The people who raise the children are monks. The rest of the air-benders are travelling nomads. When one get pregnant they go to the temple to give birth and give the child to the monks to be raised and then leave to travel again. That’s how airbender societies work according to some sources from people who worked on the show. Zuko even mentioned that Aang wouldn’t know of fathers since he was raise by monks and he got no reaction from aang as this is normal for airbender children. They may have workshopped many ideas before coming to this one but this is the canon way their society functions.
@@bluegirl278 Thing is Children need their fathers as they go from being kids to adults as the mother is meant for nurturing while the Father is meant for guidance.
I was under the impression that Air Nomads when actually being, well, nomads, would have relationships with people along their journey and would eventually have a kid, and if they were an airbender they’d send them to a temple
Yeah but then that would be kind of circumstantial child birth…idk if that’s the right wording but that wouldn’t be a solid way to keep the air nation a steady population bc if travelling nomads even decided to have children with members of other nations, they’d be mixed which would be a 50/50 chance that they’d end up being other benders, and then if we’re being semi realistic, maybe the nomad and their partner would want to start a family outside of the air nation. Or the other parent from the other nation would want to take their child bc air nomads didn’t believe in worldly attachments… i hope that made sense lol
I don't think there needs to be breeding festivals. They were nomadic and travelled through all 4 temples. That means men and women would have had opportunities to meet eachother along the way. Aang had himself travelled a ton, especially for a 12 year old boy. The adults must have travelled way way more than that. They probably live on the road largely.
@@SecretKeeperForever9 most of them were monks and nuns. We know of a few exceptions. But they are fundamentally a highly spiritual society. Hence the fact they are all airbender.
I agree that they all traveled to all of the temples, save a few who were the “overseers” of any given temple. The problem I have with the “lived on the road” idea is that it doesn’t track with the ANG. If they traveled all over the world and at any given time most of them were not home in the Air Temples, there would’ve been Air Nomads all over the world at the time of the ANG. Not to say Sozin couldn’t have hunted them down, but Ba Sing Se was and is the world’s largest city. Surely if the Air Nomads were traveling everywhere, living on the road, at least a few of them would’ve been making, if nothing else, a pit stop in Ba Sing Se. And upon news that the Fire Nation had burned the temples and was hunting down those remaining as fugitives, at least a few would become permanent refugees in Ba Sing Se. Beyond the reach of Sozin or Azulon, or even Ozai until Azula’s coup. The Air Nomads wouldn’t be extinct in Aang’s time if they lived on the road. Some of them would necessarily have either avoided detection (lord knows how many autonomous towns and tribes live in the remote lands of the earth kingdom even beyond Ba Sing Se’s capacity to administer, let alone the Fire Nation Capital) or become unreachable refugees in Ba Sing Se. Remember the Air Nomads’ philosophy of combat is to evade and avoid, only striking at the perfect moment. If they had a chance to hide or flee, they would’ve.
Doubt that how could all of them be killed if the largest instance of them being killed were the attacks on the air temples? Wouldn’t there be a couple knocking round then
Aang states in S1E17 at around 7 mins that he's seen the Northern temple when the monks where there. He was also going to be sent to the Eastern Air Temple, not the Western, that's why the Eastern Temple is the one with the most damage, it was where the Avatar was supposed to be. He also knows a lot about the Western Temple, so he moat likely had visited all the Air Temples.
Yes I knew I remembered him saying that. He definitely did go there, he just wasn't able to say what he liked about it because it had changed so much and he was upset about that
I am so interested in the new generation of Air Nomads. Tenzin being raised by a Water Bender and a majority of Air Nomads were from the Earth Kingdom. It would be so interesting to see what this mixture of cultures and beliefs would turn the Air Nation into.
People always forget that they're technically nomads, while they come back to the temples every now and then they would have largely lived on the road (on the bison), this gave them plenty of opportunity to join up with other air nomads and also to hook up, they'd come back to the temple to give birh and for early childcare, and leave the rest for the temple to deal with, the temples are staffed with old masters, young apprentices and people who are stopping there for a while on their journey through life. The distruction of the temples was so monumental because they had no way to organise themselves and fight back as a group, which is how the fire nation was able to hunt them down, not because it destroyed every last airbender at once.
The Fire Nation also set up culture traps for the Air Nomads who weren't wiped out by the attack on the Air temples, so it definitely didn't happen all at once
In a Legend of Korra comic, Kya states that the Air Nomads had a very open view of live and relationships. Including same-sex relations. So, they were probably not all that strict about the whole making babies thing.
Personally? I just thought the gender-division wasn't so strict that nuns and monks would never come into contact. Clearly there was communication and visits throughout all the air temples, it's just at the end of the day they spend your average day at home if you will, at their respective air temple. Field trips clearly happen, since Aang and his peers met their bison at the Eastern Air Temple like you mentioned, so I don't know why adult male airbenders couldn't visit for important moments, or hell, just to check up on the air bison, because If I recall, they were raised at the Eastern and possibly Western Air Temples.
I think when the nomads meet they probably choose a lifetime partner that they chose to travel with and who knows maybe is aang finished his training in the western air temple he probably would'veet his biological nomad parents, maybe meet them as a right of passage
This is why I want to see more of the Air Nomad culture and I hope whatever series the studio plan to make will take place back when they were still around so we can learn more about them.
The creators did comment that initially they were going to have an episode discussing aang's biological family in season one but it was dropped in favor of other episodes. Shame that we could have had that one but we got the great divide....
@@z.6480 it's generally considered the worst episode even by the creators. In ember Island players they literally admit it was a mistake by having the actors skip it. It has the lowest rating in the show.
I didn't even think about whst episodes people hated or loved. Never crossed my mind to give a crap. That's so interesting though. I don't think there is a single episode of Avatar that I disliked. I rewatched it for the first time in full (I got lazy every time in the past haha). Every episode holds up just as well to me as it did when I was eight watching it on air.
@@ShanyShannon it's not that people hated it, and I would agree that every episode in avatar is at least good. Great divide just is considered the worst episode of all good episodes.
One thing to add, the writers was originally going to reveal what happened to Aang's parents in a flashback in Book 3, but they couldn't find a appropriate time.
@@vashythewabbit8288 I'd still like to know what happened. I wish we could have seen more of what the Air Nomad culture was like beforethe war. Maybe Aang could have had a flashback in season 3 ep 1 just before he woke up from his near death experience, a life flashing before your eyes kind of thing. Oh well
@@GildedBeetles That's where you are wrong. Monks having parents does NOT mean it is disrespectful to Tibetan monks as there are Tibetan monks that lived with their parents at one time. This kind of assumptions that westerners like you pisses me off.
