She had a unique mastery of the art that included special abilities such as seismic sense, which allowed her to see her surroundings and feel the approach of enemies from far away, and "truth-seeing," which allowed her to tell whether or not a person was lying by listening to their heartbeat. Toph was also the first to discover metalbending, a special form of earthbending that allows the practitioner to manipulate the earth in its purified and refined form: metal.
Aang was fortunate to have such a skilled teacher, though he initially struggled to master earthbending and Toph was not particularly patient with him. Aang's pursuit of firebending ended up being the most fraught of all his learning paths, and for a long time after his disastrous first attempt he was afraid to even try it again. Aang initially sought to learn firebending in Avatar: The Last Airbender season 1 from the firebending master Jeong Jeong, a member of the White Lotus.
Jeong Jeong took a cautious approach to teaching Aang that was focused on discipline, but Aang's impatience led him to try firebending unsupervised, resulting in him accidentally burning Katara.
After that Aang was reluctant to learn firebending and didn't return to it until Avatar season 3, as the time when he would have to face Fire Lord Ozai drew close. Zuko attempted to teach Aang what he knew, only to discover that his own firebending abilities were greatly weakened after defecting to Team Avatar. Together, Aang and Zuko travelled to the Sun Warrior ruins and learned the art of firebending from the original masters: the dragons Ran and Shaw.
The Avatar State is a powerful but dangerous state of being that Aang can enter into, in which he wields all four elements simultaneously with the power and skill of every Avatar who has come before him.
Aang was able to the enter the Avatar State instinctively but had little control of it, which is particularly dangerous since killing the Avatar while they are in the Avatar State will end their cycle of reincarnation and bring the line of Avatars to an end. Pathik offered to teach Aang how to unlock each of his chakras so that he could deliberately access and control the Avatar State. The training went well enough until the time came to unlock Aang's seventh and final chakra, and Pathik told him that he would have to let go of his feelings for Katara.
Aang wasn't prepared to do this, and abandoned his lessons when he sensed that Katara was in danger, leaving Pathik to go and rescue her. This risked locking his seventh chakra permanently, but fortunately Aang was still able to enter the Avatar State later on.
Gyatso never saw Aang again. After Aang ran away, the Fire Nation launched an assault on the Southern Air Temple, intent on slaughtering the temple's population. Gyatso managed to fend off and defeat many firebenders , despite their enhanced abilities as a result of Sozin's Comet.
However, he eventually fell, along with the rest of the Air Nomads. Aang discovered Gyatso's skeleton at the Southern Air Temple. A wooden statue of Monk Gyatso was placed in the courtyard of the Southern Air Temple before the entrance of the hallway that led to the Air Temple sanctuary , celebrating his airbending prowess.
When Aang laid out all his grief in front of him, all the Air Nomads with Gyatso at the front, appeared before him. Thanks to Pathik's guidance, Aang was able to cope with the pain that Gyatso's death and the demise of the Air Nomads had given him, and he was able to let go of it. Gyatso had a great sense of humor; he often played pranks on his peers with his pupil, Aang, [1] and even used his airbending to cheat during a Pai Sho game. Though he often played around, Gyatso was also a wise man, and one of the five members of the Southern Air Temple's Council of Elders.
He was a kind and understanding individual who was well-liked by other students in the temple. An emphatic man, he had the ability to bring a smile to Aang's face, even when the latter felt depressed and under pressure.
According to Aang, Gyatso was the "greatest airbender in the world". During his youth, Gyatso showed proficiency in the use of airbender staffs, as he was able to windsurf using his glider and perform numerous maneuvers while in the air.
He was also a talented cook, making fruit pies [7] and dumplings with great proficiency. Gyatso was Aang's father figure and mentor.
The two shared a close bond and were often found having fun together. They used airbending to play pranks on the other inhabitants of the Air Temple, such as interrupting the Council's meditation by throwing fruit pies at them. Aang loved Gyatso like a father and was devastated when the Elders told him he was the Avatar and would need to leave Gyatso.
