β² 896 βΌ The Best Kind of Plot π (lemmy.dbzer0.com) submitted 3 months ago by diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] ech@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 months ago (1 child) Aang doesn't kill anyone, though. It's an important part of his character for the entire series. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] DaGeek247@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago (3 children) Yeah. In universe his personal human body count is zero. Out of universe, there's no way the water spirit merging didn't kill hundreds of fire nation sailors, but as far as the story itself is concerned, aang didn't actually kill anyone. https://screenrant.com/avatar-last-airbender-aang-killed-people-pacifist/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] Zorque@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago I think it's pretty well established that he doesn't personally have control of his actions in the avatar state, at least at that point in the story. He doesn't even know how it works. Thats a pretty major plot point. Combine that with him also being merged with the twin spirit of the one that was just killed, and justifying an argument of "but what about all those soldiers" really just falls flat. I'd say the closest he came to killing of his own volition was when the sandbenders stole Appa... and he still didn't pull the trigger. permalink fedilink source parent [β] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Externalities are a hell of a drug. permalink fedilink source parent [β] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago That was the moon spirit channeling through him. Different situation. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] DaGeek247@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago (3 children) Yeah. In universe his personal human body count is zero. Out of universe, there's no way the water spirit merging didn't kill hundreds of fire nation sailors, but as far as the story itself is concerned, aang didn't actually kill anyone. https://screenrant.com/avatar-last-airbender-aang-killed-people-pacifist/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] Zorque@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago I think it's pretty well established that he doesn't personally have control of his actions in the avatar state, at least at that point in the story. He doesn't even know how it works. Thats a pretty major plot point. Combine that with him also being merged with the twin spirit of the one that was just killed, and justifying an argument of "but what about all those soldiers" really just falls flat. I'd say the closest he came to killing of his own volition was when the sandbenders stole Appa... and he still didn't pull the trigger. permalink fedilink source parent [β] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Externalities are a hell of a drug. permalink fedilink source parent [β] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago That was the moon spirit channeling through him. Different situation. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Zorque@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago I think it's pretty well established that he doesn't personally have control of his actions in the avatar state, at least at that point in the story. He doesn't even know how it works. Thats a pretty major plot point. Combine that with him also being merged with the twin spirit of the one that was just killed, and justifying an argument of "but what about all those soldiers" really just falls flat. I'd say the closest he came to killing of his own volition was when the sandbenders stole Appa... and he still didn't pull the trigger. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Externalities are a hell of a drug. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago That was the moon spirit channeling through him. Different situation. permalink fedilink source parent