Y’know I never wondered about this...because I know in *some* places, children whose families can’t afford to keep them end up going to the temple to become monks and train, even if their family really loves them. So for whatever reason, I never questioned Aangs parentage because I figured it’d be sad, because if his parents didn’t give him away, they don’t seem to be around.
Yeah odds are he never knew his biological parents due to how the air nomads were raised. And honestly based on some of the minor disfunction in Aang and Tenzin's families it actually makes sense why Air Nomads choose to seperate blood family members. Kya and Bumi definetly had some resentment toward Tenzin for getting more attention from Aang then them. True it never boiled over into haterd by any means but you could tell they were somewhat miffed about it. The same with Tenzin's family. Ikki and Milo did show minor hints from time to time of being somewhat jealous of Jinora's rapid advancement compared to them. Again it was never anywhere close to hatred but by making sure no one knew what bloodline they came from no one would really have any expectations of anyone else.
I hear what your saying but I don’t know if i’d say having family squabbles is reason enough to separate children from their families. I think it takes away responsibility from family members to be decent people (like how Aang should’ve been a more attentive father) and in the case with Ikki and Meelo, which siblings don’t get jealous of each other??
@@anjafrohlich1170 The Air Nomads still had issues with authority and attachment, as Aang's backstory indicates. He clearly saw Monk Gyatso as a father figure, and Gyatso clashed with the elders on Aang starting his Avatar training sooner than normal. There is never any such thing as "equal relationships" in a community; children need to be looked after by somebody who has authority over them, and among the adults there will always be leaders in some capacity. I'm also reminded of the Jedi, who took kids as infants and raised them in the temple. I'd argue that this is one of the reasons the Jedi fell; because they had no attachments, they had less incentive to be mindful of the rest of the galaxy. Plus it lead them to bone-headed moves like sending a young man with no real experience with women to baby-sit a hot young female senator. Or kicking Ahsoka out of the Jedi Order before she'd been properly tried in court (and making a lame apology to boot). Humans have an instinctual need for family, and cultures ignore that to their peril.
@@maggiequinn. It is legal in large part of Europe as well 🤷🏼♀️ the Air Nomads were accepting of all sorts of relationships. Who is to say they even practised marriage?
That's rather not a problem because it wouldn't be too common. It would happen only from time to time and that's not enough to seriously weaken the genetics of the bloodline. Famous Habsburgs interbreed consistently for a pretty long time before they started to suffer major consequences.
Wait, did Air nomads only live in temples? That seems kinda not very nomad-like. I always thought there were just the temples and monks living there and the rest of the air nomads were just, well, nomadic.
I think its mentioned in an outside sourde that the monks lived at the temples while most air nomads would travel around the world and if they got prego, drop their children off at the temples.
Shiiiii- thats a good question, this whole time i just assumed the nomads sort of had a rotation system and every season or year theyd move temples , gonna keep it as my headcannon ig
@@eco5821 Another thing that interests me is how did the fire nation menage to fully wipe out a race of nomads that could just hide somewhere, for example in one of the still unconquered nations.
@@bleflar9183 Is a very good question. O thing, because they were pacifist, believe they could handle the Fire Nation. Or they were so worried about Aang, that they forgot the rest. The other thing I know is this: In the Kyoshi's books, she talked about how, even you were not an air bender, if you turn into one, your kids will born in the temples as air benders. I think after the genocide, the only ones who have remained, couldn't came back neither to the North Temple nor the South one. That's why, if they had kids, no one could be an air bender
inbreeding usually doesn't have any big side effects unless it's done over multiple generations, and even then, most if not all of the side effects would be eliminated with one non-related generation. Plus, how would they even find out that such a thing could cause problems in the first place? They don't keep a record of lineage, so they'd have no way to track why some kids had certain defects. even then, it's also possible for a normal breeding pair to have a child with random birth defects, so it'd be even harder to figure out.
@@redgeoblaze3752 First off, how did they get the plants and animals that they domesticated? Selective breeding, so they would have had plenty of experience with that sort of thing. Plus, I'm sure that at least a few royal or noble families practiced inbreeding to keep their lines "pure". And being Air Nomads, they would have been exposed to other cultures and histories in their wanderings. Why else would they be called Nomads? And we're talking about 10,000 years of history, so the odds are pretty high that inbreeding wrecked havoc on at least a few families.
@@howardlanus8467 the fact that most would only have 1 or 2 children themselves and with different partners would diversify the genetics enough in order to not cause any immediate side effects
@@GildedBeetles How do we know they were with different partners? And we're talking generation after generation. They would need some way of accounting for siblings and parents. Look at pure-bred dogs after a mere century of inbreeding.
@@howardlanus8467 FORCED in-breeding, we know there were different partners because they were NOMADS. Generational inbreeding is okay as long as it isn't a singular family line, 2nd cousins can't cause any serious problems
I would honestly say it would be a 14% chance to know his mother and father…but even tho this theory is interesting..it’s just useless bcz we all know monks raise other monks which are born in ATLA…also I subbed cuz your theories are interesting plus your subs and pfp are similar lmao anyways Have a good day
I personally don’t like the idea of there being a festival that air nomads can breed since the air nomad are all about freedom. Since we know that the air nomads traveled the world I like the idea that they breaded with who they wanted in their travels.
@@GildedBeetles In my head cannon the air nomads build relationships with whoever they want to in their travels air nomad or not. So I don’t really see a need for a “breeding festival”.
@@anjafrohlich1170 I wasn’t denying the idea of them having and any sort of festival or the idea the the can breed in said festival. I was denying the idea of a festival where the purpose was to breed. Stop putting words in my mouth.
Yes, Aang HAS been to the Western Air Temple before. It was the first thing that sprang into his mind when trying to find a place to hide after the invasion failed. And he seemed very excited to show his friends around. Particularily with lines like 'You guys are gonna love the all-day echo chamber!"
I think all the monks and nuns got together for a marriage like ritual once they were of age and when they had children they would raise them all together with everyone taking care of each other's baby until they were old enough to be sent to separate temples. Hence everyone would be like your mom and dad without you ever really knowing who actually was until they were older and ready for this marriage ritual in order to avoid marrying their family.
He did visit the Northern Air Temple. When he’s confronting the mechanist about him defiling the air temple he’s gets angry and says something along the lines of “I was here when the monks lived here I know what it’s suppose to look like!”
I remember reading in the Avatar Story Notes that the team discussed doing an episode on Aang’s parents during the first season, but for whatever reason, they decided to scrap the idea. A shame, really. I would have liked to know about his family.