This, in fact, was one of the reasons Aang ran away from home. The full extent of Gyatso's reaction to this is not known, but he was shown to be deeply worried when he read Aang's goodbye letter. When Aang returned to the Southern Air Temple one hundred years later, he accidentally stumbled upon Gyatso's skeleton, causing him to cross over into the Avatar State, overcome by rage, grief and guilt. Aang would continue to feel guilty about running away and "not being there for his people when they needed him most" until Guru Pathik helped him to deal with this pain and to let it go.
A mirage of Monk Gyatso and the other airbenders played before his eyes when he thought of them and they disappeared into the clouds as Aang let them go. Avatar Roku first met Gyatso when he journeyed to the Southern Air Temple in order to learn airbending. The two shared a small rivalry with each other, each of them trying to outdo the other by using air gliders to race each other. Eventually, however, they became great friends, even later in life.
When Avatar Roku was showing Aang how the Hundred Year War started, he noted that "some friendships are so strong that they can even transcend lifetimes", citing his experiences with Gyatso as evidence.
Gyatso had a good relationship with the other Air Nomad boys, who were rather fond of him. He was regarded highly as an excellent airbender and was chosen among the other men to be on the Council of Elders. However, the other monks believed he was holding Aang back in his training, which resulted in Gyatso being forced to separate from Aang.
Aang was informed of his Avatar status prematurely. Due to the signs of a possible war approaching, Aang was told about his status as the Avatar at the age of twelve, four years earlier than the traditional age of sixteen.
Aang felt burdened by his status as the other children refused to play with him anymore, and he came to spend more time practicing airbending with the monks. Monk Gyatso was the only one who showed an understanding of Aang's burden, having been good friends with Avatar Roku, Aang's past life, [21] and tried to help ease Aang through the transition from childhood to adulthood by providing Aang with balance through fun during the upheaval in his life.
However, Aang later discovered that he would be sent to the Eastern Air Temple in order to complete his airbending training far away from Monk Gyatso, whom the other monks thought was too soft on him. Afraid and confused, the young airbender ran away with his flying bison, Appa, though they became caught in a storm shortly after, which caused them to crash into the water.
Aang saved himself and Appa from drowning by semi-consciously entering the Avatar State and freezing them both in a sphere of ice through a combination of airbending and waterbending. One hundred years later, Aang was found and freed from the iceberg by siblings Katara and Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe. He was instructed to visit the Avatar Temple on Crescent Island during the winter solstice so he could talk with Avatar Roku.
Roku urged Aang to master the three remaining elements before summer's end when the comet was due to arrive, or no one would ever be able to restore balance to the world. Upon the group's arrival at the Northern Water Tribe , Aang was displeased to learn that the waterbending master, Pakku , would not teach Katara due to the law barring women learning combative waterbending, and was instead instructed to heal.
However, she was able to change Pakku's mind, and they both began to learn from him. Aang's friends managed to rescue him, but not before Zhao arrived at the Spirit Oasis and killed the Moon Spirit, who was the source of power for waterbenders. Determined not to fail the Water Tribe, Aang merged with the Ocean Spirit and proceeded to annihilate the Fire Nation ships, winning the battle and forcing them to retreat. Aang and Toph connected on a personal level.
Aang and his friends left the North on a ship with Pakku and several others before flying to an Earth Kingdom base , from where they were to be escorted to Omashu in order for Aang to learn earthbending from King Bumi. The trio decided to travel alone as the general commanding the fortress tried to force Aang into the Avatar State, causing chaos and destruction. Team Avatar was sent a messenger hawk reporting that the governor would trade the king for his son, but Princess Azula reneged on the deal, leading to a skirmish between the Avatar and princess's allies.
While he managed to find Bumi, the king told Aang that he would not leave Omashu, and encouraged him to find a master who embodied the principles of neutral jing. While in the city of Gaoling , they heard about and attended a tournament that supposedly featured the best earthbenders in the world, hoping to find an earthbending teacher for Aang. At the end of the tournament, they witnessed the final fight between one of the popular contestants and the current champion, a blind girl.
