Karthik is actually stressing me out. Red flags aside, theres a tragic pattern in the relationships avatars have with their airbending father figures. Kelsang died trying to protect Kyoshi, Gyatso died loving and missing Aang.
Reading Kyoshi novels rn and if I had a nickel for every time a Earth Avatar was abandoned by their parents, lived through the streets, had some identity problems, had Airbender father figure, I would've had two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice right?