I think air benders were NOMADS, meaning most air Benders traveled, I think their were some roaming family units abut they didn’t stay at temples or if they did it wasn’t for very long. The childrens were sent for training at there gender specific temple from a very early age, my guess is it was between 2 and 5, some kids would remember(and maybe were occasionally visited) their parents but most probably didn’t. The air NOMADS prized independence and instilled this in the children. There were probably also some mixed gendered festivals as well so people could meet and spare culture and supplies.
1:56 Aang did mention the Norther Air temple in book 1 episode 17 when the inventor took over it. He said they use to have bison polo tournaments there and he looked around upset how different it looked. He was probably upset cause of how much they messed up but because he referenced it I’m 100% sure he’s been there
I always suppose that the Air Nomad grown the children as "children of the community". I am glad to see that I am not the only one with a similar theory
This actually makes sense as to why Aang might not have been the best dad for his kids because he grew up without the sense of your usual family of parents raising kids. He probably tried his best but since he focused on Tenzin so much as he was an air bender, and traveled with him because that’s also an air bender thing it seems, it seemed to his other two kids that they were being neglected when they really weren’t in Aang’s mind. I also think that there’s a good chance that Aang’s dad could also be non air bender because it’s known throughout the series that air benders would have children with different nations such is Kyoshi’s parents.
I don’t like how the monks separated families wouldn’t that have made them like what the fire nation did in the 100 year war. I like how aang was able to change that with his family
But in the Northern Air temple island episode Aang said “ This place is unbelievable” suggesting he did go there at least once and there is a lot more evidence saying that he had been there if you just watched the episode again
Yes other things he mentions in that episode were things long the lines of knowing what the temple was supposed to be like, such as when the statue of the monk gets destroyed by the wrecking ball when they go to install a bathhouse, for example. He makes a number of comments suggestive of him having been there before, because of his knowing of how it use to look.
@@brinmoody my guess is he was basing his statements on what an air temple should be like. He knows that all the mechanical stuff shouldn't be their knowing what it should be like, maybe someone from the southern air temple who hsd visited there told him about it.
I don't know why you thought he hadn't been to the Northern Air Temple, he literally said he has in the episode they first visit it. He also constantly is saying how the new inhabitants have changed it.
Among pre-modern societies, newborns were typically breastfed for 2-6 years (with breastfeeding not being exclusive after about 6 months, but still important). So I suspect babies were not "instantly" taken from the Air Nuns, unless male Air Nomads can breastfeed. I imagine they were taken _away from their mothers,_ though, and wet nurses used to avoid any emotional bond forming. The Air Nomads were pretty fucked up, in any event. Giving your child away to be raised by a cult is weird, and what happened to kids who proved to be non-benders? Even if that is rare among the Air Nomads, it must sometimes happen. Since bending seems to be genetic, maybe selective breeding (and abandoning non-bending children to the other nations, removing them from the Air Nation gene pool) eventually led to a society where almost everyone was a bender.
I think the father was from the northern air temple and his mother was from the Western Air Temple. I'm guessing that they kept his as far away from them as possible due to the whole attatchment to worldly things thought.
Funny how air nomad can let go the attachment for the love of their parents but not the bonding between them and the flying bison.... I mean how could they love the bison more than their parents lol
I think it’s probably cannon as you describe it with breeding festivals etc. But I think there are always exceptions in any society where a couple might just fall in love and choose to stay together and raise their own children. But I think that’s the point of being an Air Nomad - the freedom. Some chose to live at the Temples as teachers and caretakers - from the flash blacks it seems most are older adults. The young adults are off exploring the world, maybe in small groups, couples or solo. From what we see of Aang at age 12 he is in love with Katara and wants to be in a relationship with her from day one, even quite despondent about it in Season 3 and the entire series closes with their kiss. Up to that point in his life all he had experienced is Air Nomad culture; to him the time in the iceberg was a couple days - so pairing up and being “boyfriend and girlfriend” wasn’t foreign to Aang. It’s not like the Water Tribe traditions had rubbed off on him, as most of the time they were moving from place to place. In the first Kyoshi novel, there was a story of an Airbender woman falling in love with an Earthbender and she paired up with him as a couple for their whole life (not sure if they got married, can’t remember). So monogamy was also a very real part of their culture. But I do believe many of the children were raised in a group setting, kind of like boarding school, and depending on the bond maybe saw their parents regularly or not at all.
This is neat because I just had a conversation similar to this recently. I talked about how it was neat that Aang was the last airbender and when he died Tenzin became the new last airbender so they had to adjust the way they lived which included having traditional families. Somebody disagreed saying that the Air Nomads could have also had traditonal families but I said no based off what we knew in the canon. The Air Nomads were kinda like jedi who didn't know their parents and just lived spiritual lives which wad non traditional, similar to the real life Tibetan monks
Even to this day, I find it strange Air Nomads, whom are very religious, practice romance and have children, even with Aang and Katara. I assume they practice celibacy.
This is very, very interesting. All of this sounds very accurate. But, what about the previous Airbender/Avatar Yangchen. Since she was the Avatar in her time was she also separated by gender and was she considered a monk as well. Love theses vids!
I had no idea they were separated by gender. I was always wondering if Aang had a crush on some Nun before Katara but I guess this gets rid of it. Either way I'm not trying to say that these guys are not the wisest people on the planet (because compared to the real world that isn't such a wild possibility) But this is incredibly stupid! what benefit in culture does this bring!? If the Nomads were so spiritual then couldn't they believe in something like love or choosing your own spouse instead of a random breeding festival? I mean that takes Gender segregated bathrooms to a whole nother level!
One of the points of spiritual lifestyle is to get rid of earthly attachments, and, as the most people are hetero, separating by sex would make it easier.
The Air Nomads were nomads though. They, by definition, moved around between the temples. Aang only stayed so much at the Southern because he was still a kid being raised by the monks.
@@junior523 bruh the quality of his content is really interesting and he does not clickbait and his channel's name is clearly avatar so what content do you want aside from avatar? Do you think before you writing?
@@NatureLover-sn6sp I called he's content quality content and I'm pretty sure one of his videos was click bait. Spoiler: I don't care I watch him because I like him Yes I do think before writing... obviously.
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I would like to add my head canon to your theory. When monks and nuns from the temples have children together, the children are sent to the opposite temple based on gender. So for example, a monk from the northern temple and a nun from the western temple have a child. That child will then be sent to live at either the southern or eastern temple depending on the gender. I think it fits with the Air Nomad philosophy about detachment.
