Aang is NOT happy! He is STRESSED

[@dux5525]

He is literally a child soldier. Like, they've got to learn how fight the world's strongest army and their super powers are getting stronger because a space rock happens to be in a certain spot. Aang is literally told to MURDER A TERRORIST and Aang is a pacifist monk. And when he asks another Pacifist Monk's Ghost, it tells him to set aside his beliefs because the world is more important than his feelings. That shouldn't be asked if anyone, let alone a 12 year old (mentally).

[@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye]

All they needed to do to get Aang to do the job was tell him Firelord Ozai was intent on killing Appa, the last bison, to complete the destruction wrought by the Fire Nation.

[@mai_art1729]

​@@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye REAL 😭

[@azvelyn]

Not just that Yangchen is pushing for him to set his feelings aside but also the culture they have, he clings to anything of what's left because that's all there is.
He always mentions that the monks taught him this and that, for that very reason.
To kill the Firelord is to push away one of the very last things of his essentially dead culture, its very values.

[@trashteriyucky]

Which is crazy to think that so were the rest of them. They were all so young, whether they were fighting together or against each other they were legit just kids/young teens during war. 😢

[@umhi9778]

@@trashteriyucky yeah it was surprising to find out that Azula was only 14 😢

[@amanul_2474]

Even as late as book 3, Aang clings to the only sliver of a chance he has to being a normal kid by enroling in school. He wasn't Avatar Aang, he got to be Kuzon, the funny guy who taught everyone how to dance. Even as late as the Finale, Aang wanted to play on the beach and wait out Sozin's comet because there was a chance he might never be able to hang with his friends again if things went south

[@lilpetz500]

Oh this really hits hard.
Personally, I love where they placed the more light-hearted episodes near the end for the sake of reminding of how our heroes are when calm and happy before it all closes in and reaches the conclusion. And it was quite powerful to have it happen in spaces with the other Fire Nation commoners, humanise the nation as a group of people, other kids, who are born into and just trying to live in a community with a corrupt ruling family that is ruining the world. Fire Nation people aren't inherently evil and do get a choice, so many are just normal kids who get along great with the Avatar himself as long as they don't see him as his title.

[@neverg0nnag1vey0uup]

Already having such a mature take on the matter at the mental age of TWELVE is bizarre, but that's how Aang was brought up nevertheless

[@Imserious184]

Well, he's a buddhist. He was raised spiritually all the time.

[@dux5525]

@@Imserious184 Is Bhudda in the ATLAT/LOK universe?

[@ashendude3394]

​@@dux5525 I mean the Avatar itself is (not an exact, but close enough) synonymous concept.

[@ashurasama]

​@@dux5525 If you have any sort of familiarity with real world Tibetan culture, it's very evident that the Air Nomads are directly inspired by it, making Aang the equivalent of a Buddhist monk in the setting.
Pacifism is one of the most prominent things in buddhist faith, and a major reason why Tibet was so easy to invade for China.

[@dariyahlewis7736]

Tbh he is 112 I’m just kidding it is very sad

[@wowimbored1422]

Bro Aang is such a sad character

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

Yeah he’s literally a survivor of geniced

[@RetawMelon-ot8nl]

yeah he's a geniced surivor let the kid be sad :skul_emjoi:

[@displaynamesup4345]

He would probably be good friends with botw link

[@danielasanchez4674]

He's the sole survivor of his people's Holocaust and he feels responsible since he ran away. That's gotta be rough

[@gwen4557]

Should've stood on business my Avatar would've never hit the jets like that

[@nobleradical2158]

@@gwen4557 -that one old man from episode 12

[@ToxicBastard]

​@@gwen4557Nah, Sozin would have destroyed him at that time. Untrained Aang vs buffed firelord ain't balanced.

