Ya that was the fist thing i thout Thanks for 12 likes Thanks for 16 likes

I was seriously just thinking this was addressed in episode 2... This makes me wonder how much they really remember or review ATLA before they do these theories.

Came to quote this!

​@@ashleyhall1185they sometimes make obvious videos, because not everyone out there know everything. This comment sounds rude, but it is not meant to be rude, but I am too tired to try to think how to not make it sound rude.

@@IdaSantti that's fair, but they didn't even reference the Zuko quote that basically explains the underlying concept of this theory. It makes me think they missed or forgot it. I often feel that way with their ATLA theories. I think they enjoy the show but aren't as into it as they are into Pixar or Harry Potter. Not everyone can be into everything, so it makes sense, but the ATLA theories just feel really lacking.

Yeah, but they would still HAVE biological parents, otherwise they couldn't sustain their culture for very long.

YOUR REPLY IS THE WHOLE REASON WHY THIS VIDEO SHOUDLNT EXIST

@@gavindinsmoor8196 Yes. They have biological parents. But it's an established part of their culture that who spawned whom doesn't matter, making them all family and making any relationships ones you choose to have/maintain.

@@laser8389 Yeah I know, but still, it's not like they don't have parents, they just don't really care 😂 Air nomads are immune to mom insults 🤣🤣🤣

@@gavindinsmoor8196 LOL exactly! And that's my point, there's no reason to explore who Aang's parents might be because the Nomads themselves wouldn't know (so it would be pointless to try to guess, as there will never be anything close to confirmation) and in-world there has never been any indication that the Avatar's mortal lineage is at all important (we never hear about "Avatar X, great-grandson of Important Person Y" or anything), they're important because they are the Avatar, and anyone can be born the Avatar (provided, of course, they're born in the next Nation in the cycle after the previous Avatar dies, which isn't publicized for international safety reasons until the new Avatar is ready to start Avataring).

I knew it the minute she didn't break open Aangs iceberg with her rage from sokkas misogyny.

Well, I think it's clear they are going for the severe PTSD route, aka FEAR. I mean, in the live action, Katara SAW her mother die. Burned ALIVE. And in a lot of scenes she chokes up before or mid attack because of her genuine fear. I'm sure later on it may turn to anger but how I saw it play out, it looks like her arc may involve her overcoming her fear rather than her rage. Which I think is good as well, at least for THIS interpretation of the story and characters

On top of having to clean up the mess after the 100-year war, Aang was busy with all the politics going on with all the three nations. Then after having two kids who aren't airbenders imagine his excitement when his third child finally comes out to be an airbender. And he's no longer the only airbender in the world. All while still not making his other two kids feel less than. Aang had an impossible mission later in front of him. He was never going to be a perfect father. And has other two kids know that he did his best and they all still found success.

Completely agree. The fan complaint against Aang's less-than-perfect parenting has always felt like pure, unfounded hero worship. (And, moreso, just another reason to complain about LoK. 🙄)

@@fattygamer94 I really hate that the fandom tends to make Aang out to be like Ozai or Toph's parents when that's just not the case. Aang wasn't emotionally abusive or emotionally neglectful. When he was around, he was supportive. He supported Kya coming out. He was proud of what Bumi had achieved. I think if anything, his kids put this world of pressure on themselves, which then turns into projection onto Aang and his status as Avatar. It really makes me wonder what being the Avatar's kid would be like. I bet Roku would've been a great dad to Rina. I really hope his books retcon the incredibly bad math Bryke did with making Roku Zuko's great grandfather vs several greats down the line. It would imply that Roku had Rina at like 70 then died leaving Ta Min to raise her alone. Plus it puts Ta Min having her well past 50 when your reproductive system quite literally shuts down. We know that Kyoshi was one of the first recent cycle of Avatars to have descendants as well; her daughter Koko had to feel like the safest child on the planet lol.

Exactly

@@TheRibottoStudios It kinda depends. It’s possible for a 50 year old woman to have a kid. Not common & dangerous, but entirely possible.

Oh I see🤔

They do have inuit last names now, FYI. I lived in an inuit town.

@@seanrendall5495 It does make me wonder at what point did the tribes get so big that they though 'oh hey we should probably give these kids secondary names that their whole family shares so we don't lose track' and who decided on them? The northern tribe would probably have family names 🤔

In Europe last names were invented around medieval times, mostly due to increase in travel and higher density of people. When that happend most people gaind a last name based on either their job (Smith, Cook, Fisher, Potter) or place where they live

@@VenusVenom369 i might be wrong here, but afaik the process of introducing last names to a culture from within didn't generally go "we give each family a name" but more like "you're john and you work as a blacksmith, so now you're john smith"; last names often being lifted from the job or role a person had. and, especially in more tribal societies, jobs would tend to be passed down to ones children, so the son of john smith, jack, would also learn to become a blacksmith and thereby get the last name smith, and thus, last names tended to stick with families. some last names would also be related to nobility, as in, to signify belonging to a noble house. in some societies, this form of last name predates the common folk having last names. on another note of last names, some cultures, for example nordic ones, use a patronymic system, where the child would get the name of a parent + son/daughter, literally signifying whose kid they were. so, jack wouldn't become jack smith, but instead jack johnson. generally speaking, changes like this, especially if they come from within a society, don't happen like "we need to roll out this change across our society in this way", but way more gradual. immediate change is usually related to external influences, one example being the freeing of the slaves. as they didn't have last names, they were given the first name of their former master as a last name. so, if you encounter someone whose last name is a first name, they might be descended from slaves. now, whether the northern water tribe had last names, that's hard to tell. the royal family doesn't seem to have a last name, at least it was never mentioned. given the general origins of last names, that makes it somewhat unlikely for anyone to have a last name in the way we think about it. but, as we see the royal characters being referred to by their titles with their names, i think it's reasonable to assume that at least some members of the tribe might be referred to by their jobs. so, for example, there might be two johns, but one is john the fisher and another is john the smith. they don't have last names, but are still distinguished by mentioning their job with their name.

