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I really do wonder what was General Fong's plan once he got Aang to go into the avatar state. Aang told him that he wasn't able to control that power and that he would rather not use it, so what exactly was the plan there? Makes me wonder how on earth did he become a general with a plan as dumb as that one was. At least he eventually realized that he fucked up big time.
The way General Fong and Hama abused and exploited Aang and Katara respectively to try to force them to "grow up" and toughen up through trauma, after they both trusted these adults to help them. The way they used how much they cared for each other against them and forced them to watch as they almost killed their best friend no matter how much they cry and plead and beg. The way those people they thought of as mentors were trying to make Aang and Katara into something they don't want to be, just by taking away their choice in the situation. The fact that Katara and Aang each just broke down in each others arms and were comforted by the other after those experiences.
Just... Aang and Katara man. Their support of each other in a world that keeps hurting them and robbing them of any childhood innocence they try to cling to is so powerful. They both help each other feel like the kids the world is trying to force them not to be.
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Zuko doesn’t know exactly what is going on but he knows Azula is going to get herself killed if she keeps threatening to set the men in green and blue colors on fire
I couldn't decide which would be funnier so I made both
Best Season 2 Fight
Team Avatar vs. General Fong and soldiers, episode 1
Zuko and Iroh vs. Azula and soldiers, episode 1
Team Avatar vs. Team Azula, episode 3
Aang vs. Toph, episode 6
Toph vs. Earthbenders, episode 6
Zuko vs. Earth Kingdom Soldiers, episode 7
Aang vs. Zuko vs. Azula / Azula vs. Everyone, episode 8
Aang vs. Azula, episode 13
Zuko vs. Jet, episode 14
Team Avatar vs. Dai Li, episode 17
Aang and Katara vs. Azula and Zuko, episode 20
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Some underrated scene in hella's fic The art of burning (You can find it in ao3 I promise its totally worth it, go read it) It's Kanut beating the absolute shit out of Fong for his tough guy🤭❤️@hella1975 thanks for the encouragement 😭🙏🏻🙏🏻
ATLA has number of scenes of people being terrible to their friends/allies
Which was morally worst?
King Bumi threatening the lives of/torturing Sokka and Katara to control Aang
King Bumi trying to crush a trapped Aang between two boulders in a "fight"
General Fong burying Katara alive to force Aang into the Avatar State
Azula setting fire to Ty Lee's safety net to terrify her into joining her job
Toph leaving Sokka in mortal danger to force Aang to learn Earthbending
Piandao holding a "fake" duel to the death with Sokka using real swords
Zuko using fire to attack and terrorize Aang because Aang didn't want to train
Katara and Zuko trying to steal Appa behind Aang's back
Toph reckless nearly killing Sokka with a flaming boulder and not caring at all
Azula imprisoning Mai/Ty Lee after they committed high treason and betrayed her
Azula & Mai nearly hurting/killing each at Boiling Rock
Some other total dick move toward a friend/ally that I forgot (put in the tags)
And yes, I have receipts for all of these:
Bumi, Piandao, Zuko, Azula
King Bumi
Zuko
Toph and General Fong
Katara and Zuko stealing Appa (I don't know if I should include this one in the poll, but it was still a massive dick move)
The EK military feels so disconnected and unsociable towards their own people, despite coming from relatively warm and unorthodox communities (ie. Haru's village, Omashu) so I had an little theory that Ba Sing Se is a cause for this, and that they've been instilling their values ie. nationalism, xenophobia, classism and authoritarianism by spreading their influence throughout the EK military and governments.
There's no denying the sort of influence BSS has over other city-states and villages. The mail is under military control and was shown being taken advantage of, as important letters to the Gaang were intercepted by Long Feng. We also see in the show a map of Ba Sing Se's military forces sent to every major fortress in the EK.
These fortresses also double as training camps, and it's established by the games that it's common to send EK children to these camps once they're old enough. The only training camp we see in show is the fortress under General Fong's command and we all know how he is:
In the games, the Consul's background is unknown but his character was written like a precursor to Long Feng, with similarities such as "maintaining" EK traditions as an excuse for discrimination, manipulating the king as an advisor, secretly controlling the guards of the city, and ultimately selling their kingdom out over their obsession for power. My first impression of the Consul was that he was an envoy sent from Ba Sing Se, as a method to control other governments, and he's just a particular case that went off the rails. While General Fong and the Consul have unknown origins and are unconfirmed to be associated with Ba Sing Se, their values and actions align with Long Feng's policies.
Because of the way the EK governments and military are set up during the war, the result is EK children being indoctrinated by Ba Sing Se's styled nationalism, xenophobia, classism, etc, and them returning to their hometowns only to become detached and persecuting towards the people they were supposed to protect.
