ideas & thoughts
Been thinking of Aang a lot. Especially about how much I've come to dislike him. So, instead of hating on the poor boy, I do what I always do with characters that make me angry. I poor angsty misery all over them. Here's an idea I've been pondering.
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Justice, he was once told, is the only way to solve this war.
But in Aang’s head, the most beautiful feeling is being able to release-forgiveness, redemption, liberation from hate. This is what makes his eyes shine and his heart run. He is the Avatar, kind and just, oh so free in soul and mind. He is the Avatar, ageless for history, but for just Aang, in his spirit. He’s so young.
This is where tragedy digs its nails into his heart and rips down.
One month before the first anniversary of an ended war, Ozai escapes prison where he had been breathing, living, thinking, and did the most unthinkable (predictable) action possible.
“We told you,” Zuko is crying, crying at him, “You should have killed him! You were supposed to kill him!”
His arms are dipped with blood all the way to his elbow as he holds Katara’s body.
Aang’s chest heaves. It’s all rushing inside him now, a surge of anger, misery, guilty and desperation writhing through his veins all the way to the dip in his throat where it ties a knot and hangs his heart. He can’t fucking think-by gods, everything he once knew is erupting inside him.
This isn’t the first time the Avatar falls to his knees, guilty.
He’s too young.
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Not done. Might elaborate. Did this in like 15 min.