[@dimetree1611]

I mean. In a flashback, when he was told that he was the Avatar, none of the other kids wanted to play with him because it was "unfair". And then he was going to be sent away because of his connection to his mentor leading him to flee in the first place.
Then the fire nation showed up and killed everyone because the Avatar was there
So being the avatar quite literally ruined his life

[@XAEzl]

To be fair, if it wasn't him, he still would have had some issues because of the whole war. His people were just early victims

[@sleepy.timaeus.arts.]

🥺 such a heartbreaking story fr

[@emeraldhoarder2298]

Little bro lost everything

[@lilpetz500]

Something about calling him lil bro makes this hit twice as hard, like he really is just a little kid like one's innocent little brother, he's so sympathetic as a character, and really earns that protective reaction.
Like I just want to adopt him and give him all the support and safety in the world.

[@sushirice6751]

This explains a lot about him as a parent too woah

[@xdustyx2982]

Fr I think people where too harsh on him when claiming he was a shit parent

[@umhi9778]

​@@xdustyx2982nah shit parents are shit parents. Their motivations don't change that.

[@DantheManZ-wn6zg]

​@@xdustyx2982 I mean he was unfortunately very bad at being a parent. He very clearly favored Tenzin over Kya and Bumi, anytime they'd go travel to other places it was only Aang and Tenzin. That was a failure on both party's faults, on Aang for ignoring 2 of his kids and on those same kids not making the effort to understand him.
He was a good person with good intentions, but a good parent he sadly was not

[@tyra6433]

​@@DantheManZ-wn6zgI feel like that could only be how we see it from the kids perspective

[@krazytreRTM]

​@@xdustyx2982 People understand *why* he was a bad parent, but he was *still* a bad parent.

[@myst1741]

This is why we also find out later he was so attached to Tenzin over the other two.
He did love all 3 of his children, but Tenzin was a connection to his past. Something he genuinely felt was long gone.

[@iceman-cn5xx]

What’s sad is that’s not even the case, Tenzin was his last chance to carry his past(people) to the future, so he just put all his eggs in that basket

[@miguelmata6883]

Makes rewatching S1 more bearable once you realize that him goofing off is just a coping mechanism :(

[@emeraldwolf5556]

He is definitely masking

[@dukcboy912]

I think he is genuine we are the ones who are more sensibke to these things now

[@MrPotato173]

Can you blame him? He's just 112, bro hasn't had much time to gro up

[@fuadlabib703]

Hahaha bro's been reproduced since the beginning of life and still can't make a good joke

[@slishslash9202]

​@@fuadlabib703 not even that bad tbh

[@43110M]

The way that this sadness is even in the title though- the LAST airbender. He is the last of his people, which just that statement alone is sad. But the title is kind of like when you say a word so many times it starts to look weird.

[@TheLeafcuter]

This is also btw why NOT killing Ozai was so important for him and was really the only choice he could make.
Being the last of his people, he is the only person left in the world who can uphold air nomad culture. To murder Ozai would be to go against everything Aang stands for and would go against the air nomads' teachings - of which he is now the sole follower for.

[@catkingwumpus1370]

Aang's whole way of life is gone, a 12 yr old shouldering the metaphorical weight of the world and its people, all while he is dealing with his own emotions. Aang's experience as an avatar is very different from other avatars. As soon as he knew he was the Avatar, he never got to really enjoy peace.

[@theshamanite]

This is an example of why not to put adult responsibilities on a child. I love Aang's character

[@riakun]

They usually waited to tell the Avatars their destiny until they were young adults (like, I think 16-18), but because the air benders sensed the war approaching on the not-too-far-horizon, they told him early so he could start his training.
But I agree. Children should not be told these huge life-changing things at such a young age, because it really messes with them mentally.

[@turtle4llama]

If you write a character who is displaced in time and you won't make them debilitatingly sad, you don't understand humans.

[@amaric2256]

So true, I agree genuinely, but like what if the character was somehow an infant saved from a tragedy of the past to live a relatively normal life? I mean I could maybe see it being still sad but I’m curious what a story like that would be like.

