“When I was a boy, my father Avatar Aang, told me the story of how he and his friends heroically ended the hundred year war.”

*whistles* 

stoleyourmateria:

Guru Pathik: If you love her, you must learn to let her go.

Aang: I’m sorry Katara…

 even though in the end, he reached the Avatar State without having to sacrifice ANYTHING. so much for character development.

/rant

Normally I let people’s comments on reblogs go, but there is a special place in my heart for people who think Aang has no character development. 

Just because he didn’t break a leg or go to the dark side and back does not mean there was no character development. 

People need to watch the first episode and then the last and then try and make that statement. Aang’s development was more subtle than Zuko’s, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist! To put it in a nutshell he went from a goofy kid running from his destiny to a fully realized Avatar who stuck to his morals even when every person in his life (bar a giant lion turtle) was telling him to kill. One could possibly argue that his development was boring, or that is was less awesome than Azula’s, but to say it simply wasn’t there is an easily refutable statement. 

As for the whole not giving Katara up, Yangchen explicitly tells Aang that he must stay connected to the world and not be some mystical free being on a mountain, thus directly contradicting Guru Pathik’s advice. Plus when Aang did attempt to give her up he got electrocuted to death, I think that’s enough sacrifice for one life time.