I think Tenzin now made the old nomad traditions choose label for air benders so some would want to do this while others won’t and aang would probably agree
Breeding ritual? No. I think they just had children like all people, but with a more communal environment for raising children. Breeding ritual is right out of your imagination, dude.
I would have guessed that Aangs backstory is way darker. And that he maybe was an unwanted child that was given away to the air nomad’s so he at least had some ppl and he was just randomly born an airbender(and the avatar of course).
One fan comic I think you'd really enjoy is called the Tale of Tashi and Nima. I'm pretty sure it was discontinued but it also described a festival where male and female airbenders could meet and court.
i think it's more the nomatic ones having kids, they stay with their mothers until they are weaned then are sent to a temple at around age 2, i do think lineage is tracked somehow to prevent siblings and close family from having relations or perhaps when they come of age they are introduced to them. I also don't think the air nation was fully comprised of benders, but rather only those born who exhibit talent were sent to the temples to train. giving the impression that the air nomads comprised only of benders. those who did not would stay with their mothers and fathers and go into trades like the circus or travelling bards. as well, after the genocide, i think no more bending children were born to air benders due to the spiritual damage. Kyoshi's mother was an airbender after all, but lost her ability to bend as she strayed from the teachings. i'd imagine the trauma of loosing their temples along with being hunted down if they showed they were an airbender made a bunch of them go into hiding and have that same effect, not telling their children about it at all to protect them. which i feel would also bring credit to the theory that ty lee is a descendant of air benders, and those who received airbending through harmonic convergence are as well.
well, that's the thing. The concept of "mother" and "father" was not really a thing in Air Nomad culture (until Aang changed it). The Air Nomads lived a very spiritual life, detached from earthly concerns, they even said that in the episode The Guru. So they didn't even raise their own children, that's how detached they were
The picture of the Airbenders seems to be a visual spiritual representation of how Aang views the Air Nation and those people in the first row, would be the people Aang recognized the most from 100 years ago with Monk Gyatso in the front. They all can be seen speaking with Aang in some kind of flashback
Angg had been to the air temple I’m pretty sure it says so twice in the episode 17 it mentions he played a grand finale of a game involving the sky bison and also ssays it when katara is explaining why angg is sad she says it was because he used to come there a long time ago
Aang said that they held some type of game at the northern air temple so he probably visited it and he knew there was a giant pai sho table and an all day echo chamber at the western so I think he’s visited them all
we know that In the airbender avatar cycle that the airbending avatars arnt randomly born they take turns to produce the airbending avatar, so the airbending avatar before yangchen was a man and born in the northen airteple , so in theory every other airbending avatar up untill aang was male and female simultaniously
But Aang also probably raised his chilren traditionally because he didn't even have the option to let Tenzin be raised by monks since Aang was the only monk
Um Aang says in the scene directly following the airwalker story "hey guys we're close to the Northern Air Temple this is where they held the championships for sky bison Polo"
Why does it always have to connect to Aang? Ty Lee being an airbender descendant is an amazing idea, but there's absolutely no reason to connect it to Aang.
I always wanted to know what happened to Aang’s parents, but in all honesty I haven’t seen The Last Airbender in a long time and I guess I assumed they covered this up in the show at some point that I don’t remember. Kinda glad I wasn’t the only one lol.
I could be spitballing here but in some cultures monks don't do parents because sometimes being a monk means no personal connections for great discipline I don't agree with it but I understand it I believe being a monk is the best place for orphans as well if parents can't take care of their kids
i get why they wouldn't do this in a kid's show but i think it would've made sense for tenzin to just have babies with a bunch of the air acholites and raised them like the original air nomads did
The people who raise the children are monks. The rest of the air-benders are travelling nomads. When one get pregnant they go to the temple to give birth and give the child to the monks to be raised and then leave to travel again. That’s how airbender societies work according to some sources from people who worked on the show. Zuko even mentioned that Aang wouldn’t know of fathers since he was raise by monks and he got no reaction from aang as this is normal for airbender children. They may have workshopped many ideas before coming to this one but this is the canon way their society functions.
This makes the most sense to me..
It kinda reminds me of birds lol have their baby at the temple
like its a nest and then fly away
@@pine_float1170 lol pretty much. Or like turtles. They lay their eggs and then leave them to hatch and survive on their own.
So AANG WASN'T A BAD DAD. HE WAS FOLLOWING HIS CULTURE
@@DelightfulCook1u lol kind of. He just didn’t really know how to be a dad since that’s not really a thing in his culture
@@bluegirl278 Thing is Children need their fathers as they go from being kids to adults as the mother is meant for nurturing while the Father is meant for guidance.
Aang's dad went out for some flying bison's milk once and never came back.
Ik 😂
Wait but airbenders are vegan (am I right or is it vegetarian?)
Who knows maybe he ran into firebenders on the way😂
@@lucid_water they’re vegetarian
@@kabob8922 Okay yeah I wasn't sure which
I was under the impression that Air Nomads when actually being, well, nomads, would have relationships with people along their journey and would eventually have a kid, and if they were an airbender they’d send them to a temple
IF they were an Airbender?
All Air Nomads were benders.
@@Lupinemancer87 they're talking about children from non-airbending relationships (Airbender + firebender)
Interesting
yeah exactly, that makes more sense to me
Yeah but then that would be kind of circumstantial child birth…idk if that’s the right wording but that wouldn’t be a solid way to keep the air nation a steady population bc if travelling nomads even decided to have children with members of other nations, they’d be mixed which would be a 50/50 chance that they’d end up being other benders, and then if we’re being semi realistic, maybe the nomad and their partner would want to start a family outside of the air nation. Or the other parent from the other nation would want to take their child bc air nomads didn’t believe in worldly attachments…
i hope that made sense lol
FINALLY! This is the first time in a while I've heard someone actually talk about what could've happened to Aang's parents.
Yeah.
Plus I never thought anyone would ever make a video about it.
MY CARRR!!!
The monks aren’t raised by parents, everyone was raised by everyone in the air temple
I don't think there needs to be breeding festivals. They were nomadic and travelled through all 4 temples. That means men and women would have had opportunities to meet eachother along the way.
Aang had himself travelled a ton, especially for a 12 year old boy.
The adults must have travelled way way more than that. They probably live on the road largely.
There was nothing that said all air benders were monks or nuns. So, it's possible there were many air benders that wondered the Four Nations.
@@SecretKeeperForever9 most of them were monks and nuns. We know of a few exceptions. But they are fundamentally a highly spiritual society. Hence the fact they are all airbender.
