#non-bender

[pavis-destiny1]

The original Team avatar as young adults!!

[pavissongvalley34]

Like mother, like daughter.

[mysteriousfashionstrider-mall3]

[glittersglues]

Earth ponies 🤝 tinker fairies 🤝 non-benders

[soupinaboot]

Quick question: In an ATLA au, which would Steve Harrington be?

Water Bender

Air Bender

Earth Bender

Fire Bender

Non-Bender

Voting ended onMar 16, 2024

[lilacmooon]

Ikki Headcanons

Ikki is very non-traditional when it comes to how she connects with her Air Nomad heritage. She's always looking for ways to modernize old scholarship and philosophies and make them her own.

She is a very creative individual and loves to express herself through art, theater, writing, and music. She also uses her talents to exhibit Air Nation culture to the wider world in this way and to resurrect some of the older ideologies a lot of people in the other nations might not know about.

Very nomadic spirit. And a people person. As stated above, she loves to meet new people and share what she loves about her culture and heritage with the world! In her early years, this is what she dedicates most of her life to doing. Maybe she starts a traveling performance troupe at one point. Or reads about some ancient, obscure musical instrument that requires air bending to operate and she makes it, learns it, and plays shows! She has very diverse interests and talents so she's always trying something new.

When she earns her air bending master tattoos, she chooses to get the tattoos from Avatar Wan's era. Which ends up sparking more interest among the growing Air Nation to study the different kinds of tattoos and other body art that the ancient Air Nomads developed in the past. As such, modern Air Nomad mastery tattoos and other such things come to be seen as a method of self expression that could even potentially detail or commemorate your training, your intentions for your future, and what is important to you in your life.

A lesbian. My mind won't be changed on this lol. Ikki comes out later in her life (mid-late 20s maybe?) after really connecting with herself and learning more about who she is and what she wants.

Ikki has always been and always stays very close with her Aunt Kya. When she is in her 30s, she travels with Kya (((and Lin duh))) to the Southern Water Tribe when she hears that her aunt is journeying back there once again for a long term stay. There, she begins to connect with her Water Tribe heritage as well, seeing as how this part of her education and life was largely neglected in her trainings as a child and teenager.

While visiting with her aunt in the SWT, Ikki meets a beautiful non-bender and they fall in love. Ikki's wife is some sort of book/record keeper for Southern Water Tribe history and current events. She's very knowledgeable about the Water Tribes and honestly all the nations in general. She's a quiet, more reserved and introverted person but Ikki loves the way she gets when she is excited/passionate about something she knows a lot about/special interests. They are honestly just a perfect match as they are both very avid learners, they just express it in different ways. Ikki loves to expand and create and her wife loves to preserve and reflect.

They have 3 children. Her wife carries their first daughter, who ends up being a waterbender (Kya and Korra train her). Ikki carries their last two children. Their middle daughter is a non-bender and their youngest son is an airbender.

Their non-bending daughter heavily connects with her Air Nomad heritage as she grows and she spearheads the philosophy that not all Air Nomads have to be benders. There is and has always been a heavy influence/importance in the Air Nation put on air bending (for obvious reasons). To the point where people who were not ever raised or taught in the ways of Air Nomads suddenly became a significant part of an entire nation just because they became air benders (i'm looking at you book 3 👀). Their daughter wants to reframe this way of thinking to emphasize a person's spirit and who they are instead of just their bending. Allowing for the non-bending or otherwise-bending children of Air Nomads to not be overlooked or forgotten or erased from their own culture just because they aren't airbenders. (This movement also ends up having echoing effects among other people in other nations who have diverse family histories and rich and mosaicked traditions and heritages)

Their air bending son absolutely loves his older sisters and is their biggest champion and supporter in the above. He's very much like his mother (Ikki's wife) in that he is quiet and bookish. But he has a fierce love and loyalty for his family and is not afraid to make himself heard for them. He's very scholarly and sweet. He's slow to fight and isn't the best bender but he 'makes up for it' in how much he knows and how wise he is even in his younger years. He ends up carrying on his mother's torch of book/record keeping. Becoming a librarian and university professor in his later years.

Their waterbending daughter is a carbon copy of Ikki. Loud, boisterous, passionate, bright, and a people person. She also dips her toe into a little bit of everything throughout her life. Dancing, music, a bit of healing, some pro-bending, she never really does ever settle on one thing and instead is content to try her hand at everything. Kya is her godmother and she also ends up traveling a bunch with her as well when she's a teenager (and Kya is off on one of her traveling kicks which she always will end up doing every few years no matter how old she is lol)

Speaking of, every few years, after the children are grown, the whole family gets together and travels the world. They all remain very very close and are so sweetly tight knit.

Ikki and her wife spend many years in the SWT together but then they go off traveling (with their family) years after as well, eventually ending up in Republic City to stay. Her wife runs the city library in her later years. And Ikki continues to do anything and everything she loves

[tuliharja]

If you were part of the Avatar: The Last Airbender world, what your role would be in it? Create your atla self by using this and tag some people~.

Tagging: @a-boy-named-mike, @louiserandom, @olliya, @yamireiki, @nobodysperfect2133, @hellbubu, @blamedorange, @jkrobertson, @the-con-she-called-conscience, @lemongrass-and-cedarwood, @justsittinginsilence4, @birkastan2018, @biganimeaesthetictree, @amyrallis, @star-the-spacequeen and anyone else who wants to do this~.

[echoesofchaos]

Legend of Korra screwed up so much with the non-benders and I hate how much it detaches from A:TLA. Like out of the original team avatar the two people who died first are Sokka and Suki, the non-benders. they don’t even tell us what they did before they died. and i get that LoK isn’t about the gaang but we still get background on all of the others. they also had katara and aang treat bumi differently from the others because he wasn’t a bender. they both grew up with sokka and they knew that he felt insecure at not being a bender and they did the same to bumi which is so out of character. i get that they needed the discrimination for the shows conflicts to happen but you cant tell me that sokka wasn’t a driving force in changing the world after the world and he wouldnt have let non-bender discrimination happen