Whether she has arms or not, it's just a theory...calm down guys😉

Maybe she doesn’t have arms because she discovered combustion bending, rather than the opposite. For example, combustion man had a prosthetic arm and leg after being injured from combustion bending.

I feel like these recent videos are a cry to have a general avatar book going through the small details for each avatar

Yall talk about her but the dude behind her was a straight up firelord. He has the firelord crown

Even if it is a drawing error or she does have arms, I think that the catalyst for combustion bending, being someone who wouldn’t be able to bend otherwise (having no arms) would make a lot of sense.

Some lazy animator: eh no one will notice her we don’t have to draw arms Him: makes this video Animator: *surprised pikachu face*

2:48 are we not going to talk about the fact that the fire-bending avatar behind her to the right is wearing the crown of the Firelord's?

I don’t agree with her being royalty necessarily, because roku has the crown of the crown prince yet he isn’t royalty. Of course we know why but maybe a similar thing happened with her and we know a lot of fire nation citizens have things like that in their hair.

You can see her arms in red puffy sleeves, you can even see her hand on the lower left Edit: Very cool video regardless. Always loved the idea of new forms of bending being developed out of necessity

See that's what I'm saying we need a book about only the Avatars telling their life stories wat they did in the Avatar cycle

She does have arms, they're just tucked under her clothing. If you look near her hip closely, you can see her hands on her side

Let's talk about the triple chin air nomad avatar behind Kuruk lol

Her: *is the first combustion bender* Roku: *Lava bends*

Did someone else noticed that behind her is a man with what it seems to be the fire lord crown?

5:41 completely off topic but that water tribe avatar on the far left was REALLY pretty. I wonder what her story was?

All those other choices in that poll you showed looked interesting as hell

I love these kind of speculation videos on the Lore of the show. Avatar has the best world building by far.

wouldnt it be so cool if we saw had a book on on every single avatar and each of their impact on the wrld and makin different connections kinda like in the kyoshi series how the befongs were introduced or if aang or korra talked to the avatars like the ones when korra got her bending back and a bunch of them are standing their like one of those random ones o love ur vids tho

Speaking of Avatars and Fire Nation royalty, there’s something really interesting that I’ve always wondered. Avatar Roku and Prince/Fire Lord Sozin were born on the exact same day of the exact same year. How might things have been different if Sozin had been the Avatar instead of Roku?

Bro she does, they're tucked under her dress and that would be cool if she was the 2nd child of the firelord

Ursa also wear the same headpiece so maybe she is the firelord’s wife

She clearly has arms if you look closely enough she just has big sleeves

Nobody: Toph in a metal cage: ima invent a new bending real quick

It’s a good theory but it’s been confirmed it was an animation error

Sadly cause I like the theory, I think she does have arms. Down at her dress you see a little white triangle which I think is her hand. And she is holding the arms more behind her as you can see that she has these puffy sleeves till her elbow and the rest of the red sleeve next to the pink dress part

Well she probably used earth bending a lot and water arms like mung hua. And she can fire and air bend with her mouth

Still watching your videos after 5-6 years, great to be here and to support you, as you have basically been here my entire childhood :)

I feel a novel series based on this royality arm-less Avatar will be a great series!

Looking closer at the avatars after the ones in kyoshis cycle it appears that they are out of order

I think she actually does have arms but regardless it’s a cool idea and I honestly hope it’s true.

Nice theory Antoine, but I don't think that this female fire avatar had no arms. In the legend of korra book 2 book about the art of that season, it shows this specific avatar's statue at the southern air temple with arms.