During the match, Aang realized the girl was the same one he had received a vision of while lost in the Foggy Swamp [31] and noticed her technique of waiting and listening before attacking, easily defeating her opponent. The ringmaster offered a sack of gold pieces to anyone who dared to face the Blind Bandit.
Aang accepted the challenge in order to talk to the girl, but she ignored him after he caught her off guard by deflecting her attack with airbending. The group learned that the girl belonged to the Beifong family and visited their estate, posing as a formal visit by the Avatar. However, he learned that the earthbender, a girl named Toph , was hiding her true abilities from her family. When she and Aang were kidnapped, Toph managed to fight off all the attackers, revealing her skill to her parents, and ran away from home in order to join Aang's group.
Aang was left disturbed by this encounter, as the young man frantically believed the Air Nomads to be evil. Team Avatar was soon reunited with the aid of Jiang 's pirates. Aang destroyed the Fire Nation drill. While taking a brief vacation to Misty Palms Oasis , the group was led to Wan Shi Tong 's library in the middle of the Si Wong Desert and learned valuable information on a solar eclipse that would leave the firebenders powerless.
After emerging from the library, they discovered that they had lost Appa, who had been captured and sold by desert tribesmen. After finding their way out of the desert and crossing the Serpent's Pass , the group discovered a giant Fire Nation drill trying to penetrate the Outer Wall of Ba Sing Se. In a joint effort, the group managed to defeat Azula's team and destroy the drill. Aang was struck down by Azula while entering the Avatar State. After reuniting with the sky bison, [39] they stormed the palace and informed Earth King Kuei of Long Feng's betrayal.
After convincing the king to arrest Long Feng and plan for an invasion on the day of the eclipse, the king's men searched Long Feng's office and found a message for Aang from Guru Pathik that had been tied to Appa's horn. After reuniting with Katara in the Crystal Catacombs , the pair began to fight both Zuko and Katara, before the arrival of the Dai Li, who had turned to the side of the Fire Nation princess.
Aang successfully entered the Avatar State, but was struck with a lightning bolt fired by Azula. The severe attack rendered his seventh chakra impossible to re-open and mortally wounded him while he was in the Avatar State, severing the connection of the Avatar Spirit to the world and threatening the end of the Avatar Cycle.
Katara caught Aang while he fell to the ground, being able to escape thanks to Iroh 's unexpected intervention. While escaping the city on Appa, Katara used water from the Spirit Oasis to revive him, restoring the Avatar Spirit in turn, but he still remained grievously injured. For several weeks, Aang remained unconscious as he recovered from his injury. Aang awoke in the Spirit World, where he underwent a long journey to reconnect with his four most recent incarnations in order to heal the Avatar Spirit.
Upon reaching the Fire Nation, the team prepared for the invasion on the day of the eclipse, and disguised themselves as civilians. Realizing that the day had been lost, they retreated to the Western Air Temple with their youngest allies. After arriving at the temple, the team was confronted by Zuko, who revealed that he wished to join their group.
They initially rejected the prince, but after helping them defeat Combustion Man, Aang accepted Zuko as his firebending teacher. After undergoing a trial from the dragons Ran and Shaw , Zuko and Aang were shown a new, hopeful side to firebending, which allowed the pair to greatly improve at the art. Aang fought Ozai in a final standoff to decide the fate of the world.
While Aang and his friends believed that they could delay confronting the Fire Lord until after Sozin's Comet as Ba Sing Se had already fallen, they realized that they had to battle the Fire Nation imminently when Zuko revealed his father's plan to annihilate the Earth Kingdom. Due to his Air Nomad belief in the sanctity of all life, Aang felt a strong anxiety about the concept of killing Ozai. Though Aang was able to overpower the Fire Lord, he decided to spare Ozai's life, and used his newfound abilities to strip the Fire Lord of his bending.
With the war now over, Aang attended Zuko's coronation, with the pair vowing to bring peace to the world. Team Avatar split up after the Hundred Year War, and Aang devoted his time to restoring peace and order in the world. He helped to repatriate many Fire Nation colonists. After one year, however, Zuko unexpectedly withdrew his support for the decolonization efforts.
