zukoshotleafjuice:

gays4korra:

gays4korra:

fuck wan shi tong. aang deserves to go back to the library and read every single text that pertains to the air nomads

i simply think aang has every right to spend hours in the library with his friends and allies, working together to copy each page of each book by hand, carefully and lovingly bringing his people’s texts back into the world! and i’m correct.

okay, but - wan shi tong only ever knew aang, katara and sokka. he didn’t meet all of aang’s friends or allies.

so what i’m saying is, after the war the gaang watch aang struggling to remember the details of his culture, the history of his people. they see him trying his hardest to rebuild the air temples alone, teaching people his traditions because he’s terrified that they’ll be forgotten. his friends hate it, watching him hurt and being unable to help him because - how could they? they were born years after the air nomads were lost. they don’t know anything about the culture.

until toph remembers the library. she knows that aang can never return, after what happened - but she can, and zuko can, and so can suki. under iroh’s guidance, they make it to the spirit world and request entry to wan shi tong’s library. their motives, this time, are entirely pure - they seek only knowledge for knowledge’s sake. so wan shi tong lets them in, and they spend hours, days, copying down ancient air nomad texts in dialects they barely understand, odd symbols written by monks on scraps of paper, diaries and paintings. any remnant of the air nomads that they can find.

exactly a year after the war ends, they give aang the greatest present anyone ever could. they give him back his history.