Me, reigniting a decade-old argument in June 2019 (at midnight no less):
Furthermore, the Fire Nation literally took every part of Aang’s culture from killing off his family to burning down his home to killing off the animals to promoting propaganda that overlooked the true culture to forcing refugees to change the landscape for survival, Aang being the last living member of his entire culture was just as crucial to the show and his character as him being the Avatar was, that was the whole point of the show, that he needed to accept the duties of the Avatar while not completely abandoning his culture because he’s the only one left who can carry out that culture, that’s why he was desperate to find a pacifistic way to bring down Ozai, it wasn’t just that ‘he was a kid’ or that it was ‘all he knew because he was raised by the monks’ like some arguments try to helpfully state, that’s part of it, but he obviously knew that killing Ozai was an option, he wasn’t dumb, he just wanted to avoid giving up that ideology of his culture if he could help it, Aang has killed before in the series when it was out of his control (the Fire Nation ships at the Northern Water Tribe) and he killed when he lost control (the buzzard wasp in the desert) and people meme those two moments as if it invalidates Aang’s desire to not kill Ozai but if anything, it validates that desire even more, because he knows that he’s killed and that he can kill and he’s trying to backtrack and cling onto the bit of airbending philosophy that he remembers because if he abandons it completely then it’s gone for good because, as it’s been clearly established, at the time, he was the last airbender and was solely responsible for everything that being an airbender entailed, including peace and pacifism, he knew that he had to take a risk to preserve his culture, something even Yangchen advised him against, and he did, he managed to find a way to preserve both sides and after 61 episodes of the characters talking about balance, Aang was able to ultimately balance his two identities which is what gave the show its proper name, his two identities originally clashing but finally finding balance: Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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