Disturbed, Aang and Katara traveled to the colony of Yu Dao. There, the Fire Lord and Avatar could not agree on a course of action, as Zuko regarded the oldest colonies as prosperous communities which had the right to exist, while Aang saw them as a continued threat to the balance between the four nations.
Regardless, Aang and Katara pledged to find a peaceful solution, deciding to address Earth King Kuei to this end. In contrast, the meeting with Kuei went poorly, as the king decided to remove the colonies by force.
Aang and Katara hurried back to Yu Dao to convince the locals to leave before a new war could ignite. Fearing that he would have to kill Zuko to prevent another war, Aang eventually concluded that it was no longer possible to keep the nations apart and that the Fire Lord was right. To this end, the Avatar stopped the battle and convinced Kuei to allow the old colonies to stay, albeit as self-governing polities. Doing so, they were forced to work with Azula, who had crucial information on Ursa's whereabouts.
After a tense encounter with a wolf spirit , [55] the group arrived in the remote village of Hira'a. There, they stayed at the home of two friendly actors, Noren and Noriko, but lost track of Zuko's mother. However, the group learned that Ursa's ex-boyfriend Ikem had disappeared in the nearby Forgetful Valley.
At this deeply spiritual forested area, the Avatar and his comrades met Rafa and Misu , Water Tribe siblings who were seeking the aid of a powerful spirit known as the Mother of Faces. Aang offered his help, crossed over into the Spirit World, and convinced the ancient spirit to grant them one wish. However, Azula interjected and took the wish for herself, causing the Mother of Faces to reveal that she had helped Ikem and Ursa to start a new life by granting them new faces, those of Noren and Noriko, while also wiping Ursa's memories.
Azula promptly took off, followed by Zuko and Sokka, as Aang and Katara attempted to convince the Mother of Faces to grant a second wish to help Rafa and Misu. A fight ensued, as the Mother felt that the humans were disrespectful and sent her spirit followers to attack them.
While fending off the spirits, Aang accidentally blew off Rafa's mask, revealing that his face had been stolen by Koh, the son of the Mother of Faces. Revealing that an Avatar had once spared Koh, Aang managed to convince her to grant Rafa a new face. Soon after, the spirit also restored Ursa's face and memories. Despite his attempts at a peaceful solution, Aang was forced to wound General Old Iron to save his friends, causing the spirit to leave the physical world. Team Avatar then attended the remaining talks on Yu Dao's future, during which Aang encountered Avatar Yangchen 's spirit but was unable to hear her.
This meeting inspired him to revive Yangchen's Festival. Aang opposed this development, causing tensions with Toph, who advocated change. However, an earthquake interrupted their conversation. The Avatar rushed to the Earthen Fire Refinery, where he learned that Katara, Toph, and several others were trapped in a mine under the factory.
Afterward, the Avatar reconnected with Yangchen and finally learned that Yangchen's Festival had been set up to placate the spirit General Old Iron who had wanted to avenge the alleged murder of his spirit friend Lady Tienhai by humans. The factory's construction had roused his anger once again. When General Old Iron subsequently attacked, Aang tried to negotiate until the spirit moved to kill Toph and her students.
Aang regretted this development, feeling that General Old Iron might be right that humans and spirits were unable to coexist. However, his hope was restored when Lady Tienhai appeared and revealed that she had not truly died and also always loved humanity as well as its progressive ways. The Avatar consequently decided to reform Yangchen's Festival into the Spirits' Friendship Festival , something that preserved the Air Nomad traditions while also adapting to the new times.
After solving the crisis at the Earthen Fire Refinery, Aang traveled to the Fire Nation to help Zuko, who faced alleged dark spirit attacks. The Avatar learned that several children had disappeared while political extremists under Ukano were mobilizing opposition against the Fire Lord.
Seeking a reason for the spirits' anger, Aang, Zuko, Mai, and Kei Lo visited Dragonbone Catacombs where otherwise forgotten knowledge on the Fire Nation's past was stored. At the crypt of the first Fire Lord, the Air Nomad contacted a Kemurikage spirit who informed the group that their kind had not returned to haunt the Fire Nation since ancient times.