What does that mean? Like they know the martial arts without any wind in the punches?

Dinky Winks is King Bumi with the Omashu delivery system.

More reason to no understand How the Fire Nation could kill all of them.

Seems pretty cold

A few really good fanfics have like a culture thing as "Spring Festivals" to explain children. As in like, going to the opposing gender temple for like fun... if you know.

​@mariaana6710 well, they'd be in hiding for the next 100 years, living in fear and losing what freedom means to air. Also the fire nation can systematically hunt/lure them out with traps. A few fanfics do explore these ideas. Like releasing rumours of airbenders to lure the real air nomads to locations for slaughter. From the show, we can already see how quick news of the sky bison/the avatar spreads, Kyoshi island episodes is case in point. Rumours fly pretty fast and far. Hiding also doesn't go very well depending on where you hide or who can sell you out. We had real world examples before.

@@Taigablade Yeah, I was thinking something like that. And, in 100 years of hiding, they must be Lost a lot of their culture and bending, because couldn't practice. So, Aang could be the last air bender in practice.

That's what I was wondering.

I wonder if they’re encouraged to pursue relationships or um… flings with people from other nations as a way to bypass this…

Haha so true

True, but if you read The Chronicles of the Avatar series, then you would find out that the monks and nuns would sometimes have children with each other, which means that Aang obviously knows that his parents existed within one of the air temples, while he was raised in the temple that only had monks. Implying that one or both of his parents agreed to leave him at the temple with only the monks to be trained. In one of Kyoshi's books it was mentioned that there's an air temple that houses only nuns. So my theory is that Aang was born in one of the other 2 temples that is mixed with both monks and nuns, then he was taken to the temple that housed only monks to be raised and trained until he hit a certain age, then he'd be able to travel and potentially even meet his parents.

@@DorkyWolf Isn't one of the Temples a nursery where all the children stay until they're old enough to have a Sky Bison?

@@jagnestormskull3178 That might be true. It's been awhile since I've watched AtLA all the way through, but I think Aang might've mentioned something like that, so it would still help my theory about 2 temples being filled with both monks and nuns, while 1 only has nuns and the last one only has monks.

woulda been nice to get a ty lee and mei introduction, they dont even feel like characters

As fun as that idea is you don't need it to explain the relationship. Gyatso was friends with Roku. Aang is The reincarnation of Roku. Even if he didn't know that Gyatso did. Originally Momo was going to be The reincarnation of Gyatso. They technically dropped that but it's clear the show has a theme of friendships lasting multiple lifetimes.

Or he gets killed by the fire nation cause his abilities aren’t fully realized. Just saying.

​@@MD-rl9krthey were pretty unsuccessful when he finally awoke 100 years later, so he'd have a fighting chance. The Fire Nation may have been more focused, but less seasoned 100 years ago plus it would have been much easier to find experts to train him. Dragons still existed for fire, the southern water tribe's benders haven't been systematically depleted, there genuinely is no war in ba sing se, etc

YO THATS ACTUALLY SO SICK, I NEED THIS

​@@ecocentriclife they were unsuccesful, but they were also people who have never even seen an airbender before, let alone fight one and also the firebenders had the comet on their side when they attacked

So true

I'm pretty sure it was established that while not everyone in the other kingdoms were benders, every Air Nomad was an Air Bender. Its part of the spirituality of their lives, where they are connected to the spirit world in such a way that they can all bend

Every Air Nomad were benders, so no non-benders. The Temples, however, were only inhabited by the children still in training, and a council of elders. The rest was traveling the world. But would occationally come to rest at each temple.

@@Lupinemancer87 Yep, like how Yangchen had her room at one of the temples that she was raised on.

2 other people already mentioned how Air Nomads were all Airbenders, so I would like to bring up how Kyoshi mentions in one of her books that there was/is an air temple that houses only nuns, so I think after Aang was born, his parents placed him in the care of monks at a temple that only houses monks. And that the 2 other air temples had both monks and nuns (as seen with Yangchen she was raised in a temple that had both nuns and monks). So, when Aang hit a certain age, he would travel and maybe came across his parents whilst on his travels.

oh thats interesting how did you find this out? @@Lupinemancer87

An hour and a half. But he got it!

Lol right

Hermione - fire (for her signatur bluebell flame), Ron - earth (because he is the most stubborn and unyielding) Neville - water ( because I can see him waterbend all these plants in the greenhoses) and as a bonus I think Luna would be an airbender (she is no doubt the most spiritual).

@maikejahn9130 good point with Luna. I figured Neville would be earth bc the herbology but ya makes sense that he's more push and pull.

Ron and Hermione are both earth I think. They are both very stubborn and non-spiritual.

​@@Lightning_Lance I would argue Hermione is more hotheaded she loses her temper quite easily, with Draco, Trelawney, Ron, Rita Skeeter. Also the beetle in the jar is a move I could see Azula do.

it started and ended on a high note so i’ll give it that

you’ve thrown me for a tizzy, it definitely couldve been better just by improving the writing for episodes 3-6, and making it less jarring, disjointed and even illogical at times. Which are 3 words i would never use to describe the original show

HATE your comments