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Kenta:

Fuck you *baldefies your Kenta*

Anyyways. Yeah the poor fella is the avatar

From the Southern Air Temple

Has known from a very young age (practically since day 1 of becoming the avatar) that ending The War will fall on his shoulders [lowkey the whole world has been waiting for Kenta to reveal himself, so someone can finally stop it (because there is nothing quite like kids preventing world ending events, amirite?) (but also because world peace is kind of the avatar’s job and the peace negotiations aren’t going well (read: they are not going at all)] and has subsequently been trained in that direction

Little does he know the war will be the last of his worries <333

His tattoos are Raava shaped (OF COURSE THEY ARE. you won’t be able to pry raava shaped tattoos out of my hands even when i’m dead.)

Becomes the airbending master at around 14 ((im aging all of them up for this au)) and gets shipped off to the South Pole so he can start his waterbending training

He has an animal guide: a golden langurbug (a mix of golden langur and a ladybug) named Claw [yes, after his special move(s)] and a spirit guide (Sagittario) in the spirit world [this is also my best attempt at making Sag seem like it’s not from this world]

[i originally drew Claw as Sagittario, but making (half)human into a monkey made me feel some type of way and it didn’t make sense for a langurbug to be that big anyway, so i ended up seperating them in two different creatures, because there is no such thing as Kenta having too many friends and i honestly like this change a lot more… but also this is only for Kenta lol, the rest of the characters will only have animal companions (including the ones with human based beys)]

Anyways, he moves to the South Pole and his adventure begins (yay!! 🚬🥃🫩)

Gingka:

Prodigy waterbender

When he was a little kid he found out the new avatar is just a few years younger than him and promptly decided that HE was gonna be his bending teacher when the time comes

Lo and behold, he was right (well. partly. There was an internal agreement that BOTH the best Southern and Northern waterbending masters will teach Kenta. So once he is done here; he will have to go to the North Pole too)

[That way Gingka&the South get to be involved (considering they literally offered first), while the North (snobs that they are) see this as a nice way to make an actual master out of Kenta without having to loose their time on basics. Also they all want to be included in the war efforts lol]

Anyways. Gingka offers himself as the Southern teacher, considering he is literally the best bender in the South (Ryo, as the war chief, is currently fighting and therefore Does Not Have The Time (and their (adult) waterbenders are mostly with him too)), so Gingka really is their best option here

but also. Kid is mad talented lmao. He definitely deserves that place

Becomes friends with Kenta really fast

He has a bajilion hair beads in his hair; all of them representing people closest to him

the left braid is the most sacred one, dedicated to his family (his parents, Hyoma and Pegasus) and Hokuto (more on him some other time tho)

The right one is dedicated to his fellow villagers and the core “team avatar” ((that’s a pretty loose concept in this au tbf but you know what i mean-> the team that travels with Kenta))

and the ones in the back are dedicated to all the friends they make along the way bc this is gingka we are talking about (feel free to guess who is who)

He is about 17 in this one

holy rushed I would’ve done better but I chose the wrong brush (yet again 💀) AND I WAS ON A TIME CRUNCHED. I AM SO SORRY IF THIS IS BAD. BUT I STILL HAD TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE ONE AND ONLY BEST GIRL EVER 🔥

I love him dearly…I drew this within 20 minutes after seeing him