Accordingly, Aang reasoned that the kidnappers were human imposters. The next night, the fake Kemurikage kidnapped Zuko's sister Kiyi. Aang and his friends were unable to stop them but learned that the imposters were led by Azula.
Aang subsequently traveled to the South Pole to spend some time with Sokka and Katara. After helping to defeat a first nationalist attack, [64] Aang attended an international meeting organized by Hakoda.
Gilak and his allies used the opportunity to strike again, but Aang and Katara were able to prevent them from kidnapping Hakoda. Fighting quickly erupted, and the nationalists were defeated. Aang saved Hakoda and Malina from falling to their deaths during these clashes. Shortly before taking away Liling 's bending , Aang decided against it based on Katara 's arguments. Shortly afterward, Aang and his friends ventured to the Earthen Fire Refinery, discovering that a city nicknamed " Cranefish Town " had emerged around it.
The Avatar was asked by Lao Beifong to help solve disputes between benders and nonbenders at the settlement. When several nonbender-owned factories, including the Earthen Fire Refinery, were sabotaged, Team Avatar decided to investigate. Before he could decide, Liling escaped and started an armed uprising. The Avatar helped to put down the insurgency and ultimately decided against removing the supremacists' bending, having concluded that this would not solve a conflict that was ultimately fueled by societal problems, distrust, and ideology.
Aang and Katara consequently decided to stay in Cranefish Town, regarding it as a special place and wanting to help it develop into a better community. Aang and Zuko during an event in Republic City 's early days. In his efforts to revive the Air Nomads' culture, Aang scoured the ruins of the air temples for documents.
He also attempted to maintain his people's cuisine , reconstructing old recipes based on his memories and badly damaged texts he found in the temples. This task was made more difficult by the fact that several special vegetables and fruits grown by the Air Nomads had gone extinct, forcing him to use ingredients from the other nations. By his early thirties, Aang's family had grown to include three children: Bumi , Kya , and Tenzin.
Sometime during this period, Aang married Katara, and they had three children: Bumi, a nonbender who gained the ability to airbend in AG, Kya, a waterbender, and Tenzin, an airbender.
Due to Aang's second responsibility of preserving Air Nomad culture, he spent more time and traveled more extensively with Tenzin, his only airbending child, so as to instill him with Air Nomad traditions.
This made the elder siblings feel somewhat distant from their father. In AG, the city was suffering from a high rate of crime due to a notorious crime boss named Yakone. The fact that he was a master bloodbender , yet managed to stay out of the law's reach for a long time, caused Aang to find it necessary to assist the Chief of Police , Toph Beifong at the time, in his arrest in order to bring him to justice.
Aang, Toph, and her metalbending officers apprehended the crime lord at Kwong's Cuisine. The criminal did not resist, and despite Aang saying that they knew that he was a bloodbender, Yakone claimed that he would beat the charges again. After attending his arrest, Aang was present at Yakone's trial and sat behind the defendant in the gallery, where Yakone was convicted of his crimes. However, before the sentence could be carried out, Yakone used his powers to subdue everyone in the courtroom, leaving them unconscious.
Aang was capable of holding out longest, but he lost consciousness as well after Yakone used his skill to levitate the Avatar in the air and throw him against the stairs leading up to the court's platform. Avatar Aang took away Yakone 's bending.
However, employing the Avatar State, Aang regained his senses, allowing him to pursue the criminal. He effectively halted Yakone's getaway by severing his mount from the carriage he was perched upon with an air swipe. Hovering around on an enhanced air scooter, Aang was subdued a second time by Yakone's bloodbending, who now fully intended to kill him.
Entering the Avatar State, however, allowed Aang to break free of Yakone's grip, and he swiftly captured Yakone in an earth shell before utilizing energybending to permanently remove his bending. Aang taught Tenzin and two vandals the Air Nomads ' form of conflict mediation.
In the mids AG, Tenzin was arrested after apprehending some vandals on the docks of Republic City. Aang came to the police headquarters, and apologized to Toph, asking to take charge of Tenzin and the vandals.
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