[ SECRET POST #2559 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2559 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure how unpopular this opinion is since I'm not in the fandom, but here goes. It doesn't surprise me that Aang was a neglectful father to Kya and Bumi and tbh it makes a lot of sense that he would focus on the only airbender child he had. He wanted to perserve his culture and make sure it lived on through Tenzin.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[lunabee34]

I really liked that the show had his children perceive him that way, and I don't think it makes him a bad person or poops on the way he was characterized in the first show.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I don't think it made him a bad person either and I really don't see all the fuss over it. He wasn't completely neglectful and it was clear that he loved all of his children, but the airbenders and their entire damn culture was almost wiped out. So him focusing more on Tenzin and handing down traditions to him just seems to make sense me. So I really don't see how this is such a surprise to people.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[lunabee34]

I don't see the show as presenting him as completely neglectful either; I think it's also a fair reading to take the kids' perceptions with a grain of salt (not to negate their experiences of how their father interacted with them, but that their perception isn't really objective).

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly and while I agree that we should take their perspective with a grain of salt, I think that he was probably a bit more neglectful than some people think. I think it's absolutely silly that some people think that this makes him oh so horrible and outright abusive. Tbh, I think this thing serves to make Aang more flawed and human.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[lunabee34]

Yes! I think it makes him human. Agreed.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[(Anonymous)]

:3 thanks. I kinda thought I was alone in this line of thinking. Plus, this was sort of my headcanon for Aang, so seeing in canon was nice.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[lunabee34]

:)

Re: Unpopular fandom opinion

[nyxelestia]

I never understood this fuss, either. I mean, it's obvious Aang did love all his kids. And absolutely, it's understandable that Kya and Bumi might have been rather resentful with the attention Tenzin got overt time. But for fuck's sake, literally an entire nation, culture, and form of bending was at stake. Of course Aang was going to focus on his one airbending kid - he had to! They are far from a normal family, they are a single family carrying an entire cultural heritage on their backs, and it's very much on Tenzin and Aang to pass these on.

Definitely, I think Kya and Bumi, given the opportunity, could have been instrumental in helping at least hold on to air-bending traditions and pass them on (especially since there is a good chance one or both could pass the airbending genes on to their descendents), but at the same time, the Air Nomads have been a historically all or nearly-all airbender culture, and even with the help of the air acolytes it's still, at least for now, something the airbenders themselves have to carry on through the generations as the air nation population rebuilds.