I just said this in a TikTok video but I wanna say it here bc I think it’s a new perspective on this situation: I don’t feel sorry for his wife & kids. I was 12 when my father died in my arms in hospice. I picked myself up by my bootstraps and figured it out. So can they.
What exactly did Katara do when she was relegated to Aangs wife in the original canonization of TLOK? She lived in republic city away from her own nation, raising 2 kids by herself while Aang was gone with his favorite & only airbending child. No long thread about that, though
I will never bear a living child, she remembered.
"Mhysa! MHYSA!" They were all smiling at her, reaching for her, kneeling before her. "Maela," some called her, while others cried "Aelalla" or "Qathei" or "Tato," but whatever the tongue it all meant the same thing.
Mother.
I’m so tired of being told that the system is broken. It’s not broken. It’s been perfectly designed to ensure that the unwealthy live miserably and die silently. The current system is flawless. And I don’t want to fix it. I want a new system.