[@iceman-cn5xx]

@@amaric2256superman🤣🤣🤣

[@iceman-cn5xx]

Or or, not everyone handles situations the same and some of us try to make the best of a bad situation

[@jacoboddie5364]

Phillip J. Fry I rest my case

[@amaric2256]

@@iceman-cn5xx WAIT SHIT REALLY, ngl I am oblivious and don’t know the Superman lore lmao

[@Gwen1001]

I like how in this story as a kid being the avatar would seem cool, yet realizing the few avatars we know about often go through immense trauma due to the fate of the world constantly being on their shoulders

[@kwowka]

The entire thing of avatar is the fact that these are CHILDREN. Zuko was 13- now 16. Azula is 14. Sokka is 16. Katara is 14. Aang is 12. Toph is 12. These kids are being forced to go through pain because of the situation they were forced into. Like.

[@elli3352]

all those funny moments and jokes make the sad and serious moments even stronger. That’s something a life action adaptation can’t compete with. they are usually more serious in tone which marking them weaker overall.

[@soorian6493]

This is why I never got why some people were confused that Aang wouldn't kill Ozai. He is the literal last Airbender. If he chooses murder, then the pacifist tradition of the Air Nomads is dead.

[@martintheaquilanshield3917]

Bros legit the last surviving member of his people, anyone would be sad

[@zareien2290]

Its literally called "Avatar, the LAST airbender"
Not avatar the happy go lucky airbender with his Airbender family

[@Mercwithamouth101]

Aang’s character arcs throughout the series is coming to terms with his destiny of being the avatar and his survivor’s guilt for being the sole survivor of the air nomads.

[@OliveAndJackie]

Not to mention how he was always reminded or bashed by someone about how he ran away. I understand why they are real mad, but could he really have prevented that war with how the air nomads were attacked? Yeah he was skilled, but was still a child and he didnt even master the other elements just yet.

[@blackcatarts9985]

Aang is AANGsty :D
Please don't hurt me :'D

[@ger1000]

You aren’t safe ❤❤❤❤ 😊😊😊

[@blackcatarts9985]

@@ger1000 ou please don't, I am just a lil airhead

[@Rae0Darkness]

Nah, that was good, lol

[@Volandar]

Aang really got a horrible responsibility dropped on him from Day 1.
Which makes the times he's happy and doing things he wants to do all the more... Well FELT for lack of a better term.
As much as he knows he has a burden to bear, he tries to experience normalcy as often as he can, and at the same time (for the most part) doesn't try to run from his responsibility, but also doesn't devote himself to it like it's a Crusade.
He has so much going on under the surface, it's why he, and the whole Avatar: The Last Airbender series is so good! Nearly everyone has this kind of depth, and in so many directions that intertwine.

[@SimplyTrulyNothing]

The Avatar cast could all use some therapy

[@AndGoatz04]

"How do you stay so positive?"
*"I lie to myself"*

[@dukcboy912]

People can be happy on dark momentos without being a fake

[@hel2727]

funny characters who have tragic past/are sad on the inside will always hit different

[@ambercastillo7863]

That also explains why he showed so much bias toward his son, Tenzin. He was def still a good father, but that bias definitely cause a rift between his kids. But then again, it's not an excuse. I gotta say this (even though it should be obvious that trauma isn't something you should pass down or excuse your behavior for) because some people wanna start projecting and start assuming shit 💀💀💀

[@umhi9778]

"He only favored one of his children to the point of creating a rift between them" that doesn't sound like a good parent lmao

[@OfficialMetalhead]

​@@umhi9778yeah and his childhood explains nothing about his shit parenting anyways

[@killuazoldyck7442]

My dumbass hasn't been keeping up with atla and when I saw this I just went "HE HAS A KID?!" 😂😭

[@umhi9778]

@@OfficialMetalhead Yeah idk why people act like having a bad life is an excuse to be sh1t to your kids. There's literally no where else where having a bad life justifies hurting other people so why is it suddenly fine with parenting?

