He’ll need to find the descendants of those who Kuzon and Temul saved – the Fire Nation values clan ties above all else and wouldn’t be so cruel as to force the Air Nomad children to abandon their kin and their element entirely.
Water. Bender. Prison. The Earthbender prison was humane in comparison, and even there the Fire Nation forced the earthbenders to abandon their non-bending kin and their element. Any Air Nomad survivors who the Fire Nation captured and for some reason decided not to kill would absolutely be isolated from their kin and their element.
Gyatso says he had friends in the Fire Nation too, and he knows that they would rather die than live like the Air Nomads did.
Really? Like if their homes were destroyed or they were exiled and the Air Nomads were the only ones who would take them in, they would refuse and die rather than accepting if it meant also having to follow Air Nomad codes of conduct? That's... stupid.
Gyatso hopes Aang is right but warns him to remember the last Avatar who came to the Fire Nation on an eclipse.
Oh god. I've been getting bad vibes from some of the remarks that felt like "how dare the Avatar invade the Fire Nation while firebenders are helpless, we have to keep the civilians safe from their attack", but the Air Nomad moral center character directly invoking Kyoshi and her ruining the Fire Nation for centuries? Noooot looking forward to Vathara's take on the Day of Black Sun.
Problem is, just because something is not your fault, doesn't mean it's not your responsibility.
Didn't Aang already understand that by this point in canon? He was stressing over it, which were expressed in his nightmares, but he'd long since accepted that fixing the mess was his responsibility, as was making sure it doesn't happen again.
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Water. Bender. Prison. The Earthbender prison was humane in comparison, and even there the Fire Nation forced the earthbenders to abandon their non-bending kin and their element. Any Air Nomad survivors who the Fire Nation captured and for some reason decided not to kill would absolutely be isolated from their kin and their element.
Gyatso says he had friends in the Fire Nation too, and he knows that they would rather die than live like the Air Nomads did.
Really? Like if their homes were destroyed or they were exiled and the Air Nomads were the only ones who would take them in, they would refuse and die rather than accepting if it meant also having to follow Air Nomad codes of conduct? That's... stupid.
Gyatso hopes Aang is right but warns him to remember the last Avatar who came to the Fire Nation on an eclipse.
Oh god. I've been getting bad vibes from some of the remarks that felt like "how dare the Avatar invade the Fire Nation while firebenders are helpless, we have to keep the civilians safe from their attack", but the Air Nomad moral center character directly invoking Kyoshi and her ruining the Fire Nation for centuries? Noooot looking forward to Vathara's take on the Day of Black Sun.
Problem is, just because something is not your fault, doesn't mean it's not your responsibility.
Didn't Aang already understand that by this point in canon? He was stressing over it, which were expressed in his nightmares, but he'd long since accepted that fixing the mess was his responsibility, as was making sure it doesn't happen again.