Aang’s position, a solemn Bato informs him, will be one of trust. There aren’t any icebergs on hand, but there are scary-looking rocks, and there are two people to help Sokka steer his ship. A page for describing FanficRecs: Avatar The Last Airbender The Ember Island Players I borrowed characters from J ChibiChibi Avatar: The Last Airbender 2005 TV-Y7 3 Seasons Family Watch Together TV Siblings Katara and Sokka wake young Aang from a long hibernation and learn hes an Avatar, whose air-bending powers can defeat the evil Fire Nation. So Bato decides he can do the ritual now. The next morning a still mapless Bato reminisces with Sokka about “ice dodging,” a coming-of-age ritual involving steering a ship through icebergs that Sokka never got to participate in because of his dad going away to war. ![]() I kind of love that Avatar had their sweet, fluffy main character do that. You can see the guilt eating away at him. ![]() I understand his reasons-he doesn’t want Katara and Sokka to leave-but man, that is a shit move. And then, despite me shrieking at my computer “No, Aang, don’t!”, he crumples up the map and then proceeds to not give it to Bato. So of course Aang’s the one who sees the messenger when he rides up on his weird chicken thing to give Bato the map to the rendezvous point. A wistful Katara and Sokka decline the invitation to go along, explaining that they need to get Aang to the South Pole Water Tribe ASAP… but not before Aang slumps off into the sunset to go be emo over Katara and Sokka leaving him to go be with their real family. Aang gets even sadder when Bato says he’s supposed to get a message from Papa Sokka (I KILL ME) about a rendezvous point any day now. Traveling companion(s) think(s) they’re the best 5ever. It’s parallel to Zuko’s storyline: Awesome new person comes onto the scene. Meanwhile Katara and Sokka are bonding with Bato, and Aang feels ignored. Teamwork, yay! Woo tells Aang a happy lesson about reshaping his own destiny, and Team Avatar goes on their way. It works, but only because Aang steps in and uses his ‘bending skills to harden the lava. We finish up with Sokka rallying the town to create a trench to stop the lava from burninating everything. I have come to expect this sort of thing from this show already, but all the same- Avatar, you deserve this: Look how nice he is!” It appears the show took pains to avoid that by making Aang both the crush er and the crush ee-Katara viewing him as a little brother makes him feel bad, but he also experiences the awkwardness of liking someone just as a friend when they like you romantically. ![]() The takeaway is basically “Being in unrequited like sucks, but whaddaya gonna do? People feel what they feel.” There are zero implications of “Man, Katara really should like Aang back. Aang’s crush on Katara isn’t brought up again, either, except at the end where Sokka points out that Aang’s a powerful bender and Katara’s all 0_0. Before we get to that, there’s a sweet scene between Meng and Aang where they both address the fact that she likes him, but he doesn’t like her, and they just… go on their separate ways.
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