The avatar with no arms girl could have her arms made of anything lava, ice, literal energy, frickin even rainbows if she wanted to

I've seen this theory before. I think her arms are just drawn weird. If you look closely, you can see them tucked into her sides. There's a little white speck to the left of her that could be her hand sticking out. Also, if you look closely, you'll notice that she's wearing some sort of belt. The edges of the belt don't reach all the way across. Instead it stops just short on both sides, meaning the areas where the belt is not present is actually her sleeves. In my Legend of Korra fan-fiction, I actually gave this Avatar a name. I called her Avatar Mei-Ling, and she was from the Fire Nation royal family. I also gave the combustion-benders an origin. In my story, the combustion-benders were part of a tribe called the Zatsu Tribe, who were a persecuted minority in the northern Fire Nation. They originated when fire benders from the northern Fire Nation intermingled with Air Nomads from the nearby Western Air Temple across the sea, leading to a new culture emerging. The two styles of bending mixing led to the emergence of unique firebending style known as combustion-bending. Because of their strange bending and different culture, the Zatsu Tribe was feared and persecuted throughout the Fire Nation's history, especially during the Hundred Year War due to them having some Air Nomad heritage.

I always thought that the sleeves draping off to the side were her arms. It just looked like she was armless due to her shoulder extensions of her out for being so long. If you look at Roku's outfit (and some of the other fire bending afters; aside from Szeto) , it kind of looks the same way too. That being said, the idea of an armless avatar is intriguing.

As a huge fan of this series, it’s great to have a dedicated KZfaqr like you. I Just found your vids today and I’ve been watching them all day. Definitely subscribed 🙏🏾💯

It makes sense, Im happy that theres someone like you out there who answering all the avatar question that the fans and super fans and the crazy super fans are dying to know. Thank you very much for posting these videos. Your a smart creative youtuber.

What if she blew off her arms like a combustion man?

Armless, or third row laziness.

I really enjoyed your analysis 👌🏾 I think it may be very plausible!

Amazing video bro🙌🏽

Is the “be water my friends” you say at the end of videos a reference to Bruce lee?

She has arms you can see the peak of her hand. It's a cool concept but this person this drawing has arms and hands. 2:44 on the close up you can clearly see her arms and hands.

It's fun to see that even after all these years people are comming up with different theries/storylines/ etc. I'm a fan for looking for Avatar related theries, like trying to calculate how many Avaters there might have been (based & in combination of your video and info I found online), possible subbending teckniques, etc... Keep up the good work...I'm looking forward to your next video.

Great Video! I once did a small discussion on her on Reddit (but more focused on self doubt because of her disability)...but it didn't fly because I was told she had arms....but it's still a wonderful topic with so many possibilities. Anyway, glad that you discussed her. It was very interesting. I love your exploration of the past Avatars.

Each Avatar seems to progress more within each era they live, I have a slight theory on the setting of the Avatar after Korra... Aang lived in an ancient time which is more reminiscent of the 1800’s in Asia when technology was new and was starting to become more militarized. Bending is more traditional and is based on the traditional way of martial arts. Korra basically lives in the 1920’s with a steampunk era where technology is an extension of bending. Also bending is far more fast paced and pro-boxer like. The next Avatar after her I picture living in a 1970’s hippie culture with technology being kind of the same, but more personalized. Bending I could be brung back to its spiritual origins and fluidity with a mix of psychic abilities.

So nobody us going to talk about hiw beautifull the female avatar behind szeto and kyoshi is?

Ty for great vid keep up the good work!

What I would give to just sit in a room with y'all during quarantine and pass the time engaging in different topics and theories about the series. I've never met any of you nor heard of you,yet I feel as if we're all part of one big family. ATLA & ALOK is just magical,plain and simple.

5:44 look at the fat Joe air bender on the left he looks like a good uncanny type design that fits well like the Buddha.

Theory or not, this looks like a spot on idea regardless

Nice video pal, i liked the story. And the edit of the video

You earned a sub here. Love the video bro

Interesting. I always thought of combustion bending as some kind of mutation ability, where a firebender fires energy through the light chakra (i think that's the one on forehead), given that it's so different and independent from the main bending ability. Exploring this Avatar would be amazing though, how she learns bendings and copes up with her disability etc

Oof, while watching this video, I noticed they used two avatars twice in the lineup, an air nomad and the old bearded earth nation avatar. They use them to fill in the background (the 5th and 6th rows). Never noticed that before.

