "Eh, it's a gift"

Aang: "I already have a picture of Fire lord Ozai. And here’s one that I made out of noodles"

Sokka: "Impressive, I admit"

Aang: "Good evening, Mr. Sokka Water Tribe, Ms. Katara Water Tribe, Lord Momo of the Momo Dynasty. Your Momo-ness"

Sokka: "Avatar Aang, how you do go on"

#I LOVE THEM SMMMMM #“avatar aang how you DO go on 🧐

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Damn this is so powerful

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avatar aang is badass wdym it's good to have goals Imao 😭

#confident aang is everything #he KNOWS he’s powerful as hell #doesn’t even need to break a sweat #why are the avatars all so cunty #aang #atla #avatar the last airbender

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I want to see more appreciation for duos — NOT ships. Altho there’s nothing wrong with ships. But let’s show some more love for amazing friendships. Cinder and Thorne. Percy and Grover. Ronan and Noah. RONAN AND BLUE. Ik these already get hype but I wanna see mooooooreeeee. And also ATLA, there are so many cute friendship pairings in a big group like that. Suki and Toph. Toph and Aang. ZUKO AND AANG HIS LITTLE BROTHER. And whether you believe in Zutara or Kataang or Zukka, all of those had to start out as friendships, and I want to see some hype for that growth and all those cute little platonic moments. Platonic love deserves more love. The power of friendship is so legit.

(tag or reblog your favorite duo headcanon or fanart :)

#zuko and aang have the cutest big brother little brother energy #same with sokka and aang too #they’re both super smart but are absolute idiots when together and that’s everything to me #not to mention the tough love between toph and aang. they’re just cuties