#bumi ii

[corpseblooded]

i feel myself losing sanity everytime i go through tlok fandom's takes on bumi like they should be ashamed of sucking ass when it comes to bumi meta to the point where i still cringe (despite not being into bumi anymore) everytime i look at their takes

[mintjuliee]

Just a quick little younger Bumi concept doodle, probably about 30ish y/o here.

[agnikaibolt]

Although I’m more into f/f ships, Aang/Tenzin & Aang/Bumi ii are pretty cute Aang being a big softy reassuring them every minute and asking if he’s going too hard and them being so done with it “Dad please just go faster”

Bumi ii/Tenzin is definitely more messier and exploratory and just boys being boys

[littlebosslady7]

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Pregnant Katara waterbending when the movie concept was different.

Badass.

🎨: Jake Panian

[dndfz1]

My Kya ii/ Bumi ii/ Tenzin headcannons

Katara and Kya throat singing together

Sokka and Bumi ii showing Tenzin how to do traditional southern water tribe dances

Kya and Bumi ii doing stuff with tenzin one on one (or two on one ig)

Tenzin finds out what happens to the air nomads and it sinks in

The cloud babies dressing up in traditional air nomads and swt clothes when going to fancy events

Tenzin who definitely questioned his sexuality at one point and cried about it

Bumi and Kya experiencing colorism in public (let’s be real it would probably happen at some point)

Multilingual Bumi ii, I feel like he’d pick up on both his parents languages early

Going to family therapy at some point or any therapy really (they NEED it)

Bumi and tenzin going ice dodging with sokka and Aang

Kya and Bumi talking shit about people with each other

Tenzin/ Kya and Bumi realizing who they’re named after and why (that’s a lot to unpack)

The cloud babies and their cousins putting on performances for the adults and the adults loving it

Aang and Bumi throat singing together when they can (bum is the only one who can do it successfully, no shade, it’s a diff style than swt )

Bumi pranking his siblings

Katara having days where she doesn’t talk (ptsd)

The irritating moment when the family gets recognized in public and now everyone wants an autograph

Kya pranking her brothers

Aang having rare bed days where he doesn’t get up the whole day (depression)

Kya and Bumi feeling uncomfortable when someone asks when they’re having kids to populate the airbenders

Bumi the bisexual (istg ts is canon)

Tenzin panicking over the fact that everyone expects him to have children

The cloud babies having anxiety

Tenzin and Aang bending together

Bumi and Katara bonding while cooking

Tenzin definitely using "my mommy is a master water bender and my dads the avatar" to get anything he wants (and it works)

Tenzin who actually likes meat but became vegetarian later

Kya who can sew really well

Aang and Kya having small conversations when aangs around

Bumi and Kya getting traditional swt tattoos (I think I’d be so cool)

Tenzin crashing tf out at some point out of stress (they’ll all do it)

The cloud babies and their cousins getting bailed out of jail for stupid shit

Bumi who can play guitar

The cloud babies getting bullied as childern

Kya and Katara bending together

Tenzin who almost got homeschooled but begged to go to school with his brother and sister (Katara let him)

Katara who definitely cried when her kids achieved something (like bawling from pride)

Bumi and Aang talking about the airbenders

Tenzin who can’t really looks zuko in the eye after learning what happened to the air nomads and feeling awful about it

Bumi and sokka sword training

[dndfz1]

All the emotions coming out from the cloud babies, guilt, anger, stress and anxiety.

Tenzin wants to be a great air bender but feels like he won’t live up to his dads expectations, is terrified of being the only one like his dad, wants to participate in his mother’s culture more, and is secretly jealous of his siblings freedom and is ashamed that his temperament is more of his mother’s because hes supposed to be in control. To be untethered, to be free. Nearly untouchable.

But he’ll push those things aside and he’ll focus, he’ll get better. He will be a great air bender. He will not let it all die out. Even if that means sacrificing himself over and over again. Even if it means letting the water tribe fade away from him.

He won’t just fulfill his father’s legacy, he’ll secure it.

Kya ii feels guilty, she did not sacrifice anything. She is master Katara’s daughter, yet she is not fearless like her. She is a true free spirit, much like an air nomad. She avoids confrontation when she can.

She accepts her role as a middle child, sometimes a cool mediator for her brother’s complicated relationship. She understands the strain of being a bender and having impossible expectations but she also understands what it’s like to not be quite enough for anyone. She loves her brothers, but she pity’s them for they do not see how similar they are. And sometimes when no one’s around she too feels the sting of jealousy like Bumi does.

If she cannot please anyone, then she will not. She moves through the world lighter than air. And no one can say they saw her, cause who knows her name? It’ll be like she was never there.

Bumi is air. He is light, joyful and energetic. He has a great thirst to prove himself in everything he does. He loves his family very much. He jokes around with his cousins and friends. He tries to guide his younger siblings in a way that makes them feel more at ease.

He is not blind he sees tenzin exactly for what he is. So he doesn’t push he sees the weight of world on his shoulders. It’s a terrible odd feeling being an older brother. To love another so much and yet hate to see what they have. He’s felt it around Kya too. He swallows it. He continues to be that joyful boy who jokes, but as he gets older he feels the bitterness spreading through his body.

It’s probably childish. And he looks at his father and his mother, how hard they work. Who’s he to complain? And he hates a part of himself. The part that desperately wants to ease his parents burdens. If only he were a bender. And he’s angry at his father and solemn with his mother.

He knows the three of them weren’t enough for Aang, she knows it too. Aang loves them. And They are not enough. These two things exist together simultaneously.

Tenzin could be enough, but he’s hanging on by a thread. And No matter how happy they make him, they can’t ever make him as happy as he was when he had them.

[dndfz1]

I think two things can be true at once. I do think aang loved his kids but I also think he did emotionally hurt them for years. Maybe without meaning to.

I mean they’re struggling with the same argument well into their 50s and 60s. That type of mental and emotional state stays with them.

Tenzin as an adult struggled to separate his own identity with his father’s. He was so desperate to keep his dad’s dream alive that he literally ends up losing himself and what he wants.

Kya says that tenzin is disillusioned with their dad saying that he thinks they had a happy go lucky childhood but they just didn’t.

Bumi acts out, does wild shit and tenzin says he acts like the youngest of them. Maybe the reason he still acts that way is because in past he did stupid shit to get his dads attention, this is just a guess

I believe Katara tried the best she could to correct aang (like she does in the movie) and raise her babies to be confident in themselves without aang as he was busy with tenzin and avatar duties.

I mean obviously they love or at least admire their dad but they’re still desperate for his approval as fully grown adults like maybe their family was dysfunctional. It doesn’t make me less interested in their story.

I don’t think it’s bad characterization to make toph and aang neglectful or uncaring parents. These two literally had a messed up childhood themselves why are people surprised that they’re not amazing parents? That’s not excuse but it’s probably the reason why they’re the way they are.

Honestly in my opinion it gives them more depth.

[avatar-legends-confessionblog]

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OG anon here. Just saying it always was a writing choice on the author's part and therefore it would do good to question the author's intentions why things were written (like you said, from the start) as they were.

Even if the kataang kids figured it out by the time they became adults, the lack of Aang's presence still affected them in their formative years, thus serving as individual character background motivation in the sequel series.

Im basically coming out the story and looking at the authors' goals while writing the story. Call it a character study, or a writing study.

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