But she has arms Its just big sleeves that cover them, you can see it if you zoom

Great video! But I can't wait to get the video about the earthbeader with the beard!!!!

Dude I love your mind. Same as me I can spit out lore theories and it’s my favorite thing to do

I want to learn about the Air Avatar before Yang chen

This was a really great theory. It be amazing if the creators would touch on this.

I love your videos man

Given how combustioners always fight the avatar in some capacity, I'm betting it wasn't pioneered by an avatar. We usually get bigger, corruptible concepts from avatars, right?

Here is the theory I came up with In ATLA season 3 Zuko hires the combustion bending assassin and we can see that he has missing limbs which is very likely for the reason why he lost 2 of his limbs. His toughness combined with luck could be the reason why he survived. In LoK we are introduced to a combustion bender named P’Li whose abilities were discovered at very young age without any fire bending training whatsoever which means that combustion bending is not an ability that can be learned and it is an ability discovered at a very young age. She was kidnapped and forced to become the greatest weapon ever by being trained by some of the best firebenders ever. Her not losing any limbs or dying and being a better combustion bender than combustion man suggests that there may be secrets of combustion bending only known to special people and some members of the royal family. The armless avatar may have hid her combustion bending secrets in the royal family and maybe passed on to a few people which could suggest why P’li never was harmed by her combustion bending as a child and in learning stages which is extremely rare furthermore hinting at the fact that this armless avatar was in the royal family which could suggest her outfit. losing her arms and surviving also meant that she could have mastered her combustion bending faster because other elements were a lot harder to progress without arms which could also be another reason why she survived because her learning the combustion being quicker (because the other bending types were harder to learn allowing her to put more time and focus into combustion bending) could’ve prevented another accident. We can also see that combustion bending requires extreme focus so those children survived their first explosion would’ve definitely died from later explosions caused by them breaking focus which is the reason why only people who are specially trained people like P’li, the armless avatar and maybe combustion man avoided future incidents. I don’t think she was the first person to discover combustion bending but rather she was the first known combustion bender and the only one who survived childhood and actually learned her ability due to her having no arms allowing for an opportunity to master and control her combustion bending (and the fact that she was specially trained because she was the avatar which helped her develop combustion bending even quicker). The idea that combusting bending is extremely uncommon because only very few are born with it (and the fact that it can’t be taught) and only the strongest ,toughest, most talented and best benders survive and learn it is pretty interesting in my opinion.

She has arms but watching this I wish she hadn’t!!! This theory is so cool dude!!! Your perspectives on and affection for this series are why I’m so glad to have subscribed and am creeping on all your precious videos!!

I assumed you had a millions subs because this video was so professional

The no arm Avatar sound incredibly AWESOME, huh??

Heres my theory: The Fire lady Avatar is able to combustion bend and is the Fire Lord during her era. She understood chi more fervently than most, so she was able to discover the elemental extension. Similar to how Toph could understand how to bend metal. While also being highly enlightened towards other nations(possibly she's knowlegeable of multiple Jin, since she would be able to understand the world. In a diversified light and the complexity of her own). Which became a detriment(as it could lead to the known events with Sezto and Roku's era; what you stated). Due to her focus upon other nations, as she might've grown to a point of comfort with her nation. As it deteriorated while she was often away. Which led to family lines being severed(as royalty doesn't continue on through the exact same family's)and would lead to future generations; Combustion Man, becoming a spy/assassin during times of war and P'Li, being saved from being a war Lords weapon(both were manipulated, due to them having fractured pasts and disjointed beginnings).

Amazing Theory!

I love theories like this :D Even if that would be totally not true, that's something nice to speculate on

She have arms. Just look at roku's clothes. Theres a book that shows her statue. SHE HAVE ARMS.

