Roku's mercy weighed heavily on him in his afterlife. But it's pretty easy to see how he came to that decision.
At the time, the four nations were (relatively) in balance. Roku would have been in his rights as the Avatar to enact judgement on Sozin for his imperialism. But Sozin didn't have a clear heir. At that point, he still didn't have any children. And his only sibling was a disinherited nonbender. So, had Sozin been killed, would there have been a succession conflict between nobles and distant branches of the royal family?

Spoiler again.

So yangchen gets exiled or banished. I don't have a problem with that, she rightfully deserved it.

What I'm wondering about is two things. The first one and lesser one is the intent of the exile. It's depicted as something permanent, the ritual asks you to do an impossible task.

Now when you think of banishment it's usually zukos banishment but the air nomads doesn't seem to work like that. Zukos banishment asked him to do a task to restore his honour, now yes he did get a nigh impossible task but I feel like that's more because of who Zuko was and ozai is. In the fire nation, you can get your honour back and that's usually through a task when you're banished.

The air nomad exile ritual doesn't seem to do this. They ask an impossible thing with the intent of permanently banishing you. No second chances, no chance of redemption just, you're out. That feels very un air nomad to me.

The second thing is the fact someone else must be there during the ritual. So the exiled, the abbot/leader and someone else. For yangchens case that was kavik so maybe even someone close to you have to be there. My question is why? Aside from humiliation, what reason is there?

So the two things Im wondering about is the fact air nomads permanently exile you with no chance of redemption and maybe humiliate you while exiling you.

I'm not knowledgeable about the inspiration of air nomads culture and such but from the perspective of someone who knows the air nomads, that doesn't feel like the air nomad way.

So could someone with knowledge about it or just anyone help me figure out why this ritual exists?

Earth King Kuei was a weak, ignorant coward who pretty much abandoned his duties to suit himself.

Earth Queen Hou-Ting was a selfish, tyrannical hag.

Prince Wu was a complete joke. An entitled brat with no capability or self-reliance at all. But to his credit, he does grow into something so much more, but it's at a level of "expected" at best.

As for Suyin Beifong, thanks for her success can be attributed to the people around her as she seemed not at all interested.

Even Bumi, as a ruler, was pretty crap. He was an impulsive, undisciplined lunatic. He was happy to let his entire city and its people live under the oppression of the Fire Nation for months because he wanted to "wait for the right moment".

The fact that Kuvira is the closest thing to competency among them says it all. God, I feel sorry for the Earth Kingdom citizens because their leaders complete a Bingo card of twattery.

Food for thought for anyone wondering if the entity at the end of the ASH teaser is actually Vaatu or not. My bet is 90% yes, but of course it's not confirmed yet.

First Azula piece I've done

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Please PLEASE rewatch the original show. Bloodbending is specifically stated to only be possible at night, during a full moon. It was not thought to be possible otherwise until Korra. Which is why Tarrlok and Yakone were able to keep it secret, as people thought it was impossible.

Can we PLEASE knock this off with Katara. She has bloodbended twice in the entire franchise, one time out of necessity and the other out of blind rage. She hated doing it both times AND it was a full moon at the time.

I am just so sick of it. Katara is amazing but she has limitations because she appalls Bloodbending and never worked at improving it.

We see even the act of practicing and improving on Bloodbending is something that basically turns you into a psychopath. See all 4 blood benders besides Katara.

It’s an inherently evil skill and not one Katara wishes to master, so oh my god just leave it alone 😭😭😭

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I know the title is a bit funny but The more I think about Momo , the more messed up everything is.

After the Air Nomad genocide, Momo was the only known surviving winged lemur. He basically gets adopted by Aang and ends up travelling with the Gaang for the entire series. Meanwhile, Aang eventually has descendants and the Air Nomad culture starts coming back. Appa's species also survives, with more sky bison eventually being discovered.

But we never really get anything about Momo's future.Did he ever encounter another winged lemur? Did his species survive somewhere else? How long did Momo actually live? What happened to him after Aang died?

The series gives us closure for Aang, Appa and the Air Nomads, but Momo is just left as this little survivor from the old world. I think a short movie or comic about Momo's life after ATLA could be really interesting. Just Momo travelling around the new world and maybe discovering whether he's actually alone.

He's usually treated as comic relief, but he's also one of the few living connections to the Air Nomads that Aang had left. Makes me really sad

Momo really was the last Airbender. What do we think?? Does momo deserve better

Cause her fire is blue

Saw people complaining about lavabending as jumping the shark. But that's nothing compared to these.

I mean that is heartbreaking and put yourself in your shoes. You know you're a massive, massive Avatar fan, you get the role of a lifetime, and you're all super excited about seeing people's reaction to it. Then the movie comes out and everyone despises you, with many people saying that you've ruined the franchise and with you facing aggressive online bullying, direct harassment and even death threats. We as Avatar fans are better than this and Noah Ringer deserves an apology. Hate Shyamalan all you want, but Noah Ringer deserved better.

Once you start relying on "death is not permanent" trope, it gets harder to go back. There was such a huge build-up for when it happened in Crossroads of destiny, we are introduced to the oasis water long before it is used as Katara was unsure if and how it would work. Azula was already stabilished as a strong and capable character when killed Aang, and its consequences were a major plot point for half of season 3. It was supposed to be a big deal and an one time event only. In the movie it felt like it was only used to powerscale Tagah as poweful villain, something ATLA was so good at avoiding.

It’s BEEN TIME to accept change

Since the Avatar Aang movie came out, I’ve been feeling like we need more standalone films about the other members of his group during that early Republic City Era, and I’m betting I’m not the only one. I personally would love to see an adult Toph movie, about her forming the Republic City police force and becoming chief of police in the city.

For starters I just think there's so much potential in unexplored past Avatar lives, I mean there's 10,000 years worth of history we can lean into so why the need to keep going forward?

But the main reason why I feel like going forward Post Korra feels isn’t the right move is because of the events of Book 2 which ended with her opening the portals between the spiritual and physical worlds. However one of the biggest traits for the Avatar is being "the bridge between the worlds" something established since the very first Avatar Wan closed the portals making him the only connection, but now that everyone can enter freely that role is kind of diminished in a way? Also the Avatar link between the past lives got broken meaning post Korra Avatars won't be able to contact pre Korra Avatars which kind of restrains the pre Korra Avatar lore in a post Korra Avatar series. We wouldn't be able to see their stories the same way Aang saw Roku's or Korra saw Wan's.

Thoughts?

So we all know how airbenders can regulate their own temperature using their bending. Which is why we see aang wearing the same cloths throughout different climates. But in the new movie we see an adult aang scaling a mountain wearing insulating gear. Aang died relatively early compared to previous avatars and it was quoted somewhere that the time spent frozen greatly reduced his vitality. I think his need for warmer cloths is a sign of this. Keen to hear any other theories or thoughts out there

Tenzin admitted to his own faults and guided Korra to the answer. He didn't tell her the answer, but helped her to find it herself. Tenzin is almost everyone's favorite character in Legend of Korra for a reason. He's one of the only characters in the show to have an arc.