I agree that they all traveled to all of the temples, save a few who were the “overseers” of any given temple.
The problem I have with the “lived on the road” idea is that it doesn’t track with the ANG. If they traveled all over the world and at any given time most of them were not home in the Air Temples, there would’ve been Air Nomads all over the world at the time of the ANG. Not to say Sozin couldn’t have hunted them down, but Ba Sing Se was and is the world’s largest city. Surely if the Air Nomads were traveling everywhere, living on the road, at least a few of them would’ve been making, if nothing else, a pit stop in Ba Sing Se. And upon news that the Fire Nation had burned the temples and was hunting down those remaining as fugitives, at least a few would become permanent refugees in Ba Sing Se. Beyond the reach of Sozin or Azulon, or even Ozai until Azula’s coup.
The Air Nomads wouldn’t be extinct in Aang’s time if they lived on the road. Some of them would necessarily have either avoided detection (lord knows how many autonomous towns and tribes live in the remote lands of the earth kingdom even beyond Ba Sing Se’s capacity to administer, let alone the Fire Nation Capital) or become unreachable refugees in Ba Sing Se. Remember the Air Nomads’ philosophy of combat is to evade and avoid, only striking at the perfect moment. If they had a chance to hide or flee, they would’ve.
@@MegaBrokenstar There were several air nomads who weren't in the temples and were hunter after the fact. Pretty sure Bryke talk about this
Doubt that how could all of them be killed if the largest instance of them being killed were the attacks on the air temples? Wouldn’t there be a couple knocking round then
The theory about the breeding festival makes sense and fits into the nomad’s culture perfectly!! Very interesting video!!! Well done!
"Breeding festival" lol theu are treated like dogs and cats
@@BobaT0 yea totally😂
Breeding Festivals sound like a blast
Sounds a little like Woodstock…trippy idea
@@FrogmanAnime yea right, a little bit…
Me right after reading the title: "Easy, dead."
no protagonist as strong as Aang would have alive parents
I mean you're not wrong
@@chaoticmayhem2058 fr his parents gotta be dead
@@itsyasibro5353 well they’d have to be god to be alive during legend of Korra-
LIKE WHOS PARENTS STILL REMAIN ALIVE AFTER THEIR CHILD PASSES-
@@chaoticmayhem2058 but they are dead- its proven. If they were alive where are they? Wouldn’t of they come for Aang?
Aang states in S1E17 at around 7 mins that he's seen the Northern temple when the monks where there. He was also going to be sent to the Eastern Air Temple, not the Western, that's why the Eastern Temple is the one with the most damage, it was where the Avatar was supposed to be. He also knows a lot about the Western Temple, so he moat likely had visited all the Air Temples.
Yes I knew I remembered him saying that. He definitely did go there, he just wasn't able to say what he liked about it because it had changed so much and he was upset about that
I am so interested in the new generation of Air Nomads. Tenzin being raised by a Water Bender and a majority of Air Nomads were from the Earth Kingdom. It would be so interesting to see what this mixture of cultures and beliefs would turn the Air Nation into.
I think maybe he was raised by Air Acolytes and was taught culture and airbending by Aang.
People always forget that they're technically nomads, while they come back to the temples every now and then they would have largely lived on the road (on the bison), this gave them plenty of opportunity to join up with other air nomads and also to hook up, they'd come back to the temple to give birh and for early childcare, and leave the rest for the temple to deal with, the temples are staffed with old masters, young apprentices and people who are stopping there for a while on their journey through life.
The distruction of the temples was so monumental because they had no way to organise themselves and fight back as a group, which is how the fire nation was able to hunt them down, not because it destroyed every last airbender at once.
The Fire Nation also set up culture traps for the Air Nomads who weren't wiped out by the attack on the Air temples, so it definitely didn't happen all at once
In a Legend of Korra comic, Kya states that the Air Nomads had a very open view of live and relationships. Including same-sex relations. So, they were probably not all that strict about the whole making babies thing.
Personally? I just thought the gender-division wasn't so strict that nuns and monks would never come into contact. Clearly there was communication and visits throughout all the air temples, it's just at the end of the day they spend your average day at home if you will, at their respective air temple. Field trips clearly happen, since Aang and his peers met their bison at the Eastern Air Temple like you mentioned, so I don't know why adult male airbenders couldn't visit for important moments, or hell, just to check up on the air bison, because If I recall, they were raised at the Eastern and possibly Western Air Temples.
I think when the nomads meet they probably choose a lifetime partner that they chose to travel with and who knows maybe is aang finished his training in the western air temple he probably would'veet his biological nomad parents, maybe meet them as a right of passage
This is why I want to see more of the Air Nomad culture and I hope whatever series the studio plan to make will take place back when they were still around so we can learn more about them.
The creators did comment that initially they were going to have an episode discussing aang's biological family in season one but it was dropped in favor of other episodes. Shame that we could have had that one but we got the great divide....
The great divide wasn't a bad episode though, idk why do yall hate it 🤨
@@z.6480 it's generally considered the worst episode even by the creators. In ember Island players they literally admit it was a mistake by having the actors skip it. It has the lowest rating in the show.
@@eeveeongirl I still don't see why though, it's a bit interesting tbh.
I didn't even think about whst episodes people hated or loved. Never crossed my mind to give a crap. That's so interesting though. I don't think there is a single episode of Avatar that I disliked. I rewatched it for the first time in full (I got lazy every time in the past haha). Every episode holds up just as well to me as it did when I was eight watching it on air.
@@ShanyShannon it's not that people hated it, and I would agree that every episode in avatar is at least good. Great divide just is considered the worst episode of all good episodes.
One thing to add, the writers was originally going to reveal what happened to Aang's parents in a flashback in Book 3, but they couldn't find a appropriate time.
I wish they had squeezed it in anyway. I've been asking that question since the first time I watched season 1
@@breezy3392 It's kinda hard to squeeze it in Book 3 as there wasn't a time that would make Aang remember his parents.
@@vashythewabbit8288 I'd still like to know what happened. I wish we could have seen more of what the Air Nomad culture was like beforethe war. Maybe Aang could have had a flashback in season 3 ep 1 just before he woke up from his near death experience, a life flashing before your eyes kind of thing. Oh well
@@vashythewabbit8288 I feel like it would be pretty disrespectful to ACTUAL Tibetan monks, they don't have parents
@@GildedBeetles That's where you are wrong. Monks having parents does NOT mean it is disrespectful to Tibetan monks as there are Tibetan monks that lived with their parents at one time. This kind of assumptions that westerners like you pisses me off.