Think you could make a video on the messed up order of the avatars? Assuming the order to be what's stated in the opening, it should be Water, Earth, Fire, Air (of course Wan was a firebender so water wouldn't be the first in the cycle, but let's go with it as a circle technically has no beginning) The avatar before bearded earth guy (before Szeto, behind Kyoshi, think his name is maybe Salai) should've been water...but is fire. Before HIM should be Air which is correct (we're looking at the 'food friendly' air nomad) however before him should've been Fire, but is instead Earth? Perhaps some were stillborn, or murdered at birth? Never discovered they were the avatar, or refused the role? Perhaps Raava had reason to choose another nation than the next one in the cycle? I know it's likely an animation consistency error but it could be cool to theorise an in universe explanation.

I love the theory man!

The 1st instance of Psychic bending was actually Zuko I believe in the episode Warriors of Kyoshi when he's controlling the flames on candles just by meditating. Then we have Katara by end of season 1 who bursts an ice vase simply by getting angry when Paku refuses to teach her. And then we have Bumi who can bend just with his mind or as he claims by his face

I get people like to theorize on things that have been floating around for years, but she has arms. Not only is there a picture of her statue out with her arms in it, but bryke himself has also confirmed that she has arms. People need to do a little research instead of rehashing the same stuff that has been around with proof of it being debunked other than that i'm pretty sure it's confirmed that she was the wife of the firelord during that time

I always thought she just had her arms behind her back

Bro, why do you come up with interesting questions that I've never thought of. But still makes me interested. 🤨

Having a disability myself, I’ve always wanted to learn more about her, maybe she did have a hand in discovering combustion.

2:43 Tell me if I’m crazy but is that not the Fire Lord headpiece that the male fire nation avatar is wearing behind her?

I wonder if there ever was a Avatar that discovered Sandbending, or Icebending

Yo thats just clothing, if you focus on her hips you can see the clothing actually follows and her right hand actually shows. Its just fire nation clothing, kind of like when you put a t shirt over a sweater. *She had arms*

I'm so gald atla is getting noticed. I watched it around when it first came out, and know one knew about it. Its such an amazing show and it 100000% needed more attention❤

It would be cool if she’s who ming hua look up to to become a powerful bender

She might have been an Avatar who could ONLY combustion bend instead of mastering the 4 elements.

This just comes to what I have been saying . We need more past avatar back storys

In the legend of korra artbook part one air page 128 there is a panel where it show the past avatar scene and the parts where it seems she is missing arms look more like tassles of some variety

Can you make a video of the Earthbending Avatar that was before Avatar Szeto

In the picture where it shows all of the avatars it looks like one of the water tribe avatars is royalty

I like how not only he posts avatar content but he just talks out his thoughts like he’s our virtual friend but real. (That doesn’t really make any sense but you see were I’m coming from)

Ha I think you saw my comment cause on your video about the Jafar guy I said something about wanting to know more about her ☺️I love it when your KZfaq dreams come true

I want information on the fire nation avatar holding a sword aka Avatar Wolverine

Could it be drawing mistake?

I love your shirt BTW!

The male Avatar behind her seems like he was Fire Lord he has the crown that Ozai & Zuko had while being Fire Lords.

Imagine she was a peaceful fire lord. Lack of arms in a literal sense for the country.

Or maybe she lost her arms when trying to combustion bend, like Combustion Man.

You are so smart I love your vids

I never noticed that, I think u got something going here 👍

She literally has arms, her shoulder sleeves are just huge

Bruv I didn’t even no there was a armless Avatar wtf

2:45 if you look closely at her sides, you'll see she actually has her arms tucked behind her The faded pink fabric is just a second layer of shoulder ruffles. Each of her arms are visible beneath those directly at either side of her torso. Her right (our left) hand is also slightly visible.

I think it can be channeled thorough the hand if you think about when zuko tried to lighting Bend instead of him generating lighting it made a concentrated blast like combustion benders