Post by jessicas83 on Dec 5, 2006 14:02:01 GMT -5
Um, hi. I'm new to the boards--I just recently found Avatar fanfiction after about two years of HP fics. I'm also active on other site where one of my favorite things to do is make up "wild and crazy theories" about what is happening, could happen, or maybe should have happened.
So that's what I'm here to do.
This is a theory I've been screaming at my husband every time we see Katara do something simply spectacular.
Katara should be the Avatar.
Now, hold one before you close the thread in disgust, and let me explaing my theory. I'm not saying that Aang SHOULDN'T be the Avatar, so much as he should STILL be the Avatar.
We've seen quite clearly the the World of Avatar is heavily influenced by Asian culture, and reincarnation is a plot hook they deal heavily with. We *know* the Avatar, the essence of greatness that can manipulate all four elements is forever being reborn into the next nation in the cycle so that the land may ever know peace. Borrowing a concept from book series, one could look at the lives off all of these people as threads in a great tapastry weaving, making a pattern that they can't seem to understand. The great threads, threads that could be the Avatar (as we don't know what qualifies a person to be Avatar, excatly) may stand out somehow, and each nation has several people at any one time that *could* be the Avatar--which begs the question: When the old Avatar dies, does that "Avatarness" decend upon a new born child, or onto a young child about to enter puberty?
Now, Aang discovered he was the Avatar ONE HUNDRED years ago, when he was ten. Had he stayed at the temple and learned and lived his life as one usually does, ie, by not entering a stasis for one hundred years, then he would have died at a ripe old age....probably about when Katara was born or a very young child. After all, the Water nation is next in the cycle. Who is the most powerful Water Bender that we know? Who MASTERED waterbending before she's really old enough to be married? KATARA, THAT'S WHO!
(Sorry, she's totally one of my favorite characters.)
Now, should Aang have died in the raid on his Air Temple home (which happened shortly after he ran away), we would have need of a different Water-nation Avatar. I think the Master in the North who trained Katara- the one who loved her Gran-Gran, I forget his name- would have been a pretty good choice for Avatar.
Discussion? Please?
So that's what I'm here to do.
This is a theory I've been screaming at my husband every time we see Katara do something simply spectacular.
Katara should be the Avatar.
Now, hold one before you close the thread in disgust, and let me explaing my theory. I'm not saying that Aang SHOULDN'T be the Avatar, so much as he should STILL be the Avatar.
We've seen quite clearly the the World of Avatar is heavily influenced by Asian culture, and reincarnation is a plot hook they deal heavily with. We *know* the Avatar, the essence of greatness that can manipulate all four elements is forever being reborn into the next nation in the cycle so that the land may ever know peace. Borrowing a concept from book series, one could look at the lives off all of these people as threads in a great tapastry weaving, making a pattern that they can't seem to understand. The great threads, threads that could be the Avatar (as we don't know what qualifies a person to be Avatar, excatly) may stand out somehow, and each nation has several people at any one time that *could* be the Avatar--which begs the question: When the old Avatar dies, does that "Avatarness" decend upon a new born child, or onto a young child about to enter puberty?
Now, Aang discovered he was the Avatar ONE HUNDRED years ago, when he was ten. Had he stayed at the temple and learned and lived his life as one usually does, ie, by not entering a stasis for one hundred years, then he would have died at a ripe old age....probably about when Katara was born or a very young child. After all, the Water nation is next in the cycle. Who is the most powerful Water Bender that we know? Who MASTERED waterbending before she's really old enough to be married? KATARA, THAT'S WHO!
(Sorry, she's totally one of my favorite characters.)
Now, should Aang have died in the raid on his Air Temple home (which happened shortly after he ran away), we would have need of a different Water-nation Avatar. I think the Master in the North who trained Katara- the one who loved her Gran-Gran, I forget his name- would have been a pretty good choice for Avatar.
Discussion? Please?