Y’know I never wondered about this...because I know in *some* places, children whose families can’t afford to keep them end up going to the temple to become monks and train, even if their family really loves them. So for whatever reason, I never questioned Aangs parentage because I figured it’d be sad, because if his parents didn’t give him away, they don’t seem to be around.
Yeah odds are he never knew his biological parents due to how the air nomads were raised. And honestly based on some of the minor disfunction in Aang and Tenzin's families it actually makes sense why Air Nomads choose to seperate blood family members. Kya and Bumi definetly had some resentment toward Tenzin for getting more attention from Aang then them. True it never boiled over into haterd by any means but you could tell they were somewhat miffed about it. The same with Tenzin's family. Ikki and Milo did show minor hints from time to time of being somewhat jealous of Jinora's rapid advancement compared to them. Again it was never anywhere close to hatred but by making sure no one knew what bloodline they came from no one would really have any expectations of anyone else.
I hear what your saying but I don’t know if i’d say having family squabbles is reason enough to separate children from their families. I think it takes away responsibility from family members to be decent people (like how Aang should’ve been a more attentive father) and in the case with Ikki and Meelo, which siblings don’t get jealous of each other??
@@anjafrohlich1170 The Air Nomads still had issues with authority and attachment, as Aang's backstory indicates. He clearly saw Monk Gyatso as a father figure, and Gyatso clashed with the elders on Aang starting his Avatar training sooner than normal. There is never any such thing as "equal relationships" in a community; children need to be looked after by somebody who has authority over them, and among the adults there will always be leaders in some capacity.
I'm also reminded of the Jedi, who took kids as infants and raised them in the temple. I'd argue that this is one of the reasons the Jedi fell; because they had no attachments, they had less incentive to be mindful of the rest of the galaxy. Plus it lead them to bone-headed moves like sending a young man with no real experience with women to baby-sit a hot young female senator. Or kicking Ahsoka out of the Jedi Order before she'd been properly tried in court (and making a lame apology to boot). Humans have an instinctual need for family, and cultures ignore that to their peril.
The only thing I can think about is how some air benders may date their cousing or even sibling and not know it
@@valenmaita537 pretty common in asian culture I think in japan it's still legal to marry your first cousin.
@@maggiequinn. It is legal in large part of Europe as well 🤷🏼♀️ the Air Nomads were accepting of all sorts of relationships. Who is to say they even practised marriage?
That tradition seems to make sense, but imagine if siblings met there and didn't know who they were to each other.....
Yeah this could get problematic pretty quickly
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That's rather not a problem because it wouldn't be too common. It would happen only from time to time and that's not enough to seriously weaken the genetics of the bloodline. Famous Habsburgs interbreed consistently for a pretty long time before they started to suffer major consequences.
Wait, did Air nomads only live in temples? That seems kinda not very nomad-like. I always thought there were just the temples and monks living there and the rest of the air nomads were just, well, nomadic.
I think its mentioned in an outside sourde that the monks lived at the temples while most air nomads would travel around the world and if they got prego, drop their children off at the temples.
Shiiiii- thats a good question, this whole time i just assumed the nomads sort of had a rotation system and every season or year theyd move temples , gonna keep it as my headcannon ig
Actually it was like that. Before all that genocide stuff, the Air monks used to travel through the four nations
@@eco5821 Another thing that interests me is how did the fire nation menage to fully wipe out a race of nomads that could just hide somewhere, for example in one of the still unconquered nations.
@@bleflar9183 Is a very good question. O thing, because they were pacifist, believe they could handle the Fire Nation. Or they were so worried about Aang, that they forgot the rest. The other thing I know is this:
In the Kyoshi's books, she talked about how, even you were not an air bender, if you turn into one, your kids will born in the temples as air benders.
I think after the genocide, the only ones who have remained, couldn't came back neither to the North Temple nor the South one. That's why, if they had kids, no one could be an air bender
I think that the Air Nomads would have had some means of tracking lineages, or at least pairings, lest they succumb to inbreeding.
inbreeding usually doesn't have any big side effects unless it's done over multiple generations, and even then, most if not all of the side effects would be eliminated with one non-related generation.
Plus, how would they even find out that such a thing could cause problems in the first place? They don't keep a record of lineage, so they'd have no way to track why some kids had certain defects. even then, it's also possible for a normal breeding pair to have a child with random birth defects, so it'd be even harder to figure out.
@@redgeoblaze3752 First off, how did they get the plants and animals that they domesticated? Selective breeding, so they would have had plenty of experience with that sort of thing. Plus, I'm sure that at least a few royal or noble families practiced inbreeding to keep their lines "pure". And being Air Nomads, they would have been exposed to other cultures and histories in their wanderings. Why else would they be called Nomads? And we're talking about 10,000 years of history, so the odds are pretty high that inbreeding wrecked havoc on at least a few families.
@@howardlanus8467 the fact that most would only have 1 or 2 children themselves and with different partners would diversify the genetics enough in order to not cause any immediate side effects
@@GildedBeetles How do we know they were with different partners? And we're talking generation after generation. They would need some way of accounting for siblings and parents. Look at pure-bred dogs after a mere century of inbreeding.
@@howardlanus8467 FORCED in-breeding, we know there were different partners because they were NOMADS. Generational inbreeding is okay as long as it isn't a singular family line, 2nd cousins can't cause any serious problems
I would honestly say it would be a 14% chance to know his mother and father…but even tho this theory is interesting..it’s just useless bcz we all know monks raise other monks which are born in ATLA…also
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I personally don’t like the idea of there being a festival that air nomads can breed since the air nomad are all about freedom. Since we know that the air nomads traveled the world I like the idea that they breaded with who they wanted in their travels.
That doesnt affect the word f reedom u can go to the festival or not and thats it
@@mjuigoku5310 But to have one festival to breed with your own kind is limiting.
@@FaultyPhenomena it's not like that's the only time they're allowed to have a relationship, but air NOMADS wouldn't just run into each other 24/7
@@GildedBeetles In my head cannon the air nomads build relationships with whoever they want to in their travels air nomad or not. So I don’t really see a need for a “breeding festival”.
@@anjafrohlich1170 I wasn’t denying the idea of them having and any sort of festival or the idea the the can breed in said festival. I was denying the idea of a festival where the purpose was to breed. Stop putting words in my mouth.
Yes, Aang HAS been to the Western Air Temple before. It was the first thing that sprang into his mind when trying to find a place to hide after the invasion failed. And he seemed very excited to show his friends around. Particularily with lines like 'You guys are gonna love the all-day echo chamber!"
