#like the gaang left to persue a destiny and they were too young and saw too much

[hella1975]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you currently being the same age as Nanook and beginning the story when you were 17, would also mean that you were OLDER than Tomkin was when the men left for war? Or am I misremembering Tomkin's age

nope you're spot on tomkin was only sixteen when he went to war! im going to cry

#like dont compare trauma and all that but tomkin and nanook joining the war effort as literal teenagers #is sadder to me than what happened to the gaang? #hmm maybe not sadder persay but it's DIFFERENT and the grief is different i think #like the gaang left to persue a destiny and they were too young and saw too much #but they stayed in their group and they were individuals and they KNEW their presence meant something. like they were important #they were ACTIVELY CREATING CHANGE #whereas tom nook just joined the fray like they would have seen and been in actual battles #and yes their chief is good but at the end of the day any soldier in a war will always boil down to faceless cannon fodder #they meant NOTHING in the grand scheme of things and they KNOW THAT #and they're both non-benders going into battle against firebenders and they have no timeline for it #there's no 'if we do x thing the war will end' like to them it could go on forever #in fact they know statistically they're more likely to die before the war ends bc it could be YEARS and it's already been a century of war #and they were literally just kids through it all. stop itttt this is why they're so attached at the hip #they really found their person and latched the fuck on #ask #taob asks