[ SECRET POST #2743 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2743 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/VbSmjov.png

[(Anonymous)]

I believe you're right.

And on a slightly related note, I've been thinking today about who Aang's parents were. He never talked about them, and I could understand them giving him up to the temple when they were unformed that he was the avatar, but he supposedly was "discovered" by asking him to ID objects from his past lives, which he still remembers doing at age 12.

I'm wondering whether all Airbender kids were raised in temples while their parents did the "Nomad" part, or was Aang orphaned or what? The complete absence of curiosity about that point is strange to me, especially when you have Sokka and Katara, who are constantly talking about their Dad and often mourning their mother.

[sarillia]

I kind of assumed that the Air Nomads didn't have a traditional family structure. The kids all seemed to be some kind of novices at the temple. I would definitely like to know more about it too.

[ketita]

I wonder if it's not part of the reason Aang didn't turn out a great parent.

[(Anonymous)]

Aang being a poor father has always sort of bothered me as he was shown to be so good with people, but that's an explanation that I'd accept. Growing up he only learned-by-example how to raise a group of airbender students, not how to have the more individual connection of a parent or how to handle non-airbender children.

[(Anonymous)]

From what little we saw, all Air Nomad children were expected to be treated equally by all the adults in their lives. The closeness between Aang and Gyatso was unusual and disapproved of. That might seem contradictory to what we know of Aang and Tenzin but it's not really: Aang spent more time with him because he was anxious to pass on all he knew about Air Nomads and Airbending. It didn't mean he loved his other children any less. But it did mean that Aang didn't realise how much his other children needed him - him personally, their father, not just one of the many other responsible adults around.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Agreed. And given her own childhood, Katara may not have picked up on it right away either.

[(Anonymous)]

The first time they met Zuko said to Aang, 'I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers - being raised by monks.' We don't know much about Air Nomad society, but we know they didn't live in traditional family groups. Men and women even lived in separate temples. It seems doubtful that they practised marriage - it doesn't fit with the philosophy of no earthly attachments. Perhaps children were born of casual flings, who knows? What's really odd is that somehow all Air Nomads were Airbenders. Every other nation had non-benders too.

[(Anonymous)]

"What's really odd is that somehow all Air Nomads were Airbenders"

Now I'm imagining a horrible past of internal conflict for the Air Nation that exploded during a time when the Avatar was too young to intervene, which lead to only the benders surviving and they then tied the entire nation to strict philosophies and spirituality to prevent it from ever happening again.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I always thought it was pretty convenient that the benders who are always surrounded by their element and could, theoretically, call up tornadoes and bend their air out of their enemies' lungs were all pacifists, but now I can see some dark past conflict leading to that decision.

[(Anonymous)]

When you think about it, it's a good thing they were peaceful because they'd be unstoppable otherwise. Airbenders can fly. They can move faster than any army, cross oceans and walls like they're not even there, could sit happily up in the air on their bison, too high up to be reached, bending arrows and spears down on their enemies. Warlike Airbenders would be terrifying.

(...someone needs to write this AU.)

[(Anonymous)]

The not nice and pacifistic airbenders where a thing in "Embers" by Vathara.

[scrubber]

The airbenders were so spiritually powerful as a whole that they were all benders no matter what.

Doesn't make a ton of sense but that's what the creators said.

[(Anonymous)]

The temples seem to gender-segregated, so I doubt the Air Nomads have anything like a nuclear familial structure.

Also, Aang doesn't remember identifying the toys, he remembers playing with them during childhood.

[caecilia]

i LIKE this but I have to re-watch the original series