I think all the monks and nuns got together for a marriage like ritual once they were of age and when they had children they would raise them all together with everyone taking care of each other's baby until they were old enough to be sent to separate temples. Hence everyone would be like your mom and dad without you ever really knowing who actually was until they were older and ready for this marriage ritual in order to avoid marrying their family.
He did visit the Northern Air Temple. When he’s confronting the mechanist about him defiling the air temple he’s gets angry and says something along the lines of “I was here when the monks lived here I know what it’s suppose to look like!”
I remember reading in the Avatar Story Notes that the team discussed doing an episode on Aang’s parents during the first season, but for whatever reason, they decided to scrap the idea. A shame, really. I would have liked to know about his family.
I think air benders were NOMADS, meaning most air Benders traveled, I think their were some roaming family units abut they didn’t stay at temples or if they did it wasn’t for very long. The childrens were sent for training at there gender specific temple from a very early age, my guess is it was between 2 and 5, some kids would remember(and maybe were occasionally visited) their parents but most probably didn’t. The air NOMADS prized independence and instilled this in the children. There were probably also some mixed gendered festivals as well so people could meet and spare culture and supplies.
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1:56 Aang did mention the Norther Air temple in book 1 episode 17 when the inventor took over it. He said they use to have bison polo tournaments there and he looked around upset how different it looked.
He was probably upset cause of how much they messed up but because he referenced it I’m 100% sure he’s been there
that's why they made a sequel for the ATLA adults to answers all the possible questions hahaha
I always suppose that the Air Nomad grown the children as "children of the community". I am glad to see that I am not the only one with a similar theory
This actually makes sense as to why Aang might not have been the best dad for his kids because he grew up without the sense of your usual family of parents raising kids.
He probably tried his best but since he focused on Tenzin so much as he was an air bender, and traveled with him because that’s also an air bender thing it seems, it seemed to his other two kids that they were being neglected when they really weren’t in Aang’s mind.
I also think that there’s a good chance that Aang’s dad could also be non air bender because it’s known throughout the series that air benders would have children with different nations such is Kyoshi’s parents.
I don’t like how the monks separated families wouldn’t that have made them like what the fire nation did in the 100 year war. I like how aang was able to change that with his family
But in the Northern Air temple island episode Aang said “ This place is unbelievable” suggesting he did go there at least once and there is a lot more evidence saying that he had been there if you just watched the episode again
no he was talking about all the mechanical stuff in the temple
@@coolchocolatecake1718 uh no he did not
Yes other things he mentions in that episode were things long the lines of knowing what the temple was supposed to be like, such as when the statue of the monk gets destroyed by the wrecking ball when they go to install a bathhouse, for example. He makes a number of comments suggestive of him having been there before, because of his knowing of how it use to look.
@@brinmoody my guess is he was basing his statements on what an air temple should be like. He knows that all the mechanical stuff shouldn't be their knowing what it should be like, maybe someone from the southern air temple who hsd visited there told him about it.
@@coolchocolatecake1718 I'm pretty sure he actually says that he had been there a hundred years ago and knows what its supposed to look like, though.
AAng *DID* mention about Air Nomad sports being held at the Northern Air Temple.
I don't know why you thought he hadn't been to the Northern Air Temple, he literally said he has in the episode they first visit it. He also constantly is saying how the new inhabitants have changed it.
Thank you for makeing a theory video that’s not just a rant about the same exact thing and actually gets into detail emediently.
Among pre-modern societies, newborns were typically breastfed for 2-6 years (with breastfeeding not being exclusive after about 6 months, but still important). So I suspect babies were not "instantly" taken from the Air Nuns, unless male Air Nomads can breastfeed. I imagine they were taken _away from their mothers,_ though, and wet nurses used to avoid any emotional bond forming. The Air Nomads were pretty fucked up, in any event. Giving your child away to be raised by a cult is weird, and what happened to kids who proved to be non-benders?
Even if that is rare among the Air Nomads, it must sometimes happen. Since bending seems to be genetic, maybe selective breeding (and abandoning non-bending children to the other nations, removing them from the Air Nation gene pool) eventually led to a society where almost everyone was a bender.
I’m so glad someone finally made a video about this.
I think the father was from the northern air temple and his mother was from the Western Air Temple. I'm guessing that they kept his as far away from them as possible due to the whole attatchment to worldly things thought.
Funny how air nomad can let go the attachment for the love of their parents but not the bonding between them and the flying bison.... I mean how could they love the bison more than their parents lol
Aang’s got his flying
bison but not parents
I think it’s probably cannon as you describe it with breeding festivals etc. But I think there are always exceptions in any society where a couple might just fall in love and choose to stay together and raise their own children. But I think that’s the point of being an Air Nomad - the freedom. Some chose to live at the Temples as teachers and caretakers - from the flash blacks it seems most are older adults. The young adults are off exploring the world, maybe in small groups, couples or solo. From what we see of Aang at age 12 he is in love with Katara and wants to be in a relationship with her from day one, even quite despondent about it in Season 3 and the entire series closes with their kiss. Up to that point in his life all he had experienced is Air Nomad culture; to him the time in the iceberg was a couple days - so pairing up and being “boyfriend and girlfriend” wasn’t foreign to Aang. It’s not like the Water Tribe traditions had rubbed off on him, as most of the time they were moving from place to place. In the first Kyoshi novel, there was a story of an Airbender woman falling in love with an Earthbender and she paired up with him as a couple for their whole life (not sure if they got married, can’t remember). So monogamy was also a very real part of their culture. But I do believe many of the children were raised in a group setting, kind of like boarding school, and depending on the bond maybe saw their parents regularly or not at all.
I always thought it's weird that Aang never yearned for his parents
It's so sad that they didn't have families
Aang has seen the air temple. Hes seen what it looked like 100 years ago. "But your 12" - Mechanist.
Really interesting.
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This is neat because I just had a conversation similar to this recently. I talked about how it was neat that Aang was the last airbender and when he died Tenzin became the new last airbender so they had to adjust the way they lived which included having traditional families. Somebody disagreed saying that the Air Nomads could have also had traditonal families but I said no based off what we knew in the canon. The Air Nomads were kinda like jedi who didn't know their parents and just lived spiritual lives which wad non traditional, similar to the real life Tibetan monks
Even to this day, I find it strange Air Nomads, whom are very religious, practice romance and have children, even with Aang and Katara. I assume they practice celibacy.
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This is very, very interesting. All of this sounds very accurate. But, what about the previous Airbender/Avatar Yangchen. Since she was the Avatar in her time was she also separated by gender and was she considered a monk as well. Love theses vids!