[@ambercastillo7863]

@@umhi9778 He still loved his kids and obviously cared for them when he was still alive. It's not like he abandoned them or treated them like shit. His kids even looked back on their past and smiled knowing he was there for them. If anything, Toph was a bad parent. Her daughters ended up not talking for years, had constant arguments, etc, Toph literally left her daughter (Lin) in her position and went to the fucking swamp 💀 Even when Toph came back to talk to her daughters, it made things worse. I'm not excusing Aang's behavior, but Toph was even worse in comparison.

[@CloverCreatin]

When I was a kid, every time I’d watch Appa get captured, I always hoped the episode would change its outcome and that aang would save him.
But it never happened 😔

[@VictoriaMorganawesometori]

He's a child with the literal weight of the world on his shoulders

[@old_timey_prospector]

Aang is joyful, but not happy. They aren't the same thing.

[@mysticthemanakete]

'Not as happy as he would lead you to believe.' Damn. So that's where I got it from.

[@titantunaeaterr]

Thank you for making videos this one was great as always

[@wanderingstranger8944]

I do enjoy the avatar on this way. It's diseptive but for Aangs comfert no one else's. In away it's so real to real life.

[@wanderingstranger8944]

PS, I ment for this comment to be it's own thing, but I guess it lives here.

[@Red-in-Green]

And I would probably say this is the intended way to look at it. The show is called The Last Airbender. The tragedy is right there in front of us.

[@TheHellhound01]

And trauma. So much trauma

[@clownrat5759]

I don’t like the fact that this twelve year old child who lost his entire family, his entire race of people, his home, his friends, who woke up in the middle of a war almost everyone in the show blames him for, and who also finds out he has to betray one of his strongest taught principles to kill somebody for the better of the world, who cannot be a child for the sake of mastering the four elements and saving the entire world, who by the way, again, IS TWELVE, is too sad in the show.
I fixed it for them lol

[@b1-battledroid669]

What are your thoughts on armor designs from 40k? Specifically the Adepta Sororitas and Adeptus Astartes

[@Jiydiyon]

40K fan, WASUP🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️

[@TheBrotherGrim]

40k armor is fucking ridiculous, and I mean that in the best way possible. I love it. It's like 80s Arnold action movies had a baby with a monster truck, and a giant explosion was the godparent. Its EXTREME cranked to 11, and the giant middle finger it holds up to realism makes me happy.

[@lilpetz500]

Honestly the first few episodes of the series that establish him are some of the best ive seen in media. He is simultaneously a kid, the sole survivor of a g3n0cide, and the only living person who can prevent further ruin. Establishing all this so early in the series was such a brilliant move to show us just how ridiculously strong and emotionally mature he is specifically because depite the grief he still wants to mess around, go on adventures, play games. He has a deadline for a near impossible task and a powerful nation that wants him dead, and still makes sure to fit fun and healing into his life between the training.
I wish that the rest of his life after the events of the series didn't have to be taken up by the responsibility of preserving his whole culture as the last representative and clean up all the chaos the Fire Nation created globally, I wish he at least could relax or just take on fresh new problems for the rest of his life that dont constantly reference back to such a heavy trauma from his youth.

[@ArtisanYozora]

I know very well what a fake smile looks like because I've been masking my entire life, and the fact that they were able to capture that in Aang's animation throughout most of the show is incredible to me

[@RowanB6]

As someone who had my own childhood largely marred by trauma, Aang has always been an immensely relatable character. Dude just wants to live a normal life.

[@Maria-wi1pj]

This is why I love so much the quote "Aang was a pacifist when the world needed a warrior, Korra was a warrior when the world needed a pacifist" it summarises perfectly the problems and struggles of both avatars

[@sammybeckett7371]

Yea I actually relate to him a lot

[@starojunes]

Rewatching the series now as an adult made me cry even more. Aang lost everything and he didn't really have a parental figure at his side to guide him through a lot of things that happened in the series. I know there are older characters that did give him advice and stuff but it's not the same as having a parent by your side. He didn't really have parental love. And it becomes more obvious when you see the relationship Sokka and Katara have with their dad. Aang didn't have that when he needed it the most and it's so sad. I don't even have kids lol. I bet parents irl have bawled their eyes out just thinking about it.

