I freaking love Avatar the Last Airbender because there is a character for everyone. Have issues trying to live up to your parents expectations? Meet Prince Zuko. Feel like the world is expecting too much from you and you rely on your friendships to help? There’s a guy named Aang for that. Feel like you aren’t important or special enough but want to still contribute? Sokka is your man. Compassionate to a fault and tired of the world seeing femininity as bad? Go Katara! Beautiful and strong as heck and ready for a hot dude to make out with? Welcome to the life of Suki. Hate everyone because you know you’re the baddest person up in this club? You’re Toph and I’m scared of you.
And don’t even get me started on the sequel series.
You know, I think it’s
important to consider the massive time dissonance the Gems experience.
The war was over
5,000 years ago, and Pearl seems to remember it clearly. She casually remarks
to Dewey how humans used to hunt and gather, and asks him “whatever happened
to that?” as if Dewey could have even possibly been alive back then. She tries
to take Steven out to space for a bit of a test run and reassures Greg that
she’ll have him back in 50 years.
This stuff is usually
played for laughs until you consider that Rose has been dead for, probably at
most, 11 years. To humans, that’s a pretty decent amount of time to grieve,
adjust, cope, and move on. Some of us probably don’t even have distinct
memories from 11 years ago.
But to Gems, where
5,000 years is nostalgic and 50 years is as casual as babysitting for the
weekend, Rose may as well have died yesterday. 11 years is nothing, less than
nothing, in Gem memory. And even with all their memories of Rose so raw and
recent, the Gems still pretend for Steven’s sake that they’ve already moved on.
…I think about this a lot every time one of them breaks down over Rose’s death.
i’m still laughing about the whole “onion = yellow diamond” theory because the whole “he has no ears, so he must be a gem” point is literally exactly what dib says to try and prove that zim is an alien in the first episode of invader zim
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
