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i find something so fascinating about a character remaining so gentle, empathetic and true to himself after going through so much.
Not because he's a monk, but because he knows and understands how destructive pain, vengeance, pure anger and hatred could be
Aang is one of the strongest characters in the series. I would say the strongest actually
Gyatso knew that sozin and the fire nations were there for aang
I wonder how relieved he was that Aang wasn't there.....
Hm well okay. Here goes nothing. The gaangs opinion on Aang starting a fruit pie bakery after the war?
unlike his terrible sleep schedule during the war, once aang gets a little bit older he gets into the habit of waking up with the sunrise to meditate. it was a practice uncle iroh recommended to help center himself, and it really does soothe him, especially after rough nightmares. after he’s done meditating, he finds that he still has enough time to make some fruit pies before starting the day. thus begins aang’s fruit pie delivery service. wherever and whoever he’s visiting that day gets some complimentary fruit pies, courtesy of the avatar. he doesn’t bake fruit pies every day, but he tries to as often as possible, because not only is it a nice thing to do, it’s specifically something gyatso would do, and it helps aang feel closer to him in this world that is gradually becoming less and less unfamiliar.
katara really loves aang’s fruit pies. she has a huge sweet tooth, so that’s unsurprising. unfortunately, she rarely ever gets to actually bake with aang, because it’s an early morning tradition for him, and katara cannot truly function before noon, but sometimes aang will make exceptions and make another batch in the evening, just so that katara can join him.
sokka thinks aang’s fruit pies taste great, albeit slightly inconsistent. there are definitely days where they taste better than others, and he doesn’t really understand why. he’d never ask aang though, because he doesn’t wanna offend him, so he just enjoys each fruit pie as he receives them. and then one day he helps aang out in the kitchen, and he realizes something world-shattering: when aang bakes, he doesn’t actually measure his ingredients. he just eyeballs it and hopes for the best. sokka tries to explain to aang that baking is a science and you need proper tools, but aang just thinks that’s silly. sokka gives aang a set of measuring cups and aangs just like “awww! a toy for momo to play with!!! how cute!! thanks sokka :D”
toph is banned from helping aang bake because she just eats all the uncooked dough and fruit and cream while aang’s not looking, greatly limiting their supply of pies they can actually cook by the time the process is done. she has no regrets.
zuko wants to help aang bake but he kind of has the same problem baking as he does with making tea (only magnified, because baking takes even longer) which is that baking requires a whole lot of tedious steps and it’s boring and he’s bored. iroh’s like “patience is an important value, zuko. think of it as part of your training” and zuko’s like “okay, yeah. it’s just like meditating, or firebending katas.” but he still doesn’t understand why he has to wait for it to bake. can’t he just heat the pies up really fast with hotter fire and be done with it??? the fact that sokka happened to be watching out of a paranoid suspicion that zuko might accidentally burn down the kitchen is, in fact, the only reason that zuko does not accidentally burn down the kitchen.
suki is aang’s ultimate fruit pie baking buddy. she loves baked goods, she doesn’t care about following strict recipes and all that measuring cup bullshit, she’s very disciplined, and every time she suggests a new ingredient to experiment with it always ends up tasting amazing. she’s the only person aang trusts to actually make fruit pies when he’s not around, which is a huge honor for her because she knows that being given the opportunity to continue an air nomad tradition is not a responsibility to take lightly. but she’s always done a great job of carrying on the avatar’s legacy, and this time is no different.
bonus round!
mai loves helping aang bake, especially when she gets to use knives to cut up fruit really precisely, and also when she gets to eat the fruit pies directly from out of the oven. mai loves baked goods, and she loves hanging out with aang, so it’s really an ideal scenario for her. that said, sokka is deeply upset that mai is also anti-measuring cup. mai thinks measuring cups are boring and make the whole thing less fun and it’s a waste of time, and sokka thinks mai is insane, just like all the rest of them. it’s the biggest fight the two of them ever get in, and yes that includes the time they threw knives at each other in the forest.
ty lee normally doesn’t like eating too much sugar, since it’s basically like baby meth (that’s what her homeopath said), but she’ll make an exception for aang’s famous air nomad fruit tarts on rare occasions, because it makes him happy to see her eating them. and if she secretly thinks that they’re far too sweet, she’ll never admit it to anyone as long as she lives.
aang offers azula a fruit pie one time without even really meaning anything by it. even people who murdered him are deserving of his delicious baked goods! but azula immediately assumes that aang laced it with poison (not lethal poison, obviously, but definitely some sort of laxative that would make her shit for hours) and she rudely declines. aang is deeply wounded, having never been so cruelly rebuffed before, until he learns that azula assumed that aang laced it with laxatives, at which point he’s like “damn that is brilliant! why didn’t i think of that??!” unfortunately for both of them, though, azula just threw a perfectly good fruit pie in the garbage.