[@KingOfTheBirds72]

he's just a little guy i think he deserves better

[@Unhappytimeaper]

It’s why I think actions with the gaang become more important overtime; book one was about Aang running away for a lot but coming to terms with his fate by seeing the lives of others, book 2 showed Aang that he could still have fun and enjoy parts of his childhood because of those he was with yet genuinely started taking it seriously, and book 3 faces the aftermath basically stripping Aang away of his youth completely through “death” and his final journey in the war.

[@9Johnny8]

This is why he's so insistent on doing random fun things in the beginning.
It's both escapism and a connection to the time before he was told he was the avatar.

[@wiggilytaco7570]

Reminds me of when a psychic told him that his future hanged the balance between good and evil and the fate of the world but Aang just wanted to get his love fortune told to him. When he opened up to prisoners about his problems it’s also about his love life.

[@amjthe_paleosquare9399]

Never forget that, as much as Aang grows. He is TWELVE :(

[@NeoPokebonz]

I remember how much seeing that pain hurt me when Appa was taken. And then when Appa went through his own trials

[@bipride1763]

Not to mention Airbenders in general did not fuck around when it came to their bison, their bison was their companion for life and losing them was an incredibly deep loss. That fact ON TOP of Aang’s entire life and culture being destroyed? And add on how he was so angry at himself for not being there to save the airbenders and THEN Appa?!? Of course he was pissed

[@lalabell666]

I think these dark tones are what makes me love this show. The emotions of everything going on is what makes the show so great!

[@Toramai-pi8wx]

He’s only a kid and has so much responsibility at that age. He’s so stressed and burdened that I don’t blame him for his behavior.

[@xasuchan]

I wonder if they had a psychologist in the writers room

[@NicmationSDesign]

He's trying to distract himself

[@ScienceCodeCreations]

The happiest people are also the most internally broken.

[@nikolaibuscho5881]

I teach middle school. It's often the funniest, fooling around the most kids that have bad lives. Unstable home lives or not really a home to go to at all. Being funny or full of fun are both ways that people cope with that stress.

[@_burningshadow_8010]

They probably mean stuff where he *has fun* and Goofs of with Sokka, because despite all the tragedy he copes with it by having Fun, Penguin Sledding etc.
it's only way later that we get a full on "depressed Aang arc"

[@kirstenwyatt9675]

Aang's frantic obsession with fun, the almost manic frenzy, strikes me as him desperately *wanting* to be happy. If you look at all the "fun" he chases, they are almost entirely high adrenaline things. Ways to burn off the anxiety and chase dopamine all at once.

[@anotherpersonguy23]

Just think of how the last bastions of his culture too have been left. His home is a graveyard of his friends and mentor. One of the temples was made into a trap for him. Another was gutted by the machinist. The only untouched one was the blown apart by combustion man and attacked by Azula. His only places of comfort from his old life have been tainted and desecrated, even if he's come to terms with the one the machinist was at for breathing life back into it.

[@amirordibi1348]

atla is a tragedy.
The tragedy of families torn apart by war.
The tragedy of populations eradicated via senseless bloodshed.
The tragedy of the living who never get to reconcile with the dead.
The cute picture and fluid animations cover up what is essence a tragic story

[@Recon-601]

God forbid a stray fireball managed to burn up his robes

[@lillianblack8749]

He’s the only survivor of a genocide and he’s reminded of that over and over through his journey, he’s not supposed to be happy.

[@LizzieShiro]

My favorite moment in the series is when Katara asks “Why didn’t you tell us you were the avatar?” And Aang replies with “Because I never wanted to be.”
That feeling of the chosen one not wanting to be this important figure and just wanting a normal life stuck with me. He was 12. He should have stayed a kid for at least a few more years.