I had no idea they were separated by gender. I was always wondering if Aang had a crush on some Nun before Katara but I guess this gets rid of it. Either way I'm not trying to say that these guys are not the wisest people on the planet (because compared to the real world that isn't such a wild possibility) But this is incredibly stupid! what benefit in culture does this bring!? If the Nomads were so spiritual then couldn't they believe in something like love or choosing your own spouse instead of a random breeding festival? I mean that takes Gender segregated bathrooms to a whole nother level!
One of the points of spiritual lifestyle is to get rid of earthly attachments, and, as the most people are hetero, separating by sex would make it easier.
They do that in the real world so idk why they wouldn't do that in avatar
@@theLN1234 still doesnt answer his question
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@@theLN1234 yea
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“When I was just a child, my parents died”
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The Air Nomads were nomads though. They, by definition, moved around between the temples. Aang only stayed so much at the Southern because he was still a kid being raised by the monks.
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The idea of Air Nomads coming together in free love hippy orgies sounds so funny to me.
I would like to add my head canon to your theory. When monks and nuns from the temples have children together, the children are sent to the opposite temple based on gender. So for example, a monk from the northern temple and a nun from the western temple have a child. That child will then be sent to live at either the southern or eastern temple depending on the gender. I think it fits with the Air Nomad philosophy about detachment.
I think Tenzin now made the old nomad traditions choose label for air benders so some would want to do this while others won’t and aang would probably agree
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Actually nice theory.
Breeding ritual? No. I think they just had children like all people, but with a more communal environment for raising children. Breeding ritual is right out of your imagination, dude.
I would have guessed that Aangs backstory is way darker. And that he maybe was an unwanted child that was given away to the air nomad’s so he at least had some ppl and he was just randomly born an airbender(and the avatar of course).
I think Aang started a new tradition of caring for your family so your spiritual connection could be stronger.
they died in the mass killing
of all air benders
One fan comic I think you'd really enjoy is called the Tale of Tashi and Nima. I'm pretty sure it was discontinued but it also described a festival where male and female airbenders could meet and court.
You know, it was really unclear
I understood that reference
i think it's more the nomatic ones having kids, they stay with their mothers until they are weaned then are sent to a temple at around age 2, i do think lineage is tracked somehow to prevent siblings and close family from having relations or perhaps when they come of age they are introduced to them. I also don't think the air nation was fully comprised of benders, but rather only those born who exhibit talent were sent to the temples to train. giving the impression that the air nomads comprised only of benders. those who did not would stay with their mothers and fathers and go into trades like the circus or travelling bards. as well, after the genocide, i think no more bending children were born to air benders due to the spiritual damage. Kyoshi's mother was an airbender after all, but lost her ability to bend as she strayed from the teachings. i'd imagine the trauma of loosing their temples along with being hunted down if they showed they were an airbender made a bunch of them go into hiding and have that same effect, not telling their children about it at all to protect them. which i feel would also bring credit to the theory that ty lee is a descendant of air benders, and those who received airbending through harmonic convergence are as well.
well, that's the thing. The concept of "mother" and "father" was not really a thing in Air Nomad culture (until Aang changed it). The Air Nomads lived a very spiritual life, detached from earthly concerns, they even said that in the episode The Guru. So they didn't even raise their own children, that's how detached they were
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In the Lost Scrolls: Air book it did say that Aang was taken away from his parents when they found out he was the avatar
I’d like to think that Aang’s dad learned from Gyatso and then Gyatso got to train Aang.
The picture of the Airbenders seems to be a visual spiritual representation of how Aang views the Air Nation and those people in the first row, would be the people Aang recognized the most from 100 years ago with Monk Gyatso in the front. They all can be seen speaking with Aang in some kind of flashback
Angg had been to the air temple I’m pretty sure it says so twice in the episode 17 it mentions he played a grand finale of a game involving the sky bison and also ssays it when katara is explaining why angg is sad she says it was because he used to come there a long time ago
I feel like they probably met outside of the temples knowing the air nomads traveled the world on their bisons.
never even thought about aang's parents XD
Aang said that they held some type of game at the northern air temple so he probably visited it and he knew there was a giant pai sho table and an all day echo chamber at the western so I think he’s visited them all
we know that In the airbender avatar cycle that the airbending avatars arnt randomly born they take turns to produce the airbending avatar, so the airbending avatar before yangchen was a man and born in the northen airteple , so in theory every other airbending avatar up untill aang was male and female simultaniously
that remix of the avatar music for the outro thoe 3:55
I would think it's more likely his mom would know Aang was hers if she was able to name him, but I don't think they would know he was the Avatar
Aang has been to the Northern Air Temple. He says so in the episode they go there.
Yeah thats what i was thinking because he said he was there for a game with the bison and katara also says so layer on
I wish aang parents were in the show avatar the last air bender
But Aang also probably raised his chilren traditionally because he didn't even have the option to let Tenzin be raised by monks since Aang was the only monk
I love the last Airbender,,:Aang
Um Aang says in the scene directly following the airwalker story "hey guys we're close to the Northern Air Temple this is where they held the championships for sky bison Polo"
My headcanon is that Ty Lee and her sisters are partly descended from some half-sibling or cousin of Aang's.
Why does it always have to connect to Aang? Ty Lee being an airbender descendant is an amazing idea, but there's absolutely no reason to connect it to Aang.
I always wanted to know what happened to Aang’s parents, but in all honesty I haven’t seen The Last Airbender in a long time and I guess I assumed they covered this up in the show at some point that I don’t remember. Kinda glad I wasn’t the only one lol.
Pretty sure when air nomads had kids they would be taken and raised by caretakers to further reinforce the idea that they are all equal.
I really wish to be born as an airbender in some parallel universe.
I could be spitballing here but in some cultures monks don't do parents because sometimes being a monk means no personal connections for great discipline I don't agree with it but I understand it I believe being a monk is the best place for orphans as well if parents can't take care of their kids
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That was interesting. My question is, who was Iroh’s wife and Lu Ten’s mother? Google doesn’t give me a very good answer.
Another thing idk if you mention it yet in the video I'll find out but the professor at the desert asked which two he was from so theres that
i get why they wouldn't do this in a kid's show but i think it would've made sense for tenzin to just have babies with a bunch of the air acholites and raised them like the original air nomads did
Yep
When they got to the northern airtempele he said there used to be a race among bisons
Those air nomads behind Monk Gyatso are totally Aang's parents.
Monks and nuns getting it on in a yearly festival. Hmm, sounds rad.