[@kharijordan6426]

😅 the thing is the story is not just sad. How they make you feel a rangr of emotions without messaging up the execution to the point your
Neck breaks from the whiplash is amazing 🤩

[@lourvecantspell19]

coukdnt focus istg bro ur hair is so pretty

[@gageloard415]

He’s a reluctant hero while also being kind of a tragic one as well. It’s hard not to love and empathize with him.

[@LuckyLucifer25]

And in every episode there is always a motif of how different the world is from 100 years ago. How change is inevitable and aang is someone who has to figure out all of it.

[@claybowman1242]

Art much like people is complimented. Aang is human, so he feels all the human emotions

[@baskisto]

aang

[@oni5223]

I agree

[@dr.dredge5255]

"you play the fool to play a warrior's pain"

[@saraha.1336]

Kids are always looking for fun and excitement even in hard times

[@alexrog6868]

A lot of readers blame Aang for running away, but what do you expect of a child in this position? Furthermore i might be wrong, but wasnt Aang made aware of being the avatar top early? I could have sworn that was a plot point. Regardless the people that were responsible for him made a lot of mistakes that pretty much ruined Aang's childhood, hence why he ran away, and never found out about the fire nation untill a hundred years later when he woke up from the ice, which also wasn't his fault btw, he was caught in a storm and his avatar state kicked in to save him, if memory serves (its been a while since i last watched it)

[@TheJeSTeR7530]

Something i often feel gets overlooked as well is the fact that because Aang loses everyone he loves and is quite literally "The Last Airbender" is also the main reason why he does not want to kill Ozai to end the war and instead wnats to find a way to defeat him without killing him. He would effectively kill his own culture and by extension "kill the last airbender" if he were to break the Airbender tenent of pacifism, which would also prove the fire nations "might makes right" mentality correct, which would also once again upset the balance that he was meant to restore. It is such a difficult journey for him, not just emotionally and physically, but also spiritually.

[@soaringspirits2267]

Bro masks SO hard. Mind. Ive only seen snippets of the show. They just convey it SO well, that me, and outsider to the fandom, can easily grasp and conceptualize this, and even stsrt to understand why that might have happened. This show has AMAZING writing.
It kinda seemed to exist in a vacuum of space, where, as far as i could tell, it was one of very, very few shows at the time, with such open, powerful, well written characters, narratives, and messages. I am beyond pleased new shows, like Blue Eye Samurai, and Ark: The animated series, are now following, and writing more stories like this.

[@phi4721]

Dude, I envy anyone who hasn't watched the show 😭 Watching the show for the first time is an amazing experience!

[@virgilsanders8909]

“The Legend of Korra is way too serious and sad”
Aang’s story:

[@DaimyoD0]

I feel like the Air Temple monks fumbled so hard on introducing Aang to his responsibilities that they are partly responsible for the Hundred Year War lol.

[@SomeGuy-gc8zs]

It's like the Sole Survivor walking out of Vault 111 into the Wasteland but, you know, it's worse because he's a 12 year old boy. Finding Gyatso's skeleton alone must've been some near-Guts trauma for him.

[@Grey_3438]

After rewatching ATLA and seeing all these analyses of the show and his character, my heart breaks and hurts for Aang so much, even more than it already did 😭💔

[@masonjar2267]

Nit only thay but we know quite a bit for TLOK that aang was always stressed about rebuilding the air nation, but also making sure there was an airbender to teach the next avatar.

[@HandyTammy548]

Aang goofed off every chance he got because he didn’t want to be the avatar. Despite his age he has always been pretty wise and he understood the incredible burden the avatar must shoulder. He goofed off because he will never know when will be the next time he gets the chance to act his age before it was too late. In a lot of ways Aang never got to be a kid, he had to grow up the second he became avatar.

[@frostysparrow7993]

I think you can Trully see when your ahead in one piece that alabasta felt like a blue print for the rest of the arc and how Oda saw its flaw and knew how to improve on them be it the fights, characters and story choices etc

[@KaitoD]

The reason Aang became so overly attached to some characters is specifically because of this reason, Katara is like the only person that's super nice to him and she's pretty, and he sees Sokka as a sort of brother figure, Toph is like a little sister to him and in the short time they were friends in the series Zuko was kinda like his first genuine friend outside of the original team Avatar, a friend he didn't treat as a sort of family member in a way

[@dorian9769]

Aang felt like he was in that ice for a few days. A hundred years prior, he was so stressed and scared of being the Avatar that he fled home in the middle of a crazy storm. Then (to him) a few days pass, and he wakes up having to go STRAIGHT back to Avatar duty. Except now, everything is worse, because his family and way of life is dead and the Fire Nation has had 100 years to kill, torture, conquer, and develop.

[@annarodriguezanna]

not just oppa but also momo

[@user-hp8xo6mq4i]

Btw you shoudl do an armour ranking based on looks just for the trolls

[@redgoldcrown3990]

the only reason Aang appears cheerful is because fun is his coping mechanism XD. if he were like Katara or Zuko you'd barely see him smile.

[@tylerlaroche2509]

finerman
get me back to my god darn house
ples

[@JigsawSaysHello]

If he wasn't bald already, the stress would make him bald.

[@YTCat123]

As someone who has never watched ALTA, I can confirm

[@ThatPersonNamedJune]

Aang: I refuse to kill
Aang when Appa gets captured for 0.1 seconds: *Give me my bison or all your families will be so dead they won't even be found in the spirit world.*

[@dariyahlewis7736]

Remember that episode where he thought he found new Airbenders but they ended up being bad that was so sad

[@graydazfar4507]

And unlike sokka, katara, toph zuko and even suki, he's INSTANTLY forcedto grow up fast unlike the other where they got time to get comfortable with change

[@hollo0o583]

And we learn all of that in his fist scene. He ran away after becoming the avatar because he didn’t want it, didn’t feel ready for it.

[@rubired00910]

I've always thought Aang deserved a whole season for him to sort out those feelings.
He was ripped off his childhood when it was revealed he was the avatar, then he proceeded to lost 100 years of his life, in that moment he knew he might have lost all his loved ones to time, but then he realized everyone he knew and cared about in the air nomads temple were brutality massacred by the fire nation an army that now he has to go against in order to protect people that little care or know about him!
Everyone either came running up to him so Aang can solve their problems or tell him off cuz what is a kid gonna do after 100 year war?
No wonder why he was so fcking stressed all the time. He never knew what to expect.
AH! and on top of that, let's remember Aang was constantly under death threats. I really ask myself how the fck was he able to sleep at night?
Now, I did like how they explored the internal turmoil Aang was feeling through his nightmares, but I felt like they kinda showed it, solved it and then forgot about it, when realistically I think this kind of things (as nightmares, triggers and meltdowns) would be a regular occurrence due how traumatic Aang's life was and still is.
Aang needed time to sort his feelings out, to understand what happened, to reconcile to the world around him and heal, but cuz there was a stupid space rock coming it was denied to him and then he was rushed to a battle.
A BATTLE. AS A PACIFIST MONK. A BATTLE.
I can't begin to explain how bad I felt for Aang when he was trying to decide what to do with Ozai and EVERYONE was saying to just end him off, LIKE HE'S FCKIN 12?? (or 13 at that point? can't remember x'd) and on top of that he's traumatized, he also needs affection and acknowledgement for his pain and suffering.
Being the avatar doesn't exempt you from human emotions and feelings, but I guess people forget those things when you're stronger and more capable than the rest.

[@Idohadar121]

Damn.

[@MrMale-cf7bb]

if im reborn in another world i would want to be an Earthbender

[@frostysparrow7993]

I’m actually happy to see someone have this reaction to Robin, It will make her character arc even more interesting to see from the perspective of someone who’s suspicious of her much like zoro

[@ragg232]

He had big responsibilities thrust upon him earlier than other avatars people got scared. And his childhood suffered because of it.